Programming Windows Identity Foundation

Programming Windows Identity Foundation

 
Book Description: Get hands-on guidance designed to help you put the newest .NET Framework component- Windows Identity Foundation, the identity and access logic for all on-premises and cloud development- to work.

About the Author: Vittorio Bertocci is a Senior Architect Evangelist in DPE and a key member of the extended engineering team that produces Microsoft’s claims-based platform components (e.g. Windows Identity Foundation, ADFS 2.0).

He is responsible for identity evangelism for the .NET developers community and drove initiatives such as the Identity Developer Training Kit and the IdElement show on Channel 9.

He is co-author of Understanding Windows Cardspace (Addison-Wesley, 2008) and a prominent authority/blogger on Azure, “Geneva” (the code name for Windows Identity Foundation), .NET development, and related topics.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion

 
Book Description: Get the critical, in-depth information you need to administer SharePoint 2010. Led by SharePoint MVPs and featuring insights from the SharePoint community and members of the SharePoint Team at Microsoft, you’ll discover how to plan, design, deploy, and manage strategic solutions using SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SQL Server®, Windows PowerShell™, and other key technologies.

Topics include architecture, deployment scenarios, design considerations, security best practices, high availability, performance, centralized administration, disaster recovery, customization, solution development, and upgrade and migration strategies. Key solutions include building and managing a server farm, automating tasks, FAST search application management, enterprise and web content management, and business intelligence.

About the Author:  Bill English, MCTS, MCT, CTT+, GSEC certified, is a Microsoft® MVP for SharePoint® Server. He runs a leading training and consulting company, has written 10+ books, and speaks at the Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Conference, Comdex, and other events.

Brian Alderman has his master’s in Computer Information Systems and is currently employed by Mindsharp which is located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Since 1995, he has held several Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCTS for SharePoint, MCITP for SQL Server®, MCSA and MCSE for Windows Server®, and also his PMP certification. As a Senior Technical Instructor and Consultant he has nearly 15 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, and project management.

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Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out

Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out

Book Description: Dive into the essential features in Microsoft Word 2010, Excel® 2010, OneNote® 2010, Outlook® 2010, and PowerPoint® 2010. This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds.

It’s all muscle and no fluff. Let the experts help you become at ease and proficient with every program in the Office family.

• Create great-looking documents using expert formatting tips.
• Build spreadsheets for complex calculations and data analysis.
• Save notes, clippings, web pages, and more in a notebook.
• Create dynamic slides and video-powered presentations.
• Expertly manage your inbox and business information.
• Protect your security and safeguard private information.
• Collaborate with Windows Live SkyDrive and SharePoint.

About the Author: Ed Bott is an award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. He’s known to millions of readers through two decades of writing for leading industry publications and more than 25 books on Microsoft® Office and Windows®.
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Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step

Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step

Book Description: Teach yourself exactly what you need to know about using Office Professional 2010-one step at a time! With STEP BY STEP, you build and practice new skills hands-on, at your own pace.

Covering Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Access, Publisher, and OneNote, this book will help you learn the core features and capabilities needed to:
Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step

• Create attractive documents, publications, and spreadsheets
• Manage your e-mail, calendar, meetings, and communications
• Put your business data to work
• Develop and deliver great presentations
• Organize your ideas and notes in one place
• Connect, share, and accomplish more when working together”

About the Author: Joan Lambert is the author of more than a dozen books on Windows and Office, including several popular STEP BY STEP titles from Microsoft Press.

Curtis D. Frye is the author of several books on Access and Excel, including MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL 2007 STEP BY STEP, along with numerous online training courses.
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Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

 

Book Description: “Are you paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a month for old-school dedicated servers or rack space at a datacenter? Find out why companies like 37signals, livemocha, Urbanspoon and The Guardian already know: Cloud Computing is the future of webhosting.

“Host Your Web Site in the Cloud” is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your websites & web applications.

Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught while dramatically cutting your monthly costs. Imagine paying just pennies per hour for server usage, and dynamically scaling your hosting infrastructure based on demand.

You’ll learn how to: gain a thorough understanding of cloud computing master the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services install and configure visual and command line tools store, retrieve, and distribute data quickly and easily build applications that scale manage the monitoring, load balancing, and scaling capabilities of cloud computing.

As a developer, you need room & flexibility to be innovative. Why waste time worrying about the technical aspects of server capacity? AWS handles security, load balancing, and server resources virtually so you’re not restricted to one physical server.
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The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software

 

Book Description: Get ready to kick some software project butt. By learning the ways of the agile samurai you will discover:

• how to create plans and schedules your customer and your team can believe in
• what characteristics make a good agile team and how to form your own
• how to gather requirements in a fraction of the time using agile user stories
• what to do when you discover your schedule is wrong, and how to look like a pro correcting it
• how to execute fiercely by leveraging the power of agile software engineering practices

By the end of this book you will know everything you need to set up, execute, and successfully deliver agile projects, and have fun along the way. If you’re a project lead, this book gives you the tools to set up and lead your agile project from start to finish.

If you are an analyst, programmer, tester, usability designer, or project manager, this book gives you the insight and foundation necessary to become a valuable agile team member.


The Agile Samurai slices away the fluff and theory that make other books less-than-agile. It’s packed with best practices, war stories, plenty of humor and hands-on tutorial exercises that will get you doing the right things, the right way.

This book will make a difference.
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Closure: The Definitive Guide

Closure: The Definitive Guide

 
Book Description: If you’re ready to use Closure to build rich web applications with JavaScript, this hands-on guide has precisely what you need to learn this suite of tools in depth. Closure makes it easy for experienced JavaScript developers to write and maintain large and complex codebases — as Google has demonstrated by using Closure with Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps.

