Elements 9 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It has some major new features, like Layer Masks, and the Organizer for Mac, that are powerful but not easy to figure out, as well as some fun new features that you may well overlook if you don't know where to find them. But it still doesn't come with a decent manual, so this book sets out to help from the basics to advanced.

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Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell Go beyond the syntax to what's essential and unique about each. For each language, solve a nontrivial problem, using techniques that show off its most important features. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of the languages, and the process of learning languages quickly.

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A thorough resource for a remarkable framework:  experienced programmers will find methods for analyzing large datasets, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. Updated edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new features such as Hive, Sqoop, and Avro. See our review of the previous edition

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Master core Silverlight features such as controls and properties; communicating with web services; efficiently creating data-oriented line-of-business applications; working with external frameworks, and more. Shows how to use advanced features such as 3D-like effects and multitouch.  Printed entirely in color, with syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend

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Updated to cover the new features of C# 4.0 which takes the language to the next level by adding the ability to cleanly write programs that don’t rely on static type definitions. Coverage includes dynamic binding, named and optional parameters, and covariant and contravariant generic types and continues to be authoritative and annotated technical reference for C#.

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Test Smarter, Not Harder is the message of this book that attempts to show that, by combining a forward-thinking development process with cutting-edge automation, testing can be a finely targeted, business-driven, rewarding effort.

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The recipes in this book not only help you get things done, they'll also help you develop applications that work reliably in every browser. Covering both ECMAScript 5 and HTML5, it helps you take advantage of the latest web features, including HTML5's persistent storage mechanisms and drawing canvas. See IProgrammer's review

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Introductory image processing text for students studying computer science or software engineering. With an emphasis on software design, it has extensive sample Java code. The text is accompanied by  illustrations that demonstrate the results of performing processing on famous art pieces.

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Guides you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C# from getting started to deployment, and everything in between. This book introducs the patterns to use, the issues and how to resolve them to developers who want to learn how to design business applications,

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This sixth Edition has been thoroughly revised and refined to include new detailed coverage of HTML5. Sep-by-step lessons give hands-on practice in creating web pages. Learn how to use JavaScript, Ajax and PHP.

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Covers all aspects of architecting, designing, and developing solutions with IBM WebSphere sMash and the Project Zero platform, technologies intended to make it easier to develop, assemble, and run applications and mashups that align tightly with SOA enterprise infrastructures.

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A practical introduction to the emerging new discipline of high dynamic range imaging that combines photography and computer graphics. By providing detailed equations and code, the book gives the reader the tools needed to experiment with new techniques for creating compelling images.

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