| The User Experience Team of One Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:42 AM PDT 
Book Description “The exigencies of modern product and Web development mean that projects are often understaffed. When the understaffed designer is you, your success depends on knowing where to cut corners and where to apply a full-court press. This clearly written book shows you what works and what wastes time. It will help you become that well-tempered UX team of one who can be great while doing the impossible.”
—Alan Cooper, founder of design firm Cooper and author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables. Whether you want to cross over into user experience or you’re a seasoned practitioner trying to drag your organization forward, this book gives you tools and insight for doing more with less. Table of Contents
Part I: Philosophy
Chapter 1. UX 101
Chapter 2. Getting Started
Chapter 3. Building Support for Your Work
Chapter 4. Growing Yourself and Your Career Part II: Practice
Chapter 5. Planning and Discovery Methods
Chapter 6. Research Methods
Chapter 7. Design Methods
Chapter 8. Testing and Validation Methods
Chapter 9. Evangelism Methods
Chapter 10. What’s Next? Book Details - Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Rosenfeld Media (July 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933820187
- ISBN-13: 978-1933820187
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| Realm of Racket Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:37 AM PDT 
Book Description Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language. In Realm of Racket, you’ll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with the Guess My Number game and coverage of some basic Racket etiquette. Next you’ll dig into syntax and semantics, lists, structures, and conditionals, and learn to work with recursion and the GUI as you build the Robot Snake game. After that it’s on to lambda and mutant structs (and an Orc Battle), and fancy loops and the Dice of Doom. Finally, you’ll explore laziness, AI, distributed games, and the Hungry Henry game. As you progress through the games, chapter checkpoints and challenges help reinforce what you’ve learned. Offbeat comics keep things fun along the way. As you travel through the Racket realm, you’ll: - Master the quirks of Racket’s syntax and semantics
- Learn to write concise and elegant functional programs
- Create a graphical user interface using the 2htdp/image library
- Create a server to handle true multiplayer games
Realm of Racket is a lighthearted guide to some serious programming. Read it to see why Racketeers have so much fun! Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. A First Racket Program
Chapter 3. Basics of Racket
Chapter 4. Conditions and Decisions
Chapter 4 and a Half: define define 'define
Chapter 5. Big-Bang
Chapter 6. Recursion is Easy
Chapter 7. Land of Lambda
Chapter 8. Mutant Structs
Chapter 9. The Values of Loops
Chapter 10. Dice of Doom
Chapter 11. Power to the Lazy
Chapter 12. Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 13. The World is Not Enough
Chapter 14. Hungry Henry Book Details - Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593274912
- ISBN-13: 978-1593274917
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| Managing Your Business Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:34 AM PDT 
Book Description This is the third in a twelve-title series, the Crash Course for Entrepreneurs, and coaches prospective and new entrepreneurs in managing employees. Many novice entrepreneurs have little more than a brilliant idea and a pocketful of ambition. They may not be born managers. This book tells you exactly what you must know, in simple terms, using real-world examples. In a two-hour read, it walks you through the essentials of leading and managing, and gives seasoned advice in a reader-friendly way. Learn what types of leadership there are and when to use your options effectively, how to avoid looking like a beginner, how to make meetings really work, how to manage diversity for rich results, and when to coach and when to terminate. Find out what other critical resources, processes, and practices will help ensure your success. These serial entrepreneurs will save you time and trouble as you manage the people in your new company. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Leadership Basics
Chapter 2. Polishing Yourself Up
Chapter 3. Employee Management
Chapter 4. Strategic Thinking and Acting Appendix A. Afterword: Where to Go from Here?
Appendix B. Acknowledgements
Appendix C. Glossary
Appendix D. Resources
Appendix E. About the Authors
Appendix F. Business Efficiency Resources
Appendix G. Two Must-Read Books For Entrepreneurs Book Details - Paperback: 157 pages
- Publisher: Nova Vista Publishing (July 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9077256385
- ISBN-13: 978-9077256381
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| Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:25 AM PDT 
Book Description Set up a rock-solid backup strategy so that you can restore quickly and completely, no matter what catastrophe arises. Read along as backup guru Joe Kissell helps you understand the three components of a solid backup strategy, implement that strategy in a way that meets your specific needs, and understand the hows and whys of what you are doing, taking you far beyond the limited security of turning on Time Machine or copying a few files to a flash drive or cloud service. You’ll also find details on how to test your backup system, and on how to restore from backup. Whether you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion, you’ll soon have a reliable, up-to-date backup system. Although the 201-page ebook is organized so you can start backing up without reading every page, the full ebook will teach you to: - Design a reliable backup system. If you’re developing a new backup system, you’ll learn how to make it not only thorough, ensuring that all your data is safe, but also easy to manage and appropriate for your situation. If you’re assessing an existing backup system, Joe discusses how to evaluate it and offers guidance for improving and modernizing it.
- Talk like an expert. You’ll learn the meaning of terms like “versioned backups,” “delta encoding,” “push” and “pull” backups, “duplicates,” “server,” “client,” “incremental,” “hard link,” “mirroring,” and “snapshot.”