Author and Closure contributor Michael Bolin has included numerous code examples and best practices, as well as valuable information not available publicly until now.

You’ll learn all about Closure’s Library, Compiler, Templates, testing framework, and Inspector — including how to minify JavaScript code with the Compiler, and why the combination of the Compiler and the Library is what sets Closure apart from other JavaScript toolkits.

• Learn how the Compiler significantly reduces the amount of JavaScript users have to download when visiting your site
• Discover several ways to use the Compiler as part of your build process
• Learn about type expressions, primitives, and common utilities
• Understand how Closure emulates classes and class-based inheritance
• Use Closure Templates on the server and the client from either JavaScript or Java
• Test and debug your JavaScript code, even when it’s compiled

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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1

 
Book Description: Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of this bestselling guide. Written by the developers of JBoss EJB 3.1, this book not only brings you up to speed on each component type and container service in this implementation, it also provides a workbook with several hands-on examples to help you gain immediate experience with these components.

With version 3.1, EJB’s server-side component model for building distributed business applications is simpler than ever. But it’s still a complex technology that requires study and lots of practice to master. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference on this specification.

You’ll find a straightforward, no-nonsense explanation of the underlying technology, including Java classes and interfaces, the component model, and the runtime behavior of EJB.

• Develop your first EJBs with a hands-on walkthrough of EJB 3.1 concepts
• Learn how to encapsulate business logic with Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans
• Discover how to handle persistence through Entity Beans, the EntityManager, and the Java Persistence API
• Understand EJB’s container services such as dependency injection, concurrency, and interceptors
• Integrate EJB with other technologies in the Java Enterprise Edition platform
• Use examples with either the JBossAS, OpenEJB, or GlassFish v3 EJB Containers

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JavaScript Patterns

JavaScript Patterns

 
Book Description: What’s the best approach for developing an application with JavaScript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous JavaScript coding patterns and best practices.

If you’re an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are ideal — whether you’re writing a client-side, server-side, or desktop application with JavaScript.

Written by JavaScript expert Stoyan Stefanov — Senior Yahoo! Technical and architect of YSlow 2.0, the web page performance optimization tool — JavaScript Patterns includes practical advice for implementing each pattern discussed, along with several hands-on examples. You’ll also learn about anti-patterns: common programming approaches that cause more problems than they solve.

• Explore useful habits for writing high-quality JavaScript code, such as avoiding globals, using single var declarations, and more
• Learn why literal notation patterns are simpler alternatives to constructor functions
• Discover different ways to define a function in JavaScript
• Create objects that go beyond the basic patterns of using object literals and constructor functions
• Learn the options available for code reuse and inheritance in JavaScript
• Study sample JavaScript approaches to common design patterns such as Singleton, Factory, Decorator, and more
• Examine patterns that apply specifically to the client-side browser environment

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Getting Started with Flex 4

Getting Started with Flex 4

 
Book Description: Discover what’s possible with the latest version of Flash Builder and Flex. This hands-on guide helps you dive into the Adobe Flash Platform: through a series of quick step-by-step tutorials, you’ll learn the process of building, debugging, and deploying a complete Rich Internet Application with Flex 4. Each tutorial includes complete code samples and pre-built Flex components. Follow the tutorials in sequence or simply jump to the areas that interest you.

Ideal for experienced developers with or without a background in Flex, Getting Started with Flex 4 shows you how to take advantage of your existing skills. You’ll quickly discover how easy RIA development can be.

• Create a Flex application that retrieves, displays, and modifies database records
• Easily add, update, and delete data in the database
• Test and debug the application
• Deploy your Flex application to a web server
• Change the application’s appearance with styling and skinning
• Use Flex components to add charts and graphs

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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Book Description:
How does MongoDB help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application? With this authoritative introduction, you’ll learn the many advantages of using document-oriented databases, and discover why MongoDB is a reliable, high-performance system that allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability.

Written by engineers from 10gen, the company that develops and supports this open source database, MongoDB: The Definitive Guide provides guidance for database developers, advanced configuration for system administrators, and an overview of the concepts and use cases for other people on your project. Learn how easy it is to handle data as self-contained JSON-style documents, rather than as records in a relational database.

• Explore ways that document-oriented storage will work for your project
• Learn how MongoDB’s schema-free data model handles documents, collections, and multiple databases
• Execute basic write operations, and create complex queries to find data with any criteria
• Use indexes, aggregation tools, and other advanced query techniques
• Learn about monitoring, security and authentication, backup and repair, and more
• Set up master-slave and automatic failover replication in MongoDB
• Use sharding to scale MongoDB horizontally, and learn how it impacts applications
• Get example applications written in Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby

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Rockstar WordPress Designer

Rockstar WordPress Designer

 
Book Description: Theme Like a Professional!


Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.

During the course of the book you’ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged in with the book so you’ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to.


Updated for WordPress 3.0: How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer has been updated for the latest release of WordPress and includes a section on Navigation Menus!
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Rockstar Presentations

Rockstar Presentations

 
Book Description: Give a Rockstar Presentation!

In Rockstar Presentations, author Joseph Lewis shares tips, tricks and wisdom on public speaking with no fear, no cue cards and no worries!

Whether you’re giving a blockbuster keynote or teaching a handful of co-workers how to do something cool, this book was written for you.

This book also comes bundled with 3 great PowerPoint templates you can use in your own presentations.

About the Authors  Joseph Lewis is a regular contributor to WorkAwesome.com, and has over ten years of experience in publishing for government, defense, health care, and technology firms. As an editor, he has corrected typos for admirals, doctors, and scientists, and published numerous books, journals, and case studies.

