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Professional Eclipse 3 for Java Developers

2010-03-23T17:54:00.000-07:00

Professional Eclipse 3 for Java Developers

Product Description

Step-by-step guide that introduces novices to using all major features of Eclipse 3
Eclipse is an open source extensible integrated development environment (IDE) that helps Java programmers build best-of-breed integrated tools covering the whole software lifecycle-from conceptual modeling to deployment

Eclipse is fast becoming the development platform of choice for the Java community
Packed with code-rich, real-world examples that show programmers how to speed up the development of applications by reusing and extending existing Eclipse components
Describes SWT and JFace (Eclipse’s alternative to the Java AWT and Swing) and demonstrates them in practice in a JavaLayer based MP3 player
Shows how Eclipse can be used as a tool platform and application framework

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Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration

2010-03-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration

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Oracle Application Server 10 J2EE Deployment and Administration focuses on the latest version of Oracle’s fully J2EE-certified application server (previously called Oracle9iAS). Oracle Corp. is aggressively attacking this market with a new lost-cost version of the server, as well as a program to move BEA customers onto Oracle free of charge. Adoption interest is growing rapidly amidst favorable reports regarding performance and reliability.Deploying and configuring J2EE applications are some of the trickiest processes in J2EE development, and they unfortunately receive scant attention in general J2EE texts. This book is a focused, no-frills guide to getting J2EE applications up and running on 10 It covers Oracle’s J2EE container, OC4J (available free of charge for development purposes), in full detail. It moves on to explain how to best configure and use the various enterprise-level features that come with the commercial editions. This is the book for anyone wanting to stay ahead in the world of Oracle’s application servers.

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Pro SQL Server Reporting Services

2010-03-23T17:40:00.001-07:00

Pro SQL Server Reporting Services

At its core, the process of designing reports hasn’t changed substantially in the past 15 years. The report designer lays out report objects, which contain data from a known data source, in a design application such as Crystal Reports or Microsoft Access. He or she then tests report execution, verifies the accuracy of the results, and distributes the report to the target audience.

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Digital Photos, Movies, & Music Gigabook For Dummies download

2010-03-23T17:39:00.000-07:00

Digital Photos, Movies, & Music Gigabook For Dummies

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* Introducing the most complete digital media reference available-more than 900 pages of fun and easy instructions and tips on digital photography, digital video, digital music, and CD and DVD recording
* At under $35, this value-priced book is the only single-volume digital media reference that covers such topics as choosing a digital camera, taking great pictures, and editing digital pictures

* Covers printing and sharing pictures, selecting a camcorder, capturing good film footage, and importing video clips
* Provides coverage of editing videos, buying music online, using playlists, syncing an iPod or MP3 player, and burning CDs and DVDs
* Includes exclusive Dummies Man reusable peel-and-stick reference tabs that readers can use to mark their favorite pages

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Networking Fundamentals: Wide, Local and Personal Area Communications

2010-03-23T17:38:00.000-07:00

Networking Fundamentals: Wide, Local and Personal Area Communications

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Focusing on the physical layer,Networking Fundamentals provides essential information on networking technologies that are used in both wired and wireless networks designed for local area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs). The book starts with an overview of telecommunications followed by four parts, each including several chapters.

Part I explains the principles of design and analysis of information networks at the lowest layers. It concentrates on the characteristics of the transmission media, applied transmission and coding, and medium access control. Parts II and III are devoted to detailed descriptions of important WANs and LANs respectively with Part II describing the wired Ethernet and Internet as well as cellular networks while Part III covers popular wired LANs and wireless LANs (WLANs), as well as wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies. Part IV concludes by examining security, localization and sensor networking. The partitioned structure of the book allows flexibility in teaching the material, encouraging the reader to grasp the more simple concepts and to build on these foundations when moving onto more complex information.

Networking Fundamentals contains numerous illustrations, case studies and tables to supplement the text, as well as exercises with solutions at the end of each chapter. There is also a companion website with password protected solutions manual for instructors along with other useful resources.

Provides a unique holistic approach covering wireless communication technologies, wired technologies and networking
One of the first textbooks to integrate all aspects of information networks while placing an emphasis on the physical layer and systems engineering aspects
Contains numerous illustrations, case studies and tables to supplement the text, as well as exercises with solutions at the end of each chapter
Companion website with password protected solutions manual and other useful resources

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Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

2010-03-23T17:29:00.001-07:00

Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

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This practical book provides the concepts and code you need to develop software with Android, the open-source platform for cell phones and mobile devices that’s generating enthusiasm across the industry. Based on the Linux operating system and developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, Android has the potential to unite a fragmented mobile market. Android Application Development introduces this programming environment, and offers you a complete working example that demonstrates Android architectural features and APIs. With this book, you will:

Get a complete introduction to the Android programming environment, architecture, and tools Build a modular application, beginning with a core module that serves to launch modules added in subsequent chapters Learn the concepts and architecture of a specific feature set, including views, maps, location-based services, persistent data storage, 2D and 3D graphics, media services, telephony services, and messaging Use ready-to-run example code that implements each feature Delve into advanced topics, such as security, custom views, performance analysis, and internationalization

The book is a natural complement to the existing Android documentation provided by Google. Whether you want to develop a commercial application for mobile devices, or just want to create a mobile mashup for personal use, Android Application Development demonstrates how you can design, build, and test applications for the new mobile market.

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SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

2010-03-23T17:28:00.000-07:00

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

When it comes to performing your daily SQL Server tasks, technical documentation tends to tell you more than you need to know.
Let’s say that you’re in a hurry, and you want to add a unique constraint to a table before someone inserts a duplicate value into it. Where do you look?

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Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX

2010-03-23T17:26:00.000-07:00

Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX

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Written by the lead developers of Analysis Services at Microsoft, this book begins with an overview showing how Analysis Services and MDX can be used to build data warehouses and multidimensional databases
The authors then describe the development processes for building dimensions and cubes from various data sources
Demonstrating a variety of techniques in real-world scenarios, the book shows how MDX can be used to query databases to provide sophisticated analysis of business problems

Finally, the book explains how Analysis Services can be used with other components of SQL Server, including DTS, data mining, and Report Services, to provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions

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Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express

2010-03-23T17:22:00.000-07:00

Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express

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SQL Server 2005 Express is the database component of Microsoft’s Express Suite of products. It is free of charge, inherits many (nonenterprise) features from SQL Server 2005, and comes complete with development and administration tools. As such, it is an ideal database for developers and administrators to use in prototype/evaluation projects. It is also a powerful development platform for database applications on nonprofit websites, e-commerce sites, and in small offices and departments.Author Rick Dobson provides all of the installation, configuration, administration, and development techniques that you need to build applications quickly. He focuses on techniques that are easy to learn and transparent in their real-world translations. Topics include Express Manager and T-SQL programming, and Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer, both with SSE, to build Windows Forms applications and to develop ASP.NET web applications.

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Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius

2010-02-15T15:47:00.000-08:00

Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius

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Mac OS X Portable Genius is always at the ready for you with facts, tips, and secrets to give you the most from your favorite OS. This genius teaches you to customize your computer and workspace, troubleshoot and maintain Mac OS X, and just have fun. Browse and manipulate images and multimedia, listen to music and Podcasts, copy music to an iPod, add a printer, sync your Mac to other devices, and take control of Leopard to make it work for you.
From the introduction:

“Some of you may be rolling your eyes right now; all computers use the file and folder concept and some sort of colorful user interface, so there couldn’t be that much difference between Mac OS X and its competitors, right? Wrong. I don’t just say this because of some blind devotion to all things Apple; I’ve actually used different flavors of Windows and Linux for more than 13 years, right alongside my trusty Mac, so experience has been my teacher. If I have any devotion to Apple, there are plenty of good reasons why, the subject of this book being the first. Readers of this book who are already Mac users understand exactly what I’m talking about.

For those of you moving from other computing platforms, it’s my desire that by the end of this book you will have a whole new perspective on computing and see what it means to really have fun while working with your computer. In Mac OS X Leopard Portable Genius you can learn not just the basics, but the subtle nuances and little tips and tricks that make using your Mac that much easier. I’ve covered the gamut, from printing files, surfing the Internet and using e-mail, to partitioning your hard drive, automating repetitive tasks, and using UNIX commands, with just a little bit of geeky humor thrown in for good measure. I hope this book will do justice to Mac OS X Leopard, which isn’t just a computer operating system; it’s an art form.”

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iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

2010-02-15T15:45:00.001-08:00

iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

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Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They’re not superhuman. They’re your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up?

In iBrain, Dr. Gary Small, one of America’s leading neuroscientists and experts on brain function and behavior, explores how technology’s unstoppable march forward has altered the way young minds develop, function, and interpret information. iBrain reveals a new evolution catalyzed by technological advancement and its future implications: Where do you fit in on the evolutionary chain? What are the professional, social, and political impacts of this new brain evolution? How must you adapt and at what price?

While high-tech immersion can accelerate learning and boost creativity, it also has its glitches, among them the meteoric rise in ADD diagnoses, increased social isolation, and Internet addiction. To compete and thrive in the age of brain evolution, and to avoid these potential drawbacks, we must adapt, and iBrain—with its Technology Toolkit—equips all of us with the tools and strategies needed to close the brain gap.

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Mathematics for Game Developers

2010-01-10T00:00:00.000-08:00

Mathematics for Game Developers

Product Description
Mathematics for Game Developers is just that—a math book designed specifically for the game developer, not the mathematician. As a game developer, you know that math is a fundamental part of your programming arsenal. In order to program a game that goes beyond the basics, you must first master concepts such as matrices and vectors. In this book, you will find some unique solutions for dealing with real problems you’ll face when programming many types of 3D games.
Not only will you learn how to solve these problems, you’ll also learn why the solution works, enabling you to apply that solution to other problems. You’ll also learn how to leverage software to help solve algebraic equations. Through numerous examples, this book clarifies how mathematical ideas fit together and how they apply to game programming.

About the Author
Christopher Tremblay lives in the California Bay Area where he works for Motorola building a 3D graphics engine for cell phones to empower the next-generation games. He holds a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and is currently a semester away from a mathematics degree. His work in the games industry includes game AI, core-networking, software rendering algorithms, 3D geometry algorithms, and optimization. Although most of his work is PC-based, a fare amount of it was done on embedded devices ranging from bottom-line TI-calculators Z80 and 68K Palm processors up to speedy PocketPC strong-arm processors with games such as LemmingZ.

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Digital Audio Signal Processing

2010-01-09T23:56:00.000-08:00

Digital Audio Signal Processing

Product Description
A fully updated second edition of the excellent Digital Audio Signal Processing
Well established in the consumer electronics industry, Digital Audio Signal Processing (DASP) techniques are used in audio CD, computer music and multi-media components. In addition, the applications afforded by this versatile technology now range from real-time signal processing to room simulation.

