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101. |  A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0, Fourth Edition By: Eric Gunnerson; Nick Wienholt Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 07-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0, Fourth Edition
A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0 is a book for software developers who want to truly understand C#. Whether you've worked with C# before or with another general-purpose programming language, each fast-paced, focused chapter will take you straight to the heart of a feature of C# and show you why it works the way it does.
Written by one-time C# Test Lead, Program Manager, and member of the original C# language design team, this book is an ideal companion to the C# Language Specification, and works both as a tutorial and as a reference guide. Now in its fourth edition, you will find...
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102. |  By: Chris Pitt Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro PHP MVC
Model View Controller (MVC) is becoming the definitive architecture of website development frameworks due to the stability, extensibility and predictability it lends to development. It is not just the primary separation of database, business logic and interface components, but includes a wide range of considerations for building high-performing, scalable and secure applications.
Deciding which MVC framework best suits the project you are about to begin is one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a developer. If you are part of a team, this decision has probably already been made for...
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103. |  Pro JavaScript Performance: Monitoring and Visualization By: Tom Barker Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 10-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro JavaScript Performance: Monitoring and Visualization
Performance is a hugely important area of web development. If your site runs slowly, users are going to leave, and the problem only grows as your site gets more popular. Pro JavaScript Performance gives you the tools you need to keep your sites smooth and responsive no matter how many users you have.
Best practices are changing or becoming redefined continually because of changes and optimizations at the interpreter level, and differences in system configuration, and network speeds. This is exacerbated by the quickened release schedule that most browsers have adopted. Just as important...
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104. |  By: Jesse Liberty Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 09-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Windows 8 XAML Primer
Windows 8 XAML Primer is a fast-paced introduction to XAML for Windows 8 developers who are already proficient C# coders. It introduces you specifically to the world of XAML development for Windows 8 apps in a practical, hands-on way - so you'll be building apps from the very first pages.
Building on your existing C# knowledge, you're introduced to XAML from the ground up - what it is, what it does, and why it's important in Windows 8 development. You'll quickly learn how to use XAML efficiently within Visual Studio. You'll find practical coding quickstarts to get your XAML hands-on...
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105. |  By: Bradley Ball; TJay Belt; Glenn Berry; Jes Borland; Carlos Bossy; Louis Davidson; Ben DeBow; Grant Fritchey; Jonathan Gardner; Jesper Johansen; Jeremy Lowell; Wendy Pastrick; Kellyn Pot'vin; Mladen Prajdić; Herve Roggero; Chris Shaw; Gail Shaw; Jason Strate Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 09-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company's investment in Microsoft's flagship database system
Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
Focuses...
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106. |  Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365 By: Bart McDonough; Dave Milner; Paul Stork Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365
It's no secret that cloud-based computing is the next big movement in IT, and Microsoft is right there in the market with Office 365—a cloud-based productivity suite which includes a hosted, cloud-focused version of SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 developers who have traditionally developed for on-premise environments will suddenly find themselves being asked to develop for the cloud. While there is a lot of overlap between cloud-based and traditional SharePoint development, there are also some important differences and considerations that must be taken into account as well. In...
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107. |  Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript By: Juriy Bura; Paul Coates Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media.
Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core...
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108. |  SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: Jason Brimhall; David Dye; Jonathan Gennick; Andy Roberts; Wayne Sheffield Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 19-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2012. It provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on.
Solutions in this book are divided into chapters by problem domain. Each chapter is a collection of...
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109. |  Beginning Windows 8 Application Development: XAML Edition By: Kyle Burns Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 26-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Windows 8 Application Development: XAML Edition
Beginning Windows 8 Application Development - XAML Edition introduces you to the Windows 8 modern app design paradigm and the new Windows 8 programming model developed around this paradigm. You'll learn to build rich, immersive applications designed to run on the many devices that will be powered by Windows 8.
With the introduction of Windows 8, once again Microsoft has re-envisioned the way that PCs and devices will be used and applications will be built in a world that has become far more connected. The Windows 8 modern UI style is far more than a programming model and Beginning...
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110. |  Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming By: Larry Pace Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 26-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming
Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, build and import data files, and write your own custom statistical functions. R is a powerful open-source implementation of the statistical language S, which was developed by AT&T. R has eclipsed S and the commercially-available S-Plus language, and has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics.
R is both an object-oriented language and a functional language that is easy to learn, easy to use, and completely...
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111. |  Colud Standards: Agreements that Hold Together clouds By: Marvin Waschke Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Colud Standards: Agreements that Hold Together clouds
Cloud computing is often described as providing computing resources the way electric utilities provide energy. In theory, anyone with an adequate connection to the Internet should be able to tap into a cloud provider and get exactly the computing resources they want when they want it, just like plugging into the electricity grid and getting exactly the energy you want when you want it. But to get that electricity, there are many standards: voltage, frequency, phase, motors constructed in standard ways—there is a long list; there is an equally long list for cloud computing. Many of the...
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112. |  By: Jay Bryant; Mike Jones Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro HTML5 Performance
Pro HTML5 Performance provides a practical guide to building extremely fast, light-weight and scalable websites using fully standards compliant techniques and best practices. It strikes a balance between imparting best-practice information for when you're building ground up and instantly applicable techniques to help you solve issues with your existing projects.
In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets you'll find advice and code samples that elegantly layout the problems your facing and the best ways of solving them. By reading Pro HTML5 Performance you'll squeeze every last...
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113. |  By: David Powers Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning CSS3
Beginning CSS3 teaches you how to style web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)—the language of web design. Starting from first principles, you'll learn through a series of practical exercises how to change the default look of HTML tags, adding color, backgrounds, and borders. The book demystifies core concepts, such as the CSS box model and selectors, giving you the confidence and knowledge to create innovative and flexible page layouts. You'll also learn how to create rounded corners, drop shadows, and gradients without the need for images, using the latest CSS3 techniques.
What...
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114. |  By: Alan Trevennor Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 10-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
If you've heard of Arduino or even used it in your own projects, you probably know that the AVR microcontroller is the brain of the Arduino. In Practical AVR Microcontrollers, you'll learn how to use the AVR microcontroller to make your own nifty projects and gadgets.
You'll start off with the basics in part one: setting up your development environment and learning how the "naked" AVR differs from the Arduino. Then you'll gain experience by building a few simple gizmos and learning how everything can be interconnected.
In part two, we really get into the goodies: projects! Each project...
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115. |  Pro Android Games, Second Edition By: Vladimir Silva Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 10-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Android Games, Second Edition
In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and now Google TV Android Apps for the Android game app developer repertoire.
With actionable real-world source, Pro Android Games, Second Edition shows you how to build more sophisticated and addictive Android games, by leveraging the power of these recent advancements found in the new Android Jelly Beans development platform as well as...
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116. |  Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 By: Mark Collins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012
Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP .NET developers make the leap to the inevitable and exciting world of HTML5. The growing HTML5 specifications promises to revolutionize the way web sites are developed with an impressive set of built-in client-side features. The use of HTML5 as a preferred development language in Windows 8, along with growing support from the major browser vendors, is likely to make HTML5 the de-facto standard for all future web development. The number of HTML5-capable phones alone is estimated to top 1 billion by 2013. Many professional web...
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117. |  By: Rory Lewis; Yulia McCarthy; Stephen M. Moraco Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 10-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
The advent of iOS 5 and the newest Xcode has unveiled an innovative, design-centric set of tools called Storyboarding, for you to more easily conceptualize and design your app from top to bottom. A time saver for sure, but it's new!
Dr. Rory Lewis, Yulia McCarthy and Stephen Moraco — a best selling Apress author, a former Apple iOS engineering group intern and a successful app developer — have teamed up to bring you this book, Beginning iOS Storyboarding. The three authors have found a beautiful way to lead the beginner into Storyboarding and at the same time show old school coders of...
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118. |  Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat: Java Web Development By: Giulio Zambon Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat: Java Web Development
Start building Java-based web applications now, even if you're a complete newcomer to Java. Comprehensive and example-driven, Beginning JSP, JSF, and Tomcat: Java Web Development, Second Edition is all you need to develop dynamic Java-based web applications using JSP, connect to databases with JSF, and put them into action using the world's most popular open source Java web server, Apache Tomcat.
A comprehensive introduction to JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaServer Faces (JSF), and the Apache Tomcat web application server
Key concepts made easy to grasp by numerous working examples...
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119. |  Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide, Third Edition By: Jay Natarajan; Rudi Bruchez; Scott Shaw; Michael Coles Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide, Third Edition
Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide is every developer's key to making full use of SQL Server 2012's powerful, built-in Transact-SQL language. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact-SQL functionality. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring technically accurate and engaging treatment of Transact-SQL into your own hands. Step-by-step explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of best-practices will steer you down the road to success.
Transact-SQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL...
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120. |  By: Dave Parks Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine, Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key parts of the law—what must busy healthcare professionals, insurance industry professionals, business and HR managers, and policymakers do?
First, read this book. It translates the law's complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to implement it....
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