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Your expert guide to building Microsoft® SharePoint® applications in the cloud

Deliver custom, cloud-based business solutions using SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure™ together. By applying hands-on techniques from Microsoft cloud development expert Steve Fox, you’ll learn how to increase the reach, resource capability, and reusability of your apps. Get the practical code exercises and solid advice you need—whether you’re planning to build complete data-driven applications or hybrid solutions with simple Web parts.

Discover how to:

• Deliver data from Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket into SharePoint and Microsoft Office applications
• Use Microsoft Business Connectivity Services to connect to SQL Azure™ data
• Create advanced web parts to surface SQL Azure data in Bing™ Maps, using the SharePoint client object model
• Manage files in Windows Azure using BLOB storage
• Deploy Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services to Windows Azure
• Build business intelligence solutions, using SQL Azure, Microsoft SQL Server® Reporting Services (SSRS)

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Let’s say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You’ll not only learn how to design for Apple’s devices, you’ll also master the iPhone SDK tools — including Interface Builder, Xcode, and Objective-C programming principles — to make your app stand out.

Whether you’re a seasoned Mac developer who wants to jump into the App store, or someone with strong object-oriented programming skills but no Mac experience, this book is a complete learning experience for creating eye-catching, top-selling iPhone and iPad applications.

• Install the iPhone OS SDK and get started using Interface Builder and XCode
• Put Objective-C core concepts to work, including message passing, protocols, properties, and memory management
• Take advantage of iPhone OS patterns such as datasources and delegates
• Preview your applications in the Simulator
• Build more complicated interactions that utilize multiple views, data entry/editing, and rotation
• Work with the iPhone’s camera, GPS, and accelerometer

Optimize, test, and distribute your applicationWe think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience Download Now »

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Popularly known as “the Llama,” Learning Perl is the book most programmers rely on to get started with this versatile language. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this sixth edition includes recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.14.

This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book’s pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text.

Topics include:

• Perl data & variable types
• Subroutines
• File operations
• Regular expressions
• String manipulation (including Unicode)
• Lists & sorting
• Process management
• Smart matching
• Using third party modules Download Now »

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Dreamweaver is the tool most widely used for designing and managing professional-looking websites, but it’s a complex program. That’s where Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual comes in. With its jargon-free explanations, 13 hands-on tutorials, and savvy advice from Dreamweaver expert Dave McFarland, you’ll master this versatile program with ease.

• Get A to Z guidance. Go from building your first web page to creating interactive, database-driven sites.
• Build skills as you learn. Apply your knowledge through tutorials and downloadable practice files.
• Create a state-of-the-art website. Use powerful, easy-to-use tools such as CSS3 and Spry effects to build visually rich, fast-loading pages.
• Add instant interactivity. Choose from pre-packaged JavaScript programs to add drop-down menus, tabbed panels, forms, and other features.
• Tap into databases. Connect your site to a database and build pages that dynamically sort and display stored information.
• Go mobile. Build and preview websites for smartphones and tablets.
• Discover hidden tips and tricks. Get undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.

About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He is an accomplished writer and trainer and teaches in the Portland State University multimedia program. Download Now »

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Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is designed to run at high speed. In order to build powerful Cocoa applications you need more than the basics. This cookbook will provide you with the recipes needed to add Core Animation, gestures, Key Value Coding, and QuickTime to your appilications.

The Cocoa and Objective-C Cookbook moves developers beyond the basics of developing with Apple’s Cocoa framework. It will help you grasp advanced topics needed to build polished Cocoa applications on Mac OS X.

The cookbook provides a comprehensive overview of Cocoa’s more popular UI components found in all Mac OS X applications. It has recipes for building custom views, adding support for gestures and working with keyboard and mouse events. There are recipes for using singleton, delegation, and factory design patterns in your own application’s architecture. Alongside essential recipes for working with databases and debugging you will also find fun recipes covering animation and multimedia. The Cocoa and Objective-C Cookbook will quickly bring you up to speed with advanced technologies used to build complex applications for Mac OS X.

What you will learn from this book :

• Use Core Animation to swap and flip views
• Handle the pinch, swipe, and rotate gestures in your custom views
• Safely store and retrieve passwords using the Keychain Access API Download Now »

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HTML5 is the most significant new advancement the web has seen in many years. HTML5 adds many new features including the video, audio, and canvas elements, as well as the integration of SVG. This cookbook is packed full of recipes that will help you harness HTML5’s next generation multimedia features. HTML5 is the future.

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a total newbie, this book gives you the recipes that will serve as your practical guide to creating semantically rich websites and apps using HTML5. Get ready to perform a quantum leap harnessing HTML5 to create powerful, real world applications.

Many of the new key features of HTML5 are covered, with self-contained practical recipes for each topic. Forget hello world. These are practical recipes you can utilize straight away to create immersive, interactive multimedia applications. Create a stylish promo page in HTML5. Use SVG to replace text dynamically. Use CSS3 to control background size and appearance. Use the Canvas to process images dynamically. Apply custom playback controls to your video.

What you will learn from this book :

• Make your websites available offline using cache manifest and data storage support.
• Add location awareness using tools such as the geolocation API and geo.js
• Create accessible audio and video and embed audio and video in your mobile devices.
• Animate and control images using the Canvas tag. Download Now »