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From Idea to Web Start up in 21 Days: Creating bacn.com Book Description
Once upon a time, starting a business meant months of researching, refining business goals and writing business plans, talking to investors and banks, negotiating for loans, and raising money. But today, agile web development practices mean that you can almost launch on an idea and figure it out as you go. At least that's what authors Jason Glaspey and Scott Kveton and their colleague Michael Richardson did when starting bacn.com, an online bacon retailer.

In this mouth-watering tale, they describe their process of starting a business on a shoestring, including the things they did right and the things they did wrong. Bacn.com didn't make them millionaires — not even close! But the lessons they learned have led to comfortable success on their follow-up ventures. And whether it's choosing a domain name or selecting the right content management systems, buying and storing inventory or figuring out fulfillment, using social media for marketing or finding a location to host an "epic" party, their stories will help you jumpstart your own web business.

About the Author
Jason Glaspey is a freelance interactive producer who works with a wide range of clients creating interactive content. Jason has been building websites and online tools for himself for years now as a way to escape the client work that kept him busy during the day. By constantly fiddling and testing opportunities online, he’s continuously refined the way in which new businesses are created in a day where much of what you need can be acquired with a laptop and an internet connection. His professional experience consists of global brands such as Nike, Burton Snowboards, Starbucks, and Nokia, to small local companies native to his hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Scott Kveton is an entrepreneur who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He is currently the co-founder and CEO a mobile phone infrstructure company called Urban Airship and has been active with a variety of startups and open source/standards groups over the past 15 years. Beyond technology, Scott is an avid gardener, from-scratch pizza maker and of course, bacon lover.

Book Details

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321714288
ISBN-13: 978-0321714282

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Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design Book Description
In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves.

Reviews
A great read. Full of tips and techniques. Like "Don't make me think!" it's the kind of book you'll want to pass on to the people you work with. I highly recommend it.
– Gerry Gaffney, Author Forms that work: designing Web forms for usability

Next time someone says to just "make it simple," show them a copy of this book. Simple and Usable is a delightful afternoon read full of short, memorable examples that remind us why simple isn't always easy.
– Stephen P. Anderson, Author Mental Notes

Think things have to be complicated to be powerful? Think again. In this clear, compelling (and beautiful) book, Giles Colborne makes the argument for simplicity. He shows us design as a process of thoughtfully crafting a product that is just simple enough, but no more.
– Whitney Quesenbery, Author Storytelling for user experience

Packed with practical strategies for achieving simplicity—and an enjoyable read. Giles manages to infuse frequent examples into the book's impressively concise 1-page sections. As an advocate of simplicity, I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a hand in building websites, software, or products.
– Tyler Tate, Twigkit

An amazing book. Just buy it, consider it a $20 2-hour brain upgrade.
– Brandon Hays, The Daily Flux

This book is a delight. Everything about it is Simple and Usable – the layout, the beautiful illustrations, and the text. This is a book I will return to again to deal with specific questions. I'd recommend Simple and Usable to anyone involved in physical or digital product design.
– Annie Dryden, Senior Interaction Designer, BBC

About the Author
Giles Colborne has been designing interactive user experiences since the early 1990s and it's about time he did something useful like writing a book.

When he's not doing that he he's busy with cxpartners, a design consultancy based in Bristol and London that specialises in web and mobile user interface design for companies such as Marriott, Nokia and eBay. Giles and Richard Caddick founded cxpartners in 2004.

Book Details

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321703545
ISBN-13: 978-0321703545

File Size: 7.4 MiB
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EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders Book Description
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools. This extensively researched guide to creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors. In this essential book, Liz shares her hard-earned experience for how to:

Create EPUB files from existing Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign files, or from scratch.
Tweak EPUB files to take full advantage of the power of EPUB in each respective ereader.
Control spacing, indents, and margins.
Insert images and sidebars and wrap text around them.
Create links to external sources and cross-references to internal ones.
Add video to ebooks for the iPad.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Using Word to Write EPUB
2. Using InDesign to create EPUB
3. Inside an EPUB file
4. Advanced EPUB Formatting
Index

Book Details

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (July, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321734688
ISBN-13: 978-0321734686

File Size: 8.6 MiB
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Undercover User Experience Design - pdf

Undercover User Experience Design Book Description
Once you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don’t work, and companies don’t seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies usability testing, personas, prototyping and so on unless your organization ‘gets it’, putting them into practice is trickier.

Undercover User Experience is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems. Readers will learn how to fit research, ideation, prototyping and testing into their daily workflow, and how to design good user experiences under the all-too-common constraints of time, budget and culture.

Table of contents

Going undercover · Where you are now · The undercover manifesto
Exploring the problem · Hit the ground running · Defining the problem · Culture · User research under the radar · Research outputs
Generating ideas · Sketching · Collaborative design · Sharing the spark · Design principles
Making it real · Design deliverables · Fidelity · Better deliverables
Refining your solution · Testing with users · Critique · After launch
Working with… · Working with developers · Working with visual designers · Working with content specialists · Working with product owners · Working with marketers · Working with SEO specialists · Working with senior managers · Working with Agile
Where next? · Growing UX · UX leadership · Moving on · Over to you

About the Author
Cennydd Bowles leapt into the world of user experience eight years ago and hasn’t shut up about it since. He now works for Clearleft in Brighton, England and moonlights as a UX blogger, mentor and community evangelist. Cennydd is a regular public speaker (SXSW, IA Summit), a widely published writer (A List Apart, Johnny Holland, .net magazine) and co-conspirator of the UX London conference.

