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Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 3:29am

Teach yourself how to use Office Professional 2010-including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, Excel®, Access, Publisher, and OneNote®-one step at a time! Work at your at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises.

Microsoft Word 2010 Plain & Simple

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 3:30am

With this full color, no-nonsense guide, you'll learn the quickest ways to solve a problem or learn new skills with Microsoft Word 2010. Easy-to-follow steps and concise, straightforward language make learning plain and simple!

Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 6:38pm

Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.

Practical HDRI

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 6:37pm

Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition, by pro photographer Jack Howard, leads you into the the new frontier of High Dynamic Range Imaging, a multi-shot technique to digitally capture, store, and edit the full luminosity range of a scene in ways not possible in a single captured image. Fully updated for 2010, the 2nd Edition covers the HDR process from image capture through post-processing for web and print. Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition is richly illustrated with step-by-step tutorials for creating professional results using the leading HDR software titles, including the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Photomatix Pro, FDRTools, Dynamic Photo HDR, and HDR PhotoStudio.

Howard instructs from experience as a photographer and a writer, with an emphasis on making the HDR process work for you.

Topics include:

Step-by-step tutorials Basic and advanced workflows and workarounds Web and print optimization File management, keywording Advice on cameras, gear and software

Logic Pro 9 Tips and Tricks

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 6:36pm

This book contains hundreds of useful tips to help you obtain the results you desire. It describes how to perform standard studio techniques such as drum editing and replacement and parallel compression as well as tips to improve your workflow.

It covers the new features introduced Logic Pro 9. Manipulate audio timing and tempo with the Flex tool, take advantage of the new latency compensation during recording and mixing, and learn about the new plug-ins like Pedalboard and Amp Designer.

HTML5: Up and Running

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 6:41pm

If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5's new elements and attributes. You'll also learn how HTML5 can help you develop applications that display video without having to rely on plugins, work even when a user is offline, and more.

Using SQLite

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 6:40pm

Whether you're developing applications for the desktop, the Web, embedded systems, or operating systems, the SQLite database provides an alternative to heavy-duty client-server databases such as Oracle and MySQL. With this book, you'll get complete guidance for using this small and lightweight database effectively, including how to make SQLite an integral part of your application to help contain the size and complexity of your project.

JUNOS Security

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 6:39pm

This book is the complete and authorized introduction to Juniper Network's new SRX hardware series that runs the Junos operating system. You not only get a hands-on field guide to deploying, configuring, and operating SRX, but also a reference to help you prepare for the JNCIS-ES and JNCIE-ES Certification examinations. Learn how to use SRX to address an array of enterprise data network requirements -- including IP routing, intrusion detection, attack mitigation, unified threat management, and more.

Programming Entity Framework

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 9:36pm

Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. The second edition provides a hands-on tour of the ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) and explains its use in a variety of applications. You'll also gain in-depth knowledge of its architecture and APIs -- information that will be extremely valuable as you shift to the Entity Framework version in .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

Driving Technical Change

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:46pm

Your co-workers' resistance to new technologies can be baffling. Logical arguments can fail. If you don't do politics, you will fail. With Driving Technical Change, by Terrence Ryan, you'll learn to read users' "patterns of resistance"-and then dismantle their objections. Every developer must master the art of evangelizing. With these techniques and strategies, you'll help your organization adopt your solutions-without selling your soul to organizational politics.

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:45pm

You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in Seven Weeks? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Whether or not your favorite language is on that list, you'll broaden your perspective of programming by examining these languages side-by-side. You'll learn something new from each, and best of all, you'll learn how to learn a language quickly.

Test Driven Development for Embedded C

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:44pm

Test Driven Development (TDD) is changing how seasoned software developers create and evolve software systems. Instead of coding first and debugging later, test driven developers get feedback every few minutes, ensuring that their code does what they expect. Many C programmers have viewed this practice as impractical for their challenging work. This book shows you how to apply TDD to C, with a focus on the unique challenges facing embedded programmers.

iPhone: The Missing Manual

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 6:06pm

The new iPhone 4 and iPhone 4.0 software have arrived, and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue is on top of it with a thoroughly updated edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual. Each custom-designed page helps you use your iPhone for everything from web browsing to watching videos. The iPhone is packed with possibilities, and with this handy book, you can explore them all.

C# 4.0 Pocket Reference

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 6:47pm

When you need answers for using C# 4.0, this tightly focused and practical book tells you exactly what you need to know -- without long introductions or bloated samples. Succinct and easy to browse, C# 4.0 Pocket Reference is ideal as quick reference -- or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#. Written by the authors of the acclaimed C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, this book doesn't skimp on detail, but covers the entire C# 4.0 language.

Programming C# 4.0

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 6:48pm

This bestselling tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers teaches you how to use the new version of the C# language to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications with the .NET 4.0 Framework. The sixth edition covers the latest enhancements to the language, as well as the fundamentals of both C# and .NET, and concurrent programming with C# 4.0. You'll also learn how to use C# with .NET tools such as the Entity Framework and the Silverlight platform.

JUNOS Security

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 3:42pm

This book is the complete and authorized introduction to Juniper Network's new SRX hardware series that runs the Junos operating system. You not only get a hands-on field guide to deploying, configuring, and operating SRX, but also a reference to help you prepare for the JNCIS-ES and JNCIE-ES Certification examinations. Learn how to use SRX to address an array of enterprise data network requirements -- including IP routing, intrusion detection, attack mitigation, unified threat management, and more.

Google Analytics

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 3:42pm

Take advantage of Google Analytics' powerful and free tools to understand exactly how users behave when they visit your website or use your web application. This book shows you how to probe general traffic, marketing, and ecommerce information with these tools, and teaches you how to supplement them with add-ons and external tools when you want to dig even deeper. You'll also learn how to create custom reports to analyze specific issues.

The Myths of Innovation

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 6:48pm

How do you know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most people get it wrong, as they depend on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history that have little basis in reality. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at the history of innovation to reveal powerful truths about how ideas become successful innovations -- truths that people can apply to their challenges today.

Google Analytics

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 4:42pm

Take advantage of Google Analytics' powerful and free tools to understand exactly how users behave when they visit your website or use your web application. This book shows you how to probe general traffic, marketing, and ecommerce information with these tools, and teaches you how to supplement them with add-ons and external tools when you want to dig even deeper. You'll also learn how to create custom reports to analyze specific issues.

Programming WCF Services

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 4:41pm

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. The third edition of this thoroughly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications. Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, this new edition is revised for the latest productivity-enhancing features for C# 4.0 and .NET 4.