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Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part
of our lives. Over the years, you've yearned for every new gaming
console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and
have even won a local gaming competition or two. But lately you've been
spending a lot of time thinking about a game idea of your own, or are
exploring the possibility of making a career of this vibrant and growing
industry. But where should you begin?

Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame is written with the
budding game developer in mind, introducing games development through
the Python programming language and the popular Pygame games development
library. Authored by industry veteran and Python expert Will McGugan,
who most recently worked on the MotorStorm game for Play Station 3,
you'll be privy to insights that will not only help you to exploit
PyGame to its maximum potential, but also make you a more creative and
knowledgeable games developer all round.

- Learn how to create advanced games by taking advantage of the
popular open source Python programming language and Pygame games
development library.
- Learn about coding gaming preferences, sound, visual effects, and
joystick/keyboard interaction.
- Discover the concepts that are crucial to success in todays gaming
industry, such as support for multiple platforms, and granting users the
ability to extend and customize your games.
What you'll learn
- Take advantage of Python and the Pygame library to build compelling
cross-platform games.
- Learn to best use these technologies to turn your dream game into
reality.
- Create professional games by accounting for sound, special effects,
and user interaction through the joystick and keyboard.
- Build both two- and three-dimensional games, and learn more about
the factors that contribute to choosing one approach over the other.
- Provide users with the means for extending your games through level
creation and custom modifications as a means to build a vibrant
community around your product.
- Package your games in a manner that allows even novice computer
users to install, use, and update your games with ease.

PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating
the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language
works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that
solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your
site? We thought so, too. Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked
Cool PHP assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right
into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly
wished for PHP scripts-you'll work your way through smart configuration
options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex
database-backed scripts. Wicked Cool PHP contains a wide variety of
scripts to process credit cards, check the validity of email addresses,
template HTML, and serve dynamic images and text. The 76 easily
implemented scripts will also teach you how to:

- Send and receive email notifications
- Track your visitors' behavior with cookies and sessions
- Override PHP's default settings
- Manipulate dates, images, and text on the fly
- Harness SOAP and other web services
- Create an online poll, ecard delivery system, and blog But it's not
all fun and games: Security is a big concern when programming any web
application. So you'll learn how to encrypt your confidential data,
safeguard your passwords, and prevent common cross-site-scripting
attacks. And you'll learn how to customize all of the scripts to fit
your own needs. Dynamic Web content doesn't have to be difficult. Learn
the secrets of the craft from two experienced PHP developers with Wicked
Cool PHP.

This book is for anyone who wants to write good Visual Basic 2008 code � even if you have never programmed before.

Writing good code can be a challenge, there are so many options, especially in a language like Visual Basic. If you want to really get the best from a programming language you need to know which features work best in which situations and understand their strengths and weaknesses. It is this understanding that makes the difference between coding and coding well.

Beginning VB 2008 has been written to teach you how to use the Visual Basic programming language to solve problems. From the earliest chapters, and from the first introductory concepts, you'll be looking at real-world programming challenges and learning how Visual Basic can be used to overcome them. As you progress through the book the problems become more involved and interesting while the solutions become correspondingly more complex and powerful as Visual Basic features interact to achieve the results that you want.

By the time you've finished reading this book and worked through the sample exercises, you'll be a confident and very competent Visual Basic programmer. You will still have many explorations of the .NET Framework API to look forward to in your future career, but you will have a firm foundation to build from and you will know exactly where to go to find the things that you need to progress confidently in your projects.

Christian Gross is dedicated to helping his readers understand every detail of Beginning VB 2008 and so you can contact him via SKYPE (christianhgross) if you have bought this book and have a question about something Christian discusses. If Christian is available when you contact him, he will even try to answer you right away!
What you�ll learn

* Become skilled in the Visual Basic 2008 programming language.
* Learn everything you need to begin building your own applications in a solid, well�considered way: this book will teach you .NET coding from the ground up.
* Use the Visual Studio IDE to create, debug, and deploy your applications.
* Understand the mysteries of database access and the many ways that it can be accomplished from VB.
* Delve deeply into the huge range of supporting technologies that the .NET Framework offers: LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX, ADO.NET 3.0, WPF, WCF, and Windows Workflow are all introduced and explained in a straightforward and easy-to-follow way.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone who�s just starting out to learn about Visual Basic 2008. It doesn�t assume any prior knowledge of object�oriented programming, of the .NET Framework, or of coding in general. It simply assumes that you�re an intelligent person who wants to learn and starts the journey from there.

Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and
manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional
organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well
as on the web. These developments mean that tagging has broad
implications for information management, information architecture and
interface design. And its reach extends beyond these technical domains
to our culture at large. We can imagine, for example, the scrapbookers
of the future curating their digital photos, emails, ticket stubs and
other mementos with tags. This book explains the value of tagging,
explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to
improve the user experience. It exposes tagging's superficial simplicity
to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information
architecture, online community and collective intelligence.

- With typical Wrox thoroughness, this book covers every aspect of
virtualization on the Linux platform for administrators seeking to
optimize the use of enterprise hardware, create virtual environments
geared toward specific tasks, or establish a testing environment
- Provides a complete foundation in virtualization, XEN, and competing
approaches with in-depth discussions of installing, configuring, and
using XEN, including detailed examples of XEN configuration files,
system configuration files, and system-level configuration information
- Offers details that help system administrator adopt XEN and justify
its selection
- Covers optimizing XEN, XEN hosts, and guest operating systems for
maximum performance and reliability; using XEN in enterprise data
centers; procedures and considerations for building custom guest
operating systems to run as virtual machines on a XEN host; and much
more

The Ajax craze is sweeping the world, and there is no shortage of libraries from
which to choose to make it all easier to develop. One of those libraries has
risen near the top in the Java space, and that library is DWR. DWR, or Direct Web
Remoting, allows you to treat your Java classes running on the server as if they
were local objects running in the browser, bringing the full power of your server
�side business logic to the client without the usual problems that entails.
In this book:

* You�ll explore DWR and all it offers.
* You�ll find six full, working applications
that use DWR, instead of a lot of theoretical musings.
* You�ll learn by example, more importantly, by doing,
as you tear the applications apart, see what makes
them tick, and even extend them at your own pace.

In the end, you�ll have a great feel for what DWR offers and how Ajax can bring the
world of Web 2.0 to your doorstep, and you�ll have a good time doing it.

What you�ll learn:

* Call a server�side object in a snap and make it look like any
local JavaScript call to boot.
* Provide a strong security mechanism for securing your server-side code.
* Integrate with many of the most popular frameworks out there.
* Provide not only Ajax but Comet capabilities (sometimes called reverse Ajax).
* Dig into Ajax using DWR in a practical and hacking kind of way starting
with a webmail client and Wiki projects.
* Build a simple file manager application and an online timesheet system.
* Complete a DWR�based game project.

Who is this book for?

Web application developers, senior projects leads, and application architects

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is a
comprehensive, example-laden review of the most significant new features
and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation's
flagship database product.

- Learn what's new in Oracle that really counts.
- See actual examples and test run output.
- Make sound decisions on new feature adoption. Sift the gold from the
silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle's
flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database
administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are
combined with sound, step-by-step testing and a heart-felt emphasis on
what matters in the real-world to help you get the most out of Oracle
Database 11g.

What you'll learn:

- Which new features really can make your day-to-day work easier
- How to automate more of your DBA work than ever before

Who is this book for?

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is for
developers, DBAs, project managers, consultants, and other technically
minded users of the Oracle database. The book will be of use to any
professional in the field who wants to quickly review the new features
offered by the Oracle Database 11g release.

If you're a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting
experience, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is
perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level. This book
is about JavaScript and using the document object model-the conduit to
the HTML document. This book is not about learning how to program
JavaScript from scratch. It starts with the assumption that you have
done some JavaScript development before and understand the JavaScript
syntax. This book builds on top of that knowledge to give you a deeper
understanding of DOM Scripting and how to apply that to your projects.
It uses this new understanding to describe what JavaScript libraries are
and show you how they can be applied to your project. The book will also
explain Ajax and how best to plan and apply it to your projects. It
explains how to build simple animation objects for adding movement to
elements on the page. There are straightforward examples that
demonstrate the techniques used throughout the book. JavaScript has seen
a resurgence in popularity over the past few years, and with it has come
an exploration of the power of the language as well as what it can do
within the browser. This book will explain techniques new and old-such
as closures, encapsulation, and inheritance-that many are using and how
you can best apply them to your own projects. By reading this book, you
should have a greater understanding of how JavaScript works and be able
to use advanced concepts such as closures and event delegation to build
more flexible applications for the Web. You'll walk away with a greater
appreciation for JavaScript libraries and how they can simplify and
speed up your development. You'll also be able to implement Ajax
effectively into your site, create special effects, use JavaScript
libraries, and know how best to apply these libraries to your projects.