As a writer, Joseph has published countless classified and proprietary documents that you cannot read. Over the years, he has created and delivered presentations to bosses, peers, clients, and students on more subjects than he cares to remember, including how to give a quality presentation.

He has also written articles about business presentations, office politics, and other humorous subjects. Joseph lives in a pleasant suburb of the United States with his wife, daughter, and two cats.
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How to Build a Successful Blog Business

How to Build a Successful Blog Business

 
Book Description: How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it.

Whether you are interested in creating an additional income stream or building a fully-fledged business, this is an essential read for web entrepreneurs and online publishers.

Collis is a web veteran with a wealth of experience and an easy to read style. He has founded sites such as the Tuts+ network, the Envato Marketplaces, FreelanceSwitch and AppStorm which combined serve up over 50 million pageviews a month.

In How to Build a Successful Blog Business Collis shares tips from his years of operating kick ass blogs, and reveals stats, graphs, revenue figures and inside details from three real world case studies.

Nowhere else will you be able to find information like this. Step behind the scenes of Envato’s wildly successful sites and find out how you build blogs that are both profitable and popular.

This is the must-read book on blogging business.
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How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer

How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer

Book Description: Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official FreelanceSwitch book. It’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.

If you want to start your freelance career the right way, then How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer will give you everything you need to become the best freelancer in town!

About the Authors Cyan and Collis Ta’eed are the founders of popular freelancing blog FreelanceSwitch. After years of running a small freelance graphic and web design business, they shut up shop and started web startup Envato where they work building brilliant websites for creatives everywhere.

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Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

 
Book Description: The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is “Too Damn Difficult” will appreciate this book.

Design Driven Testing shows that, by combining a forward-thinking development process with cutting-edge automation, testing can be a finely targeted, business-driven, rewarding effort. In other words, you’ll learn how to test smarter, not harder.

• Applies a feedback-driven approach to each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Illustrates a lightweight and effective approach using a core subset of UML.
• Follows a real-life example project using Java and Flex/ActionScript.
• Presents bonus chapters for advanced DDTers covering unit-test antipatterns (and their opposite, “test-conscious” design patterns), and showing how to create your own test transformation templates in Enterprise Architect.

What you’ll learn

• Create unit and behavioral tests using JUnit, NUnit, FlexUnit.
• Generate acceptance tests for all usage paths through use case thread expansion.
• Generate requirement tests for functional requirements.

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Beginning Rails 3

Beginning Rails 3

 
Book Description: Beginning Rails 3 is the practical starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the latest release of the Rails framework for Ruby. You’ll learn how all of the components of Rails fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications with less code and more joy.

This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails. Beginning Rails 3 assumes basic familiarity with web terms and technologies, but doesn’t require you to be an expert.

Rather than delving into the arcane details of Rails, the focus is on the aspects of the framework that will become your pick, shovel, and axe. Part history lesson, part introduction to object-oriented programming, and part dissertation on open source software, this title doesn’t just explain how to do something in Rails, it explains why.

• Learn to create Rails web applications from scratch
• Includes a gentle introduction to the Ruby programming language
• Completely updated to include the new features of Rails 3

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Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010

Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010

 
Book Description: The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and assumes only the most basic knowledge of Visual Basic.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance.

Within these pages, you’ll find tips for best practices and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code-behind, which will start you off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the beginning—rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

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Professional Blogging For Dummies

Professional Blogging For Dummies

 
Book Description: Take your hobby to the next level and turn your blog into real income
Anyone who blogs knows that it is a fun, creative way for sharing thoughts and opinions. Now imagine making money from that hobby!

This practical, how-to guide shows you how you can get serious about using your blog and implement advertising, sponsorship, partnerships, and affiliate marketing options to turn your hobby into extra income, or even a full-time career.

Helpful examples and featured articles with topic experts and bloggers who have built successful business demonstrate how to promote your business or build a blog-based business.

• Discusses finding your niche, adhering to legal considerations, establishing your disclosure and privacy policies, and dealing responsibly with review requests
• Introduces ideas for advertising and other monetization options and recommends promotional avenues to explore
• Suggests creative ways to keep your blog fresh, unique, and interesting
• Provides tips for monitoring and measuring your success

Professional Blogging For Dummies opens the door to a world of money-making blogging possibilities!
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Photoshop CS5 For Dummies

Photoshop CS5 For Dummies

 
Book Description: The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, fully updated
Previous editions of this For Dummies guide have sold more 650,000 copies. Richly illustrated in full color, this edition covers all the updates in the newest version of Photoshop, the gold standard for image-editing programs.

Used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists, Photoshop has more than four million users worldwide.

• Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools
• Teaches all the basics for first-time users, including how to work with the menus, panels, tools, options, and essential shortcuts
• Covers how to fix red-eye, remove blemishes and wrinkles, remove people or objects from a photo, adjust brightness, improve color, add shadows and highlights, work with Camera Raw, decrease digital noise, create composite images, use channels and masks, optimize images for the Web, and much more

Photoshop CS5 For Dummies helps both amateur and professional Photoshop users take advantage of all the program has to offer.
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Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4

Book Description: A guide to architecting, designing, and building distributed applications with Windows Communication FoundationWindows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run workflows. This guide enables developers to create state-of-the-art applications using this technology.

Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs and WCF experts, this book explains how the pieces of WCF 4.0 build on each other to provide a comprehensive framework to support distributed enterprise applications.

Experienced developers will learn both theory and practical application using the familiar Wrox approach.
.NET developers will learn to design services, create a hosting environment with Dublin, build cloud-based integrations, and much more.

Coverage Includes:

• Design Principles and Patterns
• Service Contracts and Data Contracts
• Bindings

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Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

 

Book Description: Get up to speed on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2010 through a combination of hands-on instruction and deep-dives.

