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From the leading publisher of Android books, Apress Expert Android gives you advanced techniques for customizing views, controls, and layouts. Youll learn to develop apps in record time using JSON, Advanced Form Processing, and the BaaS (Backend As A Service) platform Parse. The book also includes extensive coverage on OpenGL, Search, and Telephony. With these advanced and time saving technologies youll be able to release compelling mobile applications in Google Play and the Amazon Appstore at a rapid pace. In Expert Android, youll learn to: Borrow, reuse, or build custom Android UI components Create 3D experiences using OpenGL ES 2.0 Write collaborative applications in the Parse cloud and communicate with your app user community through Parse P...

Oracle Index Management Secrets: Written by the world's top Oracle authors, this eBook utilizes their substantial knowledge of Oracle indexing. With combined experience of over a century, the world's best authors share their secrets for using Oracle indexes to turbocharge Oracle SQL execution speed. Not for beginners, this is an advanced guide for the senior Oracle DBA and dives far into the internal mechanisms of Oracle indexing. Explained are how to monitor and optimize Oracle index structures, how to automate index rebuilding, and the internal structures of Oracle indexes....

This is a unique, one-volume guide to the administration and management of the Oracle database. Fully revised and updated from its best-selling 9i predecessor, this edition covers all new features, with fully field-tested examplesnot just "showcase" examples. This book covers the new 10g management and performance tools and provides essential primers on Unix, Linux and Windows NT administration and on core SQL and PL/SQL programming techniques. And it provides everything the new and aspring Oracle database administrator needs to build and administer complex Oracle 10g databases....

Learn to design more effective and sophisticated business reportsWhile most users of SQL Server Reporting Services are now comfortable designing and building simple reports, business today demands increasingly complex reporting. In this book, top Reporting Services design experts have contributed step-by-step recipes for creating various types of reports.Written by well-known SQL Server Reporting Services experts, this book gives you the tools to meet your clients' needs...

Best practices and expert techniques for even the most demanding MySQL-driven PHP applicationsPHP is the world's most popular, general-purpose, open-source scripting language and MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. This expert-level book begins with a brief overview of the two technologies and quickly moves on to coverage of advanced programming techniques, as well as the exciting new features of the PHP 5.3 release.Written by three of PHP and MySQL experts and veteran authors, this resource focuses on best practices and expert techniques that can be applied to the most difficult MySQL-driven PHP applications. The authors share design patterns and tools that they themselves have tested in order to save you valuable time usually sp...