Digital Audio Signal Processing, Second Edition covers the latest signal processing algorithms for audio processing. Every chapter has been completely revised with an easy to understand introduction into the basics and exercises have been included for self testing. Additional Matlab files and Java Applets have been provided on an accompanying website, which support the book by easy to access application examples.
Key features include:

A thoroughly updated and revised second edition of the popular Digital Audio Signal Processing, a comprehensive coverage of the topic as whole
Provides basic principles and fundamentals for Quantization, Filters, Dynamic Range Control, Room Simulation, Sampling Rate Conversion, and Audio Coding
Includes detailed accounts of studio technology, digital transmission systems, storage media and audio components for home entertainment
Contains precise algorithm description and applications
Provides a full account of the techniques of DASP showing their theoretical foundations and practical solutions
Includes updated computer-based exercises, an accompanying website, and features Web-based Interactive JAVA-Applets for audio processing

This essential guide to digital audio signal processing will serve as an invaluable reference to audio engineering professionals, R&D engineers, researchers in consumer electronics industries and academia, and Hardware and Software developers in IT companies. Advanced students studying multi-media courses will also find this guide of interest.

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Pro Ubuntu Server Administration

2010-01-09T23:54:00.000-08:00

Pro Ubuntu Server Administration

Product Description
Pro Ubuntu Server Administration teaches you advanced Ubuntu system building. After reading this book, you will be able to manage anything from simple file servers to multiple virtual servers to high–availability clusters. This is the capstone volume of the Apress Ubuntu trilogy that includes Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition and Beginning Ubuntu Server LTS Administration: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition. You will be able to make Ubuntu technology shine in a Fortune–500 environment and let Ubuntu server become the backbone of your infrastructure. Topics covered include

Performance monitoring and optimization
High–availability clustering
Advanced LDAP integrated networking

What you’ll learn

Monitor Ubuntu Server software and the hardware it is running on.
Make Ubuntu Server fly by careful optimization.
Learn how to craft high–availability clusters.
Ease your way into large–scale LDAP networking.
Acquire the skills to adjust Ubuntu Server to the security needs of a Fortune–500 environment.
Run your own Ubuntu application server.

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Quick Recipes on Symbian OS: Mastering C++ Smartphone Development

2010-01-09T23:52:00.000-08:00

Quick Recipes on Symbian OS: Mastering C++ Smartphone Development

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Symbian OS continues to be the top operating system for smartphones across the world, with the number of Symbian OS phones sold now well beyond the 100 million mark. As more and more developers realize the huge opportunities available designing with Symbian OS, one of the first major obstacles they face is the sheer length of time it takes to start producing functional C++ applications for Symbian OS phones. “Quick Recipes on Symbian OS” provides easy-to-use recipes for mastering common development tasks. The book’s structured, time-focused approach to becoming familiar with the basics allows readers to get up and running quickly.

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008 - Part I

2010-01-09T23:50:00.000-08:00

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008 - Part I

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The two-volume set LNCS 5072 and 5073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2008, held in Perugia, Italy, in June/July, 2008. The two volumes contain papers presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques. The topics of the fully refereed papers are structured according to the five major conference themes: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications, high performance technical computing and networks, advanced and emerging applications, geometric modelling, graphics and visualization, as well as information systems and information technologies.

Moreover, submissions from more than 20 workshops and technical sessions in the areas, such as embedded systems, geographical analysis, computational geometry, computational geomatics, computer graphics, virtual reality, computer modeling, computer algebra, mobile communications, wireless networks, computational forensics, data storage, information security, web learning, software engineering, computational intelligence, digital security, biometrics, molecular structures, material design, ubiquitous computing, symbolic computations, web systems and intelligence, and e-education contribute to this publication.

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Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day

2009-12-30T18:48:00.002-08:00

Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day

Product Description
If the idea of starting a social media marketing campaign overwhelms you, the author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to the basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track results. Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute a social media marketing campaign in just one hour a day. In addition, learn how to integrate social media metrics with traditional media measurements and how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and user-generated content sharing sites like YouTube.

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The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

2009-12-30T18:48:00.000-08:00

The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

Product Description
In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza as a basic unit of composition.

He points out how knowledge of the elegiac stanza can give us insight into how these poets alternated between stanzas of exhortation and meditation, used co-ordinated pairs of stanzas to construct lengthy arguments about excellence or proper human government, and created generic set pieces that they could deploy in longer compositions. Faraone’s close analysis of nearly all the important elegiac fragments will greatly enhance understanding and appreciation of this poetic genre.

About the Author
Christopher A. Faraone is The Springer Professor of Classics and the Humanities, University of Chicago.

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Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games

2009-12-30T18:47:00.000-08:00

Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games

Product Description
Corporate finance and corporate strategy have long been seen as different sides of the same coin. Though both focus on the same broad problem, investment decision-making, the gap between the two sides–and between theory and practice–remains embarrassingly large. This book synthesizes cutting-edge developments in corporate finance and related fields–in particular, real options and game theory–to help bridge this gap. In clear, straightforward exposition and through numerous examples and applications from various industries, Han Smit and Lenos Trigeorgis set forth an extended valuation framework for competitive strategies.

The book follows a problem-solving approach that synthesizes ideas from game theory, real options, and strategy. Thinking in terms of options-games can help managers address questions such as: When is it best to invest early to preempt competitive entry, and when to wait? Should a firm compete in R&D or adopt an accommodating stance? How does one value growth options or infrastructure investments? The authors provide a wide range of valuation examples, such as acquisition strategies, R&D investment in high-tech sectors, joint research ventures, product introductions in consumer electronics, infrastructure, and oil exploration investment.

Representing a major step beyond standard real options or strategy analysis, and extending the power of real options and strategic thinking in a rigorous fashion, Strategic Investment will be an indispensable guide and resource for corporate managers, MBA students, and academics alike.

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Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 10 Minutes

2009-12-30T18:46:00.000-08:00

Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 10 Minutes

Product Description
If you’re in need of a quick, concise tutorial to learn Unix and get on your way, this is it. Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes, Second Edition will help you quickly and easily learn UNIX essentials and review UNIX features and functions. You will master components of UNIX programming through clear, concise learning modules and step-by-step instructions without having to wade through a lot of fluff and theory. You will learn to:

Get onto the system and use the command line
Move about the file system
Create, move, rename and delete files and directories
Slice and dice command pipe data
Use the vi Editor
Print in the UNIX environment
And more!

Whatever your expertise level, Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes will get you up and running with UNIX in no time.

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Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

2009-12-30T18:43:00.000-08:00

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th conference CollaborateCom 2008 in Orlando, Florida and reflects the research results in collaborative computing networks, systems, and applications.
The 18 invited papers and 41 full papers demonstrate recent advances in many computing fields, including multi-core architectures, 3G/4G wireless networks, web 2.0 technologies, computing clouds, and software as a service.

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A Class with Drucker

2009-12-30T18:41:00.000-08:00

There’s lots you can do with the book, starting with just enjoying the ride. It’s a series of compelling lessons, all wrapped around a towering intellectual and some wonderful anecdotes, with Mr. Cohen, himself a management educator, adding his own supplementary thoughts at points. Some of it will be familiar for those steeped in Peter Drucker, and some of it will be new. But all of it should be fascinating.

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OpenCms 7 Development

2009-12-30T18:40:00.000-08:00

OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions.
Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.

Starting by showing how to set up a development environment for OpenCms work, the book moves you through various tasks of increasing complexity. Some of the common tasks covered are building OpenCms, XML asset type development, templating, module development, user and role setup, and search integration. In addition to these common tasks some more advanced topics are covered such as self-registering users, RSS support, developing custom widgets and extending the administrative interface. All the topics include examples and are presented while building a sample blog site.

The skills you develop will make you an OpenCms developer to be reckoned with!

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Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications

2009-12-30T18:28:00.000-08:00

This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial for those who want to build contemporary, real-life web applications with Tapestry 5, the Apache open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. It shows the path of least resistance, so that the reader can learn all the essential skills quickly and easily. To give the reader an initial practical experience, a simple but useful web application is built throughout the chapters.

This book is for those who want to build sophisticated Java web applications quickly and easily. It assumes that the reader is reasonably comfortable with the Java programming language, but no knowledge of web technologies is needed. For experienced Servlet, JSP, or Struts developers, the book will show an alternative way that will allow them to raise their productivity to an incomparable level. With this book you will see that a contemporary component-based framework can be easy to learn and a pleasure to work with.

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Beginning CouchDB

2009-12-30T18:25:00.000-08:00

The new world of cloud computing needs data storage. CouchDB is the
scalable, portable, simple database engine that is helping open source
cloud architects put their data stores onto a firm foundation. Beginning CouchDB
provides the tools to begin using this very powerful database engine
without having to pay license fees for the software, or worry about
administrator’s certifications or vast hardware requirements. This book
teaches the fundamentals of one of the most powerful database engines
ever created for the price of a good lunch. After reading this book and
working through the examples, you’ll be able to write your own
applications for CouchDB quickly and easily.

In-depth,
non-intimidating guide to CouchDB and how it differs from similar
offerings such as SimpleDB and BigTable, and also how it differs from
traditional relational and object-oriented databases such as Oracle,
SQL Server, and MySQL.
Detailed explanation of how CouchDB
works, its suitability for use in distributed environments, the role of
Erlang, and other technical topics in a manner that does not obfuscate
methods or results. JavaScript is extremely popular as a development
language for CouchDB. No Erlang is required, but a little bit can’t
hurt either.
A tutorial-oriented approach to teaching
readers how to use CouchDB, featuring many code examples and listings,
as well as screenshots where relevant.

What you’ll learn

How to install CouchDB on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, or Windows and enjoy its portability
How
to use the CouchDB database and document-oriented databases, and the
differences between document-oriented and traditional database
management systems
How to use Futon, the administration interface for CouchDB
How to create and manage a basic CouchDB database
Intermediate CouchDB concepts, including views, the REST API, JSON, map/reduce, load balancing, replication, and scalability
How to develop full CouchDB applications to get the reader up and running with CouchDB development as quickly as possible

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Amphotos Guide to Digital Black and White Printing

2009-12-30T18:21:00.000-08:00

•Shows photographers how to use digital printing techniques to create masterful black-and-white images
•Digital printing is replacing the darkroom-everyone who shoots in black and white needs to know these specialized techniques

Everybody’s shooting in black and white-for weddings, for studio work, for portraits and family pictures, and anything that looks great with a classic, documentary style. Digital cameras make it easier to shoot in black and white, but many photographers are struggling to create the sharp, crisp, timeless look of great pictures in this medium. They need Amphoto’s Guide to Digital Black and White Printing. From new digital ways to perform traditional darkroom techniques (such as exposure, burning and dodging, and highlight control) to handling duotones, hue saturation, and even “hand coloring” effects…it’s all here, in black and white.

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The Art of Scalability

2009-12-30T18:20:00.000-08:00

In The Art of Scalability, AKF Partners cofounders Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything IT and business leaders must know to build technology infrastructures that can scale smoothly to meet any business requirement. Drawing on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world’s highest-transaction-volume Web sites, the authors provide detailed models and best-practice approaches available in no other book.

Unlike previous books on scalability, The Art of Scalability doesn’t limit its coverage to technology. Writing for both technical and nontechnical decision-makers, this book covers everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, processes, people, and organizations.

