Web Browsers Books

Mission Critical or Ontological Engineering

2009-12-06T02:48:00.000-08:00

Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems

Author: Thomas H Davenport

"Mission Critical is a clear and comprehensive account of the enduring value of enterprise systems. Davenport's experience consulting for the world's leading companies gives his research an undeniable veracity. Anyone interested in how the real world of business works will gain a great deal of insight from this book."
--Henning Kagermann, Co-Chairman of the Executive Board and Co-CEO of SAP AG

"Finally, here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of enterprise systems-their promise, their peril, and their future. Any manager not familiar with Davenport's book and its emphasis on information management will be lacking in the business literacy so necessary for success."
--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and Co-author of Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders

"Transformation in any corporation requires excellence in strategy, organization, and systems. Davenport illustrates the success that results when all three components are effectively addressed and the risks in implementing systems when they are not."
--William Stavropoulos, President and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company

What People Are Saying

Warren Bennis
Finally, here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of enterprise systems....their promise, their peril, and their future.

Book about: Hizb Allah in Lebanon or John Quincy Adams

Ontological Engineering

Author: Asuncion Gomez Perez

Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define - with different levels of formality - the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontologies may be reused and shared across applications and groups Concepts in the ontology are usually organized in taxonomies and relations between concepts, properties of concepts, and axioms are typically used for representing the knowledge contained in ontologies. With the growth of information available, e.g. on the WWW, they are popularly applied in knowledge management, semantic web, natural language generation, enterprise modelling, knowledge-based systems, ontology-based brokers, e-commerce platforms and interoperability between systems. This book looks at questions such as: * What is an ontology? * What are the uses of ontologies? * What types of ontologies exist? What are the most well-known ones? * How do I select the best ontology for my application? * What are the principles for building an ontology? * What methodologies should I use to build my own ontology? Which techniques are appropriate for each step? * How do software tools support the process of building and using ontologies? * What language can I use to implement ontologies? * How can I integrate ontologies in a given language? The book presents the theoretical foundations of ontological engineering and covers the practical aspects of selecting and applying methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies. The applications of ontologies are also illustrated with case studies taken from the areas of knowledge management, e-commerce and the semantic web.

Database and Applications Security or DeBugging C

2009-12-04T22:37:00.000-08:00

Database and Applications Security

Author: Miguel J Bagajewicz

As the demand for data management increases, so does the need for maintaining security of databases, applications, and information systems. The advent of the Web increased the likelihood of unauthorized access and malicious corruption, bringing to the forefront the necessity for effective mechanisms that secure critical information. Database and Applications Security: Integrating Information Security and Data Management reviews recent developments in security, with a special emphasis on the protection of databases. The author pays particular attention to securing emerging applications such as e-commerce, sensor information processing, and knowledge management. The book begins by providing essential background in database security, followed by descriptions of discretionary access control, multilevel secure databases, and models, functions, prototypes, and products of multilevel secure relational systems. It then discusses facets of the inference problem and addresses secure distributed databases. Following an analysis of secure object systems, the book focuses on security aspects of data warehousing and data mining. It also covers threats to privacy due to data mining, and concludes with an exploration of emerging technologies. This volume delivers a comprehensive overview of database and applications security for technical managers, technologists, and executives, as well as for those intending to pursue research in the field. It provides a high-level overview while discussing many technical details.

1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Supporting technologies for database and applications security
2	Data management technologies	23
3	Information security	61
4	Information management technologies	77
Pt. II	Discretionary security for database systems
5	Security policies	115
6	Policy enforcement and related issues	127
Pt. III	Mandatory security from database systems
7	Historical developments	141
8	Design principles	159
Pt. IV	Multilevel secure relational database systems
9	Multilevel relational data models	175
10	Security impact on database functions	187
11	Prototypes and products	197
Pt. V	The inference problem
12	A perspective of the inference problem	217
13	Security-constraint processing for inference control	229
14	Conceptual structures for inference control	253
Pt. VI	Secure distributed and heterogeneous database systems
15	Discretionary security for distributed database systems	281
16	Multilevel security for distributed database systems	295
17	Secure heterogeneous and federated database systems	309
Pt. VII	Secure object and multimedia systems
18	Discretionary and multilevel security for object database systems	331
19	Aspects of objects and security	349
20	Secure multimedia data management systems	361
Pt. VIII	Data warehousing, data mining, security, and privacy
21	Secure data warehousing	381
22	Data mining for security applications	399
23	Privacy	419
Pt. IX	Secure Web data and information management technologies
24	Secure Web data management and digital libraries	441
25	Security for XML, RDF, and the semantic Web	465
26	Secure E-commerce, collaboration, and knowledge management	487
Pt. X	Emerging secure data management technologies and applications
27	Secure dependable data management	505
28	Secure sensor and wireless information management	523
29	Digital identity, forensics, and related topics	549
30	Summary and directions	565
App. A	Data management systems : developments and trends	577
App. B	Suggested reading : books in database systems and information security	593

Interesting book: Judgment of Paris or The Three Trillion Dollar War

DeBugging C++: Troubleshooting for Programmers

Author: Chris H Pappas

Write error-free programs from development to deployment! This unique reference shows you how to prevent problematic procedure-oriented and object-oriented code and handle ActiveX,COM,STL,and MFC coding problems.

"Great advice with practical,real-world examples. C++ programmers will avoid all kinds of headaches with this book. " —Elden Nelson,Editor-in-Chief,Visual C++ Developer's Journal Prevent problematic code and fix bugs with help from the expert techniques and strategies found in this unique resource. Debugging C++ shows you how to recognize and stamp out common and little-known code bugs quickly and easily. You'll get complete coverage of procedure-oriented and object-oriented debugging. And there's more—learn how to debug STL and Windows applications also developed with the MFC. Software bugs cause chaos and downtime which can result in lost revenue. Save the day! Use the real-world solutions offered in this handbook to prevent bugs from crippling your company's systems.

Optimize your code with the compiler
Investigate logical and syntactical errors
Debug code in the procedure-oriented environment-at the command line and in Windows
Locate,analyze,and repair object-oriented code errors at the command line and in the Microsoft Foundation Class (FMC) Library
Handle Standard Template Library (SQL) code debugging
Work with DLLs and fix ActiveX and COM errors

Embedded Linux System Design and Development or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

2009-12-03T18:25:00.000-08:00

Embedded Linux System Design and Development

Author: P Raghavan

· Contains an entire roadmap for embedded Linux systems
· Explains the MTD (Memory Technology Device) model for Flash based storage
· Illustrates real-time programming techniques using POSIX.1b real-time extensions such as memory locking, real-time signals and asynchronous IO
· Examines how uClinux differs from standard Linux
· Discusses porting applications from a traditional
RTOS to embedded Linux

Based upon the authors' experience in designing and deploying an embedded Linux system with a variety of applications, Embedded Linux System Design and Development contains a full embedded Linux system development roadmap for systems architects and software programmers. Explaining the issues that arise out of the use of Linux in embedded systems, the book facilitates movement to embedded Linux from traditional real-time operating systems, and describes the system design model containing embedded Linux.

This book delivers practical solutions for writing, debugging, and profiling applications and drivers in embedded Linux, and for understanding Linux BSP architecture. It enables you to understand: various drivers such as serial, I2C and USB gadgets; uClinux architecture and its programming model; and the embedded Linux graphics subsystem. The text also promotes learning of methods to reduce system boot time, optimize memory and storage, and find memory leaks and corruption in applications.

This volume benefits IT managers in planning to choose an embedded Linux distribution and in creating a roadmap for OS transition. It also describes the application of the Linux licensing model in commercial products.

What People Are Saying

David McCullough
"A good overview of uClinux, and the infrastructure that supports it."
—uClinux Core Maintainer

Todd Fischer
"The authors have done a good job fitting all the pieces together that are necessary for embedded Linux development. The book discusses topics such as board support packages, embedded storage and real-time Linux programming in depth. Embedded graphics and uCLinux are also explained with clarity. "
—President, Cadenux, from the Foreword

Greg Haerr
"A great job covering the Linux framebuffer interface in detail – a lot of people will find this useful."
—CEO & Founder, Century Software

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

Author: Sherry Bishop

Part of the Illustrated Series, this text covers the fundamental concepts of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with a strong emphasis on design. Fully revised to include coverage of the latest version of Dreamweaver, this title takes users from learning all the basic functions to fully understanding how to get Web sites up and running.

Unit A: Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS3 Unit B: Creating a Web Site Unit C: Developing a Web Page Unit D: Formatting Text and Using Cascading Style Sheets Unit E: Inserting and Managing Images Unit F: Creating Links and Navigation Bars Unit G: Laying Out Pages with Tables Unit H: Laying Out Pages with CSS Unit I: Collecting Data with HTML Forms
Appendix: Updating, Maintaining and Publishing a Web Site

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments or 3ds Max 8 Essentials

2009-12-02T14:14:00.000-08:00

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments

Author: Gary Marchionini

In the computer age, it is essential for individuals to develop skills and strategies for manipulating, storing, and retrieving electronic information. This book considers how electronic technologies have changed these skills and strategies and augmented the fundamental human activity of information seeking. Writing from the point of view of the user rather than the computer, the author makes a case for creating new interface designs that allow information seekers to choose what strategy to apply according to their immediate needs. Such systems may be designed by providing information seekers with alternative interface mechanisms for displaying and manipulating multiple levels of representation for information objects. This book is multidisciplinary in approach and aims to bridge the perspectives of information science, computer science and education. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students in these fields.

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3ds Max 8 Essentials: Autodesk Media and Entertainment Courseware

Author: Autodesk

Welcome to the Autodesk Media and Entertainment Official Training Courseware for 3ds max X software! Consider this book an all-access pass to the production and training experience of Autodesk developers and training experts. Written for self-paced learning or instructor-led classroom training, the manual will teach you the fundamentals of using 3ds max X. The book is organized into sections dedicated to animation, modelling, materials, lighting and rendering. Each section covers basic theory, and then includes exercises for hands-on demonstration of the concept. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the basics and moved onto full-length projects. Flexibility is built in, so that you can complete the tutorials in the way that works best for you. Complete the book and you will be a seasoned 3ds max pro, ready to work confidently in a production environment.

•For beginners or those new to 3ds max
•Tutorials and exercises designed for flexibility and ease of use
•CD contains 3ds max support models, materials, textures, and animations for completing the exercises

Ch. 1	Getting started	3
	User interface	5
	Overview lab	57
	Files and objects	97
	Transforms	149
	Applying modifiers	195
Ch. 2	Modeling	243
	Low poly modeling	245
	Shapes	279
	Using compound objects	341
	Modeling lab	375
Ch. 3	Animation	395
	Animation basics	397
	Hierarchies	431
	Character animation - biped	455
	Animation lab	481
Ch. 4	Materials & mapping	499
	Introduction to materials	501
	Using maps	535
	Mapping coordinates	561
	Materials and mapping	601
Ch. 5	Rendering	623
	Cameras	625
	Basic lighting	651
	Global illumination	677
	Rendering the scene	697
	Scene assembly lab	725

Pro SQL Server 2008 Xml or The Internet and Society

2009-12-01T10:03:00.000-08:00

Pro SQL Server 2008 XML

Author: Apress

Knowledge and ability to apply XML are de rigueur in today’s world, and SQL Server developers and administrators are no exception to that rule. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML is your key to unlocking the powerful XML feature set first introduced in SQL Server 2005 and since refined in SQL Server 2008. Author Michael Coles shows how to store XML using SQL Server’s built–in XML data type. Learn to query and manipulate XML data using standard technologies such as XQuery and XSLT. No SQL Server database professional can afford to be without knowledge of the XML feature set. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML delivers on the knowledge that you need to remain competitive in your career.

Shows how to store, query, and manipulate XML documents in SQL Server

Provides step–by–step examples showing best practices and advanced features

Accurately discusses how SQL Server’s XML feature set stacks up against the ISO XML standards

What you’ll learn

Store XML documents using SQL Server’s built–in XML data type.

Query those stored documents using SQL/XML and XQuery.

Manipulate and transform XML using XSLT and XPath.

Understand how SQL Server’s XML support compares to the ISO XML standards.

Create SOAP endpoints for use in web services applications.

Create primary and secondary XML indexes to improve performance of XML queries.

Who is this book for?

SQL Server SQL/T–SQL developers and .NET developers who want to take advantage of the specific server–side XML functionality available in SQL Server2008

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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The Internet and Society

Author: James Slevin

The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens or Practical CakePHP Projects

2009-11-30T05:51:00.000-08:00

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens

Author: Marc Campbell

You see them in magazines, pass them around in emails, and run across them everywhere on the web—incredibly cool, crazy, and sometimes strange images that you know have been doctored using Photoshop. Have you ever looked at them and wondered, "How did they do that?" Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens is filled with the tips and techniques that you need to know to use these powerful programs to create your own amazing images or retouch your digital photographs. Begin with the fundamentals of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements as you conquer the essential features and functions of each program. Master the interface and learn how to create and manage layers. Next, get ready to edit your images as you develop the skills you need to paint with the Brush, draw shapes and text, and apply special effects to your images. Put your new skills to the test as you complete a variety of hands-on projects, including making prints, dressing up your computer desktop, creating animation, laying out websites, and creating logos.

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Practical CakePHP Projects

Author: Kai Chan

If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP.

PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more. Practical CakePHP Projects covers the key architectural concepts as well as including mini projects that you can use to enhance your own applications.

A friendly introduction for any web programmer looking to choose a PHP framework

Real–world projects based on current and future trends

Practical CakePHP techniques that you can use right away

What you’ll learn

Painlessly create a secure and dynamic web site with CakePHP and MySQL.

Discover how CakePHP can be used in high–level and demanding applications using CakePHP built–in components as well as methods such as Smarty, caching, and unit testing.

See how CakePHP integrates with technologies such as Ajax and web services.

Integrate your own components into CakePHP’s framework.

Apply CakePHP to mainstream technologies such as Google Video, blogging, mashups, and e–commerce.

Work through the few pitfalls of some of the CakePHP framework, for example, Access Control Lists.

Who is this book for?

Aimed primarily at CakePHP novices to professionals and PHP programmers seeking to build web applications easily usingCakePHP and related web technologies, this book will also appeal to programmers using other frameworks in other languages, for example, Ruby on Rails and Java Spring.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

2009-11-29T01:40:00.000-08:00

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: A Digital Photographer's Guide

Author: David Huss

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has taken the photography world by storm! Let two industry experts, Dave Huss and David Plotkin, help you get up to speed fast with the all-new version 2. This complete reference for all users of Lightroom starts out with the basics, covering each available tool found in Lightroom with step-by-step clarity. The book then moves on to more in-depth discussions of the most often used tools and techniques, so you can customize a workflow that best suits your own needs. Start at the beginning to develop a complete set of Lightroom skills, or skip ahead to the sections that delve deeper into the tools you want to use immediately. Learn how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively to improve the overall quality of your work so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind your camera!

*Maximize your productivity and learn from two experts exactly how to incorporate Adobe Photoshop Lightroom into your own workflow, whether you use Windows or a Mac
*Fully up-to-date with the latest features of Lightroom 2 and packed with full color, step-by-step screenshots and photographs
*Visit focalpress.com/Lightroom for additional Lightroom tutorials, software news and updates

Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Author: Jonathan Gennick

The Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference is a must-have for anyone working with Oracle databases, especially those looking to maximize the effectiveness of SQL*Plus. As Oracle's long-standing interactive query tool, SQL*Plus is available at every Oracle site, from the largest data warehouse to the smallest single-user system. Despite its wide use, however, SQL*Plus is still often not completely understood or fully utilized.

Database administrators and developers alike will therefore find the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference to be extremely beneficial. In addition to summarizing all of the SQL*Plus syntax and format options, including new Oracle Database 10g features, this handy, on-the-job guide specifically shows readers how to:

Differentiate between SQL and SQL*Plus Interact with SQL*Plus from both the command line and the web browser Select, insert, update, and delete data Format both text and HTML reports with SQL*Plus Specify SQL*Plus commands and format elements Tune SQL queries The new third edition of this book has been updated for Oracle Database 10g to include information on both SQL*Plus and SQL. New SQL information includes the SELECT statement's new MODEL clause, flashback queries, partition outer joins, and DBMS_XPLAN.

With its quick-reference format and compact size, the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference follows in the long line of successful "pocket references" offered by O'Reilly. It also serves as the ideal companion to O'Reilly's larger, more comprehensive book on SQL*Plus, the bestselling Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide.

Author Jonathan Gennick is an editor for O'Reilly specializing in database and programming titles, having amassed some 17 years of programming and database management experience.

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials or Oracle Wait Interface

2009-11-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials

Author: David L Demets

Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for establishing many clinical practice guidelines and are central to evidence based medicine. Obtaining the best evidence through clinical trials must be done within the boundaries of rigorous science and ethical principles. One fundamental principle is that trials should not continue longer than necessary to reach their objectives. Therefore, trials must be monitored for recruitment progress, quality of data, adherence to patient care or prevention standards, and early evidence of benefit or harm. Frequently, a group of external experts, independent from the investigators and trial sponsor, is charged with this monitoring responsibility, especially for safety and early benefit. This group is referred to by various names, such as a data monitoring committee or a data and safety monitoring board. This book, through a series of case studies presented by many distinguished clinical trial experts, illustrates the complexity of this monitoring process. The editors provide an overview of the process and a summary of a multitude of the lessons learned from the cases presented.

This book should be useful to anyone serving on a data and safety monitoring board, or planning to do so, for colleagues in academia, industry and governmental agencies, and for teaching students in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials and medical ethics. No other text has as extensive a collection of cases which provide insight into the many issues, often conflicting, that must be examined before recommendations to continue or discontinue a trial can be made. While depth in statistical methods is not required, some familiarity with statistical design andanalysis issues in clinical trials is helpful. The cases cover trials which were terminated early for convincing evidence of benefit, or for harmful effects. Cases with complex issues are also included. This series of cases should provide broad background information for potential monitoring committee members and better prepare them for the challenges that may exist in the trials for which they are responsible.

1	Monitoring committees : why and how	3
2	Lessons learned	14
3	FDA and clinical trial data monitoring committees	39
	Introduction to case studies showing benefit from the intervention	53
	Assessing possible late treatment effects early : the diabetic retinopathy study experience	55
	Data and safety monitoring in the beta-blocker heart attack trial : early experience in formal monitoring methods	64
	Data monitoring for the aspirin component of the physicians' health study : issues in early termination for a major secondary endpoint	73
	Early termination of the stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation I trial : protecting participant interests in the face of scientific uncertainties and the cruel play of chance	85
	Early termination of the diabetes control and complications trial	93
	Data monitoring in the AIDS clinical trials group study #981 : conflicting interim results	109
	Challenges in monitoring the breast cancer prevention trial	118
	Data monitoring experience in the metoprolol CR/XL randomized intervention trial in chronic heart failure : potentially high-risk treatment in high-risk patients	136
	Stopping the randomized aldactone evaluation study early for efficacy	148
	Data monitoring in the heart outcomes prevention evaluation and the clopidogrel in unstable angina to prevent recurrent ischemic events trials : avoiding important information loss	158
	The data monitoring experience in the candesartan in heart failure assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity program	166
	Introduction to case studies showing harmful effects of the intervention	179
	Breaking new ground : data monitoring in the coronary drug project	183
	The data monitoring experience in the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial : the need to be prepared early	198
	Data monitoring in the prospective randomized milrinone survival evaluation : dealing with an agonizing trend	209
	Stopping the carotene and retinol efficacy trial : the viewpoint of the safety and endpoint monitoring committee	220
	Monitoring a clinical trial with waiver of informed consent : diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin for emergency treatment of post-traumatic shock	228
	Consideration of early stopping and other challenges in monitoring the heart and estrogen/progestin replacement study	236
	Data monitoring in the antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment to prevent heart attack trial : early termination of the doxazosin treatment arm	248
	Data monitoring experience in the moxonidine congestive heart failure trial	260
	Data monitoring of a placebo-controlled trial of daclizumab in acute graft-versus-host disease	269
	Introduction to case studies with special issues	281
	Clinical trials of herpes simplex encephalitis : the role of the data monitoring committee	285
	The nocturnal oxygen therapy trial data monitoring experience : problem with reporting lags	292
	Stopping a trial for futility : the cooperative new Scandinavian enalapril survival study II	302
	Lessons from warfarin trials in atrial fibrillation : missing the window of opportunity	312
	Data monitoring experience in the AIDS toxoplasmic encephalitis study	320
	Data monitoring in the randomized evaluation of strategies for left ventricular dysfunction pilot study : when reasonable people disagree	330
	The data monitoring experience in the carvedilol post-infarct survival control in left ventricular dysfunction study : hazards of changing primary outcomes	337
	Controversies in the early reporting of a clinical trial in early breast cancer	346
	Making independence work : monitoring the bevacizumab colorectal cancer clinical trial	360

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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

Author: Richmond She

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

Usability Testing and Research or Groovy Programming

2009-11-26T17:15:00.000-08:00

Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

Author: Carol M Barnum

Built on a solid foundation of current research in the field, Usability Testing and Research provides a comprehensive, up-to-date perspective in this increasingly important area of technical communication. Based on the most current research in the field, this book reflects the most recent developments and studies on this topic available. Sidebars throughout the book catch the attention of the readers and highlight key concepts in the text. A chapter on web testing provides coverage of what is now the hottest area in usability testing. End of chapter discussions and exercises reinforce learning. Frequent examples of planning, conducting, and reporting usability tests present current samples of projects. An appendix on teamwork gives pertinent advice in an area neglected by other texts: building and coordinating cross-functional teams for usability testing. For those interested in usability testing and research.

Book review: Anlagengebäude & Gemeinschaftsentwicklung

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers

Author: Kenneth Barclay

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage

"For a book targeting those new to scripting, OO or dynamic languages in general, this book is fabulous!"
— Andrew Glover, President, Stelligent Incorporated

Groovy is a unique scripting language designed to augment the Java platform. It offers Java-like syntax, native support for maps and lists, methods, classes, closures, and builders. With its dynamic weak typing and seamless access to the Java API, it is well suited to the development of many small- to medium-size applications.

Groovy is more expressive and operates at higher levels of abstraction than Java. This results in more rapid application development and increased programmer productivity. It can be used for "gluing" applications together rather than implementing complex data structures and algorithms.

Another major strength of Groovy is that the coding effort required is relatively small by comparison with code written in Java. Often the latter appears to be overly complex and difficult to understand and maintain. This is because it requires extensive boilerplate or conversion code not required by Groovy.

In one of the first guides to Groovy, authors Kenneth Barclay and John Savage introduce all the major aspects of Groovy development and explain the dynamic features this innovative programming language brings to the Java platform. This book assumes only a general knowledge of Java programming. Whether a seasoned Java developer or new to scripting languages, you'll receive expert guidance on how to make Groovy work for you.

