Microsoft Office is the most widely used software suite in the world. The half-dozen programs in Office 2010 are packed with amazing features, but most people just know the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Office, it reveals all kinds of useful things you didn't know the software could do -- with plenty of power-user tips and tricks when you're ready for more.Create professional-looking documents. Learn everything you need to know to craft beautiful Word documents.Stay organized. Keep track of your email, calendar, and contacts with Outlook.Crunch numbers with ease. Assemble data, make calculations, and summarize the results with Excel.Make eye-catching presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, animations, and more.Build Access databases quickly. Make your data easy to find, sort, and manage.Manage your files more efficiently. Use the new Backstage view to quickly work with your Office files.Get to know the whole suite. Learn to use other handy Office tools: Publisher, OneNote, and Office Web Apps.
Access is the most complex and intimidating application in Microsoft Office. This book helps you learn how to design complete databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information, and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry. It lets you discover the pre-built databases which can be customized to fit your needs.
Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program, has the muscle to analyze heaps of data. Beyond basic number-crunching, Excel 2010 has many impressive features that are hard to find, much less master -- especially from online help pages. This Missing Manual clearly explains how everything works with a unique and witty style to help you learn quickly.Navigate with ease. Master Excel's tabbed toolbar and its new backstage viewPerform a variety of calculations. Write formulas for rounding numbers, calculating mortgage payments, and moreOrganize your data. Search, sort, and filter huge amounts of informationIllustrate trends. Bring your data to life with charts and graphics -- including miniature charts called SparklinesExamine your data. Summarize information and find hidden patterns with pivot tables and slicersShare your spreadsheets. Use the Excel Web App to collaborate with colleagues onlineRescue lost data. Restore old versions of data and find spreadsheets you forgot to save
Schedules, budgets, communications, resources - projects big and small include them all, and Microsoft Project 2010 can help you control these variables. This book teaches you from setting budgets and tracking schedules to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down. It is suitable for project managers.
Junos Security is the complete and authorized introduction to the new Juniper Networks SRX hardware series. This book not only provides a practical, hands-on field guide to deploying, configuring, and operating SRX, it also serves as a reference to help you prepare for any of the Junos Security Certification examinations offered by Juniper Networks.Network administrators and security professionals will learn how to use SRX Junos services gateways to address an array of enterprise data network requirements -- including IP routing, intrusion detection, attack mitigation, unified threat management, and WAN acceleration. Junos Security is a clear and detailed roadmap to the SRX platform. The author's newer book, Juniper SRX Series, covers the SRX devices themselves.Get up to speed on Junipers multi-function SRX platforms and SRX Junos softwareExplore case studies and troubleshooting tips from engineers with extensive SRX experienceBecome familiar with SRX security policy, Network Address Translation, and IPSec VPN configurationLearn about routing fundamentals and high availability with SRX platformsDiscover what sets SRX apart from typical firewallsUnderstand the operating system that spans the entire Juniper Networks networking hardware portfolioLearn about the more commonly deployed branch series SRX as well as the large Data Center SRX firewalls"e;I know these authors well. They are out there in the field applying the SRX's industry-leading network security to real world customers everyday. You could not learn from a more talented team of security engineers."e;--Mark Bauhaus, EVP and General Manager, Juniper Networks
Walks you through the iPhone app development process, from start to finish. This book helps you learn how to download the tools, build the app, get it through Apple's approval process, and then market and maintain the finished product. It includes illustrations, step-by-step tutorials, and real-world examples.
Offers practical tips advice for getting - and keeping - your finances in order. This title covers the various money-management bases, from saving and spending to getting out of debt to investing and planning for retirement. It helps you learn about several useful websites that can help you manage your money.
Offers a look at HTML5's elements and attributes. This title shows how this version enables browsers to interact with JavaScript much more easily. It teaches how HTML5 can help you develop applications that: display video directly in the browser, without having to rely on plugins and offer a drawing canvas for dynamically generated 2-D graphics.
Looking for a reliable way to learn how to program on your own, without being overwhelmed by confusing concepts? Head First Programming introduces the core concepts of writing computer programs -- variables, decisions, loops, functions, and objects -- which apply regardless of the programming language. This book offers concrete examples and exercises in the dynamic and versatile Python language to demonstrate and reinforce these concepts. Learn the basic tools to start writing the programs that interest you, and get a better understanding of what software can (and cannot) do. When you're finished, you'll have the necessary foundation to learn any programming language or tackle any software project you choose.With a focus on programming concepts, this book teaches you how to:Understand the core features of all programming languages, including: variables, statements, decisions, loops, expressions, and operatorsReuse code with functionsUse library code to save time and effortSelect the best data structure to manage complex dataWrite programs that talk to the WebShare your data with other programsWrite programs that test themselves and help you avoid embarrassing coding errorsWe think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Programming uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.
