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- Windows Live is the collective name for a group of Microsoft tools
whose services and user data are available anywhere-without ever having
to install an application
- Windows Live currently consists of: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live
Safety Center, Windows Live Favorites, Windows Live OneCare, Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live Search, and Windows Live Local
- Certified Microsoft Software Developer Jon Arking shares his
experience in developing for Windows Live, and teaches readers how to
build applications that embrace the Windows Live platform
- Packed with examples, this hands-on guide offers an insightful look
at the tools and technologies behind Windows Live, using the MSN
Activities APIs, building mapping applications with Virtual Earth APIs,
and developing Gadgets for both online and Windows Vista
- Also examines integrating MSN Search capabilities as well as Live
services into existing sites with Live custom domains

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Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming covers sidebar and
sideshow gadget development each in their own part of the book. Part 1
will cover Sidebar gadgets while Part 2 covers SideShow gadgets. In each
part, the book first explains the motivation behind each technology and
its features. Then, the reader is taken on a quick walkthrough of how to
develop a simple gadget, using the traditional "Hello World" approach to
quickly introduce the key concepts. After the quick walkthrough,
subsequent chapters will then dive into each specific API that is
relevant to enhancing the gadget. Finally, when the reader has mastered
all the important APIs, each part will end with a chapter covering two
or more projects, detailing step-by-step how each is built. Some of the
specific topics covered include:

- Sidebar gadgets architecture and components including XML manifest
- Debugging gadgets in Visual Studio 2005
- Deploying gadgets
- The Gadget system APIs
- Localizing gadgets and sidebar security sidebar projects
- Sideshow devices, UI components, and SDK
- Sideshow architecture, managed code, and classes
- Sideshow simple content format (SCF)
- Interacting with sideshow devices and handling sideshow device
events
- SideShow projects

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The success of Wikipedia has proven just how effective wikis can be for
collaborative editing on a large scale-larger than anyone originally
thought possible. This book shows you how to install, use, manage, and
extend a wiki using MediaWiki-the wiki engine used to power Wikipedia.
As each chapter builds on previous ones, tasks involving wikis progress
from simple to those of increasing complexity and evolve from theory to
case study. You'll learn wiki terminology and how to create user
accounts and new pages, use wiki links, and find your way around the
wiki. Special focus is placed on how wikis are used in software and web
development projects and how their capabilities ideally suit a specific
environment and audience. You'll quickly come to discover why wikis are
a valuable addition for any organization that wants to increase
productivity using web-based collaboration tools. What you will learn
from this book:

- When to use wikis instead of a more formal content management system
- What to look for when evaluating wikis in order to avoid unexpected
pitfalls
- How to install MediaWiki using Apache, PHP, MySQL®, and other
alternatives
- How wikitext allows you to edit content from any web browser and
create links to other wiki pages
- Ways to comment on pages, move them, track changes, and syndicate
wiki pages with RSS Who this book is for This book is for programmers,
developers, information architects, designers, and content authors who
are looking to use wikis to improve team productivity. Knowledge of
HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and PostgreSQL is necessary. Wrox
Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to
meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT
professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology
professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical
solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to
help programmers do a better job.

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Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step
at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on,
learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to
this specific language, you ll understand the core capabilities and
fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2008 and rapidly build robust,
elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when,
and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic guiding you each step of
the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows.
You ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics.

Key Book Benefits:

* Covers the latest enhancements and features of Visual Basic 2008
* Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Visual Basic 2008 with
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to create smart-client and Web applications
* Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons in the popular STEP
BY STEP format-ideal for anyone with fundamental programming skills

About the Author

Michael Halvorson is the author or coauthor of more than 30 books, including
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step, Microsoft Office XP Inside Out,
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step, and Learn Microsoft
Visual Basic 6.0 Now. In addition, Michael is an assistant professor at
Pacific Lutheran University.

