Sep 3, 2008

Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer Faces View Definition Framework

Bruno Aranda, Zubin Wadia, "Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer Faces View Definition Framework"
Apress | ISBN: 1430210494 | May 26, 2008 | 84 Pages | PDF | 1MB

Facelets is a templating language developed from the ground up with JavaServer Faces in mind. Created in response to the many concerns involving JSP when building JavaServer Faces views, Facelets steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSF–centric view technology. Facelets top properties, templating, reuse, and ease of development, allows it to help making JSF a technology suitable for large–scale projects. One of the first things a developer using Facelets finds is that it immediately leads to a reduction in UI code.

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Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials

Matthew MacDonald, "Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials"
Apress | ISBN: 1430215828 | June 3, 2008 | 240 Pages | PDF | 3.2MB

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.

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The Essential Guide to Flex 3

Charles E Brown, "The Essential Guide to Flex 3"
friends of ED | ISBN: 1590599500 | May 26, 2008 | 600 Pages | PDF | 10.4MB

Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web design and development platform. With nearly 98% of all web browsers, and a growing number of mobile devices, running Flash Player, a knowledge of Flex is indispensible for any serious web developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful Rich Internet Applications using Flex 3. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 3 software, you will explore in depth how the Flash scripting language, ActionScript 3.0, interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML.

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PHP 5 CMS Framework Development

Martin Brampton, "PHP 5 CMS Framework Development"
Packt Publishing | ISBN: 1847193579 | June 6, 2008 | 348 Pages | PDF | 2.5MB

If you're developing a content management system in PHP 5, there are times when you simply have to roll-your-own, for whatever reason. In those situations, this book will be invaluable. If you're looking for an inside guide to putting together the working framework of a flexible, robust content management system in PHP 5, this book is for you. As a former development team leader on the renowned Mambo open-source content management system, author Martin Brampton offers unique insight and practical guidance into the problem of building an architecture for a content management system.

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Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps


Mike Clark, "Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps"
Pragmatic Bookshelf | ISBN: 0978739221 | May 15, 2008 | 464 Pages | PDF | 4.4MB

Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years. Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the Rails development community. Yesterday's best practices yield to today's latest and greatest techniques, as the state of the art is continually refined in kitchens all across the Internet. Indeed, these are times of great progress.

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Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery


Allan Brito, "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery"
Packt Publishing | ISBN 1847193676 | June 6, 2008 | 332 Pages | PDF | 10.8MB

“ This book will show you how to create realistic architectural models in Blender. Blender is an open-source 3D animation program released as free software. It can be used for modeling, texturing, skinning, animating, and so on. It runs on all the important operating systems (including Windows, Mac, and Linux).

You can create natural scenery, landscapes, plants, various weather conditions, environmental factors, building materials such as wood, metal, brick, and more. You will also learn how to add people to different scenes as well as other objects to an already existing photograph or a video making it easier to increase its realism.

You will see how to use the final models to create simpler scenes for use in 3D games, where real-time rendering is necessary. You will also see how to use them to create the sets for animated movies.

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Sep 2, 2008

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

Evangelos Petroutsos, "Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008"
Sybex | ISBN-10: 0470187425 | March 4, 2008 | 1118 pages | PDF | 11.5MB

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 continues the approach of its previous editions by providing thorough, expert coverage of VB 2008, from the core of the language and user interface design to developing data-driven applications and Web applications. The material is aimed at beginners with some programming background to experienced programmers, with emphasis on intermediate and advanced development topics. The book will contain numerous example programs that readers can use as starting points for building their own applications, and each chapter ends with review exercises to help readers solidify their knowledge.

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Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide

Michele E. Davis, Jon A. Phillips, "Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN-10: 0071544186 | March 21, 2008 | 274 pages | PDF | 4MB

Learn to program with Flex 3, the powerful tool for building multimedia-rich, interactive Flash applications for the Web. Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide is an easy-to-follow, fast-paced tutorial that allows you to fully grasp the fundamentals, including MXML, ActionScript, Flex Builder, states, transitions, and behaviors. You'll learn how to customize your applications with styles, skins, and themes; access remote data using the XML HTTP Service Request; profile and debug your applications; and manage media assets.

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Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Wallace Wang, "Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies"
Wiley | ISBN: 0470169575 | February 2008 | 816 pages | PDF | 14.4MB

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Mac! Whether you’ve just decided to switch from Windows or you’ve been using a Mac for awhile and want to take advantage of all its bells and whistles, Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the perfect guidebook to Mac land.

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SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Mark Gerow, "SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach"
Apress | ISBN-10: 1430209615 | July 24, 2008 | 512 pages | PDF | 17MB

SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes offers a range of ready–to–use code recipes that provide the building blocks for solving many common SharePoint 2007 programming dilemmas. This practical, hands–on guide categorizes recipes by problem area, for example site management, event handlers, users, lists, and web parts, and source code is provided in both VB and C#. As well as providing an invaluable reference, Mark Gerow also includes clear, supporting guidelines to help you modify the code samples for the broadest range of applications.

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