This addition to the Non-Designer’s series sets out to teach the tools and features in Illustrator that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use. Along the way, the book offers many design tips for non-designers. Individual exercises ensure that a reader can jump in at any point and learn a specific tool or technique.

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Subtitled, Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion, shows how to master everyday tools such as the Dock, Spotlight, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Dashboard. You'll discover other tools and built-in add-ons  you never knew existed. Customize the OS X interface, refine your workflow, learn valuable security tricks and work better with photos, movies and documents.

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Take your SharePoint solutions to the cloud and gain scalability and high availability while helping to lower operational costs. IT professionals, architects, and decision makers learn hands-on how to customize and maintain SharePoint cloud solutions and get practical advice for migrating business solutions either to Microsoft SharePoint Online or to a private cloud.

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A hands-on tutorial for those who know Java or Ruby, but not Lisp. Teaches Clojure from the basics up using practical, real-world application examples. Covers practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up through to building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.

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Objective-C is the universal language of iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps, and this book for the complete begineer starts you on the path to mastering this language and its latest release. Using a hands-on approach, you'll learn how to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to construct program logic, and how to synthesize it all into working apps.

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If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level, creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users through queries and web forms with step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples.

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This complete do-it-yourself guide shows you how to make your game idea a reality for the iPhone and iPad. By developing a real game hands-on through the course of this book, you’ll get a thorough introduction to Xcode and Objective-C, while learning how to implement game logic, sophisticated graphics, game physics, sounds, and computer AI.

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Knowing the tools of social media is a must for successful marketing these days, but the real promise of social media is the way it can teach us a whole new way of doing business. Humanize takes the principles underlying social media's growth and applies them to the way we lead and manage our organizations in ways that make them more human—and more effective.

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Begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its ideal use cases. A series of tutorials designed for MongoDB mastery then leads into detailed examples for leveraging MongoDB in e-commerce, social networking, analytics, and other common applications.

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Fully updated for ASP.NET MVC 3 which forces developers to think in terms of distinct components - Model, View, Controller - that make it easier to manage application complexity, while allowing strict control over the markup. Gain perspectives on how to use this programming model and begin building your own MVC-based applications.

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Subtitled "How to Write Accurate SQL Code" this second edition includes new material on recursive queries, "missing information" without nulls, new update operators, and topics such as aggregate operators, grouping and ungrouping, and view updating. Aimed at those with a modest-to-advanced background in SQL.

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This book is the Exam Reference for MCPD 70-519 and is for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status. With concise, objective-by-objective reviews, strategic case scenarios, and "Thought Experiments", you get professional-level preparation for the professional-level exam.

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