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Oct 13, 2011 | No Comments
This year, millions of beginner-to-intermediate-level users will be searching for the easiest possible way to master Excel 2010’s new features – and, with Easy Microsoft Excel 2010 , you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for. This full-color, utterly simple, step-by-step book has been carefully crafted to provide instant access to the 100+ tasks you’ll find most useful and valuable. As with all books in the Easy series, it’s designed to teach visually: you never have to work your way through lengthy text explanations. Its large typeface makes it even more accessible to all readers – especially senior readers whose needs are disregarded by most computer books. Written by an experienced Microsoft Excel trainer and author, Easy Microsoft Excel 2010 walks you through the easiest, fastest, most direct procedures for getting the results they’re looking for.Coverage includes: getting started fast; managing, viewing, and editing workbooks; formatting data; using formulas, functions, charts, and graphics; analyzing data; printing; and even advanced techniques. Along the way, you will learn how to make the most of many of Excel 2010’s most powerful innovations, such as Sparklines and the Excel Web App. 100+ hands-on, step-by-step tasks show novices and inexperienced upgraders the easiest, fastest, most direct way to accomplish common tasks Written by an experienced Microsoft Excel trainer and author Fully revamped for Excel 2010’s most powerful new tools and features Large typeface improves readability and appeals to senior readers ignored by most computer books Download ebook: Easy Microsoft Excel 2010 If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 23, 2011 | No Comments
Learn the nuts and bolts of cloud computing with Windows Azure, Microsoft’s new Internet services platform. Written by a key member of the product development team, this book shows you how to build, deploy, host, and manage applications using Windows Azure’s programming model and essential storage services. Chapters in Programming Windows Azure are organized to reflect the platform’s buffet of services. The book’s first half focuses on how to write and host application code on Windows Azure, while the second half explains all of the options you have for storing and accessing data on the platform with high scalability and reliability. Lots of code samples and screenshots are available to help you along the way. Learn how to build applications using the Windows Azure toolset Discover how Windows Azure works under the hood, and learn the how and the why behind several features Choose to write application code in .NET or other languages such as C/C++, PHP, or Ruby Understand the various options for managing your service Get up to speed on Azure’s storage services, including blobs, queues, and tables Build a secure backup system, and learn about cloud application security, cryptography, and performance Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 23, 2011 | No Comments
No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, the interactive disassembler, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book , you’ll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use. Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as “profound, comprehensive, and accurate,” the second edition of The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. You’ll find complete coverage of IDA’s new Qt-based user interface, as well as increased coverage of the IDA debugger, the Bochs debugger, and IDA scripting (especially using IDAPython). But because humans are still smarter than computers, you’ll even learn how to use IDA’s latest interactive and scriptable interfaces to your advantage. Save time and effort as you learn to: Navigate, comment, and modify disassembly Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code Use code graphing to quickly make sense of cross references and function calls Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes using the SDK Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more Use IDA’s built-in debugger to tackle hostile and obfuscated code Whether you’re analyzing malware, conducting vulnerability research, or reverse engineering software, a mastery of IDA is crucial to your success. Take your skills to the next level with this 2nd edition of The IDA Pro Book . Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 22, 2011 | No Comments
This book offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced techniques for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in SQL Server and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that you can either read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes that you want in no particular order. Although the book is focused on specific Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, most of the concepts and explanations are also applicable to SQL Server 2008. If you are an experienced database administrator and database architect who wants to design, administer, and manage a scalable and high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you have a good understanding of database management systems, specifically experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 administration. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 22, 2011 | No Comments
