Today, technology is used to shift, sway and change attitudes and behavior. This creates amazing opportunities and challenges for designers. If we want to create products and services that have the power to educate people so they may live better lives, or help to reduce the time people take to do certain tasks, we first [...]
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Posts tagged with 'oreilly'
Introducing Windows Server 2012
O’reilly Media introduces Introducing Windows Server 2012 well ahead of its official launch by Microsoft. Get a head start evaluating Window Server 2012—with technical insights from Mitch Tulloch, a Microsoft MVP who’s worked extensively with the beta release. Introducing Windows Server 2012 (Microsoft Press, $14.99 USD) illuminates new features and capabilities, with scenarios demonstrating how [...]
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Programming WCF Services Released
Programming WCF Services, Third Edition is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. “I’ve included my ServiceModelEx library, a framework of useful utilities, tools, and helper classes that let you simplify and automate many tasks, and extend WCF,” says author, speaker, and Master Architect Juval Löwy. Löwy [...]
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Network Flow Analysis
Network flow analysis is the art of studying high volume network traffic. Rather than capture every single packet, flow analysis allows network administrators to selectively record and filter network data, so they are only collecting the data they really need. Flow analysis makes difficult tasks like real-time network monitoring, user profiling, security analysis, and data [...]
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Head First C#
Head First C# is the latest release from O’Reilly Media. Authored by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, Head First C# introduces the C# Programming language in a fun, visual way. You’ll quickly learn everything from creating your first program to learning sophisticated coding skills with C# 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, while avoiding [...]
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Web Design for Developers
Web Design for Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $42.95 USD) will show you how to make your web-based application look professionally designed. You’ll learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes, and make your application really come alive. Author Brian Hogan says, “If you’ve ever written an application and wished [...]
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Beautiful Testing
Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it’s a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas. Beautiful Testing (O’Reilly, $49.99 USD), edited by Adam Goucher and Tim Riley, offers 23 essays from 27 leading technical [...]
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Apprenticeship Patterns
Are you doing all you can to further your career as a software developer? With today’s rapidly changing and ever-expanding technologies, being successful requires more than technical expertise. To grow professionally, you also need soft skills and effective learning techniques. Honing those skills is what Apprenticeship Patterns (O’Reilly, US $29.99) is all about. Authors Dave [...]
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Windows 7: Up and Running
Looking for the quickest path to get started with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system? With Windows 7: Up and Running (O’Reilly, US $24.99), by Microsoft MVP Wei-Meng Lee, you get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7′s [...]
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Programming the Semantic Web
The promise of the semantic web–in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web–is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality. Programming the Semantic Web (O’Reilly Media, $39.99 USD) demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications, using current and emerging standards and technologies. You’ll learn how to incorporate existing [...]
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