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How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You’ll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.

* Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers
* Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications
* Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements
* Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components
* Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies
* Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering
* Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier
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What do Amazon’s product reviews, eBay’s feedback score system, Slashdot’s Karma System, and Xbox Live’s Achievements have in common? They’re all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.

Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they’re critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It’s a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.

* Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions
* Determine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others
* Become familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions
* Discover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently
* Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return
* Examine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay
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Don’t let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson.

This book is the perfect guide to:
* Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
* Installing WordPress
* Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
* Working with the text editor
* Styling paragraphs and creating lists
* Working with media files
* Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
* Working with image galleries
* Adding video and audio
* Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
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Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK

Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.

Professional Android 2 Application Development:
* Reviews Android as a development platform and?best practices for mobile development
* Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components
* Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces
* Examines Intents and Content Providers for sharing data
* Introduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPS
* Looks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and Alarms
* Demonstrates how to create interactive homescreen components
* Explores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs
* Examines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometers Continue Reading »

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An authoritative guide to designing effective solutions for data cleansing, ETL, and file management with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool in the data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations.

After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you a series of real-world problems and show various techniques for handling them.

* Shows you how to design SSIS solutions for data cleansing, ETL and file management
* Demonstrates how to integrate data from a variety of data sources,
* Shows how to monitor SSIS performance,
* Demonstrates how to avoid common pitfalls involved with SSIS deployment
* Explains how to ensure performance of the deployed solution and effectively handle unexpected system failures and outages
* The companion Web site provides sample code and database scripts that readers can directly implement
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