Science Applications Books

Making Music with Your Computer or Elements of Compiler Design

2009-12-06T02:58:00.000-08:00

Making Music with Your Computer

Author: Stephen Bennett

These days, nearly everyone with musical aspirations alsohas a computer. This same computer can double as a highquality recording studio capable of producing professionalrecordings. This book tells you what software and hardwareyou will need to get the best results.

You'll learn about recording techniques, software andeffects, mixing, mastering and CD production.

Suitable for PC and Mac users, the book is full of tips,'how to do' topics and illustrations. It's the perfectanswer to the question 'How do I use my computer to producemy own CD?'

Elements of Compiler Design

Author: Alexander Meduna

Providing both theoretical and practical approaches, Elements of Compiler Design offers a comprehensive introduction to compilers. From a theoretical perspective, this book presents fundamental models underlying compilation and demonstrates the concepts, methods, and techniques based on these models. It also examines the mathematical foundations of the theory of formal languages, automata, and transducers. From a practical point of view, the text describes how various compiler techniques are implemented and features a continuous case study that illustrates the design of a new programming language and construction of a compiler for this language.

Understanding the Digital Economy or C Network Programming Volume I

2009-12-04T22:47:00.000-08:00

Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications of the Internet and electronic commerce domestically and internationally, and to consider new types of data collection and research that could be undertaken by public and private organizations.

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

New interesting textbook: The Boys Beer Book or Seasonal Country Kitchen

C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns

Author: Douglas C Schmidt

As networks, devices, and systems continue to evolve, software engineers face the unique challenge of creating reliable distributed applications within frequently changing environments. C++ Network Programming, Volume 1, provides practical solutions for developing and optimizing complex distributed systems using the ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE), a revolutionary open-source framework that runs on dozens of hardware platforms and operating systems.

This book guides software professionals through the traps and pitfalls of developing efficient, portable, and flexible networked applications. It explores the inherent design complexities of concurrent networked applications and the tradeoffs that must be considered when working to master them.

C++ Network Programming begins with an overview of the issues and tools involved in writing distributed concurrent applications. The book then provides the essential design dimensions, patterns, and principles needed to develop flexible and efficient concurrent networked applications. The book's expert author team shows you how to enhance design skills while applying C++ and patterns effectively to develop object-oriented networked applications.

Readers will find coverage of:

C++ network programming, including an overview and strategies for addressing common development challenges The ACE Toolkit
Connection protocols, message exchange, and message-passing versus shared memory
Implementation methods for reusable networked application services
Concurrency in object-oriented network programming
Design principles and patterns for ACE wrapfacades

With this book, C++ developers have at their disposal the most complete toolkit available for developing successful, multiplatform, concurrent networked applications with ease and efficiency.

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Explains how to use the adaptive communication environment (ACE) to develop networked applications. The authors, one of whom created ACE, review the core native OS mechanisms available on popular OS platforms, and illustrate how C++ and patterns are applied in ACE to encapsulate these mechanisms in class library wrapper facades that improve application portability and robustness. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

(NOTE: All chapters end with a Summary.)
About This Book.
Design Challenges, Middleware Solutions, and ACE.
Challenges of Networked Applications.
Networked Application Design Dimensions.
Object-Oriented Middleware Solutions.
An Overview of the ACE Toolkit.
Example Application: A Networked Logging Service.

I. OBJECT-ORIENTED NETWORK PROGRAMMING.

1. Communication Design Dimensions.
Connectionless versus Connection-oriented Protocols.
Synchronous versus Asynchronous Message Exchange.
Message Passing versus Shared Memory.

2. An Overview of the Socket API.
An Overview of Operating System IPC Mechanisms.
The Socket API.
Limitations of the Socket API.

3. The ACE Socket Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
The ACE Addr and ACE INET Addr Classes.
The ACE IPC SAP Class.
The ACE SOCK Class.
The ACE SOCK Connector Class.
The ACE SOCK Stream and ACE SOCK IO Classes..
The ACE SOCK Acceptor Class.

4. Implementing the Networked Logging Service.
Overview.
The ACE Message Block Class.
The ACE InputCDR and ACE OutputCDR Classes.
The Initial Logging Server.
The Client Application.

II. CONCURRENT OBJECT-ORIENTED NETWORK PROGRAMMING.

5.Concurrency Design Dimensions.
Iterative, Concurrent, and Reactive Servers.
Processes versus Threads.
Process/Thread Spawning Strategies.
User, Kernel, and Hybrid Threading Models.
Time-shared and Real-time Scheduling Classes.
Task- vs. Message-based Architectures.

6. An Overview of Operating System Concurrency Mechanisms.
Synchronous Event Demultiplexing.
MultiProcessing Mechanisms.
MultiThreading Mechanisms.
Synchronization Mechanisms.
Limitations with OS Concurrency Mechanisms.

7. The ACE Synchronous Event Demultiplexing Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
The ACE Handle Set Class.
The ACE Handle Set Iterator Class.
The ACE::select() Methods.

8. The ACE Process Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
The ACE Process Class.
The ACE Process Options Class.
The ACE Process Manager Class.

9. The ACE Threading Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
The ACE Thread Manager Class.
The ACE Sched Params Class.
The ACE TSS Class.

10. The ACE Synchronization Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
The ACE Guard Classes.
The ACE Mutex Classes.
The ACE Readers/Writer Lock Classes.
The ACE Semaphore Classes.
The ACE Condition Variable Classes.

A Design Principles for ACE C++ Wrapper Facades.
Overview.
Use Wrapper Facades to Enhance Type Safety.
Simplify for the Common Case.
Use Hierarchies to Enhance Design Clarity and Extensibility.
Hide Platform Differences Whenever Possible.
Optimize for Efficiency.

B The Past, Present, and Future of ACE.
The Evolution of ACE.
The Road Ahead.
Concluding Remarks.

Glossary.
Index.

The ABCs of LDAP or Photoshop CS for Beginners DVD

2009-12-03T18:36:00.000-08:00

The ABCs of LDAP: How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services

Author: Reinhard Volgmaier

Until now, it has been difficult to find the right source of information on LDAP and directory server implementations: books on the subject are overly product-specific, and a search on the Web results in information overload. The ABCs of LDAP: How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services strikes the right balance, providing a synopsis of LDAP fundamentals without getting wrapped up in one particular implementation. This book is for network and systems administrators who want to begin using LDAP more extensively. It delivers the theoretical background needed to understand how these servers work, resulting in clear, concise examples of implementations in both commercial and OpenLDAP environments. The text is structured so that each chapter can stand on its own, with brief descriptions of terms supplemented by references to more detailed explanations in other chapters. You also benefit from a concise overview of how to design a directory, preparing you to execute directory deployments for email, PKI, DNS, NIS servers, and many other productivity-enhancing applications. Topics include major LDAP APIs, such as PHP, Perl, and Java, as well as distributed command line tools. The book covers ways to integrate LDAP into existing systems, and provides hands-on examples within working implementations.

Photoshop CS for Beginners DVD

Author: Scott Kelby

There's nothing like having a teacher at your side as you learn a new program--especially one as powerful and complex as Photoshop CS. But a private tutor is a luxury few users can afford. With this DVD, you don't need one! On it, Adobe Certified Trainer Dave Cross provides all the essential info you need to dive right in and start using the image manipulation program immediately--no experience required! Throughout, the focus is on the practical advice that will get you playing around with the program fast. In short order, Dave provides clear, succinct explanations of pixels, resolution, color modes, and file sizes; how to set up the workspace; which tools to use for what; how to take advantage of the History palette and layers for making changes; how to use Photoshop's selection tools effectively (and why this is so crucial); methods for adjusting and retouching images; techniques for cropping, transforming, and using filters; and more. A slew of timesaving tips and shortcuts ease the way!

CCNA or Computer Security Fundamentals

2009-12-02T14:24:00.000-08:00

Ccna

Author: Michael Valentin

The CCNA Exam Cram 2, Second Edition is a concise, comprehensive study aid that is perfect for anyone preparing for the CCNA exam. Some changes to the exam are expected in late 2005, and this updated edition to the popular Exam Cram will keep you up to date. This newest edition continues to provide you with specific, targeted explanations of the concepts and commands that you will find on the actual CCNA exam.

You will be able to focus on exam objectives, without having to first wade through lots of extra information that you don't need for the test. You will also be able to gain specific skills to improve your testing ability, not only in CCNA knowledge, but with proven test-taking strategies designed to improve your score. The CCNA Exam Cram 2, Second Edition's focus on objectives, exam alerts, and strategies will give you some of the best study preparation material available. It truly is "The Smartest Way to Get Certified!"

Ch. 1	Networking fundamentals	1
Ch. 2	Network models	13
Ch. 3	Concepts in IP addressing	37
Ch. 4	Working with Cisco equipment	65
Ch. 5	Managing your router	85
Ch. 6	Catalyst switch operations and configuration	99
Ch. 7	VLANs	125
Ch. 8	IP access lists	147
Ch. 9	Routing	171
Ch. 10	Wide area networks	209
Ch. 11	Advanced IP concepts	241
Ch. 12	CCNA practice labs	269
Ch. 13	Practice exam #1	281
Ch. 14	Answer key to practice test #1	305
Ch. 15	Practice exam #2	321
Ch. 16	Answer key to practice test #2	339

Computer Security Fundamentals

Author: William Easttom

KEY BENEFIT: This gateway into the world of computer security provides one-volume coverage of all the basic concepts, terminology and issues, along with practical skills essential to security. Topics covered range from those commonly found in security books such as virus attacks, buffer overflow, hacking spyware and network defense, as well as more specialized areas including cyber terrorism, industrial espionage and encryption. Providing a comprehensive introduction, this volumes examines assessing a target system, denial of service attacks, malware, basics of assessing and securing a system, encryption, Internet fraud, and cyber crime, industrial espionage, cyber terrorism and information warfare, cyber detective, security hardware and software. For system analysts network administrators, network security professionals and security audit professionals.

Pro NetBeans IDE 55 Enterprise Edition or The Scheme Programming Language 3rd Edition

2009-12-01T10:13:00.000-08:00

Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition

Author: Adam Myatt

Written for Java(tm) developers of varying skill and familiarity with the open source NetBeans(tm) IDE as well as Java IDEs in general, Pro NetBeans(tm) IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition focuses on using NetBeans IDE as a professional Java EE 5 software development platform.

Experienced author Adam Myatt provides a comprehensive guide to mapping out the functionality of NetBeans IDE and its enterprise add-ons: Enterprise Pack and Visual Web Pack. Coverage of such diverse topics as web applications, web services, and UML modeling, along with real-life case studies and clear, topical information, all combine to offer everything you need to get started with the NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition platform.

So whether you're an experienced IDE user or a Java developer who works only with Emacs, you'll find what you need in this book to get started with the more vibrant, more productive extensible NetBeans platform project.

