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OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Sixth Edition

OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Sixth Edition

By: Graham Sellers; Richard Wright; Nicholas Haemel

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 26-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. OpenGL® SuperBible, Sixth Edition, is the definitive programmer’s guide, tutorial, and reference for the world’s leading 3D API for real-time computer graphics, OpenGL 4.3. The best all-around introduction to OpenGL for developers at all levels of experience, it clearly explains both the newest API and indispensable related concepts. You’ll find up-to-date, hands-on guidance for all facets of modern OpenGL development on both desktop and mobile platforms, including transformations, texture mapping, shaders, advanced buffers, geometry...

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Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Features, Designs, and Techniques for Highly Efficient Data Centers

Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Features, Designs, and Techniques for Highly Efficient Data Centers

By: Gustavo Alessandro Andrade Santana

Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 05-MAR-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. For many large IT organizations, today’s greatest challenge is to drive more value, efficiency, and utilization from data centers. Virtualization is the best way to meet this challenge. This means thousands of Cisco professionals need and want deeper knowledge of how virtualization can be applied in the data center environment. Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals thoroughly introduces the sophisticated virtualization features available throughout Cisco's Data Center portfolio of products. Rather than focusing on a single product...

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The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader

The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader

By: Mike Bellafiore

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 11-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 24-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Want to become a truly great trader – either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm? This book will help you get there. This unique approach is the closest thing to signing up for a “trader boot camp” yourself! You’ll learn by watching new traders walk through actual trades, explain what they’ve tried to do, and try to survive brutally tough expert critiques. One trade at a time, The Playbook reveals how professional traders must think in order to succeed “under fire,” how they assess their own performance, and how they work...

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Microsoft® Office Professional 2013 Inside Out

Microsoft® Office Professional 2013 Inside Out

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 23-FEB-2013

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Discover how the experts use Office 2013—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting techniques, and workarounds to help you advance your knowledge and skills....

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PCB Currents: How they Flow, How they React

PCB Currents: How they Flow, How they React

By: Douglas Brooks

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. The Plain-English Guide to Electronics and Current Flow for Every PCB Designer Today, PCB designers must deal with issues such as crosstalk and EMI-–issues that were once associated only with components. This requires electronics knowledge that many PCB designers never gain through formal training. In PCB Currents, renowned PCB designer Douglas Brooks teaches these essentials descriptively, in plain English, with as little reliance on mathematics as possible. Building on his widely praised seminars, Brooks explains what current is, how it...

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Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere 5

Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere 5

By: Matt Liebowitz; Alexander Fontana

Publisher: VMware Press

Publication Date: 07-SEP-2013

Insert Date: 15-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Many organizations are discovering the immense ROI available by virtualizing business critical applications. Microsoft has recently released new versions of many of its most popular and widely used enterprise applications, including Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows Server itself. Meanwhile, VMware has released a powerful new version of its enterprise virtualization platform, vSphere 5.1. Together, these technologies offer powerful new opportunities for cost-effective virtualization, and for migration towards cost-effective private cloud...

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The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, Second Edition

The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, Second Edition

By: Ronan Schwarz; Phil Dutson; James Steele; Nelson To

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 05-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 15-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.  Do you want to get started building apps for Android, today’s number one mobile platform? Are you already building Android apps but want to get better at it? The Android™ Developer’s Cookbook, Second Edition, brings together all the expert guidance and code you’ll need. This edition has been extensively updated to reflect Jelly Bean and other current Android 4.2.2 releases. You’ll find all-new chapters on advanced threading and UI development, in-app billing, push messages, and native development, plus new techniques for everything from...

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Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 Developer Reference

Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 Developer Reference

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 15-FEB-2013

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Sharpen your development skills with this practical reference to Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Written by enterprise-development expert and SharePoint MCM Paolo Pialorsi, this book shows you how to develop real-world business solutions, using techniques to extend and customize the SharePoint environment, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online, with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2012....

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Agile Data

Agile Data

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-NOV-2013

Insert Date: 14-FEB-2013

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With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications. Agile Data shows you how to create an environment for exploring data, using lightweight tools such as Ruby, Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) JavaScript library. You’ll learn an iterative approach that allows you to quickly change the kind of analysis you’re doing, as you discover what the data is telling you....

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Essential SharePoint 2013, Second Edition

Essential SharePoint 2013, Second Edition

By: Scott B. Jamison; Susan Hanley; Chris Bortlik

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 23-AUG-2013

Insert Date: 02-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Get the most business value from Microsoft SharePoint® 2013! Essential SharePoint 2013 approaches the newest release of SharePoint from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business performance. With 85% new and revamped content from a team of long-time enterprise SharePoint consultants, this book will help you focus on the SharePoint features, capabilities, and applications that offer the most real-world value. You'll find practical advice for...

