* Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers
* Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications
* Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements
* Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components
* Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies
* Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering
* Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier

About the Author
Kyle Loudon is a software developer at Yahoo! where he leads a group doing user interface development. Some of Kyle’s experiences prior to joining Yahoo! include working on the user interface for the original Apple iPod, writing software for various other mobile devices, and leading the user interface group at Jeppesen Dataplan (a Boeing company) in the development of a flight planning system used by airlines around the world. He also spent a small amount of time with IBM in the early 1990s. For several years, he has taught object-oriented programming part-time at the University of California, Santa Cruz while working as a software developer in Silicon Valley.

Kyle received a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1992 with a minor in French, and was elected there to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He has also done some advanced education in Computer Science at Stanford University.

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• Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (March 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596803028
• ISBN-13: 978-0596803025

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Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they’re critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It’s a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.

* Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions
* Determine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others
* Become familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions
* Discover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently
* Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return
* Examine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay

About the Author
F. Randall “Randy” Farmer has been creating online community systems for over 30 years, and has co-invented many of the basic structures for both virtual worlds and social software. His accomplishments include numerous industry firsts (such as the first virtual world, the first avatars, and the first online marketplace). Randy worked as the community strategic analyst for Yahoo!, advising Yahoo properties on construction of their online communities. Randy was the principal designer of Yahoo’s global reputation platform and the reputation models that were deployed on it.

Bryce Glass is a principal interaction designer for Manta Media, Inc. Over the past 13 years, he’s worked on social and community products for some of the web’s best-known brands (Netscape, America Online and Yahoo!).

Product Details

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• Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (April 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059615979X
• ISBN-13: 978-0596159795

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This book is the perfect guide to:
* Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
* Installing WordPress
* Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
* Working with the text editor
* Styling paragraphs and creating lists
* Working with media files
* Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
* Working with image galleries
* Adding video and audio
* Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
* Making your site stand out
* Helping others connect to your site
* Becoming search engine friendly
* Optimizing your site
* Backing up your site
* Installing and activating plugins

From the Back Cover
A unique introduction to building web sites with WordPress

WordPress is today’s most popular open source blog publishing application, but its powerful features, simple interface, and easy expansion make it a great content management system for all types of web sites. This unique book-and-video package provides you with beginner-friendly tutorials for building and maintaining a WordPress web site. You’ll discover how to customize WordPress to meet your needs and you’ll see how critical—and simple—it is to expand and update content in order to make your site as effective as possible.

* Walks you through installing the software, provides an overview of the administration interface, and covers the basic settings you’ll need to get started
* Examines the ins and outs of uploading images, video, documents, etc., and using them on your site
* Demonstrates how to customize the look of your site using cascading style sheets
* Reviews helpful techniques for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly
* Explains how to track your site’s statistics, keep your plugins and themes up to date, and practice smart backup habits
* Addresses installing, activating, and troubleshooting plugins

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; Pap/Dvdr edition (November 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470554584
• ISBN-13: 978-0470554586

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Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.

Professional Android 2 Application Development:
* Reviews Android as a development platform and?best practices for mobile development
* Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components
* Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces
* Examines Intents and Content Providers for sharing data
* Introduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPS
* Looks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and Alarms
* Demonstrates how to create interactive homescreen components
* Explores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs
* Examines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometers

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Reto Meier is a software developer who has been involved in Android since the initial release in 2007. He is an Android Developer Advocate at Google.

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• Publisher: Wrox; 2nd Revised edition edition (March 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470565527
• ISBN-13: 978-0470565520

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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool in the data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations.

After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you a series of real-world problems and show various techniques for handling them.

* Shows you how to design SSIS solutions for data cleansing, ETL and file management
* Demonstrates how to integrate data from a variety of data sources,
* Shows how to monitor SSIS performance,
* Demonstrates how to avoid common pitfalls involved with SSIS deployment
* Explains how to ensure performance of the deployed solution and effectively handle unexpected system failures and outages
* The companion Web site provides sample code and database scripts that readers can directly implement

This book shows you how to design, build, deploy, and manage solutions to real-world problems that SSIS administrators and developers face day-to-day.

From the Back Cover
Build practical SSIS solutions to real-world problems

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the most widely adopted Business Intelligence (BI) component of SQL Server and the leading extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool in the data warehouse industry. Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs for SQL Server, this book presents you with an array of common problems that SSIS administrators and developers face on a daily basis, and walks you through the steps necessary to solve these challenges.

* Demonstrates how to solve common pitfalls involved with SSIS deployment
* Shares solutions for challenges you may encounter with package deployment and storage decisions
* Explores file handling and processing methods
* Reviews best practices for data extraction
* Covers the basic concepts and challenges of dimension table ETL and fact table ETL
* Solves problems that may arise with scripting design patterns and SSIS package scaling
* Discusses how to effectively scale and performance-tune SSIS packages

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• Publisher: Wrox (November 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470525762
• ISBN-13: 978-0470525760

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This full color book covers:
Why Project Management is important The 6 fundamental truths of project management Getting started: Discovering, Initiating, Planning and Resourcing a project Getting the Job Done: Executing and controlling Keeping it Smooth: Communication, collaboration and managing change Following through: Ongoing support and maintenance, measuring operational success Resources: Review of various tools, recommended reading, professional resources for project management

Short, and to the point, this book aims to do to provide a solid foundation for anyone who finds themselves responsible for executing projects.

From the Back Cover
Every project you manage will be unique. Scope, budgets, team dynamics, and timeframes will differ. As a project manager, the most important factor in achieving project success will be your understanding of The Principles Of Project Management.

This book will show you that project management isn’t rocket science: using the information contained in this book, you’ll deliver projects on time and on budget, again and again.

With The Principles Of Project Management you’ll:
* Learn how to start every project on the right foot.
* Master the planning, execution, and control of your projects.
* Discover the secrets of effective communication and change management.
* Identify project warning signals and learn to keep your projects on track.
* Understand the benefits of using the right tools, resources, and people.
* Learn how to give a superstar project handover.
* And much, much more

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• Publisher: SitePoint (March 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980285860
• ISBN-13: 978-0980285864

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Whether you’re a developer new to Mac programming or an experienced Mac developer ready to tackle the iPhone and iPod Touch, Learning iPhone Programming will give you a head start on building market-ready iPhone apps.

• Start using Xcode right away, and learn how to work with Interface Builder
• Take advantage of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture with Objective-C
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• Solve typical problems while building a variety of challenging sample apps
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Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.

Product Details

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• Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (March 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596806434
• ISBN-13: 978-0596806439

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Topics covered include: – Scrolling, Resizing and Animating Webpage elements – Backgrounds, Slideshows, and Crossfaders – Menus, Tabs, and Panels – Buttons, Fields, and Controls – Lists, Trees, and Tables – Frames, Windows, and Dialogs – Adding interactivity with Ajax – Using the jQuery User Interface Themeroller – Writing your own jQuery plug-ins

All code used to create each solution is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.

About the Author
Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the “web of hard knocks”, Earle Castledine (Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything to do with computers. A Senior Systems Analyst and JavaScript expert – he is equally happy in the muddy pits of .NET code as in the fluffy fields of client-side interaction development. Co-creator of the client-side opus TurnTubelis, Earle recognizes the Internet not as a lubricant for social change, but as a vehicle for unleashing frivolous ECMAScript gadgets and interesting time-wasting technologies.

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• Publisher: SitePoint; 1 edition (February 22, 2010)
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• ISBN-10: 0980576857
• ISBN-13: 978-0980576856

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You’ll explore crucial developer tools like Xcode and Interface Builder, and learn the principles of object-oriented programming, and how memory, data, and storage work to help you build your software.

If you’ve ever wanted to develop software for the Mac, this book is for you.

About the Author
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Product Details

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• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1 edition (March 26, 2010)
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• ISBN-10: 1934356514
• ISBN-13: 978-1934356517

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Visual Basic 2005 Instant Results not only provides you with ready-to-use classes, but it also shows you how to apply some of the more advanced features of Windows® programming. In addition, you’ll discover how to access Web Services from a Visual Basic Windows program as well as access SQL Server Express 2005. This approach will give you the skills to achieve the programming results you want.