What you'll learn:

- Where CSS, HTML, and the DOM fit into modern scripting, and how to
use them together effectively
- OOP techniques for more efficient JavaScript coding
- How to use JavaScript libraries such as Prototype in your work
- How to build effective form validation into your applications using Ajax
- How to create mashups using APIs
- How to build dynamic user interfaces

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage
of Oracle Databases built-in feature set for working with location-based
data. A great deal of the information used in business today is
associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is
becoming ever more important in todays mobile and highly connected
world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi
Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address

- The special nature of spatial data and its role in professional and
consumer applications
- Issues in spatial data management such as modeling, storing,
accessing, and analyzing spatial data
- The Oracle Spatial solution and the integration of spatial data into
enterprise databases
- How spatial information is used to understand business and support
decisions, to manage customer relations, and to better serve private and
corporate users When you read Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database
11g, you're learning from the very best. Ravi Kothuri is a key member of
Oracle's Spatial development team. Albert Godfrind consults widely with
Oracle clients on the implementation of Oracle Spatial, develops
training courses, and presents frequently at conferences. Together they
have crafted a technically sound and authoritative fountain of
information on working with spatial data in the Oracle database.

What you'll learn:

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g delivers in helping you fully
understand Oracles spatial data feature set. In reading the book, you'll
learn

- About new Oracle Spatial features in Oracle Database 11g, including
support for the European Petroleum Standards Group (EPSG) data model,
the ability to publish to Google Earth, integration with Google Maps,
and much more
- The use of Oracles built-in SDO_GEOMETRY data type for storing
location-based data
- How to geocode your data, beginning with postal addresses and ending
with SDO_GEOMETRY objects that enable future analysis as well as forming
the foundation of working with spatial data within Oracle
- How to create and display maps to help you visualize and analyze
your geocoded data
- About network modeling, which is useful in computing routes, travel
distances, and proximity based upon travel time
- How to optimize analysis of your spatial data by creating spatial
indexes and custom operators

Who is this book for?

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g is aimed at software
developers who wish to develop applications using Oracles extensive and
strong support for working with spatial, or geocoded, data.

Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition is the second Apress book to cover
the agile, open source NetBeans IDE platform. But the focus of this book is on
enabling you to rapidly develop Java front ends of applications using API buttons,
functions, and features mostly based in the Java SE 6 platform (instead of Java
EE 5�based NetBeans 5.5 IDEa different platform/IDE altogether that published
earlier in 2007):

* Enables you to click and use any of the Java Swing and other desktop Java
graphical user interface (GUI) APIs available in Java SE 6 or prior
* Covers working with rich client platform features available in NetBeans
for building web�based application front ends
* Shows you the web�tier development plug-ins available including JSF,
Struts Action Framework 2.0, and JRuby for bringing the Ruby on Rails
feature set to Java via NetBeans

For building back�end, server�side Java applications, pick up Pro NetBeans IDE
5.5 Enterprise Edition, which is based on APIs found in the Java EE 5.

What you�ll learn:

* Easily install and set up your NetBeans IDE platform environment,
and organize your projects.
* Use the NetBeans source editor, code compiler, refactoring, software
development, profiler, collaboration, database, and debugger tools.
* Develop your Java Swing application for your desktop from start to finish.
* Deploy your Java Swing or other GUI application using Java Web Start
features embedded in NetBeans.
* Build rich client applications using NetBeans plug�in module tools/features
from start to finish.
* Extend your NetBeans IDE wish list to building Struts 2 and even JRuby
(Ruby on Rails) based Java web application front ends.

Who is this book for?

Intended for Java developers of varying skill who may or may not be familiar
with NetBeans IDE or Java IDEs in general.

Fast-paced, to-the-point, and created to enable experienced programmers
with no previous knowledge of NAV development to quickly learn to
create, modify or maintain NAV applications, this book covers the
important topics of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 with clear explanations
and practical example code. NAV (formerly known as Navision) is a
complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application with a unique
design structure and a challenging learning curve that sometimes
overwhelms developers learning to modify or enhance it for vital
business purposes. Like an experienced mentor, this book covers the
topics working developers need to know to become productive as quickly
as possible: basic NAV terminology and concepts; object construction;
tools, including the Table, Form, and Report Designers; using NAV's
tools to effectively navigate through the features of objects, including
properties, triggers, and C/AL code; developing and testing in the
unique NAV C/SIDE development environment.

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