jQuery is one of today’s most popular JavaScript web application development frameworks and libraries. jQuery Recipes can get you started with jQuery quickly and easily, and it will serve as a valuable long-term reference.

• The book begins with small initial problems that developers typically face while working with jQuery, and gradually goes deeper to explore more complex problems.
• The solutions include illustrations and clear, concise explanations of the code. Using this book and jQuery, your web sites will be more dynamic and lively.

Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics. Such charts can have wide applications in representing mathematical, physical, and economic functions in your daily life. Whether you are an engineer, a quantitative analyst, a teacher, or a student, you will end up dealing with charting applications to some degree.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation graphics platform that enables you to build advanced user interfaces incorporating documents, media, 2D and 3D graphics, and animations. It is an ideal development tool that allows you to not only generate data, but also easily represent data graphically.

Practical WPF Charts and Graphics provides all the tools you will need to develop professional chart and graphics applications in WPF and C#. This book will be useful for WPF and C# programmers of all skill levels, providing a complete and comprehensive explanation of WPF’s graphics capability and the creation of various charts, and paying special attention to the details of code implementation.

• Understand the types of charts that can be developed in WPF and how WPF can be used to maximum effect in their development
• Develop a wide range of charts that consist of not only simple 2D and 3D graphs, but also the multimedia elements, embedded documents, and animations now commonly found in cutting-edge applications
• Adapt the wide selection of fully working demonstration charts that are provided with the book and integrate them into your own web site for instant results

What is the secret to successful software development? Veteran software architect Dave Ingram believes that a true success story is a project that delivers a system with all the required functionality, on time and within budget. In this book, Ingram shares his secrets to building software that must not fail and he explains why everything developers do during the process of software development impacts the overall outcome of a project.

Serving as a guide to designing and building production-ready software from the start, this book examines the entire process and the tools needed to develop and test applications. You’ll look at the environments and circumstances in which a system could be used and how to make certain that it’s fit for these purposes. Most importantly, the book covers the practices and patterns you can leverage during design and development to improve software quality, lower the total cost of ownership, and ensure that it is truly production-ready. With a thorough understanding of what is involved in designing, building, and running large-scale software systems, you’ll enhance your skills for building successful solutions.

What you will learn from this book

• What production-readiness means and all the quality characteristics that software needs to meet
• Key patterns and practices that ensure systems are designed and built to be production-ready and meet required standards and practices
• How to design for resilience, batch, performance, monitoring, incident investigation, reporting, application maintenance, testing, and deployment
• The pros and cons of using various tools and technologies and how to use them effectively
• Techniques for reviewing and testing a prototype
• Ways to plan the logical architecture and model the application

This book is for software developers of all levels—from programmers through to software architects—who are interested in learning all aspects related to building production-ready systems. Familiarity with software designs and development practices is essential.

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This book will give you a thorough grounding in the principal and supporting tools and technologies that make up the Xcode Developer Tools suite. Apple has provided a comprehensive collection of developer tools, and this is the first book to examine the complete Apple programming environment for both Mac OS X and iPhone.

• Comprehensive coverage of all the Xcode developer tools
• Additional coverage of useful third-party development tools
• Not just a survey of features, but a serious examination of the complete development process for Mac OS X and iPhone applications

As a new and exciting platform for creating and deploying social networking applications on multiple networks, OpenSocial is a set of common Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that can be used on MySpace, hi5, imeem, Friendster, Netlog, orkut, and more. This book walks you through the creation of engaging social network applications using OpenSocial, and provides you with a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of applications for the most popular social networks using OpenSocial.

Following an introduction that discusses what a social network application is and how applications can be found in different platforms, you’ll discover some of the most popular techniques used for creating both “social” and “viral” applications. You’ll gain an understanding of the OpenSocial architecture (including both client and server APIs) and OpenSocial data formats. Packed with code examples and tips and tricks from industry experts, this resource will put you on your way to quickly creating social networking applications with OpenSocial.

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Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.

The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo! John Allspaw combines personal anecdotes from many phases of Flickr’s growth with insights from his colleagues in many other industries to give you solid guidelines for measuring your growth, predicting trends, and making cost-effective preparations.

• Evaluating tools for measurement and deployment
• Capacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers
• Designing architectures to easily add and measure capacity
• Handling sudden spikes
• Predicting exponential and explosive growth
• How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy

In this book, Allspaw draws on years of valuable experience, starting from the days when Flickr was relatively small and had to deal with the typical growth pains and cost/performance trade-offs of a typical company with a Web presence. The advice he offers in The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.

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It’s the trap that ensnares virtually every business. We focus on process: “how” we’re doing the job. And we forget about the bigger issue: “what” we’re doing and “why” we’re doing it. That’s why we’re leaving so much value on the table. In Rethink, business architect Ric Merrifield exposes this problem with vivid examples and introduces breakthrough techniques for overcoming it. Merrifield shows how to rise above the clutter of your “hows” to expose what does and doesn’t need attention in your organization. You’ll learn to identify the activities most critical to success, as well as those that are borderline, redundant, or even counterproductive. Merrifield helps you get past the parochial, subjective viewpoints of ground-level participants…find more cost-effective ways to achieve core goals…capture better information for prioritizing investments…identify hidden sources of value…use technology-driven plug-and-play management to increase efficiency and agility…and reconfigure your company to ride nonstop waves of change. Along the way, Merrifield presents powerful case studies ranging from ING DIRECT to Amazon.com to Procter & Gamble. These diverse companies have learned how to cut costs, strengthen innovation, and profit from change all at the same time. Using the lessons in this book, you can, too.

- Rise above low-level processes and narrow perspectives.

- Step back, identify what really matters to the organization, and act accordingly.

- Understand the hidden connections that can make or break your business.

- Make profitable changes without setting off destructive chain reactions.

- Expose activities where people, process, and technology matter…and, equally important, where they don’t.

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Looking for an easy way to beat the credit crunch? Well look no further, as this guide to eBay - the world’s most profitable online market - is here to answer your prayers. All the latest tricks and tips together with expert advice will help you master eBay.

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This book starts with setting up a qmail server and takes you through virtualization, filtering, and other advanced features like hosting multiple domains, mailing lists, and SSL Encryption. Finally, it discusses the log files and how to make qmail work faster.

Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. Qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server. Qmail’s straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. Qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format.

• Installing, configuring, and compiling qmail
• Getting emails in and out of the queue, along with storing, retrieving, and authenticating them
• Virtualisation of domains and user management, filtering spam, and other advanced features like SSL encryption and mailing lists

This unique book examines up-to-the-minute uses of technology in financial markets and then explains how you can profit from that knowledge. To participate in mainstream .NET development, you must address the changes in financial markets by using the most sophisticated tools available, Microsoft .NET technology.

Software developers and architects, IT pros, and tech-savvy business users alike will find this book comprehensive and relevant. Each chapter presents problems and solutions that cover business aspects and relevant .NET features. Each aspect of .NET is analyzed in its proper context, so youll understand why it is relevant and applicable in a real-life business case.

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