This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up your WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up your theme's template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters cover additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using 3rd-party plugins as well as creating API hooks to add your own custom plugins. Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to effectively understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system enabling you to have full control over your site's design and branding.

Computer-Based Testing and the Internet is a comprehensive guide for all professionals, academics and practitioners working in the fields of education, credentialing, personnel testing and organizational assessment. It will also be of value to students developing expertise in these areas.

This guide provides guidance, recommendations, and the technical information you need to plan successfully for and deploy Microsoft .NET applications. It is for information technology managers, lead developers, developers, test team members, and system administrators. Read this guide if you are planning to deploy a .NET application, or if you are currently implementing a deployment strategy. Also read this guide if you need to update a solution that has already been rolled out to the production environment.

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information. This book provides a record of current research and practical applications in Web searching. It includes techniques that will improve the utilization of the Web by the design of Web sites, as well as the design and application of search agents. This book presents research and related applications in a manner that encourages additional work toward improving the reduction of information overflow, which is so common today in Web search results.

The leading guide for Java developers who build business applications with CORBA, Acknowledged experts present advanced techniques and real-world examples for building both simple and complex programs using Java with CORBA. The authors begin with a quick overview of CORBA, Java, object request brokers (ORBs), and EJB components, then quickly move on to show how to use them to build complete Java applications. This new volume features in-depth code examples, as well as expanded coverage of cutting-edge topics, including Portable Object Adaptor (POA), Remote Method Invocation (RMI) over IIOP, and EJB.

* You'll learn, The fundamentals of creative computer programming—from procedural programming, to object-oriented programming, to pure Java programming
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* How to code your own pixel-level imaging effects, such as image contrast, color saturation, custom gradients and more
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Detailing the design and deployment of a VMware ESX Server environment, and written from the practical experience of proven VMware engineers, this book provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough design issues such as ESX Server security, network and SAN design, host hardware selection, guest selection and configuration, management tool selection, ESX performance optimizations, and automated installs and provisioning. A linear progression is provided, starting at the basic architecture of ESX server and then moving on to server configurations, design alternatives for hardware, SAN configuration and management tools, the creation of guest operating systems, and strategy development for implementing this technology into a specific environment. Advanced topics such as unattended installs, integration with network management software, configuration options for high availability, and disaster recovery scenarios are also addressed.

IT Made E-Z is designed to help you maximize the investment you have in your current sales and recruiting efforts, interview more efficiently new technical candidates and increase placements while capturing revenue success. Qualify technical opportunities so that your sales teams become strategic partners to your clients. There are over 100 pages filled with information on many different technology areas, best practice approaches and client interfacing methods you can immediately use today to increase your team's peak performance. Learn how to increase your sales teams revenue capture. Understand IT Organization Charts and Project Management Charts. You will learn 1 - How sales teams can obtain detailed and complete job requirements 2 - How to ask the right questions about the project to qualify technical opportunities 3 - How to build client relationships that make you the preferred vendor of choice 4 - Learn the 7 key steps to partnering with your clients How to qualify and quantify technical candidates For more resources, go to: YourITTraining.com

Print publishing is the most complex trade in the digital graphics industry. Every job destined for on-press reproduction involves dozens of products, extensive communication, innumerable techniques, and strict adherence to a long list of file construction guidelines. You don't thrive by mastering a single tool any better than a carpenter builds a house by using only a hammer. Written by a professional with over 10 years of in-the-trenches experience, it tackles the full range of issues required to succeed on the job. Whether you are a designer or output technician, a prepress operator or production specialist, you'll benefit from its clear, no-nonsense approach. The author has been in your shoes. He's learned the hard way. Throughout the book, you'll find explanations of the most frequent user errors, hundreds of clearly labeled figures, and thousands of factors that can make or break your bottom line.

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations.