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21. |  Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases, Third Edition By: Sandeep Chanda; Damien Foggon Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases, Third Edition
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases introduces you to the world of building data-driven Web sites using ASP.NET, ADO.NET and the Entity Framework using C#. Since ASP.NET developers need to access databases quickly and efficiently, this book teaches the best practices and methods to help developers achieve professional ASP.NET and database solutions.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases is a comprehensive introduction on how you can connect a Web site to many different data sources — not just databases — and use the data to create dynamic page content. It also shows you how to build a relational...
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22. |  By: Ivor Horton Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning C, Fifth Edition
Beginning C, 5th Edition teaches you how to program using the widely-available C language. You'll begin from first-principles and progress through step-by-step examples to become a competent, C-language programmer. All you need are this book and any of the widely available free or commercial C or C++ compilers, and you'll soon be writing real C programs.
C is a foundational language that every programmer ought to know. C is the basis for C# used in Microsoft .NET programming. It is the basis for Objective-C used in programming for the iPhone, the iPad, and other Apple devices. It is the...
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23. |  Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring Rich By: Tim McDaniel Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring Rich
A 63-year-old woman said to author and valuation expert Tim McDaniel, "I need to sell my business for $2.5 million to support my country club lifestyle." The reality was that her business was worth less than $1 million. How could she have been so wrong? What was the long-term impact of her misinformation? In a flash, McDaniel realized that most owners work in their businesses and not on their businesses. McDaniel, veteran of over 1,800 valuation and M&A deals, has seen the look of surprise on client faces far too often: "It's only worth that much?!"
In the rush of day-to-day work and...
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24. |  By: S G Ganesh; Tushar Sharma Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Exams 1Z0-804 and 1Z0-805 is a concise, comprehensive, step-by-step, and one-stop guide for the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Exam. The first two chapters set the stage for exam preparation and let the reader get started quickly. The first chapter answers frequently asked questions about the OCPJP exam.
This book assumes that the reader is already familiar with Java fundamentals which is in line with the prerequisite of having a OCAJP certification.
The book sports considerable supportive material to help the...
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25. |  Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition By: Clare Churcher Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack.
Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in...
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26. |  SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, Third Edition By: Grant Fritchey Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, Third Edition
Queries not running fast enough? Tired of the phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey's book SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques. It is current with SQL Server 2012. It provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.
SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You'll learn to be...
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27. |  Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation By: Louis Davidson; Jessica M. Moss Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 11-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation
Learn effective and scalable database design techniques in a SQL Server environment. Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation covers everything from design logic that business users will understand, all the way to the physical implementation of design in a SQL Server database. Grounded in best practices and a solid understanding of the underlying theory, Louis Davidson shows how to "get it right" in SQL Server database design and lay a solid groundwork for the future use of valuable business data.
Gives a solid foundation in best practices and relational...
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28. |  Designing for Windows 8: Fundamentals of Great Design in Windows Store Apps By: Brent Schooley Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing for Windows 8: Fundamentals of Great Design in Windows Store Apps
Designing for Windows 8 is a fast-paced, 150-page primer on the key design concepts you need to create successful Windows 8 apps. This book will help you design a user interface that is both delightful and effective, feels 'right' to your users, and encapsulates a great Windows 8 experience.
In this book, you will:
Meet the building blocks of solid Windows 8 UI design in a well-designed sample app.
Learn how to incorporate key design elements into your apps, such as the app bar, charms and subtle animations from the animation library.
Find out how to deliver the core...
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29. |  By: Onur Cinar Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 05-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Android C++ with the NDK
Android is one of the major players in the mobile phone market. Android is a mobile platform that is built on the top of Linux operating system. The native-code support on Android offers endless opportunities to application developers, not limited the functionality that is provided by Android framework. Pro Android C++ with the NDK is an advanced tutorial and professional reference for today's more sophisticated app developers now porting, developing or employing C++ and other native code to integrate into the Android platform to run sophisticated native apps and better performing apps in...
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30. |  Learn Lua for iOS Game Development By: Jayant Varma Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn Lua for iOS Game Development
So you have a great game idea for iPhone or iPad, but Objective-C just seems a bit daunting. What are your alternatives? The App Store is very picky about languages, but there is hope: Lua is a versatile, lightweight, fast, and easy to learn language that you can use to build your iOS games and get them accepted into the App Store.
Learn Lua for iOS Game Development walks you through the Lua basics, then shows you how to create games using the top Lua frameworks like Corona SDK, Gideros, Moai, and even how to create games on the iPad (not just for the iPad) with Codea.
You aren't tied...
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31. |  ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: John Ciliberti Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes is a practical guide for developers creating modern web applications, cutting through the complexities of ASP.NET, jQuery, Knockout.js and HTML 5 to provide straightforward solutions to common web development problems using proven methods based on best practices. The problem-solution approach gets you in, out, and back to work quickly while deepening your understanding of the underlying platform and how to develop with it.
