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An easy-to-follow and hands-on introduction to the highly scalable data distribution system, Hazelcast, and its advanced features. Overview Understand how to revolutionize the way you share data across your application A one-stop guide to this bleeding edge technology Store objects into distributed collections In Detail Applications have become increasing agile and dynamic, reacting to the demands of their users except at the data layer. Hazelcast offers a new and innovative approach to data scalability. Unlike many of its competitors, its in-memory counterparts distribution is built-in to the heart of the technology, allowing your app to stretch and scale at all layers as needed. Getting Started with Hazelcast is a hands-on introductory text that ...

A practical guide to learn, deploy, and customize OrientDB Overview Learn how to install, configure, use, and deploy OrientDB Handy manual forEasy to follow step-by-step instructions to understanding OrientDB Useful as a Qquick reference for your projects In Detail In modern software applications, often there is the necessity to manage very big amounts of unstructured data with varying schema. In this scenario, instead of relational databases, we can use OrientDB, an open source NoSQL DBMS written in Java. Inspite ofDespite being a document-based database, the relationships are managed with direct connections between records. It supports schema-less, schema-full, and schema-mixed modes. Getting Started with OrientDB will be your handy, quick refer...

Learn how to use Unity by creating your very own "Outbreak" survival game while developing your essential skills Overview Use basic AI techniques to bring your game to life Learn how to use Mecanim; create states and manage them through scripting Use scripting to manage the graphical interface, collisions, animations, persistent data, or transitions between scenes In Detail Unity is a game development engine which is fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows used to create interactive 3D content. Unity is best used for making great games that can deploy to numerous platforms. "Getting Started with Unity" guides you progressively through the necessary steps to create a survival game using Unity3D...

Multimedia Fusion is an extremely powerful yet easy-to-use visual creation tool. With MMF2 s amazing event editor system, you are able to quickly generate games or apps without having to master a traditional programming language. Multimedia Fusion 2 is a game and application authoring tool that allows you to design and develop games for Windows, iOS, Android, Flash, and XNA for Windows mobile phones and the Xbox.With this in-depth practical guide, you will learn how to develop 2D games with the intuitive visual programming editor of Fusion and create simple prototypes within hours.You will learn about topics like Loops, Extensions, Exporters and Distribution as well as in depth coverage of other features like building 2d game movements and templates ...

Design and develop astounding animated web applications using CreateJS Overview Enables you to design top-notch web applications with one of the best frameworks based on JavaScript Illustrates the use of EaselJS API to customize and enhance performance of complex applications Provides solutions to common problems faced by CreateJS users In Detail CreateJS is a popular, well supported JavaScript library used for web advertising, education, gaming, and cartooning.The CreateJS suite consists of different libraries that are designed to work independently or together to create rich interactive content on open web technologies on an HTML5 canvas. In CreateJS, the EaselJS API provides solutions for working with rich graphics and interactivity and integrat...