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3181. |  Beyond Search: What to do when Your Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work, Research Report By: Stephen E. Arnold Publisher: Gilbane Group, Inc. Publication Date: 02-APR-2008 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beyond Search: What to do when Your Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work, Research Report There is much dissatisfaction among users of "enterprise search"
systems. In his new study, Stephen explores how to go "beyond
search." The 282 page study is focused on what you can do to get
your incumbent search system back on track and includes tips and
tricks to fix an ailing system. If you want to replace your
existing system, his study identifies alternatives to the
"enterprise" systems common in organizations today. Details about
some of the newest, most promising content processing systems now
in the commercial channel in the 24 vendor profiles are included,
as is a "market map" that...
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3182. |  HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 08-MAY-2006 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference, Third Edition
After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and
other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting
used to the more stringent "standards-compliant" design that is de
rigueur among professionals today can be intimidating.
With standards-driven design, keeping style separate from
content is not just a possibility but a reality. You no longer use
HTML and XHTML as design tools, but strictly as ways to define the
meaning and structure of web content. And Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but
a reliable method for...
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3183. |  The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers By: Martin Evening Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 29-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 07-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing
digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool.
That’s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed
from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop
Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined
interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize
images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in
mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop
Lightroom 2 in detail from a...
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3184. |  Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours By: Michael Givens Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 07-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™
Programming in 24 Hours
Michael Givens
Covers version 1.5 of Adobe AIR
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you
will be up and running with Adobe AIR 1.5. Using a straightforward,
step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world
foundation allowing you to learn the essentials of Adobe AIR from
the ground up.
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you
through the most common Adobe AIR 1.5 tasks.
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each
chapter help you test your knowledge of Adobe AIR 1.5.
By the Way notes present...
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3185. |  Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site, Second Edition By: Mike Moran; Bill Hunt Publisher: IBM Press Publication Date: 19-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site, Second Edition The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to Search Marketing Success...Now
Completely Updated with New Techniques, Tools, Best Practices, and
Value-Packed Bonus DVD!
“My copy of the first edition of Search Engine Marketing,
Inc. is ratty and dog-eared from extensive use. It’s full of
coffee stains and my own scribbled notes. Because it so effectively
demystifies search engine marketing and provides such practical
advice for success, I turn to it again and again and recommend it
to audiences worldwide. This book is not academic blather or geeky
techno-speak; it’s an approachable and digestible...
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3186. |  Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 By: Tony Hillerson; Daniel Wanja Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 02-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 “There’s no question
you’re going to be a better Flex and Rails developer when
you’re done reading this book.”
–From the Foreword by Matt Chotin,
Senior Product Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe Flex enables the rapid development of
rich and engaging user experiences. Ruby on Rails dramatically
simplifies the development of database-driven web applications. Now
there’s a book that shows how to use the newest versions of
both frameworks together to create state-of-the-art Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs).
Flex on Rails begins
with the absolute essentials: setting up your environment...
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3187. |  Assemble the Social Web with zembly By: Gail Anderson; Paul Anderson; Todd Fast; Chris Webster Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 19-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Assemble the Social Web with zembly Use zembly to Create Social Web Applications for: Facebook,
Flickr, iPhone, and More!
With zembly you can create mashups and web applications drawing on
content from virtually any web site, API call, or data stream.
What’s more, zembly makes it as easy to deploy and scale
next-generation web applications as it is to build them. Suddenly,
the web itself becomes programmable: the browser becomes your
development environment, and you can leverage building blocks
created by thousands of developers, worldwide.
With extensive contributions from zembly’s creators,
Assemble the Social Web...
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3188. |  By: Robert Cooper; Charles Collins Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 19-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 29-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: GWT in Practice
If you're a web developer, you know that you can use Ajax to add
rich, user-friendly, dynamic features to your applications. With
the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a new Ajax tool from Google that
automatically converts Java to JavaScript, you can build Ajax
applications using the Java language.
GWT in Practice is an example-driven, code-rich book
designed for web developers already familiar with the basics of GWT
who now want hands-on experience. After a quick review of GWT
fundamentals, GWT in Practice presents scores of handy,
reusable solutions to the problems you face when you need to...
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3189. |  Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 26-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 26-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Head First Ajax
Ajax is no longer an experimental approach to website development,
but the key to building browser-based applications that form the
cornerstone of Web 2.0. Head First Ajax gives you an
up-to-date perspective that lets you see exactly what you can do --
and has been done -- with Ajax. With it, you get a highly
practical, in-depth, and mature view of what is now a mature
development approach.
Using the unique and highly effective visual format that has turned
Head First titles into runaway bestsellers, this book offers a big
picture overview to introduce Ajax, and then explores the use...
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3190. |  The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion By: Ben Long Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 12-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 25-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
Through a series of easy-to-follow lessons, The Canon EOS
Digital Rebel XSi/D450 Companion gives you a complete class on
digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use this
camera. This is not a typical camera guide: rather than just
showing you what all the buttons do, this unique book teaches you
how to use various Digital Rebel features to make great
photographs.