RESTful web services may be simpler, more versatile, and more scalable than web services built with SOAP or CORBA, but using the REST architecture is still no picnic. This title offers more than 50 recipes to help you solve common problems you're likely to face when designing and developing RESTful web services.
How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more. Ruby Best Practices will help you:Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby's code blocksLearn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the flyDiscover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and how to design for testabilityLearn to write faster code by keeping things simpleDevelop strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressionsUnderstand how and why things can go wrongReduce cultural barriers by leveraging Ruby's multilingual capabilitiesThis book also offers you comprehensive chapters on driving code through tests, designing APIs, and project maintenance. Learn how to make the most of this rich, beautiful language with Ruby Best Practices.
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:JavaScriptGet advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.NetworkLearn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.BrowserDiscover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster.This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.
What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Karma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they're critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It's a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributionsDetermine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than othersBecome familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributionsDiscover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficientlyEngage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to returnExamine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay
Helps you learn how to deal with a wide range of nagging problems of Windows 7. This book lets you: customize Windows Explorer, improve the Search tool, and get Windows 7's advertised eye candy to work; explore Registry tips and tools and use them to solve 7's shortcomings; and, protect your data with permissions, encryption, and shadow copies.
Orchestrating asynchronous function calls in JavaScript often leads to callback hell, but there is a reliable way to avoid this painful state of affairs. With this concise and simple guide, youll learn how to use jQuery deferreds and promises, an elegant approach for managing asynchronous calls in both client and server applications.This book contains 18 examples that use deferreds to solve progressively challenging real-world programming problems, along with 75 stimulating puzzles (and their solutions) that will help you understand how and when to use deferreds. Experienced JavaScript programmers will learn new tricks in a fun way, and become immersed in the practice of event-based programming.Understand the logic behind creating deferreds and returning promisesGet a structured explanation of jQuerys deferred APIDelve into the dynamics of using deferredsExplore a broad collection of useful deferred recipes developed by the authorsGain hands-on experience by solving challenges that accompany each recipeGo deeper into deferreds: encounter novel abstractions and mind-bending use cases
Gain hands-on experience with HDF5 for storing scientific data in Python. This practical guide quickly gets you up to speed on the details, best practices, and pitfalls of using HDF5 to archive and share numerical datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to terabytes.Through real-world examples and practical exercises, youll explore topics such as scientific datasets, hierarchically organized groups, user-defined metadata, and interoperable files. Examples are applicable for users of both Python 2 and Python 3. If youre familiar with the basics of Python data analysis, this is an ideal introduction to HDF5.Get set up with HDF5 tools and create your first HDF5 fileWork with datasets by learning the HDF5 Dataset objectUnderstand advanced features like dataset chunking and compressionLearn how to work with HDF5s hierarchical structure, using groupsCreate self-describing files by adding metadata with HDF5 attributesTake advantage of HDF5s type system to create interoperable filesExpress relationships among data with references, named types, and dimension scalesDiscover how Python mechanisms for writing parallel code interact with HDF5
With more than 150 detailed recipes, this cookbook shows experienced Clojure developers how to solve a variety of programming tasks with this JVM language. The solutions cover everything from building dynamic websites and working with databases to network communication, cloud computing, and advanced testing strategies. And more than 60 of the worlds best Clojurians contributed recipes.Each recipe includes code that you can use right away, along with a discussion on how and why the solution works, so you can adapt these patterns, approaches, and techniques to situations not specifically covered in this cookbook.Master built-in primitive and composite data structuresCreate, develop and publish libraries, using the Leiningen toolInteract with the local computer thats running your applicationManage network communication protocols and librariesUse techniques for connecting to and using a variety of databasesBuild and maintain dynamic websites, using the Ring HTTP server libraryTackle application tasks such as packaging, distributing, profiling, and loggingTake on cloud computing and heavyweight distributed data crunchingDive into unit, integration, simulation, and property-based testingClojure Cookbook is a collaborative project with contributions from some of the worlds best Clojurians, whose backgrounds range from aerospace to social media, banking to robotics, AI research to e-commerce.
If youre familiar with functional programming basics and want to gain a much deeper understanding, this in-depth guide takes you beyond syntax and demonstrates how you need to think in a new way. Software architect Neal Ford shows intermediate to advanced developers how functional coding allows you to step back a level of abstraction so you can see your programming problem with greater clarity.Each chapter shows you various examples of functional thinking, using numerous code examples from Java 8 and other JVM languages that include functional capabilities. This book may bend your mind, but youll come away with a much better grasp of functional programming concepts.Understand why many imperative languages are adding functional capabilitiesCompare functional and imperative solutions to common problemsExamine ways to cede control of routine chores to the runtimeLearn how memoization and laziness eliminate hand-crafted solutionsExplore functional approaches to design patterns and code reuseView real-world examples of functional thinking with Java 8, and in functional architectures and web frameworksLearn the pros and cons of living in a paradigmatically richer worldIf youre new to functional programming, check out Josh Backfields book Becoming Functional.
