Do you like to build things? Are you ever frustrated at having to compromise your designs to fit whatever parts happen to be available? Would you like to fabricate your own parts? Build Your Own CNC Machine is the book to get you started. CNC expert Patrick Hood-Daniel and best-selling author James...

Welcome to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King’s Treasure. Yes, it’s the sequel to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure, but no previous experience with that book is required to use or enjoy this book. Please be aware that The Mayan Adventure used the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.0 kit which was released in 2006. The LEGO...

The Spring Framework is a widely adopted enterprise and general Java framework. The release of Spring Framework 3.0 has added many improvements and new features for Spring development. Written by Gary Mak of the best-selling Spring Recipes and Josh Long, an expert Spring user and developer, Spring...

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Welcome to the new world of Windows 7. Whether this is your first time with Windows, you're switching from another operating system, or you're upgrading from Windows XP or Vista, you’ll find a wealth of new ideas and innovations in Windows 7. The mission with this release was to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and in Getting...

Have you ever been faced with a new type of query to write, or been asked to create an unfamiliar database object? In such situations, you have probably wanted a good, solid example upon which to build, and instead have been forced into the drudgery of parsing railroad-style syntax diagrams in Oracle's manual set. This book frees you from that...

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Website design and development can be a minefield for beginners. Where do you start? What languages should you learn? What techniques should you use to produce your site? What should you put on your site? How do you make it look appealing? How do you update it? This book takes into account the most frequently asked website design and...

As a developer you are likely painfully aware that not all features of an application can be anticipated when the software ships. In order to cope with these eventualities and save yourself time (and perhaps money), it makes sense to write your applications in such a way that end users can be made as independent of the developers as possible....

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