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The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition

Author: R Kent Dybvig

This thoroughly updated edition of The Scheme Programming Language provides an introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise manner. Written for professionals and students with some prior programming experience, it begins by leading the programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and continues with an introduction to some of the more advanced features of the language. Many exercises are presented to help reinforce the lessons learned, and answers to the exercises are given in a new appendix. Most of the remaining chapters are dedicated to the reference material, which describes in detail the standard features of Scheme included in the Revised Report on Scheme and the ANSI/IEEE standard for Scheme.

Numerous examples are presented throughout the introductory and reference portions of the text, and a unique set of extended example programs and applications, with additional exercises, are presented in the final chapter. Reinforcing the book's utility as a reference text are appendixes that present the formal syntax of Scheme, a summary of standard forms and procedures, and a bibliography of Scheme resources. The Scheme Programming Language stands alone as an introduction to and essential reference for Scheme programmers. It is also useful as a supplementary text for any course that uses Scheme.

The Scheme Programming Language is illustrated by artist Jean-Pierre Hebert, who writes Scheme programs to extend his ability to create sophisticated works of digital art.

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An introduction to the language for readers with some programming experience, progressing from simple to difficult examples and exercises that illustrate each of the major features of the language. After coverage of aspects such as binding forms, control structures, and syntactic extension facilities, a final chapter includes sample programs and packages with an overview of each package with additional examples and exercises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Getting Started	11
3	Going Further	55
4	Procedures and Variable Bindings	83
5	Control Operations	93
6	Operations on Objects	119
7	Input and Output	169
8	Syntactic Extension	181
9	Extended Examples	211
	Bibliography	259
	Answers to Selected Exercises	261
	Formal Syntax of Scheme	277
	Summary of Forms	281
	Index	289

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book or Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

2009-11-30T06:01:00.000-08:00

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Author: Martin Evening

Digital photographers who have relied on Adobe Photoshop to work with their images have a new tool at their disposal: Adobe Lightroom. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Lightroom offers powerful features in a streamlined interface that let photographers import, sort, and organize images. The Adobe Lightroom Book, written by professional photographer and best-selling author Martin Evening, describes Lightroom's features in detail and with photographer's in mind. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for a more efficient workflow. He's been working with Lightroom from the beginning, providing feedback to Lightroom's public beta and monitoring the product's development. The Adobe Lightroom Book has been earning acclaim since it was first published as a "Rough Cut" book-in-process on Safari, a joint venture between Peachpit and O'Reilly Publishing. Martin has been updating the book's content as Lightroom evolves, giving users the most up-to-date information about this revolutionary product. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, making him the perfect author for what will become the definitive book about Adobe Lightroom. Photographers who routinely work with raw images will find Lightroom--and The Adobe Lightroom Book--an indispensable tool in their digital darkroom.

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Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

Author: Edward Whalen

Install and configure Oracle Database 10g on a Linux enterprise platform. This book explains how to set up, administer, monitor, and tune Oracle Database 10g on Linux. You will also learn how to implement High Availability solutions as well as handle backup, recovery, and replication. This exclusive Oracle Press guide is the ideal resource for all Oracle DBAs working in a Linux environment.

Edward Whalen is the founder of Performance Tuning Corporation (www.perftuning.com), a consulting company specializing in database performance, administration, and backup/recovery solutions. Prior to starting Performance Tuning Corp., Mr. Whalen worked at Compaq Computer Corporation as an OS developer, and then as a database performance engineer. He has extensive experience in database system design and tuning for optimal performance. His career has consisted of hardware, OS, and database development projects for many different companies. Mr. Whalen has written three other books on the Oracle RDBMS and four books on MS SQL Server. He has also worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with both Oracle and MS SQL Server. Mr. Whalen is recognized as a leader in database performance tuning and optimization. In addition to his experience in Oracle on many different OS platforms, such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows, he has recently spent significant time working with Oracle on Linux, including the deployment of some of the first RAC clusters on Linux. He works closely with both Red Hat and Novell/SUSE with many different flavors of Linux.

1	Linux architecture	3
2	Oracle architecture	29
3	Transaction management and the Oracle schema objects	65
4	Sizing Oracle 10g on Linux systems	91
5	Configuring the Linux system for Oracle	125
6	Installing Oracle 10g on Linux	141
7	Oracle real application cluster concepts	165
8	Deploying Oracle real application clusters on Linux	185
9	Administering Oracle and RAC on Linux	215
10	Tuning Oracle and RAC on Linux	235
11	Backup and recovery	273
12	Restore	305
13	Oracle data guard on Linux	323
14	Oracle advanced replication on Linux	341
15	Configuring the hardware for Linux and Oracle	351
16	Tuning SQL	369
17	Indexes and partitioning	403
18	Oracle Application Server 10g on Linux	427
19	The Oracle e-business suite on Linux	443

Oracle DBA Pocket Guide or Programming Excel with VBA and NET

2009-11-29T01:50:00.000-08:00

Oracle DBA Pocket Guide

Author: David Kreines

Oracle DBA Pocket Guide is designed to help Oracle DBAs make more effective use of their time and resources. Covering current Oracle database products, from Oracle9i Database to the latest release, Oracle Database 10g Release 2, this pocket guide presents useful information about Oracle database administration in a clear, concise, and easy-to-use format. This reference pulls together the key concepts, commands, and parameters that Oracle DBAs need on a daily basis, packing an enormous amount of helpful advice into a compact, all-in-one volume.

Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

Author: Jeff Webb

Why program Excel? For solving complex calculations and presenting results, Excel is amazingly complete with every imaginable feature already. But programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about combining existing features to solve particular problems. With a few modifications, you can transform Excel into a task-specific piece of software that will quickly and precisely serve your needs. In other words, Excel is an ideal platform for probably millions of small spreadsheet-based software solutions.
The best part is, you can program Excel with no additional tools. A variant of the Visual Basic programming language-VB for Applications (VBA)-is built into Excel to facilitate its use as a platform. With VBA, you can create macros and templates, manipulate user interface features such as menus and toolbars, and work with custom user forms or dialog boxes. VBA is relatively easy to use, but if you've never programmed before, "Programming Excel with VBA and .NET" is a great way to learn a lot very quickly. If you're an experienced Excel user or a Visual Basic programmer, you'll pick up a lot of valuable new tricks. Developers looking forward to .NET development will also find discussion of how the Excel object model works with .NET tools including Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).
This book teaches you how to use Excel VBA by explaining concepts clearly and concisely in plain English, and provides plenty of downloadable samples so you can learn by doing. You'll be exposed to a wide range of tasks most commonly performed with Excel, arranged into chapters according to subject-and those subjects correspond to one or more Excel objects. With both thesamples and important reference information for each object included right in the chapters, instead of tucked away in separate sections, "Programming Excel with VBA and .NET" covers the entire Excel object library. For those just starting out, it also lays down the basic rules common to all programming languages.
With this single-source reference and how-to guide, you'll learn to use the complete range of Excel programming tasks to solve problems, no matter what you're experience level is.

Querying XML or Digital Signal Processing

2009-11-27T21:36:00.000-08:00

Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context

Author: Jim Melton

There is no more authoritative pair of authors on Querying XML than Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton. Best of all, as readers of Jim's other books know, his informal writing style will teach you what you need to know about this complex subject without giving you a headache. If you need a comprehensive and accessible overview of Querying XML, this is the book you have been waiting for.-—from the foreword by Don Chamberlin, IBM Fellow, Almaden Research Center

XML has become the lingua franca for representing business data, for exchanging information between business partners and applications, and for adding structure— and sometimes meaning—to text-based documents. XML offers some special challenges and opportunities in the area of search: querying XML can produce very precise, fine-grained results, if you know how to express and execute those queries.

For software developers and systems architects: this book teaches the most useful approaches to querying XML documents and repositories. This book will also help managers and project leaders grasp how "querying XML" fits into the larger context of querying and XML. Querying XML provides a comprehensive background from fundamental concepts (What is XML?) to data models (the Infoset, PSVI, XQuery Data Model), to APIs (querying XML from SQL or Java) and more.

* Presents the concepts clearly, and demonstrates them with illustrations and examples; offers a thorough mastery of the subject area in a single book.
* Provides comprehensive coverage of XML query languages, and the concepts needed to understand them completely (such as the XQuery Data Model).
* Shows how to query XML documentsand data using: XPath (the XML Path Language); XQuery, soon to be the new W3C Recommendation for querying XML; XQuery's companion XQueryX; and SQL, featuring the SQL/XML extensions.
* Includes an extensive set of XQuery, XPath, SQL, Java, and other examples, with links to downloadable code and data samples.

Jim Melton of Oracle Corporation is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and has been active in SQL standardization for two decades. More recently, he has been active in the W3C's XML Query Working Group that defined XQuery, is co-Chair of that WG, and co-edited two of the XQuery specifications. Stephen Buxton is Director of Product Management at Mark Logic Corporation, and a member of the W3C XQuery Working Group and Full-Text Task Force. Until recently, Stephen was Director of Product Management for Text and XML at Oracle Corporation.

Ch. 1	XML	3
Ch. 2	Querying	31
Ch. 3	Querying XML	45
Ch. 4	Metadata - an overview	67
Ch. 5	Structural metadata	85
Ch. 6	The XML information set (infoset) and beyond	123
Ch. 7	Managing XML : transforming and connecting	153
Ch. 8	Storing : XML and databases	193
Ch. 9	XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0	215
Ch. 10	Introduction to XQuery 1.0	261
Ch. 11	XQuery 1.0 definition	329
Ch. 12	XQueryX	407
Ch. 13	What's missing?	439
Ch. 14	XQuery APIs	497
Ch. 15	Sql/Xml	523
Ch. 16	XML-derived markup languages	585
Ch. 17	Internationalization : putting the "W" in "WWW"	605
Ch. 18	Finding stuff	623

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Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Based Approach

Author: Sanjit K Mitra

This book takes advantage of the availability of high-level software to illustrate how to use the computer to solve real-life design problems. The inclusion of MATLAB exercises throughout the book illustrates its powerful capability in solving signal processing problems.

Microprocessor Design or Microsoft Office Access 2007 Introductory

2009-11-26T17:25:00.000-08:00

Microprocessor Design: A Practical Guide from Design Planning to Manufacturing

Author: Grant McFarland

Gain a Working Knowledge of the Entire Microprocessor Design Flow

This unique step-by-step guide is a complete introduction to modern microprocessor design, explained in simple nontechnical language without complex mathematics. An ideal primer for those working in or studying the semiconductor industry, Microprocessor Design explains all the key concepts, terms, and acronyms needed to understand the steps required to design and manufacture a microprocessor.

