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Book Description

Programmers used to be the only people excited about APIs, but now a growing number of companies see them as a hot new product channel. This concise guide describes the tremendous business potential of APIs, and demonstrates how you can use them to provide valuable services to clients, partners, or the public via the Internet. You’ll learn all the steps necessary for building a cohesive API business strategy from experts in the trenches.

Facebook and Twitter APIs continue to be extremely successful, and many other companies find that API demand greatly exceeds website traffic. This book offers executives, business development teams, and other key players a complete roadmap for creating a viable API product.

• Learn about the rise of APIs and why your business might need one
• Understand the roles of asset owners, providers, and developers in the API value chain
• Build strategies for designing, implementing, and marketing your product
• Devise an effective process for security and user management
• Address legal issues, such as rights management and terms of use
• Manage traffic and user experience with a reliable operating model
• Determine the metrics you need to measure your API’s success

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The API Opportunity
Chapter 2 APIs as a Business Strategy Download Now »

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Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data.

Although building maps with Drupal can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system’s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with Drupal today.

• Get up to speed on map projections, the ethics of making maps, and the challenges of building them online
• Learn how spatial data is stored, input by users, manipulated, and queried
• Use the OpenLayers or GMap modules to display maps with lists, tables, and data feeds
• Create rich, custom interactions by applying geolocation
• Customize your map’s look and feel with personalized markers, map tiles, and map popups
• Build modules that add imaginative and engaging interactions

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Map with Drupal
Chapter 2. Web Mapping Basics Download Now »

Book Description

Introduce your students to the new generation of Microsoft Office with the new generation of Shelly Cashman Series books! For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has effectively introduced computer skills to millions of students. With Publisher 2010, we’re continuing our history of innovation by enhancing our proven pedagogy to reflect the learning styles of today’s students. In Microsoft Publisher 2010: Introductory you’ll find features that are specifically designed to engage students, improve retention, and prepare them for future success. Our trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach now encourages students to expand their understanding of the Publisher 2010 software through experimentation, exploration, and planning ahead. Brand new end of chapter exercises prepare students to become more capable software users by requiring them to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to create real-life documents.

• Gives students an introductory presentation of Publisher 2007, including new features of the software, using the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series pedagogy.
• Offers a new Plan Ahead feature that prepares students to create successful projects by encouraging them to think about what they are trying to accomplish before they begin.
• Gives students the information they need to know, when they need to know it through enhancements to the step-by-step instructions, a new Q&A feature, and improved callouts on screenshots.
• Engages students with new Experimental steps Download Now »

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Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.

In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.

• Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
• Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
• Understand Drupal’s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
• Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
• Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
• Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started: Some Stuff to Consider
Chapter 1. Design for Drupal: Basic Concepts
Chapter 2. The Drupal Designer’s Toolkit Download Now »

Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam, this all-in-one study guide features:

• Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage
• Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills
• Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you’ve learned; files included
• Online pre-test to assess your readiness

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Microsoft Office—and earn the credential that proves it!

Exam covered:

• Exam 77-853: MOS Microsoft Office OneNote 2010

Companion Content includes:

• Practice files for the exam
• Fully searchable eBook
• Sample chapters from OneNote STEP BY STEP books from Microsoft Press (TBD)

Special Offer: Exam discount plus free online pre-test!• Get 25% off your MOS exam fee and a free Microsoft Official Pre-Test from Certiport Download Now »

Book Description

Learn the secret to building solid and secure web services using Zend Framework with this book.

Inside the covers of this book you will find chapters on building web services using SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and REST. Each of the protocols has a chapter dedicated to it. You will first understand the concepts and then be introduced to the practical application of the protocol.

Anyone who as done any programming will know that good web services start by choosing the right protocol but the work doesn’t end there. In this book you learn how to secure your web services, how to build ACLs to control access to them, as well as how to build unit tests to test them after each change. In short, this book gives you everything you need to take your existing Zend Framework knowledge and build high quality web services.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Zend Framework
Chapter 2. Our Data
Chapter 3. SOAP
Chapter 4. Customizing Our SOAP Service
Chapter 5. REST
Chapter 6. XML-RPC
Chapter 7. JSON-RPC
Chapter 8. Limiting Access using Zend_Acl Download Now »