Throughout, the authors address a broad spectrum of real-world challenges, from performance testing to IT governance. Using their tools and guidance, organizations can systematically overcome obstacles to scalability and achieve unprecedented levels of technical and business performance.

Coverage includes

Staffing the scalable organization: essential organizational, management, and leadership skills for technical leaders
Building processes for scale: process lessons from hyper-growth companies, from technical issue resolution to crisis management
Making better “build versus buy” decisions
Architecting scalable solutions: powerful proprietary models for identifying scalability needs and choosing the best approaches to meet them
Optimizing performance through caching, application and database splitting, and asynchronous design
Scalability techniques for emerging technologies, including clouds and grids
Planning for rapid data growth and new data centers
Evolving monitoring strategies to tightly align with customer requirements

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Core Animation

2009-12-30T18:17:00.002-08:00

Apple’s Core Animation framework enables Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch developers to create richer, more visual applications–more easily than ever and with far less code. Now, there’s a comprehensive, example-rich, full-color reference to Core Animation for experienced OS X and iPhone developers who want to make the most of this powerful framework.

Marcus Zarra and Matt Long reveal exactly what Core Animation can and can’t do, how to use it most effectively–and how to avoid misusing it. Building on your existing knowledge of Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode, they present expert techniques, insights, and downloadable code for all aspects of Core Animation programming, from keyframing to movie playback.

Zarra and Long thoroughly review similarities and differences between Core Animation on the Mac and iPhone, helping you write code that can easily move between platforms. They also present a full chapter of innovative techniques and proven “rules of thumb” for optimizing Core Animation’s real-world performance.

Coverage includes:

Taking full advantage of Core Animation’s lightweight layers and views
Using keyframes to gain complete control over your animations
Creating startling effects with Core Animation transforms
Leveraging Core Image’s powerful filtering capabilities from within Core Animation
Playing QuickTime movies using Core Animation’s QTMovieLayer
Using the OpenGL layer to achieve greater control over movie playback
Integrating advanced Quartz Composer visualizations into your user interfaces
How to use helper layers to draw gradients, composite shapes, and replicate sublayers
Adding mouse and keyboard user interaction points, and much more…

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Effective Personal Communication Skills for Public Relations

2009-12-30T18:17:00.000-08:00

Make ideas contagious through every channel of communication

Viral marketing — word-of-mouth marketing that spreads rapidly — is now mainstream, but some of its concepts are still catching on in the realm of public relations. Drawing partly on the theories of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who used the phrase “meme” to describe a self-replicating unit of cultural information, Andy Green shows how contagious ideas –or memes — can spread through PR communications like a virus. This stimulating, original book shows how to harness the power of communication to send out a message not just virally, but through online traditional channels as well.

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Foundations of Atlas: Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0

2009-12-30T18:15:00.000-08:00

This book introduces a fast-track path to understanding Atlas, and how this technology can increase the power and functionality of your code while conserving time and effort. The book begins with a bare-bones introduction that explains how Atlas relates to Ajax.

Microsoft Atlas is a web-client framework that makes building Ajax-style applications easier. It provides a prewritten framework that gives you a structured environment in which to work. Atlas also provides you with an object model and standardized debugging to make development faster and simpler.

Ajax is a new way of combining a number of Web technologies including JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and a feature known as XmlHttp (which reduces the need for client browsers to constantly reconnect to the server every time new information is downloaded). But at the moment, people developing with Ajax have to write their code from the ground up, which is complex and time consuming.

The book guides you through a series of practical examples that demonstrate the Atlas framework and available controls. After reading this book, youll be able to compile a seamless Atlas-based application of your own!

In anticipation of changes during development of the Atlas technology, the updated source code is posted for download on the author’s blog, www.philotic.com/blog.
This book demystifies the Atlas technology and shows you how to work with it.
The first book dedicated to this revolutionary new technology.
Written by an experienced .NET author in collaboration with the Atlas development team.

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Beginning Java Google App Engine

2009-12-29T17:59:00.000-08:00

Google App Engine is one of the key technologies to emerge in recent years to help you build scalable web applications even if you have limited previous experience. If you are a Java programmer, this book offers you a Java approach to beginning Google App Engine. You will explore the runtime environment, front-end technologies like Google Web Toolkit, Adobe Flex, and the datastore behind App Engine. You’ll also explore Java support on App Engine from end to end.

The journey begins with a look at the Google Plugin for Eclipse and finishes with a working web application that uses Google Web Toolkit, Google Accounts, and Bigtable. Along the way, you’ll dig deeply into the services that are available to access the datastore with a focus on Java Data Objects (JDO), JDOQL, and other aspects of Bigtable.

With this solid foundation in place, you’ll then be ready to tackle some of the more advanced topics like integration with other cloud platforms such as Salesforce.com and Google Wave.

What you’ll learn

How to get up and running with App Engine, starting with the Google Plugin for Eclipse
All about the development server for testing and developing your applications
How to develop applications using Servlets & JSPs, Spring Framework, and open source Flash Remoting and Messaging servers
How to leverage the datastore in your applications, including Persistence as a Service
How to use Spring as a Service for transactions, data access, and more
How to use Google Web Toolkit to create AJAX components to drive your web applications
How to send email and instant messages (XMPP) from within your application
How to increase performance of your apps by storing data in memory using the Memcache service

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The Ring in The Rubble

2009-12-21T17:46:00.000-08:00

Change always creates hidden opportunities. A leader’s job is unearthing them. In The Ring in the Rubble, change authority Gary Bradt reveals the secrets to moving beyond the rubble of disruption, fear, and uncertainty that change often creates, to finding the golden ring of opportunity that always lies beneath.
Each chapter of this breakthrough book delivers a powerful principle for leading change, supported by engaging real-life experiences of the author and other well-known business executives that illustrate how to put principles into action. Bradt asks penetrating questions that help you dig deeper and pinpoint the best ways for applying these principles to your specific change effort.

You will discover how Richard Schulze weathered a devastating event that threatened to destroy everything he’d worked so hard to build-and became the founder of Best Buy in the process. You’ll see how a 65-year-old man, nearly broke after having suffered a string of disastrous setbacks, dug through the rubble to emerge as Colonel Harland Sanders, who remains the face of Kentucky Fried Chicken to this day. Change itself doesn’t dictate the eventual outcome of your situation; how you think about and handle change is what makes all the difference. You’ll never find the ring if you don’t start digging!

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SugarCRM For Dummies

2009-12-21T17:17:00.000-08:00

SugarCRM is an innovative customer relationship management software solution that enhances your company’s marketing effectiveness, drives sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides executive insight into business performance. SugarCRM For Dummies will show you to take advantage of this free, open source CRM application to boost your sales and please your customers.

This guide helps you choose the flavor of Sugar you need, acquire and deploy it, set up accounts and contacts, and organize your day. You’ll first learn how to install SugarCRM, customize user preferences, create databases, and import contacts from other software. Next, you’ll discover how to extend SugarCRM’s capabilities to meet needs unique to your business. You’ll also find out how to:

Schedule appointments, link them to records and notes, and organize your sales opportunities
Build campaigns, track their success, and grow your contact list with Web-to-lead forms
Manage customer issues and forums to exterminate software bugs
Send e-newsletters and automate customer e-mail communication with templates
Take advantage of a complete recipe book for SugarCRM administrators
Improve sales performance with SugarCRM
Provide great service to your customers
Develop searchable libraries and FAQs
Create and share documents

SugarCRM For Dummies will get you quickly up to speed on this customer relationship management software so you can enhance your business.

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Software Vulnerability Guide

2009-12-21T16:28:00.002-08:00

The Software Vulnerability Guide focuses on the origin of most software vulnerabilities, including the bugs in the underlying software used to develop IT infrastructures and the Internet. Most of these security bugs (and the viruses, worms, and exploits that derive from them) started out as programmer mistakes. With this easy-to-use guide, professional programmers and testers will learn how to recognize and prevent these vulnerabilities before their software reaches the market. For each of the 30 common software vulnerabilities featured the authors provide a summary, description of how the vulnerability occurs, and famous examples of how it has been used. Tips on how to find and fix the vulnerability in software are also provided along with source code snippets, commentary, tools, and techniques in easy-to-read sidebars.

* Includes coding examples in a variety of languages, including C, C++, Java, VB, .NET, scripting languages, and more
* Provides tips for uncovering vulnerabilities in a diverse array of systems, including what it may look like in code, and how the offending code can be fixed
* Covers vulnerabilities such as permitting default or weak passwords, cookie poisoning, exchanging sensitive data in plain text, leaving things in memory, and format string attacks
* Includes a CD-ROM with all of the source code, as well as many freeware/shareware tools discussed in the book

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The Second Law of Life

2009-12-21T16:28:00.000-08:00

In this compelling, and important book, John Schmitz brings order to the world of chaos that surrounds us. The Second Law of Life refers to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, which is an omnipresent force that quietly and crucially determines every aspect of our society, culture and daily lives. Unless we come to understand entropy, future generations will face consequences of the unstoppable laws of physics.Entropy explains the amount of energy no longer capable of doing work; in other words, wasted energy or heat loss. Each moment of every day, we lose irreplaceable energy andmoderntechnology is not helping. In fact, it is accelerating the problem at a catastrophic rate. And we will ultimately face a heat death crisis and utter destruction of the Earth.

Even actions we take to improve the environment may actually do more damage than good. For example, recycling is considered environmentally, socially and politically correct. Under the influence of entropy, however, it is a prolific waster of energy; we must look at entire systems, not just parts.

It is critical that we find ways to reduce energy loss. Seeing the problems with greater clarity will lead to solutions. This fascinating and accessible journey through the second law of thermodynamics is a step in the right direction.

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Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces That Work

2009-12-21T16:27:00.000-08:00

Sexy Web Design is an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch. You’ll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.
Even if you’re short on design skills, with this book you’ll be creating your own stunning web sites in no time at all.

Throughout, the focus is on simple and practical techniques that anyone can use - you don’t need to have gone to art school or have artistic flair to create stunning designs using the methods outlined in this book.

The book’s full-color layout and large format (8″ x 10″) make Sexy Web Design a pleasure to read. Master key web interface design principles Design amazing web interfaces from scratch Create beautiful, yet functional, web sites Unleash your artistic talents And much more.

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Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide

2009-12-21T16:25:00.000-08:00

This book is for those new to programming or that know other programming languages and would like to know Ruby. The book teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and starts with creating a basic program. Everything is covered such as control structures and variables, taking input, and creating output. Moving from the basic to more advanced topics, a solid understanding of Ruby is taught in logical progression. The book ends with an overview of the Web development framework, Ruby on Rails.

