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This practical guide helps you explore several BI application services available in SharePoint 2010 and  SQL Server 2008 R2. Learn each technology with step-by-step instructions, and determine which ones work best in specific BI scenarios, whether you’re a SQL Server developer, SharePoint administrator, or business analyst.

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Subtitled "Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development" this book has seven tutorials, each of them using test-driven development to build a Rails extension or application that solves common problems. See how the Rails rendering stack works and customize it to read templates from the database while you learn how to mimic Active Record behavior, like validations, in any other object.

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A complete guide to Windows Communication Foundation from the service-oriented architecture (SOA) perspective, showing you why WCF is important to service-oriented architecture and development. This book provides deep insight into the functionality of WCF, which shipped with .NET 4.0-like service discovery, routing service, simplified configuration, and other advanced features.

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Provides the fundamental knowledge of information security both, theoretical and practical. It covers the basics needed to understand the key concepts of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Then it dives into practical applications of these ideas in the areas of operational, physical, network, application, and operating system security.

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Subtitled "Building Modular MVVM Applications using Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight" this is in the Patterns & Practices series. It provides everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible WPF Silverlight 4.0 applications.

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Subtitled "Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks" this guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications,create third-party applications for existing sites and build social graphs. 

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Designed to help you prepare for four Microsoft Office Specialist exams, this guide features: full, objective-by-objective exam coverage; procedures and illustrations to review essential skills; hands-on practice task (files included) and online pre-test to assess readiness.

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Rails has evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. It still starts with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. This 4th edition gives new Ruby and Rails users more information on the Ruby language and takes more time to explain key concepts throughout.

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Learn how to develop applications for Android 3 mobile devices using simple examples that are ready to run with your copy of the SDK. Shows what you need to know to get started programming Android applications, including how to craft graphical user interfaces, use GPS, multi-touch, multi-tasking, and access web services.

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Introduces an objective way to identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of software engineers—not as part of a performance review, but as a way to make the team a more cohesive and productive unit. Explains how codermetrics helps teams understand  what occurred during a project, and enables each coder to focus on specific improvements.

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Provides guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Helps you decide what information to document then, with examples in various notations, including UML, shows you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it.

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