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O Rob Miles fez uma actualização ao seu já bem conhecido C# Yellow Book.

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Table of Contents

• “Thirty Usability Issues to Be Aware Of”  —  Vitaly Friedman
• “Ten Principles of Effective Web Design”  —  Vitaly Friedman
• “Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques”  —  Sergey Chikuyonok
• “Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices”  —  Smashing Editorial team
• “Ten Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines”  —  Dmitry Fadeyev
• “Setting Up Photoshop for Web and iPhone Development”  —  Marc Edwards
• “The Ails of Typographic Anti-Aliasing”  —  Tom Giannattasio
• “Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures and Gradients”  —  Marc Edwards
• “Better User Experience With Storytelling”  —  Francisco Inchauste
• “The Beauty of Typography, Writing Systems and Calligraphy”  —  Jessica Bordeau
• “Web Designers, Don’t Do It Alone”  —  Paul Boag
• “Making Your Mark on the Web Is Easier Than You Think”  —  Christian Heilmann
• “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It”  —  Kayla Knight
• “I Want to Be a Web Designer When I Grow Up”  —  Michael Aleo
• “Persuasion Triggers in Web Design”  —  David Travis
• “What Font Should I Use?”  —  Dan Mayer
• “The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool for Guiding Client Input”  —  Bridget Fahrland
• “Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed”  —  Helge Fredheim
• “Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?”  —  Vitaly Friedman
• “Make Your Content Make a Difference”  —  Colleen Jones
• “Two Cats in a Sack: Designer-Developer Discord”  —  Cassie McDaniel
• “Print Loves Web”  —  Mark Cossey

Mais um ebook gratuito disponibilizado pela Microsoft, e desta vez sobre o mais recente produto Office 365, escrito por Katherine Murray.

Está dividido em 3 grandes partes: “Finding Your Place in the Cloud”, “Teamwork in the Cloud” e “Connecting in Real Time”. Segue um pequeno roadmap:

Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime is organized in three parts to help you learn about different aspects of setting up and ­working with Office 365.

Part I, “Finding Your Place in the Cloud,” takes a look at the way people are working in the cloud today and introduces you to Office 365. Chapter 1 looks closely at teams, both inside and outside the office environment, and it takes a look at the way Office 365 offers a greener choice for small businesses. Chapter 2 shows you how to create an Office 365 account and set up a profile, and it gives you a big-picture tour of Office 365 so that you can begin planning just what you want to do with the tools. Chapter 3 is for the team manager or person who will be managing the Office 365 site; you’ll learn how to ­customize the site, add mobile devices, and set up and manage Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Lync online.

Part II, “Teamwork in the Cloud,” is your guide to setting up, organizing, ­managing, and helping your team be successful using Office 365. ­Chapter 4 spotlights all the team features you can use to get everybody on the same page, calendar-wise; you’ll also find out how to share files, hold online ­meetings, instant message each other, and broadcast presentations. Chapter 5 walks you through creating, editing, and sharing a team site. Chapter 6 shows you how to create document libraries, share files with team members, and manage the files in SharePoint Online. You’ll also find out about working with file versions, tracking file changes, and comparing and merging files. Chapter 7 shows you how to create and use workflows to keep your team moving in the right direction, and Chapter 8 introduces all things Web App by shining a light on the capabilities of the various tools and showing you how to work with files online, coauthor documents, edit worksheets, broadcast presentations, and share notebooks. Chapter 9 rounds out this part of Office 365 by focusing on mobile technologies: find out how to use the various Office Mobile applications to review, edit, and share the files you develop with your team.

Part III, “Connecting in Real Time,” shows you how to use the ­communication and instant-messaging options in Office 365 to stay in touch with your team in real time. In Chapter 10, “Email and Organize with Office 365,” you learn how to use Outlook Web App to import and manage contacts, set email preferences, organize mail ­folders, work with your calendars and tasks, and more. Chapter 11, “Talking it Over with Microsoft Lync,” shows you how to connect in real time to other online users through instant ­messaging, voice calls, and online chats. You’ll learn how to manage transcripts, invite others to the ­conversation, and host web meetings. Chapter 12, “Designing Your ­Public Website,” shows you how to use the web tools in Office 365 to create a ­website to ­showcase your products and services and give your customers a sense of who you are and what you offer. Chapter 13, “Integrating Office 365,” presents a set of examples that show how you and your team can use the ­various tools in Office 365 together to create and share business projects.

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DBAs and database developers need a good understanding of distribution statistics to be prepared for those occasions when things go wrong. Reading Holger Schmeling’s new “SQL Server Statistics” eBook is a great way of brushing up on the subject of statistics and query-optimization.

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This book shows how to use a mixture of home-grown scripts, native SQL Server tools, and tools from the Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, to successfully develop database applications in a team environment, and make database development as similar as possible to "normal" development.

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Como já tem sido hábito, a Redgate disponibiliza mais um ebook, da autoria de Alex Kuznetsov.

The goal of Defensive Programming is to produce resilient code that respondes gracefully to the unexpected.

To the SQL Server programmer, this means T-SQL code that behaves consistently and predictably in cases of unexpected usage, doesn’t break under concurrent loads, and survives predictable changes to database schemas and settings.

Inside this book, you will find dozens of practical, defensive programming techniques that will improve the quality of your T-SQL code and increase its resilience and robustness.

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In the complete guide to .NET Performance Testing and Optimization, Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell offer a comprehensive handbook to anybody looking to set up a .NET testing environment and get the best results out of it. The authors will also walk you through both memory and performance profiling and suggest steps you can take to get fast performance gains. Download your free copy now.

• Chapter 01: Introduction – The What and the Why
• Chapter 02: Understanding Performance Targets
• Chapter 03: Performance and Load Test Metrics
• Chapter 04: Implementing your Test Rig
• Chapter 05: Creating Performance Tests
• Chapter 06: Next Steps – Profiling
• Chapter 07: Performance Profiling
• Chapter 08: Memory Profiling
• Chapter 09: The Performance Testing Process
• Chapter 10: Common Areas for Performance Improvement
• Chapter 11: Load Balancing
• Chapter 12: Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Chapter 13: HTTP Optimization

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Um ebook de 200 páginas que conta com os seguintes temas:

• Capitulo 1 – What’s new in Windows Server R2
• Capitulo 2 – Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World
• Capitulo 3 – Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines
• Capitulo 4 – Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management
• Capitulo 5 – Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access
• Capitulo 6 – The File Services Role
• Capitulo 7 – IIS 7.5: Improving the Web Application Platform
• Capitulo 8 – DirectAccess and Network Policy Server
• Capitulo 9 – Other Features and Enhancements

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