A self-confessed 'user experience professional', James Box works for Clearleft in the seaside town of Brighton, England. Part information architect and part interaction designer, when he's not building sandcastles on the beach, James crafts websites that are fun and easy to use. On those few occasions he’s not actually designing, you’ll probably find him writing or talking about the subject. Either that or reminiscing about how all these social networks used to be fields.

Book Details

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321719905
ISBN-13: 978-0321719904

File Size: 6.6 MiB
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iPhone Application Development for iOS 4: Visual QuickStart Guide Book Description
Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are the smart choice–they guide the learner with a friendly and supportive approach. The visual presentation (with copious screenshots) and focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and take you to exactly what you want to learn.

With a rich set of over 1,000 APIs, iPhone SDK 4 provides an amazing range of technologies to enhance and create applications for the iPhone. This book focuses on the parts of the SDK that are specifically geared toward the iPhone. Everything is covered to create a complete application.

Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Chapter 1 Objective-C and Cocoa . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 The iPhone Developer's Toolbox . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 3 Common Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Chapter 4 iPhone User Interface Elements . 111
Chapter 5 Tabs and Tables . . 181
Chapter 6 Files and Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 7 Touches, Shakes, and Orientation . . . . . . . . . . 279
Chapter 8 Location and Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Chapter 9 Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Chapter 10 Contacts, Calendars, E-mail, and SMS . . . . . . . 405
Chapter 11 Multitasking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Book Details

Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321719689
ISBN-13: 978-0321719683

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Editing with Avid Media Composer 5 Book Description
Avid Media Composer is the standard editing system used by professionals in the film and television industries and with its many capabilities available at a low price, it's well within the range of serious non-professionals too. With this latest release, Avid proves to be more innovative than ever in a fast-paced world of digital media.

Here to guide readers on the foundations of editing using Avid Media Composer 5 is the only book on the market officially developed and approved by Avid. Each chapter covers a complete lesson in the fundamentals, with step-by-step instructions and accompanying screenshots included so readers can absorb the details and start using the program right away. After discovering how to use the tools and understanding the editing workflow, they'll go on to learn basic editing, timeline editing, and trimming, and then move on to refining audio, adding effects, performing color correction, creating titles, and finally managing projects and delivering the finished work. They'll also learn about groundbreaking capabilities new to this version of Media Composer such as a drag-and-drop Timeline that allows its users to mix formats, frame rates, and resolutions, new direct editing capabilities for QuickTime, RED, XDCAM, and other tapeless media, and much more. Not only that, with the included DVD, readers can dive right in and follow along with the projects using professional footage from top television shows and films.
Book Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 Pap/Dvdr edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032173467X
ISBN-13: 978-0321734679

File Size: 12.2 MiB
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Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature, 2nd Edition Book Description
In 2008, Adobe Photoshop pro and best-selling author Matt Kloskowski broke new ground teaching Photoshop by focusing on the one thing that makes Photoshop the amazing (and sometimes difficult to understand) program it is: layers. Now, Matt returns with a major update to the book that explains “the key to understanding Photoshop” in the same concise, easy to understand way that's made him so well known in the field of Photoshop training.

When asked about the original version of this book, Matt said, “I wanted it to be the Photoshop book that I wish was around when I was first learning.” This update improves upon that concept. Within these pages, you'll learn about:

Working with and managing multiple layers
Building multiple-layer images
Blending layers together
Layer masking and just how easy it is
Which of the 25+ layer blend modes you really need to know (there are just a few)
Using layers to enhance and retouch your photos
All of the tips and tricks that make using layers a breeze
Plus, a new chapter on advanced layer techniques and compositing to help take your work to the next level

If you want to fully understand layers in Photoshop, this book is the one you've been waiting for.

About the Author
Matt Kloskowski is a Photoshop Guy whose books, videos, and classes have simplified the way thousands of people work on digital photos and images. Author of several best-selling books on Photoshop, Matt teaches Photoshop and digital photography techniques to tens of thousands of people around the world each year. He co-hosts the top-rated videocast Photoshop User TV, as well as the photography videocast D-Town TV. He's built a massive library of videos that appear in DVDs and online training courses, and has written articles for Photoshop User magazine. You'll find Matt teaching for the Kelby Training Live seminar tour, as well as at the world's premier Photoshop event, the Photoshop World Conference & Expo.

Book Details

Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321749588
ISBN-13: 978-0321749581

File Size: 50.9 MiB
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Book Description
With Photoshop Elements 9 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture and import photos, reduce red eye, enhance color, work with layers, and much more. Coverage includes a complete run-down of the new features including: Content-Aware Healing Brush, Photomerge Style Match, Layer Masks, Guided Edit Mode presets, and new basic and advanced design modes for customizing photo creations.

Both beginning and intermediate users will find everything they need here–in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.