Developed from a successful corporate training course, this hands-on learning guide walks readers through every step of microprocessor design. You'll follow a new processor product from initial planning through design to production. In Microprocessor Design, the author converts his real-world design and teaching experience into an easy-to-follow reference employing an on-the-job-training approach to cover:

The evolution of microprocessors

Microprocessor design planning

Architecture and microarchitecture

Logic design and circuit design

Semiconductor manufacturing

Processor packaging and test

This authoritative reference is an excellent introduction for students or engineers new to processor design and can show industry veterans how their specialty fits into the overall design flow. This accessible and practical guide will provide the reader with a broad working knowledge of the concepts of microprocessor design, as well as an understanding of the individual steps in the process and the jargon used by the industry.

Grant McFarland holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation, CMOS Technology Scaling and Its Impact onCache Delay, predicted the impact of fabrication technology scaling on the design of processor cache memories. Dr. McFarland is currently senior design engineer for Intel(R) Corporation where he created a corporate training course and teaches the fundamentals of microprocessor design. He participated in the design of the 180nm, 90nm, and 65nm generations of the Pentium(R) 4 microprocessor.

Readers with comments or questions about this book can reach him at grant.mcfarland@comcast.net.

Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Microprocessor

Chapter 2: Computer Components

Chapter 3: Design Planning

Chapter 4: Computer Architecture

Chapter 5: Microarchitecture

Chapter 6: Logic Design

Chapter 7: Circuit Design

Chapter 8: Layout

Chapter 9: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Chapter 10: Microprocessor Packaging

Chapter 11: Silicon Debug and Test

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INDEX
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Microsoft Office Access 2007 Introductory

Author: Timothy J OLeary

The O’Leary Office 2007 text is crafted to allow students to easily develop Microsoft Office application skills. The text design emphasizes step-by-step instructions with full screen captures that illustrate the results of each step performed. Each Lab, designed to be covered in 1 hour of class time, combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. Each Lab opens with a running case study that highlights real-world applications of each software program and leads students from problem to solution.

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook or Learn to Make Great Digital Photos for 5 Bucks

2009-11-25T13:13:00.000-08:00

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook

Author: Robbie Allen

In the last few years, security has become a hot-button issue for IT organizations of all sizes. Accordingly, many of the security features that were either optional or suspect in Windows 2000 have become solid, effective fixtures in Windows Server 2003-making it the most secure operating system Microsoft has ever produced. That is, if you know how to configure it properly.

The Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook wants to make sure that you do know how. Picking up right where its predecessor, the Windows Server Cookbook, left off, this desktop companion is focused solely on Windows Server security. It teaches you how to perform important security tasks in the Windows Server 2003 OS using specific and adaptable recipes. Each recipe features a brief description of the problem, a step-by-step solution, and then a discussion of the technology at work. Whenever possible, the authors even tell you where to look for further information on a recipe.

The book is written in a highly modular format, with each chapter devoted to one or more technologies that Windows Server 2003 provides. This approach allows you to look up a task or scenario that you want to accomplish, find that page, and read that particular recipe only. Topics include:

System preparation and administration

Protecting the computer at the TCP/IP level

Applying security options to Active Directory

Improving security on domain controllers

Securing DHCP controllers

Encrypting and signing network traffic using IPSec

Patch management

If you're an intermediate or advanced system administrator who wants to feel secure when deploying Windows Server 2003 and its related services, then you don't wantto be without the Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook.

1	Getting started	1
2	System preparation and administration	19
3	TCP/IP	42
4	Encrypting file system	56
5	Active directory	75
6	Group policy	96
7	Security templates	130
8	Domain controllers	153
9	User and computer accounts	167
10	Rights and permissions	199
11	Dynamic host configuration protocol	218
12	Domain name system	232
13	File and print servers	264
14	IPsec	280
15	Internet information services	314
16	RRAS and IAS	337
17	Terminal services and remote desktop	354
18	Public key infrastructure and certificates	373
19	Auditing	412
20	Event logs	433
21	Patch management	451

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Learn to Make Great Digital Photos for 5 Bucks

Author: Tim Grey

Learn to Make Great Digital Photos for 5 Bucks is a tight, bright, four-color, quick reference manual for anyone who wants to learn to use their digital camera. Written by an intelligent expert of digital photography, the text is integrated with large illustrations (either photographs or software interface shots). Brief tips or warnings at page bottom address any ancillary points not covered in the basic how-to text. There's nothing else. Readers will quickly learn the fundamentals of using a digital camera: your camera's basic features, how to shoot in different lighting conditions, tips for different kinds of shots (portrait, landscape, close-up), basic rules all the pros know, and more than 50 tips and secrets that help get the perfect shot, or maybe just save your day. You'll also learn what to do with your images after you've imported them into your computer: managing your photo files, editing and cropping, printing, and emailing them to friends and family. This book isn't designed to be a complete reference, but an irresistible impulse buy for people who don't normally buy books in this area--or for people who just want to learn the basics.

An Introduction to Programming Using Interactive Data Language or Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book

2009-02-22T14:05:00.000-08:00

An Introduction to Programming Using Interactive Data Language (IDL)

Author: Kenneth P Bowman

In today's information age, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze extremely large sets of data. One of the best tools to accomplish this is Interactive Data Language (IDL ®), a programming and visualization environment that facilitates numerical modeling, data analysis, and image processing. IDL's high-level language and powerful graphics capabilities allow users to write more flexible programs much faster than is possible with other programming languages.

An Introduction to Programming with IDL enables students new to programming, as well as those with experience in other programming languages, to rapidly harness IDL's capabilities: fast, interactive performance; array syntax; dynamic data typing; and built-in graphics. Each concept is illustrated with sample code, including many complete short programs.

•Margin notes throughout the text quickly point readers to the relevant sections of IDL manuals

•End-of-chapter summaries and exercises help reinforce learning

•Students who purchase the book are eligible for a substantial discount on a student version of the IDL software

Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	IDL manuals and books	9
Ch. 3	Interactive IDL	13
Ch. 4	IDL scripts (batch jobs)	33
Ch. 5	Integer constants and variables	39
Ch. 6	Floating-point constants and variables	39
Ch. 7	Using arrays	59
Ch. 8	Searching and sorting	77
Ch. 9	Structures	83
Ch. 10	Printing text	93
Ch. 11	Reading text	101
Ch. 12	Writing and reading binary files	107
Ch. 13	Reading NetCDF files	115
Ch. 14	Writing NetCDF files	127
Ch. 15	Procedures and functions	137
Ch. 16	Program control	153
Ch. 17	Line graphs	161
Ch. 18	Contour and surface plots	171
Ch. 19	Mapping	181
Ch. 20	Printing graphics	193
Ch. 21	Color and image display	201
Ch. 22	Animation	219
Ch. 23	Statistics and pseudorandom numbers	227
Ch. 24	Interpolation	237
Ch. 25	Fourier analysis	247

Book about: Quantity Food Sanitation or Evaluating Beer

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book

Author: Staff of Adobe Press

Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe's tightly integrated set of design tools, offers enough goodies to make any graphic designer swoon. Since the Premium edition of this software collection includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional–as well as a handful of other shiny new tools–users will find everything they need to create beautiful content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Here to make sure you master it quickly and completely is a self-paced guide from Adobe's Creative Team--the folks behind the software. With the Classroom in a Book series, you learn by immersion. Step-by-step, project-based lessons walk you through sample real-life projects, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the new skills you've learned. The companion CD, filled with lesson and media files, will have you working on print, Web and PDF projects in no time. Whether you're a graphic design novice, student, graphic designer, educator, or are just new to the Adobe Creative Suite, this book will give you a solid overview of Adobe's creative design software.

E Commerce For Dummies or Alternative Digital Photography

2009-02-21T09:53:00.000-08:00

E-Commerce For Dummies

Author: Don Jones

"The easy days of being an online merchant are gone!" - IDC in IT Industry Update, 2001
This is the one book that demystifies the world of e-commerce so that you can keep yourself, your business, and your career on the cutting edge.

The ability to do business online is creating another industrial revolution. But e-commerce is tough to understand and even harder to do well, as recent dot-com shakeouts show. E-Commerce For Dummies is THE title that helps break down the world of e-commerce into understandable and manageable terms and concepts. It covers all aspects of both B2B and B2C in a clear, no-nonsense way that cuts through the hype about this quickly evolving and vitally important topic. The book combines valuable business strategies with insight into the technology that makes e-commerce possible, and includes real-life case studies so you can find out what to do-and what not to do-when charting your e-commerce strategies.

Go to: Out of the Shadows or Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling

Alternative Digital Photography

Author: John G Blair

Alternative Digital Photography will lead you through a detailed exploration of alternative techniques in digital photography. Whether you are an amateur photographer, a beginning professional, or an advanced professional looking to add more creativity to your photography, this book will help you develop the skills you need to create unusual, creative, and artistic images using digital photography. It includes hands-on lessons designed to help you quickly develop new and creative ways of viewing the world around you. It is filled with example photographs, outlining the steps taken to achieve each image. It emphasizes simple, creative, and inexpensive suggestions that anyone can use--no need for a professional studio or a large financial investment. The book does also include coverage of advanced techniques as well as expensive tools that allow you to continue using the book as your experience grows.

Daniel Lombardo - Library Journal

The digital photography revolution has freed us from the expense of film and the bother of learning the mechanics of aperture, focus, and light settings. Some argue that the cost may be the loss of the edgy creativity that can be achieved with the classic SLR film camera. Both Blair and Cartwright bring us books that inspire the experimental use of images, before and after they leave the digital camera. Blair (The Glossary of Digital Photography) uses the seemingly endless manipulations of Photoshop to create images that are in styles he calls photoimpressionism, neomysticism, and neosymbolism. He defocuses his camera, uses digital infrared, and even experiments with digital toy cameras.

Accomplished actress and artist Cartwright takes digital images, photos on film, and Polaroids and manipulates them with an array of traditional art materials and techniques. She adds color with acrylic paints, oil sticks, watercolors, dry pigments, and inks. For texture she uses embossing powders, gessoes, pastes, and wax, and for special effects she experiments by printing photos on unusual substratum, by imprinting, and by using tissue and fabric. Both books accomplish their goal admirably, and both are highly recommended.

Chapter 1 - Creating Black and White from Color
Chapter 2 - Creating Sepia from Black and White or Color
Chapter 3 - Hand colored Black and White
Chapter 4 - Hand colored Sepia
Chapter 5 - Abstract
Chapter 6 - Pleinart
Chapter 7 - Mosaic
Chapter 8 - Fresco
Chapter 9 - Photoimpressionism
Chapter 10 - Romantic Miniatures
Chapter 11 - Digital Pinhole
Chapter 12 - Digital Infrared

Geekonomics or Murachs Visual Basic 2005

2009-02-20T05:42:00.000-08:00

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Author: David Ric

“The clarity of David’s argument and the strength of his conviction are truly inspiring. If you don’t believe the world of software affects the world in which you live, you owe it to yourself to read this book.”
–Lenny Zeltzer, SANS Institute faculty member and the New York Security Consulting Manager at Savvis, Inc.

