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Webcast: Building and Upgrading a PC - May 3 2012

Mike Halsey — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:27:50 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

With computers now more powerful than ever before, and with wallets being squeezed, there are more and more reasons to hang on to your existing equipment. But how can you breathe new life into an ageing PC on a tight budget? In this webcast, Mike Halsey, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, shows you how to quickly and simply get extra life and performance out of your PC, fix common hardware faults and what to look for to build a fantastic new PC from scratch.

About Mike Halsey

Mike Halsey is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for "Windows Expert - Consumer" and an editor for technology websites, Windows7News.com, Windows8News.com and gHacks.net. He also provides technical support on his own website, TheLongClimb.com. You can keep up to date with all of Mike's events, articles and get access to exclusive giveaways on Facebook.

He has worked for many years in second and third-line IT support, and is a technical beta-tester for Microsoft. Mike also works as a teacher of English, maths and ICT, helping those without qualifications and the long-term unemployed gain what is for some, their first ever qualifications. Mike is the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out and the free 170 page The Windows 7 Power Users Guide, he lives in Sheffield (Yorkshire) UK with his rescue border collie, Jed.

Webcast: Moving Beyond the SEO Silo - Apr 24 2012

Vanessa Fox — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:28:41 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

More and more these days, user interaction with web sites begins with the search box on Google. In this webcast presentation you will learn:

How building searcher personas can increase web site usability, customer engagement, and overall visitors
Find out how to use free search data to augment market research, customer surveys, and focus groups

Vanessa Fox, creator of Google's Webmaster Central and author of the book Marketing in the Age of Google, will show you why our evolution into a searching culture requires a fundamental shift in how we think about the user experience, well beyond simply accommodating search engine optimization.

About Vanessa Fox

Vanessa Fox is the author of the critically acclaimed Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business (Wiley, May 2010), which has been called the "search marketing bible" by technology leaders.

She is the founder and CEO of Nine By Blue, which provides education and training, custom reporting, and strategic consulting for organizations to assist them in maximizing audience engagement and customer acquisition through organic search.

A sought after speaker, Vanessa has traveled the globe discussing the evolution of how we search for and consume information. She writes regularly about the search engine industry, searcher behavior, and technical site architecture for a variety of publications including Search Engine Land, O'Reilly Radar, and MSN Business on Main.

Vanessa previously created Google's Webmaster Central, which provides both tools and community support to help website owners improve their sites with an eye towards gaining more customers from organic search. She was instrumental in the sitemaps.org alliance of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. Seattle Business Monthly has called her a "cyberspace visionary."

Fox has also been an entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners and served as an advisor for several startups.

In additional to her writing, speaking, and consulting, Fox also hosts the live weekly podcast Office Hours and posts regularly to Facebook (like her) and Twitter (follow her) on a variety of technology and search related subjects.

Given her busy speaking schedule, she is highly skilled at navigating airport security. A California native, Vanessa resides in Seattle.

Laura Rogers at International SharePoint Conference - Apr 23-25 2012

Laura Rogers — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:28:56 PDT

Join author Laura Rogers (Using InfoPath 2010 with SharePoint 2010: Step By Step) as she presents three sessions: Building the travel request solution - Part 1:Requirements and Design; Building the travel request solution - Part 2:Travel Request Workflow and Approvals; Building the travel request solution - Part 4:Reporting and Business Intelligence on travel requests.

Webcast: Responsive Web Design Bootcamp - Apr 19 2012

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:09:15 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

It is no longer safe to assume that visitors to your website are sitting in front of a large monitor equipped with a keyboard and mouse. As smartphones overtake the desktop as the primary portal to the Web - and as new device types and interaction models continue to emerge - designers need to adopt future-friendly strategies that support a full range of user contexts with a single codebase.

What will be covered?

The "One Web" philosophy and benefits
Mechanics of media queries
Code organization and best practices
Adding support for adaptive images
Fallback techniques for older browsers

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for web designers and developers who are interested in creating mobile web sites and web apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript would be very helpful but is not required.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Webcast: Creative Photoshop Tips for Photographers - Apr 6 2012

Harold Davis — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:31:56 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

In this webcast, Harold Davis, the author of The Photoshop Darkroom series, explains his complete digital workflow starting with his digital photography techniques. He shows how he uses multi-RAW processing and hand-HDR with layering to enhance original photos.

Along the way, Harold will demonstrate how he uses the LAB color space to improve imagery and create special color effects.

This webcast is intended for photographers, and Harold will show his own work as examples of how creative use of Photoshop can enhance even the best professional photos.

There will be ample time for Q&A.