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Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL
provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating
dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management.
In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and
MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a
freely downloadable and widely supported alternative to ASP.NET. Written
by the bestselling author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies, this book provides
six discreet minibooks that show you not only how to program in PHP,
create and administer a MySQL database, and manipulate MySQL data via a
Web interface, but also shows you how to create a secure Web site, and
how to code the most popular Web applications, such as login programs
and shopping cart applications. The minibooks are organized as follows:

- Book I: PHP Programming - Setting Up Your PHP Environment, PHP
Basics, Building PHP Scripts, PHP and Your Operating System,
Object-Oriented Programming.
- Book II: Using MySQL - Setting Up MySQL, Administering MySQL,
Building a Database, Other Administrative Tasks, Using MySQL
Administrator, Using MySQL Query, Using phpMyAdmin.
- Book III: Using PHP with MySQL - Communicating with the Database;
Creating and Modifying Database Structure; Adding, Updating, and
Removing Data; Retrieving Data from the Database; Advanced Features.
- Book IV: Security - Server Security, Apache Security, Programming
Securely in PHP, Using SSL.
- Book V: PHP Extensions - Introducing Extensions, Working with
Packages Using PEAR, Using the XML Extension, Generating Graphics with
the GD Extension.
- Book VI: PHP Web Applications - Building and Processing Dynamic
Forms, Making Information Available on Multiple Web Pages, Building a
Login Application, Building an Online Catalog, Building a Shopping Cart,
Building a Content Management System.
- Book VII: Installation Appendixes - Installing PHP, Installing
MySQL, Installing Apache.

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Write powerful SQL statements and PL/SQL programs

Learn to access Oracle databases through SQL statements and construct
PL/SQL programs with guidance from Oracle expert, Jason Price. Published
by Oracle Press, Oracle Database 11g SQL explains how to retrieve and
modify database information, use SQL Plus and SQL Developer, work with
database objects, write PL/SQL programs, and much more. Inside, you'll
find in-depth coverage of the very latest SQL features and tools,
performance optimization techniques, advanced queries, Java support, and
XML. This book contains everything you need to master SQL.

- Explore SQL Plus and SQL Developer
- Use SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
- Write PL/SQL programs
- Create tables, sequences, indexes, views, and triggers
- Write advanced queries containing complex analytical functions
- Create database objects and collections to handle abstract data
- Use large objects to handle multimedia files containing music and
movies
- Write Java programs to access an Oracle Database using JDBC
- Tune your SQL statements to make them execute faster
- Explore the XML capabilities of the Oracle Database
- Master the very latest Oracle Database 11g features, such as PIVOT
and UNPIVOT, flashback archives, and much more

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Your Ultimate "How-To" Guide to Java Programming!
Legendary programming author Herb Schildt shares some of his favorite
programming techniques in this high-powered Java "cookbook." Organized
for quick reference, each recipe shows how to accomplish a practical
programming task. A recipe begins with a list of key ingredients (the
classes, methods, and interfaces) followed by step-by-step instructions
that show how to assemble them into a complete solution. Detailed
discussions explain the how and why behind each step, and a full code
example puts the recipe into action. Each recipe ends with a list of
options and alternatives that suggest ways to adapt the technique to fit
a variety of situations. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced
pro, you'll find recipes that are sure to satisfy your Java programming
appetite!

Topics include:

- String Handling
- Regular Expressions
- File Handling
- Applets
- Servlets
- Swing
- The Collections Framework
- Multithreading
- Formatting Data

Learn how to:

- Find substrings that match a regular expression
- Use regular expressions to tokenize a string
- Compress and decompress data files
- Create a ZIP file
- Format time and date
- Use printf( ) to display formatted data
- Reverse, rotate, and shuffle a list
- Use a Comparator with a collection
- Create a simple Swing application
- Create a Swing-based applet
- Create a simple servlet
- Use a cookie with a servlet
- Synchronize threads
- Monitor a thread's state
- Set and obtain a thread's priority
- Use JScrollPane to automate scrolling
- Access a resource using HttpURLConnection
- Schedule a task for future execution
- Use reflection to dynamically create an object and call methods
- Much, much more

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This book covers all aspects of OSWorkflow for Java developers and
system architects, from basics of Business Process Management and
installing OSWorkflow to developing complex Java applications and
integrating this open-source Java workflow engine with the third-party
components Drools for business rules, Quartz for task scheduling, and
Pentaho for dashboards. Authored by an active developer of the
OSWorkflow project, it gives step-by-step instructions, explaining the
basics and clarifying and reinforcing principles with real-life
examples. OSWorkflow is a pure Java open-source workflow engine for
technical users, who can focus on the business logic and rules without
Petri Net or finite state machine coding and easily integrate OSWorkflow
into applications to create simple or complex workflows as needed.
Because OSWorkflow provides a relatively low-level but highly flexible
workflow implementation for Java developers, it is not a quick
plug-and-play solution for non-technical users.

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