This hands-on guide to the Apache Cassandra database provides the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra's non-relational database design and how to take advantage of it in a production environment. Demonstrates Cassandra's high availability, eventual consistency model, and ability to scale easily.

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Beginning with first principles, the book sets out the right way to start a project and develop the project plan. It shows you how to break a project down into tasks that can then be scheduled and allocated to resources. These can then be tracked and controlled to completion. It explains the different types of task dependencies and how to use them to make sure things happen when they are needed.

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A reference for professional developers wanting to discover the new features of Silverlight 4. Matthew MacDonald's expert advice guides you through creating rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in-no matter what the target platform.

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A learn-by-doing tutorial, aims to provide clear guidance and hands-on examples for creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications. Shows how to build and host SOAP and REST services, maintain service contracts and data contracts, control configuration and communications programmatically etc.

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Shows how to use Excel 2010 to gain insight and solve problems in virtually every area of business, from finance and marketing to quality management. Utilizing real-world examples, he demonstrates how to make the most of powerful new Excel 2010 features, including Sparklines, Excel Web App, Slicer, and Excel's new Solver and calculation engine.

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During the last decade, artificial ants have experienced rapid development in the research community, mainly for solving optimization problems. This book provides an overview of the situation ant colony algorithms reached. It encompasses solution methods of hard optimization problems and new trends for collective intelligence.

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Updated 3rd edition of slim on-the-job reference guide uses numerous examples to address the language's complexity. Covers key aspects of SQL used in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL including the syntax for querying, managing transactions, and making changes to data,  SQL functions, type conversion functions and formats, and regular expression syntax.

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Written for developers already conversant with C# this fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial guides you from creating "Hello World" to data-driven rich Internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML, Visual Studio and the Expression design suite.

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With an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to begin Windows programming this 3rd edition has been updated to cover this Visual Basic 2010. It begins by describing the installation process then introduces form controls, application properties, the programming language, and problem-solving techniques. See full review.

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With a rich set of over 1,000 APIs, iPhone SDK 4 provides a range of technologies to enhance and create applications for the iPhone. This Visual QuickStart Guide focuses on the parts of the SDK that are specifically geared toward the iPhone. Everything is covered to create a complete application.

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