Table of Contents
1. The Basics
2. The Organizer
3. Creating and Managing Images
4. Quick Fix Edits
5. Making Selections
6. Fixing and Retouching Photos
7. Changing and Adjusting Colors
8. Working with Layers
9. Filters and Effects
10. Painting and Drawing
11. Working with Type
12. Preparing Images for the Web
13. Saving and Printing Images
14. Sharing Your Images
15. Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts

Book Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321741307
ISBN-13: 978-0321741301

File Size: 19.9 MiB
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Book Description
With Photoshop Elements 9 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture and import photos, reduce red eye, enhance color, work with layers, and much more. Coverage includes a complete run-down of the new features including: Content-Aware Healing Brush, Photomerge Style Match, Layer Masks, Guided Edit Mode presets, and new basic and advanced design modes for customizing photo creations.

Both beginning and intermediate users will find everything they need here–in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.

Table of Contents
1   The Basics
2   The Organizer
3   Creating and Managing Images
4   Quick Fix Edits
5   Making Selections
6   Fixing and Retouching Photos
7   Changing and Adjusting Colors
8   Working with Layers
9   Filters and Effects
10 Painting and Drawing
11   Working with Type
12   Preparing Images for the Web
13   Saving and Printing Images
14   Sharing Your Images
15   Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts

Book Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321741315
ISBN-13: 978-0321741318

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The CSS Pocket Guide Book Description
CSS is a language for describing the presentation of elements in a document marked up in HTML. It enables you to rapidly create Web designs that can be shared by multiple pages, accelerates development time, and is the essential tool for building standards-compliant sites. This low-priced pocket guide works as a concise introduction to CSS3 and serves as a handy reference. In it readers will learn

The core concepts of CSS
How to format text with CSS
How to apply CSS style rules to markup
How to build multicolumn layouts without using tables
And much more

This pocket guide along with the HTML Pocket Guide and the JavaScript Pocket Guide make creating standard-compliant websites a breeze. Learn core concepts or skip to the parts you need to solve an immediate problem. They’re exactly the resource that every Web designer needs.

About the Author
Chris Casciano started building web sites professionally in 1997 when web development meant working with tables and font tags, sticking to a “web safe” color pallette, and worrying about load times for those using dial-up modems. He is now working as freelance web developer, spending the last 9 years in the trenches architecting and building web sites for digital agencies and their clients. Throughout his career Chris has explored ways to implement emerging technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in practical ways — balancing the bleeding edge with the responsibilities of serving a diverse audience. His personal projects and writing have inspired industry leaders with projects like “Daily CSS Fun” in 2002 serving as inspiration for the popular “CSS Zen Garden”. Since 2003, Chris has been an advocate for adoption of standards as a member of the Web Standards Project.

His personal web site, Place Name Here (http://placenamehere.com), now home to a blog covering both web development and his other passion of digital photography, has been online since 1998.

Book Details

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321732278
ISBN-13: 978-0321732279

File Size: 5.8 MiB
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The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit Book Description
Studio time is expensive and all too often we end up making creative decisions based on that expense and often the end product suffers. The home studio offers you the freedom to experiment with innovative ideas and work at the pace that is right for you. This book gets musicians set up and recording as quickly and as inexpensively as possible. It will excite and energize musicians who are struggling to find a way to document their creativity through music.

This complete starter kit includes a DVD with software from Sony and other major music manufacturers. It also includes training videos, royalty-free audio loop files, downloadable sound files and much more!

Buster Fayte gives you tried and true steps to creating the best environment for home music production, offers create techniques and skills he’s learned in his 25+ years of music production at home, and as a trainer for Sony – the creators of Acid Pro and Sound Forge.

About the Author
Gary Rebholz, AKA Buster Fayte, has a varied background in both the training and music professions. He has been involved with the creative arts for around 25 years and during that time has developed skills in the areas of writing, graphic design, video editing, audio engineering, and many related industries.As a training professional, Gary is the Senior Training Manager for Sony Creative Software (SCS) (www.sonycreativesoftware.com ) and is an expert user of the company’s applications.

Book Details

Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Que; 1 Pap/Cdr edition (October, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789738112
ISBN-13: 978-0789738110

File Size: 10.9 MiB
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Moving to Ubuntu Linux Book Description
Discover Ubuntu, Today's Hottest Linux

Everyone's talking about Ubuntu—it's not just 100% free, it's the most useful, practical desktop Linux ever! Now, Linux expert Marcel Gagné reveals Ubuntu's amazing power and helps you migrate from Windows faster than you ever thought possible.

Moving to Ubuntu Linux will teach you how to do virtually anything with Ubuntu—write documents, create spreadsheets, surf the Web, use email, listen to music, watch movies, and play games.

