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In this course, author Valerie Sutton shows smart ways to set up a foundation for negotiating your salary, discuss your strengths, and follow up to achieve agreement. Discover how to research the salary range for the position you're applying for, put it in the context of your salary history, and make a persuasive request. Whether you're at your current job or making a leap to the next, this course will help compare your expectations and performance with others, and negotiate for not only the best take-home pay, but also a combination of benefits, such as vacation days and flextime, that work for both you and your employer.

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Coach, negotiation expert, and author Lisa Gates demonstrates the skills empowered communicators use to achieve mutual benefit at the negotiation table. The course delivers repeatable strategies for negotiating common issues such as asking for a raise, setting fees, promoting teamwork, and bringing out the best in those you manage. Along the way, discover how to use interest-based negotiation, distributive bargaining, diagnostic questioning, and conflict resolution to handle both simple and complex negotiations.

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NewTek LightWave 3D is an industry standard in creating 3D graphics for television, film, and print. In version 10 you will find new production tools such as the Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR), Linear Color Space, Data Interchange Enhancements, real-time Anaglyph Stereoscopic preview, and more. In this course, VTC author and professional animator Dwayne Ferguson (Mutant League TV series) will help you learn to utilize this program to your own advantage. Work files are included.
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JavaScript isn't just for special effects and form validations anymore; Node.js makes it possible to write full web applications entirely in JavaScript. In this course, author Joseph LeBlanc guides you through installing Node.js for the first time, as well as installing Node modules through NPM and writing command-line scripts. The course also covers creating servers, using Node-based frameworks, building templated markup, integrating Node with legacy codebases, programming for WebSockets using the Socket.IO module, and much more.

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GroupWise 8 is Novell's latest version of their flagship messaging product. This VTC course walks users through planning, implementing, and managing a GroupWise 8 infrastructure. Users will learn about client deployment, agent management, client configuration and more. At the end of the course, users should be able to manage GroupWise systems like a veteran.
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NetWare 6.5 builds upon Novell's premier product line, Novell NetWare. With NetWare 6.5, Novell has embraced the Open Source Software movement by incorporating internet standards into NetWare 6.5, which has recently been renamed "Open Enterprise Server" to reflect this. In this tutorial, VTC author Greg Dickinson will cover the basics of administering a NetWare 6.5 network, from installing the server operating system, to administering eDirectory and printing, and supporting LAN and remote users using built-in technologies.
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Novell ZENworks Desktop Management 7 is a policy-driven application and workstation management infrastructure. Using ZDM7 will allow you to configure workstations to comply with corporate policies, and also allow you to distribute applications to these workstations from a central management console, saving you time and money and enhancing your overall network productivity. In this course from VTC, you will explore the options available for application and workstation managment, and learn how best to leverage the Novell ZENworks Desktop Management 7 product in your environment.
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Steinberg's Nuendo 3 is one of the top post-production, recording, sequencing and Surround systems available today. A simple to use interface, massive feature-lists and capabilities, and flexibility to work within your own environment enables Nuendo to work with you, and not against you. Its performance scales with your hardware, enabling you the possibility to work with projects handling hundreds of tracks, many effects and complex mixer configurations. It supports up to 192kHz and 24bit processing power (32bit floating point internal resolution) and its cross platform, and intuitive interface make it first choice amongst many leading professionals in the industry. It is used everywhere from small scale project studios through to being used in some of the biggest releases in Hollywood. This practical course by long-time Steinberg expert Kenneth Braithwaite, starts from beginner level and progresses through to more advanced techniques.
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Author Steve Wright explores the new features found in the 3D digital compositor Nuke 6. The course introduces the RotoPaint node for drawing and painting effects, the Keylight keyer for creating mattes and composites, and the SplineWarp node for warping images. The course also explains how to merge keys, animate with keyframes, and create image-based blurs. Exercise files accompany the course.

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Whether you're enhancing or optimizing existing code or just starting from scratch, there's never a better time to start integrating object-oriented design techniques. This course shows how to integrate the principles of object-oriented programming into the build of a PHP-driven web page or application. After an overview of what objects and classes are and why they should be used, author Jon Peck dives into creating and instantiating objects, then defining the class relationships and interactions that will form the basis of your coding arsenal. The course also shows how to leverage PHP objects and implement design patterns, and looks at steps you can take to continue adding to your programming tool belt.

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