Subtitled,Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog this book shows you how to build a great blog from the ground up. This isn't a book about technology - it's a book about engaging millions of readers. Starting your blog is easy, but building and maintaining a popular one is hard.

Offers a systematic approach to creating a worldwide social media strategy that delivers maximum business valuefrom social media on every continent, in any marketplace. By IBM's Sandy Cater. Check out our review of her previous book, The New Language of Business.

Now that Microsoft has made SharePoint Designer a free download, thousands of organizations are adopting it to design state-of-the-art SharePoint sites and solutions. Using realistic examples, this informative brick of a book covers Designer 2010's capabilities and best practices.

Teaches C++ "The Qt Way," emphasizing design patterns and efficient reuse. This edition introduces the new Qt Creator IDE; presents new multimedia APIs; has extended coverage of Qt Designer and C++ Integration and revised coverage of QObjects, Reflection, Widgets, Main Windows, Models and Views and more.

Out this month, a fully updated 2nd edition of Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein's guide to Twiiter with all-new real-world examples, solid advice, and clear explanations guaranteed to turn you into a power user, whether you're using Twitter to keep in touch with friends or build your brand. See our review of the previous (2009) edition.

Programming at industry level requires new skills - you'll build programs that dwarf anything you've done on your own. This book introduces you to practices for working on large-scale, long-lived programs at a professional level of quality. a no-holds-barred look at what really goes on in the office--and how to not only survive, but thrive in your first job and beyond.

As programmers, we've all seen source code that's so ugly and buggy it makes our brain ache. The solution - you need to write code that minimizes the time it would take someone else to understand it. Using code examples from different languages, this book focuses on basic principles and practical techniques you can apply every time you write code.

Follow security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular software, like Apple's iOS, the VLC media player, web browsers, and  the Mac OS X kernel. See how the developers responsible for these flaws patched the bugs—or failed to respond at all. Gain  technical knowledge and insight into how hackers approach difficult problems.

F# offers a number of new features and approaches, making software easier to write—particularly for  multicore processors. This book shows how to harness the power of F# using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2010. You′ll discover how F# 2.0 serves as a fusion of object–oriented and functional approaches and how this is useful for augmenting other .NET languages.

Automating repetitive programming tasks is easier than many Flash/AS3 developers think. With the Ant build tool, the Eclipse IDE, and this concise (96-page) guide, you can set up your own "ultimate development machine" to code, compile, debug, and deploy projects faster. You’ll also get started with versioning systems, such as Subversion and Git.

Introduces DI and provides a practical guide for applying it in .NET applications. The book presents the core patterns in plain C# and show how to integrate DI with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and to use DI frameworks like StructureMap, Castle Windsor, and Unity.