* Visual Basic, one of the most popular programming languages today with more than 6 million developers, has released the 2005 version, which continues to expand on the functionality and flexibility of its framework-.NET 3.0
* Covering Visual Basic .NET 2005 programming in a Windows environment as well as accessing SQL Server Express 2005 and Web Services, this book allows intermediate-level programmers to get up to speed quickly with complete sample projects that can be modified and used in the real world
* In addition to the ready-to-use projects for their own applications with little or no modifications, programmers will also learn some of the more advanced features of Windows programming
* Some of the featured projects include desktop weather, password keeper, application registry manager, event log and trace writing, event log service, multi-threaded note pad, note pad printing, and custom controls textbox

CD-ROM includes source code for all 10 projects

What you will learn from this book
* Desktop Weather
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* Application Registry Manager
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* Event Log Service
* Multi-Threaded NotePad
* Notepad Printing
* Data Binding
* Database Image Manager
* Custom Controls

Who this book is for
This book is ideal for any programmer with Visual Basic .NET experience who wants to learn about the new features of Visual Basic 2005 or wants to enhance their programming skills. This book is ideal for developers who have previous experience developing complete desktop Windows applications but any developer with a desire to learn will find the material in this book useful.

Enhance Your Knowledge

Advance Your Career

Instant Results guides are packed with unique, ready-to-use projects that are perfect for the busy programmer. They require minimal set-up, and can be modified, enhanced, and reused in real-world situations.

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• ISBN-10: 0470118717
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Who this book is for
Developers that want to add a professional edge to their web applications. Programmers who are either new to the web paradigm of development or experienced CGI programmers who are looking for the speed and convenience of a new technology.
A working knowledge of HTML is assumed.

About the Author
Wrox has assembled a team of PHP experts to share their experience with you:

Chris Scollo, Jesus Castagnetto and Sascha Schumann are site architects and builders who have employed PHP to run powerful, state-of-the-art web locations. Chris and Jesus have also written widely on PHP online.

Product Details

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• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1 edition (December 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002963
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002969

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Each of the 10 project features step-by-step set-up instructions with a description of each project that enables you to understand and then modify it so you can reuse it in different situations.

The code has been tested with several browsers including Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and Safari 1.3 for Mac OS X. The 10 projects covered in the book with complete source-code on the CD are:

* Tab-based navigation
* Multi-column layouts
* Dynamic dropdown menus
* A different approach to the dropdown menu
* Web-based slideshow
* Custom borders and rounded corners
* Applying CSS to a webmail application
* Styling input forms
* User interface for a web-based file viewer
* Styling a web-based calendar

Who this book is for
This book is for experienced web developers and designers who are looking to learn how to use CSS for better, faster design and markup. Some previous JavaScript use is helpful.

Instant Results guides are packed with unique, ready-to-use projects that are perfect for the busy programmer. They require minimal set-up, and can be modified, enhanced, and reused in real-world situations.

About the Author
Richard York is a web application developer for Trilithic, Inc., a company specializing in test equipment for the telecommunications industry. He wrote his first book, Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Wrox Press) in 2004.
Richard began his web development career taking courses at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Since college, he has continued a self-imposed curriculum, mastering various technologies used in web development including HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. An avid supporter of open source software, he has written an open source webmail application for PHP PEAR, and is currently working on an open source PHP library and framework called Hierophant, which he hopes to release in 2006.
Richard maintains a personal web site at http://www.richard-york.com where you can learn more about his professional and personal interests.

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• Publisher: Wrox (April 17, 2006)
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• ISBN-10: 047175126X
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With this teaching tool, you’ll learn how to use queries, views, and stored procedures to efficiently access and manipulate data from your applications. You’ll get a firm grasp on using ADO.NET as well as OleDb, SQL, and Oracle to access specific databases. Plus, hands-on examples and try-it-out exercises help you put your reading into practice so that with each chapter, you’ll gradually build the pieces of a single application.

What you will learn from this book
* How ADO.NET continues to evolve as a building block for accessing and manipulating data in relational databases
* Ways to encrypt and decrypt data, hash passwords, and further secure access to your data
* Techniques for accessing your Web Service from both Windows(r) and Web applications
* Best practices for using business logic and data access components to produce report data or update data in your back-end databases

Who this book is for
This book is for developers who want to learn to write database applications and back-end databases, such as Microsoft(r) Access, Microsoft(r) SQL Server, and Oracle(r). Some experience with Visual Basic 2005 is helpful but not required.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (November 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076458894X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764588945

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Packed with essential code, theories, concepts, and techniques, as well as a cache of useful examples, this comprehensive text will have you quickly designing your own databases and writing SQL code sufficient for many real-world situations. Practice exercises in each chapter help speed up your comprehension. By the end of the book, you’ll be prepared to handle any surprise that SQL might throw your way.

What you will learn from this book
* How to get the answers you want from a database
* Procedures for using and manipulating data with SQL’s built-in functions
* Ways to retrieve data from numerous and diverse tables
* How to create various levels of security in a database so you can edit data or change the database’s structure
* Theories and practical applications of normalization
* Advanced database design

Who this book is for
This book is for programmers with some prior programming experience who are seeking to develop their database programming skills using SQL. The book assumes no previous programming experience, so it is also suitable for database programming beginners including database administrators.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Product Details

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• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (March 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764577328
• ISBN-13: 978-0764577321

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Create a robust, reliable, and reusable Python application

As an open source, object-oriented programming language, Python is easy to understand, extendable, and user-friendly. This book covers every aspect of Python so that you can get started writing your own programs with Python today. Author James Payne begins with the most basic concepts of the Python language—placing a special focus on the 2.6 and 3.1 versions—and he offers an in-depth look at existing Python programs so you can learn by example. Topics progress from strings, lists, and dictionaries to classes, objects, and modules. With this book, you will learn how to quickly and confidently create a robust, reliable, and reusable Python application.

Beginning Python:
* Introduces the concepts of variables for storing and manipulating data
* Examines files and input/output for reading or writing data
* Reviews examples of often-overlooked features of Python
* Delves into writing tests for modules and programs
* Addresses programming with a graphical user interface in Python
* Places special focus on XML, HTML, XSL, and related technologies
* Explains how to extend Python
* Shares numerical programming techniques
* Offers an inside look at Jython, a version of Python written in Java

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• Publisher: Wrox; Original edition (February 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470414634
• ISBN-13: 978-0470414637

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As the most popular open source database system in the world, MySQL boasts ease of implementation, minimal overhead, consistent reliability, and low total cost of ownership. This hands-on resource offers you a complete look at MySQL and explains how to implement MySQL and access MySQL with various programming languages.

Using a task-oriented approach along with numerous helpful examples, this book takes you through the steps necessary to install MySQL 4.1 on Linux and Windows platforms, create and manage MySQL databases, query and manipulate data, and administer the MySQL database management system. By the end of the book you’ll have a solid foundation for understanding MySQL as a robust, flexible, and easy-to-implement application that has many diverse uses.

What you will learn from this book
* Where to find MySQL components on your system and what tools are available to access and manipulate data
* How to set up logging, manage security, optimize performance, and back up and restore your system
* Ways to insert, update, copy, import, export, and delete data
* How to access a MySQL database from within a specific programming language
* Effective methods for establishing a connection to a database and issuing SQL statements

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This book is for programmers who are new to MySQL but who have some experience in PHP, Java, or ASP/ASP.NET developing applications that access backend databases.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764579509
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Building on the success of its previous editions, this must-have guide continues its popular tutorial approach and brings you a straightforward introduction to developing programs for Linux and other UNIX-style operating systems. The author duo of experienced Linux programmers covers a wide range of topics to help you learn more about what Linux has to offer so you can maximize your programming time and your use of the Linux system.

You’ll progress from the basics of compiling programs, linking to libraries, and dealing with terminal input and output to more advanced subjects such as writing applications for the GNOME(r) and KDE(r) environments, storing data using MySQL(r), and debugging. As each topic is covered, the authors introduce an appropriate programming theory and then illustrate it with practical examples, clear explanations, and a step-by-step approach with the intent that you will learn by doing. You’ll quickly evolve from being a Linux beginner to confidently creating custom applications in Linux.