Features
* The first comprehensive book on Groovyprogramming that shows how writing applications and scripts for the Java platform is fast and easy

* Written by leading software engineers and acclaimed computing instructors

* Offers numerous programming examples, code samples, detailed case studies, exercises for self-study, and a companion website with a Windows-based Groovy editor

About the Authors
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage are both lecturers at the School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Their speciality is object-oriented software engineering, development, and programming. They are - coauthors of Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003).

Java/Programming
ISBN 978-0-12-372507-3

Preface; Chapter 1: Groovy; Chapter 2: Numbers and Expressions; Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions; Chapter 4: Lists, Maps and Ranges; Chapter 5: Simple Input and Output; Chapter 6: Case Study: A Library Application (Modelling); Chapter 7: Methods; Chapter 8: Flow of Control; Chapter 9: Closures; Chapter 10: Files; Chapter 11: Case Study: A Library Application (Methods); Chapter 12: Classes; Chapter 13: Case Study: A Library Application (Objects); Chapter 14: Specialization; Chapter 15: Unit Testing (JUnit); Chapter 16: Case Study: A Library Application (Specialization); Chapter 17: Persistence; Chapter 18: Case Study: A Library Application (Persistence); Chapter 19: XML Builders and Parsers; Chapter 20: GUI Builders; Chapter 21: Template Engines; Chapter 22: Case Study: A Library Application (GUI); Chapter 23: Server Side Programming; Chapter 24: Case Study: A Library Application (Web); Chapter 25: Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendix A: Software Distribution; Appendix B: Groovy; Appendix C: More on Numbers and Expressions; Appendix D: More on Strings and Regular Expressions; Appendix E: More on Lists, Maps and Ranges; Appendix F: More on Simple Input and Output; Appendix G: More on Methods; Appendix H: More on Closures; Appendix I: More on Classes; Appendix J: Advanced Closures; Appendix K: More on Builders; Appendix L: More on GUI Builders; Index

Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner or Logistic Regression Using the SAS System

2009-11-25T13:03:00.000-08:00

Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Jerry Lee Ford

Want to learn the fundamentals of Ruby programming but aren't sure where to start? Look no further! Ruby is a free, easy-to-learn, yet powerful scripting programming language that can run on any operating system. These attributes have made Ruby an extremely popular language in recent years for almost any programming task. Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner teaches you the basics of computer programming with Ruby through the creation of simple computer games. Not only will this "learn by doing" approach provide you with an instant sense of accomplishment, but it's also a fun way to learn. In addition to learning Ruby, you'll also learn the basics of computer programming, so you'll have a solid foundation from which you can confidently jump to other programming languages.

Interesting book: Still Going Strong or Antipasto Table

Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application

Author: Paul D Allison

If you are a researcher or student with experience in multiple linear regression and want to learn about logistic regression, this book is for you! Informal and nontechnical, this book both explains the theory behind logistic regression and looks at all the practical details involved in its implementation using the SAS System. Several social science real-world examples are included in full detail. This book also explains the differences and similarities among the many generalizations of the logistic regression model. The following topics are covered: binary logit analysis, logit analysis of contingency tables, multinomial logit analysis, ordered logit analysis, discrete-choice analysis with the PHREG procedure, and Poisson regression. Other highlights include discussions on how to use the GENMOD procedure to do loglinear analysis and GEE estimation for longitudinal binary data. Only basic knowledge of the SAS DATA step is assumed. Supports releases 6.12 and higher of SAS software.

	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Binary Logit Analysis: Basics	5
Ch. 3	Binary Logit Analysis: Details and Options	31
Ch. 4	Logit Analysis of Contingency Tables	81
Ch. 5	Multinomial Logit Analysis	111
Ch. 6	Logit Analysis for Ordered Categories	133
Ch. 7	Discrete Choice Analysis	161
Ch. 8	Logit Analysis of Longitudinal and Other Clustered Data	179
Ch. 9	Poisson Regression	217
Ch. 10	Loglinear Analysis of Contingency Tables	233
	Appendix	267
	References	275
	Index	279

Essential C for Engineers and Scientists or Health Information Technology

2009-02-22T13:55:00.000-08:00

Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists

Author: Jeri Hanly

Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists focuses readers on the key elements of good programming and C++ using a multitude of engineering and scientific examples that are relevant to future engineers. The book covers the features of C++ needed for writing engineering programs, including many features of object-oriented programming. Early on, it makes some simplifying assumptions that allow the use of C++ topics without lengthy explanation, and then later discusses the intricacies of the features. Readers will come away with the confidence needed to solve problems with C++.

THIS SECOND EDITION FEATURES:

Over 50% more programming projects than in the first edition.
Two new case studies with complete algorithm development.
Over 80 engineering and scientific examples and programming projects drawn from interesting areas such as solar heating, environmentally sound power production, water conservation, automated manufacturing, pipeline and power grid modeling, and others.
Updated and enhanced coverage of many topics including member operators and member functions, files, and structs.
Reference appendices on using the C programming language and about both the Borland and Visual C++ integrated development environments.
Fundamentals of numerical methods that represent commonly used techniques for solving engineering and scientific problems.

New interesting book: Last Campaign or Blueprint for Action

Health Information Technology

Author: Nadinia Davis

This book is designed to meet the needs of students at the beginning of their course of study in health information technology - both as a work-based task-oriented function and as a part of a larger profession of health information management. Individuals who wish to acquire basic knowledge of health information technology and how it fits into the health care arena will find this text useful.

Chapter learning objectives are tied to the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) domains and sub-domains of the Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum to allow instructors to teach to the credentialing exam and to help students prepare for the exam.

Provides job descriptions in every chapter to give students a broader view of the field and show them they many options they have upon graduation.

Includes application-oriented exercises and activities in each chapter to make learning more interactive for students and to also fulfill the AHIMA HIT curriculum requirements.

Each chapter builds on the previous chapter and encourages the application of key concepts to support comprehensive learning of the material.

A clear writing style and easy reading level is appropriate for two-year postsecondary students to make their reading and studying more time-efficient.

A comprehensive Instructor's Resource Manual with CD-ROM makes it easier for instructors to develop and teach the course.

Evolve provides an interactive learning environment instructors can utilize to work with the text.

Workbook exercises are incorporated into the text to keep the core content and review material close together.

Materialon statistics have been broken out into a new, separate chapter to give new students a better foundation for learning.

New Special Health Records chapter includes information on accreditation and major Health Information Management (HIM) issues.

Includes a computer-based health systems chapter to address how HIM is moving to an increasingly electronic environment.

A new Confidentiality and Compliance chapter covers HIPAA Privacy regulations.

Environment of Health Information
Health Care Delivery Systems     2
Health Care Professionals     4
Health Information Management     11
Comparison of Facilities     13
Legal and Regulatory Environment     22
Chapter Activities     29
Paying for Health Care     32
Reimbursement     34
Insurance     37
Government Influence on Reimbursement     47
Chapter Activities     51
Collecting Health Care Data     54
Basic Concepts     56
Key Data Categories     59
Medical Decision Making     62
Describing Data     65
Organization of Data Elements in a Health Record     67
Data Quality     74
Chapter Activities     82
Content, Structure, and Processing of Health Information
Acute Care Records     86
Clinical Flow of Data     88
Clinical Data     92
Data Quality     102
Accreditation     104
Chapter Activities     106
Health Information Management Processing     108
Data Quality     110
Postdischarge Processing     114
OtherHealth Information Management Roles     124
Chapter Activities     126
Coding and Reimbursement     128
Coding     130
Prospective Payment Systems     136
Billing     150
Impact of Coding     154
Chapter Activities     158
Health Information Management Issues in Alternative Settings     161
Ambulatory Care     163
Ambulatory Care: Radiology and Laboratory     169
Ambulatory Care: Ambulatory Surgery     172
Long-Term Care     173
Behavioral Health Facilities     175
Rehabilitation Facilities     177
Hospice     178
Home Health Care     180
Other Specialty Facilities     181
Chapter Activities     185
Maintenance and Analysis of Health Information
Storage     188
The Paper Perspective     190
Master Patient Index     191
Filing     197
Alternative Storage Methods     218
Chart Locator Systems     225
Security of Health Information     229
Chapter Activities     236
Statistics     238
Organized Collection of Data      240
Data Retrieval     245
Reporting of Data     252
Statistical Analysis of Patient Information     254
Routine Institutional Statistics     264
Chapter Activities     277
Quality and Uses of Health Information     279
The Quality of Health Care     281
Quality Management Theories     282
History and Evolution of Quality in Health Care     283
Monitoring the Quality of Health Information     288
Health Information in Quality Activities     293
Organization and Presentation of Data     301
Health Care Facility Committees     307
Uses of Health Information     310
Chapter Activities     320
Legal and Supervisory Issues in Health Information
Confidentiality and Compliance     324
Confidentiality     326
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act     328
Access     333
Consent     339
Release of Information     342
Preparing a Record for Release     345
Internal Requests for Information     348
Sensitive Records     349
Federal, Corporate, and Facility Compliance     349
Chapter Activities     353
Electronic Health Records     355
The Evolution of the Electronic Health Record     357
Government and Private Sector Intervention     363
Advantages of and Barriers to Implementing an Electronic Health Record     366
Electronic Health Record Management     368
Career Opportunities     375
Chapter Activities     378
HIM Department Management     380
Human Resources     382
Organization Charts     384
Health Information Management Department Workflow     389
Department Planning     393
Prioritization of Department Functions     396
Evaluation of Department Operations and Services     397
Department Policies and Procedures     398
Health Information Personnel     400
Employee Productivity     403
Employee Evaluations     406
Hiring Health Information Management Personnel     409
Fair Employment Practices     416
Department Equipment and Supplies     417
Ergonomics     420
Chapter Activities     423
Training and Development     425
Orientation     427
Training     432
Inservice Education     436
Educating the Public     436
Continuing Education     436
Communication     439
Department Meetings     442
Chapter Activities     447
Sample Paper Records     450
Sample Electronic Medical Record     466
Minimum Data Set     472
Using Microsoft Excel to Perform Calculations     486
Glossary     493

C or Microsoft Visual C 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

2009-02-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

C++: The Core Language

Author: Gregory Satir

A first book for C programmers transitioning to C++, an object-oriented enhancement of the C programming language. Designed to get readers up to speed quickly, this book thoroughly explains the important concepts and features and gives brief overviews of the rest of the language. Covers features common to all C++ compilers, including those on UNIX, Windows NT, Windows, DOS, and Macs

Book about: Services Marketing or Organization Modeling

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Premier Development

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner focuses on teaching first time programmers how to program using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition as a foundation language. Written for the entry-level user, the book assumes no prior programming or scripting experience. Whether you are a new or experienced C++ developer, this book delivers the tools and libraries you need to write a variety of programs. Written in a straight-forward style, using a games-based approach that makes learning beginning-level programming fun and easy, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner is the perfect introductory programming book.

Ch. 1	An introduction to Visual C++ 2005 express	1
Ch. 2	Navigating the Visual C++ 2005 express edition environment	27
Ch. 3	Creating an application interface	63
Ch. 4	Working with menus and toolbars	101
Ch. 5	Storing and retrieving data in memory	141
Ch. 6	Applying conditional logic	177
Ch. 7	Processing lots of data with loops	207
Ch. 8	Enhancing code structure and organization	241
Ch. 9	Getting comfortable with object-oriented programming	279
Ch. 10	Integrating graphics and audio	307
Ch. 11	Debugging Visual C++ applications	335

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

2009-02-20T05:32:00.000-08:00

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Author: Lynette Kent

The amateur and home photographers today take many more photos than they ever would have with film cameras, and the sorting process alone can be an ominous and time consuming chore. Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom enables the photographer to organize, process, and output large numbers of files and effectively streamline the so called digital workflow, reducing the work and enhancing the flow of processing digital photographs. All the features of Lightroom such as moving the cursor directly on the image to adjust it, which are intended to simplify digital editing for the professional photographer, also make the photo editing process easier for the amateur. For once the professional level application is easier to use for everyone. This book provides the general photo enthusiast easy to follow steps to get past the intimidation factor of "a professional tool." Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop Lightroom will simplify the "photo geek speak," explain the interface and tools so the average person with a digital camera will feel comfortable and be able to start organizing, editing, and outputting photos right away.

Book review: Workplace Communications for Engineering Technicians and Technologists or Accounting Information Systems

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

Author: Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Reviewas required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. The eight articles in Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management highlight the leading-edge thinking and practical applications that are defining the field of knowledge management. Includes Peter Drucker's prophetic "The Coming of the New Organization" and Ikujiro Nonaka's "Knowledge-Creating Company." A Harvard Business Review Paperback.

Library Journal

This collection of eight Harvard Business Review articles are written by leading business authors (including a contribution from management guru Peter Drucker), and together they present a solid introduction to and overview of the practice of knowledge management. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

A collection of eight articles first published in the during the 1980s-90s, focusing on the way companies generate, communicate, and leverage their intellectual assets. Each article is preceded by a summary. Topics include teaching smart people how to learn, doing research that reinvents the corporation, and managing professional intellect. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	The Coming of the New Organization	1
	The Knowledge-Creating Company	21
	Building a Learning Organization	47
	Teaching Smart People How to Learn	81
	Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work	109
	How to Make Experience Your Company's Best Teacher	137
	Research That Reinvents the Corporation	153
	Managing Professional Intellect: Making the Most of the Best	181
	About the Contributors	207
	Index	213

Design and Launch Your Ecommerce Business in a Week or Blogs Wikis Myspace and More

2009-02-19T01:20:00.000-08:00

Design and Launch Your eCommerce Business in a Week

Author: Jason R Rich

WWW.(Your Online Store).COM

Have you fantasized about your own retail store-selling your own specialty items, showcasing unique products or better promoting existing products? Or have you dreamed of working from home, setting your own hours and still making great money? Today's technology makes it easier than ever to take your retail dreams to the world's largest marketplace-the Internet. In just days, you can build your own eCommerce website, reach potential customers by the millions, process orders 24/7 and accept payments from all over the world-with no technical background or graphic design skills!

Design a professional eCommerce site using inexpensive, turnkey solutions from established companies like Google, Yahoo! and Go Daddy that require no programming or graphic design knowledge
Create content and online deals that capture shoppers and keep them coming back
Use surefire online tools that work 24/7 to handle payments and accept orders
Drive traffic using Search Engine Optimization and other marketing and advertising techniques
Skillfully handle inventory, order fulfillment, customer service and all other operations

The world's largest marketplace is at your fingertips…take advantage of it!

Jason R. Rich is a bestselling author of more than 35 books, including several e-commerce guides; a frequent contributor to several national magazines and daily newspapers; and a consultant to individuals and businesses looking to launch a successful e-commerce website.

New interesting textbook: The Russian Roots of Nazism or The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Blogs, Wikis, Myspace, and More: Everything You Want to Know about Using Web 2. 0 but Are Afraid to Ask

Author: Terry Burrows

For both internet gurus and online novices, this handy mini-encyclopedia explores the useful and interesting sites—big and small, popular and obscure—that make up Web 2.0, the new online community. From YouTube and Flickr to eBay and Facebook, each website and online application is explained through step-by-step screen shots and examines what each site does, why people use it, how to get started, and any special features. Simple yet thorough definitions for commonly used internet elements—such as tags, bookmarks, blogs, and podcasts—are provided as well as little-known usage tips for expert surfers. Grouped by type, this detailed guide also offers dozens of alternative URLs that cover similar online territory, but with their own unique takes.

The Hacker Crackdown or Network Maturity Model

2009-02-17T21:09:00.000-08:00

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Author: Bruce Sterling

The AT&T long-distance network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprograms a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York phone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered BellSouth document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials up. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? You are about to descend into a strange netherworld - one that sprang into existence when computers were first connected to telephones. This place has no physical location; it exists only in the networks that bind together its population. Like any frontier, it is home to a wide range of personalities, from legitimate computer professionals to those known only by their noms de net; denizens like Knight Lightning, Leftist, Compu-Phreak, Major Havoc, and Silver Spy; groups like the Lords of Chaos, Phantom Access Associates, Shadow Brotherhood, and the Coalition of Hi-Tech Pirates. This is not normal space, but "cyberspace." And if you use a computer, cyberspace is moving inexorably closer to you with each passing day. Your guide on this journey is bestselling science fiction author and longtime computer user Bruce Sterling, who was galvanized into action following the massive "hacker crackdowns" of 1990, in which law enforcement officers executed search warrants across the country against lawbreakers - and suspected lawbreakers - in the computer underground. In The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling - respected by hackers, law officers, and civil libertarians alike - uses his unique reportorial access and his considerable powers as a novelist to weave a startling narrative that informs, compels, and appalls. Sterling has researched all corners of this challenging and controversial new world for this book. In it we meet outlaws and cops, bureaucrats and rebels, geniuses and grifters: all denizens of a dazzling e

Publishers Weekly

Cyberpunk novelist Sterling (Involution Ocean) has produced by far the most stylish report from the computer outlaw culture since Steven Levy's Hackers. In jazzy New Journalism proE;e, sounding like Tom Wolfe reporting on a gunfight at the Cybernetic Corral, Sterling makes readers feel at home with the hackers, marshals, rebels and bureaucrats of the electronic frontier. He opens with a social history of the telephone in order to explain how the Jan. 15, 1990, crash of AT&T's long-distance switching system led to a crackdown on high-tech outlaws suspected of using their knowledge of eyberspace to invade the phone company's and other corporations' supposedly secure networks. After explaining the nature of eyberspace forms like electronic bulletin boards in detail, Sterling makes the hackers-who live in the ether between terminals under noms de nets such as VaxCat-as vivid as Wyatt Earp and Doe Holliday. His book goes a long way towards explaining the emerging digital world and its ethos. (Oct.)

Library Journal

This well-written history of ``cyberspace'' and computer hackers begins with the failure of AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system in January 1990 (the subject of Leonard Lee's The Day the Phones Stopped , LJ 7/91). Subsequently, a number of hackers were accused of being responsible, although AT&T formally acknowledged otherwise. In detailing various formal efforts to prosecute the ``phone phreaks'' and hackers, cyberpunk sf author Sterling ( Islands in the Net , LJ 6/15/88) avoids attributing the near-mystical genius qualities that too many authors have bestowed upon the computer and telephone ``outlaws.'' Instead, he realistically describes their biases and philosophical shortcomings. Sterling's concern for the Steve Jackson Games prosecution, which occurred erroneously in conjunction with several legitimate raids in Austin, leads him to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he concludes with a well-balanced look at this new group of civil libertarians. Written with humor and intelligence, this book is highly recommended. See also Katie Hafner and John Markoff's Cyperpunk , LJ 6/1/91.--Ed.-- Hilary D. Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, Cal.

BookList

Sterling collaborated with William Gibson on "The Difference Engine" (BKL D 1 90), about what might have resulted had Charles Babbage's 1842 prototype of the computer succeeded. That novel seems to have impelled Sterling toward the present effort, a feisty survey of the dilemmas electronic technologies present for software firms, law enforcement agencies, hackers, and civil libertarians. He begins with a colorful portrait of Alexander Graham Bell and the Bell System, since Bell's divestiture in 1982 heralded much of the contemporary confusion, and it was with the telephone that cyberspace, that place somewhere between speakers, became "real." He discusses the Computer Fraud and Abuse and the Electronic Communications and Privacy acts of 1986. But his attentions center on the AT&T long-distance crash of 1990 and subsequent federal raids on hackers such as NuPrometheus, which once stole a jealousy guarded piece of Apple software, and Knight Lightning, actually tried for software piracy. Nineteen ninety was a year of raids, arrests, and trials, the upshot of which is that a host of groups have dug in on the battle for the free flow of electronic information. At the same time, electronic crimes are likely to become more sophisticated and international. Sterling relates all this with an insider's grasp of detail, and with irreverent humor. Offbeat and brilliant.

Booknews

Father of "cyberpunk" science fiction and techno-journalist, Sterling writes in his popular style for this nonfiction book that looks at computer hacking from both sides of the law. He interviews outlaw hackers and phone phreaks, law enforcement personnel, and civil libertarians, and presents a look at the people involved in the world of cyberspace and the politics of the new technological world. No references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting textbook: Collège Estimant 1-13

Network Maturity Model

Author: William J Baumann

The Network Maturity Model (NMM) addresses the need for a process-based approach to ensuring network quality. Application of the model to enterprise networks provides gains in terms of over all quality, process reliability and positive impacts on customers.

The extensive background in academia and real-world industry of the engineer authors has produced a work which synergistically integrates a myriad of disciplines and experience relevant to an effective network quality system. For example, within the model the authors have crafted network activities related to Enterprise business models, and integrated Enterprise Management with Network Engineering and Network Operations.

The Network Maturity Model (NMM) provides a process model for a network management system. Compliance to the NMM ensures that processes are defined, established and continuously improved to support the development of quality networks in a repeatable manner. Unique to the NMM is it provides a strong focus on stakeholder satisfaction, and the integration of network management, development and operations processes to provide higher quality networks. Another unique feature of the NMM is its components which address the security, acquisition, hardware, customer, and other activities unique to networks.

The model describes a comprehensive quality and process capability across all aspects of computer networks. It is designed as a stand-alone model which provides quality system elements for network management, engineering, and operational components. It encompasses a multi-discipline approach which integrates elements of quality standards including ISO 9000, TL 9000 and Baldrige. Use of the modelprovides network quality managers and professionals with a single integrated maturity model, eliminating the need to use separate models for different network activities such as the software CMM for network software development.

Adobe PageMaker 70 Basics or Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

2009-02-16T16:57:00.000-08:00

Adobe PageMaker 7.0 BASICS

Author: Rick Braveheart

This book from our BASICS series provides a step-by-step introduction to Adobe PageMaker 7 software. Everything from creating a publication and working with styles and graphics to working with tables and templates is covered in this text.

Interesting textbook: GNU Autoconf Automake and Libtool or Mistake Proofing for Operators

Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

Author: Jeffrey A Shapiro

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.

Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.

Coverage includes

Building the foundations for a highly available Active Directory and network architecture
Selecting and integrating high-performance hardware, storage, and networks
Installing and configuring Windows Clustering Services for both scale-out and failover
Leveraging the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA)
Delivering high-performance, high availability file- and print-server solutions
Using clustering to maximize SQL Server and Exchange Server availability
Restoring failed servers: best practices and step-by-step techniques for recovering from downtime or disaster
Deploying Network Load Balancing (NLB) IIS and application servers
Administering Windows Server 2003 high-performance systems—including performance monitoring and alerts with Microsoft Operations Manager
Avoiding the pitfalls associated with Windows high availability solutions

Pt. I	High-performance Windows computing
Ch. 1	The world of high-performance, high availability Windows computing	3
Ch. 2	Choosing high-performance hardware	25
Ch. 3	Storage for highly available systems	35
Ch. 4	Highly available networks	71
Ch. 5	Preparing the platform for a high-performance network	97
Ch. 6	Building the foundations for a highly available architecture	163
Pt. II	Building high availability Windows server 2003 solutions
Ch. 7	High-performance print-server solutions	217
Ch. 8	High-performance file-server solution	225
Ch. 9	High availability, high-performance SQL server solutions	245
Ch. 10	High availability, high-performance exchange	297
Ch. 11	Load balancing	335
Ch. 12	Internet information server	373
Ch. 13	Looking for trouble : setting up performance monitoring and alerts	401

Conquest in Cyberspace or Learning Red Hat Linux

2009-02-13T08:53:00.000-08:00

Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

Author: Martin C Libicki

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down. Modern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve.

