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- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real world examples
- Gain a strong foundation of WPF features and patterns
- Leverage the MVVM pattern to build decoupled, maintainable apps
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- Master the most crucial tasks you’ll need to implement System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection
- Provision SCEP administrators with just the right level of privileges, build the best possible SCEP policies for your workstations and servers, discover the hidden potential of command line utilities and much more in this practical book and eBook
- Quick and easy recipes to ease the pain of migrating from a legacy AV solution to SCEP
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- Learn about the tremendous capabilities of the latest powerhouse version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
- Take a deep dive into crucial topics including Exadata Database Machine monitoring and management, Application Management of Oracle packaged applications, and Real User Experience Insight
- Take advantage of the author’s experience as an Oracle Certified Master in this real world guide including enterprise examples and case studies
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- Learn how to install and configure all the core components of OpenStack to run an environment that can be managed and operated just like AWS or Rackspace
- Master the complete private cloud stack from scaling out compute resources to managing swift services for highly redundant, highly available storage
- Practical, real world examples of each service are built upon in each chapter allowing you to progress with the confidence that they will work in your own environments
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- Expand your APEX repertoire with a deeper understanding of reporting features
- Get to grips with customizing and enhancing existing reporting capabilities in this book and e-book
- A comprehensive and unique approach to getting the desired reports by working with APEX internal metadata
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- Explodes the widely held view that iWork is simply Apple's version of MS Office by revealing the amazing creative power of this office suite
- Use iWork to create high quality documents for professional printing or internet use
- Written for both the new and experienced iWork user, this book is a step-by-step guide to creating dazzling graphics, unique clip art, logos, and sophisticated designs to rival top-end professional programs
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- Turns anyone already using Prezi into a master of both design and delivery
- Illustrated throughout with easy to follow screen shots and some live Prezi examples to view online
- Plenty of tips that not only focus on the software, but also on how to get the mindset of a master
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- Clear step-by-step instructions with lots of practical examples
- Develop cutting-edge PHP applications like never before with the help of this popular IDE, through quick and simple techniques
- Experience exciting features of PHP application development with real-life PHP projects
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- Explore the Processing language with a broad range of practical recipes for computational art and graphics
- Wide coverage of topics including interactive art, computer vision, visualization, drawing in 3D, and much more with Processing
- Create interactive art installations and learn to export your artwork for print, screen, Internet, and mobile devices
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- "Oracle APEX Best Practices" will get you started with Oracle APEX for developing real-world applications that perform and maximize the full potential of Oracle APEX
- You will also learn to take advantage of advanced SQL and PL/SQL along the way
- Combines the knowledge of Oracle Apex Experts -- Alex Nuijten, Iloon Ellen-Wollf, and Learco Brizzi
- Setting up your environment and getting ready for developing applications
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Packt Microsoft Carnival
May 2012 | Enterprise
Brighten your May at Packt’s Microsoft Carnival!This May, let Packt Publishing liven your bookshelves and expand your knowledge. Packt Publishing brings to you an exciting choice of discounts for Microsoft books and e-books. We have slashed our prices by 30%, so celebrate with us, go crazy and make the most of this Carnival before it ends…
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Become a Drush expert by exploring Packt's latest Drush User’s Guide
May 2012 | Drupal
Packt recently announced the release of its new book Drush User's Guide. It is the first and only book to cover Drush in detail, and is packed with clear step-by-step instructions for building and maintaining Drupal sites from the command line.
Read Become a Drush expert by exploring Packt's latest Drush User’s Guide in fullMaster Drupal Views using Packt's latest Drupal 7 Views Cookbook
April 2012 | Drupal
Packt recently announced the release of its new book Drupal 7 Views Cookbook. Written by J. Ayen Green, this book contains plenty of easy-to-follow practical recipes with screenshots that will help you in mastering the Drupal Views module.
Read Master Drupal Views using Packt's latest Drupal 7 Views Cookbook in fullWorkflow
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Andy Penver | May 2012 | Oracle
In this article by Andy Penver, we will cover the following:
- Introducing Workflow Builder
- Installing the database objects
- Creating an advanced queue
- Building a workflow
- Creating a business event
- Viewing a workflow status and monitoring progress
- Adding a function
- Creating a lookup
- Creating a subprocess
- Sending notifications and processing responses
- Calling an API
Troubleshooting with Intuit Quickbooks
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Jaime Campbell, CPA, MBA, CTT, MCT | May 2012 | Enterprise Articles Content Management
This article by Jaime Campbell, CPA, MBA, CTT, MCT, author of Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Edition 12.0 Cookbook for Experts illuminates a number of accounting errors that are common in QuickBooks files, and enables you to resolve them.You will examine a number of accounting errors that are common in QuickBooks files, and enables you to be powerful and efficient in resolving them.
In this article, we will cover the following recipes:
- Clearing stale undeposited funds
- Adjusting cash basis receivables or payables balances
- Writing off stale receivables
- Writing off stale payables
- Balancing the balance sheet
- Classifying unclassified transactions
- Reclassifying opening balance equity transactions
- Classifying uncategorized income or expenses
- Resolving opening balance discrepancies in bank reconciliations
Creating and managing user accounts in Microsoft Windows SBS 2011
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Drew Hills (MCITP MCSE DCNE SBSC BEngTech (Elec) ) Robert Crane (BE MBA MCP) | April 2012 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft
The majority of time administrating a network is spent managing users. Users not only need access to a Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 network but they all need access to its resources. The key to good network administration is doing this in the most effective manner. Probably the most important part of a network will be the users. They need access to the resources on the server as well as the services that it provides. To do this securely they are firstly going to need a network login ID that identifies them to the domain. They will typically use this login ID at a workstation connected to the domain.
In this article by Robert Crane and Drew Hills, co-authors of (MCTS): Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide, we shall look at creating and managing user accounts.
Read Creating and managing user accounts in Microsoft Windows SBS 2011 in fullThe Components of TM1
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James D. Miller | April 2012 | Enterprise Articles IBM
In this article by James D. Miller, author of IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide, we will identify and discuss each of the components of IBM Cognos TM1 that are covered in the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (Test COG-310) certification exam. The current exam assigns a weightage of 3 percent to this topic. The components of TM1 are divided into two basic types which are:
- Client components
- Sever components
Dynamic Flash Charts - FusionCharts style
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Pallav Nadhani Sanket Nadhani Shamasis Bhattacharya | April 2012 | Beginner's Guides Java
FusionCharts Suite helps you create stunning charts, gauges, and maps in a jiffy for all your web and enterprise applications. Using it, you can build awesome dashboards, reports, analytics, monitors, surveys that blend aesthetic elegance and actionable insights.
In this artice by Sanket Nadhani, Shamasis Bhattacharya, and Pallav Nadhani, authors of FusionCharts Beginner's Guide, we will look at the features of FusionCharts. We will cover the following topics:
- Learn how to set up FusionCharts
- Build your first chart and configure basic parameters
- Understand the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation(JSON) data format supported by FusionCharts and different ways to provide it to the chart
- Learn how to build charts with multiple series and axes
- Create advanced charts such as Combination charts
Microsoft Silverlight 5: Working with Services
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Gill Cleeren Kevin Dockx | April 2012 | Microsoft
In this article by Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx, authors of Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook, we will cover:
- Connecting and reading from a standardized service
- Persisting data using a standardized service
- Configuring cross-domain calls
- Working cross-domain from a trusted application
- Reading XML using HttpWebRequest