What you will learn from this book
* How to use the standard Linux C libraries and other facilities
* Ways to make the most of the standard Linux development tools
* Tips on basic system calls, file I/O, interprocess communication, and shell programming
* How to build graphical user interfaces using the GTK+ or Qt toolkits
* Using sockets to support TCP/IP networking to different machines
* How to write programs that will work on different distributions of Linux

Who this book is for
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• Publisher: Wrox; 4 edition (November 5, 2007)
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• ISBN-10: 0470147628
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• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (January 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471415502
• ISBN-13: 978-0471415503

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Continuing in the style of the prior editions, the book begins with an introduction to VBScript and explains how it works as a language. The authors then progress to explaining how to make use of VBScript within other technologies, and they offer advanced examples of VBScript code in action. You’ll learn to do a variety of tasks, such as copy and move files, create folders and files, modify the Windows operating system, and more. Plus, the comprehensive appendixes are valuable references for you to gain greater insight into how VBScript works so that you can start using it right away to save both time and money.

What you will learn from this book
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* What VBScript is—and isn’t
* Advantages to using procedures
* Ways to turn code into functions
* How to modularize your code into procedures, modules, classes, and components
* The difference between top-down and event-driven programming
* Tips for organizing and reusing code
* Techniques to make your code more clear and readable

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Wrox Programmer’s References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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• Publisher: Wrox; 3 edition (October 8, 2007)
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• ISBN-10: 0470168080
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First, the book presents the basics you need to use standard SQL functions with any database. Then the expert authors take you into the core reference material for built-in and user-defined SQL functions in each major RDBMS product. Packed with examples, you’ll immediately learn to apply standard functions and extend your power with functions you define.

You’ll learn all of this from a core author team from Perpetual Technologies, Inc. These experts have extensive experience with Oracle®, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2®, and MySQL®, database design and management for some of the world’s largest corporations and government agencies.

What you will learn from this book
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* Ways to create custom functions using vendors’ procedural extensions
* Numerous SQL implementations, such as ANSI SQL, Oracle®, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Sybase, MySQL®, IBM®DB2®, and PostgreSQL
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This book is for the SQL programmer or software developer of any level who needs to effectively retrieve data from a relational database or integrate applications with RDBMS implementations.

Wrox Programmer’s References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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• ISBN-10: 0764569015
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The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects is a formidable combination. Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out and generating databases, and aiding the development of distributed systems. Visio’s integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic(r) .NET code can be generated from UML diagrams, thus giving your projects a significant kick-start, and Visual Studio .NET projects can also be reverse engineered to UML models.

This book will finally help you make the most of Visio’s time- and labor-saving features, and unleash Visio’s power for your enterprise development.

To use this book you must be comfortable with the basic concepts of UML.

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* Generating code from UML models
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* Documenting projects with UML and Visio
* Designing distributed applications with Visio diagrams
* Using Object-Role Modeling and round-trip engineering for database design

“This book will definitely help any developer wishing to get a jump-start on using Visio for Enterprise Architects in their traditional development process. The book meshes traditional UML knowledge with .NET development model specifics, resulting in a deep understanding of how Visio for Enterprise Architects can speed up software design and development time.”
-Andrew Krowczyk, Senior Software Developer, Zurich North America

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• ISBN-10: 0764543768
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Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you’ll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.

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Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design provides an outline of the techniques that the designer can employ to make effective use of the full range of facilities that SQL Server 2000 offers. It attempts to move away from traditional texts on relational database design by considering design issues from a ‘real world’ point of view. To that end, it provides a full case study illustrating the scope of the designer’s role – right from initial discussions regarding a client’s needs, through development of a logical model, to full implementation of the system.

From the Publisher
This book is aimed at developers who have an interest in learning more about general relational database design issues. While it will aid the reader to have a familiarity with SQL Server and the Transact-SQL language, this book has a wider appeal for any experienced database programmers wishing to learn more about relational database theory and design.

About the Author
Louis Davidson is an avowed database nut. Currently he is toiling as the database architect for Education Networks of America in Nashville, Tennessee, not to mention writing this book and hopefully one more.

He has been designing and implementing Microsoft SQL Server databases for around nine years, since his brilliant failure as a LAN Administrator for the Church of God International Headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee (yes, there is a Cleveland in Tennessee). As SQL Server came packaged with Visual Basic 1.0 back then, he has also been developing with that product for around nine years, although his VB skills have been progressively getting worse since version 4.0, as he has been focusing primarily on SQL Server.

Louis has spoken at several conferences, such as CA-World in 1999 and 2000, concerning implementing solutions with ERwin; and at PASS 2000 Europe, he gave two presentations, one on normalization and the other on query optimization.

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• ISBN-10: 1861004761
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Are you ready to revolutionize the way you can work with data? This book shows you how to effectively utilize LINQ so that you can query XML, SQLdatabases, ADO.NET DataSets, and other data sources, and it also delvesdeeper into the technology to demonstrate how LINQ can dramatically improve your applications.

Database pro Scott Klein first examines LINQ and Visual Studio® 2008, the language-specific features that support LINQ, as well as LINQ queries and the LINQ standard query operators. He then shows you how to program with LINQ to XML with both C# and Visual Basic® and how to use LINQ to XML with other data models. Plus, he walks you through LINQ to SQL queries, advanced query concepts, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to DataSets. All of this valuable insight will provide you with powerful new tools so that you can easily extend and access information in your databases.

Professional LINQ introduces experienced programmers and database developers to LINQ database queries in their native VB and C# languages. Some of the topics covered include:

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The expert author team begins by uncovering the sophisticated Java language features, the methodology for developing solutions, and steps for exploiting patterns. They then provide you with a collection of real-world examples that will become an essential part of your developer’s toolkit. With this approach, you’ll gain the skills to build advanced solutions by utilizing the more complex and nuanced parts of Java JDK 6.

What you will learn from this book
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LINQ and the Entity Framework are revolutionizing .NET database programming. With this book as your guide, you’ll discover how to leverage these cutting-edge query and object/relational mapping technologies for enterprise-class computing. It provides you with hands-on coding techniques for data-intensive web and Windows projects. You’ll also get quickly up to speed on LINQ technologies with the help of C# and VB programming examples.

Leading Microsoft database authority Roger Jennings first covers LINQ Standard Query Operators (SQOs) and domain-specific LINQ to SQL, LINQ to DataSet, and LINQ to XML implementations for querying generic collections. He then delves into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, Entity Data Model, Entity SQL (eSQL), and LINQ to Entities. Numerous code examples are integrated throughout the chapters that emulate real-world data sources and show you how to develop C# and VB web site/application or Windows projects.

The information in this book will give you the tools to create and maintain applications that are independent of the underlying relational data.

What you will learn from this book
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* How to raise the level of data abstraction with the Entity Data Model
* Steps for creating design-time data sources from ObjectContext
* Ways to use the Entity Data Model as a data source

Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate to advanced developers of data-intensive .NET web- and Windows-based applications.

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From the Back Cover
Are you ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005’s unmatched tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code? In this hands-on book, I’ll share with you proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. I include expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing so that you can master the advanced features of this language.

I’ll first take you through the design activities that are necessary before Visual Basic development can begin. Next I’ll describe the various writing tools that you’ll be able to use to make programming easier and less error-prone. I then focus on various ways to make writing code more effective and cover sophisticated techniques for handling particular tasks. This approach will help you quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.

What you will learn from this book
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* How to build custom controls by using UserControl, subclassing, and by using from-scratch methods
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* How to utilize advanced debugging and testing techniques
* How to use the new Visual Basic 2005 threading tools

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This book is for advanced Visual Basic programmers who already have experience with Visual Basic 2005 and are comfortable with the language.

Wrox Expert One-On-One books present the wisdom accumulated by an experienced author who is recognized as an expert by the programming community. These experts challenge professional developers to examine their current practices in pursuit of better results.

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• Publisher: Wrox (February 5, 2007)
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• ISBN-10: 0470053410
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You’ll get an in-depth look at specific XML datatypes that are considered the most critical alliances between XML and a relational database. Plus, an introduction to the basics of SQL and numerous XML standards prove to be essential so that you can grasp database structure and comprehend how XML is used with the Oracle® and SQL Server relational databases. Throughout the book, valuable exercises and a surfeit of step-by-step examples will help you get an overall understanding of the topics at hand.