“Geekonomics stays with you long after you finish reading the book. You will reconsider every assumption you have had about software costs and benefits.”
–Slava Frid, Gemini Systems, CTO, Resilience Technology Solutions

“Information Security is an issue that concerns governments, companies and, increasingly, citizens. Are the computer systems and software to which we entrust our sensitive and critical information, technologies that are out of control? David Rice has written an important and welcome book that goes to the heart of this issue, and points to solutions that society as a whole needs to debate and embrace.”
–Nick Bleech, IT Security Director, Rolls-Royce

“If you are dependent upon software (and of course, all of us in the modern world are) this book is a fabulous discussion of how and why we should worry.”
–Becky Bace

The Real Cost of Insecure Software

• In 1996, software defects in a Boeing 757 caused a crash that killed 70 people…

• In 2003, a software vulnerability helped cause the largest U.S. power outage in decades…

• In 2004, known softwareweaknesses let a hacker invade T-Mobile, capturing everything from passwords to Paris Hilton’s photos…

• In 2005, 23,900 Toyota Priuses were recalled for software errors that could cause the cars to shut down at highway speeds…

• In 2006 dubbed “The Year of Cybercrime,” 7,000 software vulnerabilities were discovered that hackers could use to access private information…

• In 2007, operatives in two nations brazenly exploited software vulnerabilities to cripple the infrastructure and steal trade secrets from other sovereign nations…

Software has become crucial to the very survival of civilization. But badly written, insecure software is hurting people–and costing businesses and individuals billions of dollars every year. This must change. In Geekonomics, David Rice shows how we can change it.

Rice reveals why the software industry is rewarded for carelessness, and how we can revamp the industry’s incentives to get the reliability and security we desperately need and deserve. You’ll discover why the software industry still has shockingly little accountability–and what we must do to fix that.

Brilliantly written, utterly compelling, and thoroughly realistic, Geekonomics is a long-overdue call to arms. Whether you’re software user, decision maker, employee, or business owner this book will change your life…or even save it.

The Alarming Cost of Insecure, Badly Written Software...

and How to Finally Fix the Problem, Once and for All!

Six billion crash test dummies: why you’re at greater risk than you ever imagined.

You pay the price: why consumers are legally and financially responsible for the mistakes of software manufacturers.

Broken windows: how software promotes epidemic cyber crime and threatens national security.

Who runs the show?: Why software manufacturers fought against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s attempts to protect the U.S. blood supply.

Protecting national infrastructure: real incentives for transforming software manufacturing.

Surviving the information superhighway: practical, must-read advice in a world of insecure code.

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xx

Chapter 1: The Foundation of Civilization 1

Chapter 2: Six Billion Crash Test Dummies: Irrational Innovation and Perverse Incentives 19

Chapter 3: The Power of Weaknesses: Broken Windows and National Security 73

Chapter 4: Myopic Oversight: Blinded by Speed, Baffled by Churn 131

Chapter 5: Absolute Immunity: You Couldn’t Sue Us Even If You Wanted To 179

Chapter 6: Open Source Software: Free, But at What Cost? 243

Chapter 7: Moving Forward: Rational Incentives for a Different Future 273

Epilogue 321

Notes 325

Index 341

Book about: Fearless Caregiver or My Child Has Cancer

Murach's Visual BASIC, 2005

Author: Anne Boehm

Visual Basic 2005 is designed for productivity...and so is this new addition to Murach’s bestselling VB series. It moves at a professional pace to teach you how to develop Windows Forms applications using all the time-saving new features in Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.

That means you’ll learn how to:
create database applications using the new data sources feature and new data controls that are now layered on top of ADO.NET (database processing is the function that’s changed most dramatically in this release of Visual Basic) use new object-oriented features like generics, My objects, partial classes, and class diagrams that save you time on everyday functions take advantage of new Visual Studio features like code snippets, Auto Correction, and ClickOnce deployment that simplify the tasks of creating, testing, debugging, and deploying applications But if you’re new to VB.NET, you’ll also gain the core skills that haven’t changed. So you’ll learn how to validate data...handle numeric, date, and string data...do repetitive processing using arrays and collections...handle exceptions in a structured way...work with text, binary, and XML files...access data with ADO.NET...and make practical use of OOP features like inheritance and interfaces. What’s more, these classic skills are seamlessly integrated with what’s new, just as you’ll mix new and unchanged features in your own applications.

Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh or Transcending CSS

2009-02-19T01:30:00.000-08:00

Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Author: Russell Chun

Adobe Flash CS3 is the leading software for Web designers creating dynamic Web sites. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide offers the most efficient way for smart, creative, busy professionals to learn Flash. Updated to include the important new features in Flash CS3, this book covers the latest ActionScript standards that make Flash CS3 so powerful, and details the expanded support for rich media. This handy guide combines a visual approach with straightforward, step-by-step instructions and screenshots, concise explanations of animation techniques, and task-based learning. Taking the highly accessible instructional format of the popularVisual QuickStart Guides to a more advanced level, the book guides readers through all the intricacies and new features of this top-selling Web multimedia application.

Introduction     ix
Approaching Advanced Animation     1
Building Complexity     3
Motion Tweening Strategies     4
Shape Tweening Strategies     16
Creating Special Effects     21
Animated and Complex Masks     26
Working with Video     37
Embedding Video into Flash     38
Progressive Download Video into Flash     47
Rotoscoping     53
Interactivity     55
Getting a Handle on ActionScript     57
What Is ActionScript 3.0?     58
About Objects and Classes     59
About Methods and Properties     60
Writing with Dot Syntax     61
More on Punctuation     63
The Actions Panel     64
Editing ActionScript     73
Using Objects     76
About Functions     85
Using Comments     89
Advanced Buttons and Event Handling     91
Listening for Events     92
Mouse Detection     94
The SimpleButton Class     98
Invisible Buttons     102
Animated Buttons and the Movie Clip Symbol     104
Complex Buttons     107
Button-Tracking Options     111
Changing Button Behavior     114
Creating Buttons Dynamically     117
Keyboard Detection     119
The Contextual Menu     122
Creating Continuous Actions     128
A Summary of Events     132
Controlling Multiple Timelines     133
Navigating Timelines with Movie Clips     134
Target Paths     135
Absolute and Relative Paths     139
Using the with Action to Target Objects     141
Movie Clips as Containers     143
Using Frame Labels     147
Managing Outside Communication     151
Communicating through the Web Browser     152
Loading External Flash Movies     168
Controlling Loaded Flash Movies     173
Loading External Images     178
Communicating with External Video     181
Using Projectors and the fscommand Action     188
Communicating with the Printer     191
Detecting Download Progress: Preloaders     200
Transforming Graphics and Sound     209
Controlling & Displaying Graphics     211
Understanding the Display List      212
Changing Graphic Properties     213
Controlling Scaling and Distortion     220
Modifying the Color     224
Blending Colors     230
Applying Special Effects with Filters     233
Creating Drag-and-Drop Interactivity     236
Detecting Collisions     240
Generating Graphics Dynamically     243
Controlling Stacking Order     246
Creating Vector Shapes Dynamically     249
Using Dynamic Masks     266
Customizing Your Pointer     272
Putting It Together: Animating Graphics with ActionScript     274
About Bitmap Images     279
Creating and Accessing Bitmap Data     280
Manipulating Bitmap Images     286
Using Filters on Bitmap Images     296
Putting It Together: Animating Bitmap Images     299
Controlling Sound     303
Using Sounds     304
Playing Sounds from the Library     305
Loading and Playing External Sounds     307
Controlling Sound Playback     309
Modifying Volume and Balance     313
Detecting Sound Events     318
Working with MP3 Song Information     320
Visualizing Sound Data     323
Putting It Together: Dynamic Sound Controls     326
Working with Information     331
Controlling Information Flow     333
Using Variables and Expressions     334
Loading External Variables     338
Storing and Sharing Information     347
Modifying Variables     353
Concatenating Variables and Dynamic Referencing     355
Testing Information with Conditional Statements     357
Providing Alternatives to Conditions     362
Branching Conditional Statements     364
Combining Conditions with Logical Operators     368
Looping Statements     370
Controlling Text     375
Input Text     376
Dynamic Text     378
Selecting Text Field Options     380
Displaying HTML     383
TextField Properties     388
Generating Text Fields Dynamically     398
Modifying Text in Text Fields     400
Formatting Text Fields from an External Style Sheet     410
Detecting the Focus of Text Fields     414
Controlling the Focus and Selection within Text Fields     417
Analyzing Text     419
Modifying Text     429
Manipulating Information     433
Making Calculations with the Math Class     434
Calculating Angles     435
Creating Directional Movement     444
Calculating Distances     448
Generating Random Numbers     450
Ordering Information with Arrays     451
Keeping Track of Objects with Arrays     458
Using the Date and Time     463
Managing Content and Troubleshooting     471
Sharing Library Symbols     472
Sharing Fonts     479
Including External ActionScript     482
Using the Movie Explorer     485
Tracing Variables in the Output Panel     489
Determining a Variable's Data Type     491
Optimizing Your Movie     492
Avoiding Common Mistakes     496
Keyboard Key Codes     497
Index     499

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

Author: Andy Clark

As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating Web sites is also changing. Few Web designers are experienced programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS
can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting
exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising efficient workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working
in a fast-paced environment. As someone who understands these complexities firsthand, author and designer Andy Clarke offers visual
designe s a progressive approach to creating artistic, usable, and accessible sites using transcendent CSS.

In this groundbreaking book, you’ll discover how to implementhighly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative
possibilities using markup and CSS. You’ll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes that work well for designers and all team
members, use grids effectively, visualize markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working with the
latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members effectively, and much more.

Written and edited by Web design and CSS luminaries Andy Clarke and Molly E. Holzschlag, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
• Uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniques
• Includes numerous examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their code
• Offers early previews of technical advances in new Web browsers and of the emerging CSS3 specification

Autonomous Systems And Intelligent Agents In Power System Control And Operation or Digital Capital

2009-02-17T21:19:00.000-08:00

Autonomous Systems And Intelligent Agents In Power System Control And Operation

Author: C Rehtanz

Autonomous systems are one of the most important trends for the next generation of control systems. This book is the first to transfer autonomous systems concepts and intelligent agents theory into the control and operation environment of power systems. The focus of this book is to design a future control system architecture for electrical power systems, which copes with the changed requirements concerning complexity and flexibility and includes several applications for power systems. This book draws the whole circle from the theoretical and IT-concept of autonomous systems for power system control over the required knowledge-based methods and their capabilities to concrete applications within this field.