Microsoft has packed a lot of brand new testing and modeling tools into Visual Studio 2010, tools that previously were available only to Microsoft internal development teams. Developers will appreciate the focus on practical implementation techniques and best practices.

A team of Microsoft insiders provides a nuts-and-bolts approach. This Wrox guide is designed as both a step-by-step guide and a reference for modeling, designing, and coordinating software development solutions at every level using Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 offers a complete lifecycle management system that covers modeling, testing, code analysis, collaboration, build and deployment tools.

Coverage includes:

• An Introduction to Software Architecture
• Top-down Design with Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams
• Top-down Design with Component and Class Diagrams

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Dreamweaver CS5 For Dummies

Dreamweaver CS5 For Dummies

Book Description: A fully updated guide to the leading Web site creation tool, Dreamweaver CS5. Dreamweaver holds 90 percent of the market share for professional Web site development software.

This popular book, which has sold more than 300,000 copies in previous editions, is fully updated for the newest version of Dreamweaver. Both beginning and intermediate Web site developers will get the information they need from this easy-to-follow guide.

• Dreamweaver is the gold standard for Web site development software; this book covers what both beginners and intermediate-level users need to know to develop sites for online commerce, education, customer service, and other uses
• Covers the basics, including customizing your workspace, setting up your site, creating pages, and publishing your site to the Web
• Explains how to work with text, graphics, and links; managing and testing your site; defining and applying styles with CSS; creating CSS layouts; adding audio, video, and Flash files; exploring the Spry framework; building dynamic sites, connecting to a database, and more

Web site developers will find just what they need to get going and create effective, eye-catching Web sites with Dreamweaver CS5 For Dummies.
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English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition

English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Book Description: The fun and easy way® to improve your grammar. Enhancing your speaking and writing skills helps in everyday situations, such as writing a paper for school, giving a presentation to a company’s bigwigs, or communicating effectively with family and friends. English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the latest techniques for improving your efficiency with English grammar and punctuation.

• Teaches the rules of verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; prepositions, propositions, and pronoun pronouncements; punctuation; possessives; and proofreading skills for all communication
• Geraldine Woods is the author of English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, College Admission Essays For Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies, SAT I For Dummies, 6th Edition, AP English Literature For Dummies, and AP English Language For Dummies

For speakers and writers of all skill levels, English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides easy-to-follow, practical information for improving your command of English grammar.

From the Back Cover - The fun and easy way® to improve your grammar. Do the parts of speech render you speechless? Does the thought of diagramming sentences make you sweat? Fear not! English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes the “grr” out of grammar and gives you fun, easy-to-followstrategies for understanding the rules of grammar and punctuation to improve your speaking and writing skills —without ever diagramming a single sentence!

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Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Book Description: A new edition of the bestselling guide-now updated to cover the latest hacks and how to prevent them! It’s bad enough when a hack occurs-stealing identities, bank accounts, and personal information. But when the hack could have been prevented by taking basic security measures-like the ones described in this book-somehow that makes a bad situation even worse.

This beginner guide to hacking examines some of the best security measures that exist and has been updated to cover the latest hacks for Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux.

Offering increased coverage of Web application hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and mobile computing hacks, this guide addresses a wide range of vulnerabilities and how to identify and prevent them. Plus, you’ll examine why ethical hacking is oftentimes the only way to find security flaws, which can then prevent any future malicious attacks.

• Explores the malicious hackers’s mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely
• Covers developing strategies for reporting vulnerabilities, managing security changes, and putting anti-hacking policies and procedures in place
• Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux
• Explains ethical hacking and why it is essential

Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to put all the necessary security measures in place so that you avoid becoming a victim of malicious hacking.
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InDesign CS5 For Dummies

InDesign CS5 For Dummies

Book Description: Get up to speed on the latest features and enhancements to the new version of InDesign. As the industry standard in professional layout and design, InDesign delivers powerful publishing solutions for magazine, newspaper, and other publishing fields.

This introductory book is an easy-to-understand reference for anyone migrating from another software application or those with little-to-no desktop publishing experience. You’ll explore InDesign basics and examine the enhancements to the latest version, while you also discover how pages work, build templates, create frames and shapes, manage styles, and much more.

• InDesign is proving to be an increasingly popular layout and design application; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools
• Teaches all the basics for first-time users, including how to open and save your work, arrange objects, work with color, edit text, manage styles, finesse character details, add special type, import and size graphics, set paths, work with tabs, create indices, and more
• Demonstrates how to calibrate colors, export PDF files, fine-tune paragraph details, create frames and shapes, manipulate objects, and work with automated text

InDesign CS5 For Dummies offers a straightforward but fun approach to discovering how to get the most from your desktop publishing experience when using InDesign.

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jQuery For Dummies

jQuery For Dummies

Book Description: Learn how jQuery can make your Web page or blog stand out from the crowd! jQuery is free, open source software that allows you to extend and customize Joomla!, Drupal, AJAX, and WordPress via plug-ins. Assuming no previous programming experience, Lynn Beighley takes you through the basics of jQuery from the very start.

You’ll discover how the jQuery library separates itself from other JavaScript libraries through its ease of use, compactness, and friendliness if you’re a beginner programmer.

Written in the easy-to-understand style of the For Dummies brand, this book demonstrates how you can add unique and exciting interactivity to a Web site or WordPress blog, including photo browsers, menus, tab-based navigation, sliding sidepanels, slideshows, transition effects, fade effects, Twitter feeds, and much, much more!

• Walks you through the capabilities of jQuery, the number one open source JavaScript library that enables you to provide interactivity on a Web site or blog
• Helps you understand DOM (Document Object Model) scripting, applying CSS classes via JQuery, and adding in special effects and jQuery plug-ins to your site
• Shows you how to create dazzling special effects on your site, including fades, slide shows, sliding panels, tabbed navigation, and more

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Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

 
Book Description: Business Intelligence (BI) software allows you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, which makes comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere.

Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software—called BI 2.0—which is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.

As computers and software have evolved, more data can be presented to end users with increasingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight can be used to transform traditional user-interfaces filled with boring data into fully interactive analytical applications that quickly deliver insight from large data sets.

Furthermore, RIA applications now include 3D spatial-design capabilities that move beyond a simple list or grid and allow for interesting layouts of aggregated data. BI 2.0 implemented via an RIA technology can truly bring out the power of BI and deliver it to an average user on the Web.

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 4 provides developers, designers, and architects with a solid foundation in BI design and architecture concepts for Microsoft Silverlight. This book covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without an existing BI infrastructure.

Author Bart Czernicki provides you with examples of how to build small BI applications that are interactive, highly visual, statistical, predictive—and most importantly—intuitive to the end-user.

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Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

Description: HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology—available in the most recent versions of modern browsers—to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

• Explains how you can create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers
• Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action
• Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers
• Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up to speed quickly with HTML5

What you’ll learn

• How the HTML5 specification has evolved
• How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, Geolocation, Web Storage, Canvas, and Audio and Video.
• Which features are available in browsers today

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Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy

Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy

Book Description: It seems as if everyone is writing applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, but how do they all do it? It’s best to learn Objective-C, the native language of both the iOSand Mac OS X, but where to begin? Right here, even if you’ve never programmed before!

Objective-C for Absolute Beginners will teach you how to write software for your Mac, iPhone,or iPad using Objective-C, an elegant and powerful language with a rich set of developer tools. Using a hands-on approach, you’ll learn to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to build program logic, and how towrite your own applications and apps.

With over 50 collective years in software development and based on an approach pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University, the authors have developed a remarkably effective approach to learning Objective-C.

Since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, theauthors have taught hundreds of absolute beginners how to develop Mac, iPhone,and iPad apps, including many that became popular apps in the iTunes App Store.

What you’ll learn

• The fundamentals of computer programming: how to understand variables,design data structures, and work with file systems
• The logic of object-oriented programming: how to use Classes, Objects, and Methods
• The flexibility of Apple’s developer tools: how to install Xcode and write programs in Objective-C
• The power of Cocoa and Cocoa touch: how to make Mac OS Xapplications or iOS apps that do cool stuff

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iPhone 4 Made Simple

iPhone 4 Made Simple

Book Description: Congratulations—you’ve purchased the new iPhone 4, the coolest smartphone on the market. Now it’s time to learn how to take advantage of all the features, apps, and secret techniques available. To accomplish this, look no further than iPhone 4 Made Simple.

Over 1,000 screen visuals and clear-cut instructions guide you through both basic and advanced features of the iPhone 4, from email and calendar tips to navigating the App Store and understanding Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks.

Written by two successful smartphone trainers and authors, this is the go-to guide for the latest and greatest version of the iPhone.

What you’ll learn

• Use copy/Paste, spotlight search, and voice memos
• Support for both Windows and Mac users
• Use music, videos, photos & voice notes
• Detailed iTunes instructions
• Sync playlists, videos, contacts, calendar, and notes
• Fast email, phone, calendar, and browser tips
• Create your own ringtones & wallpapers
• Use Google Maps to find just about anything!
• Navigate the App Store for games, productivity apps, and more
• Understand Bluetooth and Wi-Fi network setup & security

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Foundation Flash Catalyst

Foundation Flash Catalyst

Book Description: This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs.

It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow.

• Introduces Flash Catalyst
• Focuses on production process
• Covers the interrelation between Flash Catalyst and Photoshop/Illustrator/Flex/Flash

What you’ll learn
Starting from scratch, you’ll learn the basic concepts and interface functionality of Flash Catalyst, and get practical experience by working on carefully crafted real-life projects throughout the book. You’ll learn every stage of the process, from the first design sketches to the Flex Developer hand over, and how you can make design changes to assets while the developers work on the code.

You’ll also learn how to make your designs functional by adding simple buttons and scroll bars, and how to make sure that developers can precisely interpret your vision.
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AdvancED Game Design with Flash

AdvancED Game Design with Flash

Book Description: Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun. Once you’ve mastered the basics, a new world is opened up to you, enabling you to take your existing skills to the next level and discover new skills that will in turn open new doors.

This book is a direct continuation of Foundation Game Design with Flash, and is a complete point-by-point roundup of the most important skills a Flash game designer needs to know. You’ll increase your ActionScript knowledge and your game design skills while creating some excellent example games.

You’ll learn advanced collision detection skills; professional AI and pathfinding; and how to load and save game data, create destructible environments, and build and switch game levels.

• Each chapter highlights a new advanced technique illustrated by practical examples.
• Examples of games are given in a variety of genres, all of which take an object-oriented programming approach.
• Advanced game design topics are covered, including vector-based collision reaction, pathfinding, billiard ball physics, and modeling game data.

What you’ll learn

• How to use vectors to figure out where objects are going and how they should react to collisions
• Pixel-perfect collision detection for irregular shapes using hitTest and bitmapData
• How to use design patterns and abstract data models to manage complex games efficiently

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Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, 4th Edition

Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, 4th Edition

 
Book Description: Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Fourth Edition is a major update of W. Jason Gilmore’s authoritative book on PHP and MySQL. The fourth edition includes complete coverage of PHP 5.3 features, including namespacing, an update of AMP stack installation and configuration, updates to Zend Framework, coverage of MySQL Workbench, and much more.

You’ll not only receive extensive introductions to the core features of PHP, MySQL, and related tools, but you’ll also learn how to effectively integrate them in order to build robust data-driven applications.

