This code-centric book explains how the Azure Services components - from Access Control to SQL Services, from the Service Bus to Workflow Services - are employed and demonstrates the techniques and best practices you need to know to use them to best effect. It also provides an overview of the architectural concepts that underpin Windows Azure.

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Shows how to deliver rich applications for the Web or desktop with Flex 4, Adobe′s new Flash Builder 4 IDE. Covers Flex basics and Flash Builder 4′s new development tools, Flex 4′s new Spark component skinning capability. Discover how to deploy desktop apps with AIR, model and manage data and integrate your app with popular application servers.

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Beginning with programming basics such as variables, flow control, and object oriented programming, this updated title then moves into web and Windows programming and data access (databases and XML). It constantly focuses on the tools that you need to program C#, the Visual C# 2010 development environment in Visual Studio 2010.

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A series of 10-minute lessons teach everything you need to know about WordPress. Coverage includes quickly building blogs for free; managing and customizing blogs; creating more powerful text and media content; attracting visitors via search engine optimization; moderating comments and building communities,

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This textbook presents concepts in small, manageable chunks that force students to focus on one core concept at a time. Examples are used to reinforce learning before moving on to more complicated concepts. This approach offers students an opportunity to establish patterns they can use in their own programs and develop an intuitive  understanding of programming concepts.

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3rd updated and extended edition of Matthew MacDonald's WPF title shows you how WPF really works and provides practical advice for building high-quality WPF applications. It goes on to explore the more advanced aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.

Looks at Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Device Central, the essential tools used in developing and testing Flash mobile device content. Explores object–oriented programming and the PureMVC framework. Shares techniques for extending the capabilities of mobile devices and introduces ways to extend Flash mobile apps beyond the Flash Lite Player.

Introduction to the fundamental aspects of developing modem embedded systems utilizing many cores. Provides insight into the main problems, limitations, possibilities and future growth. Covers hardware and software resource management, multithreading, and multi-core programming challenges. Numerous case studies.