About Harold Davis

Harold Davis is an award-winning professional photographer and widely recognized as one of the leading contemporary photographers. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis (Focal Press), The Photoshop Darkroom 2: Creative Digital Transformations (Focal Press), The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing (Focal Press), Creative Landscapes: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Lighting: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Portraits: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Black & White: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), Creative Night: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley), and Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques (Wiley)

Harold writes the popular Photoblog 2.0, and is a photography columnist for Photo.net.

Harold is a popular presenter on many digital photography topics. He is a gifted teacher, and his workshops are usually sold out well in advance.

Photographic adventures and assignments have taken him across the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountains in Alaska. He has photographed the World Trade Towers, hanging out of a small plane, followed in the footsteps of Seneca Ray Stoddard, a 19th-century photographer of the Adirondacks, and created human interest photo stories about the residents of Love Canal, an environmental disaster area. Harold's work has been published in books and magazines, and as posters and greeting cards. His prints are widely collected.

Harold brings a broad range of experience to his work as a professional photographer and author. He has worked as a software engineer, an enterprise technology consultant, and an Internet company executive.

Harold is well-known for his night photography and experimental ultra-long exposure techniques, use of vibrant, saturated colors in landscape compositions, and beautiful creative floral imagery. He is inspired by the flowers in his garden, hiking in the wilderness, and the work of great artists and photographers including Ansel Adams, M.C. Escher, Monet, van Gogh, and Edward Weston.

Harold frequently collaborates with his wife, Phyllis Davis, on book projects. They live in Berkeley, California with their four children.

Webcast: Manually Removing Viruses and Malware from Windows 7 - Apr 5 2012

Mike Halsey — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:32:41 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Getting a virus on your computer is a pain and they're becoming ever more difficult to remove. In this webcast, Mike Halsey, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, talks you through the process of manually and safely removing viruses and malware from your computer without damaging your files or Windows itself.

About Mike Halsey

Webcast: The jQuery Mobile API In-Depth - Apr 4 2012

Jon Reid — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:32:58 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Join us for this informative webcast presentation where Jon Reid, the author of JQuery Mobile, will talk about:

jQuery Mobile methods and events
Responsive Layouts in jQuery Mobile
Configuring jQuery Mobile

About Jon Reid

Jon Reid is a senior developer at EffectiveUI. He has been developing in HTML and JavaScript since 1996 and is committed to building rich and accessible web experiences. He is passionate about user-centered creative processes and believes that involving the user is an essential part of creating awesome software. Jon has a variety of experience with HTML-based RIAs and has been the lead on projects ranging from genetic analysis software to Microsoft's "I'm a PC" campaign.

Jon is an alumni of the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he graduated with a degree in Physics and Mathematics. He lives in Denver with his partner of 13 years.

Mobile 360 Live - Apr 2-3 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:34:56 PDT

The UK’s freshest conference on technology and business progression in the mobile development ecosystem has been announced. Mobile 360 Live is the sister event of the popular European Mobile TechCon series, which is held annually in Munich and Frankfurt. This conference is designed to give developers, project managers and business developers alike unique insights into the world of mobile technology advancement. Come and see our latest books!

O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference - Apr 2-4 2012

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:39:36 PDT

Where 2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location ecosystem. Join with developers, technologists, CTOs, researchers, geographers, academics, business developers, and entrepreneurs to debate what's critical now, and what's pushing the boundaries of the location frontier.

Webcast: Location, Social and Mobile - Mar 30 2012

Leah Busque — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:36:36 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Think back 10 to 15 years ago, there was probably a kid in your neighborhood that you could pay a couple bucks to wash your car or mow your lawn. We've lost that sense of community over the years because the age of the internet has siloed us. With the social networking in full force, that is changing. Social, location, and mobile technologies are creating a meaningful foundation to connect a neighborhood both on and offline. Technology has finally caught up to human behavior, and we are able to use the internet to get off the internet and build a strong community together. In this webcast presentation Leah will highlight how these technology trends are paving the way for new marketplace businesses and why they are so important to the success of these models.

About Leah Busque

A true visionary, Leah originated the phrase, "service networking," a now industry-wide term describing the productive and service power of a web-based social networked community. In the fall of 2008, while trying to figure out how to juggle dinner out with her husband, Kevin, and buying dog food for her 100-pound yellow labrador retriever, Kobe, Leah's flash of inspiration resulted in her registering the RunMyErrand.com domain name from her iPhone, and mapping the entire business model in her head prior to their meal. Eighteen months later, the company is flourishing, and has expanded and evolved into TaskRabbit.com.

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Siegfried Jagott Presents at Microsoft Exchange 2012 Spring - IT & DevConnections - Mar 26-29 2012

Siegfried Jagott — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:37:19 PDT

Join author Siegfried Jagott (Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices) as he presents a session about Office 365 "Experience Gained from Working in a Hybrid Exchange Deployment" and two sessions on Exchange 2010: "Mailbox Replication — The Art of Moving Mailboxes" and "In-depth Message Tracking Using the Tracking Log."