What you will learn from this book
* The platform independence capability that comes from using XML— including independence from database vendors
* The basics of XML, XSL, the XML DOM, and SQL
* XML datatypes and features in Oracle Database and SQL Server
* How to move data anywhere using XML (B2B)
* Ways to read XML documents using XQuery and navigate documents using XPath®
* XML, the object data model, native XML databases, and industry applications of XML

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone—from novice to expert—who is interested in learning the details of XML and database technology as applied to both XML and relational database technology, working together.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Gavin Powell has a BSc. in Computer Science, along with numerous professional accreditations and skills. He has had a lot of practice with things like XML, Oracle, Ingres, and MSAccess, as well as a multitude of application development languages and platforms. He has almost 20 years of contracting, consulting, and hands-on educating experience—in both software development and database administration roles. He has lived, studied, and worked on three different continents, and is now scratching a living as a writer, musician, and family man. He can be contacted at creativemusician@bellsouth.net or info@oracledbaexpert.com.

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• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (November 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471791202
• ISBN-13: 978-0471791201

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From the Back Cover
As a portable, open source, object-oriented programming language, Python combines remarkable power with clear syntax. And, as one of the fastest growing languages, Python manages systems and can be used for data mining and Web development. With this book, you’ll learn how to program using the latest release — Python 2.4 — and create robust, reliable, and reusable Python applications.

You’ll quickly see why Python is an ideal first programming language to learn, both for its ease of use and the fact that it offers interpreters for most operating system platforms. This in-depth look at Python 2.4 examines how it has become even easier for you to tell a computer what tasks you want it to do in an environment where you are in control.

What you will learn from this book
* Methods that can be used to quickly develop Web applications and scientific applications and to incorporate databases
* How to master system tasks on Linux,® Windows,®and Mac OS® X platforms
* How to handle — and recover from — any unforeseen problems
* Ways in which Python prides itself on its consistency, control, and ability to cope with change
* How Python incorporates modules, exceptions, dynamic typing, and very high level dynamic types and classes

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python or who wants to quickly learn how to use Python for rapid development of applications for the Web, scientific applications, bioinformatics, and applications for system tasks.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Product Details

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (August 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764596543
• ISBN-13: 978-0764596544

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* Showcases three fully functional Web site examples, with implementations for both Windows and Linux, that readers can incorporate into their own projects
* Updates include a new chapter on PHP5 features and functions, a new example Web site application, and updates to PHP5 throughout the text

From the Back Cover
PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This new edition guides you through the entire process of setting up your own site and walks you through every step, from the installation of PHP, Apache, and MySQL to database management, security, and integration with other technologies.

Featuring new information on the features and functions of the latest upgrades—MySQL 4.0.X, PHP5, and Apache 2.0—this book boasts a working Web site application and numerous updates throughout the text. The multi-platform approach addresses installation and usage on both Linux® and Windows®, and two common-themed, reusable Web sites are examined. Upon completion of this book, you’ll be able to create well designed, dynamic Web sites using open source tools.

What you will learn from this book
* Syntax, functions, and commands of PHP, Apache, and MySQL and how they can be used together in Web development
* The ins and outs of data manipulation
* The object-oriented programming advantages of PHP5
* Ways of using PHP for connecting HTML-based Web pages to a backend database for dynamic content
* How MySQL easily stores, updates, and accesses information

Who this book is for
This book is for beginners who are new to PHP and who need to learn quickly how to create Web sites using open source tools. Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful but not essential.

Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (February 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764579665
• ISBN-13: 978-0764579660

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The book gives you a step-by-step process for organizing an effective multimedia system. It also gives solutions to commonly encountered problems, and offers a variety of tools for dealing with multimedia content. The author’s experience in large-scale systems enables him to share his effective solutions to these problems.

If you choose to work through all the recipes from the beginning, you will start by setting up a basic web site set up, aimed at future expansion and scalability. Next, you will cover the basics of digital asset management–a major topic important in all enterprises. You can organize user groups because next you will be creating accounts for users and assigning permissions. Then you will jump into metadata–text information describing the multimedia objects–and learn how it can be manipulated in TYPO3. You will embed multimedia on your site when you have read the various methods for embedding mentioned in this book. Before you finish the book you will learn about some advanced topics, such as external API integrations and process automation.

What you will learn from this book

• Create impressive web sites by embedding images and manipulating them within Rich Text Editors by using content elements
• Render videos and customize their display with the options in the content media object
• Render your audio and video on several pages by administering it just in a single location using a TypoScript object
• Create services that will automatically update Digital Asset Management records when an audio file is uploaded to your site
• Allow web users to upload files into the system by creating an extension in TYPO3
• Extract different formats of metadata and classify files using file metadata
• Expand the system by leveraging services, specifically Amazon S3, Flickr, and YouTube and achieve limitless storage using Amazon S3
• Enhance your CMS by adding different processing capabilities such as parsing metadata and converting files to your site
• Automate workflows and processes in TYPO3

Approach
The TYPO3 Multimedia Cookbook presents over 50 effective recipes for managing multimedia in your TYPO3 site. Each recipe comprises step-by-step instructions followed by the analysis of what was done in each task and any relevant information. The book is designed so that you can refer to it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and read them in no particular order.

The book has recipes to tackle specific problems along with detailed explanations that will help you to customize the recipes as per your individual needs. Since learning comes from doing, the reader is encouraged to follow along with the examples using the book as a practical guide.

Who this book is written for
This book is for anyone who is looking for effective systems for managing multimedia content. You will find this book interesting if you are running, or starting, web sites rich in multimedia content. This book assumes some prior knowledge about TYPO3, which is available either from official documentation, or other books on this topic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847198481
• ISBN-13: 978-1847198488

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This practical hands-on book covers everything you need to know about designing, installing and customizing 3CX to create an all-inclusive phone system. It takes a real-world approach that walks you through all aspects of 3CX and its features. From installing the software, to backing things up, to understanding what hardware you need – this book covers it all.

The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial will take you from knowing very little about VoIP to almost expert level with detailed how-tos on every aspect of 3CX. Starting with the basics, and covering the free version of 3CX as well as the more advanced features of the Enterprise version, you will learn it all.

In other words, this book covers numerous topics such as installation and configuration of 3CX, choosing a VoIP Provider, integration of a trunk into 3CX, the commonly used 3CX hardware, and backing up your phone system.

What you will learn from this book

• Install and configure 3CX as per your hardware and operating system requirements
• Configure, connect, and test software and hardware extensions that will help your implementation go smoother
• Master various ways to control and handle calls in 3CX by setting up a ring group, digital receptionist, and call queues
• Learn the need for a trunk, PSTN line; choose a VoIP Provider, the equipment needed; and finally integrate a trunk into 3CX using the easy-to-use wizards
• Create custom music on hold, specific Outbound Rules, Promptsets, and Direct Dials, all of which give you more flexibility in professional and flexible phone systems
• Connect 3CX to Microsoft Outlook, integrate 3CX with a free instant message server, and link a legacy PBX with 3CX
• Get to grips with the commonly used 3CX hardware such as FXO gateway, a PRI gateway, and ATA gateway
• Back up your phone system, learn your disaster recovery options, and plan in advance how to tackle failed phone lines

Approach
A hands-on and practical tutorial that shows administrators how to implement and use 3CX and its range of functionality. Using real world experiences from the authors, you will learn tricks and tips that will help you develop and optimize your 3CX system.

Who this book is written for
This book is for beginners who know nothing about 3CX or VoIP. It will guide them to set up a complete system. Advanced users will also gain insight from information on real-world hardware and software tips and tricks.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847198961
• ISBN-13: 978-1847198969

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About the Author
SCOTT SNYDER is President and CEO of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a management consultancy specializing in scenario planning. He has 18+ years experience with Fortune 100 firms and technology ventures, and extensive expertise in enterprise applications, CRM, analytics, satellite communications, wireless, broadband, and other emerging technologies. An adjunct associate professor at Penn Engineering, Snyder is also a Senior Fellow in the Management Department of The Wharton School. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management.

Product Details

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• Publisher: Wharton School Publishing; 1 edition (July 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013700379X
• ISBN-13: 978-0137003792

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About the Author
Dr. Eric G. Olson has more than 20 years of experience in management consulting and industry, where he has worked with organizations of all sizes and across industries. His experience spans business, operations and technology strategy, e-commerce and e-business, innovation and product lifecycle management, process improvement and supply chain optimization, procurement and strategic sourcing, corporate mergers and joint ventures, and environmental stewardship.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a PhD from Cornell University, an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Sloan, and a Master of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He is also a member of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers and a licensed Professional Engineer.

