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JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 01:13 PM PDT

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Book Description

JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects—but many web designers find the language hard to learn. This jargon-free guide covers JavaScript basics and shows you how to save time and effort with the jQuery library of prewritten JavaScript code. You'll soon be building web pages that feel and act like desktop programs, without having to do much programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

  • Make your pages interactive. Create JavaScript events that react to visitor actions.
  • Use animations and effects. Build drop-down navigation menus, pop-ups, automated slideshows, and more.
  • Improve your user interface. Learn how the pros make websites fun and easy to use.
  • Collect data with web forms. Create easy-to-use forms that ensure more accurate visitor responses.
  • Add a dash of Ajax. Enable your web pages to communicate with a web server without a page reload.
  • Practice with living examples. Get step-by-step tutorials for web projects you can build yourself.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Writing Your First JavaScript Program
Chapter 2 The Grammar of JavaScript
Chapter 3 Adding Logic and Control to Your Programs
Chapter 4 Introducing jQuery
Chapter 5 Action/Reaction: Making Pages Come Alive with Events
Chapter 6 Animations and Effects
Chapter 7 Improving Your Images
Chapter 8 Improving Navigation
Chapter 9 Enhancing Web Forms
Chapter 10 Expanding Your Interface
Chapter 11 Introducing Ajax
Chapter 12 Flickr and Google Maps
Chapter 13 Getting the Most from jQuery
Chapter 14 Going Further with JavaScript
Chapter 15 Troubleshooting and Debugging

Book Details

  • Paperback: 536 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press; 2nd Edition (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449399029
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449399023
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Microsoft Windows Security Essentials

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Microsoft Windows Security Essentials

Book Description

Windows security concepts and technologies for IT beginners

IT security can be a complex topic, especially for those new to the field of IT. This full-color book, with a focus on the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) program, offers a clear and easy-to-understand approach to Windows security risks and attacks for newcomers to the world of IT. By paring down to just the essentials, beginners gain a solid foundation of security concepts upon which more advanced topics and technologies can be built.

This straightforward guide begins each chapter by laying out a list of topics to be discussed, followed by a concise discussion of the core networking skills you need to have to gain a strong handle on the subject matter. Chapters conclude with review questions and suggested labs so you can measure your level of understanding of the chapter’s content.

  • Serves as an ideal resource for gaining a solid understanding of fundamental security concepts and skills
  • Offers a straightforward and direct approach to security basics and covers anti-malware software products, firewalls, network topologies and devices, network ports, and more
  • Reviews all the topics you need to know for taking the MTA 98-367 exam
  • Provides an overview of security components, looks at securing access with permissions, addresses audit policies and network auditing, and examines protecting clients and servers

If you’re new to IT and interested in entering the IT workforce, then Microsoft Windows Security Essentials is essential reading.

From the Back Cover
Learn Windows Security Quickly and Easily

This full-color guide covers the basics of securing a Windows operating system and prepares you to take the Microsoft Technology Associate Exam 98-367, Security Fundamentals. You’ll learn essential security principles, then quickly get up to speed on malware, NTFS permissions, firewalls, encryption, and much more. This is the ideal book, whether you’re aspiring to be an IT professional, or just brushing up on the basics.

Learn these Windows security essentials—and more:

  • Understanding how risk and threat impact security principles
  • Recognizing malware in all its forms
  • Defending against social engineering attacks
  • Identifying the three aspects of user authentication
  • Securing access using NTFS permissions
  • Protecting clients, servers, and networks
  • Understanding encryption, certificates, and PKIs
  • Preparing for MTA Exam 98-367, Security Fundamentals

View full-color images of system security settings
Practical illustrations help reinforce learning objectives

This striking Essentials book maximizes skill acquisition and knowledge retention with:

  • Chapter-opening learning objectives
  • Full coverage of all exam topics
  • Four-color screenshots and illustrations
  • Essentials and Beyond—summaries and additional suggested exercises
  • Chapter review questions

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 111801684X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118016848
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Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012

Book Description

Get the Essentials on Autodesk’s fastest-growing software package!

The new Essentials series from Sybex helps you quickly learn and use Autodesk software. This beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Revit Architecture, teaching readers what they need to become quickly productive with this popular building information modeling (BIM) architectural design software.

