The release of Spring Framework 3.0 has added many improvements and new features for Spring development. Written by Gary Mak of the best selling Spring Recipes and Josh Long, an expert Spring user and developer, Spring Enterprise Recipes is one of the first books on the new Spring 3.

Do you like to build things? Are you ever frustrated at having to compromise your designs to fit whatever parts happen to be available? Would you like to fabricate your own parts? Build Your Own CNC Machine is the book to get you started. CNC expert Patrick Hood-Daniel and best-selling author James Kelly team up to show you how to construct your very own CNC machine. Then they go on to show you how to use it, how to document your designs in Computer-Aided Design programs, and how to output your designs as specifications and tool paths that feed into the CNC machine, controlling it as it builds whatever parts your imagination can dream up.

The Zend Framework is one of today’s most popular PHP–based web application development frameworks. Beginning Zend Framework is a beginner’s guide to learning and using this framework. Covering everything from installation to the various features that make up the framework, PHP expert and long–time community member Armando Padilla will soon have you up and running and using the Zend Framework for your own web applications.

Programmers or project leaders will learn to use Git, the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. You’ll discover the world of distributed version control and learn how to build a Git development workflow, with expert guidance from Scott Chacon.

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Learn from best-selling JavaFX author Jim Weaver and expert JavaFX developers Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, and Dean Iverson to discover the highly anticipated JavaFX technology and platform that enables developers and designers to create RIAs that can run across diverse devices. Covering the JavaFX Script language, JavaFX Mobile, and development tools, Pro JavaFX™ Platform: Script, Desktop, and Mobile RIA with Java™ Technology provides code examples that cover virtually every language and API feature.

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Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0 is the first and only book of its kind covering Comet and Reverse Ajax in such detail. Written by Ajax expert and best–selling author Dave Crane, this book is a practical, hands–on resource for developers who want to preview and even use some of what will likely be in the next hot Ajax 2.0 release.

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XNA expert Reimer Grootjans brings together a selection of the hottest quick–start recipes in XNA games programming for the Xbox and Windows PC. Advanced XNA programmers, experienced coders new to games development, and even complete beginners will find XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes an invaluable companion when building games for fun or as commercial products.

The expert tuition and approach to rapid learning in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, one of the first SQL Server 2008 books available, will enable SQL Server and other database professionals to make the leap to the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship database management system quickly. Take full advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008, know what tools are available, and quickly realize the power and ease of use that SQL Server 2008 has to offer.

Serious Java developers wanting to write Ajax applications using GWT can expect a fast–paced, yet thorough, introduction to GWT from Java expert Vipul Gupta. Without superfluous introductions to Ajax or JavaScript, you’ll learn to incorporate Ajax capabilities into your web applications quickly, without sacrificing sound development principles.

Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets is the book that Geo–Mashups developers will need to create Web 2.0 applications based on Google’s new Mapplets technology. It presents both a complete guide to the new standard and the practical how–to that developers seek. Written by Michael Young, an award–winning, new technology expert from The New York Times, the book is both authoritative and eminently usable.

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