New interesting textbook: Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 or HTML

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs

Author: Don Tapscott

When Transmeta unveiled its remarkable new microprocessors earlier this year, the company's founder, David Ditzel, told the media: "The Internet changes everything. In the future you will no more want to leave your home without your Internet connection than you do without your cell phone today."

The Transmeta chips are designed from scratch to facilitate wireless Internet access from Web appliances and ultra-light laptops. Scores of other corporations are scrambling to come up with similar devices.

In Japan, the revolutionary "i-mode" mobile phone is soaring in popularity. These svelte phones are constantly connected to the Internet. You don't have to 'logon' to the Web as you do in North America. The display screen is the size of a business card. More than 350 companies have built a vast array of Web sites for the gadget. Users can receive email, chat, buy and sell securities, download video and music, swap photos, read train schedules, look up their horoscopes, check movie listings, and on and on. The Japanese are hooked.

This constant connectivity to the Net will profoundly effect how we go about our lives. At the early stages we will download straightforward content like music, newspaper clipping and ebooks.

Soon wireless devices that pinpoint your location will be able to answer any questions on services and amenities in the neighbourhood. As you drive through a neighbourhood that you would like to move to, you will be alerted to any houses for sale with the right number of bedrooms and bathrooms. Naturally the device will tell you how to get to each house.

These gadgets will be our constant companions and co-pilots as we go about our work and play. Their ability to extract useful information from the blizzard of digital data will be key. We will insist these devices intimately understand our needs and wants.

As we explore in Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs, corporations are reinventing their business models around the ubiquitous, deep, rich and increasingly functional Internet. Large and diverse sets of people scattered around the world can now, easily and cheaply, gain near real-time access to the information they need to make safe decisions and coordinate complex activities.

Different companies can add knowledge value to a product or service - through innovation, enhancement, cost reduction, or customization - at each step in its lifecycle. Often, specialists do a better value-adding job than vertically integrated firms. In the digital economy, the notion of a separate, electronically negotiated deal at each step of the value cycle becomes a reasonable, often compelling, proposition.

Successful corporations are now distinguished by their ability to identify and accumulate digital capital. They use the Net to blend their intellectual acumen with other companies and leverage the combined insight. They use the Web to develop much deeper relationships with their customers. And they jettison the business models of the industrial age to reinvent their corporations for success in the digital economy.

To repeat: The Internet changes everything. Digital Capital shows how.

Publishers Weekly

Building on concepts that have been around for more than a decade, the authors argue convincingly that the age of the trillion-dollar enterprise, where two or more companies come together to complete one project, and then go their separate ways, competing against one another for the next, may finally be at hand. Managers who are grappling with ways to expand rapidly with limited resources--a description that fits just about every manager--are bound to be intrigued by the argument that Tapscott (The Digital Economy), Ticoll and Lowy--partners at the Alliance for Converging Technologies consulting firm--put forth. As they see it, the Internet eliminates almost all of the transaction problems that have plagued alliances up until now. Alliance partners no longer have to be in the same location, since the Web makes communication instantaneous, which in turn makes managing enterprises easier. Continuous market feedback is possible, since customers can be plugged into the network, along with suppliers and subcontractors. That's intriguing enough, but the authors go further and outline how five possible types of alliances, or "business webs," can be tailored to suit virtually any company. While the authors give relatively short shrift to the "how to" component of constructing these webs and they don't spend as much time as they might on exactly where employees fit into them, those shortcomings don't distract too much from their otherwise trenchant and absorbing presentation. While the future may evolve differently than the authors envision it, they have provided a workable interim blueprint for getting from here to there. (July) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

The Standard

Digital Capital, the new book coauthored by Web guru Don Tapscott, functions much like a classic economics primer: It takes a fascinating topic and drains the excitement from it.

Business webs, or b-webs, the authors argue, have emerged as a powerful and profound new form of economic organization. "If the corporation embodied capital in the industrial age, then the b-web does the same for the digital economy," they write.

Tapscott and crew essentially posit b-webs as ubercorporations - amalgams of businesses that join up to reduce transaction costs and inefficiencies. "The b-web is emerging as the generic, universal platform for creating value and wealth," they assure.

There's nothing egregiously wrong with this thoughtful and authoritative book. In fact, the authors provide solid analysis of the new shape of competition. But they do so with such earnestness and heavy-handedness that the book sags.

For example, the authors provide a "b-web taxonomy" with dense descriptions of what they classify as agoras, aggregations, value chains, alliances and distributive networks. They then address how such organizations affect human capital and what they call relationship capital (otherwise known as marketing). The book closes with prescriptions for how to build and profit from b-webs.

Such talk comes across as a complicated and static lecture from gurus with ideas to sell. The turgid vocabulary and tech-heavy content make for intellectual speed bumps to anyone seeking a quick read. And the nature of the book is a mismatch with the environment it describes: The dynamic, fast-moving world of rapidly emerging business models and innovative online companies can't be captured by such an academic and ponderous take.

Moreover, the book's basic premise - the rise of b-webs - assumes that these nascent environments will actually take shape. The largest and most ambitious b-webs, such as AutoExchange, or those in the aerospace or health care industries, have yet to have a meaningful impact on the economy. Like the early venture investments in IT or biotechnology, much of these businesses' value lies in an increasingly uncertain future.

The book's argument rests heavily on the example of MP3.com as a thriving b-web that has "shaken the foundations of an entire industry." While arguably true, MP3.com isn't the success story it used to be after the recording industry's successful court ruling against it, which hammered the company's stock and revealed flaws in this new business' structure. Likewise, the authors use the rise of another threatened company - Webvan - as an example of a successful aggregation form of b-web.

Ultimately, this book delivers insight into a profound new economic form, but it's not the final word. Livelier and more relevant reading on Net economics is the 1998 book Information Rules. Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro's primer lends historical context to the economic rules that govern the new economy, as well as gives crisp managerial guidelines for this changed world. Tapscott's book is too self-important and rooted in yesterday's examples to deliver more lasting benefits.

Tom Ehrenfeld writes the Just Managing column for TheStandard.com.

Internet Book Watch

Ebay, Schwab and others have created revolutionary offerings which have stolen customers from more traditional venues, working with transaction partners which enabled them to move quickly in the changing Internet environment. Digital Capital describes and explains the emerging business web phenomenon and its influences, using key players and detailed information to expose the untold stories behind big successes and offering a strategy for competitive action. Essential for any who would conduct or build a web business.

Business Week - Kirsanov

...the book's research is extensive, and it's surprisingly saavy about technology...if you are trying to understand why some companies are flourishing and others are struggling under old-fashioned business models, Digital Capital is pure enlightenment.

What People Are Saying

Warren Bennis
Digital Capital is unarguably the single best guide to corporate survival in the new economy. If your company wants to be in the phone book in the year 2003 and beyond, read this book.
—Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and Coauthor, Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders

Robert Eaton
The seminal book on business webs and how they can help move your business units into the new, new economy. Every business leader should read this book!
—Robert Eaton, Chairman, DaimlerChrysler

John Chambers
The Internet revolution waits for no one-no country, no company, and no individual. The key to success in this revolution is harnessing the power of the Internet to gain sustainable competitive advantage and to create value for your customers. Tapscott, Ticoll, and Lowy show you how to do this by defining the business model for your company's survival in today's economy. Read this book to stay ahead.
—John Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems

Larry Downes
Exciting and compelling, Digital Capital concisely captures important new thinking on Internet business models and how to apply them today.
—Larry Downes, Coauthor, Unleashing the Killer App

Noel Tichy
Digital Capital is the guidebook for any business leader who wants to win in the e-business world. Well written and provocative, this book provides us with the first practical navigation system for what the authors coin as 'b-webs'-the new platform for winning in the twenty-first century.
—Noel Tichy, Professor, University of Michigan, and Coauthor, The Leadership Engine and Every Business Is a Growth Business

Jeff Papows
Simply a must-read. Digital Capital provides real out-of-the-box insights, and, even more, excites and captivates you.
—Jeff Papows, Author, Enterprise.com

William T. Esrey
With a surgeon's precision, Tapscott, Ticoll, and Lowy define and explore new business models and opportunities coming to light in the emerging virtual 'agora.' Digital Capital is the guide to the new world of Internet work.
—William T. Esrey, Chairman and CEO, Sprint Corporation

Michael S. Dell
Digital Capital is an insightful guide to the rules of engagement in the new economy. Its explanation of collaborative business webs-the emerging market models for value creation-should be required reading for anyone who wants to reach the digital customer.
—Michael S. Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation

J. Bruce Harreld
By far, the best work on the new business models required to compete in e-business. Pray that your competitors don't read it!
—J. Bruce Harreld, Senior Vice President of Strategy, IBM

Mark Hogan
We created eGM to transform General Motors into a major force in the digital economy. Don Tapscott and the Alliance for Converging Technologies team have greatly influenced out business design and are helping us to chart the future. Digital Capital does a great job of putting the task at hand in clear focus.
—Mark Hogan, President, eGM

Kim Polese
Tired of all the hype and clichйs about e-business? Still don't know how to compete in a dot-com world? You just found your secret weapon. Tapscott, Ticoll, and Lowy cut to the core of what really matters-how to use the Internet for creating powerful business partnerships. You can't find a better guide to winning in the new digital economy.
—Kim Polese, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Cofounder, Marimba, Inc.

Durk Jager
One of the most important challenges facing today's executives is the need to disaggregate and reaggregate their firms to harness the power of business webs. Digital Capital presents an actionable blueprint for meeting this challenge. If you have any responsibility for the future of your business, read this book.
—Durk Jager, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble

Open Source for the Enterprise or Managing Industrial Knowledge

2009-02-16T17:07:00.000-08:00

Open Source for the Enterprise

Author: Dan Woods

Open source software is changing the world of information technology. But making it work for your company is far more complicated than simply installing a copy of Linux. If you are serious about using open source to cut costs, accelerate development, and reduce vendor lock-in, you must institutionalize skills and create new ways of working. You must understand how open source is different from commercial software and what responsibilities and risks it brings. Open Source for the Enterprise is a thoughtful guide to putting open source to work in the modern IT department.

Open source software is software whose code is freely available to anyone who wants to change and redistribute it. New commercial support services, smaller licensing fees, increased collaboration, and a friendlier platform to sell products and services are just a few of the reasons open source is so attractive to IT departments. Some of the open source projects that are in current, widespread use in businesses large and small include Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JBoss, and Perl. Open source has entered a new area where it is being used as a marketing device, a collaborative software development methodology, and a business model.