List of Figures     x
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
What Does Conquest Mean in Cyberspace?     4
Precis     10
Hostile Conquest as Information Warfare     15
An Ideal-Type Definition of Information Warfare     16
Control at One Layer Is Not Control at Another     24
Applying the Ideal-Type Definition     27
There Is No Forced Entry in Cyberspace     31
Information Warfare Only Looks Strategic     37
IW Strategy and Terrorism     43
Conclusions     49
Information Warfare as Noise     50
Disinformation and Misinformation     51
Defenses against Noise     55
Redundancy     55
Filtration     57
What Tolerance for Noise?     59
Tolerance in Real Environments     60
Castles and Agoras     62
Hopping from Agoras to Castles?     64
Castling Foes     66
Concluding Observations     71
Can Information Warfare Be Strategic?     73
Getting In     75
Mucking Around     79
Spying     79
Denial of Service     80
Corruption     81
Distraction     83
Countermeasures     84
Redundancy     84
Learning     85
Damage Assessment     87
Prediction     90
Intelligence Is Necessary     90
Intelligence Alone Is Hardly Sufficient     93
Is Information Warfare Ready for War?     95
The Paradox of Control     96
Other Weaponization Criteria     97
Conclusions     100
Information Warfare against Command and Control     102
The Sources of Information Overload     103
Its Effect on Conventional Information Warfare Techniques     105
Coping Strategies     107
Who Makes Decisions in a Hierarchy?     107
Responses to Information Overload     111
Know the Enemy's Information Architecture     116
Elements of Information Culture     117
Elements of Nodal Architecture     118
Injecting Information into Adversary Decision Making     118
Ping, Echo, Flood, and Sag     121
Ping and Echo     121
Flood and Sag     122
Conclusions     124
Friendly Conquest in Cyberspace     125
A Redefinition of Conquest     126
The Mechanisms of Coalitions     128
The Particular Benefits of Coalitions     130
Information and Coalitions     131
The Cost of Coalitions in Cyberspace     136
Enterprise Architectures and Influence     142
Alliances with Individuals     148
The Special Case of Cell Phones     151
Alliances of Organizations     155
Ecologies of Technological Development     155
DoD's Global Information Grid (GIG)     159
Merging the Infrastructures of Allies     164
Conclusions     166
Friendly Conquest Using Global Systems     169
Geospatial Data     170
Coping with Commercial Satellites     175
Manipulation through Cyberspace     178
Getting Others to Play the Game     180
Some Conclusions about Geospatial Services     182
National Identity Systems     182
Two Rationales for a National Identity System     183
Potential Parameters for a Notional System     184
Constraints from and Influences over Foreign Systems     187
Compare, Contrast, and Conclude     191
Retail Conquest in Cyberspace     193
Information Trunks and Leaves     194
Where Does Cheap Information Come From?     195
Surveillance in Cyberspace     198
Making Information Global     203
Privacy     204
Amalgamating Private Information     206
Using the Information     208
General Coercion     208
Specific Coercion     209
Persuasion     211
Some Limits of Retail Warfare in Cyberspace     214
Using Retail Channels to Measure Wholesale Campaigns     215
Conclusions     218
From Intimacy, Vulnerability     220
Do the Walls Really Come Down?     220
Intimacy as a Target     222
The Fecklessness of Friends     225
Betrayal     228
Conclusions     230
Talking Conquest in Cyberspace     231
Four Layers of Communications     232
Human Conversation in Layers     232
Cyberspace in Layers     236
Complexity Facilitates Conquest     240
Complexity and Hostile Conquest     241
Complexity and Friendly Conquest     242
Semantics     245
Pragmatics     249
Lessons?     255
Managing Conquest in Cyberspace     256
Conducting Hostile Conquest in Cyberspace     257
Warding Off Hostile Conquest in Cyberspace     262
Byte Bullies     262
Headless Horsemen     265
Perfect Prevention     268
Total Transparency     270
Nasty Neighborhoods     272
Exploiting Unwarranted Influence     276
Against Unwarranted Influence     281
In Microsoft's Shadow     282
Microsoft and Computer Security     285
Conclusions     289
Why Cyberspace Is Likely to Gain Consequence     291
More Powerful Hardware and Thus More Complex Software     292
Cyberspace in More Places     294
Fuzzier Borders between Systems     297
Accepted Cryptography     299
Privatized Trust     301
The Possible Substitution of Artificial for Natural Intelligence     303
Conclusions     306
Index     307

Book review: The Anatomy of Hope or Cardio Free Diet

Learning Red Hat Linux

Author: Bill McCarty

New users are flocking to Linux literally by the millions. Yet most of these new users draw from Microsoft Windows as their primary computing experience; for them an operating system from the UNIX family is an unfamiliar experience. In Learning Red Hat Linux, Bill McCarty has written a book aimed specifically at this new audience.

Learning Red Hat Linux will guide any new user of Linux through the installing and use of Red Hat Linux, the free operating system that is shaking up the commercial world of software. It demystifies Linux in terms familiar to Windows users and gives readers only what they need to start being successful users of Linux.

Built around the popular Red Hat distribution of Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux takes the reader step by step through the process of installing and setting up a Red Hat Linux system, and provides a thorough but gentle introduction to the basics of using Red Hat Linux.

Because the book is written specifically for the enclosed CD, the reader needs nothing else to get started with this exciting new operating system.

Booknews

This second edition of a book/CD-ROM guide to installing and running Red Hat Linux on a PC has been upgraded to cover installation and configuration of Red Hat version 7.2, with improved sections on how to use the GNOME and KDE desktop environments and the use of the Red Hat Package Manager. The two CD-ROMs contain tools needed to install and configure a Red Hat Linux system. The book is written for first-time Linux users. McCarty teaches management information systems at Azusa Pacific University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Approximate Dynamic Programming or Teaching and Learning with Technology

2009-02-12T04:41:00.000-08:00

Approximate Dynamic Programming: Solving the Curses of Dimensionality

Author: Warren Buckler Powell

A complete and accessible introduction to the real-world applications of approximate dynamic programming

With the growing levels of sophistication in modern-day operations, it is vital for practitioners to understand how to approach, model, and solve complex industrial problems. Approximate Dynamic Programming is a result of the author's decades of experience working in large industrial settings to develop practical and high-quality solutions to problems that involve making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This groundbreaking book uniquely integrates four distinct disciplines—Markov design processes, mathematical programming, simulation, and statistics—to demonstrate how to successfully model and solve a wide range of real-life problems using the techniques of approximate dynamic programming (ADP). The reader is introduced to the three curses of dimensionality that impact complex problems and is also shown how the post-decision state variable allows for the use of classical algorithmic strategies from operations research to treat complex stochastic optimization problems.

Designed as an introduction and assuming no prior training in dynamic programming of any form, Approximate Dynamic Programming contains dozens of algorithms that are intended to serve as a starting point in the design of practical solutions for real problems. The book provides detailed coverage of implementation challenges including: modeling complex sequential decision processes under uncertainty, identifying robust policies, designing and estimating value function approximations, choosing effective stepsize rules, and resolving convergence issues.

With a focus on modeling andalgorithms in conjunction with the language of mainstream operations research, artificial intelligence, and control theory, Approximate Dynamic Programming:

Models complex, high-dimensional problems in a natural and practical way, which draws on years of industrial projects
Introduces and emphasizes the power of estimating a value function around the post-decision state, allowing solution algorithms to be broken down into three fundamental steps: classical simulation, classical optimization, and classical statistics
Presents a thorough discussion of recursive estimation, including fundamental theory and a number of issues that arise in the development of practical algorithms
Offers a variety of methods for approximating dynamic programs that have appeared in previous literature, but that have never been presented in the coherent format of a book

Motivated by examples from modern-day operations research, Approximate Dynamic Programming is an accessible introduction to dynamic modeling and is also a valuable guide for the development of high-quality solutions to problems that exist in operations research and engineering. The clear and precise presentation of the material makes this an appropriate text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, while also serving as a reference for researchers and practitioners. A companion Web site is available for readers, which includes additional exercises, solutions to exercises, and data sets to reinforce the book's main concepts.

Teaching and Learning with Technology

Author: Judy Lever Duffy

Written by teachers for teachers, this text offers a clear and current look at the range of educational technologies and how teachers can effectively use technology to enhance learning.

Written by Teachers for Teachers, this text provides readers with a clear understanding of educational media and how it can be used effectively to enhance learning. The text explores the current and emerging technologies and multimedia available to teachers while consistently maintaining an instructional focus. Pre-service and in-service teachers.

	Foreword
	Preface
Pt. 1	Technologies for Teaching and Learning	1
Ch. 1	Theoretical Foundations	2
Ch. 2	Designing and Planning Technology-Enhanced Instruction	32
Pt. 2	Applying Technologies for Effective Instruction	71
Ch. 3	Introduction to Personal Computers in the Classroom	72
Ch. 4	Digital Technologies in the Classroom	102
Ch. 5	Administrative Software	128
Ch. 6	Academic Software	166
Ch. 7	Networks and the Internet	200
Ch. 8	Using the Web for Teaching and Learning	232
Ch. 9	Audio and Visual Technologies	270
Ch. 10	Video Technologies	308
Pt. 3	Technology in Schools, Changing Teaching and Learning	339
Ch. 11	Distance Education: Using Technology to Redefine the Classroom	340
Ch. 12	Issues in Implementing Technology in Schools	374
App. A	National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers and Students	405
App. B	Educational Technology Resources and Organizations	407
	Photo Credits	408
	Glossary	409
	References	421
	Index	429

The Second Self or Practical Computer Literacy

2009-02-11T00:30:00.000-08:00

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Author: Sherry Turkl

In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer culture--to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.

Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners--people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think--about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world. Their special place betwixt and between traditional categories is part of what makes them compelling and evocative. (In the introduction to this edition, Turkle quotes a PDA user as saying, "When my Palm crashed, it was like a death. I thought I had lost my mind.") Why we think of the workings of a machine in psychological terms--how thishappens, and what it means for all of us--is the ever more timely subject of The Second Self.

Practical Computer Literacy

Author: June Jamrich Parsons

Practical Computer Literacy integrates Computer Concepts, Office Applications, and Internet Concepts all in one book that will meet IC3 and other computer literacy exam standards.

1. Computer Hardware 2. Peripheral Devices 3. Software 4. Getting Started with Windows 5. Working with Files 6. Getting Started with Application Software 7. Creating a Document 8. Formatting a Document 9. Finalizing a Document 10. Creating a Worksheet 11. Formatting a Worksheet 12. Finalizing a Worksheet 13. Creating a Presentation 14. Finalizing a Presentation 15. Creating a Database 16. Finalizing a Database 17. Networks 18. Working with E-mail 19. Browsing the Web 20. Computer Risks and Benefits 21. Projects

Android Essentials or Practical Web 2 0 Applications with PHP

2009-02-09T20:18:00.000-08:00

Android Essentials

Author: Chris Haseman

This book covers the essential information required to build an Android application. It will help any developer, amateur, professional, or dabbler who is interested in developing for Android.

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Practical Web 2. 0 Applications with PHP

Author: Quentin Zervaas

and thought I would post a quick review here. In this book the author takes us through creating a web application from concept to deployment. The ?Web 2.0? application used here is a blogging application supporting images, tagging, microformats and geographical data. To speed development existing libraries and frameworks are used including Zend framework, PEAR and Smarty on the server side and prototype and script.aculo.us on the client side. Chapter five is entirely dedicated to introducing the javascript libraries. Through the rest of the book the application is slowly built up. With a book like this it is easy to criticise the decisions taken. There are almost as many different ways to create a functioning web application as there are people developing them. This book can only ever present one approach to application development and it does this well. The book is dominated by code, as would be expected, but the supporting text is informative and easy to follow. Overall it is a solid introduction to putting together a complete web application with some real gems. The chapters on google maps and deployment I found to be particularly good. If you?re considering purchasing this book be sure to check out the publishers site as they have a sample chapter freely available for download.

Devil May Cry 4 or Windows Server 2008 Bible

2009-02-08T16:07:00.000-08:00

Devil May Cry 4: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Dan Birlew

•Complete step-by-step mission analyses, illustrated with maps and screenshots.
•All hidden items and secret missions are exposed, with tips for completing strenuous side challenges.
•Complete lists of bonus modes, attack combos, and other extras.
•Full charts explore the mission ranking system, giving players the details and the exact scores needed to get the highest rank.

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Windows Server 2008 Bible

Author: Jeffrey R Shapiro

This version of the Server Bible will be the largest yet, catering to what is certainly the most advanced operating system introduced by Microsoft. The book will cater to the needs of the server administration community and will be designed to be a critical reference. The book will extensively cover the most notable new feature of Windows Server known as the "Server Core." Server Core is a significantly scaled-back installation where no graphical shell (explorer.exe) is installed, and all configuration and maintenance is done entirely through the command-line windows, or by connecting to the machine remotely using Microsoft Management Console. Server Core will also not include the .NET Framework, Internet Explorer or many other features not related to core server features. A Server Core machine can be configured for four basic roles: Domain controller, DNS Server, DHCP Server, and file server. Chapters on setup and installation will also cover the new componentized operating system Image-based setup and deployment tools, using WIM.
In addition to the already extensive Active Directory support this book will now fully cover the "Read-Only Domain Controller" operation mode in Active Directory, intended for use in branch office scenarios where a domain controller may reside in a low physical security environment, was introduced in Windows Server 2003 R2 and will be extended in the 2008 version. Chapters covering policy-based networking, branch management and enhanced end user collaboration will be extended. Windows Server 2008 will also ship Internet Information Services 7 and the current chapters on IIS will thus be extended. Coverage of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 willalso be introduced into this part of the book. We will also include coverage of the improved hot patching technology, which is a feature that allows non-kernel patches to occur without the need for a reboot.
A significantly upgraded Terminal Services component, supporting RDP 6.0. will be covered in the chapter on terminal services. The most notable improvement is the ability to share a single application over a Remote Desktop connection, instead of the entire desktop. This will be added to an already extended chapter on this remote access technology. In addition to these new features the book will also carry over existing features brought over from (SP1/R2) of Server 2003. These include covering of new security features of the operating system, Group Policy management, change control and service level, and administration practices.

Python For Dummies or Photoshop Elements 5 for Windows

2009-02-07T11:55:00.000-08:00

Python For Dummies

Author: Aahz Maruch

Python is one of the most powerful, easy-to-read programming languages around, but it does have its limitations. This general purpose, high-level language that can be extended and embedded is a smart option for many programming problems, but a poor solution to others.

Python For Dummies is the quick-and-easy guide to getting the most out of this robust program. This hands-on book will show you everything you need to know about building programs, debugging code, and simplifying development, as well as defining what actions it can perform. You’ll wrap yourself around all of its advanced features and become an expert Python user in no time. This guide gives you the tools you need to:

• Master basic elements and syntax

• Document, design, and debug programs

• Work with strings like a pro

• Direct a program with control structures

• Integrate integers, complex numbers, and modules

• Build lists, stacks, and queues

• Create an organized dictionary

• Handle functions, data, and namespace

• Construct applications with modules and packages

• Call, create, extend, and override classes

• Access the Internet to enhance your library

• Understand the new features of Python 2.5

Packed with critical idioms and great resources to maximize your productivity, Python For Dummies is the ultimate one-stop information guide. In a matter of minutes you’ll be familiar with Python’s building blocks, strings, dictionaries, and sets; and be on your way to writing theprogram that you’ve dreamed about!

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Photoshop Elements 5 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide Series)

Author: Jeff Carlson

Photoshop Elements is geared for business users, students, educators, and home users who want professional-looking images for their print and Web projects, but don't want or need the advanced power of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop Elements 5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start reading from the beginning of the book to get a tour of the interface and start with image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture photos from traditional or digital cameras, reduce red eye, correct color, work with layers, erase backgrounds, create photo-illustrations and Web graphics, simulate painting and drawing techniques, apply artistic effects, and more.

Newly updated to cover Photoshop Elements 5, it details the hottest new features: new advanced color and lighting controls, new customizable layouts, Flash-based web photo galleries, the new Flipbook feature, which lets you string together a series of still photos to create an eye-catching and fun flipbook, and the ability to download and edit photos directly from your mobile phone or handheld device. Both beginning and advanced users will find what they need here--in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.

Cyberspace Law or Powering Office 2003 with XML

2009-02-06T07:44:00.000-08:00

Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials

Author: Raymond S Ku

Early adopters of CYBERSPACE LAW: Cases and Materials were particularly pleased by how flexible, coherent, and practical the book is. Now strengthened and scrupulously updated for its Second Edition, this engaging casebook can help your students understand one of the most dynamic areas of law.

Written and structured for maximum effectiveness, the book:

can be used successfully in both introductory and advanced courses

uses practical, classroom-tested їreal worldї problems to help students apply existing rules to cyberspace law

features a flexible, logical organization that allows instructors to emphasize selected perspectives

is designed for currency, with materials organized around competing approaches and theories for any given issue, rather than current leading cases

presents current Internet law as well as related policy concerns that will drive future legal analysis when new issues emerge—the only casebook to address both areas

offers a balanced presentation of competing approaches and theories for each issue

provides a sophisticated analysis of cutting-edge legal issues through an excellent selection of cases

simplifies class preparation with an extremely thorough Teacher's Manual that includes discussions of cases, teaching suggestions, and analysis of the issues raised by the problems

remains up-to-date with postings of new cases and important developments on the author website Look for these important changes in the Second Edition: ї new co-author Jacqueline Lipton, who brings significant teaching and writing experience in the areas of international and comparative law ї new and updated cases, including:Grokster, ACLU v. Ashcroft, U.S. v. American Library Association, Chamberlain v. Skylink, Lexmark v. Static Control Components, U.S. v. Elcomsoft, 321 Studios v. MGM Studios, Kremen v. Cohen, Blizzard v. Bnet, In re Verizon, Bosley v. Kremer, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney ї treatment of important developments, such as political cybersquatting legislation enacted in some states (for example, California's Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act) and changes to privacy laws enacted following the Patriot Act ї greatly expanded international coverage, including new international cases: ї Sony v. Stevens ї Telstra v. Desktop ї Gutnick v. Dow Jones ї recent Canadian cases on Internet defamation issues ї decisions from the European Court of Justice interpreting the database directive in 2004, including the appeal in British Horseracing Board v. William Hill ї various developments between French and Californian courts in Yahoo litigation regarding Nazi memorabilia as well as domestic legislation implemented by all E.U. member states which complies with the requirements of the Copyright Directives ї new section on the failed effort at private self-governance sponsored by ICANN and the scholarship surrounding that effort ї jurisdictional materials in the chapter on Regulating Cyberspace are consolidated for easier teaching and learning ї updated problems and notes When you consider casebooks for your next course, be sure to examine CYBERSPACE LAW: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, the cohesive, realistic, and accessible alternative.

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Powering Office 2003 with XML (Power Pack Series)

Author: Peter G Aitken

Find out how to

• Understand XML specification and schemas

• Set up and complete InfoPath^TM forms

• Design new forms from XML data files

• Debug InfoPath scripts

• Tackle real-world problems with the help of case studies

• Work with data in each of the XML-supported Office applications

You don’t need to be a programmer to enhance Office with XML

XML support for Microsoft^® Office 2003 has taken interoperability to a new level. Now you can share data among Office applications, across platforms, and over the Internet using built-in XML tools. In this clearly organized volume, Peter Aitken helps you define and standardize document data structure within your organization using XML. He explains XML technology, walks you through designing templates with InfoPath, and shows you how to use the XML tools built into Word, Excel, Access, and FrontPage^® to facilitate data exchange throughout your enterprise.

"...the real-world case studies are practical, offering detailed solutions to the scenarios outlined. I would recommend this book to anyone who plans to leverage the features found in the Office System 2003 for their business."
—Dave Beauchemin, Microsoft MVP

CD-ROM Includes

• Trial versions of John Walkenbach’s Power Utility Pak, HotDog Professional, WinRAR^TM, and many others

• Demo versions of BBEdit^®, XML Pro, and more

• Exclusive Office 2003 Super Bible eBook, with more than 500 pages ofinformation about how Microsoft Office components work together

• Valuable author files and examples

	Preface
Pt. I	Enhancing Office with XML
Ch. 1	Office and XML Technology	3
Ch. 2	What Is XML?	13
Pt. II	Getting Going with XML and InfoPath
Ch. 3	Introduction to InfoPath	23
Ch. 4	Designing InfoPath Forms, Part 1	49
Ch. 5	Designing InfoPath Forms, Part 2	79
Ch. 6	Scripting with InfoPath	107
Pt. III	XML and Other Office Applications
Ch. 7	Word and XML	135
Ch. 8	Excel and XML	159
Ch. 9	Access and XML	185
Ch. 10	FrontPage and XML	207
Pt. IV	Case Studies
Ch. 11	Connecting Word and InfoPath	227
Ch. 12	Connecting Excel and InfoPath	245
Ch. 13	Connecting Access and InfoPath	267
Ch. 14	Connecting FrontPage and InfoPath	289
Ch. 15	Connecting Word and FrontPage	299
Ch. 16	Connecting Web Publishing and InfoPath	311
	App. A: What's on the Companion CD-ROM	329
App. B	XML Fundamentals and Syntax	335
App. C	Data Modeling with XSD Schemas	351
App. D	XSLT and XPath	375
	Index	401

Jython Essentials or Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

2009-02-05T03:32:00.000-08:00

Jython Essentials: Rapid Scripting in Java

Author: Samuele Pedroni

Jython is an implementation of the Python programming language written in 100% pure Java, so it runs under any compliant Java Virtual Machine. The secret to Jython's popularity lies in the combination of Java's libraries and tools, with Python's rapid development capabilities. With Jython, you can write Python programs that integrate seamlessly with any Java code. And like Python, Jython can be used interactively, so you can get immediate results as you are programming. Jython Essentials provides a solid introduction to the Python language, offering a brief but thorough tour of the Python concepts you'll need to understand to use Jython effectively. The book makes frequent comparisons between Python and Java, with special emphasis on the different object-oriented semantics of the two languages, so Java programmers can quickly get up to speed with Jython. Jython Essentials also covers the various ways in which Jython and Java can interact. For example, Jython code can create instances of preexisting Java classes and call methods in those instances. You can write Jython classes that are direct subclasses of existing Java classes and use introspection to discern the capabilities of JavaBeans components. This book provides examples of how to use Jython with existing Java libraries, including the Swing GUI toolkit, the JDBC database API, the Servlet API, and various XML tools. And finally, the book shows how Jython can be used as a scripting language within a Java program. With Jython Essentials, you have everything you need to start creating applications that mix the best of Python's interactivity and Java's robust libraries.

