Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio: Using Design, Web, Blend, and Media to Create Professional Digital Content:

Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio: Using Design, Web, Blend, and Media to Create Professional Digital Content

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The World WideWeb is continually becoming more complex in sophistication. To get attention and be credible, your site has to have professional-quality graphics. It needs to be usable and give your visitors an interactive and compelling experience. For professional graphic designers and Web site architects, it’s a golden age, because there’s so much work to do and the standards are so high.Those who aren’t artists, programmers, or designers are left wondering how to achieveall of those cool effects: how to make their Web sites user-friendly and eye-catching while maintaining Web standards. Microsoft’s suite of graphics and design tools, collectively called Expression Studio, provides a terrific option for anyone who wants to create high-quality graphics,Web presentations, or user interfaces.This book serves as an introduction to using Expression Studio to create Web sites, graphics, and presentations, and to organize and edit media files. You’ll learn how to use the Expression Studio programs individually, and you’ll also learn how easy it is to export files and projects from one application to another. Each section of the book covers a specific program, so you can read the book from cover to cover to get a complete idea of how the entire suite works together, or just jump to specific topics of interest on the program you want to learn more about. By the end of the book, you’ll be creating interactive sites that utilize Cascading Style Sheets and databases with Expression Web, creating and manipulating images with Expression Design, cataloging and keeping track of your content and creations with Expression Media, and putting it all together with Expression Blend.

About the Author

Greg Holden is the author of more than 35 books on Internet- and computer-related topics, including the Web design applications Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. He also does Web development for the design firm NewCor Group. He helped design recruitment literature and course catalogs for the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his two teenage daughters and assorted birds, fish, and other pets.

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Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa:

Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa

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This is a book for the Ruby programmer who’s never written a Mac app before. Through this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn all about the Cocoa framework for programming on Mac OS X. Join the author’s journey as this experienced Ruby programmer delves into the Cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same problems that you’ll face. Together you’ll build a single application that threads throughout the book, and it’s not a toy. You’ll cover topics that may not be the flashiest parts of Cocoa, but they’re ones you’ll need to know to create robust, feature-rich applications for yourself. And you’ll learn more than just Cocoa and RubyCocoa, you’ll get first-hand effective agile development practices. You’ll see test-first development of user-interface code, little domain-specific languages that take advantage of Ruby features, and other Rubyish tricks.

At the end of the book, you’ll be ready to write a real Mac OS X application that can be distributed to real users.

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How to Cheat at Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts:

How to Cheat at Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts

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How to Cheat at Windows Systems Administrators using Command line scripts teaches system administrators hundreds of powerful, time-saving tips for automating daily system administration tasks using Windows command line scripts.

With every new version of Windows, Microsoft is trying to ease the administration jobs by adding more and more layers of graphical user interface (GUI) or configuration wizards (dialog boxes). While these ‘wizards’ are interactive and make the administrator’s job easier, they are not always the most convenient and efficient way to accomplish the everyday administration tasks. These wizards are time consuming and, at times, may seem a bit confusing. The purpose of the book is to teach administrators how to use command-line scripts to complete everyday administration jobs, solve recurring network problems and at the same time improve their efficiency.

*Provides system administrators with hundreds of tips, tricks, and scripts to complete administration tasks more quickly and efficiently.

*No direct competition for a core tool for Windows administrators.

*Builds on success of other books in the series including How to Cheat at Managing Windows Small Business Server 2003 and How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

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Color Correction for Video, Second Edition: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image:

Color Correction for Video, Second Edition: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image

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Use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and add impact to you videos. This book shows you how to analyze color correction problems and solve them- whatever NLE or plugin you use.

Experienced editors and colorists in their own right, the authors also include the wisdom of top colorists, directors of photography, and color scientists to deliver this insightful and authoritative presentation of the theory and practice of color correction.

The book provides technical insight into how to effectively color correct your video, also delving into how color can impact storytelling and deliver critical emotional cues. The new edition also includes 2 new “Quickstart Tutorials”, a new chapter on how color impacts storytelling, information on the impact HD has had on the correcting process, and updated application specifications. The companion DVD features new and more robust tutorial media.

* Application agnostic, step-by-step instruction for an array of color correcting concepts and solutions

* Effectively use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and add overall impact to your media

* Companion DVD contains tutorial media for hands-on exercises

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Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition

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Build Your own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles andtechniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL.

This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system.

While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, andcookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL that include:

MySQL syntax

MySQL functions

MysQL column types

PHP functions for working with MySQL

About the Author

Kevin Yank is a world-renowned leader in web development. When not writing best sellers, Kevin is the Technical Director of sitepoint.com and editor of the popular SitePoint Tech Times newsletter.

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