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Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. Get hands-on, A-to-Z instructions for building all types of websites, from classy blogs to professional-looking ecommerce sites. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts to your pages. And human beings of all description can discover just how strange they really are in the quirky handbooks Your Brain: The Missing Manual and Your Body: The Missing Manual.
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Walks you through getting a SharePoint site up and running effectively and efficiently Explains ongoing site management and offers plenty of advice for administrators who want to leverage SharePoint and Office 365 in various ways Shows how to use SharePoint to leverage data centers and collaborate with both internal and external customers, including partners and clients. Next you'll learn to get social, go mobile, work with Office 365, manage content, and, best of all, wow your coworkers with the wonders of SharePoint. This SharePoint thing understand the technology stack and the vast assortment of features that make up SharePoint Making it work create a team site, add Web Parts to web pages, and create and customize apps Social advantages connect with others using microblogging, feeds, alerts, mentions, ratings, and likes Enterprising uses use SharePoint to share and approve content, find things with search, archive documents, and develop workflows Public or private set up a public website or an internal client portal using SharePoint.
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Amazon Web Services For Dummies is exactly what you need to get your head in the cloud with Amazon Web Services! From building dynamic websites and creating a blog to launching an e-commerce store and developing rich applications, you'll never want to come back down. All about the Amazon business philosophy Basics of the AWS API Details for setting up AWS storage Hints for using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud How to use AWS core services Tips for building a simple blog Steps for creating an effective e-commerce site Ways to leverage the AWS ecosystem for your needs.
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User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. Jaime is also a part-time college professor teaching a graduate level course called "User Experience Design and Strategy" at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Viterbi School of Engineering.
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If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made Don’t Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability , now in its second edition with over 350,000 copies in print.
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Learning Google AdWords and Google Analytics is going to launch and advance thousands of successful careers in digital advertising and digital analytics around the world. Learning Google AdWords and Google Analytics covers both fundamental Google AdWords and Google Analytics topics, as well as more detailed technical set up for more experienced users.
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Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. It also explains other major Java 8 features including default methods, Optional, CompletableFuture, and the new Date and Time API. How to use Java 8's powerful new features Writing effective multicore-ready applications Refactoring, testing, and debugging Adopting functional-style programming Quizzes and quick-check questions. Passing code with behavior parameterization Lambda expressions PART 2 FUNCTIONAL-STYLE DATA PROCESSING Introducing streams Working with streams Collecting data with streams Parallel data processing and performance PART 3 EFFECTIVE JAVA 8 PROGRAMMING Refactoring, testing, and debugging Default methods Using Optional as a better alternative to null CompletableFuture: composable asynchronousprogramming New Date and Time API PART 4 BEYOND JAVA 8 Thinking functionally Functional programming techniques Blending OOP and FP: comparing Java 8 and Scala Conclusions and where next for Java APPENDIXES Miscellaneous language updates Miscellaneous library updates Performing multiple operations in parallelon a stream Lambdas and JVM bytecode. Raoul-Gabriel Urma has worked as a software engineer for Oracle's Java Platform Group, Google's Python team, Ebay, and Goldman Sachs as well as for several startup projects.
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