With The Canon Digital Rebel XSi Companion in your camera
bag, you have the perfect field reference for taking stunning
pictures of any occasion or place, any time. You get valuable
creative tips and technical...
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3191. |  Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed By: Jennie Bourne; Dave Burstein Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 05-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed With millions of viewers looking to the Web as their source of
entertainment and news, high-quality Web video is in demand like
never before. Whether you’re an expert in video production or
are just getting started, you need to know how to produce the best
video possible for the Web and then make sure it gets seen by a
wide audience.
Here to guide you on everything about planning and shooting,
editing, choosing a distributor, marketing your video, and making a
profit, author and producer Jennie Bourne takes you through the
steps to getting your video from concept to prominence on...
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3192. |  By: Ben Long Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 02-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 12-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Real World Nikon Capture NX 2 Capture NX 2 from Nikon is a powerful image-editing application
that lets photographers work with digital photographs with more
speed and efficiency than other software programs. Its underlying
technology gives photographers the ability to make selective
corrections to an image with just one click. "Real World Capture NX
2," written by digital photography expert Ben Long, takes
photographers behind the scenes to see how this innovative program
works. Along the way, Ben offers valuable tips and techniques
for getting the most out of the software and digital cameras.
Novice and expert...
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3193. |  Web Development with TIBCO General Interface: Building AJAX Clients for Enterprise SOA By: Anil Gurnani Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 05-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 12-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Web Development with TIBCO General Interface: Building AJAX Clients for Enterprise SOA Web Development with TIBCO General
Interface
Building AJAX Clients for Enterprise SOA
Anil Gurnani
Use TIBCO General Interface to build web
applications with state-of-the-art performance and usability
TIBCO General Interface provides powerful
tools and a framework to craft AJAX-based web applications that
rival desktop applications in performance and usability. This is
the only book that offers developers thorough guidance for using
TIBCO’s award-winning open source tools to build interactive,
high-performance GUIs and integrate them with leading server-side
technologies. Experienced...
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3194. |  By: Steve Suehring Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 13-FEB-2008 Insert Date: 05-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JavaScript Step by Step Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning JavaScript for Web
development. Even with no programming experience, you can teach
yourself the essentials of working with the JavaScript programming
language one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your
own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re
building skills for your career or just want to customize your
personal Web site, you ll learn the core capabilities and
fundamental techniques for working with JavaScript and begin to
create professional-looking Web sites. Includes a companion CD with
code samples,...
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3195. |  LATEX Notes: Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents By: Kenneth J. Shultis - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 26-JAN-1994 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LATEX Notes: Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents Just a few years ago, LaTeX set TeX users free. LaTeX liberated
them from mundane chores such as formatting and equation numbering,
allowing writers to concentrate instead on the document content.
Now, to help those who wish to take an extra step beyond the
structures imposed by LaTeX, author J. Kenneth Shultis presents a
collection of proven tricks, techniques, and recipes for harnessing
the full potential afforded by this powerful typesetting
program....
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3196. |  Create Your Own Website, Fourth Edition By: Scott Mitchell Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 19-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Create Your Own Website, Fourth Edition 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...
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3197. | Overview: The Ultimate HTML Reference The Ultimate HTML Reference is your definitive resource for mastering HTML. The entire language is clearly and concisely covered, along with browser compatibility details, working examples, and easy-to-read descriptions. Authored by one of the world's most renowned HTML experts, this is a comprehensive reference that you'll come back to time and time again...
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3198. | 
Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Second Edition By: Tavmjong Bah Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 16-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 26-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Second Edition Inkscape, An
Open-Source Vector Drawing Program is THE GUIDE to the Inkscape
program. The shorter, web-based, version is linked to directly
under the program's Help menu. With Inkscape one can produce a wide
variety of art, from photo-realistic drawings to organizational
charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector based drawing language
and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be
directly viewed by web browsers such as Firefox and Opera. A subset
of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is
available free for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris...
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3199. |  Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 2 By: Lisa Lee Publisher: Que Publication Date: 24-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 26-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 2 New to Photoshop Elements? Learn everything you need to know to
make your pictures perfect with Absolute Beginner's Guide to
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. The book covers all aspects of the
software (including the new features "borrowed" from the new
Photoshop 7), offering you quick and easy explanations on
controlling the software for the results you want. Photoshop
Elements provides easy access to powerful editing tools and
connects users to online output services as well as options for Web
and print output. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Adobe Photoshop
Elements 2 shows the beginning user how...
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3200. |  JavaScript: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 18-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JavaScript: The Missing Manual
JavaScript is essential for creating modern, interactive Web sites.
But, unlike HTML and CSS, JavaScript is a true programming language
with complex rules that are challenging for most Web designers to
learn. In JavaScript: The Missing Manual, bestselling
author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in
sophisticated ways -- even if you have little or no programming
experience.
In a clear, entertaining way, the book starts out by teaching you
how to build a basic JavaScript program. Then, once you've mastered
the structure and terminology, you'll learn how to use...
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