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction to Jython	1
2	Jython Basics	16
3	Jython Control Flow	46
4	Modules and Functions	66
5	Object-Oriented Jython	83
6	Using Java from Jython	104
7	Inheriting from Java	120
8	Reflection and JavaBeans	131
9	Using Swing	144
10	Using Java Libraries	161
11	Jython Standard Library	178
12	Embedding Jython Inside Java	203
13	Compiling Jython	218
A	Installing Jython	231
B	Jython Options and Registry	234
C	Jython Exceptions	240
D	Jython and CPython Differences	244
E	Java-to-Python Quick Reference	250
	Index	257

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Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

Author: Sasha A Barab

This volume explores the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions relevant to designing for and researching web-based communities to support the learning process. Coming from diverse academic backgrounds, the authors examine what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support educational processes. Taken as a collection, the chapters point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for a web-supported community, especially when the focal practice of the community is learning.

Build Your Own Car PC or Cubase SX 3

2009-02-03T23:20:00.000-08:00

Build Your Own Car PC

Author: Gavin D J Harper

Everything you need to expertly install car PCs

This is a heavily-illustrated, step-by-step guide to installing and controlling a car PC -- using commonly-available, off-the-shelf components. Numerous how-to photos and product shots allow you to easily navigate each step even if you have little "do it yourself" experience.

Includes parts and required tool lists, troubleshooting tips, and a list of manufacturers where you can purchase the parts best suited for your customized system
Companion website offers free software and demo versions of products to use with your car PC

Gavin Harper is a member of a number of car clubs and online automobile hobbyist/enthusiast groups. He writes regularly for VIAarena.com, and started their Car PC Forum. Author of 50 Awesome Auto Projects for the Evil Genius (also from McGraw-Hill), as well as other forthcoming titles in the Evil Genius series, he has been building car computers and other automotive projects for years. He lives in Essex, United Kingdom.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Why would I want to build a Car PC?

Chapter 2: Buying your components

Chapter 3: Building Your Car PC base unit

Chapter 4: Installing the operating system, motherboard drivers and front end

Chapter 5: Connecting your Car PC to the "Real World"

Chapter 6: On-board diagnostics

Chapter 7: In-car speech recognition

Chapter 8: Killer software applications for your Car PC

Chapter 9: Getting more out of your Car PC

Chapter 10: In-Car GPS

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Index

About the Author
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Cubase SX 3 (Ignite! Series)

Author: Eric Grebler

Get ready to understand, use, and explore the world of music sequencing with this one-stop guide to Cubase SX 3. This introductory book provides you with a solid foundation of Steinberg's powerful digital music production software. With "Cubase SX 3 Ignite!", you'll examine the many different tools Cubase has to offer. Screenshots and step-by-step instructions guide you through the various new features in SX 3. Hands-on exercises help you take your skills to the next level. From setting up SX on your computer to learning about VST connections and MIDI maps, you'll be up and running within Cubase in no time!

Pro MSMQ or Microsoft Expression Web

2009-02-02T19:07:00.000-08:00

Pro MSMQ: Microsoft Message Queue Programming

Author: Arohi Redkar

This book explores MSMQ so that you can initiate robust, asynchronous communication between applications. MSMQ provides three APIs to incorporate message queuing into different applications. These APIs include "C" from unmanaged C/C++ code; a COM component from VB or C++ code; and the System.Messaging namespace, which integrates MSMQ with managed C# or VB .NET applications.

This is the only book on the market to cover all three APIs. Plus, this book discusses the newest features of MSMQ 3.0 (released with Windows Server 2003), and explains sending and receiving MSMQ messages on a PocketPC device.

Author Info:
Arohi Redkar is a software designer. She has a master's degree in software engineering from National University. She has worked extensively in the .NET environment and has a passion for studying human aspects of user interface design.

et al. - Other authors also contributed to writing this book.

Microsoft Expression Web: Learn Expression Web the Quick and Easy Way! (Visual QuickStart Guide Series)

Author: Nolan Hester

Get a jump start on using this brand-new Web creation tool from Microsoft. Built from the ground up using current Web standards, Expression Web make it easy to create pages that look good in all browsers. Mirroring the program’s focus on standards, the book shows you how to use Cascading Style Sheets to build consistent, easy to navigate designs. CSS newcomers will welcome the plain-spoken approach to a sometimes intimidating topic. Old hands at CSS will find plenty of tips on using Expression Web’s many style tools, which are some of the best available in any Web creation program.

Packed with more than 600 screenshots, the book goes beyond crafting good-looking single pages. Instead, it shows you how to use templates to generate whole sites with uniform, yet creative, layouts that can be reconfigured with the click of a button. You’ll also learn how to give sites extra polish with interactive behaviors and forms. Microsoft Expression Web: Visual Quickstart Guide contains exactly what you need to get started building standards-compliant Web sites using this powerful tool.

Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming or Print Like a Pro

2009-02-01T14:55:00.000-08:00

Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming: The Ultiumate Reference for Sound Design

Author: Jim Aikin

From hit records to home studios, synthesizers are used in almost every genre of music. This book fills the know-how gap left by skimpy or garbled owner's manuals. It maps out the components of contemporary synths in clear, concise detail, and discusses how they can be harnessed to achieve specific musical effects. Each chapter presents hands-on projects that help musicians hone their skills. The companion CDROM contains audio examples that teach programming techniques.

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Print Like a Pro: A Digital Photographer's Guide

Author: Jon Canfield

Are you struggling to get good prints from your images? Are your digital photos hogging your hard drive instead of hanging out in snappy albums and archives? Looking for ways to improve your prints beyond simple snapshots?

The popularity and convenience of digital photography has led to more pictures being taken, but fewer being turned into beautiful prints, framed, put in photo albums, and shared with others. The majority of users do nothing with their images for two reasons: the results are disappointing and the process of improving and preparing images for print is daunting. Written by popular photographer, columnist, and digital imaging expert Jon Canfield, this book shows you how to easily enhance and prepare your digital images for printing. Step-by-step instructions and tutorials coupled with full-color images and screenshots explain how to use Photoshop CS2 or Elements for color management and correction; editing images for printing, including properly sizing, sharpening, and converting to monochrome; to fix lighting; and more. You'll also learn how to take your printing to the next level by: using different print technologies, papers, and inks; selecting Raster Image Processors; framing and mounting their prints; self-publishing; and effectively working with print services for the best output possible.

C Cookbook or Remixers Bible

2009-01-31T10:43:00.000-08:00

C++ Cookbook

Author: Jeff Cogswell

Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency and quickness.

The "C++ Cookbook" will make your path to mastery much shorter. This practical, problem-solving guide is ideal if you're an engineer, programmer, or researcher writing an application for one of the legions of platforms on which C++ runs. The algorithms provided in "C++ Cookbook" will jump-start your development by giving you some basic building blocks that you don't have to develop on your own.

Less a tutorial than a problem-solver, the book addresses many of the most common problems you're likely encounter--whether you've been programming in C++ for years or you're relatively new to the language. Here are just some of the time-consuming tasks this book contains practical solutions for:

Reading the contents of a directory

Creating a singleton class

Date and time parsing/arithmetic

String and text manipulation

Working with files

Parsing XML

Using the standard containers

Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, "C++ Cookbook" is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and code solutions, and apply not to hypothetical situations, but those that you're likely to encounter. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe in order to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to. This book will move quickly to the top of your list of essential C++ references.

1	Building C++ applications	1
2	Code organization	105
3	Numbers	120
4	Strings and text	139
5	Dates and times	198
6	Managing data with containers	213
7	Algorithms	248
8	Classes	285
9	Exceptions and safety	330
10	Streams and files	351
11	Science and mathematics	394
12	Multithreading	446
13	Internationalization	466
14	XML	484
15	Miscellaneous	539

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Remixer's Bible: Build Better Beats

Author: Francis Prev

The Remixer's Bible is a comprehensive collection of interviews and dance music production tips from Keyboard magazine. From downtempo and hip-hop to house and trance, this book is full of insider information on techniques the pros use to create world-class remixes and dance tracks. There's a section on getting started for beginners that details MIDI and sample clearance. For veterans there's instruction on how to craft infectious synth hooks and retro grooves, edit vocals, create loops, and compress bass tracks. A handy section delves into the distinctions of various dance music genres; loop tools, programming grooves, performing, and mixing are also explored. Plenty of software tips are also on hand, detailing popular programs like ReBirth, ACID, and Cakewalk.

Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems or CEOs Guide to Health Care Information Systems

2009-01-30T06:31:00.000-08:00

Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems

Author: Dimitrios Hristu

The vast majority of control systems built today are embedded; that is, they rely on built-in, special-purpose digital computers to close their feedback loops. Embedded systems are common in aircraft, factories, chemical processing plants, and even in cars-a single high-end automobile may contain over eighty different computers. In such settings, controllers often use shared networks to communicate with each other and with large numbers of sensors and actuators scattered throughout the system. The design of embedded controllers and of the intricate, automated communication networks that support them raises many new questions-practical, as well as theoretical-about network protocols, compatibility of operating systems, and ways to maximize the effectiveness of the embedded hardware.

The Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems, the first of its kind, provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. A carefully organized collection of important results, tools, software, and technology, this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets-information that might otherwise be difficult to find.

Key topics and features include:

* Self-contained, sharply-focused articles; readers have easy access to specific answers to questions without having to read hundreds of pages

* Clear structure and presentation of concepts in intuitive order

* Separation of material into six main sections-Fundamentals, Hardware, Software, Theory, Networking, and Applications

* Casestudies, experiments, and examples that provide a multifaceted view of the subject, encompassing computation and communication considerations

* Information about commercially available tools and hardware

* Comprehensive bibliographies and index

This is an indispensable text for anyone interested in knowing more about embedded and networked control systems. Researchers will appreciate the handbook's up-to-date results in the theory of embedded control; developers and users will value its information on special-purpose computer hardware and operating systems modifications that support real-time control; students will find the systematic organization and wide coverage useful for learning and reference.

	Fundamentals of dynamical systems	3
	Control of single-input single-output systems	21
	Basics of sampling and quantization	45
	Discrete-event systems	71
	Introduction to hybrid systems	91
	Finite automata	117
	Basics of computer architecture	145
	Real-time scheduling for embedded systems	173
	Network fundamentals	197
	Basics of data acquisition and control	227
	Programmable logic controllers	259
	Digital signal processors	279
	Microcontrollers	295
	SOPCs : systems on programmable chips	323
	Fundamentals of RTOS-based digital controller implementation	353
	Implementation-aware embedded control systems	377
	From control loops to real-time programs	395
	Embedded real-time control via MATLAB, Simulink, and xPC target	419
	LabVIEW real-time for networked/embedded control	447
	Control loops in RTLinux	471
	An introduction to hybrid automata	491
	An overview of hybrid systems control	519
	Temporal logic model checking	539
	Switched systems	559
	Feedback control with communication constraints	575
	Networked control systems : a model-based approach	601
	Control issues in systems with loop delays	627
	Network protocols for networked control systems	651
	Control using feedback over wireless ethernet and bluetooth	677
	Bluetooth in control	699
	Embedded sensor networks	721
	Vehicle applications of controller area network	741
	Control of autonomous mobile robots	767
	Wireless control with bluetooth	779
	The cornell RoboCup robot soccer team : 1999-2003	793

Books about: Desenho de Produto

CEO's Guide to Health Care Information Systems

Author:

Written for top-level executives, this is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the 1996 book that has become a classic in the field. A reliable resource of accurate and timely information, The CEO's Guide to Health Care Information Systems, Second Edition, expands on the first edition and includes a greater focus on the business value of new information technologies, a broader discussion of health care systems, and a completely new section on the information technology development lifecycle.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: LouAnn Schraffenberger, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P (Univ of Illinois at Chicago School of Biomed & Health Info Mgmt)
Description: This is a second edition of a popular book that provides nontechnical information and tools to top-level executives on the major components, functions, capabilities, and life cycle of healthcare information systems. It discusses the role and function of leadership, management, organization, and issues related to healthcare information systems.
Purpose: The book's goal is to be a reliable resource for accurate and timely information to enable the top-level healthcare executive to understand and use health information technology for the benefit of the organization. Using this information, the executive can create and sustain a sold competency in the area of information technology within the healthcare organization.
Audience: The book is directed at the top-level or upper management executives in healthcare organizations. This could include chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief medical officers and nurse executives. Any other healthcare manager who desires a better understanding of the workings of healthcare information technology systems is a potential reader of the book.
Features: The second edition of this book updates the original 1996 edition that was well received when it was published. The new edition expands on the first edition and includes a greater focus on the business value of new information technologies, a broader discussion of healthcare systems, and a completely new section on the information technology development lifecycle. The book informs executives about current and future trends in information technology which affect healthcare information systems. It presents a model for information technology visioning, planning, selection, development, implementation, and value attainment.
Assessment: Any healthcare executive who feels intimidated by the information technology department in their organization should read this book. It provides a nontechnical review of the healthcare information technology functions and should enable the healthcare executive to communicate and work more effectively with the information systems professionals in their organization.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Systems Engineering with Sysml Uml or It Essentials

2009-01-29T02:19:00.000-08:00

Systems Engineering with SysML/UML: Modeling, Analysis, Design

Author: Tim Weilkiens

UML, the Universal Modeling Language, was the first language designed to fulfill the requirement for "universality." However, it is a software-specific language, and does not support the needs of engineers designing from the broader systems-based perspective. Therefore, SysML was created. It has been steadily gaining popularity, and many companies, especially in the heavily-regulated Defense, Automotive, Aerospace, Medical Device and Telecomms industries, are already using SysML, or are plannning to switch over to it in the near future.

However, little information is currently available on the market regarding SysML. Its use is just on the crest of becoming a widespread phenomenon, and so thousands of software engineers are now beginning to look for training and resources. The proposed book will provide an introduction to SysML, and instruction on how to implement it, for all these new users.

*The first available book on SysML in English

*Insider information! The author is a member of the SysML working group and has written sections of the specification

*Special focus comparing SysML and UML, and explaining how both can work together

Interesting book: Der Globale Transformationsleser: Eine Einführung in die Globalisierungsdebatte

IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software: Labs and Study Guide

Author: Patrick Regan

IT Essentials PC Hardware and Software

Labs and Study Guide, Third Edition

Patrick Regan

The IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software version 4 course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® is designed to prepare you to take and pass the CompTIA A+ exams based on the 2006 objectives. You must pass both the A+ Essentials and one of the technician exams to earn the A+ certification. Chapters 1 through 10 cover the foundational knowledge that aligns with the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam (220-601). Chapters 11 through 16 explore more advanced concepts in greater depth to prepare you for the specialized CompTIA A+ technician exams (220-602 for IT Technician, 220-603 for Remote Support Technician, and 220-604 for Bench Technician).

IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software Labs and Study Guide, Third Edition, is designed as a valuable teaching and learning tool, incorporating new features to improve your hands-on skills and reinforce the key topics of the course. Each chapter contains a Study Guide section and a Labs section.

The Study Guide section is designed to provide additional exercises and questions to reinforce your understanding of the course topics, preparing you for the course assessments and focusing on preparing for the associated certification exams.

The Labs section features the complete collection of the lab exercises and worksheets specifically designed by Cisco to give students hands-on experience in a particular concept or technology.

Chapters 1–10 cover the following skills and competencies:

Core competencies in the latest hardware and softwaretechnologies
Information security skills
Safety and environmental issues
Soft skills for career development

Chapters 11–16 cover the following skills and competencies:

Advanced troubleshooting skills
Preparation for all three CompTIA job environment certification exams
Advanced installation of computers, peripheral devices, networks, and security components

Use this book with:

IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software

Companion Guide, Third Edition

ISBN-10: 1-58713-199-4

ISBN-13: 978-158713-199-8

Patrick Regan has been a PC technician, network administrator/engineer, design architect, and security analyst for 16 years. He holds many certifications, including the Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, and MCT; CompTIA’s A+, Network+, Server+, Linux+, Security+, and CTT+; Cisco CCNA®; and Novell’s CNE and CWNP Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA).

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum.

Life after the 30 Second Spot or MPLS and VPN Architectures

2009-01-27T22:08:00.000-08:00

Life after the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand with a Bold Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising

Author: Joseph Jaff

The old media strategies advertisers used for decades no longer work. Here's what does!
Traditional advertising, in the form of print, radio, and most notably, television, is far less effective than it used to be. Advertising strategies using only these mediums no longer work. Life After the 30-Second Spot explains how savvy marketers and advertisers are responding with new marketing techniques to get their message out, get noticed, engage their audiences-and increase sales! Covering topics such as viral marketing, gaming, on-demand viewing, long-form content, interactive, and more, the book explains the new avenues marketers and advertisers must use to replace traditional print, TV, and radio advertising-and which strategies are most effective. This book is every marketer's road map to "new marketing."

Books about: Zur sprechenden Vorzüglichkeit: Der Michiganer Guide zur Maximierung Ihrer Leistung auf dem TSE-Test und Spricht Test

MPLS and VPN Architectures

Author: Ivan Pepelnjak

A practical guide to understanding, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-enabled VPNs
• In-depth analysis of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture
• Detailed discussion of the mechanisms and features that constitute the architecture
• Learn how MPLS scales to support tens of thousands of VPNs
• Extensive case studies guide you through the design and deployment of real-world MPLS/VPN networks
• Configuration examples and guidelines assist in configuring MPLS on Cisco® devices
• Design and implementation options help you build various VPN topologies

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an innovative technique for high-performance packet forwarding. There are many uses for this new technology, both within a service-provider environment and within the enterprise network, and the most widely deployed usage today is the enabling of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). With the introduction of MPLS-enabled VPNs, network designers are able to better scale their networks than with the methods available in the past.

Network engineers and administrators need quick, effective education on this technology to efficiently deploy MPLS-enabled VPNs within their networks. With that goal in mind, MPLS and VPN Architectures provides an in-depth discussion particular to Cisco's MPLS architecture. This book covers MPLS theory and configuration, network design issues, and case studies as well as one major MPLS application: MPLS-based VPNs. The MPLS/VPN architecture and all its mechanisms are explained with configuration examples, suggested design and deployment guidelines, and extensive case studies.

MPLS andVPN Architectures is your practical guide to understanding, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-based VPNs.

Booknews

An overview of multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) architecture and configuration, as well as MPLS based virtual private networks (VPNs). Topics include frame- and cell-mode MPLS operation, running frame-mode MPLS across switched WAN media, VPN implementation options, architecture operation, provider edge to customer edge connectivity options, advanced topologies, guidelines for MPLS/VPN deployment, and an IP tunneling to MPLS/VPN migration case study. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Introduction
Pt. I	MPLS Technology and Configuration	3
Ch. 1	Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Architecture Overview	5
Ch. 2	Frame-mode MPLS Operation	23
Ch. 3	Cell-mode MPLS Operation	49
Ch. 4	Running Frame-mode MPLS Across Switched WAN Media	65
Ch. 5	Advanced MPLS Topics	73
Ch. 6	MPLS Migration and Configuration Case Study	97
Pt. II	MPLS-based Virtual Private Networks	113
Ch. 7	MPLS Troubleshooting	115
Ch. 8	Virtual Private Network (VPN) Implementation Options	129
Ch. 9	MPLS/VPN Architecture Overview	161
Ch. 10	MPLS/VPN Architecture Operation	183
Ch. 11	Provider Edge (PE) to Customer Edge (CE) Connectivity Options	225
Ch. 12	Advanced MPLS/VPN Topologies	255
Ch. 13	Advanced MPLS/VPN Topics	269
Ch. 14	Guidelines for the Deployment of MPLS/VPN	339
Ch. 15	Carrier's Carrier and Inter-provider VPN Solutions	377
Ch. 16	IP Tunneling to MPLS/VPN Migration Case Study	407
Ch. 17	MPLS VPN Troubleshooting	425
	App. A: Answers to Review Questions	443
App. B	Tag-switching and MPLS Command Reference	461
	Index	465

Silence on the Wire or Starting a Yahoo Business for Dummies

2009-01-26T17:57:00.000-08:00

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

Author: Michal Zalewski

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learn more about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them, as well as better understand and monitor their systems.

"Silence on the Wire" dissects several unique and fascinating security and privacy problems associated with the technologies and protocols used in everyday computing, and shows how to use this knowledge to learn more about others or to better defend systems. By taking an indepth look at modern computing, from hardware on up, the book helps the system administrator to better understand security issues, and to approach networking from a new, more creative perspective. The sys admin can apply this knowledge to network monitoring, policy enforcement, evidence analysis, IDS, honeypots, firewalls, and forensics.

	Foreword
Pt. I	The source
1	I can hear you typing	3
2	Extra efforts never go unnoticed	21
3	Ten heads of the Hydra	51
4	Working for the common good	57
Pt. II	Safe harbor
5	Blinkenlights	65
6	Echoes of the past	89
7	Secure in switched networks	95
8	Us versus them	103
Pt. III	Out in the wild
9	Foreign accent	113
10	Advanced sheep-counting strategies	151
11	In recognition of anomalies	173
12	Stack data leaks	189
13	Smoke and mirrors	193
14	Client identification : papers, please!	199
15	The benefits of being a victim	219
Pt. IV	The big picture
16	Parasitic computing, or how pennies add up	227
17	Topology of the network	243
18	Watching the void	253

Books about: What Is a City or Why Parties

Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies

Author: Rob Snell

Turn browsers into buyers, boost traffic, and more

Build your store from scratch, or make the one you have more profitable

His online business has been paying his mortgage for years. Now Rob Snell is sharing his Yahoo! Store secrets for planning, building, and managing an online store that delivers the goods! Here's how to profit from keywords, handle credit-card payments, find out what's hot in other stores, maximize your marketing efforts, and much more.

Discover how to

• Use the Yahoo! Store Editor and Manager

• Plan effective store navigation

• Use better images to sell more products

• Build successful advertising strategies

• Generate more traffic from search engines

Taming Java Threads or 3ds max 8

2009-01-25T13:45:00.000-08:00

Taming Java Threads

Author: Allen Holub

A multithreaded application is one that appears to be doing two things at once; it is the key to taking full advantage of the Java language. In this book, Java expert Allen Holub takes you step-by-step through the key issues related to multithreaded programming. In order to write a real multithreaded application in Java, programmers need to supplement knowledge of the basic functionality of the language with both an in-depth understanding of how threads work and a significant library of helper classes. This book provides both: it explains how threads work and the problems that arise in multithreaded programs, and it implements a full-blown threading package that can be used to implement real multithreaded programs. It is also ideal for those writing Java applications based on AWT and SWING since a correct understanding of multithreading is vital for graphics intensive programming.

3ds max 8: From Modeling to Animation

Author: Boris Kulagin

Designers and animators will learn skills from modeling a still life scene to animating photorealistic and fantasy characters in a variety of organic and mechanical backgrounds in this resource guide to 3D animation. Each lesson allows users not only to master the basic techniques of working with 3ds max, but also to create a professional project. Comments and tips at the end of each lesson advise on improving final products and avoiding common mistakes. The CD-ROM contains all files necessary to accomplishing the lessons in the book: intermediate and final versions of all projects and scenes; images, maps, and clips in AVI format; and free plug-ins and scripts.