This book provides something far more valuable than either the cheerleading or the fear-mongering one often hears about open source. The authors are Dan Woods, former CTO of TheStreet.com and a consultant and author of several books about IT, and Gautam Guliani, Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. Each author has used open source software for some 15 years at IT departments large and small. They have collected the wisdom of a host of experts from IT departments, open source communities, and software companies. Open Source for the Enterprise provides a top to bottom view not only of open source technology, but of the skills required to manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed.

1	The nature of open source	1
2	Measuring the maturity of open source	29
3	The open source skill set	45
4	Making the ROI case	67
5	Designing an open source strategy	79
6	Support models for open source	95
7	Making open source projects easy to adopt	105
8	A comparison of open source licenses	117
9	Open source under attack	127
10	Open source empowerment	137
A	The open source platform	147
B	End-user computing on the desktop	151
C	Open source and email	159
D	Groupware, portals, and collaboration	175
E	Web publishing and content management	189
F	Application development	203

Go to: Meaningful Scents Around the World or The Diabetic Traveler

Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer and Utilization

Author: David J Teec

Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets. In this volume many of the foremost international authors and pioneers of the study of knowledge in firms present their latest work and insights into organizational knowledge and innovation.

In a world where markets, products, technologies, competitors, regulations, and even societies change rapidly, continuous innovation and the knowledge that produces innovation have become key. The chapters in this keynote volume shed new light on the contextual factors in knowledge creation, the links between knowledge and innovation in all aspects of business life and the processes by which these may be fostered or lost in organizations.

GNU Autoconf Automake and Libtool or Mistake Proofing for Operators

2009-02-13T09:03:00.000-08:00

GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool

Author: Vaughan

If you are a developer and are looking to participate in the Open Source development growth area you will need to learn new Open Source tools. GNU autoconf, GNU automake and GNU libtool are key tools for Open Source application development. These tools are not easy to learn, so some of the leading authorities on these tools have agreed to work together on this book to teach developers how to boost their productivity and the portability of their application. This book place New Riders/MTP at the center of the Open Source development community. Autoconf, Automake and Libtool is an efficient discourse on the use of autoconf, automake and libtool aimed at reducing the steep learning curve normally associated with these tools. This is a study guide to the interactions between the tools, and how best to get them to cooperate. If you are a developer and have no GNU build environment expertise, this book will help you develop these tools completely and confidently.

	Foreword
	Introduction
1	History	1
2	How to Run Configure, and The Most Useful Standard Makefile Targets	7
3	Introducing 'Makefile's	17
4	Using GNU Autotools to Manage a "Minimal Project"	21
5	Writing a Protable 'configure.in'	29
6	Introducing GNU Automake	37
7	A Small GNU Autotools Project	47
8	Bootstrapping	79
9	Introducing GNU Libtool	83
10	Using GNU Libtool with 'configure.in' and 'Makefile.am'	107
11	A Large GNU Autotools Project	133
12	Rolling Distribution Tarballs	149
13	Installing and Uninstalling Configured Packages	155
14	Writing Portable C with GNU Autotools	163
15	Writing Portable C++ with GNU Autotools	177
16	Dynamic Loading	195
17	Using GNU libltdl	205
18	Advanced GNU Automake Usage	229
19	A Complex GNU Autotools Project	233
20	GNU M4	251
21	Writing Portable Bourne Shell	267
22	Writing New Macros for Autoconf	283
23	Migrating an Existing Package to GNU Autotools	293
24	Using Autotools with Cygnus' Cygwin	301
25	Cross-Compilation with GNU Autotools	329
A	Installing GNU Autotools	339
B	Platforms	343
C	Generated File Dependencies	349
D	Autoconf Macro Reference	355
E	Open Publication License	365
	Index	369

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Mistake-Proofing for Operators: The ZQC System

Author: Shigeo Shingo

The Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source and correcting errors that cause defects. Since it is human nature to make mistakes, ZQC does not blame people for errors, but instead finds ways to keep errors from becoming defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to check and give feedback about each product or operation in the process, not just a sample. This book introduces operators and assembly workers to the basic methodology of ZQC in an easy-to-read format that covers all aspects of this important manufacturing improvement strategy.

Mistake-Proofing for Operators includes the instructional features that are the signature of the Shopfloor Series. In this series Productivity Press has taken the lead in adult education by teaming with instructional designers to develop complete programs for frontline learning. The goal: to place powerful and proven improvement tools such as ZQC and mistake-proofing in the hands of your company's entire workforce.

It includes:

A universal reading level.
Margin icons that highlight key learning points.
Real-life examples to reinforce new ideas.
Reflection questions throughout that help readers apply the concepts.
Drawings, illustrations, and photographs.

Winner of the 1990 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing,Mistake-Proofing for Operators is based on by Shigeo Shingo

Survey of Operating Systems or Caught in the Net

2009-02-12T04:51:00.000-08:00

Survey of Operating Systems

Author: Charles Holcomb

This textbook offers a survey of all the major microcomputer operating systems through real-world case studies, annotated illustrations, and step-by-step tutorials and projects. It is designed for IT students who want to learn how to install, configure, and troubleshoot operating systems. This book will teach the basic functions of an operating system, such as the graphical user interface, memory management, device management, and file management. It also explains how to install, configure, and troubleshoot each of the major microcomputer operating systems, including DOS, Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and, Linux, as well as explain the purpose of operating systems in different hardware environments, such as microcomputers and networks.

Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction - And a Winning Strategy for Recovery

Author: Kimberly S Young

"I don't even help [my children] with their homework in the evening because I'm in the chat rooms, and I don't help put them to bed because I don't realize how late it is. I also don't help them get ready for school in the morning like I used to do because I'm checking my e-mail. And I just can't stop myself."-Raymond, an Internet addict.

Internet addiction is real. Like alcoholism, drug addiction, or compulsive gambling, it has devastating effects on the lives of addicts and their families: divorce, job loss, falling productivity at work, failure in school, and, in extreme cases, criminal behavior. The problem has already reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and the number of "netaholics" continues to grow rapidly as more households and businesses go on-line. Yet, until now, no one from the mental health community has come forward with a specific description of Internet addiction and its effects or a strategy for treatment and recovery.

In Caught in the Net, Kimberly Young shares the results of her three-year study of Internet abuse. Often using the words of the Internet addicts themselves, she presents the stories of dozens of lives that were shattered by an overwhelming compulsion to surf the Net, play MUD games, or chat with distant and invisible neighbors in the timeless limbo of cyberspace.

Why is the Internet so seductive? What are the warning signs of Internet addiction? Is recovery possible? Dr. Young answers these questions and many more. She provides a questionnaire to help Net users determine whether they are addicts, and offers concrete steps to help problem users regulate Internet usage and devise a more balanced place for it intheir daily lives.

For Internet addicts as well as their parents, spouses, friends, and employers, Caught in the Net offers guidance on where and how to seek help from counselors, therapists, and other professionals who take this affliction seriously. For mental health professionals, this book provides insights into the nature and causes of Internet addiction and encourages counselors and therapists to expand their addiction recovery programs to address the specific problems of Internet addicts.

"Think that computer addiction is a joke? Think again. This groundbreaking book is the first to explore on-line addiction in a serious way and to consider the effects on individuals and their families. Caught in the Net is an important book for anyone who spends mornings and evenings connected to the Net."-Clifford Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg and Silicon Snake Oil.

"An excellent account of the dangers of the burgeoning Internet industry. Dr. Young carefully outlines the traps into which people can fall and offers pragmatic self-help suggestions. Caught in the Net is valuable for both consumers and the professionals who deal with them."-Maressa Hecht Orzack, PhD, Founder and Coordinator, Computer Addiction Services, McLean Hospital Lecturer, Harvard University Medical School

"I don't mean to spend all my time this way, but I can't stop. It's the only place my opinion matters and I feel important."-bobage38.automechanic.internet.addict

"I feel guilty about it, but when I tried to break free, I simply didn't have the strength....I'm a long-time smoker, but I've found the craving to go on the Internet first thing every morning is stronger than my urge to light a cigarette."-marylouage40.motheroffour.internet.addict

"When you're talking about the Internet, you're talking about power. It's the most powerful information tool I have ever known. When I explore the on-line world, I feel like that robot in the movie Short Circuit. I need more input! More input!"-daveage28.militarytelecommunicationsexpert.internet.addict

"I feel the rush every time my mind gets connected to this intensely powerful information whirlpool. When I enter cyberspace, I become one with my mind. It's like Mr. Spock doing the Vulcan mind meld."-joshage29.computerprogrammer.internet.addict

itt.edu and view her website at: netaddiction.com.

Booknews

What you might have thought was only a joke is real: net addiction can destroy lives in the same way that compulsive gambling or alcoholism can. Young (psychology, U. of Pittsburgh) shares the results of her three-year study of internet addiction. She offers a questionnaire for net users to determine if they have a problem, points out several ways that internet friendships are superficial while seeming the opposite, and lists numerous strategies for recovery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Learning AspNet 20 with Ajax or Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 Illustrated Introductory

2009-02-11T00:40:00.000-08:00

Learning Asp.Net 2.0 with Ajax: A Practical Hands-On Guide

Author: Jesse Liberty

With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft's latest web development tools -- ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular commercial web sites, such as order forms and the ability to interact with a database. And you can build pages that display information interactively without a page refresh. This straightforward tutorial explains how. Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX helps you master the concepts and techniques of Microsoft's tools with plenty of annotated examples, review quizzes, web construction exercises and chapter summaries, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as you go. With it, you'll learn to: Master the fundamental skills of ASP.NET 2.0 to build professional quality web applications Integrate new Ajax tools and CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 for flashier and more interactive sites Build applications with minimal coding using Visual Studio or its free counterpart, Visual Web Developer Connect your site with a database so that users can retrieve, interact and save data Debug your application, deal with unexpected problems, and protect your site from malicious users Use the community-maintained ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to extend the controls that come with ASP.NET AJAX Use personalization tools to give your site a customized look for each user Ideal for beginning web developers, or those who are new to ASP.NET, this book gets you involved with your own learning through hands-on lessons that are clear and to the point. You get the chance to try out new techniques on the spot. Want to join the world of modernwebdevelopment? This book will get you started.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 ? Illustrated Introductory

Author: Elizabeth Eisner Reding

Part of the Illustrated series, this text offers a visual, flexible way to build Microsoft Publisher 2003 skills. Lessons are presented in a clean, easy-to-follow 2-page spread layout that features action steps on the left-hand page and colorful, large illustrations and screen shots on the right-hand page.

Unit A	Getting started with Microsoft Office Publisher 2003	1
Unit B	Creating a publication	25
Unit C	Working with text	49
Unit D	Working with graphic objects	75
Unit E	Enhancing a publication	101
Unit F	Improving a design	127
Unit G	Working with multiple pages	149
Unit H	Using advanced features	175
Unit I	Working efficiently	201
Unit J	Creating Web documents	225

Kingdom under Fire or HTTP

2009-02-09T20:28:00.000-08:00

Kingdom under Fire: Circle of Doom: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Jim Mazurek

•Complete walkthroughs for all six acts and characters!
•All quests shown in full-detail!
•Learn how to build end-game characters with our detailed character section.
•Secrets: Mighty Sword! All Quest Bosses! Synthesize Abilities with Weapons!
•Introductory gameplay strategy helps novice, intermediate and advanced players!