How is it possible to predict weather patterns for tomorrow, with access solely to today’s weather data? And how is it possible to predict the aerodynamic behavior of an aircraft that has yet to be built? The answer is computer simulations based on mathematical models – sets of equations – that describe the underlying physical properties. However, these equations are usually much too complicated to solve, either by the smartest mathematician or the largest supercomputer. This problem is overcome by constructing an approximation: a numerical model with a simpler structure can be translated into a program that tells the computer how to carry out the simulation. This book conveys the fundamentals of mathematical models, numerical methods and algorithms. Opening with a tutorial on mathematical models and analysis, it proceeds to introduce the most important classes of numerical methods, with finite element, finite difference and spectral methods as central tools. The concluding section describes applications in physics and engineering, including wave propagation, heat conduction and fluid dynamics. Also covered are the principles of computers and programming, including MATLAB®. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 22, 2011 | No Comments
We’re constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it’s convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations. Narrated soothingly by NPR announcer Bob Edwards, Fisher adds the meaty portions of the material with a sense of playfulness. The blend of voices makes this tape easy to listen to, especially the real-life negotiating scenarios, in which negotiating examples are given. This is a must-have tape for every businessperson’s car. (Running time: one hour, one cassette) Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 21, 2011 | No Comments
XNA is a Microsoft software framework that game developers use to create commercial games for the Xbox hardware, and other hardware that supports XNA. XNA 2.0 is an exploding technology, and on the verge of a large consumer breakout. Microsoft has devoted an increasing amount of resources to expand the XNA Community. Not only does XNA appeal to game developers, but many “rank and file” developers are showing more interest in XNA as well. The author, James Silva, won a prestigious Microsoft XNA gaming competition (the Microsoft Dream Build Play competition): the book walks the reader through the process he took in creating the award-winning XNA game. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 20, 2011 | No Comments
Whether you want to embed context into conversations or build sophisticated server side communication solutions, this book shows you how to integrate the right functionality into your applications. It goes beyond simple samples to demonstrate how to create real software solutions on the Unified Communications (UC) platform. You’ll quickly progressfrom a basic understanding of custom UC development to using the Microsoft Lync APIs to help streamline communications and collaboration. You’ll also discover how to extend and customize your existing messaging and voice infrastructure to adapt to your changing business needs. Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Dives into building communication clients in Microsoft Lync 2010 Explores the classes and operations in the UCMA API that can be used to control presence, audio and IM sessions, conferences, and more Explains the SIP messaging that UCMA uses behind the scenes to perform various operations Walks you through several useful troubleshooting techniques and solutions to specific common issues Covers how to build interactive voice or IM applications using communication workflows and custom communication workflow activities Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 10, 2011 | No Comments
Sharpen your development skills with this practical reference to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Written by enterprise-development expert Paolo Pialorsi, this book shows you how to develop real-world business solutions, using techniques to extend and customize the SharePoint environment with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010. Discover how to: Write robust code for SharePoint solutions using the Server Object Model Use the Client Object Model to build Microsoft Silverlight® and JavaScript applications for SharePoint Extend the UI to customize menus, ribbons, and controls for intranets, extranets, and Internet sites Query and manage items in SharePoint lists using the LINQ-to-SharePoint provider Develop custom workflows using Visual Studio 2010 or SharePoint Designer 2010 Delve into advanced solutions, such as connectable Web Parts and asynchronous programming Create security-enhanced code for SharePoint using sandboxed solutions Get code samples on the web For system requirements, see the Introduction. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Jun 3, 2011 | No Comments
Professional guidance on using Microsoft’s Visual Studio toolset for agile project management Focusing on both process and results, this professional guide offers a practical approach to running agile software projects using Visual Studio’s project management templates and tools. You’ll first get a thorough overview of the interaction between traditional, scrum-based agile development techniques and the Microsoft Soutions Framework, before drilling down into the detail. The book covers tools, best practices, key templates, key data, team and process models, necessary tracking assets—and a host of other project challenges, such as project communication, organization, and budgets. Shows how to use Microsoft’s agile Visual Studio toolset for agile project management Written by leading experts from Microsoft and industry, this is an authoritative guide to agile development for all Microsoft-based projects Teaches basic concepts through best practices for delivering great software on time Covers the interaction of traditional, scrum-based agile development techniques and the Microsoft Solutions Framework Focuses on what must be in place to keep a project on track, including team models, process models, detailed tracking assets, and more Professional Scrum with Team foundation Server 2010 combines theory with practical experience to help experienced software project managers and developers ship reliable software on time. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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