Chapter 1: Still Life with a Rose
1.1
Modeling a Vase
1.2 Modeling a Rose
1.3 Modeling the Environment
1.4 Tuning Materials and Lights
1.5 Rendering
Chapter 2: Sea Dragon
2.1 Modeling the Dragon's Body
2.2 Creating and Assigning Materials
2.3 Skinning
2.4 Modeling and Animating an Attitude
2.5 Inserting the Dragon into a Photo
2.6 Rendering
Chapter 3: Martian Rally
3.1 Modeling a Jet Vehicle
3.2 Modeling the Landscape
3.3 Animating the Vehicle
3.4 Special Effects
3.5 Rendering
Chapter 4: Additional projects
Appendixes

CYA or Art of Digital Audio

2009-01-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook Web Access

Author: Mark Fugatt

Cover Your A** By Getting it Right the First Time

· Prove You Did It Right the First Time

· Be Responsible, Don't Be to Blame

· Secure Your Network and Your Career

Don't lose your job over an ugly and porous MS Exchange Server 2003 installation. Read this book and cover your a** today! It contains easy-to-access coverage of just about every documented MS Exchange Server 2003 security setting. The following features ensure that you know exactly what you are reading at all times:

By the Book A clear presentation of Microsoft's recommended security configurations and policies based on the business needs of your network. Reality Check Warnings about the potential downside of certain "best practices" that you as the system administrator need to know. Your A** Is Covered A comprehensive checklist to all of the security-related configuration consoles in Exchange.

Best of all, it's written in a "get to the point" style that clearly explains exactly what you need to know about installing, managing, and troubleshooting.

New interesting textbook: The Divided West or The Responsible Administrator

Art of Digital Audio

Author: John Watkinson

Described as "the most comprehensive book on digital audio to date", it is widely acclaimed as an industry "bible". Covering the very latest developments in digital audio technology, it provides an thorough introduction to the theory as well as acting as an authoritative and comprehensive professional reference source. Everything you need is here from the fundamental principles to the latest applications, written in an award-winning style with clear explanations from first principles.

New material covered includes internet audio, PC audio technology, DVD, MPEG audio compression, digital audio broadcasting and audio networks.

Whether you are in the field of audio engineering, sound recording, music technology, broadcasting and communications media or audio design and installation, this book has it all. Written by a leading international audio specialist, who conducts professional seminars and workshops around the world, the book has been road tested for many years by professional seminar attendees and students to ensure their needs are taken into account, and all the right information is covered.

This new edition now includes:

Internet audio
PC Audio technology
DVD
MPEG Audio compression
Digital Audio Broadcasting
Audio networks

Digital audio professionals will find everything they need here, from the fundamental principles to the latest applications, written in an award-winning style with clear explanations from first principles.

John Watkinson is an international consultant in audio, video and data recording. He is a Fellow of the AES, a member of the British Computer Society and a chartered information systemspractitioner. He presents lectures, seminars, conference papers and training courses worldwide. He is the author of many other Focal Press books, including: the Kraszna-Krausz award winning MPEG-2; The Art of Digital Audio; An Introduction to Digital Video; The Art of Sound Reproduction; An Introduction to Digital Audio; TV Fundamentals and Audio for Television. He is also co-author, with Francis Rumsey, of The Digital Interface Handbook, and contributor to the Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook, 3rd edition.

· The 'Bible' of Digital Audio
· Get everything you need on digital audio in just one book
· Gain a thorough understanding of all the latest technology

	Preface
Ch. 1	Why digital?	1
Ch. 2	Some essential principles	31
Ch. 3	Conversion	93
Ch. 4	Advanced digital audio processing	173
Ch. 5	Digital recording and transmission principles	229
Ch. 6	Error correction	286
Ch. 7	Transmission and broadcast systems	348
Ch. 8	Rotary-head recorders	395
Ch. 9	Stationary-head recorders	441
Ch. 10	Magnetic disk drives	485
Ch. 11	Digital audio editing	534
Ch. 12	Optical disks in audio	557
Ch. 13	Digital audio in video tape recorders	641
	Index	673

Design Concepts in Programming Languages or Computer Security

2009-01-23T05:19:00.000-08:00

Design Concepts in Programming Languages

Author: Franklyn A Turbak

Hundreds of programming languages are in use today--scripting languages for Internet commerce, user interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros, page format specification languages, and many others. Designing a programming language is a metaprogramming activity that bears certain similarities to programming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity even more important than in ordinary programming. This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise framework to teach key ideas in programming language design and implementation. The book's unique approach is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical languages that allow students to explore programming language concepts systematically. It takes as its premise and starting point the idea that when language behaviors become incredibly complex, the description of the behaviors must be incredibly simple.

The book presents a set of tools (a mathematical metalanguage, abstract syntax, operational and denotational semantics) and uses it to explore a comprehensive set of programming language design dimensions, including dynamic semantics (naming, state, control, data), static semantics (types, type reconstruction, polymporphism, effects), and pragmatics (compilation, garbage collection). The many examples and exercises offer students opportunities to apply the foundational ideas explained in the text. Specialized topics and code that implements many of the algorithms and compilation methods in the book can be found on the book's Web site, along with such additional material as a section on concurrency and proofs of the theorems in the text. The book is suitable as a text for an introductory graduate or advancedundergraduate programming languages course; it can also serve as a reference for researchers and practitioners.

Interesting book: American Shaman or Invitation to Health

Computer Security: Art and Science

Author: Matt Bishop

"This is an excellent text that should be read by every computer security professional and student." —Dick Kemmerer, University of California, Santa Barbara.

"This is the most complete book on information security theory, technology, and practice that I have encountered anywhere!" —Marvin Schaefer, Former Chief Scientist, National Computer Security Center, NSA

This highly anticipated book fully introduces the theory and practice of computer security. It is both a comprehensive text, explaining the most fundamental and pervasive aspects of the field, and a detailed reference filled with valuable information for even the most seasoned practitioner. In this one extraordinary volume the author incorporates concepts from computer systems, networks, human factors, and cryptography. In doing so, he effectively demonstrates that computer security is an art as well as a science.

Computer Security: Art and Science includes detailed discussions on:

The nature and challenges of computer security

The relationship between policy and security

The role and application of cryptography

The mechanisms used to implement policies

Methodologies and technologies for assurance

Vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection

Computer Security discusses different policy models, and presents mechanisms that can be used to enforce these policies. It concludes with examples that show how to apply the principles discussed in earlier sections, beginning with networks and moving on to systems, users, and programs.

This important work is essential for anyone who needsto understand, implement, or maintain a secure network or computer system.

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	Preface
Pt. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	An Overview of Computer Security	3
Pt. 2	Foundations	29
Ch. 2	Access Control Matrix	31
Ch. 3	Foundational Results	47
Pt. 3	Policy	93
Ch. 4	Security Policies	95
Ch. 5	Confidentiality Policies	123
Ch. 6	Integrity Policies	151
Ch. 7	Hybrid Policies	169
Ch. 8	Noninterference and Policy Composition	187
Pt. 4	Implementation I: Cryptography	215
Ch. 9	Basic Cryptography	217
Ch. 10	Key Management	245
Ch. 11	Cipher Techniques	275
Ch. 12	Authentication	309
Pt. 5	Implementation II: Systems	339
Ch. 13	Design Principles	341
Ch. 14	Representing Identity	353
Ch. 15	Access Control Mechanisms	381
Ch. 16	Information Flow	407
Ch. 17	Confinement Problem	439
Pt. 6	Assurance	475
Ch. 18	Introduction to Assurance	477
Ch. 19	Building Systems with Assurance	497
Ch. 20	Formal Methods	545
Ch. 21	Evaluating Systems	571
Pt. 7	Special Topics	611
Ch. 22	Malicious Logic	613
Ch. 23	Vulnerability Analysis	645
Ch. 24	Auditing	689
Ch. 25	Intrusion Detection	723
Pt. 8	Practicum	771
Ch. 26	Network Security	773
Ch. 27	System Security	805
Ch. 28	User Security	845
Ch. 29	Program Security	869
Pt. 9	End Matter	923
Ch. 30	Lattices	925
Ch. 31	The Extended Euclidean Algorithm	929
Ch. 32	Entropy and Uncertainty	935
Ch. 33	Virtual Machines	941
Ch. 34	Symbolic Logic	947
Ch. 35	Example Academic Security Policy	959
	Bibliography	993
	Index	1063

AppleScript or More about Software Requirements

2009-01-22T01:08:00.000-08:00

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Author: Matt Neuburg

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide teaches not only how the AppleScript language works, but also how to use it in all sorts of contexts -- in everyday scripts to process automation, as well as in AppleScript Studio, in Cocoa, in CGI scripts, and in combination with Perl and Ruby. Once you know the ins and outs of AppleScript, there's a lot you can do with it, and this book unlocks the secrets of AppleScript.

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I would recommend it to all Macintosh owners as the perfect way to unleash another powerful aspect of your system. For people who have no AppleScript or programming experience who want to be totally spoon fed this book is probably only a 5, for people with a little AppleScript experience, a fair amount of programming experience and a willingness to stick through to the end this book is probably a 9. It is certainly the best book on AppleScript I have seen.

	Preface
Pt. I	AppleScript Overview
1	Ways to Use AppleScript	3
2	Places to Use AppleScript	16
3	The AppleScript Experience	39
4	Basic Concepts	65
Pt. II	The AppleScript Language
5	Introducing AppleScript	97
6	Syntactic Ground of Being	104
7	Variables	113
8	Handlers	140
9	Script Objects	159
10	Objects	184
11	References	206
12	Control	218
13	Datatypes	243
14	Coercions	264
15	Operators	272
16	Global Properties	285
17	Constants	289
18	Commands	292
Pt. III	AppleScript In Action
19	Dictionaries	297
20	Scripting Additions	332
21	Scriptable Applications	349
22	Unscriptable Applications	356
23	Unix	362
24	Writing Applications	370
Pt. IV	Appendixes
A	The 'aeut' Resource	405
B	Tools and Resources	424
	Index	431

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More about Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Author: Karl E Wiegers

Have you ever delivered software that satisfied all of the project specifications, but failed to meet any of the customers' expectations? Without formal, verifiable requirements-and a system for managing them-the result is often a gap between what developers think they're supposed to build and what customers think they're going to get. Too often, lessons about software requirements engineering processes are formal or academic, and not of value to real-world, professional development teams. In More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues And Practical Advice, the author of Software Requirements, Second Edition, describes even more practical techniques for gathering and managing the software requirements that help you meet project specifications and customer expectations. A leading speaker and consultant in the field of requirements engineering, Karl Wiegers takes questions raised by other professional software developers and architects as a basis for the practical solutions and best practices offered in this guide. Succinct and immediately useful, this book is a must-have for developers and architects.

Numerical Methods with Matlab or Wrox SQL Server 2005 Set

2009-01-20T20:56:00.000-08:00

Numerical Methods with Matlab

Author: Amos Gilat

A clear and concise guide to numerical methods and their application

Mastering numerical methods has never been easier than with Gilat/Subramaniam's Numerical Methods For Engineers and Scientists: An Introduction with Applications Using MATLAB(r). Uniquely accessible and concise, this book takes an innovative approach that integrates the study of numerical methods with hands-on programming practice using the popular MATLAB environment to solve realistic problems in engineering and science.

Ideal for both students and professionals who would like to become more adept at numerical methods, Numerical Methods For Engineers and Scientists familiarizes you with:
* The mathematical background and fundamentals of numerical methods
* Solving nonlinear equations
* Solving a system of linear equations
* Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
* Function approximation, curve fitting, and interpolation
* Differentiation
* Integration
* First-order and higher-order ODEs
* Initial and boundary value problems

Using MATLAB's built-in functions as tools for solving problems, you will practice applying numerical methods for analysis of real-world problems. All the information is presented in manageable, step-by-step fashion, supported by a large number of annotated examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Lucid, carefully structured, and flexibly designed to fulfill a wide range of academic and practical needs, this book will help you develop the skills in numerical methods that will serve you well as a practicing engineer.

About the Authors:

Amos Gilat, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The OhioState University. Dr. Gilat's main research interests are in plasticity, specifically, in developing experimental techniques for testing materials over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures and in investigating constitutive relations for viscoplasticity. Dr. Gilat's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and various industries.

Vish Subramaniam, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Chemical Physics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Subramaniam's main research interests are in plasma and laser physics and processes, particularly those that involve non-equilibrium phenomena. Dr. Subramaniam's research is both experimental and computational, and has been supported by the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and numerous industries.

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Wrox SQL Server 2005 Set

Author: Robert Vieira

Get a handle on the advanced abilities of SQL Server 2005 with the three titles contained in this invaluable box set. You’ll learn the power of SQL Server 2005’s capability to develop systems and applications that both meet your performance needs and store your data in a fashion that maintains the integrity of the data while keeping it reasonably usable. Plus, the books also address the various add-on services, backward compatibility issues with SQL Server 2000 and 7.0, ways to work with the completely rewritten SQL Server integration Servers, and more.

The Unofficial Tourists Guide to Second Life or AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies

2009-01-19T20:57:00.000-08:00

The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life

Author: Paul Carr

Imagine an enormous, breathtaking virtual world to explore, where land can be bought for less than a dollar and new construction is limited only by your imagination. An online tourist destination where you can shop for virtual designer clothes in a shopping mall atop a live volcano, teleport to an underwater gig by U2, before taking a new friend back to your personal spaceship for virtual coffee or...well, you get the idea.

The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life is a fast, fun guidebook that introduces first-time visitors to the endless wonders offered by this exciting and rapidly developing online world. All of Second Life is here, including:

The Essentials. What to wear and how to behave.
The People. Finding likeminded souls—or soulmates.
The Major Destinations. Must-see tourist hotspots, shops, and shows.
Shopping and Nightlife. A guide to the lively virtual shopping scene, and all manner of debauchery.
For Entrepreneurs. How to buy land or start a Second Life business.

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AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies

Author: Mark Middlebrook

With AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies, you'll quickly discover just how easy it is to create professional-quality designs and drawings. Authors Mark Middlebrook and Bud Smith show you how to set up a design, draw and edit lines, add text and dimensions, even incorporate AutoCAD documents into your Web pages-all while avoiding those common gotchas." Whether you're a new AutoCAD user or you've just upgraded to AutoCAD 2000, this easy-to-use reference delivers all the answers you need to get up to speed.

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

Discover the new AutoCAD 2000 features-and put them to work
Take full advantage of color and lineweight with the new AutoCAD 2000 approach
Use both menu and toolbar access to commands
Set up a drawing so that it prints without problems
Speed up your work by using the command line as an accelerator
Enhance your Web pages with the new AutoCAD 2000 Web access features
Increase accessibility of your AutoCAD drawings by using AutoCAD DesignCenter

Mcts Self Paced Training Kit or MCTS

2009-01-19T10:46:00.000-08:00

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-643): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Application Platform

Author: J C Mackin

Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-643, the required exam for the new Microsoftr Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Server 2008 Application Platform Configuration certification. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options.

It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Focusing on Windows Server 2008 Application Platform technologies, this official study guide covers Terminal Services, Web Services infrastructure and security, Media Server, Microsoft Windowsr SharePointr Services server options, File Server, Print Services, network maintenance, and Simple Network Management Protocol.Then assess yourself using 300+ practice and review questions on the CD, which features multiple, customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of Windows Server 2008 and an exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Key BookBenefits:
•In-depth coverage of exam objectives and sub-objectives-plus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job
•300+ practice and review questions
•Test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback
•Complete objective-by-objective review section, plus a handy exam-mapping grid
•Evaluation version of Windows Server 2008
•15 percent exam discount voucher from Microsoft (limited-time offer)
•Entire study guide in searchable eBook format

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MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration Study Guide

Author: William Panek

This comprehensive guide offers 100 percent coverage of the exam objectives, real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, and challenging review questions
Prepares readers to configure active directory objects, group policy objects, server roles, the domain name system, and the active directory infrastructure
The newest set of Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional (MCITP) certifications will include exams on Windows Server 2008, and this book is a must-have for those who are looking to upgrade their certifications

Java and XML For Dummies or Contemporary Business and Online Commerce Law

2009-01-19T01:33:00.000-08:00

Java and XML For Dummies

Author: Barry A Burd

The seamless integration of source code and data from many different programming languages and platforms to build large, reliable software systems has been the Holy Grail of computing since the early 1970s. Now, with the marriage of the Java programming language and XML—the worldwide standard for representing data—that ideal has been realized. Together, Java and XML make up the backbone of a bold new generation of applications and Web services. As the sixties radicals used to say, “Either you’re part of the problem or part of the solution!” and no programmer worth his or her salt will want to pass up an opportunity to get in on the Java and XML revolution.

Java and XML For Dummies offers you a fun, fast and easy way to get up to speed on all of Java’s XML tools. Barry Burd walks you through all the major APIs and standards –from JAXP and SAX to SOAP and UDDI—and shows you how to start programming with them right away. Using lots of real-world programming examples he puts you on track to:

• Configure your computer to optimize Java and XML

• Make sense of the complete Java XML toolset

• Create and troubleshoot XML documents

• Master Java XML Web services tools

• Join the Web services revolution and make a million bucks

Java and XML For Dummies is arranged in modular fashion, making it easy for you to zero-in on specific areas, tools or procedures that interest you, without having to wade through coverage stuff you already know about. From basic to advanced, it covers all the bases, including:

•Scanning data with SAX, DOM and JDOM

• Programming techniques using SAX API tools

• Programming with DOM API tools

• Viewing XML data on the Web

• Creating custom code for your document using JAXB

• Sending SOAP messages using JAXM

• Working with XML registries

• Automating Web-service processes

Java and XML For Dummies is your road map for JAXP, JDOM, SOAP, WSDL, and all of Java’s powerful XML tools—and your passport to joining the Web services revolution!

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Contemporary Business and Online Commerce Law: Legal, Internet, Ethical, and Global Environments

Author: Henry R Cheeseman

KEY BENEFIT: This book provides the richest selection of landmark (traditional) and contemporary (within the last three years) cases for business students, including more cases on information technology and e-commerce law than any other book. Topics present a summarized/brief approach to cases.

KEY TOPICS: This edition contains over 75 new cases that have been decided in the past three years, including ones covering IT and e-Commerce — dedicated chapters cover Intellectual Property and Internet Law, and Electronic Commerce and Information Technology Licensing. Over 45 “Online Commerce & Internet Law” boxes focus on the legal issues businesses face as they either launch new Internet ventures or rise to the challenge of incorporating on-line technologies into their existing business models.

MARKET: For those in Business Law professions.

Rendering with Mental Ray and 3ds Max or Network Study Guide Deluxe Edition

2009-01-18T13:22:00.000-08:00

Rendering with Mental Ray and 3ds Max

Author: Joep Van Der Steen

Realize your vision with stunning renders of your 3ds Max projects that can only be achieved with a powerful engine like mental ray. Beginning with a concise review of the essential concepts, you proceed to step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to render scenes with:
* Indirect illumination options including Final Gather, Caustics, and Global Illumination
* Render options such as Contour Line rendering, Camera Effects, Displacement, Depth of Field, and Motion Blur effects.
* Lighting options including those provided within 3ds Max, as well as the four mr lights—Area Omni and Area Spot inside the Standard Light group, and mr Sky and mr Sun inside the Photometric Light group.
* Material options that are available inside 3ds Max including Arch and Design and Car Paint, DGS and Glass materials, and Sub Surface Scattering materials.
* Shader options including mr material-related shaders, the tiny shaders that control small specific effects, and shaders that are used to create water, with all its effects

The companion CD includes tutorial files and sample files that demonstrate the possibilities.

Important information before we get started, Switching on Mental ray, mental ray render scene dialog Panels; Mental ray and lights, Introduction, mental ray renderer specific light options and Rollouts; mental ray with materials and Shaders, Introduction, Mental ray and standard materials, Mental ray and Architectural materials, Mental ray and mental ray materials, mental ray and mental ray Shaders

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Network+ Study Guide, Deluxe Edition (N10-003)

Author: David Groth

If you're serious about getting your Network+ certification and advancing your career in the field of networking, this is the book you need.

Revised for the new version of the Network+ exam, N10-003, this Deluxe Edition of the best-selling Network+ Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's IT certification candidates. In addition to the engaging and accessible instructional style that has made author David Groth a reader favorite for years, this updated edition provides:

• In-depth coverage of every Network+ exam objective.

• Practical instruction and insights drawn from real-world experience.

• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including the Network+ Virtual Lab, as well as Sybex's custom test engine, electronic flashcards, and the entire book in PDF.

In addition, you'll find authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

• Media and Topologies

• Protocols and Standards

• Network Implementation

• Network Support

Order your copy today.

Microsoft Office XP for Dummies or Classic Shell Scripting

2009-01-17T10:40:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Office XP for Dummies

Author: Wallace Wang

Microsoft Office XP consists of several programs: a word processor (Word 2002), a spreadsheet program (Excel 2002), a presentation graphics program (PowerPoint 2002), a personal information organizer and e-mail client (Outlook 2002), and a database program (Access 2002). And depending on the version of Office XP that you get, you may have bonus programs that include a Web-page design and management application (FrontPage 2002).

Having so many programs at your disposal can be very intimidating, especially for the beginning user. Which program do you use for which task? How can you get information from one program into another? Which programs do you really need, and which ones can you safely ignore? Your questions will abound and confound!

Office XP For Dummies answers all these questions and more – in easy-to-understand terms and without all that computer-geek gibberish. It gently explains the basics for each program so that you can start using them right way. Here are a few of the topics covered in Office XP For Dummies:

• Getting acquainted with the Office XP interface

• Using Word to create reports and other fancy documents

• Setting up spreadsheets in Excel to help you in your business

• Creating slideshow presentations in PowerPoint

• Managing your e-mail, calendar, and contact information in Outlook

• Developing easy-to-use databases

• Designing awesome Web pages quickly and hassle-free

For beginners, Office XP For Dummies is the perfect overview of the entire Office XP suite; for more advanced users, itcontains many tips and tricks to make using all these different programs a breeze.

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Classic Shell Scripting

Author: Arnold Robbins

Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shellthat unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting isessential for Unix users and system administrators-a way toquickly harness and customize the full power of any Unixsystem. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamentalUnix text and file processing commands to crunch data andautomate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promiselies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands andstandards. Classic Shell Scripting is written to help youreliably navigate these tricky waters.

Writing shell scripts requires more than just a knowledge ofthe shell language, it also requires familiarity with theindividual Unix programs: why each one is there, how to usethem by themselves, and in combination with the otherprograms. The authors are intimately familiar with the tipsand tricks that can be used to create excellent scripts, aswell as the traps that can make your best effort a bad shellscript. With Classic Shell Scripting you'll avoid hours ofwasted effort. You'll learn not only write useful shellscripts, but how to do it properly and portably.

The ability to program and customize the shell quickly,reliably, and portably to get the best out of any individualsystem is an important skill for anyone operating andmaintaining Unix or Linux systems. Classic Shell Scriptinggives you everything you need to master these essentialskills.

