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Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station provides a fun introduction to the Arduino microcontroller by putting you (the reader) into the action of a science fiction adventure story. You'll find yourself following along as Cade and Elle explore Gemini Station an orbiting museum dedicated to preserving and sharing technology throughout the centuries. Trouble ensues. The station is evacuated, including Cade and Elle's class that was visiting the station on a field trip. Cade and Elle don't make it aboard their shuttle and are trapped on the station along with a friendly artificial intelligence named Andrew who wants to help them get off the damaged station. Using some old hardware, a laptop, and some toolboxes full of electronics parts, you will f...

CSS for Windows 8 App Development is your learning guide for CSS the language of great Windows 8-style apps. Learn the built-in styles that make the built-in controls shine, how to define them, and how to use CSS to give your custom app assets that beautiful Modern UI style. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the clear standard for styling web applications, and with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript now powering apps on Windows 8, its the clear standard there as well. CSS is a powerful styling and layout language that greatly simplifies the selection of page elements and their visual display, layout, and animation. Additionally, Windows 8 apps appear on a large variety of screen formats, and CSS is the primary means for uniquely defining these layouts. Lear...

Targeted at Java and Java EE developers both with and without prior Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) experience,Beginning EJB 3, Java EE 7 Editionwill guide you inbuilding enterprise software based on the latest cross-platform industry standards. Learn how to use the EJB 3 API to develop powerful, standards-based backend business logic for creating the complex enterprise applications that run today's transactions and more.With over 20 years of combined EJB experience, the authors offer many practical insights into designing and coding EJB components in combination with related Java EE technologies. EJB has made huge advances in the ease of building enterprise, server-side Java components and business logic development, and has drastically simplified progra...

Part of Microsoft's radical WinFX API is the Indigo foundation, more formally known as the Windows Communication Foundation, or WCF. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from theservice-oriented architecture (SOA)perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. The book covers the unified programming model, reliable messaging, security, the peer-to-peer programming model, and more. Youll also learn how to move your current DCOM and .NET remoting applications to WCF, and how to integrate those applications with new WCF-based applications. Youll want to get ahold of a copy because it: Contains a comprehensive WCF programming model Explains how queue management and reliab...