Sixty-four SQL Server MVPs offer completely new content in this second volume on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization techniques. The five sections are Architecture and Design, Database Administration, Database Development, Performance Tuning and Optimization, Business Intelligence.

Included as a free companion eBook with the Start Here! books for Visual Basic and C# (see our review), this print edition is available for those interrested in .NET fundamentals and covers object-oriented concepts such as properties, methods and events. Look out for our forthcoming review.

Subtitled "The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made" this is an anothogy of first-hand accounts, anecdotes, photos and sketches that reveals what it was like to be there at the birth of the personal computer revolution. The story comes to life through the book's portrait of the talented and often eccentric characters who made up the Macintosh team.

This book is about "the Crucial Non-Technical Skills" a Software Architect needs to get hired and succeed in this role. For many developers these skills don't come naturally and are rarely addressed in formal training. This guide pinpoints the specific relationship, personal, and business skills that successful architects rely upon.

Guide to content mining using Apache Tika. Learn how to pull usable information from otherwise inaccessible sources, including internet media and file archives. This example-rich book teaches you to build and extend applications based on real-world experience with search engines, digital asset management, and scientific data processing.

JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code. You’ll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.

Learn the fundamentals of modern programming with Visual C# 2010 and begin building your first apps for the desktop and web. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Lots has been added to the updated edition of this book, which has gone from 223 to 295 pages, including the new IndexedDB storage API and Server Sent Events. Its a practical book, showing you how to use the language, but some areas of the spec are discussed theoretically as they’re not yet implemented anywhere.  See our review of the 2010 edition.

With all the software needed supplied on its DVD, this book shows you how to take advantage of Lucid Lynx, teaching Ubuntu and introducing new features.Learn how to control the Ubuntu system as you are guided through tasks such as configuring the system's GUI, producing documents, using VoIP and chat, and  general system maintenance.

Embedded systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This guide helps you cultivate a host of good development practices, based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming. Learn how to build system architecture for processors, not operating systems, and discover specific techniques for dealing with hardware difficulties and manufacturing requirements.

Subtitled :Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site, this guide shows how to use Drupal 7's newest improvements to build more modern, manageable sites for any business or organization. Covers covers both Drupal and Web design tasks, showing how they fit together and includes topics other Drupal books ignore, including search engine optimization and accessibility.

Subtitled From Concept to Continuous Feedback looks at the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices using Visual Studio 2010. Helps you overcome every major impediment that leads to stakeholder dissatisfaction–from mismatched schedules to poor quality, blocked builds to irreproducible bugs, and technology "silos" to geographic "silos."