Product Details

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• ISBN-10: 0137010176
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The People CMM, as documented in this authoritative book, is a framework for human capital management. Broadly adopted by small and large organizations worldwide, it provides proven tools for addressing strategic workforce and critical people issues. It helps organizations:
* Establish workforce practices aligned with current and future business objectives
* Characterize the maturity of workforce practices
* Guide a program of continuous workforce development
* Integrate workforce development with continual process improvement

People CMM®, Second Edition, documents Version 2 of the People CMM and
* Describes practices for each maturity level, with guidance on how to interpret and apply them
* Explains capabilities for workforce development at each maturity level
* Shows how to apply the framework as a workforce assessment standard and a guide in planning and implementing improvement
* Presents case studies to illustrate how the People CMM has lead organizations to effective, repeatable, and lasting success in workforce development

The book is aimed at people responsible for developing and implementing human capital strategies and plans in their organizations, managing or developing the workforce, implementing advanced workforce practices, nurturing teams, and transforming organizational culture. It is especially useful for businesses undergoing critical organizational changes.

From the Back Cover
Attracting and retaining talented people is the key to any organization’s success. Every organization needs to continually improve its ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize, and retain the workforce needed to accomplish its strategic business objectives. The People Capability Maturity Model® (People CMM®) is a framework for successfully addressing strategic workforce issues. This framework, as documented in this authoritative book, is a guide to help organizations achieve the following:
* Establish an integrated system of workforce practices that is aligned with current and future business objectives
* Characterize the maturity of workforce practices
* Guide a program of continuous workforce development
* Set priorities for improvement actions
* Integrate workforce development with process improvement
* Become an employer of choice

After describing the rationale and evolution of the People CMM, the book details the model, which describes practices for the following:
* Improving individual capability
* Developing effective work groups and organizational culture
* Motivating, managing, and quantifying performance
* Shaping the workforce to meet current and future organizational needs

Case studies provide proof that implementation of the People CMM leads to effective, repeatable, and lasting success in developing a workforce that is able to effectively execute an organization’s business.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 696 pages
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• ISBN-10: 032155390X
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Topics include
• Getting started fast with mobile marketing
• Understanding the international mobile marketing landscape
• Targeting and tracking the fast-changing mobile demographic
• Taking full advantage of the iPhone platform
• Leveraging mobile advertising, promotion, and location-based marketing
• Building micro-sites and mobile applications
• Performing search engine optimization for mobile sites and applications
• Building effective mobile affiliate marketing programs
• Integrating online and offline mobile marketing
• Avoiding mobile marketing spam, viruses, and privacy violations
• Previewing the future of mobile marketing

About the Author
Cindy Krum is the CEO and Founder of Rank-Mobile, LLC, based in Denver, CO. She brings fresh and creative ideas to her clients, speaking at national and international trade events about mobile Web marketing, social network marketing and international SEO. Cindy is hosts a weekly radio show about mobile marketing called Mobile Presence on WebmasterRadio.FM. She writes for industry publications, and has been published in Website Magazine, Advertising & Marketing Review, Search Engine Land, ODG Intelligence, and quoted by many respected publications including PC World, Internet Retailer, TechWorld, Direct Magazine, Inc.Magazine, and Search Marketing Standard.

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Being a novice, you will need a quick and easy implementation guide to set up your feature-rich digital portfolio.

This book is your step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized digital portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only.

This book will introduce to the exciting features of Mahara framework and help you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up views of these files, making these visible to your chosen friends only. And then, you will allow people to give their inputs.

You will learn to create blogs and forums and get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will become easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs.

What you will learn from this book

• Create folders in Mahara – just like on your own computer – with an easy file search facility
• Upload multiple files – journals, reports, presentations, videos, and sound clips – easily and set permissions for your group to view, edit, and delete them
• Create a blog in Mahara and get connected to the rest of the world
• Make an impressive profile using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile view
• Create a new web page entirely from scratch and customize it to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and when
• Set an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articles
• Connect with other Mahara users and get social: discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each other
• Customize and administer your Mahara site to our own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administration

Approach
This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions to get started with Mahara and create an impressive electronic portfolio. The book is packed with many useful examples and screenshots for easy and quick learning.

Who this book is written for
Pick this book up if you want to get started with Mahara. This book is for you if:

• You are a student/learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular teacher/trainer for feedback
• You are a teacher wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learning
• You are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practice
• No previous experience of Mahara is required.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847199062
• ISBN-13: 978-1847199065

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This book offers Python developers a comprehensive understanding of Grok and a look at its main features by way of developing and evolving a sample application from concept to deployment. You will learn how to use Grok to create web applications and how Grok offers you an agile and enjoyable development experience.

This book will introduce you to the Grok web development framework and show you how to create an application from start to finish. You will learn how to create an application using mostly page templates and then add features to it while reworking the code as it grows. You will learn how to use models to describe your application’s domain and how to connect those models to views for presenting information to your users. You will also learn how to automatically generate forms from the models and how to store the data and make it searchable. Due to the public nature of the Web, security is an important part of any web application and you will learn how Grok’s integrated security can be used to protect your application and grant access to specific users and roles when needed. Grok offers a powerful object database for storage, but can also interact nicely with any database directly or using an object-relational mapper. You will learn how to do both and when it’s advisable to use each. You will also learn how to extend a third-party Grok application, how to debug it, and how to deploy it. By the end of the book, you will be able to design and develop a complete web application using Grok.

What you will learn from this book

• Basic concepts of the Zope Component Architecture
• Use Zope Page Templates to produce HTML pages
• Design efficient applications using models and views
• Use Grok’s automatic form generation mechanisms
• Add selectable themes or skins to your applications
• Index content from the models you defined and learn how to search this content by querying the catalog, including full text search
• Understand how the Zope Object Database works and how simple and useful it is
• Easily connect to other relational databases using SQLAlchemy
• Create extensions to your applications
• Understand the various options to deploy your Grok application, and use buildout–a Python-based build system for deploying applications–to create a repeatable deployment

Approach
The book takes a practical approach and dives into code right from the start. After learning how to install Grok, we create a simple application. We work on this application throughout the book, until its deployment in the last chapter.

In each chapter, some new features of Grok will be introduced and explained, then the application will be extended to use them, explaining step-by-step how each feature works.

Who this book is written for
This book is intended for Python developers who want to create web applications but have little or no experience in web development. If you have used other web frameworks but are looking for one that enables you to create more complex applications without losing agility, you will also benefit from this book.

The reader is expected to have some basic Python knowledge and at least a general idea of how a web application works.

About the Author
Carlos has been doing web consulting and development since 1994, when selling any kind of project required two meetings just to explain what the Internet was in the first place. He was the co-founder of Aldea Systems, a web consulting company where he spent ten years working in all kinds of web projects using a diverse range of languages and tools. In 2005 he became an independent developer and consultant, specializing in Zope and Plone projects. He frequently blogs about Plone and other Zope-related subjects.

Product Details

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• Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847197485
• ISBN-13: 978-1847197481

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Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won’t find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python’s “beautiful heart”: the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise–one concept and hands-on example at a time. This book’s coverage includes

* Developing in Python using procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming paradigms
* Creating custom packages and modules
* Writing and reading binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing
* Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, and functions
* Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads
* Programming SQL databases and key-value DBM files
* Utilizing Python’s regular expression mini-language and module
* Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications
* Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, and more

Programming in Python 3serves as both tutorial and language reference, and it is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code–all of it tested with the final version of Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

About the Author
Mark Summerfield, owner of Qtrac Ltd., is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in Python, C++, Qt, and PyQt. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2008) and, cowritten with Jasmin Blanchette, C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (Addison-Wesley, 2006). As Trolltech’s documentation manager, Mark founded and edited Trolltech’s technical journal, Qt Quarterly.

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137129297
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Devexpress is a leading supplier of ASP.NET controls – the addins used in ASP.NET sites. Not only does this book show you how to make the most of them with Silverlight and Ajax, reporting, calendars, editors, and charts, but you also get actual controls worth $250 on the CD-ROM included with the book.

Regardless of your level of ASP.NET expertise, this complete reference will show you how to implement many award-winning and useful controls into your ASP.NET applications. Controls save time and effort as well as adding functionality, and this book helps you take full advantage of what they offer.

* Devexpress is a leading vendor for ASP.NET controls that developers can use to add features, accomplish difficult tasks, and save development and testing time
* This book addresses the all-important use of controls for Silverlight and Ajax, as well as classic essentials like reporting, editors, calendars, and charts
* Covered controls include reports and charts, HTML editors, menus and treeviews, gridview, and many more
* Explains when and where to use controls and how to add functionality without additional development
* CD-ROM includes $250 worth of Devexpress controls ready for you to use right away

With Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls, you’ll be a step ahead in developing powerful ASP.NET applications.

