Learn how to implement WPF solutions in a real-world line of business applications, developing the code from the ground up. Cover designing and developing the application, testing and debugging, data access, reporting, and applying styles and themes. Create asynchronous and parallel code, learn how to distribute the application's components using WCF and apply the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

Learn how to work with the core features of Blend, edit Styles and Templates, and understand what they all mean. Work in detail with Parts, States, and Behaviors to understand how collectively they can provide advanced functionality without the need for code or hand-cranked XAML. Read our review of the previous edition.

Guide to the technology and business of creating compelling location-based services and applications. The book walks you through the LBS landscape, from mapping technologies to available platforms; from toolkits to business questions like monetization and privacy.

What happens when you've built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? This book subtitled Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction.

A gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication. The “printer” that you’ll build from this book is a personal fabricator capable of creating small parts and other objects from drops of molten plastic. Design a part using a modeling tool such as Google SketchUp. Then, watch while the fabricator head sweeps back and forth and upwards, depositing plastic in all the right places.

Legendary software expert Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of software craftsmanship. Subtitled "A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers" this book has advice about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude.

Shows how to use Excel 2010 to perform the core statistical tasks every business professional, student, and researcher should master. Using real-world examples,  helps you choose the right technique for each problem and get the most out of Excel’s statistical features, including its new consistency functions.

Once you know how to use Flash, you can create everything from simple animations to high-end desktop applications, but it's a complex tool that can be difficult to master. This Missing Manual will help you learn all you need to know about Flash CS5 to create animations that bring your ideas to life.

Starting from the basic behavior of light, the first section of the book introduces the most useful techniques for global and local illumination using geometric descriptions of an environment. The second section describes image-based techniques that rely on captured data to do their magic. The final section covers the synthesis of these two complementary approaches and what they mean for the future of computer graphics.

This book/CD package is the Self-Paced Training Kit for MCITP Exam 70-647 shows you how to plan network and application services; design core identity and access management components; design support identity and access management components and design for business continuity and data availability.

Intended for web developers and designers seeking practical advice on making HTML5 sites work, provides a collection of solutions to the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

Subtitled "50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites" is a   primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager with clear, proven scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them. Presnts a set of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in  both frontend and backend systems.