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Schalk Neethling03/23/08
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Design Accessible Web Sites - Thirty-six Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms

Chapter 1 : Why be Accessible?This chapter answers the question that everyone will ask at some point, Why be accessible? Well, beyond the legal issues involved in making publicly accessible...

Meera Subbarao03/21/08
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Interview: Authors of Head First Software Development

A brand new book on Software Development was recently released by O'Reilly, titled Head First Software Development. I had the opportunity to review the book and interview the authors as well.In this interview, Dan Pilone and Russell Miles, the authors give...

Meera Subbarao03/21/08
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New Book: Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM

As per PACKT publishing, this is a book for Business Analysts (BAs) who need to develop a process model for implementation in a business process management system. Developers looking at the JBoss jBPM toolset will also find it a useful introduction to the key...

David Walsh03/18/08
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Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

My favorite chapter of Wicked Cool PHP is chapter five: Working with Text and HTML. Regular expressions are extremely powerful and the amount of information you can acquire from simple page...

Michael Smolyak03/17/08
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Beginning Spring 2

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Spring.The author starts off by giving his interpretation of terms defining the topic of the book explaining to the reader the notion of frameworks,...

John Ferguson Smart03/09/08
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Java Power Tools has a cover

The Java Power Tools book finally has a cover!

John Ferguson Smart03/09/08
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"Continuous Integration" wins the JOLT award for Best Techincal Book 2007

That great book on Continuous Integration theory and practice, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas, and Andrew Glover, just won the JOLT award for best technical book in 2007. Nice work, guys!

Meera Subbarao03/06/08
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Head First Software Development

1.Great Software Development : Pleasing your customer "If the customer's unhappy, everyone's unhappy." No doubt at all. The authors in this chapter show us how to avoid being a...

Cicero Zandoná03/05/08
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Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam

Chapter 1 Introduction - This small chapter explains what the PMBOK guide is and how it can help.There is also a quick introduction to the five process groups (initiating, planning, executing,...

Meera Subbarao03/04/08
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Checking Java Programs

Provides step by step instructions to download and install the tools. In most cases shows how to use these tools with Eclipse. "Advice and Summary" boxes at the end of the...

Meera Subbarao03/03/08
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EJB 3 in Action

Development of EJB was never easier and it became more complex with every release of EJB specification. The authors in this book have compared the three major releases with a ladybug, an elephant...

Meera Subbarao02/29/08
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Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion

Section 1 Interview questions and answers on: Java Fundamentals. This part covers basic questions like what are the usages of Java packages, what do you mean by polymorphism, inheritance,...

Meera Subbarao02/28/08
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Pro Netbeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition : New from Apress

Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. The authors of this book are Adam Myatt with Brian Leonard and Geertjan Wielenga.

Meera Subbarao02/27/08
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Filthy Rich Clients

Part I. Graphics and GUI Fundamentals Chapter 1. Desktop Java Graphics APIs: Swing, Java 2D, and AWT In this chapter the authors explain very simply what AWT, Java 2D and Swing is. If you have a...

Meera Subbarao02/26/08
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Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

Groovy's major plus point is its seamless integration with Java. I was attracted to Groovy mainly becuase you can mix and match Groovy with Java. If you attended the 2GX conference last week in Reston, VA you will have definitely attended Scott Davis's...