By following the book’s clear explanations, practical tutorials, and step-by-step exercises, you’ll cover all the essentials of a typical design workflow. Topics include how to best use the interface, creating floor plans, adding walls and curtain walls, generating color fill plans, preparing documentation, as well as annotating, collaborating, and more. This four-color Essentials guide provides you with the fast and thorough grounding you need in Revit Architecture.

  • Covers Revit Architecture 2012 fundamentals, so you become quickly productive with the software
  • Prepares you for the Revit Architecture Associate and Professional certification exams
  • Uses straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach the software’s core features and functions
  • Helps you quickly develop the skills needed throughout a project, whether you’re a beginner or a more experienced user brushing up on the basics

Go from concepts to complete construction documents with this essential, full-color guide.

From the Back Cover
This hands-on introduction to Revit Architecture will have you designing with Autodesk’s powerful building information modeling software in no time. Through an easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn Revit by planning and developing a four-story office building from design to documentation to presentation. Follow the tutorial sequentially or jump straight to the specific skills you’d like to learn by downloading the drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you’ll get a thorough grounding in Revit basics and quickly master tasks that professionals face all the time.

  • Learn Revit by designing a four-story office building from start to finish
  • Start at the ground level by setting a foundation, structural beams, and footings
  • Understand best practices for models, views, dimensions, families, editing, and more
  • Plan and create walls, doors, windows, floors, and ceilings
  • Add rooms, choose colors, and design areas and area separators
  • Create custom stairs and railings that look great in commercial and high-end residential settings
  • Finish your site with landscaping, curbing, parking, and walkways
  • Master Revit’s new features, including transparencies, rotate and array editing tools, the robust materials editor, and the work plane viewer
  • Light, render, and display in 3D—and make presentations that wow customers

Show off your design with quick, fully rendered perspectives
Add landscaping and topography outside your building
Create beautiful custom wainscoting, railings, and stairs

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1032 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470945060
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470945063
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Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:59 AM PDT

Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials

Book Description

Get a jump-start on Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 essentials—with the Essentials!

The new Essentials books from Sybex are beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guides that help you get up to speed on Autodesk topics quickly and easily. Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials thoroughly covers the fundamentals of this popular 3D animation effects, and visualization software, teaching you what you need to become quickly productive.

By following the book’s clear explanations, practical tutorials, and step-by-step exercises, you’ll cover all the bases. Topics include modeling, animation, rendering, rigging, compositing, and much more. Whether you’re an aspiring 3D designer or a professional brushing up on the basics, here is the essential grounding you need in 3ds Max 2012.

  • Covers Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 fundamentals, so you become quickly productive with the software
  • Uses straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach the software’s core features and functions
  • Helps you develop the skills you’ll need throughout an animation production pipeline, whether you’re a beginner or a more experienced user brushing up on the basics
  • Uses a task-based approach and covers topics such as polygon modeling, materials and mapping, lighting, using mental ray, HDRI images, and more
  • This book is an Autodesk Official Training Guide

If you want to get quickly up to speed on 3ds Max, Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials is the place to start.

From the Back Cover
Learn Autodesk 3ds Max Quickly and Easily.

This Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 and teaches you everything you need to become quickly productive with the software. By creating a chest of drawers, a bouncing ball, an action character, and other exercises, you’ll learn the essentials of modeling, animating, texturing, and much more. Whether you’re new to 3D or just brushing up on the basics, this is the fast and thorough grounding you need in 3ds Max.

Learn these Autodesk 3ds Max essentials—and more:

  • Primitives, polygons, and primary modeling
  • Animating objects, both simple and complex
  • The basics of organic and character modeling
  • Adding color, glow, texture, and other materials
  • Bringing characters to life with Character Studio
  • Basic lighting concepts and using 3ds Max lights
  • Completing your projects with the right rendering
  • Understanding mental ray and HDRI
  • Practice polygonal modeling
  • Learn to apply UV maps

This striking Essentials book features:

  • Chapter-opening learning objectives
  • Step-by-step tutorials
  • Four-color screenshots and illustrations
  • Essentials and Beyond—summaries and additional suggested exercises
  • Downloadable exercise files

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118016750
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118016756
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Mac OS X Lion For Dummies

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:59 AM PDT

Mac OS X Lion For Dummies

Book Description

The bestselling Mac guide, updated for the latest Mac OS X and now in full color!