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Real-Time Embedded Multithreading Using ThreadX, Second Edition

2009-12-21T16:24:00.000-08:00

This second edition of Real-Time Embedded Multithreading contains the fundamentals of developing real-time operating systems and multithreading with all the new functionality of ThreadX Version 5. ThreadX has been deployed in approximately 500 million devices worldwide. General concepts and terminology are detailed along with problem solving of common pitfalls and problems. The features and services of ThreadX are reviewed. The references to a specific processor have been removed to allow for the book to be technology agnostic and applicable to all types of microprocessors that the reader may be working with. Two e-book supplements will be available with registration of your book at www.newnespress.com, the first on ARM processors and the second, ColdFire processors.

*A great introduction to real-time systems including general concepts and terminology
*Get to know ThreadX 5, a real-time operating system, from an insider
*A limited version of the ThreadX 5 software is available to run all sample projects and the case study.

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Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4

2009-12-21T16:22:00.000-08:00

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the definitive reference to Adobe’s industry-standard vector graphics software and is now in 4-color. With an easy, engaging style, author and past Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding takes readers through all of the features of the program, explaining not only how to use the multitude of features but also why and when to use them. This edition has been thoroughly updated for Illustrator CS4 and includes techniques on using the new multiple artboards for quicker Illustrator work across a variety of designs, demonstrations of the new Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients, overviews of the new cross-product feature support with InDesign, Flash, and Flex (opening up new opportunities for collaborations between developers and designers), and coverage on a whirlwind of other new useful features.

Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous 4-color illustrations and screen shots from contributing artists included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application. Designers from all fields–illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more–will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator.

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WPF Control Development Unleashed

2009-12-14T19:15:00.000-08:00

In this book, two leading Windows Presentation Foundation experts give developers everything they need to build next-generation WPF applications–software that is more robust, usable, and compelling.

Drawing on their close ties with Microsoft’s WPF development team, Pavan Podila and Kevin Hoffman give you a clear, robust, and practical understanding of WPF, its underpinnings, its overall architecture, and its design philosophy. Podila and Hoffman introduce never-before-published WPF design patterns and support them with robust, real-world code examples–all presented in full color, just as they appear in Visual Studio.

The authors begin by explaining how to “think in WPF,” and then introduce powerful new techniques for everything from handling 3D layouts to creating game-like physics effects. Along the way, they offer in-depth coverage of data binding, building interactivity, and control development: three of WPF’s most challenging concepts. You’ll learn how to choose the right WPF features for every programming challenge, and use those features far more creatively and effectively.

If you want to build truly outstanding WPF applications, this is the book that will get you there.

* Master the patterns and techniques you need to build state-of-the-art WPF applications
* Write more powerful and effective applications that reflect a deep understanding of WPF’s design philosophy
* Learn how WPF has evolved, and take full advantage of its growing sophistication
* Make the most of advanced declarative programming techniques
* Leverage IScrollInfo, virtualization, control theming, and other complex features
* Build more powerful interactivity into your WPF applications
* Create more visual software with 3D elements, custom animations, and shader effects
* Optimize WPF application performance in real-world environments
* Master design patterns for organizing your controls more effectively

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Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

2009-12-14T19:13:00.000-08:00

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities. It also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new serialization system for enhanced performance. For information technology professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF finally delivers on the long-postponed promise of model-driven software development with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class libraries.

* Introduces you to WCF and then takes you deep inside the technology
* Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming with WCF
* Provides detailed coverage on how to version services that you will not find anywhere else
* Delves into using WCF together with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace
* Provides detailed coverage of the new high-performance data contract serializer for .NET
* Walks you through how to do secure, reliable, transacted messaging, and how to understand the options available
* Introduces you to federated, claims-based security, and shows you how to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security token services into your architecture
* Provides step-by-step instructions for how to customize every aspect of WCF
* Shows you how to add your own behaviors, communication channels, message encoders, and transports
* Gives you options for implementing publish/subscribe solutions
* Walks you through how to do peer-to-peer communications with WCF

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours

2009-12-14T18:40:00.000-08:00

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build flexible, easy-to-maintain, standards-based websites with Microsoft Expression Web 3. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from concept through delivery. You’ll learn powerful ways to plan, design, construct, and even redesign websites that are simple to manage and easy to repurpose. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success, no matter what kind of site you’re building!

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Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Expression Web 3 tasks.
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Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
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By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
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Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
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Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them

Learn how to…

* Build your first Expression Web 3 website in just five minutes
* Establish work processes for building standards-based sites faster, with far less work
* Write error-free code quickly and easily with Code view and IntelliSense
* Create hyperlinks that simplify navigation, perform actions, and send commands
* Understand, create, and modify CSS style sheets with unprecedented speed and accuracy
* Use Dynamic Web Templates to consistently format (or reformat) hundreds of pages
* Implement state-of-the-art interactivity with buttons, behaviors, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
* Publish simple Silverlight applications and add multimedia content from Flash and other sources
* Build advanced drop-down and other CSS-based menus from scratch
* Learn how and when to use each of Expression Web’s six publishing options
* Integrate web application code written in ASP.NET or PHP

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Restful Java with Jax-RS (Animal Guide)

2009-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

Learn how to design and develop distributed web services
in Java using RESTful architectural principals and the JAX-RS specification in Java EE 6. With this hands-on reference, you’ll focus on implementation rather than theory, and discover why the RESTful method is far better than technologies like CORBA and SOAP.

It’s easy to get started with services based on the REST architecture. RESTful Java with JAX-RS includes a technical guide that explains REST and JAX-RS, how they work, and when to use them. With the RESTEasy workbook that follows, you get step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and running several working JAX-RS examples using the JBoss RESTEasy implementation of JAX-RS.

* Work on the design of a distributed RESTful interface
, and develop it in Java as a JAX-RS service
* Dispatch HTTP requests in JAX-RS, and learn how to extract information from them
* Deploy your web services within Java Enterprise Edition
using the Application class, Default Component Model, EJB Integration, Spring Integration, and JPA
* Discover several options for securing your web services
* Learn how to implement RESTful design patterns using JAX-RS
* Write RESTful clients in Java using libraries and frameworks such as java.net.URL, Apache HTTP Client, and RESTEasy Proxy

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Programming Google App Engine

2009-12-14T18:35:00.000-08:00

As one of today’s cloud computing
services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications
that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming
Google App Engine, you’ll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine’s APIs and scalable services.

You’ll learn about App Engine’s application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it right from the source.

* Discover the differences between traditional web development and development with App Engine
* Learn the details of App Engine’s Python and Java runtime environments
* Understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application code
* Learn how to use App Engine’s scalable datastore, including queries and indexes, transactions, and data modeling
* Use task queues to parallelize and distribute work across the infrastructure
* Deploy and manage applications with ease

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RESTful Java Web Services

2009-12-14T18:27:00.000-08:00

If you are already familiar with REST theory but are new to RESTful Java web services, and want to use the Java technology stack together with Java RESTful frameworks to create robust web services, this is the book for you.

This book is a guide to developing RESTful web services using Java and the most popular RESTful frameworks available today. It covers the theory of REST; practical coding examples for RESTful clients; a practical outline of the RESTful design process-yes, it’s different from traditional web application development; and a complete implementation of a non-trivial web service using the following frameworks: Jersey’s JAX-RS, Restlet’s Lightweight REST, JBoss’s JAX-RS RESTEasy, and Struts 2 with the REST plug-in.

What you will learn from this book?

* REST architecture basics
* What it means for a web service to be RESTful
* How to connect to and consume RESTful web services such as Yahoo or Google
* A RESTful web service design heuristic
* How to deploy web services to Java web containers such as Tomcat and JBoss
* How to implement an entire web service using the most popular open source frameworks currently available, including JAX-RS implementations Jersey and RESTEasy, Restlet, and Struts 2 with the REST plug-in
* How to create standalone Java web services using the Restlet framework
* How you can secure RESTful web services

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Perl Best Practices

2009-12-14T18:04:00.000-08:00

Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a “style” they picked up early on. They aren’t conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They’re focused entirely on problems they’re solving, solutions they’re creating, and algorithms they’re implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.

But if you’re serious about your profession, intuition isn’t enough. “Perl Best Practices” author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects.

With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code–in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.

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Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

2009-12-14T18:03:00.001-08:00

This book takes you through the important topics of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with clear explanations and practical example code. There is also a substantial amount of reference material, which has been brought together in one place for you. This book takes care of what the working developer needs to know in order to become productive as quickly as possible. This book is for NAV consultants and developers, and developers or designers of business applications. Managers of NAV development or consultants will also find the book a helpful introduction to understanding NAV development capabilities. Any previous experience with NAV is not expected. Some basic knowledge of object-oriented programming will be quite helpful.

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Matplotlib for Python Developers

2009-12-14T18:02:00.000-08:00

Providing appealing plots and graphs is an essential part of various fields such as scientific research
, data analysis, and so on. Matplotlib, the Python 2D plotting library, is used to produce publication-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. This book explains creating various plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, error charts, scatter-plots and much more using the powerful Matplotlib library to get impressive out-of-the-box results.

This book gives you a comprehensive tour of the key features of the Matplotlib Python 2D plotting library, right from the simplest concepts to the most advanced topics. You will discover how easy it is to produce professional-quality plots when you have this book to hand.

What you will learn from this book?

* Exploit the interactive computing environment of IPython to its fullest in collaboration with Matplotlib
* Learn line and point styles and master their customization, customization of axis ticks, and develop several plot types available in Matplotlib, such as histograms, bars, pie charts, polar charts, and so on
* Explore Object Oriented Matplotlib and learn how to add subplots, multiple figures, additional and shared axes, logarithmic scaled axes, data plotting with tick formatting and locators, text properties, fonts, LaTeX typewriting, and contour plots
* Get comfortable with Glade–a RAD tool–to quickly design a GUI for GTK+ and embed Matplotlib into it
* Make the most of Matplotlib within the wxWidgets framework, in particular using the wxPython bindings and design a GUI with wxGlade
* Use the Qt Designer to draw a simple GUI and refer it to your Python code to fit your needs
* Expose Matplotlib on the Web using CGI (through Apache mod_cgi), mod_python, Django, and Pylons in no time at all
* Profit from the real-world examples by simply following the stream–identify the data source, elaborate the data and generate the resulting plot

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Joomla! with Flash

2009-12-14T18:01:00.000-08:00

You can build any kind of web site using Joomla! The look and feel of Joomla! web sites can largely be customized using the many templates, components, modules and plug-ins available. With all these features, ease of administration, and options for customization, sometimes you may think of integrating other technologies such as Flash with it. This is because Flash provides great animation features that are otherwise not available in Joomla!

This book shows how to integrate Flash into Joomla! You will learn how to add the various functionalities provided by Flash and make your site stunning, visually rich, and interactive. The book covers topics like flash headers, menus, displaying and maintaining flash movies, slide shows, animation, interactivity, and more. Installation and use of Joomla! modules like Flash, Joomla Random Flash, Active, and Handy SWF Flash module are covered too.

What you will learn from this book?

