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Best Practices for Technical Writers and Editors (Collection): DITA, Quality, and StyleBest Practices for Technical Writers and Editors (Collection): DITA, Quality, and Style
By Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, Eric Radzinski, Laura Bellamy, Michelle Carey, Jenifer Schlotfeldt, Gretchen Hargis, Ann Kilty Hernandez, Polly Hughes, Deirdre Longo, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde

Three outstanding IBM Press eBooks help you create powerfully effective, usable, and higher-value technical communications...in all media, for all audiences, everywhere! The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors distills IBM's best wisdom for developing higher-quality content across all media, authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations. In DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA, three pioneering implementers show how to use DITA to maximize the value of technical documentation and offer a complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage. Finally, Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors, Second Edition, presents before-and-after examples, illustrations, and checklists in this systematic, well-proven approach to creating great documentation.

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An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System, 2nd EditionAn Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System, 2nd Edition
By Barbara Klein, Rick Long

IBM continues to upgrade IMS: Versions 12, 11, and 10 meet today’s business challenges more flexibly and at lower cost than ever before. In An Introduction to IMS, Second Edition, leading IBM experts present the definitive technical introduction to these versions of IMS. More than a complete tutorial, this book provides up-to-date examples, cases, problems, solutions, and a complete glossary of IMS terminology for DBAs, developers, and system programmers.

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XPages Portable Command Guide: A Compact Resource to XPages Application Development and the XSP LanguageXPages Portable Command Guide: A Compact Resource to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language
By Martin Donnelly, Maire Kehoe, Tony McGuckin, Dan O'Connor

A compact resource for XPages application development, debugging and performance, XPages Portable Command Guide is the ideal companion and follow-up to IBM Press's popular Mastering XPages. The authors explore many lesser known facets of the XPages runtime, illuminating these capabilities with dozens of examples that solve specific XPages development problems.

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Search Engine Marketing, Inc. I, II, III, and IV LiveLessons (Video Training): Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web SiteSearch Engine Marketing, Inc. I, II, III, and IV LiveLessons (Video Training): Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site
By Mike Moran

In this comprehensive LiveLessons you will gain all the background needed to be a search engine marketer. You will learn how to systematically address every issue you're likely to encounter, while helping you implement timeless strategies for delivering superior long-term results. Whether you're a marketing, Web, or IT professional, product manager, or content specialist, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., LiveLessons will help you define your SEO/SEM goals, craft a best-practices program for achieving them, and implement it flawlessly.

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XPages Extension Library: A step-by-step guide to the next generation of XPages components, Rough CutsXPages Extension Library: A step-by-step guide to the next generation of XPages components, Rough Cuts
by Paul Hannan, Declan Sciolla-Lynch, Jeremy Hodge, Paul Withers, and Tim Tripcony

A team of all-star XPages experts from inside and outside IBM show developers how to take full advantage of the XPages Extensibility Library and the growing portfolio of components built with them. The authors walk through installing and configuring the XPages Extension Library, integrating it with Domino Designer, and using new XPages components to quickly build state-of-the-art applications for web, the Notes client and mobile devices.

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Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, Rough CutsDisciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, Rough Cuts
by Mark Lines, Scott Ambler

This book is a practical guide to getting started today with Agile practices of enterprise-scale, mission-critical projects. It provides a foundation from which to scale your agile strategy to meet the real world situations faced by your delivery teams, and it explains the trade-offs being made, and in many cases gives you options for alternative strategies. The authors move beyond anecdotes to give fact-based reasons for why these techniques work and they really answer the question "how do all these agile techniques fit together?"

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