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Best-selling authors Jack Nutting, Dave Wooldridge, and Dave Mark do it again. Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK offers the easy-to-follow style and thorough coverage you’ve come to expect from titles like Beginning iPhone 3 Development—everything an aspiring iPad developer needs to know to create great apps. Apple’s new iPad SDKs are explained, demonstrated in action, and put through their paces with good-humored clarity t… More >>

Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK

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Well before Ajax and Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based “Rich Internet Applications”. Now, new owner Adobe is taking Flash and its powerful capabilities beyond the Web and making it a full-fledged development environment. Rather than focus on theory, the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook concentrates on the pra… More >>

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers

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This book is designed to teach application developers all of the skills they need to use SQL to work with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. But it’s also a great first book for developers who are on the path to becoming a DBA.Unlike most SQL Server 2008 books, this one starts by showing you how to use SQL queries to extract and update the data in a database, because that’s what every application developer needs to know first. Then, it shows how to design and imp… More >>

Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers

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Spolsky is knowledgeable, funny and free of unnecessary religious fervor. Joel on Software is a must-read. …having (Joel on Software) in one place, edited, with an index, is probably the best twenty-five dollars you’ll spend this year. — Greg Wilson, Dr. (Joel Spolsky’s) genuine desire to make the software world a better place keeps us coming back for more. — Bruce Hadley, softwareCEO. This book will challenge, encourage, upset, and … More >>

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

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The best way to showcase a powerful new technology is to demonstrate its real-world results, and that’s exactly what this new Cookbook does with Adobe Flex 3.

Wide ranging and highly practical, Flex 3 Cookbook contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You’ll find everything from Flex basics, to solutions for working with visual components and data access, to tips on application development… More >>

Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers

• ISBN13: 9780596154165
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If you want to use Adobe Flex to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications for the enterprise, this groundbreaking book shows you exactly what’s required. You’ll learn efficient techniques and best practices, and compare several frameworks and tools available for RIA development — well beyond anything you’ll find in Flex tutorials and product documentation. Through many practical examples, the authors impart their considerable experience to help you overc… More >>

Enterprise Development with Flex: Best Practices for RIA Developers

• ISBN13: 9780596009748
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Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the ’80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files–virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to the confusion. X… More >>

XSLT Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for XML and XSLT Developers, 2nd Edition

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Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today’s web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site’s performance. Souders’ previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by reve… More >>

Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers

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Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has e… More >>

The Real Estate Developer’s Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development With Companion CD-ROM

• ISBN13: 9781590599587
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SQL Server 2008 is a first–rate database management system. It offers more capability than any previous release of SQL Server. More than just a classic relational database management system, SQL Server 2008 includes exciting and powerful features that make it useful for everything from large corporate data warehouses to ad hoc departmental databases. You’ll find enhanced support for XML, new support for spatial data, transparent data encryption, a policy–based… More >>

Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional