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Mixed Bag Post for Wednesday 16th of July 2008

wwong — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:06:17 -0700

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series

Ajax is at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. It isn t a technology but, rather, is a technique that leverages other technologies and techniques, such as CSS, XML, DHTML, and XHTML. Many Web designers and programmers would like to incorporate Ajax in their projects because of the amazing functionality it can add to a Web site, but they can t because of the steep learning curve. That s where this book steps in. It makes learning Ajax fun and easy -- a great place to start Visual QuickProject Guides focus on a single project. In this case the project is creating a business employee directory, like an address book. What s being created is a better, new kind of Web site.This engaging, learn-by-doing guide combines fun and games with the fundamentals of computer programming. Computer programming often has a reputation as being mired in details and short on fun. Now Xbox gamers and aspiring developers can have fun while learning hands-on how to create and customize Xbox 360 games With XNA Game Studio and Visual C 2005, beginning programmers can easily modify existing Xbox games and even learn how to build their own Key Book Benefits Combines fun with practical instruction for a captivating learning experience

Introduction to Linden Scripting Language for Second Life

From a leader in the agile process movement, learn best practices for moving agile development with Scrum from the skunk works small team to the shop floor the enterprise . Managers get case studies and practical guidance for managing the change processes for applying Scrum in the enterprise.A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they ve reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery in Action, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you ll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you ll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages wher

Mixed Bag Post for Wednesday 16th of July 2008

wwong — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:05:04 -0700

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book

MODEL- 16335 VENDOR- UBISOFT FEATURES- Star Wars Lethal Alliance DS Star Wars Lethal Alliance is the first original Star Wars game built exclusively for the PSP system and DS, immersing players in an adventure that takes place between Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope. Gamers will engage in collaborative gameplay as they embody both Twi lek Rianna Saren and her security droid Zeeo. Hired by the Rebel Alliance, this deadly duo must work together to infiltrate Imperial planets and fight legions of evil fiends. Our heroes ultimate goal Uncover the Empire s most deadly secret - the Death Star. acrobatic skills of Rianna with the multifunctional defensive and slicing support of Zeeo to create a formidable team. Only by working together can you complete perilous missions and ultimately steal the plans for the Death Star. to the dusty, dangerous alleys of Mos Eisley, Rianna and Zeeo must use an arsenal of tricks to complete their mission. Set up holographic disguises to fool Imperial guards, commandeer gun turrets, master death-defying flying escapes and battle carnivorous beasts. Multiplayer modes enhance collaborative gameplay while taking advantage of the unique capabilities of both th

Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual (2nd Edition)

Rayman Raving Rabbids brings you back to the world of Rayman, just as it s being threatened by demonic rabbits With the help of magical creatures, Rayman must battle to save his world from the bunnies. It s a great way for Rayman to punch his way onto a next-gen platforms In an economy where efficiency and delivery are key, Software Product Management Essentials is required reading for any software product manager. Software Product Management Essentials is a hands-on guide to help new product managers sift through the numerous tasks and responsibilities involved in this pinnacle job. The book is loaded with tips and example best practices to help even experienced product managers optimize their time and effectiveness. The book focuses on the unique challenges of being a Product Manager in a small to mid-sized software company. It provides a framework for the role of the Product Manager in an environment where there are few resources available to help in tackling the many things needed for a quality, on-time delivery of software. Whether you are already a Product Manager or considering a new career in product management, Software Product Management Essentials details a day-in-the-life experience of a PM wi

Mixed Bag Post for Monday 14th of July 2008

wwong — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:34:52 -0700

Drupal 5 Themes

Pro BizTalk 2006 is a high-end resource that is based on real feedback from BizTalk developers. Authors George Dunphy and Ahmed Metwally are well known within the BizTalk community, and here they cover topics not discussed in other books, like performance tuning, scalability, and administration. This book also features examples of specific, real-world implementations.Cascading Style Sheets CSS are one of the most important technologies on the web today. They give web developers the power to style their web sites so those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired. There are many books out there on CSS, but Beginning CSS Web Development is different amp 8212it doesnt waste time discussing theory, and it delves straight into the practical matter. It provides you with what you need to know, faster. It is also completely up to date, covering the most modern CSS standards and design techniques. In addition to the essential CSS basics, this book covers advanced techniques like accessibility, hacks, and filters. The book concludes with a case study, and features a CSS reference section that allows you to look up required syntax as quickly as

Heroes of Might and & Magic IV 4: The Soundtrack

Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007from the inside out This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Outlook 2007all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, youll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Outlook 2007 experience to the next level. This information-packed complete reference lets you discover whats new and shows you how to get the most out of Outlook 2007. Learn how to manage your time and tasks, schedule meetings and appointments, sort and filter contact data, set security options to help guard against viruses, and more.TextMate is a powerful tool for programmers, web designers, and anyone else who regularly needs to work with text files on Mac OS X. TextMate focuses on pragmatic automation, which means it will save you time time that s always in short supply. See how your lowly text editor can become a hard working member of your staff. TextMate is a full-featured text editor available for Mac OS X that can greatly enhance your text manipulation skills. TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized tea