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HTTP: The Definitive Guide

Author: David Gourley

Behind every successful web transaction lurks the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the language by which web clients and servers exchange documents and information. HTTP is commonly known as the workhorse behind the browsers we use every day to access our company intranets, locate out-of-print books, or research census information. But HTTP is used for far more than browsing the Web: the simplicity and ubiquity of HTTP also have made it the choice protocol for many other networked applications, most notably through web services such as SOAP and XML-RPC.

As the title suggests, HTTP: The Definitive Guide explains the HTTP protocol: how it works and how to use it to develop web-based applications. However, this book is not just about HTTP; it's also about all the other core Internet technologies that HTTP depends on to work effectively. Although HTTP is at the center of the book, the essence of HTTP: The Definitive Guide is in understanding how the Web works and how to apply that knowledge to web programming and administration. The book explains the technical workings, motivations, performance considerations, and objectives of HTTP and the technologies around which it revolves.

Written by experts with years of practical experience, this book uses clear, concise language and a plethora of detailed illustrations to help readers visualize what goes on behind the scenes, providing a complete understanding of the story behind each query on the Web.

All web programmers, administrators, and application developers need to be familiar with HTTP in order to work effectively. There are many books that explain how to use the Web, but this is the book that explains how the Web works.

	Preface
Pt. I	HTTP: The Web's Foundation
1	Overview of HTTP	3
2	URLs and Resources	23
3	HTTP Messages	43
4	Connection Management	74
Pt. II	HTTP Architecture
5	Web Servers	109
6	Proxies	129
7	Caching	161
8	Integration Points: Gateways, Tunnels, and Relays	197
9	Web Robots	215
10	HTTP-NG	247
Pt. III	Identification, Authorization, and Security
11	Client Identification and Cookies	257
12	Basic Authentication	277
13	Digest Authentication	286
14	Secure HTTP	307
Pt. IV	Entities, Encodings, and Internationalization
15	Entities and Encodings	341
16	Internationalization	370
17	Content Negotiation and Transcoding	395
Pt. V	Content Publishing and Distribution
18	Web Hosting	411
19	Publishing Systems	424
20	Redirection and Load Balancing	448
21	Logging and Usage Tracking	483
Pt. VI	Appendixes
App. A	URI Schemes	499
App. B	HTTP Status Codes	505
App. C	HTTP Header Reference	508
App. D	MIME Types	533
App. E	Base-64 Encoding	570
App. F	Digest Authentication	574
App. G	Language Tags	581
App. H	MIME Charset Registry	602
	Index	617

Digital Boudoir Photography or The Rough Guide to the Internet

2009-02-08T16:17:00.000-08:00

Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman

Author: John G Blair

Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. No longer confined to the idea of heavy makeup, lingerie, and the bedroom, the new age of boudoir photography is casual, sensual, and sexy. That is the premise behind Digital Boudoir Photography. Firmly grasping the freedom that digital photography affords, this book offers tips and techniques that allow anyone with a digital camera the ability to take attractive photographs of any woman.

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The Rough Guide to the Internet

Author: Peter Buckley

This multi-million-selling Internet book is still the ultimate handbook for novices and experts alike. Written in plain English, it covers everything from getting online for the first time to newsfeeds, Internet telephony and advanced tips and tricks guaranteed to turn casual surfers into Net gurus. This fully revised guide covers all the latest sites and crazes, including Skype, blogging, myspace and other social networks and online video. Whether you’ve never sent an email or you just want to keep up with the latest developments, this is the book for you.

Asterisk or Hacking Exposed

2009-02-07T12:05:00.000-08:00

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Author: Jim Van Meggelen

This bestselling book is now the standard guide to building phone systems with Asterisk, the open source IP PBX that has traditional telephony providers running scared! Revised for the 1.4 release of the software, the new edition of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony reveals how you can save money on equipment and support, and finally be in control of your telephone system.

If you've worked with telephony in the past, you're familiar with the problem: expensive and inflexible systems that are tuned to the vendor's needs, not yours. Asterisk isn't just a candle in the darkness, it's a whole fireworks show. Because Asterisk is so powerful, configuring it can seem tricky and difficult. This book steps you through the process of installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with your existing phone system.

You'll learn how to write dialplans, set up applications including speech synthesis and voice recognition, how to script Asterisk, and much more -- everything you need to design a simple but complete system with little or no Asterisk experience, and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge. The book includes:
-A new chapter on managing/administering your Asterisk system
-A new chapter on using Asterisk with databases
-Coverage of features in Asterisk 1.4
-A new appendix on dialplan functions
-A simplified installation chapter
-New simplified SIP configuration, including examples for several popular SIP clients (soft phones and IP telephones)
-Revised chapters and appendicies reviewed and updated for the latest in features, applications, trends and best-practices

Asterisk is revolutionizing the telecom industry, due in large part to the way it gets along with other network applications. While other PBXs are fighting their inevitable absorption into the network, Asterisk embraces it. If you need to take control of your telephony systems, move to Asterisk and see what the future of telecommunications looks like.

1	A telephony revolution	1
2	Preparing a system for Asterisk	9
3	Installing Asterisk	31
4	Initial configuration of Asterisk	58
5	Dialplan basics	77
6	More Dialplan concepts	99
7	Understanding telephony	119
8	Protocols for VoIP	137
9	The Asterisk gateway interface (AGI)	156
10	Asterisk for the uber-geek	175
11	Asterisk : the future of telephony	190
A	VoIP channels	209
B	Application reference	229
C	AGI reference	292
D	Configuration files	301
E	Asterisk command-line interface reference	337

Book about: Fundamentos de Desenho Gráficos

Hacking Exposed

Author: Stuart McClur

The tenth anniversary edition of the world's bestselling computer security book!

The original Hacking Exposed authors rejoin forces on this new edition to offer completely up-to-date coverage of today's most devastating hacks and how to prevent them. Using their proven methodology, the authors reveal how to locate and patch system vulnerabilities. The book includes new coverage of ISO images, wireless and RFID attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, anonymous hacking tools, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008, mobile devices, and more.

Hacking Exposed 6 applies the authors' internationally renowned computer security methodologies, technical rigor, and "from-the-trenches" experience to make computer technology usage and deployments safer and more secure for businesses and consumers.

"A cross between a spy novel and a tech manual." --Mark A. Kellner, Washington Times
"The seminal book on white-hat hacking and countermeasures . . . Should be required reading for anyone with a server or a network to secure." --Bill Machrone, PC Magazine

"A must-read for anyone in security . . . One of the best security books available." --Tony Bradley, CISSP, About.com

Stuart McClure, CISSP, CNE, CCSE, was founder, president, and CTO of Foundstone, and ran the worldwide AVERT team at McAfee.

Joel Scambray, CISSP, is chief strategy officer for Leviathan Security Group and was a senior director at Microsoft Corporation focusing on security.

George Kurtz, CISSP, former CEO of Foundstone, is senior vice president and general manager of McAfee's Risk &Compliance Business Unit. All three are the coauthors of the previous editions of Hacking Exposed.

Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77 or Readings in Database Systems 4th Edition

2009-02-06T07:54:00.000-08:00

Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77: Volume 1, Volume 1 of Fortran Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing

Author: William Press

This is the greatly revised and greatly expanded Second Edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry Numerical Recipes is a complete text and reference book on scientific computing. In a self-contained manner it proceeds from mathematical and theoretical considerations to actual practical computer routines. With over 100 new routines bringing the total to well over 300, plus upgraded versions of the original routines, this new edition remains the most practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing available today. Highlights of the new material include: -A new chapter on integral equations and inverse methods -Multigrid and other methods for solving partial differential equations -Improved random number routines - Wavelet transforms-The statistical bootstrap method -A new chapter on "less-numerical" algorithms including compression coding and arbitrary precision arithmetic. The book retains the informal easy-to-read style that made the first edition so popular, while introducing some more advanced topics. It is an ideal textbook for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone who works in scientific computing. The Second Edition is availabe in FORTRAN, the traditional language for numerical calculations and in the increasingly popular C language.

New interesting book: Principles of Object Oriented Modeling and Simulation with Modelica 21 or Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems

Readings in Database Systems, 4th Edition

Author: Joseph M Hellerstein

Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in the field have become increasingly influential. This text provides both students and professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most important issues in the database area -- the basic material for any DBMS professional.

This fourth edition has been substantially updated and revised, with 21 of the 48 papers new to the edition, four of them published for the first time. Many of the sections have been newly organized, and each section includes a new or substantially revised introduction that discusses the context, motivation, and controversies in a particular area, placing it in the broader perspective of database research. Two introductory articles, never before published, provide an organized, current introduction to basic knowledge of the field; one discusses the history of data models and query languages and the other offers an architectural overview of a database system. The remaining articles range from the classical literature on database research to treatments of current hot topics, including a paper on search engine architecture and a paper on application servers, both written expressly for this edition. The result is a collection of papers that are seminal and also accessible to a reader who has a basic familiarity with database systems.

	What goes around comes around	2
	Anatomy of a database system	42
	Access path selection in a relational database management system	103
	Join processing in database systems with large main memories	115
	Parallel database systems : the future of high performance database systems	141
	Encapsulation of parallelism in the volcano query processing system	155
	AlphaSort : a RISC machine sort	165
	R optimizer validation and performance evaluation for distributed queries	175
	Mariposa : a wide-area distributed database system	186
	The R-tree : an efficient and robust access method for points and rectangles	207
	Operating system support for database management	217
	The five-minute rule ten years later, and other computer storage rules of thumb	224
	A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)	230
	Granularity of locks and degrees of consistency in a shared data base	244
	On optimistic methods for concurrency control	274
	Concurrency control performance modeling : alternatives and implications	288
	Efficient locking for concurrent operations on B-tress	334
	ARIES : a transaction recovery method supporting fine-granularity locking and partial rollbacks using write-ahead logging	355
	Transaction management in the R distributed database management system	424
	The dangers of replication and a solution	443
	Inclusion of new types in relational data base systems	459
	Generalized search trees for database systems	467
	Grammar-like functional rules for representing query optimization alternatives	479
	AutoAdmin "what-if" index analysis utility	492
	Applying model management to classical meta data problems	504
	Algorithms for creating indexes for very large tables without quiescing updates	516
	An overview of data warehousing and OLAP technology	532
	Improved query performance with variant indexes	542
	DataCube : a relational aggregation operator generalizing group-by, cross-tab, and sub-totals	554
	An array-based algorithm for simultaneous multidimensional aggregates	579
	Deriving production rules for incremental view maintenance	591
	Informix under CONTROL : online query processing	604
	DynaMat : a dynamic view management system for data warehouses	638
	BIRCH : an efficient data clustering method for very large databases	656
	SPRINT : a scalable parallel classifier for data mining	668
	Fast algorithms for mining association rules	680
	Efficient evaluation of queries with mining predicates	693
	Combining systems and databases : a search engine retrospective	711
	The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine	725
	The BINGO! system for information portal generation and expert web search	745
	Data management in application servers	757
	Querying semi-structured data	768
	DataGuides : enabling query formulation and optimization in semistructured databases	786
	NiagaraCQ : a scalable continuous query system for the internet databases	796
	Scalable trigger processing	814
	The design and implementation of a sequence database system	824
	Eddies : continuously adaptive query processing	836
	Retrospective on Aurora

Information Graphics or Legal Aspects of Managing Technology

2009-02-05T03:42:00.000-08:00

Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference

Author: Robert L Harris

This beautifully illustrated book is the first complete handbook to visual information. Well written, easy to use, and carefully indexed, it describes the full range of charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, and tables used daily to manage, analyze, and communicate information. It features over 3,000 illustrations, making it an ideal source for ideas on how to present information. It is an invaluable tool for anyone who writes or designs reports, whether for scientific journals, annual reports, or magazines and newspapers.