Mac OS X Lion represents a new era in the Mac operating system. This friendly guide is fully updated for the latest Mac OS X and provides everything new Mac users and users upgrading to Mac OS X Lion need to know. A bestseller in previous editions, Mac OS X Lion For Dummies covers all the cool stuff and prepares you for the quirks. So whether it’s your first Mac or just an OS upgrade, you’ll learn to tame your Lion with the expert advice of Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus and Dummies.

  • Covers using the Finder, customizing Lion, adding widgets to the Dashboard, organizing and managing files and folders, searching with Spotlight, and working with Spaces
  • Explores browsing the web with Safari, using Apple Mail and iCal, connecting a printer, performing backups with Time Machine, troubleshooting, and setting up a network
  • Walks readers through the new features of Mac OS X Lion, including FaceTime, Photo Booth, Launchpad, Mission Control, Full-screen apps, and more
  • Gets you up and running with iTunes, downloading fun apps from the Mac App Store, and staying entertained with videos, photos, and other multimedia

You’ll make your Lion roar with the friendly advice in Mac OS X Lion For Dummies.

From the Back Cover
Discover OS X Lion and unleash the power of your Mac.

Ready to roar with your Mac running OS X Lion? Whether you just got your first Mac or recently upgraded, the Mac’s newest operating system will make your life easier in amazing new ways. With this handy guide from Mac expert Bob LeVitus, you’ll have your Lion jumping through hoops in no time!

  • Make friends with Lion — explore the Desktop, menus, windows, and icons, and perform basic tasks
  • Herd all your cats — organize your files and use the free iCal, Address Book, and Mail to manage your contacts, calendar, and e-mail
  • Get purrfectly connected — set up your Internet connection, surf with Safari, and import your media to iTunes and iPhoto
  • Be productive — set up a network; create, share, and print documents; and keep your Mac safe and sound
  • Your very own Time Machine — discover how easy it is to back up and restore important information automatically using Lion’sTime Machine

Open the book and find:

  • How to set up your keyboard, mouse, and other hardware
  • Tips for navigating with Multi-Touch Gestures
  • How to work at warp speed with Mission Control and Launchpad
  • Details about running Windows on your Mac
  • How iCal helps you manage appointments and projects
  • Simple steps for networking your Macs
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting solutions for your Mac

Learn to:

  • Work with the Dock, Launchpad, and Mission Control
  • Go online, set up your e-mail, and surf the Web with Safari
  • Enjoy music, movies, DVDs, and digital photos on your Mac

Book Details

  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 111802205X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118022054
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Java All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:40 AM PDT

Java All in One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Book Description

Eight handy minibooks cover just what programmers need to get going with Java 7

The newest release of Java has more robust functionality to help web and mobile developers get the most ouf of this platform-independent programming language. Like its bestselling previous editions, Java All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition has what you need to get up and running quickly with the new version. Covering the enhanced mobile development and syntax features as well as programming improvements, this guide makes it easy to find what you want and put it to use.

  • Focuses on the vital information that enables you to get up and running quickly on the new version
  • Covers the enhanced multimedia features as well as programming enhancements, Java and XML, Swing, server-side Java, Eclipse, and more
  • Minibooks cover Java basics; programming basics; strings, arrays, and collections; programming techniques; Swing; Web programming; files and databases; and a “fun and games” category

Rather than trying to cover every aspect of this massive topic, Java All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition focuses on the practical information you need to become productive with Java 7 right away.

From the Back Cover
You too can be a Java guru! From getting started to website and mobile app-building, here’s the scoop

There’s a lot to know about Java, the programming language that lets you create all kinds of cool websites and mobile apps. So isn’t it great that all the important stuff is in this one handy guide? From what Java is and how to download it to creating interactive sites, working with databases, and writing simple game programs, here’s just what you need to know!

  • Getting started — learn what Java does, download and install it, and work with the command-line tools and TextPad
  • All the basics — explore programming essentials, object-oriented programming concepts, and special programming techniques
  • Get in the Swing — find out how Swing lets you write programs that respond when the user clicks a button or types text
  • Fun with files and databases — use Java’s database interface and XML features to work with stored data
  • Let’s play — fiddle with fonts and colors, draw pictures, work with images and media, and create animations

Visit the companion website at www.dummies.com/go/javaaiofd3e for all the code listings in this book plus bonus chapters about Eclipse, JavaBeans, BigDecimals, and using menus.