Mixed Bag Post for Monday 14th of July 2008

wwong — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:34:51 -0700

SPSS For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

The author of the best-selling Java in a Nutshell has created an entire book of real-world Java programming examples that you can learn from. If you learn best by example, this is the book for you. This third edition covers Java 1.4 and contains 193 complete, practical examples over 21,900 lines of densely commented, professionally written Java code, covering 20 distinct client-side and server-side APIs. It includes new chapters on the Java Sound API and the New I O API. The chapters on XML and servlets have been rewritten to cover the latest versions of the specifications and to demonstrate best practices for Java 1.4. New and updated examples throughout the book demonstrate many other new Java features and APIs. Java Examples in a Nutshell is a companion volume to Java in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell. It picks up where those quick references leave off, providing a wealth of examples for both novices and experts. This book doesn t hold your hand it simply delivers well-commented working examples with succinct explanations to help you learn and explore Java and its APIs. Java Examples in a Nutshell contains examples that demonstrate Core APIs, includ

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed

The Google Web Toolkit is a new technology that automatically translates Java into JavaScript, making Ajax applications easier to code and deploy. GWT in Action is a comprehensive tutorial for Java developers interested in building the next generation of rich, web-based applications. This book was written by Robert Hanson, creator of the popular GWT Widget Library and Adam Tacy a major contributor to the GWT Widget Library. There is a new emphasis on building rich, web-based applications. These applications can be difficult to build because they rely on JavaScript, which lacks the sophisticated object-oriented structures and static typing of Java, they are tricky to debug, and they require you to manage numerous browser inconsistencies. In May of 2006 Google released the Google Web Toolkit GWT . GWT enables developers to create Ajax applications in Java. With GWT, you can build your applications using a real object-oriented language and take advantage of Java tools like Eclipse that are already available. Instead of trying to bring tool support to Ajax, Google brought Ajax to a place where the tools already existed. GWT in Action shows you how to take advantage of these exciting new tools. Readers will fo

Mixed Bag Post for Thursday 19th of June 2008

wwong — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:41 -0700

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Resource Kit

The high-level language of R is recognized as one of the most powerful and flexible statistical software environments, and is rapidly becoming the standard setting for quantitative analysis, statistics and graphics. R provides free access to unrivalled coverage and cutting-edge applications, enabling the user to apply numerous statistical methods ranging from simple regression to time series or multivariate analysis. Building on the success of the author s bestselling Statistics An Introduction using R, The R Book is packed with worked examples, providing an all inclusive guide to R, ideal for novice and more accomplished users alike. The book assumes no background in statistics or computing and introduces the advantages of the R environment, detailing its applications in a wide range of disciplines. Provides the first comprehensive reference manual for the R language, including practical guidance and full coverage of the graphics facilities. Introduces all the statistical models covered by R, beginning with simple classical tests such as chi-square and t-test. Proceeds to examine more advance methods, from regression and analysis of variance, through to generalized linear models, generalized mixed models

Windows PowerShell(TM) Scripting Guide

Visual Basic 2005 is designed for productivity and so is this new addition to Murach s bestselling VB series. It moves at a professional pace to teach you how to develop Windows Forms applications using all the time-saving new features in Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. That means you ll learn how to create database applications using the new data sources feature and new data controls that are now layered on top of ADO.NET database processing is the function that s changed most dramatically in this release of Visual Basic use new object-oriented features like generics, My objects, partial classes, and class diagrams that save you time on everyday functions take advantage of new Visual Studio features like code snippets, Auto Correction, and ClickOnce deployment that simplify the tasks of creating, testing, debugging, and deploying applications But if you re new to VB.NET, you ll also gain the core skills that haven t changed. So you ll learn how to validate data...handle numeric, date, and string data do repetitive processing using arrays and collections handle exceptions in a structured way work with text, binary, and XML files access data with ADO.NET and make practical use of OOP features li

Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional

wwong — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:00:02 -0700

DotNetNuke is a programming framework that helps you create and deploy web projects in ASP.NET 2.0. Its ease of use means that even nonprogrammers can take advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features when building a web site. It integrates with many of Microsofts other free products like SQL Server 2005 Express, which makes it a powerful and attractive option for developing web sites.

Java Pocket Guide (Pocket Guides)

wwong — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:05:27 -0700

How many times have you reached an impasse while writing code because you couldn't remember how something in Java worked? This new pocket guide is designed to keep you moving. Concise, convenient and easy to use, the Java Pocket Guide gives you Java stripped down to its bare essentials -- in fact, it's the only book on Java that you can actually fit in your pocket.

Ajax Design Patterns

wwong — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:05:16 -0700

Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides a strong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or JSON-based web services by using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response.

The Rational Guide to Extending SSIS 2005 with Script (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides)

wwong — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:04:41 -0700

The Integration Services feature of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 brings together data from diverse sources in a high-performance data integration platform, to enable users to work across multiple applications that may not have been designed to cooperate. In this book, Donald Farmer, Microsoft's Group Program Manager for SQL Server Integration Services, clearly explains how to build practical and useful scripts for this exciting new SQL Server 2005 feature. His systematic approach, friendly tutorials, and numerous examples are suitable for both developers and IT professionals alike.

Dreamweaver 8 Bible

wwong — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:04:33 -0700

Build a dynamic, high-impact Web site with the remarkable power of Dreamweaver 8 and the latest version of this top-selling guide from well-known Dreamweaver guru Joseph Lowery. Packed with hands-on instruction and step-by-step tutorials, this comprehensive manual starts you on the basics of Web design and moves to advanced techniques in no time. From quick design prototyping to ongoing Web site management—plus a special focus on Dreamweaver 8's new features for CSS, Flash video, code development, and more - this professional guide is a must for Web masters and developers.