1	Background	1
2	Getting started	8
3	Searching and substitutions	30
4	Text processing tools	67
5	Pipelines can do amazing things	87
6	Variables, making decisions, and repeating actions	109
7	Input and output, files, and command evaluation	140
8	Production scripts	177
9	Enough awk to be dangerous	223
10	Working with files	267
11	Extended example : merging user databases	308
12	Spellchecking	325
13	Processes	352
14	Shell portability issues and extensions	381
15	Secure shell scripts : getting started	413

Using OpenMP or Business Driven Information Technology

2009-01-16T23:27:00.000-08:00

Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming

Author: Barbara Chapman

"I hope that readers will learn to use the full expressibility and power of OpenMP. This book should provide an excellent introduction to beginners, and the performance section should help those with some experience who want to push OpenMP to its limits."

--from the foreword by David J. Kuck, Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group, and Director, Parallel and Distributed Solutions, Intel Corporation

OpenMP, a portable programming interface for shared memory parallel computers, was adopted as an informal standard in 1997 by computer scientists who wanted a unified model on which to base programs for shared memory systems. OpenMP is now used by many software developers; it offers significant advantages over both hand-threading and MPI. Using OpenMP offers a comprehensive introduction to parallel programming concepts and a detailed overview of OpenMP.

Using OpenMP discusses hardware developments, describes where OpenMP is applicable, and compares OpenMP to other programming interfaces for shared and distributed memory parallel architectures. It introduces the individual features of OpenMP, provides many source code examples that demonstrate the use and functionality of the language constructs, and offers tips on writing an efficient OpenMP program. It describes how to use OpenMP in full-scale applications to achieve high performance on large-scale architectures, discussing several case studies in detail, and offers in-depth troubleshooting advice. It explains how OpenMP is translated into explicitly multithreaded code, providing a valuable behind-the-scenes account of OpenMP program performance. Finally, Using OpenMP considerstrends likely to influence OpenMP development, offering a glimpse of the possibilities of a future OpenMP 3.0 from the vantage point of the current OpenMP 2.5.

With multicore computer use increasing, the need for a comprehensive introduction and overview of the standard interface is clear. Using OpenMP provides an essential reference not only for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels but also for professionals who intend to parallelize existing codes or develop new parallel programs for shared memory computer architectures.

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Business Driven Information Technology: Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager

Author: David Laub

Information technology is a critical element of virtually every business. But effectively aligning and using it to achieve business objectives is very difficult. That is because success requires so many elements to be done properly. Over 60 business leaders and university faculty members have collaborated to bring together insights from a broad spectrum of disciplines—from strategy and finance to information systems and project management. This information is contained in clearly written, concise answers to 100 questions that every manager needs to know to use information technology effectively. Each answer includes references to web and print resources for readers needing more detailed or the most current information. Business professionals will value the book because it covers a range of important areas that few know completely. University students will find the book a valuable source of necessary information for technology and management courses. Rarely is so much diverse expertise brought together and focused in a single book. It will become an essential resource for anyone working with information systems in an organization.

Managing Contacts with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager or Seam in Action

2009-01-16T14:15:00.000-08:00

Managing Contacts with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager

Author: Edward Kachinsk

Want to learn how to manage customer, prospect, and vendor information in Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager? Want to use Microsoft Outlook to quickly and easily follow up on sales leads? Look no further! With minimal time investment, you can quickly and easily get up to speed on the powerful contact management functionality of Business Contact Manager. All you need is the information in this book. Managing Contacts with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager clearly and concisely reviews the practical areas of Business Contact Manager, such as contact management, sales opportunity management, marketing and campaign management, and project management. It examines each area of functionality, including relevance to most businesses. Step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow screenshots are provided throughout the book for you to easily learn the application. The book is set up in such a way that it's easy to use as you work, which facilitates a "learn by doing" approach. Managing Contacts with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager is an ideal tool for all Microsoft Outlook users looking to easily manage their long lists of contacts, follow up on their leads, and increase their productivity!

Chapter 1. Installing Outlook BCM

Chapter 2. Working with Contacts

Chapter 3. Setting up Accounts

Chapter 4. Searches & Filters

Chapter 5. Managing Your Calendar

Chapter 6. Working with Opportunities

Chapter 7. Writing Letters & Campaigns

Chapter 8. Managing Projects

Chapter 9. Reports

Chapter 10. Customizing Your Database

Chapter 11. Setting up Offline Databases

Chapter 12. Database Maintenance

Chapter 13. Add-on Products & Web Resources

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Seam in Action

Author: Dan Allen

Seam in action is a detailed introduction to Seam for Java EE developers. In the book, you'll use seam-gen to build a basic application and follow it to learn how Seam automates non-core tasks through configuration by exception, Java 5 annotations, and aspect-oriented programming. You'll master key techniques for Spring integration, JavaScript remoting, business processes (jBPM) and stateful page flows (jPDL), and more.

Darwin among the Machines or Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Comprehensive

2009-01-14T18:09:00.000-08:00

Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence

Author: George B Dyson

Darwin Among the Machines retraces the steps that led us into the digital wilderness, no less wild for being a universe of our own device. Introducing a cast of known and unknown characters, George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries-from the time of Thomas Hobbes to the time of John von Neumann-who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind.This deep and elegant book derives both its title and its outlook from Samuel Butler’s 1863 essay “Darwin Among the Machines.” Observing the beginnings of miniaturization, self-reproduction, and telecommunication among machines, Butler predicted that nature’s intelligence, only temporarily subservient to technology, would resurface to claim our creations as her own. Updating Butler’s arguments, Dyson has distilled the historical record to chronicle the origins of digital telecommunications and the evolution of digital computers, beginning long before the time of Darwin and exploring the limits of Darwinian evolution to suggest what lies beyond.Weaving a cohesive narrative among his brilliant predecessors, Dyson constructs a straightforward, convincing, and occasionally frightening view of the evolution of mind in the global network, on a level transcending our own. Dyson concludes that we are in the midst of an experiment that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Just as the exchange of coded molecular instructions brought life as we know it to the early earth’s primordial soup, and as language and mind combined to form the culture in which we live, so, in thedigital universe, are computer programs and worldwide networks combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured.Nature, believes Dyson, is on the side of the machines.

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Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Comprehensive

Author: Robert T Grauer

For introductory Office Application courses that cover Excel 2007.

The goal of the Exploring Series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill. Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did 5 years ago. The new edition of Exploring moves students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing fundamental skills to ensure that they will be engaged throughout the book.

The Art and Science of Digital Compositing or Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Illustrated Complete

2009-01-14T08:56:00.000-08:00

The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics

Author: Ron Brinkmann

Computer graphics special effects are widely used in film, television, and computer games. Compositing is a key part of the special effects pipeline—it is the final, crucial step where all the component parts of a rendering are joined together into a single, integrated image. These components may include 3D and 2D images that have been created with the wide variety of modeling, animation, and rendering tools available today.
Ron Brinkmann's The Art and Science of Digital Compositing provides a complete guide to the technical and artistic elements of this process and is the leading book in the field. Now revised in a second edition, Brinkmann uses his extensive experience in the visual effects industry to discuss the latest techniques used to create beautiful and believable images. The book takes a conceptual approach, fostering a deep understanding of compositing technique rather than focusing on specific tools—knowing where the buttons are located isn't nearly as important as knowing why to press those buttons.

* Ron Brinkmann brings extensive experience with feature film production to this complete reference on compositing
* Profusely illustrated in 4 color throughout with examples from contemporary films
* The bestselling book on compositing used by professionals and students alike

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 ? Illustrated Complete

Author: Elizabeth Eisner Reding

Part of the Illustrated Series, this practical, easy to navigate book provides the essential knowledge of how to use Microsoft Excel 2007 that students need to succeed in both the classroom and beyond.

Windows Vista Unit A: Getting Started with Windows Vista Windows Vista Unit B: Understanding File Management Getting Started with Office 2007 Unit A: Getting Started with Excel 2007 Unit B: Working with Formulas and Functions Unit C: Formatting a Worksheet Unit D: Working with Charts Unit E: Analyzing Data Using Formulas and Functions Unit F: Managing Workbook Data Unit G: Using Tables Unit H: Analyzing Table Data Unit I: Automating worksheet Tasks Unit J: Enhancing Charts Unit K: Using What-if Analysis Unit L: Analyzing Data wiht PivotTables Unit M: Exchanging Data with Other Programs Unit N: Sharing Excel Files and Incorporating Web Information Unit O: Customizing Excel and Advanced Worksheet Management Unit P: Programming with Excel

Outside in Software Development or MicroC OS II

2009-01-13T21:44:00.000-08:00

Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-Based Products

Author: Carl Kessler

Build Software That Delivers Maximum Business Value to Every Key Stakeholder

Imagine your ideal development project. It will deliver exactly what your clients need. It will achieve broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption. And it will be designed and built by a productive, high-morale team of expert software professionals. Using this book's breakthrough "outside-in" approach to software development, your next project can be that ideal project.

In Outside-in Software Development, two of IBM's most respected software leaders, Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer, show you how to identify the stakeholders who'll determine your project's real value, shape every decision around their real needs, and deliver software that achieves broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption.

The authors present an end-to-end framework and practical implementation techniques any development team can quickly benefit from, regardless of project type or scope. Using their proven approach, you can improve the effectiveness of every client conversation, define priorities with greater visibility and clarity, and make sure all your code delivers maximum business value.

Coverage includes

Understanding your stakeholders, and the organizational and business context they operate in

Clarifying the short- and long-term stakeholder goals your project will satisfy

Mapping project expectations to outcomes more effectively

Building more "consumable" software: systems that are easier to deploy, use, and support

Continuously enhancing alignment with stakeholder goals

Helpingstakeholders manage ongoing change long after you've delivered your product

Mastering the leadership techniques needed to drive outside-in development

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MicroC/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel

Author: Jean J Labross

MicroC/OS II Second Edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system (RTOS). In addition to its value as a reference to the kernel, it is an extremely detailed and highly readable design study particularly useful to the embedded systems student. While documenting the design and implementation of the kernel, the book also walks the reader through the many related development issues: how to adapt the kernel for a new microprocessor, how to install the kernel, and how to structure the applications that run on the kernel. This edition features documentation for several important new features of the software, including new real-time services, floating points, and coding conventions. The accompanying CDROM includes complete code for the MicroC/OS-II kernel.

Business Metadata or AJAX Rich Internet Applications and Web Development for Programmers

2009-01-13T11:32:00.000-08:00

Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

Author: William H Inmon

People have a hard time communicating, and also have a hard time finding business knowledge in the environment. With the sophistication of search technologies like Google, business people expect to be able to get their questions answered about the business just like you can do an internet search. The truth is, knowledge management is primitive today, and it is due to the fact that we have poor business metadata management.

This book is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very "how to" and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map.

* First book that helps businesses capture corporate (human) knowledge and unstructured data, and offer solutions for codifying it for use in IT and management.

* Written by Bill Inmon, one of the fathers of the data warehouse and well-known author, and filled with war stories, examples, and cases from current projects.

* Very practical, includes a complete metadata acquisition methodology and project plan to guide readers every step of the way.

* Includes sample unstructured metadata for use in self-testing and developing skills.

AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers

Author: Deitel

The practicing programmer's DEITEL® guide to AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and web-application development

This book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching Web 2.0 application development. The book presents concepts in the context of more than 180 fully tested programs (18,000+ lines of code), complete with syntax shading, detailed descriptions, and sample outputs. It features hundreds of tips that will help you build robust applications.

Start with a concise introduction to XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript before rapidly moving on to more advanced client-side development with DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, and other RIA technologies. Then proceed to server-side development with web servers, databases, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, JavaServer Faces, and web services. When you're finished, you'll have everything you need to build Web 2.0 applications.

The DEITEL Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, Java^TM, web services, Internet and web development, and more.

Practical, example-rich coverage of:

Web 2.0
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
DOM, XML, RSS
AJAX-Enabled Rich Internet Applications
JSON, Dojo, Script.aculo.us
Adobe® Flash CS3 and Flex
Web Servers (IIS and Apache)
Database (SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET and Java DB)
PHP, Ruby on Rails
ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
SOAP-Based Web Services in Java
REST-Based Web Services in ASP.NET
Mashups
And more...

Visit deitel.com to:

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Pre-Publication Reviewer Testimonials

"This book is easily the most comprehensive resource of its kind I've seen yet."
--Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path

"A one-stop shop for learning the essentials of web programming."
--Anand Narayanaswamy, ASPAlliance.com

"Excellent for learning to develop standards-compliant web applications...takes you from the browser to the server and the database, covering web development across many programming languages."
--Paul Vencill, MITRE, Inc.

"Cements the browser as a first-class development platform."
--Johnvey Hwang, Splunk, Inc.

"Congratulations on this excellent work. The [Dive Into Web 2.0] chapter is simply astonishing! It's one of the better--if not the best--references on Web 2.0."
--José Antonio González Seco, Parlamento de Andalucia

"The CSS chapter is compact, concise, and full of useful info!"
--Billy B. L. Lim, Illinois State University

"One of the best introductions to JavaScript."
--Raymond Wisman, Indiana University Southeast

"A good introduction to the DOM; doesn't trip over cross-browser incompatibilities."
--Eric Lawrence, Microsoft

"Exceptionally clear Ajax tutorial; best I've reviewed! Great solutions for the very cool type-ahead and edit-in-place AJAX features. 'Libraries to Help Eliminate Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues' is fantastic. This book and your web sites will be often-visited resources (if not best practices in themselves)."
--John Peterson, Insync and V.I.O. Inc.

"Great chapter [on building Flash games]."
--Jennifer Powers, University of Albany

"A solid introduction to Adobe Flex with some very cool applications."
--Matt Chotin, Adobe

"A solid introduction to the capabilities and flexibilities of PHP. Inspired me to tighten up my own code! Easy to follow JSF development with database, Virtual Forms, and Google Maps."
--John Peterson, Insync and V.I.O. Inc.

"Excellent coverage of developing ASP.NET applications, with plenty of sample code."
--Peter Bromberg, VOIP, Inc.

"The web services chapter concludes a comprehensive education on Web 2.0. The examples go a long way to support the Web 2.0 mission of this book."
--George Semeczko, Independent Consultant

1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 What Is Web 2.0? 4
1.3 Search 7
1.4 Content Networks 12
1.5 User-Generated Content 13
1.6 Blogging 16
1.7 Social Networking 19
1.8 Social Media 23
1.9 Tagging 26
1.10 Social Bookmarking 28
1.11 Software Development 29
1.12 Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) 32
1.13 Web Services, Mashups, Widgets and Gadgets 34
1.14 Location-Based Services 37
1.15 XML, RSS, Atom, JSON and VoIP 38
1.16 Web 2.0 Monetization Models 39
1.17 Web 2.0 Business Models 41
1.18 Future of the Web 44
1.19 Where to Go for More Web 2.0 Information 48
1.20 Web 2.0 Bibliography 49
1.21 Web 2.0 Glossary 56

Part 2: The Ajax Client 66Chapter 2: Introduction to XHTML 67

2.1 Introduction 68
2.2 Editing XHTML 69
2.3 First XHTML Example 69
2.4 W3C XHTML Validation Service 72
2.5 Headings 72
2.6 Linking 73
2.7 Images 76
2.8 Special Characters and Horizontal Rules 79
2.9 Lists 81
2.10 Tables 84
2.11 Forms 88
2.12 Internal Linking 95
2.13 meta Elements 98
2.14 Web Resources 99

Chapter 3: Cascading Style Sheets^™ (CSS) 100

3.1 Introduction 101
3.2 Inline Styles 102
3.3 Embedded Style Sheets 103
3.4 Conflicting Styles 106
3.5 Linking External Style Sheets 109
3.6 Positioning Elements 111
3.7 Backgrounds 115
3.8 Element Dimensions116
3.9 Box Model and Text Flow 118
3.10 Media Types 122
3.11 Building a CSS Drop-Down Menu 124
3.12 User Style Sheets 126
3.13 CSS 3 130
3.14 Web Resources 130

Chapter 4: JavaScript: Introduction to Scripting 131

4.1 Introduction 132
4.2 Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text in a Web Page 133
4.3 Modifying Our First Program 136
4.4 Obtaining User Input with prompt Dialogs 141
4.5 Data Types in JavaScript 147
4.6 Arithmetic 147
4.7 Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators 148
4.8 Web Resources 152

Chapter 5: JavaScript: Control Statements I 153

5.1 Introduction 154
5.2 Control Statements 154
5.3 if Selection Statement 155
5.4 if...else Selection Statement 156
5.5 while Repetition Statement 160
5.6 Counter-Controlled Repetition 161
5.7 Formulating Algorithms: Sentinel-Controlled Repetition 163
5.8 Formulating Algorithms: Nested Control Statements 166
5.9 Assignment Operators 169
5.10 Increment and Decrement Operators 170
5.11 Web Resources 173

Chapter 6: JavaScript: Control Statements II 174

6.1 Introduction 175
6.2 Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition 175
6.3 for Repetition Statement 177
6.4 Examples Using the for Statement 181
6.5 switch Multiple-Selection Statement 185
6.6 do...while Repetition Statement 190
6.7 break and continue Statements 192
6.8 Labeled break and continue Statements 195
6.9 Logical Operators 197
6.10 Web Resources 202

Chapter 7: JavaScript: Functions 203

7.1 Introduction 204
7.2 Program Modules in JavaScript 204
7.3 Programmer-Defined Functions 205
7.4 Function Definitions 205
7.5 Random Number Generation 210
7.6 Example: Game of Chance 215
7.7 Another Example: Random Image Generator 222
7.8 Scope Rules 223
7.9 JavaScript Global Functions 226
7.10 Recursion 227
7.11 Recursion vs. Iteration 230
7.12 Web Resources 231

Chapter 8: JavaScript: Arrays 232

8.1 Introduction 233
8.2 Arrays 233
8.3 Declaring and Allocating Arrays 234
8.4 Examples Using Arrays 235
8.5 Random Image Generator Using Arrays 242
8.6 References and Reference Parameters 243
8.7 Passing Arrays to Functions 244
8.8 Sorting Arrays 247
8.9 Multidimensional Arrays 249
8.10 Building an Online Quiz 253
8.11 Web Resources 255

Chapter 9: JavaScript: Objects 256

9.1 Introduction 257
9.2 Introduction to Object Technology 257
9.3 Math Object 260
9.4 String Object 261
9.5 Date Object 272
9.6 Boolean and Number Objects 277
9.7 document Object 278
9.8 window Object 279
9.9 Using Cookies 284
9.10 Multipage HTML and JavaScript Application 288
9.11 Using JSON to Represent Objects 296
9.12 Web Resources 297

Chapter 10: Document Object Model (DOM): Objects and Collections 298

10.1 Introduction 299
10.2 Modeling a Document: DOM Nodes and Trees 299
10.3 Traversing and Modifying a DOM Tree 302
10.4 DOM Collections 313
10.5 Dynamic Styles 315
10.6 Summary of the DOM Objects and Collections 321
10.7 Web Resources 322

Chapter 11: JavaScript: Events 323

11.1 Introduction 324
11.2 Registering Event Handlers 324
11.3 Event onload 327
11.4 Event onmousemove, the event Object and this 328
11.5 Rollovers with onmouseover and onmouseout 333
11.6 Form Processing with onfocus and onblur 338
11.7 Form Processing with onsubmit and onreset 341
11.8 Event Bubbling 343
11.9 More Events 345
11.10 Web Resources 346

Chapter 12: XML and RSS 347

12.1 Introduction 348
12.2 XML Basics 348
12.3 Structuring Data 351
12.4 XML Namespaces 358
12.5 Document Type Definitions (DTDs) 361
12.6 W3C XML Schema Documents 365
12.7 XML Vocabularies 372
12.8 Extensible Stylesheet Language and XSL Transformations 376
12.9 Document Object Model (DOM) 385
12.10 RSS 402
12.11 Web Resources 410

Chapter 13: Ajax-Enabled Rich Internet Applications 411

13.1 Introduction 412
13.2 Traditional Web Applications vs. Ajax Applications 413
13.3 Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with Ajax 415
13.4 History of Ajax 417
13.5 "Raw" Ajax Example Using the XMLHttpRequest Object 417
13.6 Using XML and the DOM 423
13.7 Creating a Full-Scale Ajax-Enabled Application 427
13.8 Dojo Toolkit 440
13.9 Web Resources 449

Part 3: Rich Internet Application Client Technologies 451Chapter 14: Adobe^® Flash^® CS3 452

14.1 Introduction 453
14.2 Flash Movie Development 454
14.3 Learning Flash with Hands-On Examples 456
14.4 Publishing Your Flash Movie 472
14.5 Creating Special Effects with Flash 473
14.6 Creating a Website Splash Screen 485
14.7 ActionScript 491
14.8 Web Resources 491

Chapter 15: Adobe^® Flash^® CS3: Building an Interactive Game 492

15.1 Introduction 493
15.2 Object-Oriented Programming 495
15.3 Objects in Flash 495
15.4 Cannon Game: Preliminary Instructions and Notes 497
15.5 Adding a Start Button 498
15.6 Creating Moving Objects 498
15.7 Adding the Rotating Cannon 503
15.8 Adding the Cannonball 505
15.9 Adding Sound and Text Objects to the Movie 508
15.10 Adding the Time Counter 509
15.11 Detecting a Miss 511
15.12 Adding Collision Detection 512
15.13 Finishing the Game 515
15.14 ActionScript 3.0 Elements Introduced in This Chapter 516

Chapter 16: Adobe^® Flex^™ 2 and Rich Internet Applications 517

16.1 Introduction 518
16.2 Flex Platform Overview 519
16.3 Creating a Simple User Interface 520
16.4 Accessing XML Data from Your Application 531
16.5 Interacting with Server-Side Applications 545
16.6 Customizing Your User Interface 554
16.7 Creating Charts and Graphs 558
16.8 Connection Independent RIAs on the Desktop: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) 566
16.9 Flex 3 Beta 567
16.10 Web Resources 567

Part 3: Rich Internet Application Server Technologies 568Chapter 17: Web Servers (IIS and Apache) 569

17.1 Introduction 570
17.2 HTTP Transactions 570
17.3 Multitier Application Architecture 574
17.4 Client-Side Scripting versus Server-Side Scripting 575
17.5 Accessing Web Servers 576
17.6 Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 576
17.7 Apache HTTP Server 581
17.8 Requesting Documents 583
17.9 Web Resources 584

Chapter 18: Database: SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET 2.0 and Java DB 585

18.1 Introduction 586
18.2 Relational Databases 587
18.3 Relational Database Overview: A books Database 588
18.4 SQL 591
18.5 MySQL 600
18.6 Instructions for Installing MySQL 600
18.7 Instructions for Setting Up a MySQL User Account 601
18.8 Creating a Database in MySQL 602
18.9 ADO.NET Object Model 602
18.10 Java DB/Apache Derby 604
18.11 Web Resources 604

Chapter 19: PHP 606

19.1 Introduction 607
19.2 PHP Basics 608
19.3 String Processing and Regular Expressions 618
19.4 Form Processing and Business Logic 623
19.5 Connecting to a Database 630
19.6 Using Cookies 634
19.7 Dynamic Content 640
19.8 Operator Precedence Chart 649
19.9 Web Resources 651

Chapter 20: Ruby on Rails 652

20.1 Introduction 653
20.2 Ruby 653
20.3 Rails Framework 660
20.4 ActionController and ActionView 662
20.5 A Database-Driven Web Application 665
20.6 Case Study: Message Forum 670
20.7 Script.aculo.us 691
20.8 Web Resources 699

Chapter 21: ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET Ajax 700

21.1 Introduction 701
21.2 Creating and Running a Simple Web Form Example 702
21.3 Web Controls 716
21.4 Session Tracking 737
21.5 Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP.NET 753
21.6 Case Study: Secure Books Database Application 765
21.7 ASP.NET Ajax 793
21.8 Web Resources 797

Chapter 22: JavaServer^™ FacesWeb Applications 798

22.1 Introduction 799
22.2 Java Web Technologies 800
22.3 Creating and Running a Simple Application in Netbeans 803
22.4 JSF Components 820
22.5 Session Tracking 833
22.6 Web Resources 856

Chapter 23: Ajax-Enabled JavaServer^™ Faces Web Applications 858

23.1 Introduction 859
23.2 Accessing Databases in Web Applications 860
23.3 Ajax-Enabled JSF Components 872
23.4 AutoComplete Text Field and Virtual Forms 873
23.5 Google Maps Map Viewer Component 881
23.6 Web Resources 890

Chapter 24: Web Services 891

24.1 Introduction 892
24.2 Java Web Services Basics 894
24.3 Creating, Publishing, Testing and Describing a Web Service 894
24.4 Consuming a Web Service 905
24.5 SOAP 914
24.6 Session Tracking in Web Services 915
24.7 Consuming a Database-Driven Web Service from a Web Application 931
24.8 Passing an Object of a User-Defined Type to a Web Service 939
24.9 REST-Based Web Services in ASP.NET 949
24.10 Web Resources 960

Index 962

Digital Signal Processing or Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems

2009-01-13T02:21:00.000-08:00

Digital Signal Processing

Author: John Proakis

A significant revision of a best-selling text for the introductory digital signal processing course. This book presents the fundamentals of discrete-time signals, systems, and modern digital processing and applications for students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.The book is suitable for either a one-semester or a two-semester undergraduate level course in discrete systems and digital signal processing. It is also intended for use in a one-semester first-year graduate-level course in digital signal processing.

