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Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins, Third Edition
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub. Date: 2008/11/14
Insert Date: 2008/07/23
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Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins presents detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development. It contains everything you need to gain mastery and achieve results: cookbook-style code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, screen shots, and much more. This edition is fully updated to address new advances for Eclipse developers. Includes a quick introduction to Eclipse for experienced Java programmers—Serves as a systematic reference for experienced Eclipse users Introduces all the tools you need to build Eclipse and Rational plug-ins—Explains the Eclipse...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Everyday thousands of bands and small businesses signup for Myspace with big dreams of online exposure. These demographics are eager to expand their reach through the website but cannot afford the Myspace advertising rates. Instead they take a guerrilla marketing approach to building their network and connecting with new "friends". But it's hard to reach the people you want to reach, in the way you want to reach them, without having some insight about Myspace. This book will appeal to bands, small businesses, online marketers, and anyone else...
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Salesforce.com Secrets of Success: Best Practices for Real Sales Results
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2009/05/08
Insert Date: 2008/07/23
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Salesforce.com is one of the leading Sales Force Automation (SFA) systems, used by almost 750,000 people every week.  But most users fail to get the business benefits they expect because they don't know how to use the system properly or how to adjust their business practices for real results. What's been missing is a roadmap that can help them build an effective strategy for using the system. Though there is plenty of online documentation available, currently the only available option for obtaining guidance on business processes and SFDC optimization is to hire a consultancy at a cost of $300...
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The Truth About Starting a Business
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Publisher: FT Press
Pub. Date: 2008/12/23
Insert Date: 2008/07/22
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Your own business: take the leap, make it happen, and make it succeed! The truth about choosing the right business for you The truth about planning, funding, hiring, and successful launches The truth about financial management, marketing, and growth  Simply the best thinking...THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHThis book reveals 53 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for choosing, planning, launching, and growing your winning business.Every book in The Truth About Series distills all the essential knowledge you need on a topic... presents it clearly, simply, and quickly,...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Hyper-V is Microsoft's server virtualization technology built-in to Windows Server 2008.  Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a System Center add-on that helps organizations better manage their virtual guest images, delegate administration and management, and even extract virtual images from existing physical and virtual servers.  This book, Hyper-V Unleashed, was written by authors Rand Morimoto and Jeff Guillet who have worked with Hyper-V and VMM/2008 for well over a year prior to the formal product release.  Dozens of organizations trusted...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.MCTS 70-643 Exam Cram is the quick-study guide to help you pass the 70-643 exam from Microsoft, which is one of three core exams in the Windows Server 2008 certification program. This book covers all exam objectives, including how to configure terminal services, configure a web services infrastructure, configure network application services including SharePoint, deploy servers, network maintenance, and configure SSL security. It also incorporates two full practice exams, and an electronic test bank. Test-taking strategies, time-saving study...
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Adobe Acrobat 9 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub. Date: 2008/08/14
Insert Date: 2008/07/10
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Adobe Acrobat 9 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide walks readers through tasks that are enhanced by numerous screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to take advantage of the productive power of Adobe Acrobat. Author John Deubert takes readers through all of the basic Acrobat 9 features, from the basic tools used to create PDF documents and the newly enhanced review functionality, to the advanced tools that create digital signatures, interactive forms, and PDF Portfolios. Beginning users will find a thorough...
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PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fourth Edition
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Publisher: Sams
Pub. Date: 2008/08/27
Insert Date: 2008/07/10
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.PHP and MySQL Web Development teaches you to develop dynamic, secure, commerical Web sites. Using the same accessible, popular teaching style of the three previous editions, this book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the rapidly changing landscape of MySQL and PHP. The fourth edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development includes updated examples and coverage of recent versions of PHP 5.1, new coverage of PHP security and Web 2.0 social networks, and advance information on the features of the forthcoming PHP 6, including Unicode and...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.You can clearly outperform "buy and hold" stock market investment strategies. In this book, leading investment expert Gerald Appel introduces those strategies, demonstrates how they've been proven successful through 25 years of historical performance, and shows you exactly how to use them. Using Appel's techniques, you'll learn how to forecast the likely direction of the market, and its relative strength compared with fixed income and other investments. "If you are wrong about the direction of the general market, then 3 out of 4 of your stocks...
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This book is uniquely different and valuable because of its focus on options for commodities and futures. The authors clearly explain the differences between stock options and futures options, something not done well in any other book. The authors also present worst-case as well as best-case outcomes for various strategies. Graphics are plentiful and the book has great visual appeal. In-chapter "notes" highlight the key points readers need....
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