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Create the next generation of gaming titles for Windows Phone 7!

Providing an overview of developing games for Windows Phone 7 while working within XNA Game Studio 4, this comprehensive resource covers such essential topics as device/emulator, development tools, device orientation, tilt and accelerometer sensors, multi-touch, working with Cloud and Web services, and more. Three complete games are included within the book plus hands-on explanations and clear example codes help you gain a deeper understanding of the Windows Phone 7 features so that you can start building a game right away.

• Serves as a comprehensive reference on Windows Phone 7 game development with XNA Game Studio 4
• Includes real-world examples and anecdotes, making this book a popular choice for those taking their first steps into the game development industry
• Demonstrates how to program for device orientation, incorporate Touch Input, add music to a game, work with 3D, and take your game to the marketplace

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A much-needed guide that shows you how to leverage SharePoint tools without writing a line of code!

The great news about SharePoint is…you don’t need to be a seasoned .NET developer to develop custom functions for it. This book shows you how to use SharePoint Designer, Report Builder, Dashboard Designer, InfoPath, Excel, Word, Visio, and the SharePoint web-based UI to design and develop—without ever writing a line of code! Learn how to customize your site, build SharePoint apps, start social networking, or add Web parts.  This straightforward guide makes everything easier.

• Introduces you to SharePoint 2010 components and features, and how you can use them in development
• Explains useful development tools, including document libraries, lists, basic workflows, Excel, Visio, Visual Studio, InfoPath, and Word
• Shows how to tap the tools of business users and analysts, such as SharePoint Designer, Report Builder, and Dashboard Designer
• Also covers topics for more experienced programmers, including SharePoint Object Model (OM), SharePoint Web Services, SharePoint Software Developer Kit (SDK), Silverlight, JavaScript, the .NET Framework, and Web Part development Download Now »

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As one of the most popular open source content management systems available today, WordPress boasts a framework that allows you to easily customize and extend it through plugins. This comprehensive book shows you how plugins work, reviews the tools and APIs available in WordPress, and demonstrates how to extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins.

The trio of established authors provides a practical, solutions-based approach along with a collection of timely examples and plenty of code, all aimed at clearly explaining how to create a plugin file, work with users, integrate widgets, add menus and submenus, secure your plugins, and more. You will quickly come to understand how to develop custom plugins so that you can take WordPress to the next corporate and enterprise level.

Professional WordPress Plugin Development:

• Details the range of complexity in plugins, from a very simple plugin to an extremely elaborate social network package
• Addresses how to integrate into WordPress, save settings, create widgets and shortcodes, and implement uninstall
• Learn the proper techniques for storing data, customizing user roles, and security best practices
• Shares techniques for using custom post types and creating and using custom taxonomies
• How to create plugins for WordPress Multisite networks Download Now »

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The design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of end-user applications. With this book, you will learn how to design a good API for large-scale long-term projects. With extensive C++ code to illustrate each concept, API Design for C++ covers all of the strategies of world-class API development. Martin Reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer in-depth discussions of interface design, documentation, testing, and the advanced topics of scripting and plug-in extensibility. Throughout, he focuses on various API styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries.

• The only book that teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including design, versioning, documentation, testing, scripting, and extensibility.
• Extensive code examples illustrate each concept, with fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation available online.
• Covers various API styles and patterns with a focus on practical and efficient designs for large-scale long-term projects.

From the Back Cover
Practical techniques of API design that produce robust code for the long term

API Design for C++ Martin Reddy

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Drupal 7 opens the door for you as a Windows developer to build Drupal sites – including custom modules – all without leaving Visual Studio! Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers gives you everything you need to know to achieve this, whilst drilling down into the advanced topics that you’ll want to master whilst working with Drupal 7 as a Windows developer.

Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers starts with the Drupal page model, which Windows programmers can contrast against the ASP.NET page model. You will then explore the various features of Drupal, including the hook model, theming, roles, and caching. You’ll also discover the data abstraction layer which lays the foundation for integration with your enterprise-level databases and external systems. Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers focuses on the important topics for the programmer coming to Drupal:

• An up-to-speed introduction to Drupal for developers so that they can get past the initial learning curve most efficiently.
• Key introductions to the important features of Drupal, including the page model, the hook architecture, the theming layer, and custom module development.
• How to work with the Drupal 7 features you want to work with within the Windows development environment. Download Now »

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JavaScript is the language of the Web, and it’s at the heart of every modern website from the lowliest personal blog to the mighty Google Apps. Though it’s simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is not a toy—it’s a flexible and complex language, capable of much more than the showy tricks most programmers use it for.

Eloquent JavaScript goes beyond the cut-and-paste scripts of the recipe books and teaches you to write code that’s elegant and effective. You’ll start with the basics of programming, and learn to use variables, control structures, functions, and data structures. Then you’ll dive into the real JavaScript artistry: higher-order functions, closures, and object-oriented programming.

Along the way you’ll learn to:

• Master basic programming techniques and best practices
• Harness the power of functional and object-oriented programming
• Use regular expressions to quickly parse and manipulate strings
• Gracefully deal with errors and browser incompatibilities
• Handle browser events and alter the DOM structure

Most importantly, Eloquent JavaScript will teach you to express yourself in code with precision and beauty. Download Now »