From the Back Cover
Build better ASP.NET applications With DevExpress Controls

DevExpress offers a comprehensive set of presentation and reporting components that add advanced functionality to any ASP.NET-driven website. This book introduces you to these professional controls and shows you how, when, and where to use them in order to maximize productivity and get you up and running in the shortest time possible. You’ll gain a solid understanding of how to incorporate DevExpress controls in vertical applications and to fully leverage their power and flexibility.
* Addresses usage of the ASPxGridView, ASPxPivotGrid, ASPxTreeList, and ASPxDataView
* Includes coverage of controls such as XtraCharts and XtraReports, along with the DevExpress HTML Editor
* Provides comprehensive tutorials, including client-side controls and JavaScript® and the creation of cascading style sheets, skins and themes
* Demonstrates creation of high-performance ASP.NET applications
* Explains the critical importance of executing database-specific operations on the database server with eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO)
* Reviews differences between Windows® and web applications

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Paul Kimmel is an ASP.NET developer with DevExpress and has been designing and building software and writing computer books since 1990. He is the author of several books, including LINQ Unleashed for C#, UML Demystified, and Excel 2003 VBA Programmer’s Reference. He is also a five time Microsoft MVP, the bi-monthly columnist for www.codeguru.com’s VB Today column, and a frequent contributor to periodicals and online publications.

Julian Bucknall is the Chief Technology Officer for DevExpress, a software company that writes some great controls and tools for .NET and Delphi. He is responsible for technology oversight at DevExpress. Julian is the author of the Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures from WordWare Publishing, Inc, the author of blog.boyet.com and the ctodx blog at DevExpress. Julian is an ex-Brit, residing in Colorado with his beautiful wife and considers himself a programmer by trade, an actor by ambition, and an algorithm guy by osmosis as well as a contributor to PCPlus, the UK’s premier technology magazine.

Joe Kunk received his B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1984 and has worked as a business analyst, software developer, manager, and entrepreneur in the fields of education, government, and IT consulting. Joe is a Microsoft MVP, President of the Greater Lansing User Group for .Net, Board Member of the Lansing IT Council, Senior Consultant at A. J. Boggs & Company, and cofounder of Listen IT Solutions, LLC. Joe lives in Okemos, Michigan and enjoys the many events at the MSU Wharton Center for Performing Arts, speaking about technology at user groups and regional conferences, and family time with his wife and two daughters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; Pap/Cdr edition (November 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470500832
• ISBN-13: 978-0470500835

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This book will show you how to create your own PHP framework that can be extended and used with ease, particularly for e-commerce sites. Using this framework you will be able to display and manage products, customize products, create wish-lists, make recommendations to customers based on previous purchases, send email notifications when certain products are in stock, rate the products online, and much more.

This book helps you build a Model-View-Controller style framework, which is then used to put together an e-commerce application. The framework contains template management, database management, and user authentication management. With core functionality in place, e-commerce-focused features are gradually added to the framework including products, categories, customizable products with different variations and customer input, wish-lists, recommendations, the shopping basket, and a complete order process.

At the end of the book, you will have an e-commerce architecture that will take you from viewing or searching for products, and adding them to your basket, through the checkout process and making payment for your order, to your order being dispatched. Focus is placed on flexibility, so that the framework can be extended as the needs of a particular store change, as illustrated by one of the appendices, which goes through the process of modifying the store to sell downloadable products, as well as physical ones.

Supplementary information, such as how to market and promote an online store, as well as take regular backups and perform maintenance is also covered, ensuring you have every chance of success with you own e-commerce framework backed store.

What you will learn from this book

• Plan and develop a flexible, scalable PHP framework with emphasis on e-commerce
• Implement the Model-View-Controller architecture within the framework and learn how to use the registry design pattern to centralize core features
• Allow customers to customize their purchase by selecting product attributes, uploading files, and supplying custom text
• Offer attractive incentives to your customers in the form of discount codes
• Protect your e-commerce framework by keeping and maintaining regular backups
• Structure an extendable framework to build a custom e-commerce web site
• Add features such as product ratings and reviews from customers to enhance user experience
• Maintain your site using campaign monitor and CAPTCHA tools
• Create a shopping basket, manage its contents, structure the checkout and order process
• Filled with useful marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and customer retention tips
• Create a PHP framework to power your web site with a range of e-commerce features

Approach
This is a fast-paced tutorial focusing on creating a framework and using it to build an online store through an ongoing case study. Later chapters include examples to illustrate how easily the framework can be adapted for different situations. The framework and code are enhanced and built upon with each chapter, adding more and more functionality.

Who this book is written for
If you are a web developer, or anyone looking to increase your understanding of e-commerce site development, this book is for you. Primarily aimed at PHP developers, it is suitable for any web developer interested in enhancing their e-commerce knowledge, or developers looking to move towards PHP.

Intermediate knowledge of PHP development and object-oriented programming is assumed, and basic knowledge of e-commerce principles will be of benefit too.

About the Author
Michael Peacock is a web developer from Newcastle on Tyne, UK with a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Durham. After meeting his business partner whilst studying at Durham, he co-founded Peacock Carter Limited (peacockcarter.co.uk) a Newcastle-based creative consultancy specializing in web design, web development, and corporate identity.Michael loves working on web-related projects and new business ideas, usually with interests in several companies.

He has been involved with a number of books, having written four books: Building a PHP E-Commerce Framework, Drupal 6 Social Networking, Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce, and Building Websites with TYPO3, and acted as technical reviewer for two others – Mobile Web Development and Drupal for Education and E-Learning.

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• Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184719964X
• ISBN-13: 978-1847199645

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Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run. This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.

We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching.

Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.

Finally, we’ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.

This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site’s speed and performance. You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.

What you will learn from this book

• Upgrade your Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6 using best practice upgrade paths
• Back up and maintain your Drupal 6 site using core and contributed modules and utilities
• Configure the Drupal core and contributed modules for high traffic
• Run core Drupal page compression, CSS and JS compression, and use Drupal page caching
• Run scheduled cron tasks to perform crucial garbage-collection processes
• Use the Development (Devel) module to monitor page loads and queries
• Use the Boost module for anonymous page caching, tweak Boost settings, and use Boost blocks and advanced Boost settings to monitor site performance
• Install and use Memcache API and Integration module, and Authcache and Advanced Cached modules to enhance and monitor site performance
• Configure a Drupal multisite environment for best performance

Approach
This is a practical and solution-based book designed to help you to quickly discover and learn about specific aspects of Drupal performance that you are interested in. In each chapter, Drupal-based modular performance tips and solutions are investigated and explained in detail.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for users of all experience levels, including Drupal module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even Drupal themers.

This book expects basic knowledge of Drupal operation, configuration and server technologies, and applications including MySQL and PHP.

About the Author
Trevor James is a Drupal developer and web designer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing websites for 13 years using a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and ColdFusion. He has been using Drupal intensively for more than 2 years. Trevors focus is on building web portals for higher education, public education (K-12), and non-profit and small business environments. He is interested in best methods of developing Drupal themes, Drupal site performance, and using CCK, Views and Panels to develop frontend interfaces to support data-intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework. He is also a contributor and community member on drupal.org and related Drupal community projects.

TJ Holowaychuk, president of Vision Media is an avid contributor to the Drupal project as well as to other open-source applications. Contributing over 16 Drupal modules, several themes, and having fully designed, developed, and maintained hundreds of Drupal websites he has displayed a wealth of knowledge across different aspects of the industry.

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• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847195849
• ISBN-13: 978-1847195845

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Need fast, reliable, easy-to-implement solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2008? This book delivers exactly what you’re looking for. You’ll find tested, step-by-step procedures for every facet of Windows Server 2008 planning, deployment, configuration, security, and day-to-day administration. This book includes special sections looking forward to the new R2 release and fully reflects all major enhancements built into Windows Server 2008–including Hyper-V virtualization, Server Core, major Terminal Services improvements, and many more changes that make older administration guides obsolete. When time is of the essence, turn here first: get answers you can trust–and use–right now!

Fast, Accurate, and Easy to Use!

