Animating with Stop Motion Pro /by Mark Sawicki (Author) .Animating with Stop Motion Pro is comprehensive, hands-on guide to achieving professional results with Stop Motion Pro 7.0 software. Gone are the days of stop motion guesswork and waiting to see the finalized result of your meticulous, labor intensive animations. With the push of a mouse button and the Stop Motion Pro software, animators have ten times the capability of simple camera stop motion capture. Re-visualize stop motion character movements, graph these movements and composite characters into a flawless animations with the techniques and step by step tutorials featured in Animating with Stop Motion Pro. Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: http://booksite.focalpress.com/companion/Sawicki/stopmotion/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features.
* Develop the next Wallace and Gromit with ease and skill with the step by step tutorials and exercises; highlighting Stop Motion Pro 7.0 features like multi layered onion skinning, continuous preview, rotoscoping and frame averaging, motion control and audio synching.
* Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: http://booksite.focalpress.com/companion/Sawicki/stopmotion/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features.
* Amplyify your animations with the only certified Stop Motion Pro guide available; Re-visualize stop motion character movements, configure your camera and build armature rigs while creating dynamic animations.

Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 /by Lynn Langit (Author), Kevin S. Goff (Author), Davide Mauri (Author), Sahil Malik (Author), John Welch (Author) .Get the end-to-end instruction you need to design, develop, and deploy more effective data integration, reporting, and analysis solutions using SQL Server 2008—whether you’re new to business intelligence (BI) programming or a seasoned pro.With real-world examples and insights from an expert team, you’ll master the concepts, tools, and techniques for building solutions that deliver intelligence—and business value—exactly where users want it.
Discover how to:
* Manage the development life cycle and build a BI team
* Dig into SQL Server Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services
* Navigate the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)
* Write queries that rank, sort, and drill down on sales data
* Develop extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions
* Add a source code control system
* Help secure packages for deployment via encryption and credentials
* Use MDX and DMX Query Designers to build reports based on OLAP cubes and data mining models
* Create and implement custom objects using .NET code
* View reports in Microsoft Office Excel® and Office SharePoint® Serverook

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step /by Scott Cameron (Author) .Teach yourself to use SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services for business intelligence—one step at a time. You'll start by building your understanding of the business intelligence platform enabled by SQL Server and the Microsoft Office System, highlighting the role of Analysis Services.Then, you’ll create a simple multidimensional OLAP cube and progressively add features to help improve, secure, deploy, and maintain an Analysis Services database. You'll explore core Analysis Services 2008 features and capabilities, including dimension, cube, and aggregation design wizards; a new attribute relationship designer; designer AMO warnings; and using dynamic management views to monitor resources. And as you complete each lesson, you can hone your skills using the practice exercises from the companion CD. Plus, you can review and download code samples illustrating the author’s own, professional techniques—direct from the companion Web site.

Macromedia Flash 8 for Windows & Macintosh /by Katherine Ulrich (Author).An improved script editor (with a visual interface), a revamped library interface, a new Undo feature, powerful run-time effects, breakthrough motion-graphics capabilities—these are just a few of the reasons Web designers are raving about the newest version of their favorite Web tool, Macromedia Flash 8. Whether you’re a beginning user looking for a good introduction to the topic or a veteran user seeking a convenient update reference, you’ll find what you need in this task-based guide. Using simple step-by-step instructions, straightforward language, loads of screen shots, and a plethora of readily accessible examples, author Katherine Ulrich shows you how to create engaging interactive content for the Web with Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. From basic vector graphics to animation with motion tweening and beyond, this inexpensive, easy-to-use guide promises to get you up to speed fast on the most important application in your design toolbox—Macromedia Flash 8.

Azure in Action /by Chris Hay (Author), Brian Prince (Author) .Azure in Action is a fast-paced tutorial intended for architects and developers looking to develop cloud-based applications on the Windows Azure Platform. Written by two of Microsoft's leading Azure evangelists, it's designed both for readers new to cloud concepts and for those familiar with cloud development but new to Azure. Starting with core concepts, the book explores designing and scaling front-end and back-end services that run in the cloud, and more advanced scenarios in Windows Azure. Later chapters introduce the rest of the Azure Services Platform with a particular focus on SQL Azure Database.