Install Ubuntu fast, with easy, step-by-step instructions
Take control, with the GNOME desktop environment and Nautilus file manager
Browse the Internet using Firefox, the powerful browser that's quickly replacing Microsoft Internet Explorer
Find and install all the software you'll ever need, with Ubuntu's powerful Synaptic package manager
Send email, track contacts, create calendars, and manage all your personal information with Evolution
Organize digital photos, rip music, burn and play CDs, watch movies, create graphics, and more
Discover the world of Linux games, and learn how to run Windows games on your Ubuntu PC
Set up an efficient, convenient network for your home or small business
Customize your desktop so it's perfectly comfortable and totally efficient

About the Author
Marcel Gagné is best known as author of the Linux Journal’s “Cooking with Linux” series, which has earned the magazine’s Readers’ Choice award for favorite column four years in a row, and as the regular “Linux Guy” on G4/TechTV Canada. His books include Moving to the Linux Business Desktop and Linux Administration: A User’s Guide (both from Addison-Wesley.) He is one of the Linux world’s most familiar and respected voices.

Book Details

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Pap/DVD edition (May, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032142722X
ISBN-13: 978-0321427229

File Size: 11.2 MiB
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products Book Description
Best practices for managing projects in agile environments—now updated with new techniques for larger projects

Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organizations.

Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organizational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith's new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints.

This edition's coverage includes:

Understanding the agile revolution's impact on product development
Recognizing when agile methods will work in project management, and when they won't
Setting realistic business objectives for Agile Project Management
Promoting agile values and principles across the organization
Utilizing a proven Agile Enterprise Framework that encompasses governance, project and iteration management, and technical practices
Optimizing all five stages of the agile project: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and Close
Organizational and product-related processes for scaling agile to the largest projects and teams
Agile project governance solutions for executives and management
The "Agile Triangle": measuring performance in ways that encourage agility instead of discouraging it
The changing role of the agile project leader

About the Author
JIM HIGHSMITH is Director, Agile Project Management Practice, and Fellow, Business Technology Council at Cutter Consortium. He is also a Member of the Software Development Productivity Council, Flashline, Inc. Highsmith authored Adaptive Software Development, which won the prestigious Jolt award for excellence, and Agile Software Development Ecosystems (Addison Wesley). A recognized leader in the Agile movement, he co-authored the Agile Manifesto and co-founded the Agile Alliance.

Book Details

Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (May, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321219775
ISBN-13: 978-0321219770

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Create Your Own Website, 4th Edition Book Description
Build a great personal or business website… absolutely no experience needed!

Why pay a professional web developer? If you can use a word processor, you can do it yourself! This package contains all the software, templates, and simple step-by-step instructions you need to build a great site in practically no time!

Build sites like these using our professional-quality templates:
-Family sites
-Hobby sites
-Community and nonprofit sites
-Online storefronts that accept credit card payments via PayPal
-Post video on YouTube
8 Easy Projects

In this book you'll see just how easy it is to create your own website. The CD included with this book contains professional website templates and a free web page editor. With the web page editor, you can quickly and easily customize the templates into your personal websites. Better still, using the editor is as simple as using a word processor.

Use easy web-based services to:
-Sell products at your own eBay Store
-Create your own personal or professional blog
-Display your digital photos on your own Snapfish site
-Share your videos on YouTube
-Create a MySpace page that'll stand out from the crowd
-Build your social network with your own Facebook presence
You won't believe how easy it is to build your own site…or how much fun!

About the Author
Create Your Own Website is author Scott Mitchell's eighth book; his others are Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O'Reilly); ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams); ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams); Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours (Sams); and Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott is a regular columnist for Microsoft's MSDN Magazine and has authored more than 1,000 online articles on his website, 4GuysFromRolla.com. Scott's nonwriting accomplishments include speaking at numerous technical user groups and conferences across the country. Scott also teaches web technology classes at the University of California–San Diego University Extension. In addition to teaching and writing, Scott is a software developer. He works as an independent consultant and has authored and sold several commercial software applications.

Book Details

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Sams; 4 edition (August, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672330024
ISBN-13: 978-0672330025

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed Book Description
Microsoft® SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, organizations can bring together, utilize, and collaborate with information from virtually any source. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed is the most complete, practical resource for all administrators, managers, architects, users, and power users who want to make the most of this powerful platform.

Drawing on their experience implementing SharePoint solutions in hundreds of organizations, Michael Noel and Colin Spence cover all facets of succeeding with SharePoint: planning, deployment, migration, scalability, administration, security, Microsoft Office integration, workflow and dashboard development, and more.

Noel and Spence illuminate the newest SharePoint innovations, from new social networking features to improved search, helping you make the most of both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. Using easy-to-understand, step-by-step examples, the authors help you streamline administration, optimize performance, control cost, and implement high-value solutions for collaboration, document management, and business intelligence.

Architect and implement SharePoint 2010, and migrate from legacy SharePoint servers
Perform advanced installations that maximize scalability
Monitor, back up, and restore SharePoint environments
Maintain the SQL Server databases on which SharePoint 2010 relies
Systematically improve edge, transport, and content security
Deploy SharePoint in extranets and alternative authentication scenarios
Create highly efficient virtualized SharePoint 2010 farms
Customize and manage libraries and lists for your specific requirements
Design and manage pages and sites for knowledge workers
Effectively manage metadata and content types
Integrate content using Office Web Apps and Excel, Access, and Visio Graphics Services
Create both out-of-the-box and customized SharePoint workflows
Develop custom solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
Create BI solutions with PerformancePoint and Business Connectivity Services
Govern your SharePoint ecosystem for maximum value

Michael Noel, MS-MVP, MCITP, is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well-known public speaker on a wide range of IT topics. He is the author of 17 books, including Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, and Microsoft Forefront Unleashed. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Colin Spence, MCP, MCTS SharePoint, has worked with SharePoint technologies for nearly a decade, helping hundreds of clients architect, implement, and manage customized SharePoint solutions. He speaks, publishes, and blogs regularly on SharePoint technologies. Noel and Spence are partners at Convergent Computing, a leading Microsoft partner in the San Francisco Bay area, and co-authors of SharePoint 2007 Unleashed.

ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672333255

From the Back Cover
A thorough revision of the bestselling book on SharePoint, Microsoft’s increasingly popular set of collaboration technologies

SharePoint makes it easier for people to collaborate online, and is poised to explode in usage with the 2010 version
Contains all the information an administrator needs to know to set up and manage SharePoint
Fully updated for all the new features of SharePoint 2010, and tested against the final release code
Previous editions have been bestsellers

Companies have been talking about knowledge management and leveraging their IT investments to enhance team collaboration for years, but have had difficulty implementing effective solutions that tie together the wide range of information employees need to access. SharePoint 2007 made great inroads into filling these needs, and was a billion dollar product for Microsoft. SharePoint 2010 will make even greater strides in enabling organizations to create a practical framework to bring together information from such diverse systems as Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows Server, and other Microsoft servers. Previous editions of this book have been bestsellers. This book will provide comprehensive, practical coverage for administrators, on topics including planning; implementation; migration; administration; working with tools for endusers, administrators, and managers; and extensions for workflows, business processes, and business intelligence. New features covered in this edition include: PowerShell; virtualization technologies; new security and authentication technologies; business intelligence tools; social networking tools and features; enhancements in the user experience, including the ribbon interface; new lists and libraries; and metadata enhancements.

About the Author
Michael Noel, MS-MVP, MCITP, is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well-known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored 17 major industry books that have been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, Forefront Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from information technology infrastructure.

Colin Spence, MCP, MCTS SharePoint, is a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) and has worked with SharePoint technologies for nearly a decade. He has worked with hundreds of clients architecting, implementing, configuring, and supporting SharePoint solutions that meet their unique business requirements. Colin has authored several bestselling books on SharePoint products for the Sams Publishing Unleashedseries, including SharePoint 2003, 2007, and now 2010. He contributes to numerous blogs and publications and speaks regularly on SharePoint technologies.

Book Details

Paperback: 1008 pages
Publisher: Sams; Pap/Psc edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672333252
ISBN-13: 978-0672333255

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Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100 Book Description
The key scientific discoveries of the 21st century are coming from the biosciences. These discoveries will impact our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Now, two leading experts will help you imagine those impacts–and prepare for them. Paul and Joyce Schoemaker preview the research innovations most likely to emerge in the coming years and reveal what they're likely to mean for everything from human longevity to the health of society, from bioterrorism to personalized medicine.

Writing for every interested citizen and consumer, the Schoemakers illuminate the hottest technologies and most controversial issues associated with contemporary biotechnology–including stem cells, cloning, pharmacogenetics, DNA chips, proteomics, gene therapy, and much more. Then, drawing on Paul Schoemaker's unsurpassed experience helping global organizations prepare for the future, the authors sketch multiple long-term scenarios for the biosciences…and reveal how they will impact your health, family, career, and the society you live in.

How long will you live? How long can you live? Beyond 100: breakthroughs made, breakthroughs yet to come
New business opportunities for the age of biosciences The future of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, disease management, and prevention
The economics, politics, and technology of the bioscience revolution What's driving the biosciences–and what could halt them dead in their tracks
To 2025 and beyond: powerful scenarios and what they mean Making sense of the age of biosciences–so you can make better decisions for you and your family

About the Author
Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D. is Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at The Wharton School, where he teaches strategy and decision making. Dr. Schoemaker is also the founder and chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic planning and executive development. He has written more than 100 academic and applied papers as well as coauthored numerous books, including Decision Traps, Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies, Winning Decisions, Profiting from Uncertainty, and Peripheral Vision. He serves on multiple boards.

Joyce A. Schoemaker, Ph.D. has conducted basic research in microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Chicago and taught microbiology at Villanova University. She has held positions in research and management at several biotechnology companies, including Celltech in London, and has published numerous scientific articles in biology. She is coauthor of Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids: Protecting Your Children From Everyday Environmental Hazards. Dr. Schoemaker has a long-standing interest in environmental issues as well as the emerging biosciences.

Book Details

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (September, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137153856
ISBN-13: 978-0137153855

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Innovation Passport: The IBM First of a Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to Reality Book Description
Get Inside IBM's Breakthrough FOAK Program for Delivering Profitable Innovation!

Learn from one of the world's most successful innovation initiatives
Align researchers, clients, and partners behind innovation that matters
Get the right innovations to market fast

How can you promote innovation that delivers real, profitable business value–again and again, year after year? For 14 years, IBM's FOAK program has done just that. In Innovation Passport, FOAK's leaders share the powerful lessons they've learned. Through actual project examples, you'll discover how to craft more effective processes for making innovation happen…encourage collaboration…manage innovation portfolios…protect intellectual property…and systematically improve the chances of marketplace adoption. Whatever your role in innovation, this book will help you do it better, faster, and more profitably.

"Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and customer standpoint. By following the guidelines in this book, those with aspirations of collaborative innovation can learn from the lessons of IBM and maximize their probability of success. A+!"
–Gregory S. Dawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and former Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Innovation Passport goes directly to the heart of how companies can speed up the transition from research to revenue. This book's combination of insight and actionable detail–derived over a dozen years–provides a roadmap for companies to accelerate the commercialization of ideas and technologies. Moreover, this best practice is based on collaboration with external partners, an approach that is even more critical given strained economic times."
–Keith O'Brien, VP, Best Practices Research, Frost & Sullivan

About the Author
Mary Jo Frederich is the director of the IBM Industry Solutions Labs and First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) program. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, gained while holding positions such as principal of a Northeast networking and systems management consulting practice, portfolio manager for Global Industry Solutions, and systems engineering manager for telecommunications. Throughout her years at IBM, she has gained extensive business and technical management experience working with clients in the consumer packaged goods, communications, utilities, and financial services industries. She is credited with transforming the FOAK program over the last eight years to drive greater value for IBM and its clients.

Peter Andrews, currently an independent executive consultant and writer, coauthored this book when he was the innovation strategist for IBM's Executive Business Institute. While at IBM, he participated in corporationwide studies into ad hoc innovation, innovation partnering, and the use of collaboration tools for virtual teaming. He has trained hundreds of IBM researchers in techniques for realizing the value of their inventions. He was honored by IBM as one of its "Pioneers of the Web." He is a popular speaker at conferences and has authored dozens of Executive Tech Reports, which explore innovation and emerging technologies.

Book Details

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (September, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132390760
ISBN-13: 978-0132390767

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Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean Energy Future Book Description
Praise for Crossing the Energy Divide

The Environmentally and Economically Smart Strategy for Solving the Global Energy Crisis–Starting Now

If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we're headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can't fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What's more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding economic growth even more than most experts ever realized.

Crossing the Energy Divide is about solving all these problems at once. The authors, two leading experts in energy and environmental economics, show how massive improvements in energy efficiency can bridge the global economy until clean renewables can fully replace fossil fuels.

Robert and Edward Ayres demonstrate how we can radically reform the way we manage our existing energy systems to double the amount of "energy service" we get from every drop of fossil fuel we use.

These techniques require no scientific breakthroughs: Many companies and institutions are applying them right now, but tens of thousands more could. This book offers a strategic guide for using them to solve the energy crisis once and for all—reducing carbon emissions, achieving true energy security, and reigniting economic growth for decades to come.

More energy, without more emissions
Recapturing lost energy from today's fossil fuels

There is such a thing as a free lunch
Mitigating climate disaster and improving prosperity at the same time

The future of electricity
Reforming tomorrow's electrical system: smarter, more productive, and more reliable

The implications for cities, transportation, business, and government
Making the decisions that prepare you for a high-cost energy future

Review
"This book makes coherent and rigorous arguments that increasing energy efficiency is the primary driver of economic growth today and is key to managing climate change."
–Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

"It's exciting to see some of the riddles of economic history solved. Energy efficiency may become the master key to future wealth!"
–Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (ret), University of California, Santa Barbara

"This important new book compels a significantly greater attention to the critical role of energy productivity in maintaining a robust economy."
–John A. "Skip" Laitner, Director, Economic and Social Analysis, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

"Even if renewable energy sources can eventually sustain present living standards in industrialized countries, it will require decades for them to grow into that role. This book is by far the most realistic and helpful proposal I have seen for what can be done to cross the enormous energy gap between what we have and what we want."
–Dennis Meadows, Coauthor, Limits to Growth

"This book is 'mythbusters' applied to the conventional wisdom that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will also reduce income. It should switch the debate from what it will cost to mitigate climate change to a search for policy changes to spur profitable efficiency investments in generation and use of energy services."
–Thomas R. Casten, Chair, Recycled Energy Development, LLC

"Crossing the Energy Divide has appeared right when those of us in the energy sector need it most. Robert and Edward Ayres do an excellent job of explaining that every product and service has an energy component, and the cost of that component will determine our future quality of life."
–John K. Cool, P.E., C.P.E, President, PowerPlus Engineering, Inc.

Book Details

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing; 1 edition (December, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137015445
ISBN-13: 978-0137015443

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Book Description
With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP’s success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve common PHP problems. It focuses on providing real code solutions to problems, allowing the reader to learn by seeing exactly what is happening behind the scenes to get your solution. Because a real-life situation will rarely match the book’s example problems precisely, PHP 5 in Practice explains the solution well enough that you will understand it and can learn how to truly solve your own problem.

PHP 5 in Practice is a ‘cookbook’ or ‘problem and solution’ style book. In fact, it is the spiritual successor to the PHP Developer’s Cookbook, also by Sam’s Publishing.

When writing this book, we attempted to avoid the common pitfall in these ‘cookbook’ type technical references can take, where so many of the examples/solutions are so simplistic, to be concepts explained/answered by a single function call.

Therefore instead, we focused on presenting real world problems, with in some cases a rather beefy solution presented. The more ‘simple’ problems/solutions still exist, but only in the form of a ‘quick hits’ section at the beginning of each chapter. This is to present a number of PHP functions that by themselves can solve many of your problems, without spending whole paragraphs on them.

In the end, while you can read this book cover-to-cover, we hope it serves as a great reference manual, sitting beside you while you work. Available for you to pick up and reference a solution that you’d scanned earlier. Or for just parts that interest you, in order to spark your imagination into directions that will solve your own problems.
– Eli White (Elliott White III)

About the Author
Elliott White III (more commonly known as Eli White) has been a professional programmer since 1995. He is a classically trained Computer Scientist who fell into the world of Web Application Development, and fell in love with PHP. He has spent over a decade in the field, and has worked for companies such as Digg, TravelPod/Tripadvisor, Hiidef/Goodsie, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope Program. He is also very active on the PHP conference circuit where he can be found presenting on various tops, such as scalability and security in web applications.

Jonathan Eisenhamer has served as systems administrator and software developer for the Astronomy department at UCLA. From there, he moved on to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), where he began his work in PHP, developing websites to disseminate the scientific results from the Hubble Space Telescope to the general public. He currently is the supervisor of the Web and Print group at STScI.

Book Details

Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (July, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672328887
ISBN-13: 978-0672328886

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Book Description
Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide. The authoritative, comprehensive guide to Sun Web Server 7.0

Sun Web Server is the secure web serving platform of choice for large-scale enterprises in industries from finance and telecommunications to travel and government. Now there's a complete, detailed guide to the latest Sun Web Server 7.0 release. Drawing on unsurpassed experience both training and supporting Sun's enterprise customers, this book's authors cover everything that developers, administrators, and architects need to know to implement and support Sun Web Server 7.0 within a single node or across an entire server farm.

Server administrators will find task-focused coverage and hands-on examples for installation, configuration, cluster management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Developers and architects will gain powerful insights into Sun Web Server's internals and learn how to extend its built-in functionality. Enterprise deployment specialists will find indispensable information on sizing and tuning, plus reference configurations to deploy advanced Web 2.0–style dynamic web sites. Whatever your role, this book will help you hit the ground running and get superior results for years to come.

Coverage includes:
• Taking advantage of Sun Web Server 7.0's powerful new features
• Walking through initial installations and upgrades
• Customizing Sun Web Server's HTTP request processing to your specific requirements
• Building dynamic content with scripting languages and server-side Java-based extensions
• Creating secure dynamic Web 2.0 sites with your dynamic content and database technologies of choice
• Monitoring server instances in live production environments and optimizing performance
• Resolving server errors and other anomalies in Web Server runtime behavior
• Using actual server configuration files from Sun's own large-scale technology deployments
• Using the detailed reference information on Sun Web Server's main server configuration file

Book Details

Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (August, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137128924
ISBN-13: 978-0137128921

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Book Description
Ajax Starter Kit – Phil Ballard. Everything you need to start learning Ajax today!

Ajax Programmer's Toolkit with all the technologies you need to set up an Ajax development and testing environment on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.

Quick Start Guide teaches you the basics of Ajax programming in 21 short, easy-to-read lessons.

Tutorial Reference Library with more than 1,000 pages of how-to's on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in searchable PDF format.

Plug-n-play source code and popular Ajax framework libraries to help you reduce tedious typing and shorten programming tasks.

Learn how to…

Build better, more interactive interfaces for your web applications
Make JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP work together to create Ajax effects
Compile an Ajax application
Create and consume Web services with SOAP and REST
Avoid common errors and troubleshoot programs
Use popular Ajax libraries to speed up and improve common programming tasks

On the CD…

XAMPP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux–an easy-to-install package to set up a PHP- and MySQL-enabled Apache server on your computer
The jEdit programming editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Prototype, Rico, and XOAD JavaScript and Ajax libraries
Sams Teach Yourself tutorials on Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and PHP in PDF format
Source code for all the examples from the tutorials

All the contents of the Ajax Starter Kit CD are accessible with any web browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux:
1. Insert CD into your computer's CD drive.
2. Navigate to the CD folder and double-click on the file named start.html.

About the Author
Phil Ballard is a professional web consultant specializing in website and intranet design, search engine optimization, server-side scripting, client-side design and programming, and hosting. He is the author of Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes and has written a number of online tutorials, including the most popular of late, on Ajax.

Book Details

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Sams (June, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672329603
ISBN-13: 978-0672329609

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C# for Programmers, 2nd Edition Book Description
The practicing programmer’s DEITEL® guide to C# and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework

Written for programmers with a background in C++, Java, or other high-level languages, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft’s C# language and the new .NET 2.0 in depth. The book is updated for Visual Studio® 2005 and C# 2.0, and presents C# concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, detailed line-by-line code descriptions, and program outputs. The book features 200+ C# applications with 16,000+ lines of proven C# code, as well as 300+ programming tips that will help you build robust applications.

Start with a concise introduction to C# fundamentals using an early classes and objects approach, then rapidly move on to more advanced topics, including multithreading, XML, ADO.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, Web services, network programming, and .NET remoting. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels’ classic treatment of object-oriented programming and a new, OOD/UML™ ATM case study, including a complete C# implementation. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications, and Web services.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation and corporate-training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and Web programming.

The DEITEL® Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, J2EE, Web services, and more.

Pre-publication Reviewer Testimonials“Excellent coverage of developing ASP.NET 2.0 applications, with plenty of sample code. The chapter on exception handling is one of, if not the best such chapters I have seen in the 50+ .NET related books I’ve read and reviewed. The chapter on Networking is one of the best I have seen.”
–Peter Bromberg, Merrill Lynch, C# MVP

“A comprehensive introduction to XML, and one of the clearest tutorials on Web services I’ve read, with great examples. An excellent chapter on generics.”
–Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology

“A superb job of clearly integrating the theory of relational databases and SQL with ADO.NET!”
–Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati

“Excellent introduction to .NET collections.”
–José Antonio González Seco, Andalucia’s Parlamient

“A beautiful presentation of threads.”
–Pavel Tsekov, Caesar BSC

“The ATM OOD/UML case study is excellent! The implementation of the design developed in the early chapters gives the reader a fantastic model of a real world problem. You hit a home run with this one!”
–Catherine Wyman, Devry-Phoenix

Practical, Example-Rich Coverage Of:

C# 2.0, .NET 2.0, FCL
ASP.NET 2.0, Web Forms and Controls
Database, SQL, and ADO.NET 2.0
Networking and .NET Remoting
XML, Web Services
Generics, Collections
GUI/Windows® Forms
OOP: Classes, Inheritance, and Polymorphism
OOD/UML™ ATM Case Study
Graphics and Multimedia
Multithreading
Exception Handling
And more…

VISIT WWW.DEITEL.COM

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About the Author
Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation and corporate training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks and professional books that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and Web programming.

Book Details

Paperback: 1360 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (November, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131345915
ISBN-13: 978-0131345911

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Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA Book Description
A one-of-a-kind book on Windows Phone 7 development

While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void and shares the specifics of building phone applications and games. You'll learn how to get started with designing, building, testing, and deploying mobile applications for Windows Phone 7. Working examples used throughout the book cover how to design and layout a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

Fills the void in the market for an instructional book on developing applications for Windows Phone 7
Offers an overview of Windows Phone and discusses the necessary tools
Explains how to work with multiview applications
Addresses tool bars, pickers, table views, navigation controllers, application setting, and user defaults
Reviews drawing with XNA, using the camera, and understanding basic data persistence

Explore the exciting possibilties of Windows Phone 7 development with this invaluable reference.

From the Back Cover
Test and deploy rich mobile applications for Windows Phone 7

The inclusion of Silverlight and XNA on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 offers you the opportunity to create unique applications for this smart phone. Using tools such as Visual Studio, Expression Blend, and the device emulator, this book shows you how to take your Windows Phone 7 applications from the drawing board to the marketplace. Helpful examples throughout the book and on the website demonstrate how to design and lay out a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development:

Provides an overview of Windows Phone 7 tools and user interface basics
Explains how to use the panorama, pivot and map controls, navigate between pages, and work with application settings
Shares techniques for working with multiview applications, autorotating, and autosizing
Offers advice for understanding application lifecycle management and XNA game development
Uncovers tips for utilizing taps, touches, and gestures, and working the camera
Includes downloadable examples from the website and discusses best practices for building mobile applications

About the Author
Nick Randolph is a Microsoft MVP in Device Application Development, and a solutions architect at Built To Roam, where he builds rich mobile applications. He is also the author of Professional Visual Studio 2008 and Professional Visual Studio 2010.Christopher Fairbairn is a Microsoft MVP in Device Application Development and has developed custom solutions and commercial products for platforms including Palm OS, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and J2ME.

Book Details

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Wrox (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470891661
ISBN-13: 978-0470891667

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Book Description
Design patterns are elegant, adaptable, and reusable solutions to everyday software development problems. Programmers use design patterns to organize objects in programs, making them easier to write and modify. C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial is a practical guide to writing C# programs using the most common patterns.

This tutorial begins with clear and concise introductions to C#, object-oriented programming and inheritance, and UML diagrams. Each chapter that follows describes one of twenty-three design patterns, recommends when to use it, and explains the impact that it will have on the larger design. The use of every pattern is demonstrated with simple example programs. These programs are illustrated with screen shots and UML diagrams displaying how the classes interact. Each of these programs is available on the companion CD-ROM and can be run, examined, edited, and applied.

Design patterns will have an immediate impact on your work as you learn the following:

Applying design patterns effectively in your day-to-day programming

Using patterns to create sophisticated, robust C# programs

The interaction of classes as demonstrated by UML diagrams

Advancing your programming skills using design patterns

Design patterns will not only enhance your productivity, but once you see how quickly and easily object-oriented code can be recycled, they will become an everyday part of your C# programming.

About the Author
James W. Cooper is a research staff member in the Advanced Information Retrieval and Analysis Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He is also a columnist for Java Pro magazine and a reviewer for Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal. He has published 14 books, which include Principles of Object-Oriented Programming Using Java 1.1 (Ventana) and The Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to Java (Ventana).

Book Details

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (September, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201844532
ISBN-13: 978-0201844535

File Size: 6.2 MiB
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