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Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

By: Maurice Sharp; Rod Strougo; Erica Sadun

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2013

Insert Date: 02-FEB-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Start writing great iOS 6 apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch! Leading iOS authors Maurice Sharp, Erica Sadun, and Rod Strougo offer the perfect hands-on introduction to iOS development, covering everything you need to know about Objective-C, XCode, and modern iOS 6 user interface development. With hands-on sample projects and end-of-chapter exercises, this book is ideal both for self-teaching and classroom instruction. Sadun and Strougo get you started fast with Objective-C, covering basic syntax, memory management, Foundation Classes,...

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Learning Core Data for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Building Core Data Applications

Learning Core Data for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Building Core Data Applications

By: Tim Roadley

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 31-OCT-2013

Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Learning Core Data for iOS teaches you all you need to know to build database-enabled iOS apps with Core Data. This is the first Core Data book to fully reflect Apple’s latest platform innovations, especially the dramatic improvements to iCloud support in the next version of iOS. Hands-on from start to finish, this tutorial teaches you step-by-step as you create a modern iOS app using ARC, iOS and Xcode 4 with Storyboards. You’ll walk through: Discovering how Core Data simplifies the incorporation of database functionality Adding...

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Learning Android Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications

Learning Android Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications

By: James Talbot; Justin McLean

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 25-OCT-2013

Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Learning Android Application Programming teaches those who have some programming experience how to build a state of the art Android application from the ground up, while utilizing the latest Android SDK and tool set. Readers will find a beginner Android application development tutorial that offers a series of easy, step by step lessons focused on learning by doing. This book helps anyone with a web development background get started with the powerful functionality of Android development. The book offers a complete picture of the Android...

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Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition

Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition

By: Brian Svidergol;

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 15-JAN-2013

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Updated for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Exchange 2013, the fourth edition of this popular cookbook offers troubleshooting recipes based on valuable input from Windows administrators. You'll find solutions for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services), multi-master replication, Domain Name System (DNS), Group Policy, the Active Directory Schema, and many other features....

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Sams Teach Yourself Maya in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Maya in 24 Hours

By: Kenny Roy; Fiona Rivera

Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 12-AUG-2013

Insert Date: 20-DEC-2012

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, artists can learn how to create stunning images and engaging animations using the popular Industry-standard program Autodesk Maya. The unique format of this book/DVD package stands out in that it gives artists the chance to get fully up and running on Maya in just 24 hours. Kenny Roy provides the necessary tools to get started in the shortest amount of time possible: step by step tutorials, quizzes and exercises. This book and DVD package takes novices through all of the paces of Maya, in a...

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802.11ac: A Survival Guide

802.11ac: A Survival Guide

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 18-DEC-2012

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802.11ac is the next jump in speed for Wi-Fi, offering an increase in speed to beyond 1 Gbps. This book describes the technology behind the latest generation of Wi-Fi, including new coding and channel layouts for higher raw speed, as well as technology that underlies beamforming and multi-user MIMO for even greater efficiency....

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The Android Tablet Developer’s Cookbook

The Android Tablet Developer’s Cookbook

By: B.M. Harwani

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 23-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 14-DEC-2012

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. The Android Tablet Developer’s Cookbook helps experienced Android developers leverage new Android 4.2.2 features to build compelling applications that take full advantage of tablets’ bigger screens, dual-core processors, and larger, faster memory. Tightly focused on Android 4.2.2’s tablet-related capabilities, it presents an unparalleled library of easy-to-reuse code for solving real-world problems. Everything’s organized in modular, standalone sections to help you quickly find what you’re looking for, even when you need to use...

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WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL

WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL

By: Kouichi Matsuda; Rodger Lea

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 28-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 13-DEC-2012

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. WebGL brings plugin-free 3D to the web, enabling you to create sophisticated interactive 3D graphics right inside web browsers — perfect for games, user interfaces, and information visualization. The WebGL Programming Guide will help you get started quickly with interactive WebGL 3D programming, even if you have no prior knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, 3D computer graphics, mathematics, or OpenGL. You’ll learn step-by-step, through realistic examples, building your skills as you move from simple to complex solutions for building visually...

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Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint

Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 07-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 27-NOV-2012

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Create dynamic business intelligence (BI) solutions for SharePoint, using Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch, SQL Server 2012, and other tools and technologies. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn the entire process, from high-level concepts, to low-code development and deployment, to setup and configuration....

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Learning iOS Design: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Designers

Learning iOS Design: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Designers

By: William Van Hecke

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. “This book contains everything you need to know to create awesome, life-altering applications. . . . I pride myself on knowing a lot about design, but when reading this book, I probably didn’t encounter a single page that didn’t offer at least one interesting idea, new concept, or clever design technique. It’s also written in a way that prevents you from putting it down. . . . You’re in for a treat.” —From the Foreword by Lukas Mathis, author of ignorethecode.net  Transform Your Ideas into Intuitive, Delightful iOS Apps! As an app...