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VirtualDub is one of the most popular video processing application for Windows. As an Open Source application, it's free, and is constantly updated and expanded by an active community of developers and experts. VirtualDub particularly popular for capturing video from analogue sources such as video tape, cleaning up the image and compressing it ready for distribution over the Internet.This book provides a rapid and easy to use tutorial to the basic features of VirtualDub to get you up and running quickly. It explains how to capture great quality video from various sources, use filters to clean up the captured image and add special effects. The book has shows all to use VirtualDub to cut and paste video to remove or insert sequences, including removing ad breaks or trailers. It goes on to cover the art of effective encoding and compression, so you end up with great quality videos that won't hog your bandwidth forever.VirtualDub is the fastest and most effective way to capture, process and encode video on your PC. This book gets you started fast, and goes on to give you full control of all the features of this legendary tool.

A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's celebrated IBuySpy portal. DotNetNuke is the leading open source website system for .NET. This book shows you how to get a fully featured website right off the blocks, with forums, news and image management, visitor accounts and registration, and community contribution features. The book then takes VB.NET developers through extending and customizing this powerful application. Featuring coverage of skins, custom modules, forums, extensions and add-ons.The book is useful for all DotNetNuke users, administrators, and designers as well as experienced VB.NET developers.

A fast-paced and practical tutorial guide for C# developers starting out with MCMS 2002.Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department.This book is an end-to-end guide to creating a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) website. No prior knowledge of MCMS is required - this book takes you from the basics of MCMS, guiding you through everything you need to create a fully-featured, content-rich website. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled - where do they begin?This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner.Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers.This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn't waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It's a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.Years of active participation in MCMS newsgroups and mailing lists mean that the authors' hard-won experience puts them in the ideal position to tell you what you really need to know to master the system.An example site is developed throughout the book, at every point providing clear and practical demonstrations of the relevant ideas. Once you have mastered the basics, the book leads you onto more advanced and powerful techniques, allowing you to get the most from this awesome system.This book is written for developers who are part of a dynamic organization that has decided to evaluate or deploy MCMS and require the skills to make it happen.The book presumes a working knowledge of the .NET Framework and familiarity with the C# language, but no prior knowledge of MCMS is required.To use this book, you will need access to Visual Studio. NET 2002 or 2003, SQL Server 2000, and an installation of MCMS 2002.Contents include:The basic concepts of MCMSPreparing, installing and configuring MCMS and its supporting technologiesCreating an MCMS website from scratchCreating and debugging templates files and channel rendering scriptsWorking with dynamic navigationEstablishing user roles and rightsAuthoring with MCMS and improving the authoring experienceUnderstanding and customizing workflowWorking with the Publishing APISite deployment techniquesEnhancing your site's performance with caching

Helping you in exploring PHP-Nuke, this book introduces its main components, and teaches how to manage them. It leads you through adding custom code to PHP-Nuke, and shows you how it puts pages together, and the functions it uses for the fundamental operations of the site.

The EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans version 3) specification is a core component of enterprise-level JEE (Java Platform Enterprise Edition) implementations and this improved version is set to simplify the development of Enterprise Java applications.This book covers the core elements of EJB 3 technology, exploring them in a concise manner with many supporting examples. You will gain a thorough understanding of EJB 3 technology and learn about the most important features of EJB 3 quickly.What you will learn from this bookThis book will teach you the core elements of EJB 3 technology. You will:. Gain a rapid introduction to the EJB 3 essentials while learning about the underlying principles. Create Entities, Message-Driven Beans, Session Beans and their clients. Look at running an EJB client from an application client container. Learn how to package and deploy an EJB. Use JQPL (Java Persistence Query Language) . Explore the entity manager interface. Learn about object/relational mapping with EJB 3. Look at the Java Messaging API and message-driven beans. Look at transactions, interceptors, and EJB timer services. Understand how EJB 3 differs from the 2.x version. Implement EJB 3's security features ApproachThis book is a fast-paced tutorial that explores the key features of EJB 3 with many accompanying examples. This book is not a complete reference guide, but a concise exploration of EJB 3's core elements.

This book will introduce you to the SharePoint Designer environment, and lead you through the key features as you complete important SharePoint customization activities. Throughout the book, you will be developing an example site for a wine business, and you will see what help SharePoint Designer offers, and step through clear instructions to get things done.The book begins by familiarizing you with the Designer environment and helping you to connect to your SharePoint site. You will then learn how to add and format content, and use SharePoint's workflow tools to collaborate with other content creators before learning how to connect to different SharePoint data sources. You will also learn to use ASP.NET Web Parts in your SharePoint site to create calendars, graphs, integrate with Exchange Server, and add powerful search tools to your site.

Covers various aspects of OSWorkflow for Java developers and system architects, from basics of Business Process Management and installing OSWorkflow to developing Java applications and integrating the open-source Java workflow engine with the third-party components - Drools for business rules, Quartz for task scheduling and Pentaho for dashboards.