- Choose backup software. Consider the pros and cons of Apple’s free Time Machine and determine whether it’s a good match for you–or if you should consider a different program with better features for your needs. You’ll learn about 14 key features to look for in backup apps and find overviews and tips for 8 noteworthy products (an online appendix covers nearly 100 options), plus several suggestions for online backups. You’ll also get Joe’s recommendations to help you sort through the possibilities.
- Shop for hardware. You’ll discover the pros and cons of backup media options such as hard drives (with USB, FireWire, eSATA, or Thunderbolt interfaces–and with or without full-disk encryption), flash drives, optical media, tape drives, RAIDs, Drobo storage devices, Time Capsules, and NAS and SAN devices.
- Operate Time Machine. Find out what goes on beneath Time Machine’s simple surface, and how best to make use of Apple’s built-in backup system, including how local snapshots work when your Time Machine volume isn’t available, and how to encrypt a Time Machine backup.
- Make backups. No matter what backup software you decide to use, Joe provides a conceptual walk-through of the entire process, offering basic information for people who’ve never made a backup before and savvy, real-world suggestions for making the backup process as easy as possible.
- Deal with special backup needs. You’ll learn what to do about certain kinds of data that may require special backup strategies, such as large media archives, frequently changing files that need special versioned backup treatment, and Windows files and volumes hosted on your Mac.
- Manage your media. Diamonds may be forever, but backup devices are not. Disks fill up. They also wear out. Find advice for handling those realities.
- Recover lost data. Use your backup to recover lost data successfully in the event of a hard disk crash or other calamity. After all, restoration is what’s really important.
Bonus! The ebook includes money-saving coupons on ChronoSync, CrashPlan, Data Backup 3, DollyDrive, QRecall, and Retrospect Desktop. Teach This Book: Once your backups are humming along reliably, can we encourage you to help your friends, family, and colleagues improve their backups before they lose data? This ebook links to a downloadable one-page PDF handout and PDF-based slides that you can present on any computer or mobile device screen. Book Details - Paperback: 201 pages
- Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc.; 2nd Edition (June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1615424229
- ISBN-13: 978-1615424221
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| Take Control of LaunchBar Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:21 AM PDT 
Book Description Let LaunchBar’s superpowers save you from a lifetime of Mac drudgery! Join Mac expert Kirk McElhearn, and learn how to use LaunchBar, from Objective Development, to carry out nearly any Mac task more efficiently. To help you develop a mental map of all that LaunchBar can do, Kirk explains LaunchBar in the context of its five superpowers — key LaunchBar techniques that no Mac user should be without! - Abbreviation search. The primary way you select things in LaunchBar is by typing a few letters associated with the item you want to find. LaunchBar is smart (so the abbreviation doesn’t have to be obvious) and learns from what you type (in case it guessed wrong the first time).
- Browsing. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. Abbreviation search won’t help there, but you can browse folders, recent documents for an app, clipboard history, snippets, and more.
- Sub-search. Too many results in a list to browse? Try a sub-search, which is an abbreviation search limited to a list of search results.
- Send To. Want to open a PDF in PDFpen rather than Preview? Or attach a document to a new email message? You can send anything on LaunchBar’s bar to another application, folder, action, or service.
- Instant Send. For those who want to save the most time, Instant Send is the fastest way to put a selected file or bit of text on the bar, ready to open in another app, move to a folder, send to a Google search, look up in Dictionary, and more.
Don’t worry about remembering all this — a one-page cheat sheet in the book will jog your memory until LaunchBar has worked its way into your fingertips. Consider two examples:
Example 1: The most beloved LaunchBar function is to access apps quickly — especially apps that you don’t keep in the Dock. Just invoke LaunchBar (with a keyboard shortcut of your choosing), type a quick abbreviation — whatever seems natural to you — and press Return. (Or, take the express route with LaunchBar’s handy Instant Open.) LaunchBar doesn’t require predefined abbreviations; instead, it adapts to you! This method of accessing an app uses the Abbreviation Search, superpower #1. Example 2: Once you’ve become accustomed to the ease of accessing any app, you can start applying abbreviation search to other tasks and begin to unleash LaunchBar’s other four superpowers. One example is to employ superpower #5, Instant Send, to file photos: select a photo’s file icon in the Finder, hold down the key you use to invoke LaunchBar for an extra second to put the file on the bar, select the Add to iPhoto action, and press Return to send the photo to iPhoto. We could go on forever with our favorite examples: pasting the third item back from the clipboard history, moving a file into a deeply nested folder, creating calendar events, skipping to the next track in iTunes, running Terminal commands, looking up terms in Wikipedia, counting the characters in selected text, tweeting a quote from an article, finding your uncle’s phone number, and so on. To learn how do all this, and more, read the ebook! Book Details - Paperback: 127 pages
- Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc. (July 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1615424237
- ISBN-13: 978-1615424238
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