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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