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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers»rank: 13413by: Steve Souders
: :Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you've already built into your site -- adjustments that are ... |
Version Control with Subversion»rank: 14857by: C Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian Fitzpatrick
: :Written by members of the development team that maintains Subversion, this is the official guide and reference manual for the popular open source revision control technology. The new edition covers Subversion 1.5 with a complete introduction and guided tour of its capabilities, along with best practice recommendations. Version Control with Subversion is useful for people from a wide variety of backgrounds, from those with no previous version control experience to experienced system administrators. Subversion is the perfect tool to track individual changes when several people collaborate on documentation or, particularly, software development projects. As a more powerful and flexible successor to the CVS revision control system, Subversion makes life so much simpler, ... |
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Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))»rank: 16347by: Alex Martelli
: :This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many powerful but scantily documented modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the most frequently needed information--not just about the Python language itself, but also the most frequently used parts of the standard library and the most important third-party extensions. Ask any Python aficionado and you'll hear that Python programmers have it all: an elegant object-oriented language with readable and maintainable syntax, that allows for easy integration with components in C, C++, Java, or C#, and an enormous collection of precoded standard library ... |
Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA (Excel Power Programming With Vba)»rank: 38559by: John Walkenbach
: :'Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without Johns book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other bookssimultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA.' Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business Everything you need to know about: Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures Incorporating event-handling and interactions with other applications Building user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems Manipulating files and Visual Basic® components Understanding class modules Managing compatibility issues Feel the power of VBA and Excel No one can uncover Excels hidden capabilities like 'Mr. Spreadsheet' himself. John Walkenbach ... |
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C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))»rank: 26379by: Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
: :This is a concise yet thorough reference to C# 3.0 programming as implemented in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008. C# 3.0 in a Nutshell gets right to the point, covering the essentials of language syntax and usage as well as the parts of the .NET base class libraries you need to build working applications. But unlike earlier editions, this book is now organized entirely around concepts and use cases, providing greater depth and readability. C# 3.0 introduces the most significant enhancements yet to the programming language, and C# 3.0 in a Nutshell delves deep into the subject while assuming minimal prior knowledge of C#-making it accessible to anyone with a reasonable background in ... |
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)»rank: 26274by: Martin Fowler
: :Noted software engineering expert, Martin Fowler, turns his attention to enterprise application development. He helps professionals understand the complex--yet critical--aspects of architecture. Enables the reader to make proper choices when faced with a difficult design decision. |
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Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (Brain-Friendly Guides)»rank: 33999by: Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
: :Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). Learn how to write ... |
Using Drupal»rank: 25875by: Angela Byron, Heather Berry, Nathan Haug, Jeff Eaton, James Walker, Jeff Robbins
: :With the recipes in this book, you can take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. You'll get the information you need about how to combine modules in interesting ways (with a minimum of code-wrangling) to develop a variety of community-driven websites. Each chapter describes a case study and outlines specific requirements for one of several projects included in the book -- a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more. With Using Drupal, you will: Get an overview of Drupal concepts and key modules introduced in each chapter, with a bird's-eye view ... |
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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9 (Getting to Know series)»rank: 26938by: Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke
: :With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software. Conceptual material is followed by scripted software exercises. Necessary GIS skills are presented in a variety of areas--map symbology, data overlay, map projection, and data conversion--as the making of maps and the analysis of geographic data is conceptualized. Spatial modeling exercises using the Model Builder technology of ArcGIS version 9 are also provided. Other topics covered include organizing data, planning a GIS project, creating derived data, and presenting results. |
Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials (2nd Edition) (Apple Training)»rank: 14264by: Kevin M. White
: :The only Apple-certified book on supporting Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, this comprehensive reference takes support technicians and Mac aficionados deep inside the new operating system, covering everything from installation to networking technologies, and more. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, the lessons in this self-paced volume serve as a perfect guide for Apple’s own training class and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Lesson-review quizzes reinforce the knowledge gained along the way. |