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Clojure is a practical, general-purpose language that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, while seamlessly taking advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem. This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages you know already, in the domains and topics you work with every day. See how this JVM language can help eliminate unnecessary complexity from your programming practice and open up new options for solving the most challenging problems.

Clojure Programming demonstrates the language’s flexibility by showing how it can be used for common tasks like web programming and working with databases, up through more demanding applications that require safe, effective concurrency and parallelism, data analysis, and more. This in-depth look helps tie together the full Clojure development experience, from how to organize your project and an introduction to Clojure build tooling, to a tutorial on how to make the most of Clojure’s REPL during development, and how to deploy your finished application in a cloud environment.

• Learn how to use Clojure while leveraging your investment in the Java platform
• Understand the advantages of Clojure as an efficient Lisp for the JVM
• See how Clojure is used today in several practical domains
• Discover how Clojure eliminates the need for many verbose and complicated design patterns
• Deploy large or small web applications to the cloud with Clojure Download Now »

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Build custom business applications for SharePoint with Visual Studio LightSwitch—including intuitive apps that don’t require a single line of code. This example-driven guide takes non-programmers step-by-step through the process of creating simple apps and utilities, and shows programmers familiar with C# or Visual Basic how to build customized applications with more functionality.

Discover how to build and test your applications quickly without a lot of expensive server hardware. Once you get up to speed with LightSwitch, you’ll create quality line-of-business applications tailored to specific customer needs in no time, whether you work in-house or for a vendor.

• Learn how the LightSwitch Presentation, Logic, and Storage layers work behind the scenes
• Configure your SharePoint server and workstation to work with this development environment
• Navigate the graphical environment and its various user screens
• Use examples to build simple single-function applications for search and data entry
• Expand your app’s capabilities by using LightSwitch extensions and Silverlight controls
• Connect your LightSwitch app to external data sources, such as Excel, SQL Server, SQLite, and cloud-based applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction Download Now »

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Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop.

Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform.

Silverlight allows you to integrate with Windows Azure and create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure.

This book shows you how to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure.

Integrating Silverlight and Windows Azure can be difficult without guidance. This book will take you through all the steps to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform. The book starts by providing the steps required to set up the development environment, providing an overview of Azure. The book then dives deep into topics such as hosting Silverlight applications in Azure, using Azure Queues in Silverlight, storing data in Azure table storage from Silverlight, accessing Azure blob storage from Silverlight, relational data with SQL Azure and RIA, and manipulating data with RIA services amongst others.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand federated authentication and how it can be used with your Download Now »

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Tips and techniques for becoming a successful SharePoint architect

If you’re eager to design and architect a successful deployment of SharePoint 2010, then this is the book for you. Packed with real-world experiences and solid processes, this guidebook provides you with everything you need to perform for designing and architecting enterprise portal services. Helpful examples examine the common design issues affecting SharePoint 2010 environments that can cause deployments to fail so you can learn what to avoid. Plus, key development and deployment issues are covered from an architecture perspective and backup and disaster recovery planning are described at length.

• Details the skills and attributes necessary in order to design and architect successful SharePoint 2010 deployments
• Provides real-world scenarios and helpful examples of various types of enterprise portal services
• Discusses corporate Intranet service, enterprise content management, team collaboration services, enterprise search service, and more
• Addresses marketing your SharePoint 2010 solution to users to ensure they are aware of the services you provide

With SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Architect’s Guidebook, you’ll quickly discover the requirements for designing a successful SharePoint 2010 deployment. Download Now »

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Get a rapid introduction to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll learn the steps necessary for developing your first marketable iOS application, from opening Xcode to submitting your product to the App Store. Whether you’re a developer new to Mac programming or an experienced Mac developer ready to tackle iOS, this is your book.

You’ll learn about Objective-C and the core frameworks hands-on by writing iOS applications that use them, giving you the basic skills for building your own applications independently. Packed with code samples, this book is refreshed and updated for iOS 5 and Xcode 4.

• Discover the advantages of building native iOS apps
• Get started with Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch frameworks
• Dive deep into the table view classes for building user interfaces
• Handle data input, parse XML and JSON documents, and store data on SQLite
• Use iOS sensors, including the accelerometer, magnetometer, camera, and GPS
• Build apps that use the Core Location and MapKit frameworks
• Integrate Apple’s iCloud service into your applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Go Native?
Chapter 2. Becoming a Developer Download Now »

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Get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you’ll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you’re approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills.

Many discussions have been expanded or improved. All code examples have been revised, and many new code examples have been added.

• The new memory management system—ARC—is thoroughly explained and all code examples have been revised to use it.
• New Objective-C features, such as declaration of instance variables in the class’s implementation section, are described and incorporated into the revised example code.
• Discussion of how an app launches, and all code examples, are revised for project templates from Xcode 4.2 and later.
• Other new Xcode features, including the Simulator’s Debug menu, are covered, with screen shots based on Xcode 4.2 and later.
• The discussion of Instruments is expanded, with screen shots—by popular request!
• Storyboards are explained and discussed. Download Now »