Financial experts agree that with the right guidance, consumers can make investments better than many professionals. This guide gives you the confidence, tools, and insight you need to evaluate financial products and make smart investments that target success over the long term.
So you've got an idea for an iPhone app -- along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dose of personality. This accessible, well-written guide shows you how to design exceptional user experiences for the iPhone and iPod Touch through practical principles and a rich collection of visual examples.Whether you're a designer, programmer, manager, or marketer, Tapworthy teaches you to "e;think iPhone"e; and helps you ask the right questions -- and get the right answers -- throughout the design process. You'll explore how considerations of design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability combine to create a tapworthy app. Along the way, you'll get behind-the-scenes insights from the designers of apps like Facebook, USA Today, Twitterrific, and many others.Develop your ideas from initial concept to finished designBuild an effortless user experience that rewards every tapExplore the secrets of designing for touchDiscover how and why people really use iPhone appsLearn to use iPhone controls the Apple wayCreate your own personality-packed visuals
Unlock the power of Adobe Flash and bring stunning animations to life onscreen. Flash CS5: The Missing Manual includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program's tools and capabilities, new illustrations, and lots of details on working with video.
With contributions from more than two dozen experts, this book demonstrates why visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding.
Takes you through the process of buying a home, from start to finish. This book offers you advice and fill-in forms to identify the house you want, figure out what kind of neighborhood you want to live in, determine what a target home is really worth, make an offer, and close the deal.
Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of this bestselling guide. Written by the developers of JBoss EJB 3.1, this book not only brings you up to speed on each component type and container service in this implementation, it also provides a workbook with several hands-on examples to help you gain immediate experience with these components.With version 3.1, EJB's server-side component model for building distributed business applications is simpler than ever. But it's still a complex technology that requires study and lots of practice to master. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference on this specification. You'll find a straightforward, no-nonsense explanation of the underlying technology, including Java classes and interfaces, the component model, and the runtime behavior of EJB.Develop your first EJBs with a hands-on walkthrough of EJB 3.1 conceptsLearn how to encapsulate business logic with Session Beans and Message-Driven BeansDiscover how to handle persistence through Entity Beans, the EntityManager, and the Java Persistence APIUnderstand EJB's container services such as dependency injection, concurrency, and interceptorsIntegrate EJB with other technologies in the Java Enterprise Edition platformUse examples with either the JBossAS, OpenEJB, or GlassFish v3 EJB Containers
In addition to Code First, EF 4.1 introduces simpler EF coding patterns with the DbContext, DbSet, ChangeTracker and Validation APIs. This second mini-book will take the reader on a tour of these new features and how to take advantage of them.
Offers you the details on how to use and customize version 5.0 of the DocBook XML schema. This book is suitable for technical writers, developers looking to customize the schema, tools developers, and managers evaluating DocBook.
A guide that helps you prepare for the technically challenging Level 1 LPI exams, which test basic knowledge of Linux installation, configuration, and command-line skills. It features a summary of the core skills you need, as well as sample exercises, test questions, and hints to help you focus.
What does it take to build an iPhone app with stunning 3D graphics? This book will show you how to apply OpenGL graphics programming techniques to any device running the iPhone OS -- including the iPad and iPod Touch -- with no iPhone development or 3D graphics experience required. iPhone 3D Programming provides clear step-by-step instructions, as well as lots of practical advice, for using the iPhone SDK and OpenGL.You'll build several graphics programs -- progressing from simple to more complex examples -- that focus on lighting, textures, blending, augmented reality, optimization for performance and speed, and much more. All you need to get started is a solid understanding of C++ and a great idea for an app.Learn fundamental graphics concepts, including transformation matrices, quaternions, and moreGet set up for iPhone development with the Xcode environmentBecome familiar with versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the OpenGL ES API, and learn to use vertex buffer objects, lighting, texturing, and shadersUse the iPhone's touch screen, compass, and accelerometer to build interactivity into graphics applicationsBuild iPhone graphics applications such as a 3D wireframe viewer, a simple augmented reality application, a spring system simulation, and more
Helps you learn the tools essential for building high-quality applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch. This title offes an introduction to Apple's Cocoa programming environment. It also helps you learn building applications, managing events, creating GUIs, and more with Cocoa and the Application Kit.
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