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Shoji: How to Design, Build, and Install Japanese Screens
Japanese-style shoji screens are translucent, wooden-lattice panels that subtly transform light and space and add an elegant touch to any decor. This book contains all the information you need to design and make shoji for your own home or apartment Features * Notes on aesthetics and design fundamentals * Complete how-to guide covering basic construction methods, screen materials, and wood selection * Home projects, including window inserts, sliding and hanging screens, glass panel shoji, double- and single-sided shoji, skylight shoji, decorative wall boxes, and floor and table lanterns * Introduction to Japanese hand tools and planing and joinery techniques * Sample lattice patterns, photographs, and line drawings for design and remodeling ideas * List of suppliers.
Price: $12.48
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Ultimate Guide to Crown Molding: Plan, Design, Install (Ultimate Guide)
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The Ultimate Guide to Trim Carpentry: Plan, Design, Install (Ultimate Guide)
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The Fence Bible: How to plan, install, and build fences and gates to meet every home style and property need, no matter what size your yard.
A fence is more than just a barrier Used in imaginative ways, it can become an architectural feature that blends well with the style of your house, a landscape element that enhances the appearance of your property, or an accent piece that helps define a part of your yard or garden. In The Fence Bible hands-on home improvement expert Jeff Beneke provides an in-depth, comprehensive how-to encyclopedia that enables homeowners to choose and build the fences and gates that are best for their landscape--both for appearance and function. Beneke suggests the appropriate types of fence to keep the swimming pool secure, con fine the livestock, keep deer away from the garden, or create outdoor living spaces. He then discusses the essentials of proper fence design and provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for planning, building, maintaining, and repairing any style of fence. Beneke covers every kind of fencing: wood, masonry, and metal, as well as shrubs, hedges, and trees. Whether you have a tiny urban backyard, a sprawling suburban plot, or a small spread in the country, this book is sure to help you find the perfect fence..
Price: $9.97
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Ultimate Guide to Ceramic & Stone Tile: Select, Install, Maintain (Ultimate Guide)
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Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation: How to Install, use, and customize this powerful, free, Open Source Java-based Enterprise CMS
This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco. It guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories, and shows how to use Alfresco to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes. Alfresco offers Enterprise Content Management (ECM) aspires to be "Documentum fast and free", and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco is Java based, and can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart "spaces". Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods. Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents. Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise. This book will take you through the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation. Among the many topics covered are :
Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration Using Alfresco as a Smart document repository
Working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, or FTP
Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
Working together using Alfresco's collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts
Presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business Munwar Shariff is an experienced software trainer for CIGNEX Inc. He has trained many users, administrators, and developers in Alfresco and many other systems. This book distils the hands-on approach of his training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco incrementally through practical discovery. This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist sysadmin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Alfresco
Chapter 2: Installing and getting started with Alfresco
Chapter 3: Planning
Chapter 4: Implementing Membership and Security
Chapter 5: Implementing Document Management
Chapter 6: Implementing Business Rules
Chapter 7: Extending the Alfresco Content Model
Chapter 8: Search
Chapter 9: ImplementingWorkflow
Chapter 10: Collaboration and Syndication
Chapter 11: Customizing User Interface
Chapter 12: Maintaining the System
Chapter 13: Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing.
Price: $59.99
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Locksmithing
Top security pro Bill Phillips has put together a learn-as-you-go guide packed with everything you need to start off a lucrative career as a locksmith. From cutting keys to installing closed circuit television systems, Locksmithing prepares you to work with nearly every type of locking device used in residential, automotive, commercial, and electronic security devices. Step-by-step instructions, illustrations, charts and checklists, and plenty of the authorÆs own trade secrets, will have you picking open locks...impressioning keys... opening any car door...installing and servicing electric strikes, electromagnetic locks and emergency exit door devices in no time at all. What's more, this is the only locksmithing book to keep you on top of high-tech CCTV, access control systems, and systems integration, areas that you'll need to understand and work with to stay competitive. You even get valuable tips for getting hired or starting up your own business, licensing information and a sample certification exam, plus scores of handy references from trade journals to Websites, from suppliers to trade associations..
Price: $20.93
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The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Kitchens: Design, Plan & Install a Dream Kitchen (Black & Decker Complete Guide)
At the heart of any home is the kitchen, and this has never been so true as it is today. In response to uncertain economic times and global unrest, consumers are investing in their homes like never before, and kitchen remodeling is at the center of this unprecedented DIY activity. While a new kitchen clearly adds equity value to a home, the benefits to quality of life are almost beyond measure. A well-planned, well-installed kitchen becomes the focal point of family life and social activity, the home's center of physical and emotional well-being. The Complete Guide to Kitchens is the one book you absolutely need to plan and remodeling a kitchen, whether this entails a light cosmetic facelift or major structural renovation. No other book presents this important subject in such full detail. This book includes a comprehensive idea section to provide inspiration, and an extended planning and design section to show do-it-yourselfers the latest theories of kitchen layout. Next, there is an ingenious chapter featuring quick fixes-solutions that can radically improve a kitchen without the major expense of a full-scale remodeling job. The heart of the book, as in the entire series of best-selling Complete Guides, is detailed step-by-step how-to information on virtually any project you might attempt. In addition, the book includes detailed information on making a kitchen accessible to users with limited physical abilities. The Complete Guide series from the editors of Creative Publishing international is America's best-selling and most comprehensive line of home improvement books. .
Price: $4.95
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Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET (Expert's Voice in .Net)
an outstanding book for development teams wanting to build a reliable, automated delivery system. It covers NAnt so thoroughly it's amazing. ...a nice tutorial for NAnt and CruiseControl.NET. — Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Sheriff At first glance, building and deploying applications seem simple enough. But in fact, difficult releases without any confidence or processes backing them are very common. Integration and management of a new deployment can be laborious and fraught with risk. So as team size and volume of projects grow, management becomes more difficult and risk more pronounced. This book is a guide to the implementation of good processes in a .NET environment. Author Marc Holmes focuses on actual implementation, and details patterns and anti-patterns to watch out for. He also provides a practical and in-depth look at NAnt and CruiseControl.NET, and solutions to common problem scenarios..
Price: $27.75
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