Mitch Garnaat at Rochester CloudCamp - Mar 24 2012

Mitch Garnaat — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:42:36 PDT

Join author Mitch Garnaat (The Python and AWS Cookbook) as he discusses software tools to help manage cloud infrastructures.

Codemotion - Mar 23-24 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:39:56 PDT

Codemotion is growing – now 2 days in Rome and in Madrid. No longer just Java but also all other languages and technologies. I believe some of our authors will be there – better make sure I got their books on display.

Webcast- Creative Flower Photography - Mar 22 2012

Harold Davis — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:09:57 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Surveys have shown that flowers are one of the favorite subjects of photographers amateur and professional alike. No wonder because flowers have an almost infinite variety of colors, shape and beauty. In this webcast, master photographer Harold Davis, author of the high-acclaimed Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis shows his flower photography and explains how his images were made. There will be ample time for Q&A.

About Harold Davis

Harold writes the popular Photoblog 2.0, and is a photography columnist for Photo.net.

Harold is a popular presenter on many digital photography topics. He is a gifted teacher, and his workshops are usually sold out well in advance.

Harold frequently collaborates with his wife, Phyllis Davis, on book projects. They live in Berkeley, California with their four children.

33rd Degree Conference - Mar 19-21 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:41:56 PDT

33rd Degree offers – top quality speakers, 3 days packed with Java Technology, BOF sessions, 3 hours long Workshops lead by World Class trainers etc. As stated on the website – A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~ Chinese Proverb ~

33rd Degree Conference - Mar 19-21 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:42:56 PDT

O'Reilly authors at DrupalCon - Mar 19-23 2012

Angela Byron, Jeff Eaton, Luke Wroblewski — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:22:15 PDT

Authors Luke Wroblewski (Luke Wroblewski on Designing for Mobile First - video), Angie Byron (Using Drupal, 2E), and Jeff Eaton (Using Drupal, 1E) are speaking.

TOC Bologna - Mar 18 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:48:36 PDT

This unique one day event focuses on publishing in the digital age. Whether you are looking for an introduction to digital ideas and platforms or are already on your way and want to learn more -- this is the event for you.

SciPy and NumPy

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:48:02 PDT

SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines. Together, they are easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers.

Testing in Scala

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:49:02 PDT

Testing in Scala starts with an introduction of the Scala programming language, explains why project infrastructure is critical, and provides compelling reasons to use Scala testing frameworks to not only test Scala code, but Java code too. This book introduces and explains the Simple Build Tool, the Scala answer to Ant, Maven, Gradle, and Buildr. It then explains in detail all the best tools for testing Scala and Java code today--ScalaTest, Specs2, ScalaCheck, and Borachio. Testing in Scala also gives insight on how to integrate coverage tools, continuous integration, web acceptance frameworks, and Java testing frameworks that you already know and love.

Getting Started with the Propeller

Jeff Ledger, Nick McClanahan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:50:02 PDT

Ready to take your Arduino skills to the next level? This book shows you how to build projects with the Propeller, a microcontroller built from the silicon up for prototyping. A multicore architecture and new programming language make the Propeller ideal for artists and hobbyists who are building unique applications—especially projects that generate video and audio.

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:51:02 PDT

Introducing Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 explores the exciting enhancements and new capabilities engineered into SQL Server, ranging from improvements in operation to those in reporting and management. This book is for anyone who has an interest in SQL Server 2012 and wants to understand its capabilities, including database administrators, application developers, and technical decision makers.

Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:52:02 PDT

Yesod harnesses Haskell's flexibility and strong type system to create a rapid but industrial-strength web application environment. Yesod delivers performance, security, and clean RESTful APIs. Readers should already be familiar with Haskell, as this book picks up where Real World Haskell leaves off.

ActionScript Developers Guide to Unit Testing with FlexUnit

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:53:02 PDT

This title will be focused on how to develop unit tested ActionScript (Flex) applications. Readers will learn when/where to apply unit testing as well as how to cover legacy untested code with tests. Unit testing is an important part of any application. We unit test to protect our work, document our code, and code with confidence. There is currently not much consolidated information on the subject for the Actioncript community. This book aims to change that.

Webcast: Principles of Mobile Interface Design - Mar 15 2012

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:53:14 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Mobile app design for touchscreen devices has more in common with classic industrial design principles than the software interface development patterns of the desktop computing era. Learn how to take your mobile app from concept to completed design by exploring practical principles and visual examples.

What will be covered?

User centered design
Defining the mobile context
Pragmatic UI guidelines
Editorial considerations for small screen
Best practices for touch interfaces
Designing cross-platform controls

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for web designers and developers who are interested in creating mobile apps. A basic familiarity with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript would be very helpful but is not required.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.