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Conventional Software Testing on an Extreme Programming Team: By Jonathan Kohl; Oct 14, 2005; For a conventional software tester, an Extreme Programming project may be an intimidating challenge. Testers often find that they're not welcome on XP projects, but Jonathan Kohl shares how skilled testing can overcome such difficulties. Jonathan discusses lessons he learned from working on two different XP project teams, only one of which initially welcomed his testing and feedback.

Converting Game Design Attributes to Numbers: By Dax Gazaway; Aug 17, 2021; Bring your game ideas to life by converting your data, including the attributes you want your game to have, into numbers.

Create a GUI with Java: By Rogers Cadenhead; Jan 15, 2020; Walks you through how to use Swing to create applications that feature key GUI components.

Create a SharePoint Form with InfoPath Designer: By Steve Mann; Aug 15, 2013; This chapter shows you how to generate an InfoPath form for use in SharePoint. It serves as an end-to-end overall guide to creating a form and publishing it to SharePoint.

Creating a 2D Game with Godot Engine: By Ariel Manzur, George Marques; Jul 15, 2018; A step-by-step guide to creating a simple 2D space shooter with Godot Engine, including how to organize your scenes and make the scripts.

Creating a Component-Based Application with Rails: By Stephan Hagemann; Sep 4, 2018; From the first steps to migrations and dependency management, this chapter covers the common pitfalls of the unavoidable aspects of component-based Rails.

Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth: The Starting Line: By William J. Poorvu; Mar 21, 2008; Is real estate a good personal fit for you?

Creating Opt-in Email Lists: Just Say Yes: By Daniel P. Dern; Feb 20, 2004; Planning on starting up a mailing list? Be sure you make it "opt-in" if you don't want problems you really would rather avoid. Technology writer Daniel P. Dern imparts some good advice from sysadmins and leading opt-in list providers.

Creating User Feedback Forms: By John Paul Mueller; Dec 23, 2003; Communicating with users is necessary if you want to create exciting applications that perform useful tasks. John Mueller discusses and demonstrates effective communication techniques to get constructive feedback that can keep you in touch with user needs.

CUDA for Engineers: 2D Grids and Interactive Graphics: By Duane Storti, Mete Yurtoglu; Dec 21, 2015; In this chapter from CUDA for Engineers: An Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Computing, you'll learn about the essentials of defining and launching kernels on 2D computational grids. The authors explain sample code, the flashlight app that takes advantage of CUDA/OpenGL interop to implement real-time graphical display and interaction with the results from 2D computational grids. Finally, they show how to use flashlight as a template and perform modifications to make it applicable to a real engineering problem, numerical exploration of dynamic stability.

Customize the Security Settings on Your Smartphone or Tablet: By Jason Rich; Mar 30, 2019; Learn how to use and customize the security and privacy features built in to your smartphone or tablet.

Customizing an Excel 2013 Pivot Table: By Bill Jelen, Michael Alexander; Mar 12, 2013; This chapter covers six functional areas in making pivot table customization: Minor Cosmetic Changes, Layout Changes, Major Cosmetic Changes, Summary Calculations, Advanced Calculations, and Other (less common) Options.

Customizing Excel 2016: By Bill Jelen; Dec 9, 2015; This chapter from Excel 2016 In Depth walks you through examples of customizing the ribbon and discusses some of the important option settings available in Excel.

Customizing How Your iPhone Looks: By David A. Watt; Dec 14, 2019; There are lots of ways that you can customize the way your iPhone looks. You can design and organize your Home screens; choose the Dark or Light mode; and set the screen’s brightness, text size, and wallpaper.

Customizing Your Device: By Guy Hart-Davis; Apr 29, 2016; Learn how to configure your Android device home screens, security, and launcher.

Customizing Your iPad: By Gary Rosenzweig; Dec 7, 2018; Learn how to customize the wallpaper, keyboard setting, text size, alerts, and more on your iPad running iOS12.

Data and the C Programming Language: By Stephen Prata; Dec 20, 2013; This chapter explores the two great families of data types: integer and floating point. C offers several varieties of these types. This chapter tells you what the types are, how to declare them, and how and when to use them. Also, you discover the differences between constants and variables.

Data Breach - Crisis Management: By Sherri Davidoff; Nov 14, 2019; Information security expert Sherri Davidoff introduces a crisis management model and shows how it applies to data breaches.

Data Model-Driven Management: By Benoit Claise, Joe Clarke, Jan Lindblad; May 15, 2019; Provides a wide-angle perspective on the requirements for network management and automation, as well as the layers and components of the solution.