31 Jul 10 Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

Title: Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

Authors: Scott McNulty

Description

Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to get one. but to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you set it up. In this book by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you learn how to: more…


31 Jul 10 Building the Realtime User Experience: Creating Immersive and Interactive Websites

Title: Building the Realtime User Experience: Creating Immersive and Interactive Websites

Authors: Ted Roden

Description

The Web is increasingly happening in realtime. With websites such as Facebook and Twitter leading the way, users are coming to expect that all sites should serve content as it occurs — on smartphones as well as computers. This book shows you how to build realtime user experiences by adding chat, streaming content, and including more features on your site one piece at a time, without making big changes to the existing infrastructure. You’ll also learn how to serve realtime content beyond the browser. more…


31 Jul 10 Event Processing in Action

Title: Event Processing in Action

Authors: Opher Etzion

Peter Niblett

Description

Unlike traditional information systems which work by issuing requests and waiting for responses, event-driven systems are designed to process events as they occur, allowing the system to observe, react dynamically, and issue personalized data depending on the recipient and situation.

Event Processing in Action introduces the major concepts of event-driven architectures and shows how to use, design, and build event processing systems and applications. Written for working software architects and developers, the book looks at practical examples and provides an in-depth explanation of their architecture and implementation. Since patterns connect the events that occur in any system, the book also presents common event-driven patterns and explains how to detect and implement them. Throughout the book, readers follow a comprehensive use case that incorporates all event processing programming styles in practice today. more…


31 Jul 10 Getting Started with Processing

Title: Getting Started with Processing

Authors: Casey Reas

Ben Fry

Description

Learn computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. Programming courses usually start with theory, but this book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects. It’s ideal for anyone who wants to learn basic programming, and serves as a simple introduction to graphics for people with some programming skills. more…


31 Jul 10 Network Design, Second Edition: Management and Technical Perspectives

Title: Network Design, Second Edition: Management and Technical Perspectives

Authors: Teresa C. Piliouras

Description

Network Design: Management and Technical Perspectives, Second Edition continues to serve as the singular text that helps bridge the communication gap that often exists between managers and technical staff involved in the design and implementation of data networks. It introduces managers and technical professionals in the telecommunications field to the fundamental principles and analytical techniques used in designing data networks. This edition has been completely updated to reflect the latest offerings in technology. The authors cover distributed systems architectures, including competing technologies and approaches to CORBA and DCOM and use case studies to illustrate system design and implementation concepts. more…


31 Jul 10 Objective-C: Visual QuickStart Guide

Title: Objective-C: Visual QuickStart Guide

Authors: Steven Holzner

Description

Objective C 2.0 is the object-oriented language that is the basis for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, the development environment for the iPhone/iPod Touch.You’ll learn all the basics: from handling data and creating functions to managing memory and handling exceptions. For programmers who want to develop iPhone apps, it’s a must, and this title in the Visual QuickStart-style is the easy, fast way to get started. more…


31 Jul 10 WPF 4 Unleashed

Title: WPF 4 Unleashed

Authors: Adam Nathan

Description

The #1 WPF Book–Now Updated for WPF 4!

Full Color: Code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio!

Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating Windows user interfaces, giving you the power to create richer and more compelling applications than you dreamed possible. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, multi-touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. WPF 4 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan. more…


31 Jul 10 WPF 4 Unleashed




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