Whether you're promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to dig into the more complex functionality available on the WordPress platform. You'll learn how to customize your blog with your own URL, templates, plugin functionality, and more.

Teach yourself how to use Office Professional 2010-including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, Excel®, Access, Publisher, and OneNote®-one step at a time! Work at your at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises.

With this full color, no-nonsense guide, you'll learn the quickest ways to solve a problem or learn new skills with Microsoft Word 2010. Easy-to-follow steps and concise, straightforward language make learning plain and simple!

This book contains hundreds of useful tips to help you obtain the results you desire. It describes how to perform standard studio techniques such as drum editing and replacement and parallel compression as well as tips to improve your workflow.

It covers the new features introduced Logic Pro 9. Manipulate audio timing and tempo with the Flex tool, take advantage of the new latency compensation during recording and mixing, and learn about the new plug-ins like Pedalboard and Amp Designer.

Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition, by pro photographer Jack Howard, leads you into the the new frontier of High Dynamic Range Imaging, a multi-shot technique to digitally capture, store, and edit the full luminosity range of a scene in ways not possible in a single captured image. Fully updated for 2010, the 2nd Edition covers the HDR process from image capture through post-processing for web and print. Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition is richly illustrated with step-by-step tutorials for creating professional results using the leading HDR software titles, including the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Photomatix Pro, FDRTools, Dynamic Photo HDR, and HDR PhotoStudio.

Howard instructs from experience as a photographer and a writer, with an emphasis on making the HDR process work for you.

Topics include:

Step-by-step tutorials Basic and advanced workflows and workarounds Web and print optimization File management, keywording Advice on cameras, gear and software

Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.

This book is the complete and authorized introduction to Juniper Network's new SRX hardware series that runs the Junos operating system. You not only get a hands-on field guide to deploying, configuring, and operating SRX, but also a reference to help you prepare for the JNCIS-ES and JNCIE-ES Certification examinations. Learn how to use SRX to address an array of enterprise data network requirements -- including IP routing, intrusion detection, attack mitigation, unified threat management, and more.

Whether you're developing applications for the desktop, the Web, embedded systems, or operating systems, the SQLite database provides an alternative to heavy-duty client-server databases such as Oracle and MySQL. With this book, you'll get complete guidance for using this small and lightweight database effectively, including how to make SQLite an integral part of your application to help contain the size and complexity of your project.

If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5's new elements and attributes. You'll also learn how HTML5 can help you develop applications that display video without having to rely on plugins, work even when a user is offline, and more.

Test Driven Development (TDD) is changing how seasoned software developers create and evolve software systems. Instead of coding first and debugging later, test driven developers get feedback every few minutes, ensuring that their code does what they expect. Many C programmers have viewed this practice as impractical for their challenging work. This book shows you how to apply TDD to C, with a focus on the unique challenges facing embedded programmers.

You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in Seven Weeks? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Whether or not your favorite language is on that list, you'll broaden your perspective of programming by examining these languages side-by-side. You'll learn something new from each, and best of all, you'll learn how to learn a language quickly.

Your co-workers' resistance to new technologies can be baffling. Logical arguments can fail. If you don't do politics, you will fail. With Driving Technical Change, by Terrence Ryan, you'll learn to read users' "patterns of resistance"-and then dismantle their objections. Every developer must master the art of evangelizing. With these techniques and strategies, you'll help your organization adopt your solutions-without selling your soul to organizational politics.

When you need answers for using C# 4.0, this tightly focused and practical book tells you exactly what you need to know -- without long introductions or bloated samples. Succinct and easy to browse, C# 4.0 Pocket Reference is ideal as quick reference -- or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#. Written by the authors of the acclaimed C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, this book doesn't skimp on detail, but covers the entire C# 4.0 language.

This bestselling tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers teaches you how to use the new version of the C# language to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications with the .NET 4.0 Framework. The sixth edition covers the latest enhancements to the language, as well as the fundamentals of both C# and .NET, and concurrent programming with C# 4.0. You'll also learn how to use C# with .NET tools such as the Entity Framework and the Silverlight platform.

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. The third edition of this thoroughly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications. Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, this new edition is revised for the latest productivity-enhancing features for C# 4.0 and .NET 4.

How do you know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most people get it wrong, as they depend on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history that have little basis in reality. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at the history of innovation to reveal powerful truths about how ideas become successful innovations -- truths that people can apply to their challenges today.

Two hundred years of industrial habits are embedded in our workplaces, our schools and our system of government. How do we change our work practices to win in the 21st Century? Full of practical, proven solutions to common workplace challenges, Gamestorming is a toolkit for inventors, explorers and change agents who want to use design thinking to navigate successfully in complex and uncertain knowledge and information spaces.

Whether you're new to Microsoft Office or have used it for years, this clear and friendly primer helps you be productive with Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and the rest of the Office apps from day one. Learn what's new in Office 2010 and get a complete, step-by-step guide to each of its main programs, along with details on Publisher, OneNote, and Office Web Apps. With this Missing Manual on hand, you'll be creating professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases in no time.

This video helps you build a complete web monitoring strategy. It covers the many different metrics you can collect, from latency and uptime to usability and navigation--and show you how to tie them to the goals of your web business.

Presented by the co-author of O’Reilly’s Complete Web Monitoring, this video looks at every part of your online measurement strategy, with a particular focus on what web operators need to know.

For many developers, the modern web site has evolved into something more like an application, requiring more specialized tools to measure performance. This video provides an overview of some of these tools. You will learn how to profile the loading and running of a web page in various browsers, identify performance bottlenecks, and examine ways to optimize the overall user experience. Vendor supported tools such as Firebug, Web Inspector, and IE Developer Tools are covered in addition to 3rd party software such as YSlow, PageSpeed, dynaTrace, and more.