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Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems

Author: Azad Adam

The global shift toward delivering services online requires organizations to evolve from using traditional paper files and storage to more modern electronic methods. There has however been very little information on just how to navigate this change-until now. Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems explains how to efficiently store and access electronic documents and records in a manner that allows quick and efficient access to information so an organization may meet the needs of its clients.

The book addresses a host of issues related to electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS). From starting the project to systems administration, it details every aspect in relation to implementation and management processes. The text also explains managing cultural changes and business process re-engineering that organizations undergo as they switch from paper-based records to electronic documents. It offers case studies that examine how various organizations across the globe have implemented EDRMS.

While the task of creating and employing an EDRMS may seem daunting at best, Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems is the resource that can provide you with the direction and guidance you need to make the transition as seamless as possible.

Designing a Digital Portfolio or The TCP IP Guide

2009-01-12T14:09:00.000-08:00

Designing a Digital Portfolio

Author: Cynthia L Baron

The world has gone digital--which means that a paper portfolio is no longer good enough. These days, as a creative professional, you're expected to be able to show your work on demand--whether that means emailing it to a client, displaying it on a Web site, or delivering it on CD or DVD. This book shows you how. Using a combination of step-by-step instructions and inspiring examples, veteran author Cynthia Baron takes you through the entire process of designing a digital portfolio--from developing a concept and choosing a medium, to scanning work created with traditional materials; optimizing digitized art; repurposing digital material; creating a portfolio Web site, CD, or DVD; producing a portable portfolio; and avoiding technical pitfalls when digitizing, organizing, and delivering the final product. You'll also find loads of insights from the professionals who evaluate artist portfolios everyday--agency heads, art directors, and designers--plus handy checklists, a run-down of dos and don'ts, case studies, and tips.

	Introduction
Pt. I	Planning
1	Professions	4
2	Adaptation	20
3	Audience	40
4	Format	58
Pt. II	Collecting and Preparing
5	Organizing your work	82
6	Digitizing traditional work	100
7	Cleaning up	118
8	Repurposing and optimizing	138
9	Creating written content	162
Pt. II	Production
10	Development basics	188
11	Designing a portfolio interface	210
Pt. IV	Marketing
12	Copyright & portfolio	236
13	Presenting your portfolio	254
Pt. V	Appendixes
	A: Resources	280
	B: Contributors	290

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The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

Author: Charles Kozierok

From Charles M. Kozierok, the creator of the highly regarded www.pcguide.com, comes The TCP/IP Guide. This completely up-to-date, encyclopedic reference on the TCP/IP protocol suite will appeal to newcomers and the seasoned professional alike. Kozierok details the core protocols that make TCP/IP internetworks function and the most important classic TCP/IP applications, integrating IPv6 coverage throughout. Over 350 illustrations and hundreds of tables help to explain the finer points of this complex topic. The book's personal, user-friendly writing style lets readers of all levels understand the dozens of protocols and technologies that run the Internet, with full coverage of PPP, ARP, IP, IPv6, IP NAT, IPSec, Mobile IP, ICMP, RIP, BGP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP, Telnet, and much more.

The TCP/IP Guide is a must-have addition to the libraries of internetworking students, educators, networking professionals, and those working toward certification.

Digital Masters or Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization

2009-01-11T19:56:00.000-08:00

Digital Masters: Travel Photography: Documenting the World's People and Places

Author: Bob Krist

As we travel to new places, digital camera in hand, we all feel the desire to capture them forever in images: the scenic vistas, the unique architecture, the people who inhabit that landscape. With this magnificent new study, award-winning National Geographic photographer Bob Krist can help us achieve our goal. It’s distinguished from other digital how-tos by its comprehensive scope, easy-to-grasp explanations, inspirational attitude, and upscale aesthetics.
Krist examines the technological aspects of shooting digitally on location, and explains how to select the right equipment, from cameras and lenses to flashes and tripods. He offers tips for saving, backing up, and sending images on the road, and gets to the heart of what it takes to portray the true spirit of your subject. He poses such questions as: What makes a truly great photograph? How can you create a well-rounded portrait of a place through its geography, people, and culture? The answers are all illustrated with the author’s collection of stunning travel photography to inspire us along the way.

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Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization: Drive Traffic, Boost Conversion Rates and Make Lots of Money

Author: Jon Rognerud

Turn Your Website into A Marketing Powerhouse!

Author and search engine optimization (SEO) expert, Jon Rognerud unlocks the mystery of SEO and removes the fears of intimidating technology with this step-by-step guide to building a fully optimized web site and a successful, traffic-driving SEO campaign.

Begin by learning how to lay the foundation of your SEO campaign, from building your web site to identifying your market and creating web-savvy content. Next, master the implementation of SEO tools and tactics, including keyword research, linking, and submitting to search engines. Then learn how to apply proven strategies, including using social media, pay-per-click, paid advertising, landing page conversions and much more. This is your guide to gaining exposure and creating a buzz big enough to put a lot of money in your pocket!

Learn how to:

Create an attractive website with SEO-enriched content
Choose the right keywords and create an effective seed list
Use effective tools to identify and attract quality traffic
Safeguard your site from becoming spam
Use cutting-edge tactics to gain exposure and land on page 1 of Google
Create relationships with other sites through linking
Use social media sites within your online marketing plan
Turn traffic into sales

Everything you ever needed to build a website and get results is right here-all in one place!

Jon Rognerud is a recognized authority on SEO. The SEO columnist for entrepreneur.com, he has spent more than 20 years creating and managing web marketing projects, including positions at online giant Yahoo!/Overture. A search engine technology he created was licensedfor use on Expedia.com/Microsoft.

Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools or Algorithms in C Parts 1 4

2009-01-11T08:45:00.000-08:00

Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools

Author: Steve Cook

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are attracting growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of system requirements and simplify their translation into code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects. In this breakthrough book, four leading experts reveal exactly how DSLs work, and how you can make the most of them in your environment.

You'll begin by mastering DSL concepts and techniques that apply to all platforms. Next, discover how to create and use DSLs with the powerful new Microsoft DSL Tools--a toolset designed by this book's authors. Learn how the Microsoft DSL Tools integrate into Visual Studio 2005--and how to define DSLs and generate Visual Designers using Visual Studio's built-in modeling technology. In-depth coverage includes

Determining whether DSLs will work for you
Comparing DSLs with other approaches to model-driven development
Defining, tuning, and evolving DSLs: models, presentation, creation, updates, serialization, constraints, validation, and more
Creating Visual Designers for new DSLs with little or no coding
Multiplying productivity by generating application code from your models with easy-to-use text templates
Automatically generating configuration files, resources, and other artifacts
Deploying Visual Designers across the organization, quickly and easily
Customizing Visual Designers for specialized process needs

The book's companion Web site (domainspecificdevelopment.com) includescode samples, plus additional resources and information.

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Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching

Author: Robert Sedgewick

Robert Sedgewick has thoroughly rewritten and substantially expanded his popular work to provide current and comprehensive coverage of important algorithms and data structures. Many new algorithms are presented, and the explanations of each algorithm are much more detailed than in previous editions. A new text design and detailed, innovative figures, with accompanying commentary, greatly enhance the presentation. The third edition retains the successful blend of theory and practice that has made Sedgewick's work an invaluable resource for more than 250,000 programmers! Whether you are a student learning the algorithms for the first time or a professional interested in having up-to-date reference material, you will find a wealth of useful information in this book.

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Covers data structure, sorting, and searching algorithms using the C computer language. Combining theory and practice, the volume uses many examples to discuss fundamentals, abstract data types, recursion, trees, quicksort, mergesort, heapsort, priority queues, radix sort and search, special-purpose sorts, symbol tables, balanced and binary search trees, hashing, and external searching. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Principles of Algorithm Analysis	27
Ch. 3	Elementary Data Structures	69
Ch. 4	Abstract Data Types	127
Ch. 5	Recursion and Trees	187
Ch. 6	Elementary Sorting Methods	253
Ch. 7	Quicksort	303
Ch. 8	Mergesort	335
Ch. 9	Priority Queues and Heapsort	361
Ch. 10	Radix Sorting	403
Ch. 11	Special-Purpose Sorts	439
Ch. 12	Symbol Tables and BSTs	477
Ch. 13	Balanced Trees	529
Ch. 14	Hashing	573
Ch. 15	Radix Search	609
Ch. 16	External Searching	655
	Index	693

John Walkenbachs Favorite Excel 2007 Tips and Tricks or Service Oriented Architecture

2009-01-10T23:34:00.000-08:00

John Walkenbach's Favorite Excel 2007 Tips and Tricks

Author: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach comments on the new Excel: "I've been using Excel for over 15 years, and Excel 2007 is by far the most significant upgrade ever. For starters, we've got a new user interface, new open file formats, a larger worksheet grid, better use of memory and CPUs, new functions, and more templates. Dig a bit deeper and you'll find worksheet tables, 100 levels of undo, easier formula construction, better-looking charts, unlimited color choices, SmartArt, a handy page layout view, new conditional formatting options, new collaboration features, a very useful compatibility checker, workbook themes—and even 'skins' so you can change the look of the entire program."

John Walkenbach's Favorite Excel 2007 Tips & Tricks consists of a series of non-trivial tips and tricks that cover all aspects of Excel. Tips are improved ways of maximizing the power of Excel to create robust applications. Tricks are shortcuts that will speed up application development with Excel.

John's favorites include tips and tricks on dealing with function arguments, creating "impossible" charts, pivot tables, taming the new Ribbon, why use a UserForm, how to create add-ins in Excel 2007, absolute vs. relative references, changing data entry orientation, overcoming the 7-level nesting limit, dynamic chart data, sorting on more than three columns, entering fake data for testing purposes, custom functions, and much more.

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Service Oriented Architecture: Principles of Service Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series)

Author: Thomas Erl

“This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design–Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable.”

–Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp.

“An absolute pleasure to read…the best SOA book I’ve read.

A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre…the visuals were fantastic.”

–Brandon Bohling, SOA Architecture and Strategy, Intel Corporation

“This book is a milestone in SOA literature. For the first time we are provided with a practical guide on defining service characteristics and service design principles for SOA from a vendor-agnostic viewpoint. It’s a great reference for SOA discovery, adoptions, and implementation projects.”

–Canyang Kevin Liu, Principal Enterprise Architect, SAP Americas, Inc.

“I liked this book. It contains extremely important material for those who need to design services.”

–Farzin Yashar, IBM SOA Advanced Technologies

“This book does a great job laying out benefits, key ideas and design principles behind successfully adopting service-oriented computing. At the same time, the book openly addresses challenges, risks and trade-offs that are in the way of adopting SOA in the real-world today. It moves away from ivory-tower views of service orientation, but still lays out a strong vision for SOA and outlines the changes necessary to realize the full potential.”

–Christoph Schittko, Senior Architect, Microsoft

“I recommend this book to any SOA practitionerwho wishes to empower themselves in making service design real…gives readers the 360º view into service design [and] gives SOA practitioners the depth and understanding needed into the principles of SOA to assist in the design of a mature and successful SOA program.”

–Stephen G. Bennett, Americas SOA Practice Lead, BEA Systems

“SOA projects are most successful when they are based on a solid technical foundation. Well accepted and established design principles are part of this foundation. This book takes a very structured approach at defining the core design principles for SOA, thus allowing the reader to immediately applying them to a project. Each principle is formally introduced and explained, and examples are given for how to apply it to a real design problem. A ‘must read’ for any architect, designer or developer of service oriented solutions”.

–Andre Tost, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Software Group

“There are few references for SOA that give you the nuts and bolts and this one is at the top of the list. Well written and valuable as a reference book to any SOA practitioner.”

–Dr. Mohamad Afshar, Director of Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Corporation

“A thorough examination of the considerations of service design. Both seasoned SOA practitioners and those endeavoring to realize services can benefit from reading this book.”

–Bill Draven, Enterprise Architect, Intel Corporation

“There are very few who understand SOA like Thomas Erl does! The principle centric description of service orientation from Thomas canonizes the underpinnings of this important paradigm shift in creating agile and reusable software capabilities. The principles, so eloquently explained, leave little room for any ambiguity attached to the greater purpose of SOA. Most organizations today are creating services in a bottoms-up approach, realizing composition and reuse organically. The time is ripe for a book like this that prepares architects for a principle centric approach to SOA.”

–Hanu Kommalapati, Architect, Microsoft Corporation

“Outstanding SOA literature uniquely focused on the fundamental services design with thorough and in-depth study on all practical aspects from design principles to methodologies. This book provides a systematic approach for SOA adoption essential for both IT management and professionals.”

–Robin Chen, PhD, Google, Inc.

“Thomas Erl’s books are always densely filled with information that’s well structured. This book is especially insightful for Enterprise Architects because it provide s great context and practical examples. Part 1 of the book alone is worth getting the book for.”

–Markus Zirn, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Corporation

“A very clear discussion of the subject matter. Provides a good structure that facilitates understanding and readily highlights key points.”

–Kareem Yusuf, Director of SOA Strategy and Planning, IBM Software Group

“I am very impressed. Comprehensive. Educative. This book helped me to step back and look at the SOA principles from broader perspective. I’d say this is a must-read book for SOA stakeholders.”

–Radovan Janecek, Director R&D, SOA Center, Hewlett-Packard

“Very valuable guidance for understanding and applying SOA service design principles with concrete examples. A must read for the practitioner of SOA service design.”

–Umit Yalcinalp, PhD, Standards Architect, SAP

“This book really does an excellent job of explaining the principles underpinning the value of SOA…Erl goes to great length to explain and give examples of each of the 8 principles that will significantly increase the readers ability to drive an SOA service design that benefits both business and IT.”

–Robert Laird, IT Architect, IBM EAI/SOA Advanced Technologies Group

“This book strikes a healthy balance between theory and practice. It is a perfect complement to the SOA series by the author.”

–Prakash Narayan, Sun Microsystems

“If you are going to be designing, developing, or implementing SOA, this is a must have book.”

–Jason “AJ” Comfort Sr., Booz Allen Hamilton

“An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand service-orientation and the principles involved in designing services…a clear, concise and articulate exploration of the eight design principles involved in analyzing, designing, implementing, and maintaining services…”

–Anish Karmarkar, Oracle Corporation

“Very well written, succinct, and easy to understand.”

–Raj Balasubramanian, IBM Software Group

“Acomprehensive exploration of the issues of service design which has the potential to become the definitive work in this area.”

–James Pasley, Chief Technology Officer, Cape Clear Software

“An excellent addition to any SOA library; it covers a wide range of issues in enough detail to be a valuable asset to anyone considering designing or using SOA based technologies.”

–Mark Little, Director of Standards, Red Hat

“This book communicates complex concepts in a clear and concise manner. Examples and illustrations are used very effectively.”

–Darryl Hogan, Senior Architect, Microsoft

“A work of genius…Offers the most comprehensive and thorough explanation on the principles of service design and what it means to be ‘service oriented.’

“Erl’s treatment of the complex world of service oriented architecture is pragmatic, inclusive of real world situations and offers readers ways to communicate these ideas through illustrations and well formulated processes.”

–David Michalowicz, MITRE Corporation

“This is the book for the large organization trying to rationalize its IT assets and establish an agile platform for the future. By highlighting risk and rewards, Thomas Erl brings clarity to how Service Orientation can be applied to ensure a responsive IT organization. This book finally brings software engineering principles to address the real world development challenges being faced.

To effectively serve the business, let alone embrace SOA, everyone involved should be familiar with the concepts investigated here. Thomas Erl thoroughly clarifies the nuances and defines the practice of service design.

We expect that this will become a classic text in software engineering, corporate training

and colleges.”

–Cory Isaacson, President, Rogue Wave Software and Ravi Palepu, SOA Author and Speaker

“Thomas Erl does a great job…an easy read.”

–Michael H. Sor, Booz Allen Hamilton

“…a must read for SOA Architects to develop a firm foundation and understanding of the principles (and trade-offs) that make up a good SOA service.

After reading this book, it finally ‘clicked’ as to why a properly designed SOA system is different (and better) than a system based on previous enterprise architectures.”

–Fred Ingham, Platinum Solutions Inc.

“Lays a tremendous foundation for business and technical workers to come to common terms and expectations…incredibly enlightening to see the details associated with achieving the SOA vision.”

–Wayne P. Ariola, Vice President of Strategy, Parasoft

“[Erl does] and excellent job of addressing the breadth of [his] audience to present to those new to SOA and weaved in enough detail to assist those who are already actively involved in SOA development.”

–R. Perry Smith, Application Program Manager, EDS/OnStar

“It is easy to miss the big picture of what SOA means for the design of larger scale systems amidst the details of WS technologies. Erl helps provide a broader perspective, surveying the landscape from a design standpoint.”

–Jim Clune, Chief Architect, Parasoft

“Lays a firm foundation for the underlying principles of good service design. Cuts through the hype and provides a cogent resource for improving architectural judgment on SOA projects.”

–Jim Murphy, Vice President of Product Management, Mindreef, Inc.

“The first book to concisely, gradually and comprehensively explain how to apply SOA principles into enterprise-level software design. It is an excellent book.”

–Robin G. Qiu, Ph.D., Division of Engineering and Information Science, Pennsylvania State University

“I really think that this is a very useful book that a lot of people really need out there in the industry.”

–Dr. Arnaud Simon, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

“…indispensable companion to designing and implementing a service-oriented architecture. It condenses all information necessary to design services and is the most relevant source I know if in the field.”

“[This book is] not only helpful, but fundamental to successfully designing an SOA.”

–Phillipp Offermann, Research Analyst, University of Berlin

“Service-Oriented Architecture is an important topic in IT today. Its vast scope could span an organization’s enterprise. Designing it properly is a major undertaking. This book provides timely, expert and comprehensive discussions on the principles of service design. Thomas has a keen sense in identifying the subtle points of various subjects and explains them in an easy-to-understand way. The book is a valuable resource for IT professionals working in SOA.”

–Peter H. Chang, PhD, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Lawrence Technological University

The Definitive Guide to Service Engineering

The key to succeeding with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in comprehending the meaning and significance of its most fundamental building block: the service. It is through an understanding of service design that truly “service-oriented” solution logic can be created in support of achieving the strategic goals associated with SOA and service-oriented computing. Bestselling SOA author Thomas Erl guides you through a comprehensive, insightful, and visually rich exploration of the service-orientation design paradigm, revealing exactly how services should and should not be designed for real-world SOA.

This book’s in-depth coverage includes
• Over 240 full-color illustrations.
• A concise introduction to SOA and service-oriented computing concepts and benefits.
• A thorough exploration of the service-orientation design paradigm as represented by eight specific design principles.
• A comparison of service-oriented and object-oriented concepts and principles and a clear definition of what qualifies as “service-oriented” logic.
• Detailed coverage of four different forms of service-related design granularity.
• An exhaustive examination of service contracts, with an emphasis on standardization, abstraction, and the utilization of WS-Policy, XML Schema, and WSDL definitions.
• A comprehensive study of positive and negative service-related coupling types with an emphasis on the requirements to attaining a suitable level of loose coupling.
• An inside look into how commercial design approaches are incorporated to achieve truly agnostic and reusable service logic.
• Techniques for maximizing service reliability, scalability, and performance by instilling high levels of autonomy and emphasizing stateless design.
• Approaches for positioning services as highly discoverable and interpretable enterprise resources.
• Unprecedented coverage of how to design services for participation in complex compositions.
• The definition of concrete links between each design principle and the strategic goals and benefits of SOA and service-oriented computing.
• Numerous cross-references to key design patterns documented separately in SOA: Design Patterns.

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Preface xxv

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Chapter 2: Case Study Background 19

Part I: Fundamentals

Chapter 3: Service-Oriented Computing and SOA 25

Chapter 4: Service-Orientation 67

Chapter 5: Understanding Design Principles 103

Part II: Design Principles

Chapter 6: Service Contracts (Standardization and Design) 125

Chapter 7: Service Coupling (Intra-Service and Consumer Dependencies) 163

Chapter 8: Service Abstraction (Information Hiding and Meta Abstraction Types) 211

Chapter 9: Service Reusability (Commercial and Agnostic Design) 253

Chapter 10: Service Autonomy (Processing Boundaries and Control) 293

Chapter 11: Service Statelessness (State Management Deferral and Stateless Design) 325

Chapter 12: Service Discoverability (Interpretability and Communication) 361

Chapter 13: Service Composability (Composition Member Design and Complex Compositions) 387

Part III: Supplemental

Chapter 14: Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation: A Comparison of Principles and Concepts 445

Chapter 15: Supporting Practices 477

Chapter 16: Mapping Service-Orientation Principles to Strategic Goals 497

Appendices

Appendix A: Case Study Conclusion 513

Appendix B: Process Descriptions 517

Appendix C: Principles and Patterns Cross-Reference 529

Additional Resources 533

About the Author 535

About the Photos 537

Index 539

MCITP Self Paced Training Kit or Core Security Patterns

2009-01-10T11:22:00.000-08:00

MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-443): Designing a Database Server Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005

Author: J C Mackin

Announcing an all-new Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-443, an exam for the new MCITP: Database Administrator certification. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.