* Create Flash objects and choose some popular flash tools for working with them
* Set up a development environment with Apache web server and Joomla!
* Embed and display flash movies inside Joomla! contents using a simple video flash player
* Provide better user experience by adding streaming videos, animations, and other interactive objects inside Joomla! modules and articles
* Create attractive Flash-based menus for your Joomla! web site
* Build stunning photo galleries with Flash animation effects and display photos on your Joomla! web site from a Flickr account using third-party extensions for Joomla!
* Display interactive Flash maps on a Joomla! web site using YOS amMap extension
* Show the contents on your site in any font even though the font is not installed on your computer using sIFR3 technology
* Transform your Joomla! site into a streaming media site using Jvideo! extension to embed videos in Joomla! contents
* Create mind maps based on your Joomla! site’s structure with the help of Joom!FreeMind component
* Convert your Joomla! site into a music station using a Flash-based MP3 player
* Customize your Joomla! template to display Flash logo, header, and banners
* Display Joomla! contents in Flash objects using amfPHP and J-AMFPHP extension for Joomla!
* Maintain and troubleshoot your Joomla! and Flash web site
* Improve the overall design and look & feel of the site, with the help of Flash templates and tickers in Joomla!

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JBoss RichFaces 3.3

2009-12-14T17:59:00.000-08:00

JBoss

RichFaces is a rich component library for JavaServer Faces and an AJAX framework that allows easy integration of AJAX capabilities into complex business applications. Do you wish to eliminate the time involved in writing JavaScript code and managing JavaScript-compatibility between browsers to build an AJAX web application quickly?

This book goes beyond the documentation to teach you how to do that. It will show you how to get the most out of JBoss RichFaces by explaining the key components and how you can use them to enhance your applications. Most importantly, you will learn how to integrate AJAX into your applications without using JavaScript but only standard JSF components. You will learn how to create and customize your own components and add them to your new or existing applications.

What you will learn from this book?

* Create a simple project using the seam-gen tool, with the support of RichFaces, Seam and Facelets
* Integrate the RichFaces libraries manually in your existing JSF project
* Import a seam-gen-generated project into your workspace using Eclipse
* Get AJAX JSF messaging support for JSF AJAX events using RichFaces message and messages components
* Learn the basics of RichFaces, from creating the project to editing the code, using important components (like a4j:commandButton, a4j:commandLink, rich:dataTable, and rich:messages) and their AJAX properties (like reRender)
* Develop a fully-featured advanced application for contact management using the RichFaces AJAX framework and its rich components
* Develop the login and registration system for a web site
, looking at all the features like skin management, registration page, login box, forgot username, reset password, captcha, and more
* Optimize AJAX requests while developing a web application with JBoss RichFaces
* Add and remove contacts from a group using the RichFaces drag-n-drop support
* Customize the look of the application by changing the style of its existing skins using CSS and XCSS
* Create new skins ready to be plugged into your application
* Use and implement pushing, partial updates, component binding, session expiration handling, and more
* Develop rich JSF components in a fast and solid way using CDK (Component Development Kit)

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ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development

2009-12-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

ICEfaces is an Enterprise AJAX framework which allows you to develop modern Web 2.0 applications

, using AJAX to implement desktop-like behavior. The integration and handling of such frameworks is a challenge, but ICEfaces is the first enterprise AJAX framework that places the integration aspect at the center of its design. All this is based on a programming model that does not need to write a single line of JavaScript.

You may already be aware that modern web applications are now more commonly modeled around desktop-like implementations. By following the development of a real-world application, you will see how best to use ICEfaces components to customize the interface layout, navigation, data presentation and data creation to achieve the efficient, modern, web application that you’ve always dreamed of!

What you will learn from this book?

* Implement the principles of modern Web application design using the ICEfaces enterprise AJAX framework.
* Design enterprise-ready components with Facelets
* Create AJAX applications without using JavaScript
* Integrate modern frontend development into your JEE stack using JSF, Facelets, Spring, JPA
* Customize your application using ICEfaces’ skinning and multi-lingual presentation features
* Develop server side rendering and create your own monitoring tool with AJAX Push
* Improve the user’s experience with popup dialogs, a progress bar, auto-complete and drag and drop.

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IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 6

2009-12-14T17:56:00.000-08:00

A data grid is a means of combining computing resources. Data grids provide a way to distribute object storage and add capacity on demand

in the form of CPU, memory, and network resources from additional servers. All three resource types play an important role in how fast data can be processed, and how much data can be processed at once. WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides a solution to scalability issues through caching and grid technology. Working with a data grid requires new approaches to writing highly scalable software; this book covers both the practical eXtreme Scale libraries and design patterns that will help you build scalable software.

Starting with a blank slate, this book assumes you don’t have experience with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale. It is a tutorial-style guide detailing the installation of WebSphere eXtreme Scale right through to using the developer libraries. It covers installation and configuration, and discusses the reasons why a data grid is a viable middleware layer. It also covers many different ways of interacting with objects in eXtreme Scale. It will also show you how to use eXtreme Scale in new projects, and integrate it with relational databases and existing applications

What you will learn from this book?

* Explore different ways of interacting with data in the grid
* Configure ObjectGrid instances programmatically and via XML configuration files
* Achieve extreme performance by using grid agents
* Explore practical data grid usage patterns
* Integrate a data grid and a database
* Configure eXtreme Scale for long-term deployments through educated capacity planning
* Configure an ObjectGrid client application using Spring
* Give your database a shock-absorber by putting a data grid in front of it
* Support thousands of concurrent clients by adding capacity to the grid and scale out linearly
* Protect your data by keeping it on multiple server racks and in multiple data centers
* Explore the features of WebSphere eXtreme Scale by expanding the Entity and Query repertoire

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CodeIgniter 1.7

2009-12-14T17:54:00.000-08:00

CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.

This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible.

This book will start you from the basics, installing CodeIgniter, understanding its structure and the MVC pattern. You will also learn how to use some of the most important CodeIgniter libraries and helpers, upload it to a shared server, and take care of the most common problems. If you are new to CodeIgniter, this book will guide you from bottom to top. If you are an experienced developer or already know about CodeIgniter, here you will find ideas and code examples to compare to your own.

What you will learn from this book?

* Download, install, and configure a CodeIgniter site and learn how to use mod_rewrite to generate better URLs
* Organize a dynamic web site using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
* Simplify your database access by integrating databases such as MySQL
* Make your site more robust and professional by using CI’s built-in classes
* Understand the structure of a CI site and its object-oriented aspects
* Reduce the code necessary to create a form using form helper - one of the fine features of CodeIgniter
* Take any library or code, from your previous work, third-party code, etc. and put it to use inside CodeIgniter
* Generate Create, Update, Delete, and Read (C.R.U.D) entries on each database table
* Create multi-language sites, handle files, images, sessions, and send email easily with the help of CI
* Work with files easily -upload them, download them, and put them into a Zip file
* Test your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling with the help of CI
* Build a dynamic web site quickly and easily using CodeIgniter’s prepared code

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Windows 7 All-in-one for Dummies

2009-12-13T18:22:00.000-08:00

Eight references in one–fully revised to include all the new features and updates to Windows 7

As the #1 operating system in the world, Windows provides the platform upon which all essential computing activities occur. This much–anticiapted version of the popular operating system offers an improved user experience with an enhanced interface to allow for greater user control.

Open the book and find:

* Where to get Windows Live Mail and Messenger tools
* Desktop details the way you want them
* How to dodge problems and protect your PC
* Tips on improved search features
* Steps for sharing files on a home network
* Web surfing advice for Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, or Google Chrome
* Troubleshooting advice
* How to avoid zombies, botnets, phishers, and 0day exploits

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Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (PRO-Developer)

2009-12-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

Written by industry professionals who have been working with SQL Server 2008 since the earliest code, this reference expertly covers the programming fundamentals for SQL Server 2008 with crucial real-world context and extensive code samples.

Get the hands-on programming instruction, practical examples, and best practices you need to master the core programmability features in SQL Server 2008. Led by three experts in database design and business intelligence solutions, you ll learn the essential tools and techniques for developing robust applications. Discover how to:
-Program views, stored applications, triggers, and functions using T-SQL
-Work with the new data types, LINQ, and the ADO.NET Entity Framework
-Automate common administration and maintenance tasks
-Debug databases, reports, and objects using Microsoft Visual StudioÃ‚Â® 2008
-Write transactional code and implement local and distributed transactions
-Use business intelligence tools, such as SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Integration Services

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Your Brain after Chemo: A Practical Guide to Lifting the Fog and Getting Back Your Focus

2009-12-13T18:19:00.001-08:00

Chemotherapy saves lives, but new studies—including research led by coauthor Dr. Dan Silverman—reveal that the agents used to kill cancer cells may also impair normal brain function. Even years after treatment, patients report problems with memory, concentrating, multitasking, and word retrieval. As one person put it, “I’ve lost my edge.”

If you’ve undergone chemotherapy, perhaps you’re among those who’ve had trouble following the thread of a conversation or feel “less than” who you once were. Until recently, oncologists often discounted or trivialized “chemo brain.” Now, argue Silverman and Idelle Davidson, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary; thankfully, you can rest assured that you’re not alone in feeling this way—and that you can do something about it.

Calling on cutting-edge scientific research and the inspiring stories of survivors (including Davidson’s own experiences with chemotherapy and its effects), this groundbreaking book will forever change how you think about your brain after chemo. Perhaps most important, it offers much-needed strategies to improve memory and focus, and an invaluable nine-step program to help keep your brain sharp. Your Brain after Chemo gives you the coping skills to move on with your life.

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Ubuntu 8.10 Linux Bible

2009-12-13T18:18:00.000-08:00

Everything you need to know about Ubuntu and then some!

It′s the hottest Linux distribution out there and now you can join the excitement, with Ubuntu 8.10 and this information–packed guide. Want to view Flash files? Filter incoming mail? Rip audio CDs? Connect to Windows, FTP servers, or other systems? Learn all this and much more with the expert guidance, tips, and techniques in this complete Ubuntu reference. From the basics for newcomers to enterprise management for system administrators, it′s what you need to succeed with Ubuntu.

* Master Ubuntu fundamentals for desktop and networks
* Send e–mail, share files, edit text, and print
* Store personal files in private, encrypted folders
* Explore the Gnome Desktop, add widgets, and create themes
* Work with the Bash shell and the command line
* Set up Web, mail, print, Samba, NFS, and other servers
* Create virtual machines, go wireless, and set up Wi–Fi

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Email Marketing By the Numbers

2009-12-13T18:15:00.001-08:00

“At last-a book that marketers can use to gain real respect from CFOs and CEOs who care about the bottom line. Baggott, author of the award-winning blog ‘Email Marketing Best Practices,’ clearly explains how to make your campaigns perform measurably better. The secret’s in your test results.”

—Anne Holland, President, MarketingSherpa

“Despite its proven power, email marketing receives a fraction of the attention given to other, fancier media. This week you’ll probably hear far more about mobile videocasting (or some such fashion) than you will about email marketing. You can help correct this imbalance by reading this book.”
—Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group, London, UK

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Business Valuation For Dummies

2009-12-13T18:14:00.000-08:00

Business Valuation For Dummies is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company’s financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.

