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Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term (Minyanville Media)

mrblue — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:56:34 +0000

If you’re trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns are your worst enemy. And nowadays, they’re happening far more often: in the last 18 years, the S&P 500 has experienced sixteen violent declines. Institutions and professional investors have mastered powerful hedging techniques for dramatically reducing the risks of market

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Apache Tomcat 7

mrblue — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:22:03 +0000

Apache Tomcat is the most popular open-source de-facto Java Web application server, standard for today’s Web developers using JSP/Servlets. Apache Tomcat 7 covers details on installation and administration of Apache Tomcat 7. It explains key parts of the Tomcat architecture, and provides an introduction to Java Servlet and JSP

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The Definitive Guide to HTML5

mrblue — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:20:47 +0000

The Definitive Guide to HTML5 provides the breadth of information you’ll need to start creating the next generation of HTML5 websites. It covers all the base knowledge required for standards-compliant, semantic, modern website creation. It also covers the full HTML5 ecosystem and the associated APIs that complement the core

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The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform 7

mrblue — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:18:56 +0000

The NetBeans Platform is the world’s only modular Swing application framework, used by very large organizations in mission-critical scenarios, such as at Boeing and Northrop Grumman, as well as in the financial sector and in the oil/gas industry. For these large customers in enterprises who are increasingly interested in

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The Little Book on CoffeeScript

mrblue — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:54 +0000

This little book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable little language that’s gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. You’ll learn CoffeeScript’s syntax and idioms step by step,

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Understanding PaaS

mrblue — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:59:42 +0000

The least understood feature of cloud computing, Platform as a Service (PaaS), is also the most powerful and cost effective. This concise overview shows you why organizations that properly wield PaaS can quickly gain a strong competitive advantage. You’ll learn how PaaS enables developers to pursue low cost R&D

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The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve

mrblue — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:17:54 +0000

Once in a blue moon an idea comes along that once heard seems so obvious that you wonder why somebody hasn’t written about it before. Amanda Owen’s The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve presents a new paradigm for the

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iPhone User Interface Cookbook

mrblue — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:15:43 +0000

The incredible growth rates for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have pushed consumers to a new “App” economy, with developers racing to the platform. Mobile touch-centric interfaces vary greatly from traditional computing platforms, and programmers as well as designers must learn to adapt to the new form-factor.

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Clojure in Action

mrblue — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:14:08 +0000

Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical, real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive

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Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning

mrblue — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:02:15 +0000

Whether you work in a traditional or virtual classroom, social media can broaden your reach and increase the impact of training. In Social Media for Trainers, e-learning and new media expert Jane Bozarth provides an overview of popular tools, including blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, and others.

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