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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 DescriptionIf 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. What you will learn from this book :
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| Android 3.0 Animations: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST Book DescriptionAn 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:
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| Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion: Beginner’s Guide, 2nd Edition Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:06 PM PST Book DescriptionSchools, 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:
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| Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:47 AM PST Book DescriptionAdobe 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 II: Structured Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Appendix A. Glossary of Structured Terms Book Details
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| Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:46 AM PST Book DescriptionCompletely 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.
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| The Mac OS X Lion Project Book Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:46 AM PST Book DescriptionThe 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
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