A n00b's Guide to Using Autodesk Maya 2012

If you want to thoroughly master InDesign from the basics through advanced topics, Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production is the book you need. Written by the former InDesign technical lead for Adobe, this book helps you achieve professional results through efficient production workflows and advanced techniques. You'll learn how to collaborate within workgroups; work efficiently with text, objects, and variable text; perfect your printed output; get the most out of InDesign's transparency and effects tools, and much more. Above all, you'll see how to handle prepress to get the results you want.

• Shows you how to use Adobe InDesign CS5 to achieve professional results
• Written by the former InDesign technical lead for Adobe, who, in addition to his technical expertise, offers his own valuable advice and lessons learned from 20 years in the graphic design business
• Offers comprehensive coverage of topics, step-by-step instruction, and numerous examples and case studies

Written by Rick Beauchamp, professional breeder, exhibitor, and author of numerous books on the care and feeding of purebred dogs, Breeding Dogs For Dummies fills you in on every facet of the business. Packed with priceless insider tips and expert advice and guidance, it tells you what you need to know to:

• Decide whether dog breeding is really for you
• Choose the right breed for you
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Explore what it takes to start a breeding program that will ensure your dogs’ health and enhance their lineage for fun and profit. Topics covered in detail include:

• Selecting breeding stock and keeping track of breed types
• Understanding purebred genetics and genotype characteristics
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• Prenatal care, whelping, and raising puppies
• Running a successful dog breeding business—including tips on budgeting, taxes, registration, charting, planning litters, transactions, sales contracts, and more

JavaScript is the definitive language for making the Web a dynamic, rich, interactive medium. This guide to JavaScript builds on the success of previous editions and introduces you to many new advances in JavaScript development. The reorganization of the chapters helps streamline your learning process while new examples provide you with updated JavaScript programming techniques.

You'll get all-new coverage of Ajax for remote scripting, JavaScript frameworks, JavaScript and XML, and the latest features in modern Web browsers. Plus, all the featured code has been updated to ensure compliance with the most recent popular Web browsers.

• Introduces you to the latest capabilities of JavaScript, the definitive language for developing dynamic, rich, interactive Web sites
• Features new coverage of data types and variables, JavaScript and XML, Ajax for remote scripting, and popular JavaScript frameworks
• Offers updated code that ensures compliance with the most popular Web browsers
• Includes improved examples on the most up-to-date JavaScript programming techniques

Continuing in the superlative tradition of the first three editions, Beginning JavaScript, Fourth Edition, gets you up to speed on all the new advances in JavaScript development.

Mastering Technical Analysis explores a wide range of technical analysis tools, detailing how to use each to improve trading performance. Topics explored include moving averages and the importance of crossovers; popular indicators from the VIX index and 10-30 DMA to stochastics; trends and pattern recognition; and more. In addition, this book examines how exchange-traded funds and other new securities as well as the emergence of China, India, and other international markets will impact present and future technical analysis applications.

This book is the ideal primer to getting started with Maya, the premier 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, cartoons, short films, and commercials. You'll learn the Maya interface and the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. Professional visual effects artist and instructor Dariush Derakhshani explains the nuances of the complex software, while creative tutorials offer realistic, professional challenges for those new to 3D. You'll be up and running in no time with the world's most popular professional 3D software application.

• Provides a thorough, step-by-step introduction to Maya 2012
• Explains the core concepts of CG and working in 3D
• Covers modeling, rigging, HDRI lighting, mental ray rendering, and more
• Concepts are reinforced with tutorials that offer realistic challenges and clear explanations
• Color insert provides real-world examples from talented beginning Maya users

There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal:

• You're a beginner to programming and you've chosen Visual Basic 2010 as the place to start. That's a great choice! Visual Basic 2010 is not only easy to learn, it's also fun to use and very powerful.

• You can program in another language but you're a beginner to .NET programming. Again, you've made a great choice! Whether you've come from Fortran or Visual Basic 6, you'll find that this book quickly gets you up to speed on what you need to know to get the most from Visual Basic 2010.

Visual Basic 2010 offers a great deal of functionality in both tools and language. No one book could ever cover Visual Basic 2010 in its entirety—you would need a library of books. What this book aims to do is to get you started as quickly and easily as possible. It shows you the roadmap, so to speak, of what there is and where to go. Once we've taught you the basics of creating working applications (creating the windows and controls, how your code should handle unexpected events, what object-oriented programming is, how to use it in your applications, and so on) we’ll show you some of the areas you might want to try your hand at next:

• Chapters 1 through 9 provide an introduction to Visual Studio 2010 and Windows programming. These chapters will help you install the Visual Studio 2010 IDE you'll use to create Visual Basic 2010 applications and learn your way around the interface. You'll be introduced to the .NET Framework and the CLR (Common Language Runtime). You'll learn to use variables, data types, comments, methods, and control software flow with the If statement and loops. You'll work with data in arrays, enumerations, constants, structures, ArrayLists, Collections, and tables. Chapter 6 provides an introduction to XAML and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming. XAML and WPF are the most recent addition to how VB programmers create user interfaces for their applications. You'll also work with events, create toolbars, buttons, forms, display dialog boxes, and create menus.

• Chapter 10 provides an introduction to application debugging and error handling.

• Chapters 11 through 13 provide an introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP) and building objects. You'll use classes, learn about reusability, work with constructors and inheritance, and see .NET Framework classes and namespaces. You’ll learn to work with OOP memory management, class libraries, you'll register assemblies, and see how to use third party class libraries.

• Chapter 14 provides an introduction to creating Windows Forms user controls. While WPF user interfaces are newer, Windows forms are still in widespread use. You'll create and test controls and work with their properties.

• Chapters 15 and 16 provide an introduction to programming with databases and covers Access, SQL Server, and ADO.NET. The chapters walk you through the SQL SELECT statement, Access queries, data access components, and data binding.

• Chapters 17 and 18 provide an introduction to Dynamic Data Web Sites and ASP.NET and show you how to write applications for the Web. You'll work with the most current ASP.NET 4 web techniques in Visual Studio 2010.

• Chapter 19 provides a brief introduction to XML, a powerful tool for integrating your applications with others—regardless of the language they were written in.

• Chapter 20 introduces you to deploying applications using ClickOnce technology.

Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that work

If you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site's visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you're new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you'll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros.

• Down to basics - learn your way around JavaScript and choose an editor and test browser

• Manage complexity - use functions, arrays, and objects to create more sophisticated programs

• Page magic - discover how to control what happens on your pages, animate objects, and put pages in motion

• Get beautiful - Use the jQuery User Interface library to add sliders, tabbed interfaces, and custom dialogs to a site

• Come clean with AJAX - build AJAX requests into your programs, use jQuery, and work with AJAX data

Open the book and find:

• How to choose a test browser

• How to discuss string concatenation with a straight face

• Tips for debugging your code

• How to add useful information to a dropdown list

• Why AJAX connections should be asynchronous

• The exciting possibilities of the jQuery library

• How to use the Aptana editor

• Online resources for JavaScript programmers