By moving applications to the cloud, you're giving up some control and autonomy, but you're also going to benefit from reduced costs, increased flexibility, and scalable computation and storage. This Windows Azure Architecture Guide shows you how to do this.

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CSS is a language for describing the presentation of elements in a document marked up in HTML. It enables you to rapidly create Web designs that can be shared by multiple pages, accelerates development time, and is the essential tool for building standards-compliant sites. This concise introduction to CSS3 and serves as a handy reference. It covers core concepts, how to format text with CSS and to apply its style rules to markup.

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Subtitled Using Games To Learn HTML5 And JavaScript this book begins at an introductory level, teaching the essentials of HTML5 and JavaScript through game development. Each chapter features a familiar game type as its core example, such as hangman, rock-paper-scissors, or dice games, and uses these simple constructs to build a solid skillset of the key HTML5 concepts and features.

Covers "BlackBerry Addiction" with true-life accounts of dependence and mishaps. You'll find comfort and humor in the unbelievable tales of BlackBerry abuse and also learn some valuable information. As the definitive guide to responsible BlackBerry use it shows how to get the most out of your BlackBerry device and provides etiquette guidelines.

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Shows exactly how to use PowerPivot, an add-in to Excel 2010 for more effective business decision-making. Using concrete examples and real-life scenarios, walks through setting up PowerPivot and integrating multiple data sources; creating and sharing dynamic dashboards; slicing and dicing to perform fast, interactive, ad hoc analyses.

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Subtitled What Really Works, and Why We Believe It this collection of essays from leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development community. Do different programming languages really make people more productive? Why do some people find it so hard to learn how to program?

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Taking an applications-oriented, engineering approach provides the tools for developing and advancing computer and human vision applications and brings image processing and analysis together into a unified framework. Presents material for a solid understanding of complex topics discussing theory and algorithm development.

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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 was a radical departure from its predecessors and with version 3.1, EJB's server-side component model for building distributed business applications is simpler yet. In this complete reference you'll learn how to encapsulate business logic with Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans, understand EJB's container services etc.

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Covers all aspects of Silverlight including the programming model, browser integration, integration with server-side technologies such as web services, and specific sections on rich media integration. For each recipe the problem is stated clearly and succinctly, solutions explored with discussion of the code and context so you can be clear how the solution will support your project.

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Elements 9 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It has some major new features, like Layer Masks, and the Organizer for Mac, that are powerful but not easy to figure out, as well as some fun new features that you may well overlook if you don't know where to find them. But it still doesn't come with a decent manual, so this book sets out to help from the basics to advanced.

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Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell Go beyond the syntax to what's essential and unique about each. For each language, solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off its most important features. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, and the process of learning languages quickly.

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A thorough resource for a remarkable framework:  experienced programmers will find methods for analyzing large datasets, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. Updated edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new features such as Hive, Sqoop, and Avro. See our review of the previous edition

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