Open the book and find:

  • Java’s strengths and weaknesses
  • All about Java API classes
  • How to work with loops and methods
  • Tips on working with classes
  • What to do with strings and arrays
  • How Swing enables user input
  • A guide to creating applets
  • Cool game programming tips

9 books in 1

  • Java Basics
  • Programming Basics
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Strings, Arrays, and Collections
  • Programming Techniques
  • Swing
  • Web Programming
  • Files and Databases
  • Fun and Games

Book Details

  • Paperback: 912 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 3rd edition (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470371722
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470371725
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Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All in One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Book Description

Diagnose and solve your PC problems with this easy-to-understand guideWritten by veteran For Dummies author Dan Gookin, this straightforward guide shows you how to diagnose and solve the most common hardware and software problems your PC may encounter. In addition, he presents advice for preventing PC problems in the first placeand clearly explains how to create a safe and secure PC environment.

  • Walks you through ways to diagnose the most common PC hardware, software, and operating system problems
  • Offers clear and easy-to-understand solutions for confidently handling these problems
  • Shares valuable advice about maintaining your system to maximize its lifespan
  • Reviews an array of useful tools
  • Covers Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Internet Explorer 8

Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you to confidently handle whatever PC problems you may encounter.

From the Back Cover
PC on strike? Let Dan Gookin show you how to fix your PC problems — and prevent new ones!

Dan Gookin helps you get things back on track, and he shows you how different PC problems often have similar origins. He also guides you through proper maintenance steps that can head off future headaches. Discover what makes that magical machine tick and how to keep it happy!

  • Maintain happy hardware — resolve start-up and shutdown issues and problems with peripherals while adding a little pep to your PC
  • Power to the laptop — manage power and battery issues, keep it clean, and learn laptop travel safety
  • Cure Internet insanity — make peace with Internet Explorer, explore other browsers, troubleshoot email problems, and protect your PC
  • Network for success — solve problems with routers, modems, workgroups, and wireless issues
  • More geeky stuff — repartition drives, schedule tasks, and venture inside the case

Open the book and find:

  • Solutions for Windows 7, Vista, and XP
  • What some common error messages mean
  • Built-in Windows tools that help solve problems
  • Why your laptop needs a good warranty
  • URLs for useful video tutorials
  • Translations of terms like NIC, DCHP, and FTP
  • How to back up files, programs, and your entire PC
  • A guided tour of what’s inside the console

Visit the companion web site at www.dummies.com/go/troubleshootingandmaintainingyourpcaio2e for videos and other examples from the book.

6 Books in 1

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Laptops
  • Internet
  • Networking
  • Maintenance

Book Details

  • Paperback: 792 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 2nd Edition (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470878673
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470878675
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Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom

Book Description

An invaluable full-color training package for Web design

Web design consists of using multiple software tools and codes-such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Silverlight, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, and CSS, among others-to craft a unique, robust, and interactive websites. This book teaches you how to effectively use all the major tools involved in web design to create a site that is both attractive and functional.

You’ll go beyond the basics to learn best practices of good web design so you can go from the drawing board to a successful site.

Combining full-color, step-by-step instructions with lesson files and video training from web experts is like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson-but you work at your own pace!

  • Discusses properties of good web design and best practices for building a site that is both attractive and functional
  • Offers clear instruction that makes learning complicated tasks less intimidating
  • Demonstrates how to approach site design concept creation and bring a vision from the drawing board through to full and dazzling operability
  • Combines a full color step-by-step instructional book along with lesson files and video training from web design experts

This training package takes you beyond the basics in a series of easy-to-absorb, five-minute lessons.

From the Back Cover
You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, Digital Classroom delivers. Experts guide you through 12 lessons, helping you learn essential Web design skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with samples and materials on digitalclassroombooks.com. With Digital Classroom, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Web design.

  • See how planning, prototyping, and wireframing benefit your site
  • Explore navigation design and user experience design
  • Format layouts and text using CSS
  • Master the fundamentals of HTML and XHTML
  • Make the most of graphics, video, and interactive design
  • Discover how to test browsers for compatibility
  • Learn to design sites that are optimized for mobile devices
  • Full-color, step-by-step instructional book
  • Training from experienced experts

Tutorials and lesson files on digitalclassroombooks.com

Book Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470583606
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470583609
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