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• Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server
• Android 3.0 Animations: Beginner’s Guide
• Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion: Beginner’s Guide, 2nd Edition
• Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book
• Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X
• The Mac OS X Lion Project Book

Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST Book Description If you are a developer building an app today then you know how important a good search experience is. Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene, is a wildly popular open source enterprise search server that easily delivers powerful search and faceted navigation features that are elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-check, relevancy tuning, and more. Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server is a comprehensive reference guide for every feature Solr has to offer. It serves the reader right from initiation to development to deployment. It also comes with complete running examples to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with other languages and frameworks. Through using a large set of metadata about artists, releases, and tracks courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for Solr, and will learn how to import this data in various ways. You will then learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr’s rich query syntax and “boosting” match scores based on record data. Finally, we’ll cover various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to meet the needs of a high-volume site. What you will learn from this book : Design a schema to include text indexing details like tokenization, stemming, and synonyms Import data using various formats like CSV, XML, and from databases, and extract text from common document formats Search using Solr's rich query syntax, perform geospatial searches, and influence relevancy order Enhance search results with faceting, query spell-checking, auto-completing queries, highlighted search results, and more Integrate a host of technologies with Solr from the server side to client-side JavaScript, to frameworks like Drupal Scale Solr by learning how to tune it and how to use replication and sharding Approach The book is written as a reference guide. It includes fully working examples based on a real-world public data set. Who this book is written for This book is for developers who want to learn how to use Apache Solr in their applications. Only basic programming skills are needed. Book Details Paperback: 418 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849516065 ISBN-13: 978-1849516068 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts ZK Developer's Guide (09-11-2011) Zend Framework: A Beginner's Guide (02-03-2011) Zend Framework in Action (27-07-2009) Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development (09-10-2009) ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide (08-04-2011) Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook (07-09-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (26-01-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers (28-04-2011) XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (29-10-2010) Xcode 4: Developer Reference (28-07-2011)

Android 3.0 Animations: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST Book Description An enjoyable, understandable, and eye-catching user interface is a key part of getting users to love your app. Users today expect a polished multimedia experience on their mobile device, and animation is a core part of that. The Android operating system is at the forefront of tablet and smartphone technology, and there is a plethora of opportunities for developing exciting applications with animation. Android 3.0 Animations Beginner's Guide will introduce each of the most popular animation techniques to you. Using step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to create interactive dynamic forms, moving graphics, and 3D motion. You will be taken on a journey from simple stop motion animations and fades, through to moving input forms, then on to 3D motion and game graphics. In this book, you will create standalone animated graphics, three-dimensional lifts, fades, and spins. You will become adept at moving and transforming form data to bring boring old input forms and displays to life. Learn how game programmers create fast animations on the fly, and also build live wallpapers to liven up your users' home-screens! If you are tired of writing lifeless interfaces and want to add some animated excitement, this is the book for you! A step-by step guide for creating, testing, and making use of stunning animations for android applications and games. What you will learn from this book: Create animated graphics from a set of still images Fade between graphical elements Move, distort, and generally mess around with parts of your user interface Create Dazzling 3D motion with a few simple principles Strip back the Android user interface to create fast animated graphics on the fly Experience striking results by changing your animation's rhythm Create a live wallpaper to bring motion to your home-screen Design your animations to look great and work well on different Android devices Approach Written in Packt's Beginner's Guide series, this book takes a step-by-step approach with each chapter made up of three to five tutorials that introduce and explain different animation concepts. All concepts are explained with real-world examples that are fun to read and work with. Who this book is written for If you are familiar with developing Android applications and want to bring your apps to life by adding smashing animations, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you are comfortable with Java development and have familiarity with creating Android Views in XML and Java. The tutorials assume that you will want to work with Eclipse, but you can work just as well with your preferred development tools. Book Details Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 184951528X ISBN-13: 978-1849515283 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Beginning Android 3 (08-07-2011) Android User Interface Development: Beginner's Guide (21-03-2011) ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide (08-04-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (26-01-2011) Windows Phone 7 Game Development (21-12-2010) Unity 3D Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (29-10-2010) Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot (08-09-2011) Tomcat 6 Developer's Guide (31-12-2009) The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development (07-06-2011) The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash (13-10-2010)

Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion: Beginner’s Guide, 2nd Edition Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:06 PM PST Book Description Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren't making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch. This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course. This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start. The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process. By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn't end there– you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you. What you will learn from this book: Incorporate your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation Move marking online! See how students can submit their assignments straight into Moodle, for you to mark assess on the computer – no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school Use forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it's convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time. See how you can make your course a completely online experience – dispensing with face time all together Approach With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to convert your teaching to Moodle. Step-by-step tutorials use real-world examples to show you how to convert to Moodle in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Moodle Course Conversion carefully illustrates how Moodle can be used to teach content and ideas and clearly demonstrates the advantages of doing so. Who this book is written for This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their course, rather than developing brand new ones. You won't need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher-access to a ready-installed Moodle site. Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful Book Details Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (November 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849514828 ISBN-13: 978-1849514828 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 (14-04-2011) Moodle Security (28-03-2011) Moodle JavaScript Cookbook (12-05-2011) Moodle For Dummies (29-10-2011) Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide (09-11-2011) Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (14-02-2011) Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook (21-06-2011) Moodle 2.0 for Business: Beginner's Guide (14-06-2011) Moodle 2.0 First Look (01-11-2010) Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development (08-09-2011)

Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:47 AM PST Book Description Adobe FrameMaker has long been the software of choice for technical documentation and large-scale document publishing because of its versatility and ability to handle the entire publishing process–from word processing and page layout to electronic distribution. Now, with the introduction of version 7.0, the popular publishing program has gone even further to accommodate businesses’ growing need for multi-format publishing by adding the ability to automatically reformat the same document for delivery in a number of formats, including Web pages, Acrobat print files, Palm handheld devices, and more. And that’s just the beginning: Adobe’s official Classroom in a Book training series guides you through all of the program’s features, tools, and techniques–both old and new–using hands-on projects and end-of-chapter review questions to make sure the newly acquired knowledge sticks! If you’re a beginner, you’ll want to read the book from cover to cover for a start-to-finish explanation of how it all works; all of you FrameMaker experts can skip right to the information you need. From the basics (such as character and paragraph formatting) to more advanced tasks (like cross-referencing text and creating indexes)–Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book covers it all. Table of Contents Part I: Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Lesson 1. Working with FrameMaker 7.0 Documents Lesson 2. Defining Paragraph Formats Lesson 3. Defining Colors and Character Formats Lesson 4. Page Layout Lesson 5. Graphics Lesson 6. Document Editing Lesson 7. Tables Lesson 8. Customizing Tables Lesson 9. Anchored Frames and Graphics Lesson 10. Cross-References and Footnotes Lesson 11. Books Lesson 12. Indexes Lesson 13. Conditional Text Lesson 14. Hypertext and PDF Lesson 15. HTML and Web Publishing Part II: Structured Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Lesson 16. Structured Documents Lesson 17. Authoring XML Lesson 18. Exporting and Importing Structured Files Appendix A. Glossary of Structured Terms Appendix B. Importing Microsoft Word® into FrameMaker 7.0 Appendix C. Keyboard Shortcuts Appendix D. Copying the Sample Files (UNIX) Book Details Paperback: 504 pages Publisher: Adobe Press (August 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321131681 ISBN-13: 978-0321131683 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts WordPress Web Design For Dummies (07-11-2011) Web Design DeMYSTiFieD (15-03-2011) The Ultimate HTML Reference (20-08-2009) OpenCart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook (09-04-2011) Murach's HTML, XHTML, and CSS (04-05-2011) InterACT with Web Standards: A holistic approach to web design (06-08-2010) HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible, 3rd Edition (27-07-2009) HTML & CSS: The Good Parts (16-03-2010) From Photoshop To HTML (12-05-2010) CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition (29-08-2009)

Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:46 AM PST Book Description Completely revised for Final Cut Pro X and featuring compelling new footage, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing. Renowned author Diana Weynand starts with basic video editing techniques and takes readers all the way through Final Cut Pro’s powerful features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, using professional broadcast footage. The book covers Final Cut Pro’s exciting new features, including a completely redesigned interface, people detection, and Magnetic Timeline. DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 40 hours of training Focused lessons take you step-by-step through professional, real-world projects Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side Ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts help you master techniques fast Lesson goals and time estimates help you plan your time Chapter review questions summarize what you've learned and prepare you for the Apple Certified Pro Exam Table of Contents Getting Started Preparing to Edit in Final Cut Pro X Lesson 1 Exploring the Interface Lesson 2 Importing Lesson 3 Organizing Clips in an Event Crafting the Story Lesson 4 Building the Rough Cut Lesson 5 Finishing the Rough Cut Lesson 6 Fine-Tuning the Rough Cut Completing the Cut Lesson 7 Applying Transitions Lesson 8 Working with Sound Lesson 9 Working with Titles, Generators, and Themes Applying Effects and Finishing Lesson 10 Retiming and Transforming Clips Lesson 11 Applying Effects and Enhancing Color Lesson 12 Exporting and Sharing Your Project Glossary Index Book Details Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: Peachpit Press (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321774671 ISBN-13: 978-0321774675 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Apple Training Series: iLife '11 (29-01-2011) Apple Pro Training Series: Motion 4 Quick-Reference Guide (06-12-2010) Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Server 1.5 (15-10-2010) Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors, 4th Edition (03-03-2011) Xcode 4: Developer Reference (28-07-2011) Xcode 4 iOS Development: Beginner's Guide (07-09-2011) Writing Game Center Apps in iOS: Bringing Your Players Into the Game (09-05-2011) The Web Designer's Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) (09-03-2011) The Mac OS X Lion Project Book (01-12-2011) The Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide (28-11-2011)

The Mac OS X Lion Project Book Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:46 AM PST Book Description The power of Lion, at your fingertips. With the new Multi-Touch gestures in Mac OS X Lion, you can swipe, pinch, and tap your way to managing your Mac and organizing your life. Want your pictures to stand out? Grab files off the Mac at home while on the road? Tune out distractions? In this practical hands-on guide to Mac OS X Lion, you learn how to Throw away your DVDs: Encode an entire season of your favorite TV shows and manage the episodes from iTunes. Stay in touch: Have a video chat with far-off friends with iChat Theatre. Captivate your audience: Make a vacation slideshow that doesn't stink. Keep your relatives informed: Build a family website with RapidWeaver. Survive the crash: Create an easy and comprehensive backup plan to secure your personal photos, movies, music, and more. Express yourself: Write and record podcasts worth listening to. Plus many more useful projects—both big and small—to help you do stuff with Mac OS X Lion. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Managing Your Mac Chapter 2 Interacting from a Distance Chapter 3 Managing Media Chapter 4 Making Magic Chapter 5 Getting Productive Chapter 6 Additional Hardware Required Book Details Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Peachpit Press (August 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321788516 ISBN-13: 978-0321788511 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Xcode 4: Developer Reference (28-07-2011) The Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide (28-11-2011) The Little Mac Book, Lion Edition (28-11-2011) Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Lion (04-11-2011) Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max (22-10-2011) Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max (31-03-2011) Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X, 2nd Edition (04-11-2010) Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition (18-12-2009) Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes (24-09-2011) Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa (15-08-2009)

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