WordPress is a widely-known platform used by 26% of all websites on the internet! There are so many ways to approach using WordPress that it can be hard to know where to start. This course will take you on a clear and easy journey through installation, customization, and launch of a WordPress site (without writing a line of backend code) so that you can get great-looking websites up running quickly, whether it's for a client request or for your own use.

Learn what is new in Ruby on Rails 5, the first major release of Rails in three years. Rails 5 is faster, uses less memory, and offers many new features and improvements. Learn to use ActionCable to access WebSockets and to design real-time features like chat, games, and notifications. Discover how to configure Rails to serve as a JSON backend, how to use the new version of Turbolinks to optimize page loading, and how to render templates independently of controllers. Learn about the many new, time-saving methods and other improvements throughout Rails 5. Watch this course to find out how key changes will affect your code. Expert Kevin Skoglund examines all of the major new features, as well as the deprecations and deletions in the framework.
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We want our systems to be 100% operational, 24/7. So in today's complex and high-traffic environments, it's important to reduce points of failure, add smart redundancy, and use high-availability tools—like virtualization and failover clustering offered in Windows Server 2012 R2—to keep systems performing at a high level. In this course, Robert McMillen teaches Windows network administrators how to configure and manage high-availability storage. He covers network load balancing (NLB) and failover clustering, concentrating on clustering for virtual machines and management of Windows cluster roles. By the end of the course, you'll be able to create a more reliable, scalable network for your end users, with a minimal amount of downtime.

TypeScript lets you write jаvascript "the way you really want to." TypeScript compiles to plain jаvascript, so it works in any browser, any host, and any OS. It adds a variety of helpful syntax and tools onto an already mature language, bringing the power and productivity of static typing and object-oriented development to core jаvascript. Plus, it's completely open source.

This course is a follow-up to the hugely successful Beginning Android Development course. We pick-up where Android 1 leaves off, covering topics such as Google Maps & GPS, Audio, Video, Styles, working with the Internet, SQLite databases, and much, much, more!

Introduction to Information Security LiveLessons provides technical professionals with a relatively brief, high-level overview of information security concepts, including the fundamental steps needed to secure a system, the types of threats and vulnerabilities they may encounter, and what steps can and should be taken to mitigate those threats and vulnerabilities.

Scratch is an up-and-coming introductory programming language. Developed by students at MIT, Scratch allows users to create web animations, games, and interactive stories, all without a single line of code. Originally intended for kids ages 8–16, Scratch's web-based platform is ideal for educators who want to incorporate programming in the classroom, and adult students who want to learn a visual language before progressing to code. Todd Perkins, author of Programming for Non-Programmers, shows how to use Scratch to create simple web projects and teach yourself basic programming concepts along the way.

Publish Online is a great tool for repurposing your InDesign print documents for the web. And for the first time ever, Publish Online gives InDesign CC users the ability to publish fully interactive documents that can be read on almost any device. This course will provide a complete guide to the publishing process using this powerful tool.

Web Components are a collection of four distinct technologies that come together to form a new way to package and reuse self-contained components built with HTML, CSS, and jаvascript. The four technologies that together make up Web Components are: Templates, Custom Elements, the Shadow DOM, and HTML Imports. Web Components offer a future of true reuse and encapsulation on the web, but until the various specifications that make up Web Components are implemented universally by browser vendors, you'll need to make use of polyfills.

What is ethical hacking? Hacking comes in many colors: white, gray, black, and shades in between. White hat hackers use their skills for good. They practice ethical hacking: involved testing to see if an organization's network is vulnerable to outside attacks. Ethical hacking is key to strengthening network security, and it's one of the most desired skills for any IT security professional. If you're interested in becoming an ethical hacker, or learning enough to secure your own networks, this introduction is for you.