Focusing on SQL Server 2005, this official study guide covers topics such as designing a database server infrastructure, designing security for a database server solution, designing a physical database, designing a database solution for high availability, specifying data recovery technologies based on business requirements, and designing a strategy for data archiving.

Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on SQL Server 2005 database administration by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The CD features 425 practice questions and a flexible test engine with pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 180-day evaluation version of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition and a 15 percent exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Book review: Économie Directoriale et Stratégie D'affaires

Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE, Web Services, and Identity Management

Author: Christopher Steel

Praise for Core Security Patterns

"Java provides the application developer with essential security mechanisms and support in avoiding critical security bugs common in other languages. A language, however, can only go so far. The developer must understand the security requirements of the application and how to use the features Java provides in order to meet those requirements. Core Security Patterns addresses both aspects of security and will be a guide to developers everywhere in creating more secure applications."

--Whitfield Diffie, inventor of Public-Key Cryptography

"A comprehensive book on Security Patterns, which are critical for secure programming."

--Li Gong, former Chief Java Security Architect, Sun Microsystems, and coauthor of Inside Java 2 Platform Security

"As developers of existing applications, or future innovators that will drive the next generation of highly distributed applications, the patterns and best practices outlined in this book will be an important asset to your development efforts."

--Joe Uniejewski, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, RSA Security, Inc.

"This book makes an important case for taking a proactive approach to security rather than relying on the reactive security approach common in the software industry."

--Judy Lin, Executive Vice President, VeriSign, Inc.

"Core Security Patterns provides a comprehensive patterns-driven approach and methodology for effectively incorporating security into your applications. I recommend that every application developer keep a copy of this indispensable security reference by theirside."

--Bill Hamilton, author of ADO.NET Cookbook, ADO.NET in a Nutshell, and NUnit Pocket Reference

"As a trusted advisor, this book will serve as a Java developer™s security handbook, providing applied patterns and design strategies for securing Java applications."

--Shaheen Nasirudheen, CISSP,Senior Technology Officer, JPMorgan Chase

"Like Core J2EE Patterns, this book delivers a proactive and patterns-driven approach for designing end-to-end security in your applications. Leveraging the authors™ strong security experience, they created a must-have book for any designer/developer looking to create secure applications."

--John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, coauthor of Core J2EE Patterns

Core Security Patterns is the hands-on practitioner™s guide to building robust end-to-end security into J2EE™ enterprise applications, Web services, identity management, service provisioning, and personal identification solutions. Written by three leading Java security architects, the patterns-driven approach fully reflects today™s best practices for security in large-scale, industrial-strength applications.

The authors explain the fundamentals of Java application security from the ground up, then introduce a powerful, structured security methodology; a vendor-independent security framework; a detailed assessment checklist; and twenty-three proven security architectural patterns. They walk through several realistic scenarios, covering architecture and implementation and presenting detailed sample code. They demonstrate how to apply cryptographic techniques; obfuscate code; establish secure communication; secure J2ME™ applications; authenticate and authorize users; and fortify Web services, enabling single sign-on, effective identity management, and personal identification using Smart Cards and Biometrics.

Core Security Patterns covers all of the following, and more:

What works and what doesn™t: J2EE application-security best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid

Implementing key Java platform security features in real-world applications

Establishing Web Services security using XML Signature, XML Encryption, WS-Security, XKMS, and WS-I Basic security profile

Designing identity management and service provisioning systems using SAML, Liberty, XACML, and SPML

Designing secure personal identification solutions using Smart Cards and Biometrics

Security design methodology, patterns, best practices, reality checks, defensive strategies, and evaluation checklists

End-to-end security architecture case study: architecting, designing, and implementing an end-to-end security solution for large-scale applications

C 30 Pocket Reference 2nd Edition or HTML

2009-01-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

C# 3.0 Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

Author: Joseph Albahari

This book is for busy programmers who want a succinct and yet readable guide to C# 3.0 and LINQ. C# 3.0 Pocket Reference tells you exactly what you need to know, without long introductions or bloated samples. Despite its conciseness, this book doesn't skimp on depth or detail, and embraces the conceptual challenges in learning C# 3.0 and LINQ. Tightly focused and highly practical, this pocket reference covers more ground than many of the big books on C#. C# 3.0 Pocket Reference includes plenty of illustrations and code examples to explain: Features new to C# 3.0, such as lambda expressions, anonymous types, automatic properties, and more All aspects of C# syntax, predefined types, expressions, and operators Creating classes, structs, delegates and events, enums, generics and constraints, exception handling, and iterators The subtleties of boxing, operating overloading, delegate covariance, extension method resolution, interface reimplementation, nullable types, and operating lifting LINQ, starting with the principles of sequences, deferred execution and standard query operators, and finishing with a complete reference to query syntax-including multiple generators, joining, grouping, and query continuations Consuming, writing, and reflecting on custom attributes

You'll also find chapters on unsafe code and pointers, preprocessor directives, XML documentation, and a framework overview. If you're already familiar with Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#, C# 3.0 Pocket Reference is an ideal choice. No other book or online resource can get you up to speed so quickly.

Interesting textbook: Household Dynamics or Managing Egypts Poor and the Politics of Benevolence 1800 1952

HTML: A Beginner's Guide

Author: Wendy Willard

HTML made easy--fully updated for the latest version

The new edition of this bestselling beginner's guide brings the book up to date with the latest changes in HTML, including XHTML 2.0. In dedicated modules that act as stand-alone lessons, you will learn how to structure a page, place images, size text, create links, generate Web-safe colors, work with multimedia, and more. Hands-on projects, self-assessments, and ‘ask the expert' sections make it easy to learn the essential skills.

Wendy Willard is a freelance designer, consultant, writer, and educator who has been involved in Web design and development for more than 10 years.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	HTML Basics
1	Getting Started	3
2	Basic Page Structure	21
3	Color	45
4	Working with Text	57
5	Working with Links	101
6	Working with Images	133
7	Working with Multimedia	175
8	Creating Lists	199
9	Using Tables	221
10	Developing Frames	281
11	Employing Forms	311
Pt. II	Beyond HTML
12	Creating Your Own Web Graphics	355
13	Web Content	383
14	JavaScript	393
15	Making Pages Available on Others	413
App. A	Mastery Check Answers	437
App. B	HTML 4.01 Reference Table	465
App. C	Troubleshooting (FAQ)	483
App. D	Special Characters	495
App. E	File Types	501
	Index	505

Testing Computer Software or The Software Project Managers Bridge to Agility

2009-01-09T14:59:00.000-08:00

Testing Computer Software

Author: Cem Kaner

This book will teach you how to test computer software under real-world conditions. The authors have all been test managers and software development managers at well-known Silicon Valley software companies. Successful consumer software companies have learned how to produce high-quality products under tight time and budget constraints. The book explains the testing side of that success.

Who this book is for:
* Testers and Test Managers
* Project Managers-Understand the timeline, depth of investigation, and quality of communication to hold testers accountable for.
* Programmers-Gain insight into the sources of errors in your code, understand what tests your work will have to pass, and why testers do the things they do.
* Students-Train for an entry-level position in software development.

What you will learn:
* How to find important bugs quickly
* How to describe software errors clearly
* How to create a testing plan with a minimum of paperwork
* How to design and use a bug-tracking system
* Where testing fits in the product development process
* How to test products that will be translated into other languages
* How to test for compatibility with devices, such as printers
* What laws apply to software quality

IEEE

I enjoyed reading Testing computer software. The text contains numerous highlights Offering practical advice, authoritative figures you can cite to customers and higher management, and entertaining anecdotes to share with coworkers Although some sections need updating, I still think it is a valuable training and reference source for software testers, managers, and developers.

Database & Network Journal

Deep insight and a great deal of experience is contained in this book.2000

Booknews

Covers some 400 types of software errors and how to cope with last minute changes; detect design errors in the user interface; set priority strategies; estimate, plan, and schedule tests; manage test groups--hiring, avoiding traps, dealing with outside testing companies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Notes on the book's structure and layout
	Acknowledgments
Sect. 1	Fundamentals
1	An example test series	1
2	The objectives and limits of testing	17
3	Test types and their place in the software development process	27
4	Software errors	59
5	Reporting and analyzing bugs	65
Sect. 2	Specific Testing Skills
6	The problem tracking system	87
7	Test case design	123
8	Testing printers (and other devices)	143
9	Localization testing	169
10	Testing user manuals	179
11	Testing tools	189
12	Test planning and test documentation	203
Sect. 3	Managing Testing Projects and Groups
13	Tying it together	255
14	Legal consequences of defective software	303
15	Managing a testing group	343
	Appendix: common software errors	363
	References	437
	Index	451
	About the Authors	480

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility (Agile Software Development Series)

Author: Michele Sliger

When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle—doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about their new roles and responsibilities. In this book, two long-time certified Project Management Professionals (PMP^Rs) and Scrum trainers have built a bridge to this dynamic new paradigm. They show experienced project managers how to successfully transition to agile by refocusing on facilitation and collaboration, not “command and control.”

The authors begin by explaining how agile works: how it differs from traditional “plan-driven” methodologies, the benefits it promises, and the real-world results it delivers. Next, they systematically map the Project Management Institute’s classic, methodology-independent techniques and terminology to agile practices. They cover both process and project lifecycles and carefully address vital issues ranging from scope and time to cost management and stakeholder communication. Finally, drawing on their own extensive personal experience, they put a human face on your personal transition to agile--covering the emotional challenges, personal values, and key leadership traits you’ll need to succeed.

Coverage includes

Relating the PMBOK^R Guide ideals to agile practices: similarities, overlaps, and differences
Understanding the role and value of agile techniques such as iteration/release planning and retrospectives
Using agile techniques to systematically and continually reduce risk
Implementing quality assurance (QA)where it belongs: in analysis, design, defect prevention, and continuous improvement
Learning to trust your teams and listen for their discoveries
Procuring, purchasing, and contracting for software in agile, collaborative environments
Avoiding the common mistakes software teams make in transitioning to agile
Coordinating with project management offices and non-agile teams
“Selling” agile within your teams and throughout your organization

For every project manager who wants to become more agile.

Part I An Agile Overview 7

Chapter 1 What is "Agile"? 9

Chapter 2 Mapping from the PMBOK^R Guide to Agile 25

Chapter 3 The Agile Project Lifecycle in Detail 37

Part II The Bridge: Relating PMBOK^R Guide Practices to Agile Practices 49

Chapter 4 Integration Management 51

Chapter 5 Scope Management 67

Chapter 6 Time Management 83

Chapter 7 Cost Management 111

Chapter 8 Quality Management 129

Chapter 9 Human Resources Management 143

Chapter 10 Communications Management 159

Chapter 11 Risk Management 177

Chapter 12 Procurement Management 197

Part III Crossing the Bridge to Agile 215

Chapter 13 How Will My Responsibilities Change? 217

Chapter 14 How Will I Work with Other Teams Who Aren't Agile? 233

Chapter 15 How Can a Project Management Office Support Agile? 249

Chapter 16 Selling the Benefits of Agile 265

Chapter 17 Common Mistakes 285

Appendix A Agile Methodologies 295

Appendix B Agile Artifacts 301

Glossary 321

Bibliography 327

Index 333

Kingdom Hearts II Limited Edition Strategy Guide or The Pc is Not a Typewriter

2009-01-09T04:47:00.000-08:00

Kingdom Hearts II Limited Edition Strategy Guide

Author: Ptg

The Kingdom Hearts II Limited Edition Strategy Guide has two books inside — Jiminy's Journal and the Signature Series Official Strategy Guide — making it the ultimate Kingdom Hearts II collectible!

Record your progress through the entire game in Jiminy's Journal. Use more than 400 stickers to help you keep track of Characters, Treasures, Albums, Maps, Missions, and Mini-Games!

The Signature Series Official Strategy Guide includes:

Walkthroughs: Extensive coverage of every world. Subtle hints for area-specific objectives, detailed strategies and tips, and illustrated maps packed with callouts!

Gummi Ship Foldout: Two-sided foldout contains expert tactics to decisively win each Gummi Ship battle, plus cool artwork of the heroes in their alternate costumes!

Expert Boss Tactics: Our proven techniques and tips will ensure a quick and painful demise for every boss!

Bestiary: A comprehensive analysis of each enemy in the game, including strengths, weaknesses, and their attacks.

Gummi Garage: Construct a top-notch Gummi Ship with an all-inclusive list of blueprints and various blocks.

Every Mini-Game Revealed: Master each mini-game with uncanny efficiency. Try to beat the times set by the BradyGames editors!

Exclusive Cover: Each Limited Edition features our Signature Series guide with one of four very special cover designs, not available anywhere else!

Plus much more: A comprehensive list of items, magic spells and summons -- it's all here!

Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Role-Playing Game
This product is available for sale in North America only.

New interesting book: Plano de Negócios Bem sucedido:Segredos e Estratégias

The Pc is Not a Typewriter

Author: Robin Williams

s Marketing Association. Tailored specifically for users of IBM-compatible computers, this new edition will introduce thousands more to the secrets of beautiful, sophisticated pages.

Annotation

From the author of The Little Mac Book and The Mac Is Not a Typewriter, here at last is the PC version of the classic Mac book. The entertaining, informative style that made Robin Williams' other books classics is now available in this book PC users have been waiting for. 20 line drawings.

Booknews

The first version of this book dealt with the Mac; now PC users have access to 20 short lessons on typography, with chapters on punctuation, leading, special characters, kerning, fonts, and justification. Also includes nine appendices that discuss how to create typographic symbols, foreign characters, subscripts, and superscripts in various software applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Biography

Robin Williams has written numerous best-selling and award-winning books, including The Little Mac Book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, and The Little iBook Book. Robin's down to earth style and refreshing sense of humor have helped hundreds of thousands of people to move forward with confidence in areas of design, digital typography, Web site development, and mastery of the computer. She has that rare talent for explaining confusing subjects with organized clarity, using layman's language, beautifully effective layout and design, and wonderfully obsessive indexes.

Foundation Actionscript 30 with Flash CS3 and Flex or Pro VB 2008 and the NET 35 Platform

2009-01-08T11:43:00.000-08:00

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex

Author: Steve Webster

If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript, Flash's coding language, to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data.
Adobe just made things even more powerful with ActionScript 3.0. They've taken ActionScript and expanded it into a fully-fledged programming language, with full object-oriented capabilities, improved events, sounds and video support, and drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much, much more.
Whether you are an aspiring ActionScript developer, or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to upgrade your knowledge to version 3.0, this book teaches all you need to know to start to harness the power of ActionScript 3.0 using Flash CS3, Flex 2 or Flex 3. It covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to refer back to techniques when you need to, and there are even reference sections at the back of the book to allow you to look up syntax quickly.
With this book as your guide, you'll be creating killer ActionScript powered Flash applications before you know it!

New interesting book: The Global Internet Trust Register or The Theory and Practice of International Financial Management

Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform

Author: Andrew Troelsen

Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time, or you’re already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Third Edition will provide you with a solid grounding in this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout your coding career:

Explore five new chapters of content—including the grammar of the common intermediate language (CIL), .NET generics, and object serialization services.
Discover all the new .NET 3.5 features—nullable types, delegate covariance, ASP.NET 2.0 master pages, the new Windows Forms “Strip” controls, and much more.
Get a professional foothold—targeted to appeal to experienced software professionals and/or graduate students of computer science (so don’t expect three chapters on iteration or decision constructs!).
Gain a rock–solid foundation in programming using VB.
Get comfortable with all the core aspects of the .NET platform—including assemblies, remoting, Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML web services, and much more.

Once you’ve digested the information contained in the 25 chapters of this 1000+ page book, you’ll be ready to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments and well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own.
What you’ll learn

Everything you need to put .NET 3.5 and VB 2008 to use in your professional work--before anyone else!
Insights and techniques from the author’s experience since .NET 1.0
Complete coverage of .NET 3.5—WPF, WCF and WF

Who isthis book for?

Anyone with some software development experience interested in the new .NET 3.5 Platform and the VB language. Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time or you’re already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, this book will provide you with a solid grounding in this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout your coding career.
About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Virtualization with VMware ESX Server or Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit

2009-01-07T23:32:00.000-08:00

Virtualization with VMware ESX Server

Author: Al Muller

This book will detail the default and custom installation of VMware's ESx server as well as basic and advanced virtual machine configurations. It will also discuss the requirements for a server virtualization and consolidation project and the cost savings surrounding such an effort.

Furthermore, the book will provide a thorough understanding of the benefits of a virtual infrastructure and a comprehensive examination of how VMware eases administration and lowers overall IT costs.

Lastly, the book delivers a thorough understanding of the virtual evolution which is underway in many IT organizations and how the reader will benefit from shifting from the physical to a virtual

* A detailed resource on the default and custom installation of VMware's ESx server
* Covers all the requirements for a server virtualization and consolidation project and the cost savings surrounding such an effort
* Delivers a thorough understanding of the virtual evolution occuring in the IT industry

Ch. 1	The joy of ESX	1
Ch. 2	Installation	17
Ch. 3	Configuring a virtual machine, gold builds, and clones	43
Ch. 4	Advanced configurations	73
Ch. 5	Virtual networking	101
Ch. 6	Physical-to-virtual migrations	137
Ch. 7	Server consolidation	161
Ch. 8	Cool tools for a virtual infrastructure	197
Ch. 9	Administering a virtual infrastructure	223
Ch. 10	Best practices, gotchas, and common problems	337
Ch. 11	VMware under the covers	357
Ch. 12	Backup strategies for ESX server and virtual machines	379
Ch. 13	Common and necessary command-line interface (CLI) commands	397
Ch. 14	A peek at the future : it's totally cool	439

New interesting textbook: Financial Theory and Corporate Policy or Global Business

Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit

Author: Brian Caswell

This all new book covering the brand new Snort version 2.6 from members of the Snort developers team.

This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything from packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell, Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful Snort features.

The accompanying CD contains examples from real attacks allowing readers test their new skills. The book will begin with a discussion of packet inspection and the progression from intrusion detection to intrusion prevention. The authors provide examples of packet inspection methods including: protocol standards compliance, protocol anomaly detection, application control, and signature matching. In addition, application-level vulnerabilities including Binary Code in HTTP headers, HTTP/HTTPS Tunneling, URL Directory Traversal, Cross-Site Scripting, and SQL Injection will also be analyzed. Next, a brief chapter on installing and configuring Snort will highlight various methods for fine tuning your installation to optimize Snort performance including hardware/OS selection, finding and eliminating bottlenecks, and benchmarking and testing your deployment. A special chapter also details how to use Barnyard to improve the overall performance of Snort. Next, best practices will be presented allowing readers to enhance the performance of Snort for even the largest and most complex networks. The next chapter reveals the inner workings of Snort by analyzing the sourcecode. The next several chapters will detail how to write, modify, and fine-tune basic to advanced rules and pre-processors. Detailed analysis of real packet captures will be provided both in the book and the accompanying CD. Several examples for optimizing output plugins will then be discussed including a comparison of MySQL and PostrgreSQL. Best practices for monitoring Snort sensors and analyzing intrusion data follow with examples of real world attacks using: ACID, BASE, SGUIL, SnortSnarf, Snort_stat.pl, Swatch, and more.

The last part of the book contains several chapters on active response, intrusion prevention, and using Snort's most advanced capabilities for everything from forensics and incident handling to building and analyzing honey pots. Data from real world attacks will be presented throughout this part as well as on the accompanying CD.

* This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything all in one convenient package
* It is authored by members of the Snort team and it is packed full of their experience and expertise
* Includes full coverage of the brand new Snort version 2.6, packed full of all the latest information

1	Theoretical Foundations of Ontologies	1
2	The Most Outstanding Ontologies	47
3	Methodologies and Methods for Building Ontologies	107
4	Languages for Building Ontologies	199
5	Ontology Tools	293
	Bibliography	363
	Index	389
	Index of figures	397
	Index of tables	403

Ch. 1	Introducing message queuing	1
Ch. 2	System.Messaging	55
Ch. 3	Administration	137
Ch. 4	Transactional messaging	211
Ch. 5	MSMQ triggers	235
Ch. 6	MSMQ COM and win32 API	269
Ch. 7	Msmq 3.0	303
Ch. 8	MSMQ on pocket PC	361

1	Understanding digital reproduction	1
2	Setting up a print studio	19
3	Keeping an eye on color	47
4	Using printer settings	75
5	Editing your photos	115
6	Resizing and sharpening your images	155
7	Printing your files	203
8	Creating special print projects	233
9	Working with service providers	275
10	Presenting your work	285

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Mission Critical or Ontological Engineering

Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems

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Database and Applications Security or DeBugging C

Database and Applications Security

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DeBugging C++: Troubleshooting for Programmers

Embedded Linux System Design and Development or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

Embedded Linux System Design and Development

What People Are Saying

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Illustrated

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Information Seeking in Electronic Environments or 3ds Max 8 Essentials

Information Seeking in Electronic Environments

3ds Max 8 Essentials: Autodesk Media and Entertainment Courseware

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Pro SQL Server 2008 Xml or The Internet and Society

Pro SQL Server 2008 XML

What you’ll learn

Who is this book for?

About the Apress Pro Series

The Internet and Society

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens or Practical CakePHP Projects

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens

Practical CakePHP Projects

What you’ll learn

Who is this book for?

About the Apress Practical Series

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: A Digital Photographer's Guide

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Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials or Oracle Wait Interface

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials

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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

Usability Testing and Research or Groovy Programming

Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers

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Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner or Logistic Regression Using the SAS System

Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application

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Essential C for Engineers and Scientists or Health Information Technology

Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists

THIS SECOND EDITION FEATURES:

Health Information Technology

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C or Microsoft Visual C 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

C++: The Core Language

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management

Library Journal

Booknews

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Design and Launch Your Ecommerce Business in a Week or Blogs Wikis Myspace and More

Design and Launch Your eCommerce Business in a Week

Blogs, Wikis, Myspace, and More: Everything You Want to Know about Using Web 2. 0 but Are Afraid to Ask

The Hacker Crackdown or Network Maturity Model

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

BookList

Booknews

Network Maturity Model

Adobe PageMaker 70 Basics or Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

Adobe PageMaker 7.0 BASICS

Building High Availability Windows Server 2003 Solutions

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Conquest in Cyberspace or Learning Red Hat Linux

Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

Table of Contents:

Learning Red Hat Linux

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Go to: Six Sigma Distribution Modeling or How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Infopath 2003