A practical guide to how to modify key My Site features to meet specific business needs. Learn how to apply best practices, tackle hard-to-solve problems and create a valuable sense of community. Establish unified profiles across multiple SharePoint farms; determine a user content quota; manage metadata to keep user tags consistent on each site.

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This guide to Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop, provides an introduction for new users and gives experienced users  coverage of  the Pig Latin scripting language, the Grunt shell, and User Defined Functions (UDFs) for extending Pig. If you need to analyze terabytes of data, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Pig.

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This project-based book introduces readers to Apple's development environment. The book is aimed at new Mac OS X and iOS developers and assumes the reader is familiar with programming and object-oriented concepts. Starts at the basics - how to download, install, and start using Xcode - and moves to a detailed look at building and running applications.

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This book/CD package is the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit for Exam 70-667. It includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests to help you assess your skills. Features self-paced training based on final exam content;  objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors and customizable testing options.

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Presents a full spectrum of cutting-edge web development techniques, from UI and eye candy recipes to solutions for data analysis, testing, and web hosting. Make buttons and content stand out with simple cross-browser styles; do animations that work on mobile devices without plugins; build and test HTML emails; and build a flexible layout that works on desktops and mobile devices.

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An in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. Describes programming APIs and compare the technologies that underlie them. Covers the basic foundations needed for developing both client-side and cloud-side applications.

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Takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell. Along the way you'll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and more.

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This "Unofficial Quintessential Guide" provides information and insights for owners of this powerful HD camera. With its electronic viewfinder and interchangeable lenses, the GH2 is capable of not only recording professional-quality still images, but has the added ability to record HD video as well. The mirrorless design gives versatility beyond that of most DSLR cameras.

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In 24 step-by-step sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build high performance games for Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft’s free XNA 4.0 toolset. Master the skills  needed to design, develop, test, and publish highly playable games for any WP7 device - integrate game logic, touch screen user input, bitmaps, animations, audio, physics effects, GPS location services.

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Practical guide draws on the extensive experience of author Donald J. Reifer and presents eleven case studies spanning the public and private sectors and academia. Each case study illuminates the original conditions; describes options and recommendations; details reactions, outcomes, and lessons learned; and provides essential references and resources.

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Suitable for newcomers to computer science provides a succinct, yet complete, first course in computer science using the Python programming language. Each short, modular chapter introduces a main idea through a concrete example and a series of exercises.

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