Step-by-step approach shows how to build complete applications with Visual Basic 2010 in 24 sessions of one hour or less. You'll learn how to write efficient object-oriented code; build superior user interfaces; work with graphics, text, and databases; and even control external applications. Each lesson builds on what you've already learned.  DVD includes Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition.

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Updated for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), walks you through installing Ubuntu, and working with GNOME, Samba, exim4, Apache, DNS, NIS, LDAP, gufw, firestarter, iptables, even Perl scripting, demystifying everything from networking to security. Includes running Ubuntu from the command line and desktop (GUI), administrating systems and setting up networks and Internet servers.  

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Rails is increasingly being adopted in larger environments so developers and architects need better ways to interface with legacy systems, move into the cloud, and scale to handle higher volumes and greater complexity. This book introduces a services-based design approach geared toward overcoming all these challenges.

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Shows developers how to build applications that integrate with the major social networking sites, covering  Facebook, OpenSocial, and Twitter. Having identified the characteristics of engaging social media applications, this book shows how to use the Facebook platform, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API to create them.

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Subtitled Designing Play for the Gamer in ALL of Us this book explores what makes casual games work, from game mechanics to narrative content. Through close examination of a number of casual games, it show how to inject the necessary game design elements into your casual games and give your designs the complexity and strategy they need to hook gamers.

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Visual, full-color, large typeface, guide to Excel 2010 presents 100+ hands-on, step-by-step tasks show novices and inexperienced upgraders the easiest, fastest, most direct way to accomplish common tasks. Revamped for Excel 2010's most powerful new tools and features.

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For developers looking to incorporate an innovative, useful tool into their application or website, an interactive map can spur interest and encourage repeat visits from users. This beginner's guide to map scripting has 73 examples like a local concert tracker, a Twitter friend-finder, and a real-time weather map.

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Covers both Visual Basic 2010 Professional Edition for professional developers and the Express Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students. Explores data access, user interface development, networking, communication, and many other tasks. Offers detailed guidance on building effective object-oriented code for those moving from VB 6.

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Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience - or as the subtitle puts it Building the Web That Works for Everyone. It simplifies coding and testing as well as making sites easy to understand and use.

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Provides coverage of the most important elements of the Silverlight 4 technology ranging from XAML to standard controls, from dealing with media to networking, from testing to deployment. It reveals the new features introduced with Silverlight 4 and how to best utilize them. The book concludes with a pair of fully worked sample applications.

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This book uses a test-driven development (TDD) approach to the features of ASP.NET MVC. You'll get hands-on experience building and deploying a time-management web application from start to finish. You'll come away with a complete understanding of web services and data access, and of how to test each component so that your code is bug-free and maintainable.

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