Microsoft Excel 2010

Easy Microsoft Excel 2010, 9780789742872 (078974287X), Que, 2010

Welcome to the world of Excel. Okay, that’s a bit cheesy. But if you look around the business world, the fi nancial world, the manufacturing world, and any other industry you can of, you will see people using Excel. Excel is everywhere. It is by far the most used program in the history of business applications. So in a very real way, it is truly a world of Excel. This is probably why you’ve picked up this book. You need a way to accelerate your learning and get up to speed in Excel.

Well, worry not, dear reader. Whether you’re boning up on Excel for a new job (congratulations, by the way), a school project, or just for home use, this book is perfect for you. Easy Microsoft Offi ce Excel 2010 provides concise, visual, step-by-step instructions for the most common tasks you need to do in Excel. You won’t be inundated with fancy descriptions of every little function and feature. We get right to the core tasks you need to get started fast. You learn how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets, as well as how to create charts and use Excel formulas. Just about everything you need to get up and running with Excel is in this one easy book.

This year, millions of beginner-to-intermediate-level users will be searching for the easiest possible way to master Excel 2010's new features - and, with Easy Microsoft Excel 2010, you'll find exactly what you're looking for. This full-color, utterly simple, step-by-step book has been carefully crafted to provide instant access to the 100+ tasks you'll find most useful and valuable. As with all books in the Easy series, it's designed to teach visually: you never have to work your way through lengthy text explanations. Its large typeface makes it even more accessible to all readers - especially senior readers whose needs are disregarded by most computer books. Written by an experienced Microsoft Excel trainer and author, Easy Microsoft Excel 2010 walks you through the easiest, fastest, most direct procedures for getting the results they're looking for.Coverage includes: getting started fast; managing, viewing, and editing workbooks; formatting data; using formulas, functions, charts, and graphics; analyzing data; printing; and even advanced techniques. Along the way, you will learn how to make the most of many of Excel 2010's most powerful innovations, such as Sparklines and the Excel Web App.

100+ hands-on, step-by-step tasks show novices and inexperienced upgraders the easiest, fastest, most direct way to accomplish common tasks
Written by an experienced Microsoft Excel trainer and author
Fully revamped for Excel 2010's most powerful new tools and features

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - High Availability

Every new version of SQL Server brings with it new tools and features for database administrators (DBAs), developers, and architects, for them to be able to provide an effective solution for the end users in a simpler and more efficient manner. The terms effective and efficiency can be measured in a technical perspective as High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR).
Let's assume that a world-wide retailer's CTO has been tasked to provide high availability for their mission-critical back-end systems that are built upon SQL Server technologies. It is a major task for DBAs to implement an HA solution on a SQL Server data platform, and for developers to ensure that underlying application architecture is HA-aware to take advantage of mission-critical features from SQL Server technologies.
SQL Server High Availability features include failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, replication, and backup and restore strategies. The solution must fit within the company's budget, keeping up the scalability, and should reduce degradation in performance. When it comes to the disaster recovery solution, it may not be possible for the primary and secondary site's hardware to be the same, such as fewer hardware resources, limited storage capacity, or data center limitations. It may be acceptable to the business in terms of costing, but when a disaster strikes, the damage will be irrecoverable. All such out-of-the-box limitations must be avoided, or reduced, to keep up the mission-critical applications always online.
                                               

Programming Android

Programming Android, 9781449389697 (1449389694), O'Reilly, 2011

The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applications that go beyond the scope of small example applications.
This book is for people coming to Android programming from a variety of backgrounds. If you have been programming iPhone or Mac OS applications in Objective-C, you will find coverage of Android tools and Java language features relevant to Android programming that will help you bring your knowledge of mobile application development to Android. If you are an experienced Java coder, you will find coverage of Android application architecture that will enable you to use your Java expertise in this newly vibrant world of client Java application development. In short, this is a book for people with some relevant experience in object-oriented languages, mobile applications, REST applications, and similar disciplines who want to go further than an introductory book or online tutorials will take them.


Delve into sensors, native development, 3D graphics, and many other topics, and discover how to build apps on the platform of your choice. If you're an intermediate to advanced programmer, you'll learn how to make great Android apps.

• Learn how to use the Android SDK with the Eclipse IDE
• Apply advanced Java concepts regardless of your experience with the language
• Create an Android user interface that's captivating and easy to navigate
• Use the Fragment API for tablet user interfaces
• Make your application compatible with Honeycomb and earlier versions
• Understand Android's unique database design issues and the role of SQLite
• Use sensors and gestures to expand your app's input beyond just tapping and scrolling

Explore Android APIs for multimedia, location, communication, NFC, and other applications