Open the book and find:

* Real-world advice on planning and executing valuation
* The role of the supporting players in the valuation process
* Detailed case studies on buying and selling
* How forensic accounting fits into valuation
* The soft and hard skills needed for successful valuation
* What to build into a partnership agreement
* Why you should pause before transforming your company into an ESOP

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Universal Principles of Design

2009-12-13T17:58:00.000-08:00

Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find the information and know-how required to make a design work until now.Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, it pairs clear explanations of every design concept with visual examples of the concepts applied in practice. From the “80/20 rule to chunking, from baby-face bias to Ockham’s razor, and from self-similarity to storytelling, every major design concept is defined and illustrated for readers to expand their knowledge.

This landmark reference will become the standard for designers, engineers, architects, and students who seek to broaden and improve their design expertise.

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The Relentless Pursuit of Success

2009-12-13T17:56:00.001-08:00

This book captures the essence of Yu Minhong’s personal philosophy towards life and business. Through a collection of anecdotes, Yu illustrates the lessons he has learned in life and how he has applied them to his corporate success in modern China.

The book is organized into four sections, chosen to demarcate four key stages in Yu’s life. It covers the history of the New Oriental Education and Technology business from its humble beginnings with fifteen students to an educational
empire with nearly one million students by 2006. The book also contains Yu’s vision for the future of foreign language education in China. It will be of interest to readers seeking insight into the mentality of a successful modern Chinese entrepreneur and corporate leader.

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Electrical Repair

2009-12-13T17:55:00.000-08:00

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Electrical Repair is a basic instruction manual on home wiring and repair. The book covers AC/DC, volts, watts, fuses, and circuit breakers, national and local codes, and caution signs and safety concerns. Learn when it’s best to do-it-yourself and when you need to bring in the pros. Also covered are extension cords and multiple strips, switches and receptacles, installing fixtures and adding new circuits, and working around existing wiring.

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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

2009-12-13T17:54:00.000-08:00

Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets

from the jQuery User Interface library

* Organize your interfaces with reusable widgets: accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, tabs, and more
* Enhance the interactivity of your pages by making elements drag-and-droppable, sortable, selectable, and resizable
* Packed with examples and clear explanations of how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications
* Revised and targeted at jQuery UI 1.7

In Detail Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plug-ins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility and stability, and minimum time and effort.

jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced.

Specially revised for version 1.7 of jQuery UI, this book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps.

In this book, you’ll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behavior to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You’ll look at the configuration options and the methods exposed by each component’s API to see how these can be used to bring out the best of the library.

Events play a key role in any modern web application if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.

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Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in 24 hours

2009-12-13T17:53:00.000-08:00

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to design, create, and deploy high-impact graphics and animation with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the skills and technologies
you need, from creating interactivity and animation to optimizing and publishing your Flash movies on the Web.
Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
* Full-color figures and clear step-by-step instructions visually show you how to use Flash.
* Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
* Notes, Tips, and Cautions provide related information, advice, and warnings.

Learn how to…
* Make the most of the updated Flash interface
, including its new Motion tools
* Draw and paint original art in Flash
* Use layers and the Library to efficiently organize your content
* Build animations using shape tweening, Flash CS4’s new motion tweening, and advanced inverse kinematics
* Create special effects with shapes, filters, and the new Deco Tool
* Add interactivity to your Flash movies
* Integrate a wide spectrum of audio and video content
* Use ready-built components to create sophisticated content without programming
* Get started with ActionScript 3
* Publish your movies to the Web
* Design modular Flash sites that load quickly and perform well

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Sams Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes

2009-12-13T17:50:00.000-08:00

Sams Teach Yourself Wikipedia in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of the Wikipedia encyclopedia–and all of Wikipedia’s incredible resources.

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English explains new terms and definitions

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

* Navigate the Wikipedia site and discover its latest capabilities
* Use Wikipedia for fast, efficient research
* Verify Wikipedia information and check references
* Edit, correct, improve, and discuss existing Wikipedia articles
* Write new Wikipedia articles, and add images and media to them
* Find word definitions in Wiktionary and quotations in Wikiquote
* Download Wikimedia Commons photos you can freely reuse
* Read and edit free textbooks with Wikibooks
* Link to Wikipedia content on your own website
* Participate in the Wikipedia community

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Digital Photography Expert Techniques

2009-12-09T16:33:00.000-08:00

This absorbing book, by professional photographer and author Ken Milburn, offers a ton of expert advice to those who are ready to move to the next level with digital photography. Rather than a general discussion of photography principles, Digital Photography

: Expert Techniques focuses on workflow: time-tested, step-by-step procedures based on hard-nosed experience by and for genuine practitioners of the art. The book’s conversational tone presents detailed information about what to look for in today’s affordable high-end digicams, how to use simple techniques and equipment to shoot breathtaking shots, instructions on shooting great panoramas, dos-and-don’ts for creating better Photoshop masks, and professional digital darkroom techniques for everything from knockouts to restoration to transforming your photos into watercolors. It even shows you how to get your most prized photographs printed and ready for exhibition.

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Designing for the Social Web

2009-12-09T16:31:00.000-08:00

No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them
• The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time
• How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up
• What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it
• How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows
• How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond

Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.

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Designing the Digital Experience

2009-12-09T16:30:00.000-08:00

Written for creative, tech-savvy, and business-minded individuals who want to increase the accessibility of their websites, this sensible guidebook explains the concepts behind designing experiences on the internet. From helping customers quickly find information

and make their purchases to clearly communicating needs and interests, this resource will not only develop consumer loyalty but will encourage them to spread the word about the sites they frequent. Focusing on the three key areas of structure, community, and customers, designers will enable clients to focus on their own goals rather than on difficulties in navigating. Also included are tips on how to generate conversations with blogs, wikis, and podcasting to create a personal touch.

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Design Accessible Web Sites

2009-12-09T16:29:00.000-08:00

It’s not a one-browser web anymore. You need to reach audiences that use cell phones, PDAs
, game consoles, or other “alternative” browsers, as well as users with disabilities. Legal requirements for assistive technologies
as well as a wide array of new browsing experiences means you need to concentrate on semantics, alternate access paths, and progressive enhancement.

Give your audience the power to interact with your content on their own terms. It’s the right thing to do, and with a $100 billion a year market for accessible content, new laws and new technologies, you can’t afford to ignore accessibility.

With this book, you’ll learn basic principles and techniques for developing accessible HTML, audio, video, and multimedia content. In addition, you will understand how to apply the principles you learn in this book to new technologies when they emerge.

You’ll learn how to: Use best practices of accessibility to develop accessible web content Build testing into projects to improve results and reduce costs Create high quality alternative representations for your audience Add accessibility features to external media like PDF and Flash Negotiate the terrain of accessibility standards Apply principles of accessiblity to new technologies as they emerge

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Design Accessible Web Sites

2009-12-09T16:27:00.001-08:00

as well as a wide array of new browsing experiences means you need to concentrate on semantics, alternate access paths, and progressive enhancement.

Give your audience the power to interact with your content on their own terms. It’s the right thing to do, and with a $100 billion a year market for accessible content, new laws and new technologies, you can’t afford to ignore accessibility.

With this book, you’ll learn basic principles and techniques for developing accessible HTML, audio, video, and multimedia content. In addition, you will understand how to apply the principles you learn in this book to new technologies when they emerge.

You’ll learn how to: Use best practices of accessibility to develop accessible web content Build testing into projects to improve results and reduce costs Create high quality alternative representations for your audience Add accessibility features to external media like PDF and Flash Negotiate the terrain of accessibility standards Apply principles of accessiblity to new technologies as they emerge

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Data Mining Patterns

2009-12-09T16:26:00.001-08:00

Since the introduction of the Apriori algorithm a decade ago, the problem of mining patterns is becoming a very active research

area, and efficient techniques have been widely applied to the problems either in industry or science. Currently, the data mining community is focusing on new problems such as: mining new kinds of patterns, mining patterns under constraints, considering new kinds of complex data, and real-world applications of these concepts.

Data Mining Patterns: New Methods and Applications provides an overall view of the recent solutions for mining, and also explores new kinds of patterns. This book offers theoretical frameworks and presents challenges and their possible solutions concerning pattern extractions, emphasizing both research techniques and real-world applications. Data Mining Patterns: New Methods and Applications portrays research applications in data models, techniques and methodologies for mining patterns, multi-relational and multidimensional pattern mining, fuzzy data mining, data streaming, incremental mining, and many other topics.

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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition

2009-12-09T16:25:00.000-08:00

The second edition of Han and Kamber Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques updates and improves the already comprehensive coverage of the first edition and adds coverage of new and important topics, such as mining stream data, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multi-media and other complex data. This book will be an excellent textbook for courses on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, President, KDnuggets

The second edition is the most complete and up-to-date presentation on this topic. Compared to the already comprehensive and thorough coverage of the first edition it adds the state-of-the-art research
results in new topics such as mining stream, time-series and sequence data as well as mining spatial, multimedia, text and web data. This book is a “must have” for all instructors, researchers, developers and users in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery. -Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany

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Data Mining: A Knowledge Discovery Approach

2009-12-09T16:24:00.000-08:00

This comprehensive textbook on data mining details the unique steps of the knowledge discovery process that prescribe the sequence in which data mining

projects should be performed. Data Mining offers an authoritative treatment of all development
phases from problem and data understanding through data preprocessing to deployment of the results. This knowledge discovery approach is what distinguishes this book from other texts in the area. It concentrates on data preparation, clustering and association rule learning (required for processing unsupervised data), decision trees, rule induction algorithms, neural networks, and many other data mining methods, focusing predominantly on those which have proven successful in data mining projects.

Based upon the authors’ previous successful book on data mining and knowledge discovery, this new volume has been extensively expanded, making it an effective instructional tool for advanced-level undergraduate and graduate courses. This book offers:

* A suite of exercises at the end of every chapter, designed to enhance the reader’s understanding of the theory and proficiency with the tools presented

* Links to all-inclusive instructional presentations for each chapter to ensure easy use in classroom teaching

* Extensive appendices covering relevant mathematical material for convenient look-up

* Methods for addressing issues related to data privacy and security within the context of data mining, enabling the reader to balance potentially conflicting aims

* Summaries and bibliographical notes for each chapter, providing a broader perspective of the concepts and methods described

Researchers, practitioners and students are certain to consider this volume an indispensable resource in successfully accomplishing the goals of their data mining projects.

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CSS Hacks and Filters: Making Cascading Stylesheets Work

2009-12-09T16:22:00.000-08:00

Cascading Style Sheets, the technology
meant to bring order out of chaos by letting you update Web sites effortlessly, just doesn’t always work. You recognize that when you discover your graphics, perfectly positioned in Firefox, throw your page out of whack when viewed in Explorer. The solution? This cutting-edge collection of hacks, tweaks, and filters—a one-stop resource for tailoring CSS to solve the problems you face every day. From pacifying those ancient browsers
to achieving accessibility, these tools can bring CSS’s promise back online—Web sites without worry.