Gilmore has seven years of experience working with these technologies, and he has packed this book with practical examples and insight into the real-world challenges faced by developers. Accordingly, you will repeatedly return to this book as both a valuable instructional tool and reference guide.

What you’ll learn

• How to install and configure Apache, PHP 5.3, and MySQL
• PHP and object-oriented programming basics
• New PHP 5.3 features and how to use them
• How to move beyond basic PHP, including using the Zend Framework
• How to use MySQL to securely store your website’s data
• How to use MySQL Workbench to manage your database

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Beginning Ubuntu Linux, 5th Edition

Beginning Ubuntu Linux, 5th Edition

 

Book Description: Ubuntu Linux is the fastest growing Linux-based operating system, and Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fifth Edition teaches all of us—including those who have never used Linux—how to use it productively, whether you come from Windows or the Mac or the world of open source.

Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fifth Edition shows you how to take advantage of the newest Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx. Based on the best-selling previous edition, Emilio Raggi maintains a fine balance between teaching Ubuntu and introducing new features.

Whether you aim to use it in the home or in the office, you’ll be introduced to the complete world of Ubuntu Linux, from simple word processing to using Cloud services. You’ll learn how to control the Ubuntu system which you just installed from the Book DVD as you are guided through common tasks such as configuring the system GUI, listening to audio CDs and MP3s, producing documents, using VOIP and chat, and of course general system maintenance.

This book also supplies a series of comprehensive tutorials on Ubuntu administration and security—essential for any Ubuntu user—while not neglecting matters pertaining to office applications and the Cloud.

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BlackBerry Bold Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and 9650 Series

BlackBerry Bold Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and 9650 Series

 

Book Description:  You’ve chosen well—with elegant design, a high-res display, and a speedy processor, the Bold is a top-notch device. Now learn how to take advantage of all the features with this easy-to-read guide from two of the best BlackBerry trainers in the business.

BlackBerry Bold Made Simple teaches you how to get the most out of your BlackBerry Bold. You’ll explore all the features and uncover time-saving techniques—from emailing and scheduling to video recording and expanding memory—all through easy-to-read instructions and detailed visuals.

Written by two successful BlackBerry trainers and authors, this is simply the most comprehensive and clear guidebook to the BlackBerry Bold available.

What you’ll learn

• Sync your Bold with a PC or Mac
• Master the keyboard and trackpad navigation
• Everything email: setup, basics, and pro techniques
• Text messaging: SMS, PIN, and more
• Set up a three-way conference call
• Get work done: Manage your calendar, contact list, and memopad
• Understand connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• Have fun with music, photos, and videos

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BlackBerry Storm 2 Made Simple: For BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2

BlackBerry Storm 2 Made Simple: For BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2

Book Description: The sleek BlackBerry Storm is more than good looks—it also boasts a number of powerful features, including advanced SurePress typing technology, WiFi access, and video recording capabilities.

With BlackBerry Storm 2 Made Simple, you’ll explore all the features and uncover valuable techniques—from emailing and scheduling to GPS mapping and using apps—through easy-to-read instructions and detailed visuals.

Written by two successful BlackBerry trainers and authors, this is simply the most comprehensive and clear guidebook to the BlackBerry Storm and Storm 2 smartphones available.

What you’ll learn

• Sync your Storm with a PC or Mac
• Master the keyboard and trackpad navigation
• Everything email: setup, basics, and pro techniques
• Text messaging: SMS, PIN, and more
• Set up a three-way conference call
• Get work done: Manage your calendar, contact list, and memopad
• Understand connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• Use Google Sync for true “Wireless Sync” without an Enterprise Server
• Support for both BlackBerry Internet Service and Corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server  

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iPhone and iPad in Action

iPhone and iPad in Action

Book Description: iPhone and iPad In Action, compiled by mobile software developer and blogger Brandon Trebitowski, simplifies existing iPhone topics while also updating them to account for the 3.4 SDK framework including iPad coverage.

Beyond covering the basics of iPhone development, this edition also explores exciting topics such as the accelerometer, peer-to-peer gaming, mapkit, push notifications, and in-app purchasing. The reader is provided with step-by-step instructions on how to integrate the APIs into new or existing applications.

After completing this book, the reader will have all of the knowledge necessary to create fully functional iPhone applications ready for the App Store. There are many sample applications to work from including a chat client, video game, interactive map, and many others.

About the Author: Brandon Trebitowski is a software developer and author. In August of 2008, he started iCodeBlog.com to teach aspiring developers how to write software for the iPhone. After the blog was acquired by RightSprite in December of 2008, he began working full time for them developing mobile software.

Christopher Allen hosts iphonewebdev.com, the largest iPhone web dev community, and is a founder and organizer of the iPhoneDevCamp conference. A longtime technologist, Chris was one of the authors of TLS, the next-generation SSL protocol.
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Spring Dynamic Modules in Action

Spring Dynamic Modules in Action

Book Description: Java EE developers increasingly want to utilize OSGi to develop modular applications for component and service-based architectures. But tools required for OSGi implementation have been slow to develop. Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring DM) is a framework that simplifies the creation of component and service-oriented architectures with OSGi, to build modular Java applications using the powerful Spring framework.

Spring Dynamic Modules in Action presents the fundamental concepts of OSGi-based apps and maps them to the familiar ideas of the Spring framework. Then, it teaches the techniques and concepts required to develop stable, flexible enterprise apps. Along the way, readers will learn to incorporate other topics including dependency injection and unit testing in an OSGi-based environment.

About the Author: Arnaud Cogolu gnes is a software developer, Java EE architect and author with deep expertise in middleware, software engineering and Spring technologies. Arnaud spent a number of years in development of complex business applications, integration of Java-based products, and dispensing training on the Java platform.

