Subtitled Designing Play for the Gamer in ALL of Us this book explores what makes casual games work, from game mechanics to narrative content. Through close examination of a number of casual games, it show how to inject the necessary game design elements into your casual games and give your designs the complexity and strategy they need to hook gamers.

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Visual, full-color, large typeface, guide to Excel 2010 presents 100+ hands-on, step-by-step tasks show novices and inexperienced upgraders the easiest, fastest, most direct way to accomplish common tasks. Revamped for Excel 2010's most powerful new tools and features.

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For developers looking to incorporate an innovative, useful tool into their application or website, an interactive map can spur interest and encourage repeat visits from users. This beginner's guide to map scripting has 73 examples like a local concert tracker, a Twitter friend-finder, and a real-time weather map.

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Covers both Visual Basic 2010 Professional Edition for professional developers and the Express Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students. Explores data access, user interface development, networking, communication, and many other tasks. Offers detailed guidance on building effective object-oriented code for those moving from VB 6.

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Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience - or as the subtitle puts it Building the Web That Works for Everyone. It simplifies coding and testing as well as making sites easy to understand and use.

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Provides coverage of the most important elements of the Silverlight 4 technology ranging from XAML to standard controls, from dealing with media to networking, from testing to deployment. It reveals the new features introduced with Silverlight 4 and how to best utilize them. The book concludes with a pair of fully worked sample applications.

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This book uses a test-driven development (TDD) approach to the features of ASP.NET MVC. You'll get hands-on experience building and deploying a time-management web application from start to finish. You'll come away with a complete understanding of web services and data access, and of how to test each component so that your code is bug-free and maintainable.

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Everyone’s talking about HTML5 and some of its new features are already being implemented by existing browsers. This book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. Rather than being just an academic investigation, it concentrates on the practical and includes hands-on HTML5 code examples.

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Written by three of IBM's Scrum practitioners, in collaboration with the IBM QSE Scrum Community, this book offers guidance for everyone who wants to succeed with Scrum in the enterprise. Using real-world examples, the book demonstrates how to apply key Scrum practices, such as look-ahead planning in geographically distributed environments.

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Covers all facets of working with Excel 2010 with new chapters on Excel Web App which allows multiple users to edit a spreadsheet simultaneously. New coverage also includes: Slicer, which offers dynamic filtering of PivotTables; Sparklines, which add data visualization to any cell; Calculation engine which improves the speed and accuracy of math, financial, and statistical functions; and the new version of Solver.

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