* Filter CSS for older browsers and hide it from newer ones
* Use CSS to enhance graphics and media
* Sample a selection of ways to resolve CSS display issues
* Script your own Document Object Model and JavaScript
hacks
* Debug and troubleshoot CSS
* Make the most of CSS and implement CSS hacks in Dreamweaver®
* Create CSS-savvy Dreamweaver templates
* Apply CSS hacks to create accessible sites
* Code server-side solutions with ASP, PHP, or ColdFusion®

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Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR

2009-12-09T16:19:00.000-08:00

In this book, you’ll learn how to create mashup applications from the vast array of web services, feeds, and APIs using Adobe Flash and Flex together with HTML and JavaScript (Ajax). You’ll be introduced to the various sources of information and the tools necessary to gather and reuse that information, and then you’ll learn how to combine that content in a variety of ways.

You’ll learn how to have desktop applications interact with online services such as Flickr
, you’ll learn how to use Amazon S3 for enterprise-level data storage, and you’ll embrace technologies such as OpenID. In addition, you’ll create abstract visualizations based on music sourced from Last.fm and consume Twitter content via RSS. You will also see how to use the Flash-native data format SWX along with PHP to create a Yahoo! weather widget.

You’ll discover just why you may want to build a widget
or a desktop application rather leaving things web-based; then you’ll create an application using Flex Builder and AIR and learn how best to distribute it. With so many tools and so much data available, the possibilities for mashup creation are endless. Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR provides all you need to get you up and running quickly, while also giving you a solid understanding of the technologies involved so you can take things furtherto a place limited only by your imagination.
In this book you’ll learn

* how to use Flex 3 in conjunction with ActionScript 3.0 to build powerful applications;
* how you can use Adobe AIR to take your application from the Web and onto the desktop;
* the differences between developing for the Web and for the desktop;
* how you can use the APIs of popular web services such as Flickr, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Last.fm as data sources for your application; and
* how to optimize your applications for fast and efficient performance.

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Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)

2009-12-09T16:17:00.000-08:00

Python is an agile, robust, expressive, fully object-oriented, extensible, and scalable programming language. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development
of scripting languages. In Core Python Programming, Second Edition, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project.

Using practical code examples, Chun introduces all the fundamentals of Python programming: syntax, objects and memory management, data types, operators, files and I/O, functions, generators, error handling and exceptions, loops, iterators, functional programming, object-oriented programming and more. After you learn the core fundamentals of Python, he shows you what you can do with your new skills, delving into advanced topics, such as regular expressions, networking
programming with sockets, multithreading, GUI development, Web/CGI programming and extending Python in C.

* Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits
* Gain a deep understanding of Python’s objects and memory model as well as its OOP features, including those found in Python’s new-style classes
* Build more effective Web, CGI, Internet, and network and other client/server applications
* Learn how to develop your own GUI applications using Tkinter and other toolkits available for Python
* Improve the performance of your Python applications by writing extensions in C and other languages, or enhance I/O-bound applications by using multithreading
* Learn about Python’s database API and how to use a variety of database systems with Python, including MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite
* Features appendices on Python 2.6 & 3, including tips on migrating to the next generation!

Core Python Programming delivers

* Systematic, expert coverage of Python’s core features
* Powerful insights for developing complex applications
* Easy-to-use tables and charts detailing Python modules, operators, functions, and methods
* Dozens of professional-quality code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications

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Configuring User-designer Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

2009-12-09T16:15:00.000-08:00

‘User-designer relations’ concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although it has generally been accepted that achieving better user-designer relations will improve the quality of IT products, there has been little consensus on how this might be achieved.

This book aims to deepen our understanding of the relationships between users and designers both as they emerge in the wild and as a consequence of our attempts to intervene. Through a series of case studies the book juxtaposes in-depth explorations of different perspectives and approaches to thinking about - and doing - user-designer relations, considering important implications for design and computer science more generally. With contributions from leading authors and new voices in the field of user-designer relations, the text will be of interest to students and practitioners in information systems development. It will also be of interest to educators in the fields of information systems, design studies, and computer science.

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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

2009-12-09T16:14:00.000-08:00

Most discussion about Web design

seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers.

Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you’re required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible. He begins with an introductory section about deliverables and their place in the overall process, and then delves into to the different types of deliverables.

From usability reports to project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more, each chapter includes a contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, a description of the development process and the deliverable’s impact on the project, and more.

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Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software

2009-12-09T16:12:00.000-08:00

This book is for the career developer who wants to take his or her skill set and/or project to the next level. If you are a professional software developer with 3–4 years of experience looking to bring a higher level of discipline to your project, or to learn the skills that will help you transition from software engineer to technical lead, then this book is for you. The topics covered in this book will help you focus on delivering software
at a higher quality and lower cost. The book is about practical techniques and practices that will help you and your team realize those goals. Given that target audience, this book assumes a certain level of skill at reading code in one or more languages, and basic familiarity with building and testing software projects. It also assumes that you have at least a basic understanding of the software development lifecycle, and how requirements from customers become testable software projects.

What you will learn from this book

* Practical steps you can take to combine different developmental philosophies, processes, and construction techniques into a unified approach to software
* Methods for deciding which parts of a project you need to write yourself versus what you can buy or reuse
* Tools and processes you can employ to improve source code quality and maintainability
* How to create, run, organize, and measure tests, and then make them more useful to developers and testers
* Ways that programming by contract can make your code easier for developers to understand and use
* Recommended techniques for handling errors in your code that will make your application easier to debug and support

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Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies

2009-12-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

If you’re new to blogging, or if you know the mechanics of a blog but want some help refining and targeting yours, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies will get you going right away. An expert blogger shows you the ins and outs of putting together a professional-looking blog, walks you through the jargon, helps you decide what your blog should do, and even explains various software solutions. You’ll find out how to:

* Set up and maintain a blog, write in blogging style, and observe blogging etiquette
* Define your audience and target your blog to reach them
* Involve your customers, earn their trust, educate the public, and build community
* Avoid possible legal pitfalls while keeping your blog interesting
* Encourage contributions and links to your blog
* Use images and design an eye-catching format
* Optimize your blog for top search engine ratings, track your results, and measure your success

Written by Susannah Gardner, who has taught online journalism, directed multimedia efforts, and provided custom Web solutions to clients, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies even shares tips from the experts who establish and maintain some of the top-rated business blogs. You’ll discover the secrets of success, how to spot and solve problems, what software can enhance your blogging life, and a whole lot more. It like having a staff of experts on call!

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Building Research Tools with Google For Dummies

2009-12-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

To get the most from Google, you need to understand Google. Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies explains how Google works and how you can build more effective queries (hint: it’s a lot more than just using the “Advanced Search” techniques!) It even shows you how to think like a researcher and how to package the results of your research so it means something to your audience. You’ll be able to:

* Understand Google research techniques and use the custom search-related syntax
* Recognize Google’s strengths—and limitations
* Target your search by using Google operators
* Use Google to research photos, or even an entire industry
* Improve the effectiveness of your results by understanding Google’s comparative methodology
* Build custom tools using WDSL and Web Services

You don’t have to become a programmer to use Google, but if you know a little about software development and want to explore new, more focused search techniques, Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies has a section just for you. It introduces you to the Google API, shows you how to download a developer key, and leads you through building a C# .Net Google application. On the companion Web site, you’ll find the source code and software discussed in the book as well as links to lots of other resources for researchers. Before you know it, you’ll be Googling your way to research success!

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T&E Expense Management: Using Data to Drive Performance

2009-12-09T16:02:00.000-08:00

Aberdeen research shows that Best-in-Class companies are using key technologies and services in combination with developing critical organisational capabilities and strategies to improve compliance with corporate T&E policies.

Travel and Entertainment (T&E) is an area of significant spending within a company and continues to grow, forcing companies to devote their attention to how best to manage a multi-million pound category of company spending. As a global economic slowdown looms, it is more important than ever to control T&E expenses, which is the top pressure identified by 54% of the companies for addressing T&E expense management.

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Key to Preventing Unauthorized IT Change

2009-12-09T16:00:00.000-08:00

Enforce change policy by time window, source, or approved ticket.

Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change. Change Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with real-time detection of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and real-time change prevention to block unwanted changes. Change Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption.

Change Control is an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

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International Project Management

2009-12-08T16:22:00.000-08:00

‘International Project Management’ provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents.

The purpose of this book is to answer:

* What is an international project and why is it different?
* What are the critical success factors for managing international projects?
* How are vendors and outsourcing managed across national boundaries?
* How do businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues?
* How are international communications set up and coordinated?
* What should a manager look for in an international project leader?
* How does a business select the right vendors for an international project?
* How are inadequate or incompatible infrastructure and technology issues overcome?
* How are the legal and bureaucratic limitations on project management dealt with?

* Presents over 150 specific lessons learned and guidelines for managing international projects

* Explains how businesses can effectively address

* Shows how a business can select the right vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries ‘International Project Management’ provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents.

The purpose of this book is to answer:

* What is an international project and why is it different?
* What are the critical success factors for managing international projects?
* How are vendors and outsourcing managed across national boundaries?
* How do businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues?
* How are international communications set up and coordinated?
* What should a manager look for in an international project leader?
* How does a business select the right vendors for an international project?
* How are inadequate or incompatible infrastructure and technology issues overcome?
* How are the legal and bureaucratic limitations on project management dealt with?

* Presents over 150 specific lessons learned and guidelines for managing international projects

* Explains how businesses can effectively address

* Shows how a business can select the right vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries

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Head First Rails: A Learner’s Companion to Ruby on Rails

2009-12-08T16:21:00.000-08:00

Ready to transport your web applications

into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming — and productivity — to the max. You’ll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails’ rich set of tools and the MVC framework. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have learned more than just another web framework. You’ll master database interactions, integration with Ajax and XML, rich content, and even dynamic graphing of your data — all in a fraction of the time it takes to build the same apps with Java, PHP, ASP.NET, or Perl. You’ll even get comfortable and familiar with Ruby, the language that underpins Rails. But you’ll do it in the context of web programming, and not through boring exercises such as “Hello, World!” Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Rails uses a visually rich format designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

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Head First PMP

2009-12-08T16:19:00.000-08:00

Head First PMP offers 100% coverage of The PMBOK® Guide principles and certification objectives in a way that’s engaging, not tedious. This book helps you prepare for the PMP certification

exam with a unique method that goes beyond answers to specific questions and makes you think about the big picture of project management. By putting project management concepts into context, you will be able to understand, remember, and apply them-not just on the exam, but also on the job.

With Head First PMP, you get the best of both worlds: a thorough and effective preparation guide for the PMP certification exam with hundreds of practice questions and exam strategies, along with puzzles, games, problems, exercises and the unique Head First approach that makes learning easy and entertaining. When you’re done with Head First PMP, you’ll know your stuff, you’ll pass the exam, and you’ll be able to bring everything you’ve learned to your job.

