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Learning ActionScript 2.0 for Macromedia Flash 8

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Learning ActionScript 2.0 for Macromedia Flash 8

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Powerful development and design tools require thorough and authoritative technical advice and documentation. When it comes to Macromedia Flash, no one is more authoritative than Macromedia Development and writing teams. Now their official documentation is available to you in printed book form. As you work, keep this guide by your side for ready access to valuable information on using Flash. We’ve designed it so that it’s easy to annotate as you progress.

More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#

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More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#

In More Effective C#, Microsoft C# MVP and Regional Director Bill Wagner introduces fifty brand-new ways to write more efficient and more robust software. This all-new book follows the same format as Wagner’s best-selling Effective C# (Addison-Wesley, 2005), providing clear, practical explanations, expert tips, and plenty of realistic code examples.

Wagner shows how to make the most of powerful innovations built into Microsoft’s new C# 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5, as well as advanced C# language capabilities not covered in his previous book. Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience, the author reveals new best practices for working with LINQ, generics, metaprogramming, and many other features. He also uncovers practices that compromise performance or reliability and shows exactly how to avoid them.

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Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Corel WordPerfect 10

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Corel WordPerfect 10

Lynda – Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training

Posted by IDM under Video Training

To get the most out of Dreamweaver CS4, it’s important not only to master the application, but also to understand fundamental concepts of modern web design. James Williamson teaches just that in Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training, covering everything from site structure to the value of standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. He shows how to create clean and accessible code in Dreamweaver, as well as how to publish compelling content. James demonstrates how to use a variety of techniques for adding interactivity, creating and styling forms and tables, and saving time with templates. He explains the benefits of using programs like Word and Photoshop to speed up workflow, and shows how to publish and manage finished sites.

Building Care

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Building Care

Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design.
A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM – preventative planned maintenance; JIT – just in time) are explained, together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.

Enclosure Masonry Wall Systems Worldwide

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Enclosure Masonry Wall Systems Worldwide

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Historically, enclosure walls have played a key role in building construction, providing structural safety, while protecting interiors from intrusion. Still in common use across the world today, there is a tremendous variety in types of enclosure walls, depending on such variables as climate and local technologies. New national and international construction standards have contributed to improvements in areas such as thermal insulation and earthquake resistance and have promoted the development of new materials and methods. For this international work, the Commission on Wall Structures of the International Council for Building examines enclosure walls typical to particular countries or regions. Each example considers- · Characterization of the building sector · Customary materials used in masonry · Typical problems and solutions · Evolutionary trends.