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Lyndsey Clevesy09/23/09
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Book Giveaway & Chapter Download: Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

DZone and Packt Publishing have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases' (by Ronald Rood). This chapter explains how to make good use of the Scheduler and apply job separation.

Morten Nobel-Jø...09/18/09
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JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications

The main audience targeted by this book is Java developers since many JavaFX concepts are built on top of the Java platform. In addition, it targets non-Java application developers and graphic...

Zan Thrash09/16/09
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Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone

This book is for the programmer who wants to quickly get up to speed with the fundamentals of Core Animation, and is already familiar with Objective-C programming. The book also lightly touches on...

Lyndsey Clevesy09/15/09
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Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter: Modular Java

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Modular Java' (by Craig Walls). This excerpt was extracted from Modular Java, published in July 2009 by Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Dilip Shah09/14/09
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Book Review: Professional Adobe Flex 3

Since this book covers so much, it may be overwhemling for anyone just getting started with Flex. Other books targeting getting started with Flex are more suitable for the beginner. Where this book...

Alvin Ashcraft09/09/09
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Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri, authors of Wrox' Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and DZone's ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard.

Alvin Ashcraft09/07/09
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Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0

MVC Refcardz just released!Get your free copy of DZone's Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard now. Download is available here.Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is a great book for any developer who...

Alessio Spadaro09/03/09
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Grails in Action

Since I’ve followed Glen Smith’s blog and Peter Ledbrook’s work for months, I had high expectations for this book. At the end, I experienced no dissatisfaction....

Andrzej Grzesik09/03/09
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Programming Groovy

I'm very happy to have had the opportunity to have my adventure with Groovy start with this book. It's well written, fun to read and gives a perfect introduction into the language, especially for a...

Pavel Rozenblioum09/02/09
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Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3

Recently I had an opportunity to read Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with Glassfish 3 by Antonio Goncalves.  The book has the subtitle "From Novice to Professional" and that's a...

Lyndsey Clevesy08/28/09
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Book Giveaway: Dependency Injection Exclusive Chapter Download

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Dependency Injection' (by Dhanji R. Prasanna). This chapter covers organizing code in modules, watching out for tight coupling, designing with loose coupling, testing code...

Manuel Jordan08/28/09
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DWR Java AJAX Applications

Chapter Highlights Chapter 1: Introduction The shortest chapter presents information about Ajaxand DWR. Although the chapter is short, it has some important images that reenforce the...

Stephen Robillard08/27/09
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Becoming Agile... in an imperfect world

I read this book because I run a one man consultancy, where agility is a job requirement not an option.  However, in the next 6-12 months I plan on hiring two additional staff members,...

Chris Baughman08/21/09
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Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference

As a developer who typically doesn't venture too far into the "visual" side of things, normally hiding in the invisibility of server side logic, I was really surprised by this book. I've...

Tom Jensen08/21/09
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The Definitive Guide to Lift

Scala is a language for the Java Virtual Machine that I have watched with interest for the past couple of years for its Functional (versus Imperative) language characteristics.  I was excited a year...

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