Thierry Templier is co-author of two French books on Spring and JavaScript and contributed to the Spring framework with the JCA and Lucene supports. He is a Java EE and Web2 architect and MDE expert with 10 years of experience. He develops rich internet applications combining Spring, OSGi, JPA and GWT, and based on Spring-DM.
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Silverlight 4 in Action

Silverlight 4 in Action

Book Description: Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating “Hello World” to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content.

Written for a developer who already knows how to code in C#, this fluff-free book covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML (a language for creating user interface elements) and Visual Studio 2010. You’ll learn not only how to accomplish tasks, but how the underlying runtime works.

In addition to the fundamentals, the book covers the new features in Silverlight like pixel shaders, webcam and microphone, as well as WCF RIA Services and patterns like MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). It explains developing offline and “out-of-browser” applications, managing video and audio, handling validation, navigation and deep-linking, and how each Silverlight feature fits into the overall Silverlight ecosystem.

About the Author: Pete Brown is a Community Program Manager with Microsoft on the developer division community team lead by Scott Hanselman. Pete’s focus at Microsoft is the community around client application development (Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, Surface, Windows Forms, C++, Native Windows API and more).
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Silverlight 2 in Action

Silverlight 2 in Action

 
Book Description: Microsoft describes Silverlight as a “cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.” That’s a really boring description for a really exciting new technology.

Anyone who has looked at the demos and gotten a taste of what Silverlight can do knows that Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich web interface technology for Microsoft developers.

With Silverlight 2, developers can use JavaScript, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby to build user-friendly, interactive, and visually-dazzling web applications that work in most major browsers.

Silverlight 2 in Action covers Silverlight 2, a far more robust implementation of Silverlight than the Silverlight 1 release that supports only JavaScript. The much-anticipated 2 release adds powerful new features along with the ability to code in multiple languages and integrate your work with Visual Studio and the new Expression suite of tools.

This book delivers real-world examples and in-depth walkthroughs to help you confidently enhance your web applications using Silverlight 2.

Silverlight 2 in Action devotes extensive coverage to flexible layout components, the extensible control model, the communication framework, and the data-binding features “all cornerstones of software development.

Author and Microsoft MVP Chad Campbell also describes rich media and vivid graphical and animation features.
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Alfresco 3 Web Services

Alfresco 3 Web Services

Book Description: Alfresco 3 is the leading open source enterprise content management system that offers powerful features for interacting with the content in its repository from outside the system. These include the support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation, reusable web scripts, and a Web Services API.

This is the first book to show you how to use Web Services in Alfresco. Packed with examples, you’ll learn how to build applications using Alfresco remote APIs based on SOAP and REST. You’ll see how to use different APIs and bindings such as WebServices, WebScripts, and CMIS.

Alfresco 3 Web Services starts off by showing you the services exposed by the Alfresco Web Services API, and how the API fits into the Alfresco software architecture.You learn to develop your application firstly by setting up and testing your Java development environment using the Alfresco SDK in Eclipse IDE and secondly by associating the Alfresco source code and Javadocs in Eclipse.

With the help of real world practical examples, you learn how to do things like create, sort, and call Web Scripts, and invoke remote calls to Alfresco repository. To get the most from the Web Services API, you need to know about the basics of the Content Manipulation Language (CML), and the book takes you through this.
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REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture

REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture

 
Book Description: Why don’t typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?

In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth explanation of REST and demonstrate how you can develop simple and elegant distributed hypermedia systems by applying the Web’s guiding principles to common enterprise computing problems

You’ll learn techniques for implementing specific Web technologies and patterns to solve the needs of a typical company as it grows from modest beginnings to become a global enterprise.

• Learn basic Web techniques for application integration
• Use HTTP and the Web’s infrastructure to build scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications
• Discover the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern for manipulating resources
• Build RESTful services that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols
• Learn how to make Web-based solutions secure and interoperable
• Extend integration patterns for event-driven computing with the Atom Syndication Format and implement multi-party interactions in AtomPub
• Understand how the Semantic Web will impact systems design

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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

Book Description:
Most users on the Internet have a few favorite Internet web applications that they use often and cannot do without. These popular applications often provide essential services that we need even while we don’t fully understand its features or how they work.

Ruby empowers you to develop your own clones of such applications without much ordeal. Learning how these sites work and describing how they can be implemented enables you to move to the next step of customizing them and enabling your own version of these services.

This book shows the reader how to clone some of the Internet’s most popular applications in Ruby by first identifying their main features, and then showing example Ruby code to replicate this functionality.
While we understand that it connects us to our friends and people we want to meet up with, what is the common feature of a social network that makes it a social network?

And how do these features work? This book is the answer to all these questions. It will provide a step-by-step explanation on how the application is designed and coded, and then how it is deployed to the Heroku cloud platform.

This book’s main purpose is to break up popular Internet services such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook to understand what makes it tick. Then using Ruby, the book describes how a minimal set of features for these sites can be modeled, built, and deployed on the Internet.

Break up and rewrite popular social networking and other Internet applications using Ruby
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Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual

Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual

 
Book Description: Elements 9 offers much of Photoshop’s power without the huge price tag. It’s an ideal tool for most image-editing buffs — including scrapbookers, photographers, and aspiring graphic artists. But Elements still doesn’t come with a decent manual.

This bestselling book will help you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac.

• Quickly learn your way around. Customize Elements to suit your working style.
• Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick image fixes with ease.
• Retouch any image. Learn how to repair and restore your old and damaged photos.
• Add some pizzazz. Give images more zip with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects.
• Find your creative flair. Create scrapbooks, greeting cards, photo books, and more.
• Use advanced techniques. Work with layers, blend modes, and other tools.
• Try out your new skills. Download practice images and try new tricks as you learn.