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English for Business Studies Teacher’s book

2009-12-08T16:17:00.000-08:00

English for Business Studies is a course for upper-intermediate and advanced level students who need to understand and talk about key business and economic concepts. The Second Edition contains two new units, Information technology and electronic commerce, and Entrepreneurs and venture capital. The other 28 units have been updated where necessary to take into account changes in business practice. The Teacher’s Book now includes a list of new vocabulary

for each unit to help you prepare for your classes. The key features of the course remain the same: - core reading texts to explain the basic content - authentic interviews for listening comprehension - systematic vocabulary development - a variety of speaking activities - language reference section - multi-lingual glossary - progress tests in the Teacher’s Book Each of the 30 units provides between two and three hours’ work, with content that develops all four skills.

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Essential Business Process Modeling

2009-12-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

Author Mike Havey demonstrates standard ways to code rigorous processes that are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how networks interact so that one can perform a service for the other. His also shows how BPM complements enterprise application integration (EAI), a method for moving from older applications to new ones, and Enterprise Service BUS for integrating different web services, messaging, and XML technologies into a single network. BPM, he says, is to this collection of services what a conductor is to musicians in an orchestra: it coordinates their actions in theperformance of a larger composition.

“Essential Business Process Modeling” teaches you how to develop examples of process-oriented applications using free tools that can be run on an average PC or laptop. You’ll also learn about BPM design patterns and best practices, as well as some underlying theory. The best way to monitor processes within an enterprise is with BPM, and the best way to navigate BPM is with this valuable book.

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Google Power Tools Bible

2009-12-08T16:12:00.000-08:00

Expand your world with the dozens of Google tools, applications
, and services you’ll find in this comprehensive book. Going well beyond the basics of search, this in-depth resource shows you how to access and apply every one of Google’s features — things like Gmail, Google Maps, and SketchUp — while also explaining how to program Google, become a Froogle merchant, and much more. With thorough coverage, step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of tips and workarounds, you’ll find what you need to succeed with Google.

* Review the basics of keywords, queries, and PageRank technology.
* Delve into search features such as the I’m Feeling Lucky button.
* Find your way with Google Maps and mobile GMaps.
* Check financial news, get quotes, and manage your portfolio.
* Import, view, and fix photos with Picasa.
* Google-ize your computer with Google gadgets and plug-ins.
* Use Google Analytics to evaluate Web site traffic.
* Explore Google’s future with a sneak peak at R&D.

Download here.Expand your world with the dozens of Google tools, applications
, and services you’ll find in this comprehensive book. Going well beyond the basics of search, this in-depth resource shows you how to access and apply every one of Google’s features — things like Gmail, Google Maps, and SketchUp — while also explaining how to program Google, become a Froogle merchant, and much more. With thorough coverage, step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of tips and workarounds, you’ll find what you need to succeed with Google.

* Review the basics of keywords, queries, and PageRank technology.
* Delve into search features such as the I’m Feeling Lucky button.
* Find your way with Google Maps and mobile GMaps.
* Check financial news, get quotes, and manage your portfolio.
* Import, view, and fix photos with Picasa.
* Google-ize your computer with Google gadgets and plug-ins.
* Use Google Analytics to evaluate Web site traffic.
* Explore Google’s future with a sneak peak at R&D.

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Flickr Mashups

2009-12-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

Expert Flickr developer David Wilkinson guides you through a series of software projects that show you how to build mashups using the popular photo service Flickr. He explains the process of remixing Flickr on your own web site and then mashing it up. Along the way, you’ll learn how to take advantage of mashup technologies such as REST, Ajax, RSS, and JSON. Plus, hands-on examples will help you gain the skills to design a variety of remixes and mashups that take advantage of Flickr’s core services.

What you will learn from this book:

* How to use feeds to retrieve photo details
* Methods for using the Flickr API to access items such as tags, sets, groups, and interestingness
* How to use Flickr authentication to access private photos and update information
* How to upload photos from your own applications
* Ways to remix the Flickr web site with Firefox® and Greasemonkey
* Different ways to display photos using ImageMagick
* Techniques for building complex systems that use Flickr as a source of information
* Tips for improving software performance and scalability

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Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8

2009-12-08T16:01:00.000-08:00

Dreamweaver is Macromedias best-selling web design/development environment, and the updated version of Dreamweaver will be available later this year. Dreamweaver has the capability to generate dynamic website code using server-side languages like ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. We know that you don’t always require a full database driven site though, so this book focuses on using the latest version of Dreamweaver to design and create usable, standards-compliant websites using XHTML and CSS. One of the highlights of this version is much closer, tighter CSS/XHTML. This book will show you how to make the most of that feature.

After a brief introduction to the latest version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, Craig looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner, covering these topics:

* Setting up a site in Dreamweaver
* Global web site essentials, such as dealing with doctypes, meta tags, comments, and page defaults, and attaching CSS and JavaScript files to your page
* Styling page content properly using CSS
* Working with images
* Creating web site navigation
* CSS for impressive page layouts that work
* Getting user feedback via forms

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Google Search and Tools in a Snap

2009-12-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

These days, nobody really wants to learn everything there is about a product like Google Tools. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out? You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Google Tools, like perform power searches, find pictures with Google Images, find online bargains with Froogle, use the Google Toolbar, and discover the world with Google Earth.

Google Search and Tools in a Snap does just that. Organized into a series of well-organized, bite-sized, quickly accomplished tasks, the book lets you zero right in on the one particular task you want to accomplish, quickly figure out what to do, do it, and then get back to using the plethora of Google Tools

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Gurus on E-Business 3

2009-12-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

This book

explores the impact and significance of e-business as illustrated by the work and thinking of a number of key players in the field. It aims to be an accessible guide for business people who are looking to make optimal and profitable use of e-business.

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Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO

2009-12-06T17:15:00.002-08:00

Going beyond the usual how-to guide, Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO supplies proven tips and valuble case studies to illustrate how to combine Six Sigma’s rigorous quality principles with Lean methods for uncovering and eliminating waste in your IT processes. Using these methods, the text explains how to take an approach that is all about improving IT performance, productivity, and security—as much as it is about cutting costs. Savvy IT veterans describe how to use Lean Six Sigma with IT governance frameworks such as COBIT and ITIL and warn why these frameworks should be considered starting points rather than destinations.

This complete resource for CIOs and IT managers provides effective strategies to address the human element that is so fundamental to success and explains how to maximize the voice of your customers while keeping in touch with the needs of your staff. And perhaps most importantly—it provides the evidence needed to build your case to upper management.

Supplying you with the tools to create methods that will bring out the best in your employees; Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO provides the understanding required to manage your IT operations with unique effectiveness and efficiency in service of the bottom line.

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The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM

2009-12-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

SugarCRM is a leading open source Customer Relations Management tool and development platform with nearly 5.5 million downloads, nearly 17,000 developers, and lots more users.

The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM is the first official SugarCRM book available to developers and users. This definitive book begins by talking about the SugarCRM platform components, namely MVC, Studio, Module Builder, authentication, and themes.

Next, you see how to customize the modules SugarCRM comes with out of the box in an upgrade-safe manner. The text then presents an example application that a typical business might use and shows how to build it using SugarCRM, using both existing functionality as well as newly added functionality.

What you’ll learn

Understand how the SugarCRM platform works
Customize the modules that come with SugarCRM
Build new modules and functionality into SugarCRM
Explore MVC architecture, users/authentication, built-in modules, and other platform features
Use SugarCRM Studio for customizations, logic hooks, and overriding existing code
Build on top of SugarCRM using Module Builder, custom modules, and existing/custom modules mashups
Design a complete application

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Spring Enterprise Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

2009-12-06T17:13:00.001-08:00

The Spring Framework is a widely adopted enterprise and general Java framework. The release of Spring Framework 3.0 has added many improvements and new features for Spring development. Written by Gary Mak of the best-selling Spring Recipes and Josh Long, an expert Spring user and developer, Spring Enterprise Recipes is one of the first books on the new Spring 3.

This key book focuses on Spring Framework 3.0, the latest version available, and a framework-related suite of tools, extensions, plug-ins, modules, and more—all of which you may want and need for building three-tier Java EE applications.

Build Spring enterprise and Java EE applications from the ground up using Recipes from this book as templates to get you started, fast.
Employ Spring Integration, Spring Batch and jBPM with Spring to bring your application’s architecture to the next level.
Use Spring’s remoting, and messaging support to distribute your application, or bring your application to the cloud with GridGain and Terracotta.

What you’ll learn

Integrate legacy systems with Spring, bridging the gaps with Spring’s JMS support and Spring Integration.
Use Spring Batch to insulate yourself from the tedious, hard-to-test code required to efficiently handle offline or batch processing scenarios.
Build highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta
Build modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server. Take the lightweight philosophy of the Spring framework to its logical extension. The Spring framework brings you all of the power of JEE, à la carte!
Integrate Spring with Java EE 5 and 6 APIs and services
How to leverage job scheduling, and e-mail services using Spring’s abstractions.

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Profit Magazine

2009-12-06T17:12:00.000-08:00

Is distributed to more than 110,000 C-level executives* and provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages.

Published quarterly, Profit Magazine is distributed to more than 110,000 C-level executives* and provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages. Profit Magazine illuminates the business impact of technology and provides industry and line-of-business intelligence for your specific challenges. At the same time, Profit Magazine also wants to shed light on Oracle’s product and service strategies and how they’ll impact your business - today, and in the years to come.

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Bio-IT World

2009-12-06T17:11:00.001-08:00

Indispensable Technologies Driving Drug Discovery, Development, and Clinical Trials.

Bio-IT World, the flagship publication of Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), is the leading source of news on technology and strategic innovation in drug discovery, development, and clinical trials. Bio-IT World explores the tools and results of predictive biology as the industry adapts to the new world of personalized medicine. The magazine focuses on key technologies that shape the life sciences industry–high throughput sequencing, pathway analysis, adaptive clinical trials, the Semantic web, biomarkers, in silico screening, high performance computing, and much more. Expert views from an outstanding group of columnists on the world of translational medicine, science and the web, IT and informatics solutions will also be showcased.

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SD Times

2009-12-06T17:10:00.001-08:00

Is The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers.

BZ Media’s twice-monthly trade newspaper, SD Times, is the first and only publication in the software-development market offering news analysis in a field that includes dozens of dense technical journals. SD Times is written for top-level software and application development managers with a need for a wide-angle view of what’s happening in the software development industry, including news, analysis, opinions, and new products and services. The editorial focus and format is geared toward high-level management–the movers and shakers across the software development community.

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Selling Through A Slump - An Industry-by-Industry Playbook to Help You Prepare for the Recovery

2009-12-06T17:09:00.001-08:00

Selling in today’s economy is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in a tough market. There are important dos and don’ts in times like these..

This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump. Selling through a Slump: An Industry-by-Industry Playbook brings together sales strategies and best practices from 11 top sales experts from 11 distinct vertical market sectors, ranging from retail to health care to telecom - because one size doesn’t always fit all. The practical tips and experience-based wisdom here aren’t just limited to any single industry, though. Regardless of your market sector, you’re bound to find value in this arsenal of great sales ideas. Get access to exclusive tips on how to sell in a challenging market, from renowned sales experts like Jill Konrath, Charles Green, and Dave Stein. You’ve got questions - this eBook was created to give you answers.

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