Author John Ciliberti guides you through the framework and development tools, presenting typical challenges, along with code solutions and clear,...
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32. |  By: Mike Halsey Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Windows 8
Windows 8 has been described by Microsoft as its 'boldest' Windows release ever. Beginning Windows 8 takes you through the new features and helps you get more out of the familiar to reveal the possibilities for this amazing new operating system.
You will learn, with non-technical language used throughout, how to get up and running in the new Windows interface, minimize downtime, maximize productivity, and harness the features you never knew existed to take control of your computer and enjoy the peace of mind and excitement that comes with it.
From tips and tweaks to easy-to-follow...
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33. |  Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development for iOS By: Steffen Itterheim; Andreas Löw Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 19-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development for iOS
Create compelling 2D games with Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development with iOS. This book shows you how to use the powerful new cocos2d, version 2 game engine to develop games for iPhone and iPad with tilemaps, virtual joypads, Game Center, and more. It teaches you:
The process and best practices of mobile game development, including sprite batching, texture atlases, parallax scrolling, touch and accelerometer input.
How to enhance your games using the Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines and other cocos2d-related tools and libraries.
How to add UIKit views to cocos2d and how to add...
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34. |  Pro Website Development and Operations: Streamlining DevOps for large-scale websites By: Matthew Sacks Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 09-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Website Development and Operations: Streamlining DevOps for large-scale websites
Pro Website Development and Operations gives you the experience you need to create and operate a large-scale production website. Large-scale websites have their own unique set of problems regarding their design—problems that can get worse when agile methodologies are adopted for rapid results. Managing large-scale websites, deploying applications, and ensuring they are performing well often requires a full scale team involving the development and operations sides of the company—two departments that don't always see eye to eye.
When departments struggle with each other, it adds...
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35. |  Beginning Groovy, Grails and Griffon By: Vishal Layka; Christopher M. Judd; Joseph Faisal Nusairat; Jim Shingler Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Groovy, Grails and Griffon
Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today's most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Java developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Grails, an open source framework that supercharges productivity when building Java–driven web sites. Grails is based on Groovy, which is a very popular and growing dynamic scripting language for Java developers and was inspired by Python, Ruby, and...
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36. |  Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station By: James Floyd Kelly; Harold Timmis Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station
Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station provides a fun introduction to the Arduino microcontroller by putting you (the reader) into the action of a science fiction adventure story. You'll find yourself following along as Cade and Elle explore Gemini Station—an orbiting museum dedicated to preserving and sharing technology throughout the centuries.
Trouble ensues. The station is evacuated, including Cade and Elle's class that was visiting the station on a field trip. Cade and Elle don't make it aboard their shuttle and are trapped on the station along with a friendly artificial...
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37. |  Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach By: J. F. DiMarzio Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach
Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app stores out there.
Android Arcade Game App:
A Real World Project - Case Study Approach is no different in that it walks you through creating an arcade style Prison Break game app—top to bottom—for an Android smartphone or tablet. This book teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it...
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38. |  Traders at Work: How the World's Most Successful Traders Make Their Living in the Markets By: Tim Bourquin; Nicholas Mango Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 16-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Traders at Work: How the World's Most Successful Traders Make Their Living in the Markets
Shortly after most novice traders discover how trading works and begin to realize that they have the potential to make unlimited amounts of money in the financial markets, they start dreaming the near-impossible dream. They fantasize about buying that condo in Boca Raton for their parents or surprising their son with a brand-new car on his 16th birthday. They even begin to imagine themselves opening their own trading firm or milling about the pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, lobbying against other professional traders for the perfect entry into a once-in-a-lifetime trade. But then...
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39. |  By: James Dovey; Ash Furrow Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Objective-C
Objective-C is today's fastest growing programming language, at least in part due to the popularity of Apple's Mac, iPhone and iPad. Beginning Objective-C is for you if you have some programming experience, but you're new to the Objective-C programming language and you want a modern—and fast—way forwards to your own coding projects.
Beginning Objective-C offers you a modern programmer's perspective on Objective-C courtesy of two of the best iOS and Mac developers in the field today, and gets you programming to the best of your ability in this important language. It gets you rolling fast...
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40. |  By: Clare Cosslett Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lawyers at Work
"With probing questions and articulate answers, Cosslett and her subjects shed light on the challenges of legal practice in the current legal market." BLS Law Notes, 11.16.12
Lawyers at Work reveals what it means and what it takes to be a satisfied, sane, and successful lawyer in today's tough legal marketplace. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a top legal headhunter gives the 3rd degree to 15 successful lawyers who run the gamut of the legal profession.
Practice areas represented in these profiles range from employment discrimination to corporate defense, from federal white...
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