* Prepare to deploy Windows Server 2008 and walk through an efficient installation
* Administer Windows Server 2008 with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Device Manager, Task Scheduler, and Remote Desktop
* Use Server Manager to perform initial configuration tasks, manage settings, and administer server roles
* Deliver client applications more efficiently with Terminal Services
* Deploy Server Core to minimize attack surface and maximize security
* Plan, deploy, and manage Hyper-V virtualized environments that reduce costs and improve business flexibility
* Create, configure, secure, and manage new websites with IIS 7.x
* Centrally manage your users with the newest version of Active Directory
* Install and configure server roles such as DNS, DHCP, and file services
* Configure both IPv4 and IPv6
* Establish efficient, practical backup and restore procedures
* Protect your data and infrastructure using Windows Server 2008’s multiple security features
* Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune server performance

About the Author
J. Peter Bruzzese is an independent consultant and trainer for a variety of clients, including CBT Nuggets (the Exchange 2007 Video Series) and New Horizons. Over the past decade, Peter has worked with Goldman Sachs, CommVault Systems, and Microsoft, to name a few. His focus has been, and continues to be, corporate support and training. For the past 10 years he has specialized in Active Directory and Exchange support and education, as well as certification training, and he holds the following certifications: MCSA 2000/2003, MCSE NT/2000/2003, MCITP: Messaging with Exchange 2007, and MCT from Microsoft; can from Novell; CCNA from Cisco; CIW Master and CIW Certified Instructor from CIW; and A+, Network+, and iNET+ from CompTIA.

Peter enjoys taking complex technical topics, like Server 2008, and breaking them down so they’re easy to understand and enjoyable to learn. This has led to the formation of his company ClipTraining; at the company website, www.cliptraining.com, you can watch a variety of mini-training clips designed to assist others in learning. Peter believes that short training sessions in a familiar environment yield great results.

Peter is also a contributor to Redmond magazine, Windows IT Pro magazine, and several tech sites. He is a speaker for the TechMentor conferences, Microsoft TechEd conferences, the IT360 tech conferences in Canada, and the TEC conference, offering sessions that revolve mostly around Exchange. Last but certainly not least, he writes the Enterprise Windows blog for InfoWorld.

Ron Barrett is the founder of RARE-TECH, an IT training and consulting company. He has been a technology professional for more than a decade, working for several major financial firms and dot-coms. Ron is a specialist in network infrastructure, security, and IT management. He is coauthor of The Administrator’s Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers and How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007, and he has contributed to several other books on Windows administration. Along with book writing, Ron has contributed to several industry magazines, such as Redmond and Windows IT Pro, and he was featured in the book Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters. He has worked for Microsoft, writing research and analysis papers on Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC, and PerformancePoint Server 2007. In addition to writing, Ron has spoken at several technology conferences for CPAmerica and the AICPA, as well as TechMentor.

Wayne Dipchan has been working with IT for the past 12 years and holds MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT certifications. His experience has allowed him to work in diverse business sectors. Starting out his career as an IT trainer, Wayne has had opportunity to work with New Horizons and Alpha Technologies, as well as coauthor an exam prep book on directory service design. He has also had opportunity to engineer, deploy, and support IT infrastructures for multiple small to medium-size businesses, ranging from construction to catering to manufacturing. In addition, Wayne has worked with health care systems such as Staten Island University Hospital and with financial companies such as Barclays Capital. He is the owner of AriLex Technologies LLC, a company focused on IT support and training. Wayne is currently employed with St. Peters University Hospital and involved with the design and deployment of multiple health information solutions.

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McFedries begins with advanced customization, covering everything from startup/shutdown to the file system. He introduces new ways to tune Windows 7 performance, police Windows via Group Policies, tweak the Registry, make the most of Windows 7s management tools, and control Windows 7 from the command line. You’ll find thorough coverage of securing Windows 7, including detailed guidance on web and email security and hardening both wireless and wired networks. You’ll also discover better ways to troubleshoot devices, networks, and startup; add Macs to Windows networks; and automate Windows administration with state-of-the-art scripting techniques.

This book is packed with expert tips, tricks, and troubleshooting techniques drawn from McFedries’ unsurpassed Windows experience. If you want maximum value and performance from your Windows 7 PCs, you won’t find a more valuable resource.

• Customize everything about Windows 7: IE8, startup/shutdown, file systems, the Start menu, Taskbar, and more
• Systematically monitor, tune, and optimize Windows performance–including practical techniques for accelerating startup
• Set up an easy, automated 9-Step maintenance schedule for any Windows 7 PC
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• Protect your web privacy with Windows 7s new InPrivate Browsing
• Solve problems with Windows 7, startup, networking, and hardware
• Set up reliable Windows 7 networks, and manage them efficiently
• Safely provide remote access and VPN connectivity
• Use Windows 7 as a Web server
• Program the Windows Scripting Host and Windows PowerShell

ON THE WEB:

• Free Online Edition! When Microsoft releases the final product, you can get an updated edition of this book absolutely free!
• All examples and source code presented in this book

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Paul McFedries, president of Logophilia Limited, is a full-time technical writer, passionate computer tinkerer, and Windows expert. He has authored 60+ computer books that have sold 3,000,000+ copies. His recent titles include Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way; Windows Vista Unleashed, 2E; Windows Home Server Unleashed; Build It. Fix It. Own It; Networking with Windows Vista; Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007; Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus, and Microsoft Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries. He is also proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com) a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language.

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• ISBN-10: 0672330695
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The authoritative, example-rich guide to Microsoft’s powerful reporting platform

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services you can quickly deliver relevant business intelligence data wherever it’s needed–across the entire enterprise, and through the entire reporting lifecycle. SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed gives you all the authoritative information you’ll need to make the most of Microsoft’s most powerful reporting platform as a database professional, manager, or user. In-depth coverage makes this book an ideal reference, and its extensive set of practical examples help you address virtually any challenge in deployment, configuration, administration, or report building.

The authors have extensively expanded this edition with deeper reference information, many more practical examples, and insider perspective into Reporting Services 2008’s powerful new enhancements. You’ll discover how to take full advantage of Reporting Services’ significant architectural changes, its flexible new Tablix control, improved visualization through charts and gauges, deep SharePoint integration through SharePoint Integrated Mode, new output presentation formats, and much more.

Understand how to

• Learn about the new features of Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the SQL Server 2008 R2 release
• Quickly take advantage of Microsoft’s newest SQL Server Reporting Services enhancements
• Use Reporting Services to identify trends and solve real business problems
• Master report authoring–from basic, wizard-driven techniques to the cutting edge
• Group, sort, and aggregate data, and define the right scope for your information
• Utilize advanced report formatting techniques
• Work effectively with multidimensional sources
• Manage report data sources and models
• Secure reports against attacks and intrusions
• Customize Reporting Services with embedded functions, custom assemblies, URL access, Web Services, and other extensions
• Thoroughly integrate SQL Server reporting into any SharePoint site

Michael Lisin, lead author of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, has years of field experience working with SQL Server Reporting Services at Microsoft and delivering solutions for Microsoft’s enterprise customers.

Jim Joseph, co-author of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Unleashed, is an independent contractor with 10 years experience developing custom software solutions in a variety of industries. He has worked with SQL Server Reporting Services since the first beta release.

Amit Goyal, lead program manager for Microsoft’s Reporting Services team, has extensive insider’s knowledge of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.

Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/sams

About the Author
Michael Lisin has been in the software industry for more than 17 years, with 10 of those years working with Microsoft. Most of his career, Michael has been consulting on SQL Server and business intelligence solutions for Microsoft’s enterprise customers. He has worked with SQL Server Reporting Services since the product’s first pre-beta version in 2002 and has taught Reporting Services classes and presented topics related to SQL Server at various events. Michael earned his MBA at Texas A&M University in 2006 and continues to be a dedicated scholar of Reporting Services. He is now working with business development for Microsoft.

Jim Joseph is an independent contractor with 10 years of experience developing custom software solutions in a variety of industries. He has worked with SQL Server Reporting Services since the first beta release in 2000. He earned his MBA from the University of St. Thomas in 2002. He has worked in a number of roles from developer to database administrator.

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In this book, you will find a detailed introduction to the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and the new OpenGL function calls that support it. The text begins by describing the syntax and semantics of this high-level programming language. Once this foundation has been established, the book explores the creation and manipulation of shaders using new OpenGL function calls.

OpenGL® Shading Language, Third Edition, includes updated descriptions for the language and all the GLSL entry points added though OpenGL 3.1, as well as updated chapters that discuss transformations, lighting, shadows, and surface characteristics. The third edition also features shaders that have been updated to OpenGL Shading Language Version 1.40 and their underlying algorithms, including

* Traditional OpenGL fixed functionality
* Stored textures and procedural textures
* Image-based lighting
* Lighting with spherical harmonics
* Ambient occlusion and shadow mapping
* Volume shadows using deferred lighting
* Ward’s BRDF model

The color plate section illustrates the power and sophistication of the OpenGL Shading Language. The API Function Reference at the end of the book is an excellent guide to the

API entry points that support the OpenGL Shading Language.

About the Author
Randi J. Rost was a core contributor to the development of the OpenGL Shading Language and the OpenGL API that supports it, as well as one of the first programmers to design and implement shaders using this technology. Randi works at Intel.

Bill Licea-Kane is chair of the ARB OpenGL Shading Language workgroup. Bill is a principal member of technical staff at AMD.

Product Details

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The OpenGL®Programming Guide, Seventh Edition, provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Utility Library. The previous edition covered OpenGL through Version 2.1. This seventh edition of the best-selling “red book” describes the latest features of OpenGL Versions 3.0 and 3.1. You will find clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and many basic computer graphics techniques, such as building and rendering 3D models; interactively viewing objects from different perspective points; and using shading, lighting, and texturing effects for greater realism. In addition, this book provides in-depth coverage of advanced techniques, including texture mapping, antialiasing, fog and atmospheric effects, NURBS, image processing, and more. The text also explores other key topics such as enhancing performance, OpenGL extensions, and cross-platform techniques.

This seventh edition has been updated to include the newest features of OpenGL Versions 3.0 and 3.1, including

* Using framebuffer objects for off-screen rendering and texture updates
* Examples of the various new buffer object types, including uniform-buffer objects, transform feedback buffers, and vertex array objects
* Using texture arrays to increase performance when using numerous textures
* Efficient rendering using primitive restart and conditional rendering
* Discussion of OpenGL’s deprecation mechanism and how to verify your programs for future versions of OpenGL

This edition continues the discussion of the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and explains the mechanics of using this language to create complex graphics effects and boost the computational power of OpenGL. The OpenGL Technical Library provides tutorial and reference books for OpenGL. The Library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL and shows them how to unlock its full potential. Originally developed by SGI, the Library continues to evolve under the auspices of the Khronos OpenGL ARB Working Group, an industry consortium responsible for guiding the evolution of OpenGL and related technologies.

About the Author
Dave Shreiner, director of graphics technology at ARM, Inc., was a longtime member of the core OpenGL team at SGI. He authored the first commercial OpenGL training course and has been developing computer graphics applications for more than two decades. Dave regularly presents at SIGGRAPH and other conferences worldwide. He is coauthor of the OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and the OpenGL® Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley, 2004), and is series editor for Addison-Wesley’s OpenGL Series.

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The iPhone offers a compelling Web-based application development platform revolving around its built-in browser, Safari, which is built upon the open source WebKit framework. This must-have book serves as a hands-on guide to developing iPhone and iPod touch Web applications.

Beginning with an introduction to Web application development for iPhone, this unique book then covers invaluable information on working with mobile and touch technologies, utilizing iPhone UI frameworks, and designing, styling, and programming the interface. You’ll discover how to move Web apps to native apps and much, much more.

* Walks you through the process of developing Web applications for iPhone and iPod touch
* Covers how to design and develop applications that emulate the look and feel of native iPhone apps.
* Instructs on how your Web app can respond to finger touch events that are a core part of the iPhone event model.
* Shows you how to create Web-based offline applications using the latest HTML 5 cache technologies
* Explains the unique process of moving Web apps to native apps
* Features a bonus chapter on optimizing and developing for third-party browsers

Completely compliant with the new iPhone OS 3.0, as well as latest enhancements to Safari on iPhone, this indispensable book is a must-have resource.

From the Back Cover
Build dynamic mobile web applications for iPhone OS 3.0

With the unparalleled success of iPhone and iPod touch, iPhone OS 3.0 has emerged as a compelling platform for which vast numbers of web developers are designing and building web-based mobile applications. This book explores the Safari and WebKit development platform that is built into iPhone OS 3.0 and takes you through the process of creating an iPhone web application from the ground up. You’ll learn how to use existing open source frameworks to speed up your development time, imitate qualities of built-in Apple apps, cache data locally and even run in offline mode, and more. Whether you’re eager to build new web applications for iPhone OS 3.0 or optimize existing web sites for this platform, you have everything you need to do so within these pages.

* Features coverage completely compliant with the new iPhone OS 3.0 and the enhancements to the Safari/WebKit browser
* Shows you how to design a user interface that is optimized for iPhone’s touch-screen display
* Details the process of styling with CSS and reviews WebKit-specific styles that are useful when developing web apps for iPhone and iPhone touch
* Provides a code-level look at developing an iPhone web application interface
* Explains how web applications can integrate with core iPhone services, such as Phone, Email, and Google Maps

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (November 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470549661
• ISBN-13: 978-0470549667

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XMPP is a robust protocol used for a wide range of applications, including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and search. This book teaches you how to harness the power of XMPP in your own apps and presents you with all the tools you need to build the next generation of apps using XMPP or add new features to your current apps. Featuring the JavaScript language throughout and making use of the jQuery library, the book contains several XMPP apps of increasing complexity that serve as ideal learning tools.

* Learn about XMPP’s instant messaging features, such as rosters, presence and subscriptions, and private chats
* Covers XMPP stanzas, stanza errors, and client protocol syntax and semantics
* Discusses service discovery, data forms, and publish-subscribe
* Addresses XMPP programming-related topics such as application design, event handling, and combining existing protocols
* Details the best ways to deploy XMPP-based applications
* Explains how to use Strophe’s plugin system and how to create your own plugins

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Jack Moffitt is CTO of Collecta, where he leads a team that produces several XMPP-related projects including Strophe (a family of libraries for XMPP communication), Palaver (a group chat server), Punjab (an HTTP to XMPP gateway service), and Speeqe (a simple web-based group chat client). He alsoserved several terms on the Board of Directors and Council of the XMPP Standards Foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (January 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470540710
• ISBN-13: 978-0470540718

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What better way to get started with Visual Basic than with this essential Wrox beginner’s guide? Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 not only shows you how to write Windows applications, Web applications with ASP.NET, and Windows mobile and embedded CE apps with Visual Basic 2010, but you’ll also get a thorough grounding in the basic nuts-and-bolts of writing good code.

You’ll be exposed to the very latest VB tools and techniques with coverage of both the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 releases. Plus, the book walks you step-by-step through tasks, as you gradually master this exciting new release of Microsoft’s popular and important programming language.
* Microsoft’s Visual Basic is a frequent first language for new programmers; this clear, focused book walks you through the basics and gets you quickly productive in Visual Basic
* Features in-depth coverage of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 releases, so you’ll be learning the very latest VB tools and techniques
* Discusses flow control, data structure, Windows applications, dialog boxes, menus, error handing and debugging, and objects and object oriented techniques
* Covers class libraries, Windows Forms, graphics programming, accessing databases, Web programming with ASP.NET and Visual Basic, data access, SQL Server, ADO.NET, and XML

Launch your Visual Basic programming career the right way with this practical, thorough guide.

From the Back Cover
A thorough introduction to the basics of Visual Basic 2010

Synonymous with writing code in Visual Studio 2010, Visual Basic is an incredibly popular programming language. Its speed and ease of use make it a frequent first choice for new programmers, as well as a heavily favored choice for the more experienced set eager to learn Visual Basic’s latest iteration. This beginning guide provides you with a solid foundation, unlocking the power and possibilities of Visual Basic 2010 and giving detailed steps for quickly and easily writing useful programs.

Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2010:
* Details the process for creating Windows Forms applications, WPF Windows applications, web applications, WPF browser applications, mobile device applications, and Web Services
* Discusses application debugging, error handling, and dealing with unexpected events
* Addresses object-oriented programming and how to use it in your applications
* Reviews dynamic data web sites and ASP.NET
* Introduces XML and shows how it can be used to integrate your applications with others
* Explains deploying applications using ClickOnce technology
* Covers Access®, SQL Server®, and ADO.NET

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (March 15, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470502223
• ISBN-13: 978-0470502228

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