Welcome to Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition, the newest edition of the essential, hands-on guide to developing commercial-quality games. Written by two veteran game programmers, the book examines the entire game development process and all the unique challenges associated with creating a game. In this excellent introduction to game...

• Utilize the command line to create, run, and execute tests
• Learn useful command line based information processing utilities and unlock the problem solving power of a Linux...

• Learn how to meet all your GIS needs with the leading open source GIS
• Master QGIS by learning about database integration, geoprocessing tools, Python scripts, advanced...

Welcome to the seventh volume of the must-have reference series for game developers, Game Programming Gems, the series that helped define the standards for game programming and continues to be an essential source for new, innovative techniques. "Game Programming Gems 7" provides the tools and inspiration that game developers need to...

• Packed with the best practices in game development, and the methodologies and...

Learn how to set up Nagios 4 in order to monitor your systems efficiently About This Book Set up, configure, and manage Nagios 4 to secure and monitor your system Learn how to use libnagios and NERD to process and handle queries Packed with lots of tips, tricks and illustrations to explain the Nagios configuration and monitoring concepts in a...

• In-depth navigation and explanations for the entire PowToon product
• Challenges the way you to think about how to plan your PowToon project depending on audience...

Most books about specifications still assume that requirements can be known up front and won’t change much during your project. In today’s “real world,” however, you must specify and build software in the face of high and continuing uncertainty. Scrum and other agile methods have evolved to reflect this reality. Now,...

• This book will deliver all that you need to know to pass the 70-595 TS: Developing...

and supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh, and sh. Each real-world example recipe follows the same problem-solution...

• Learn cluster management and techniques to improve performance in Vertica
• Deploy local segmentation and get to grips with the concept of projections
• A simple,...