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Take WordPress beyond its comfort zoneAs the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so that clients have the customized site they need in order to succeed in a competitive marketplace. Explains that there is more than one approach to a WordPress challenge and shows you how to choose the one that is best for you, your client, and your teamWalks you through hosting and developing environments, theme building, and contingency planningAddresses working with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSSWordPress: Pushing the Limits encourages you to benefit from the experiences of seasoned WordPress programmers so that your client's site can succeed.

Push CSS3 and your design skills to the limit—and beyond!Representing an evolutionary leap forward for CSS, CSS3 is chock-full of new capabilities that dramatically expand the boundaries of what a styling language can do. But many of those new features remain undocumented, making it difficult to learn what they are and how to use them to create the sophisticated sites and web apps clients demand and users have grown to expect.Until now.This book introduces you to all of CSS3’s new and advanced features, and, with the help of dozens of real-world examples and live demos, it shows how to use those features to design dazzling, fully-responsive sites and web apps.Among other things, you’ll learn how to:•         Use advanced selectors and an array of powerful new text tools•         Create adaptable background images, decorative borders, and complex patterns•         Create amazing effects with 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and keyframe-based animations•         Take advantage of new layout tools to solve an array of advanced layout challenges—fast•         Vastly simplify responsive site design using media queries and new layout modules•         Create abstract and scalable shapes and icons with pseudo-elements •         Leverage preprocessors and use CSS like a programming language within a stylesheet contextDon’t pass up this opportunity to go beyond the basics and learn what CSS3 can really do!

Unleash the power of the Android OS and build the kinds of brilliant, innovative apps users love to useIf you already know your way around the Android OS and can build a simple Android app in under an hour, this book is for you. If you’re itching to see just how far you can push it and discover what Android is really capable of, it’s for you. And if you’re ready to learn how to build advanced, intuitive, innovative apps that are a blast to use, this book is definitely for you.From custom views and advanced multi-touch gestures, to integrating online web services and exploiting the latest geofencing and activity recognition features, ace Android developer, Erik Hellman, delivers expert tips, tricks and little-known techniques for pushing the Android envelope so you can: Optimize your components for the smoothest user experience possibleCreate your own custom ViewsPush the boundaries of the Android SDKMaster Android Studio and GradleMake optimal use of the Android audio, video and graphics APIsProgram in Text-To-Speech and Speech RecognitionMake the most of the new Android maps and location APIUse Android connectivity technologies to communicate with remote devicesPerform background processingUse Android cryptography APIsFind and safely use hidden Android APIsCloud-enable your applications with Google Play ServicesDistribute and sell your applications on Google Play StoreLearn how to unleash the power of Android and transform your apps from good to great in Android Programming: Pushing the Limits.