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With JavaScript, you can add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to your web pages quickly. But this isn’t just a book of scripts for you to cut and paste into your HTML, only to find out later that nothing works as you’d expected. Using real-world examples as the starting point, author thau! walks you step by step through various scripts and explains how they produce the effects you want.

Because no discussion of JavaScript today is complete without coverage of Ajax, this thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on Ajax, so you can get up to speed with this valuable method for creating truly dynamic web pages. This second edition of the best-selling The Book of JavaScript also features revised appendices and new examples throughout to reflect today’s web environment. Inside, you’ll learn to:

• Work with frames, forms, cookies, and alarms
• Use events to react to a user’s actions
• Perform image swaps and rollovers
• Program your own functions to produce customized solutions
• Store user preferences and build a shopping cart
• Use Dynamic HTML to turn web pages into multimedia applications

If you need to spruce up tired-looking pages, The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition will help take your site from bland to brilliant.

BONUS: Includes a complete reference to all JavaScript objects and functions Download Now »

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Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you’ll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles.

We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system. You’ll walk through the project step by step, from customer engagement, to the daily “cocktail party,” version control, bug tracking, and release. In this honest look at what works–and what doesn’t–you’ll find out how to:

• Make quality everyone’s business, not just the testers.
• Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement.
• Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement.
• Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus.

Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you’ll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles.

About the Author
Henrik Kniberg is a coach and consultant at Crisp. Henrik’s background is a mix of development and management, and his passion is applying Lean and Agile principles to help debug, optimize, and refactor companies. Henrik is the author of Scrum and XP from the Trenches and Kanban & Scrum, making the most of both and a popular keynote speaker at conferences worldwide. Henrik lives in Stockholm with his wife and four kids Download Now »

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The smart way to learn how to build InfoPath forms for SharePoint—one step at a time!

Quickly teach yourself how to use Microsoft® InfoPath® 2010 to create electronic business forms for Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Design and build InfoPath forms without writing code
• Add approval workflows to your InfoPath forms
• Integrate data from SharePoint and other company systems
• Create forms that offer a rich experience in the browser
• Build views and dashboards to display form information
• Create and use forms in the cloud with SharePoint Online

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft InfoPath 2010
Chapter 2 Form Requirements: Using a Decision Matrix
Chapter 3 Form Design Basics: Working with InfoPath Layout, Controls, and Views
Chapter 4 Working with SharePoint List Forms
Chapter 5 Adding Logic and Rules to Forms
Chapter 6 Publishing and Submitting Form Data
Chapter 7 Receiving Data from SharePoint Lists and Business Connectivity Services
Chapter 8 Using the InfoPath Form Web Part Download Now »

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Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of parallel programming

Teach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010—one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.

Discover how to:

• Apply techniques to help increase your application’s speed and efficiency
• Simplify the process of adding parallelism with the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
• Execute several tasks concurrently with various scheduling techniques
• Perform data queries in parallel with PLINQ
• Use concurrent collections in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for data items
• Extend classes in the TPL to meet the specific requirements of your application
• Perform live debugging of an application with parallel code

About the Author
Donis Marshall has over 20 years of experience in designing and building enterprise software utilizing Microsoft technologies for leading companies across industry segments. He is an endorsed trainer for Microsoft Global Learning Services Download Now »

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The book will show people that they can build and manage a Joomla! 1.6 or 1.7 website without a technical background. Starting with an introduction to Joomla and how to install it, the book will detail how to add content, control users, make links and then add extra features to a Joomla! site. The book simplifies things to avoid difficult tasks that are unnecessary for beginners to understand. Written in plain English, the tutorial offers clear instructions, simple explanations, real-life examples, plenty of screenshots and humor. The book is aimed at busy people who want to understand Joomla in a fun, readable and straightforward way.

From the Back Cover
Master Joomla! hands-on, step-by-step, through easy, practical examples!

Joomla! now powers tens of millions of websites of every size and type. But many beginners find it confusing, and most Joomla! books are too complex to help. Joomla! Explained is the solution. Top Joomla! trainer Stephen Burge teaches everything beginners need to know–and nothing they don’t need to know!

Joomla! Explained requires absolutely no experience with Joomla! content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners–and thousands more who’ve experimented with Joomla! but haven’t mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Joomla! users up the learning curve–from confusion to results! Download Now »

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Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the programming fundamentals for Windows Azure™

Teach yourself how to build and host scalable applications in the cloud using Windows Azure—one step at a time. Ideal for those with basic programming skills, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for working with the core services and features of the Windows Azure platform. Discover how to:

• Extend your existing skills to the cloud development model
• Build a simple web role application and deploy it to the cloud
• Create a worker role project to perform backend processes
• Store persistent data with Windows Azure Storage
• Develop a scalable database application in the cloud using Microsoft SQL Azure™
• Connect several cloud-based applications with Windows Azure AppFabric
• Design a multitiered solution that can scale to meet user demand

About the Author
Roberto Brunetti is an experienced consultant, trainer, and author. He’s a co-founder of DevLeap, a company focused on providing high-value content and consulting services to professional developers, and the founder of ThinkMobile, the largest Italian community for mobile development. He is a regular speaker at major conferences, and works closely with Microsoft Italy to put on events and build training courses. Download Now »