About the Author: Barbara Brundage is the author of Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual, an Adobe Community Expert, and a member of Adobe’s prerelease groups for Elements 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. She’s been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001.

Barbara first started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Along the way, she joined the large group of people finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras. If she can learn to use Elements, you can, too!

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JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide

JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide

 
Book Description: JavaScript is an important part of web development in today’s Web 2.0 world. While there are many JavaScript frameworks in the market, learning to write, test, and debug JavaScript without the help of any framework will make you a better JavaScript developer. However, testing and debugging can be time consuming, tedious, and painful. This book will ease your woes by providing various testing strategies, advice, and tool guides that will make testing smooth and easy.

This book shows you the most essential features of JavaScript, which you will be using in your daily development, testing, and debugging tasks. You will learn to use the most basic functions of JavaScript to perform ad hoc testing quickly and efficiently.

This book is organized in an easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial style to maximize your learning. You will first learn about the different types of errors you will most often encounter as a JavaScript developer. You will also learn the most essential features of JavaScript through our easy to follow examples.As you go along, you will learn how to write better JavaScript code through validation. Learning how to write validated code alone will help you improve tremendously as a JavaScript developer and most importantly, to write JavaScript code that runs better, faster, and with less bugs.

As our JavaScript program gets larger, we need better ways of testing our JavaScript code. You will learn how to go about various testing concepts and how to use them in your test plan. After which, you will learn how to implement the test plan for your code.

To accommodate more complex JavaScript code, you will learn more about the built-in features of JavaScript to identify and catch different types of JavaScript error. Such information helps to spot the root of the problem so that you can act on it.
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OpenCart 1.4 Beginner’s Guide

OpenCart 1.4 Beginner’s Guide

 
Book Description: OpenCart is a popular open source shopping cart solution and provides elegantly written tools to establish a fully functional online store from scratch in a very short time with intuitive screens. It can be a difficult task for beginners to go beyond the basics and apply all the features, which they will require for their businesses.

This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing OpenCart, helping you start feature-rich, professional online stores easily. It also teaches you how to organize your online store effectively in terms of products, payments, shipping, orders, and customer relations.

OpenCart 1.4 Beginner’s Guide will teach you how to build a store that can take control of all the online shopping needs. You will be able to run multiple shops in a single installation. You will learn how to set up products and correctly organize in categories.

You will correctly integrate a payment gateway and shipping method after reading the comparisons and applying the examples. You will learn how to define taxes and apply them according to the geolocation of a customer.

This book also teaches you how to manage orders and customers.

You can impress your customers and increase the availability of the website to more people with the help of this practical guide. Additionally, the book also teaches you how to use design templates and apply SEO (search engine optimization) to make the store more visible for search engine queries.

Explore OpenCart—build robust shopping websites with high-level functionality.
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

 
Book Description: Discover how Apache Hadoop can unleash the power of your data. This comprehensive resource shows you how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with the Hadoop framework — an open source implementation of MapReduce, the algorithm on which Google built its empire. Programmers will find details for analyzing datasets of any size, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

This revised edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new features such as Hive, Sqoop, and Avro. It also provides illuminating case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. Looking to get the most out of your data? This is your book.

• Use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing large datasets, then run distributed computations over those datasets with MapReduce
• Become familiar with Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization, and persistence
• Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs
• Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster, or run Hadoop in the cloud
• Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing
• Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop’s data warehousing system
• Take advantage of HBase, Hadoop’s database for structured and semi-structured data
• Learn ZooKeeper, a toolkit of coordination primitives for building distributed systems

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Plone 3 Intranets

Plone 3 Intranets

Book Description: Plone is widely used for creating feature-rich and secure enterprise intranets. Each company has different goals, architecture, hierarchy, and size and requires a very different intranet to manage its business. No matter what size, or what purpose, Plone offers solutions to the most common intranet needs, and more.

If you’ve never built an intranet before, you don’t even have programming skills, or you don’t have any experience with CMSs, this practical guide targeted at people with no previous experience with Plone is the most suitable book for you.

Starting from scratch, it will show you how to design and build a feature-rich, secure corporate intranet easily, by optimizing the features of Plone. It will guide you from the initial setup through Plone basics, security, and workflow-related topics, ending with the most common deployment techniques. It will help you learn how to use content types effectively for your intranet.

You will learn how to manage the life cycle of your documents and content in general using workflows. It will teach you how to manage security and access to your content granularly. You will learn to manage local users, and get to know about the mechanisms that Plone makes available to the users to manage their data.

This step-by-step book will also show you how to choose the right add-on products for your site, and how to enhance your intranet by using them efficiently. At the end, you will learn how to deploy your intranet and make your site live for your users.

Build your own Plone-based intranet easily and successfully by focusing on effective usage of content type, security, content life cycle, and suitable Plone add-ons
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Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

 
Book Description: If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. This hands-on book shows you how to use these open source web standards to design and build apps that can be adapted for any Android device — without having to use Java.

You’ll learn how to create an Android-friendly web app on the platform of your choice, and then convert it to a native Android app with the free PhoneGap framework. Discover why device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and start building apps that offer greater flexibility and a broader reach.

• Learn the basics for making a web page look great on the Android web browser
• Convert a website into a web application, complete with progress indicators and more
• Add animation with jQTouch to make your web app look and feel like a native Android app
• Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the Android device is offline
• Use PhoneGap to hook into advanced Android features — including the accelerometer, geolocation, and alerts
• Test and debug your app on the Web under load with real users, and then submit the finished product to the Android Market

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