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All Wrox.com Wrox e-books DRM-free in 3 formats: PDF, Mobi, ePub

jminatel — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:59:51 +0000

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We have been gradually making improvements to the Wrox.com ebook selection over the last 1-2 years. Today, we're announcing that all Wrox ebooks purchased at Wrox.com are now DRM-free AND available for download in the 3 major formats - PDF, Mobi, EPub.

A NOT Wrox HTML & CSS book

jminatel — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:09:19 +0000

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Last fall we published a new HTML and CSS book. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be news. But this is a very different book for the Wrox team, so different in fact that we chose not to call it Wrox but simply let people know it's "from the publishers of Wrox." The book has gradually generated tremendous interest and incredibly positive reviews, so I'm taking a few words to share about it here.

Wrox 24-Hour Trainer Videos Now in Safari

jminatel — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +0000

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In addition to the 247 Wrox books that Safari now has in the Safari Online Books subscription, Safari has also now added the videos to go with 12 of our 24-Hour Trainer books. So, if you have a Safari library subscription, you should now be able to read these books as well as watch the hours of accompanying video lessons for each.

Wrox ebooks available for purchase on oreilly.com

jminatel — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:30:43 +0000

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I'm very happy to acknowledge what several authors and readers have noticed: Wrox ebooks are now available for purchase from oreilly.com. O'Reilly has built a tremendous retail web site over the years selling many other publisher's books that programmers would look for including Manning, Pragmatic, as well as their own books. We're happy that our readers can now buy our ebooks there as well.

218 Wrox Books in Safari Books Online

jminatel — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:45:55 +0000

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As we announced recently, Wrox books are now in Safari. Already, the good folks at Safari have added 218 full Wrox books in Safari and they're adding more constantly.

For the month of May, Wrox marketing has passed along the good news from Safari that we're authorized to offer you this great new offer to join Safari at a discount:

Writing Motion Detecting Apps in Flash for Android and iOS

jminatel — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:51:20 +0000

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Android and iOS devices have built-in motion detectors that enable programmers to capture the motion that occurs on a three-dimensional axis. This capability enables you to detect all sorts of user motions — tilting the phone, shaking back and forth, and rotating it in a circular fashion.

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Creating Android Apps that Send and Receive SMS Messages and Send Email

Shipping, Quality, Repeatability, and Sprints with the Team Foundation Server 2010 Scrum Template

jminatel — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:19:23 +0000

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Team Foundation Server

Scrum

This is a gentle introduction to getting a Scrum project started with Team Foundation Server (TFS). In this 25 page chapter, you will learn how to install the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template. You will also learn how to launch a new Scrum project, using this Scrum template.

This chapter also discusses the importance of three aspects of producing software: building in quality, shipping the product, and ensuring repeatability. The chapter also introduces the concept of sprints. In the rest of this book, we cover the material explored in this chapter in much greater detail, including:

Internationalizing WordPress Plugins

jminatel — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:58:46 +0000

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Internationalization is the act of preparing your plugin for use in any number of languages. WordPress uses U.S. English as its default language, but it has a large community of users who don’t read and write in English. This community pulls together to create translations of WordPress in languages used all around the world.

Creating Android Apps that Send and Receive SMS Messages and Send Email

jminatel — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:41:16 +0000

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Mobile

Android

Once your basic Android application is up and running, the next interesting thing you can add to it is the capability to communicate with the outside world. You may want your application to send an SMS message to another phone when an event happens (such as when you reach a particular geographical location), or you may wish to access a Web service that provides certain services (such as currency exchange, weather, etc.).

In this chapter, you learn how to send and receive SMS messages programmatically from within your Android application.

Creating Sensor and Location Applications for Windows 7

jminatel — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:12:50 +0000

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Geosense

It would be quite easy to write an entire book about the sensors that you can use with Windows and still not cover them all. In fact, it would be possible to write a rather larger book just about the various sorts of industrial sensors. Home security would require an entirely separate book because the number and variety of sensors have increased so greatly. For example, many people don’t realize it, but there’s a special sort of sensor that can detect the sound of breaking glass and report it to you. If someone threw a rock through your window, you’d know about it long before you arrived home. Consequently, this chapter gives you just a taste of the sorts of things you can do in Windows 7 with various kinds of sensors.