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Legal Aspects of Managing Technology

Author: Lee B Burgunder

Whether you plan a career in management, engineering, architecture, biology, computer science, or other field that deals with innovations in any technological field, LEGAL ASPECTS OF MANAGING TECHNOLOGY will give you the understanding of the fundamental legal issues pertinent to technology management you need to competently create strategic plans in consultation with their attorneys. Up-to-date coverage focuses on integral technology law topics, including a intellectual property rights, privacy, biotechnology, e-commerce and antitrust.

Visual Basic 6 Complete or Technical Charting for Profits

2009-02-03T23:30:00.000-08:00

Visual Basic 6 Complete

Author: Steve Brown

Visual Basic 6 Complete is a one-of-a-kind computer book-valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This book contains the essentials you need to know about programming with Visual Basic and VBA, for use in building Windows applications, scripting, and extending and integrating Office applications.

With Visual Basic 6 Complete, you'll learn all about building Visual Basic applications - from working with forms and controls to using the Windows API and debugging Web applications -- and you'll quickly take advantage of all that Visual Basic has to offer. Get up to speed with Visual Basic, then move on to scripting objects, VBA, and building internet applications and interactive Web sites.

As you become more proficient with Visual Basic, you'll find the Visual Basic 6 Language Reference to be an invaluable daily tool. This comprehensive reference quickly puts every built-in function and statement at your fingertips.

Visual Basic 6 Complete introduces you to the work of some of the finest Sybex authors, so you'll know where to go to learn even more about what's possible with Visual Basic.

Inside:

Introduction to Visual Basic
* Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
* Working with forms and controls
* Understanding object-oriented programming
* Building sample VB applications Practical Visual Basic
* Debugging Visual Basic applications
* Extending VB with the Windows API
* Accessing the Windows Registry
* Building screen savers, and displaying an icon in the system tray with VB Visual Basic Scripting and the Internet
* Adding scripting support to your application
* Scripting objects
*Building Web-based applications with VB Visual Basic for Applications
* An Introduction to VBA
* The Word Object model
* The Access Object model revisited
* Professional development with VBA Visual Basic References
* Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference
* Visual Basic 6 Function Reference

	Introduction
Pt. I	Introduction to Visual Basic	1
Ch. 1	Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)	3
Ch. 2	Working with Forms	39
Ch. 3	Selecting and Using Controls	75
Ch. 4	Object Programming with Visual Basic	169
Ch. 5	Visual Basic Projects	227
Pt. II	Practical Visual Basic	273
Ch. 6	Debugging Visual Basic Programs	275
Ch. 7	Visual Basic and the Windows API	299
Ch. 8	Making Visual Basic Do What You Want	371
Pt. III	Introduction to Visual Basic Scripting and the Internet	413
Ch. 9	Adding Scripting Support to Your Application	415
Ch. 10	Scripting Objects	453
Ch. 11	Visual Basic and the Web	515
Pt. IV	Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications	567
Ch. 12	An Introduction to VBA	569
Ch. 13	The Word Object Model	621
Ch. 14	Introducing the Access Object Model	649
Ch. 15	Professional Development with VBA	687
Pt. V	Visual Basic Reference	739
Reference 1	The Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference	741
Reference 2	Visual Basic 6 Function Reference	907
	Index	971

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Technical Charting for Profits

Author: Mark L Larson

An introduction to technical analysis with a free software and data offer from one of the top names in the business

This indispensable book will guide traders and individual investors through the most important-and profitable-advances in today's investment arena. Technical Charting for Profits explains technical analysis topics to traders in an accessible manner, and covers how to apply them in actual trading practice. Filled with helpful sample charts, graphs, and end-of-chapter quizzes, Technical Charting for Profits:

• Teaches you the basics of understanding and using indicators

• Includes a CD-ROM video and 30-day free data trial of the most widely distributed charting software package in the industry

• Covers both theory and practice of technical analysis Chart your course for financial success today with the priceless lessons in this much-needed book.

Booknews

This book/CD-ROM package explains advanced technical analysis (the reading of price and volume charts) in an accessible manner, and shows traders and individual investors how to apply them in actual trading for both bullish and bearish market conditions. Includes an overview of the history of the stock market, plus chapter quizzes. Examples are taken from TC2000, the most widely distributed charting software package, to teach how to understand and use indicators. The CD-ROM contains a video and a 30-day trial version of TC2000. Larson is founder of an investment firm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ajax or Securing Web Services with WS Security

2009-02-02T19:17:00.000-08:00

Ajax

Author: Thomas A Powell

Build, manage, and secure AJAX applications

Here is a practical and comprehensive programming guide to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)--the revolutionary new technique for creating interactive Web applications. You will get thorough coverage of AJAX technologies, the advanced JavaScript necessary to use AJAX properly, and how AJAX works with PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, and Ruby. Core information about network, data, and user interface design in support of AJAX is also included.

Core Ideas

Introduction to Ajax

Traditional JavaScript Remoting

XMLHttpRequest Object

Data Formats

Applied Ajax

Developing an Ajax Library

Network Considerations

Security Concerns

User Interface Design

Application and Site Architecture

Advanced Topics

Web Services and Beyond

Appendices

Appendix A: Core JavaScript Quick Reference

Appendix B: HTTP 1.1 Reference

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Securing Web Services with WS-Security: Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption

Author: Jothy Rosenberg

You know how to build Web service applications using XML, SOAP, and WSDL, but can you ensure that those applications are secure? Standards development groups such as OASIS and W3C have released several specifications designed to provide security -- but how do you combine them in working applications?

Securing Web Services with WS-Security will help you take your Web services securely to production, with insight into the latest security standards.

Jothy Rosenberg and David Remy, both business, technology, and security visionaries, demystify these standards with practical examples including a fully developed case study application showing these tools at work. A pragmatic approach is taken showing which Web Services Security standards are needed when faced with a variety of security challenges. The authors understand that security remains one of the largest remaining impediments to deploying major Web services in business-critical situations. The goal of this book is to remove those impediments by providing a detailed understanding of all the available security technologies and how and when to employ them.

Flash 3D or Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel

2009-02-01T15:05:00.000-08:00

Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games

Author: Jim Ver Hagu

Push your creative ideas to the next level in content delivery.
Use real and simulated 3D space in your Flash games and interactive systems.

3D possibilities offer an untapped creative approach to thinking and designing with Flash. Tap into this medium by:
* Creating reusable templates to reduce costs and cycle time for project development.
* Experimenting with author-provided interactive examples that demonstrate a broad range of Flash applications from website to DVD/CD-ROM delivery.
* Practicing the real-world project techniques presented by the authors in full color.
* Expanding your horizons with experimental projects.

Jim Ver Hague is a professor of Computer Graphics Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has more than 30 years' experience in the field of computer graphics and has lectured, consulted, and conducted workshops internationally in the fields of multimedia, electronic publishing, computer-aided information design, and computer art and sculpture.

Chris Jackson is a computer graphics designer and Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Chris has an extensive background in graphic design, printing and interactive multimedia. His professional work has received over 25 distinguished national and international awards for online communication.

User Level: Intermediate

Key Features:
* Techniques for creating reusable templates that reduce costs and cycle time for project development.
* A companion CD-ROM that includes an artists' gallery of example projects and project media for real-world exercises and tutorials.
* A balance of practical and experimental projects designed toteach and stretch your skills.

Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office XP (with CD-ROM)

Author: Patrick Carey

This popular best-selling book shows students and professionals how to do data analysis with Microsoft Excel. DATA ANALYSIS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL teaches students and professionals the fundamental concepts of statistics and how to use Microsoft Excel to solve the kind of data-intensive problems that arise in business and elsewhere. Even students with no previous experience using spreadsheets will find that this text's step-by-step approach, extensive tutorials, and examples make it easy to learn how to use Excel for analyzing data. A CD-ROM is included with every new text that contains the StatPlus add-ins for Microsoft Excel and data sets for exercises.

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Berk (Illinois State U.) and Carey, a consultant, teach even Excel novices how to apply this popular business spreadsheet software to learn statistical fundamentals in either a classroom or self-paced setting. Chapters include exercises. The CD-ROM contains concept tutorials on such topics as probability distributions, statistical inference, tables, regression and correlation, and time series analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Wireless Hacks or Uml 20 in a Nutshell

2009-01-31T10:53:00.000-08:00

Wireless Hacks

Author: Rob Flickenger

The popularity of wireless networking has grown exponentially over the past few years, despite a general downward trend in the telecommunications industry. More and more computers and users worldwide communicate via radio waves every day, cutting the tethers of the cabled network both at home and at work.

Wireless technology changes not only the way we talk to our devices, but also what we ask them to do. With greater flexibility, broader range, and increased mobility, wireless networks let us live, work, and think differently. Wireless networks also open up a vast range of tasty new hack possibilities, from fine-tuning network frequencies to hot-rodding handhelds.

The second edition of Wireless Hacks, co-authored by Rob Flickenger and Roger Weeks, brings readers more of the practical tips and tricks that made the first edition a runaway hit, selling nearly 30,000 copies. Completely revised and updated, this version includes over 30 brand new hacks, major overhauls of over 30 more, and timely adjustments and touchups to dozens of other hacks introduced in the first edition. From passive network scanning to aligning long-distance antennas, beefing up wireless network security, and beyond, Wireless Hacks answers real-life networking needs with direct solutions.

Flickenger and Weeks both have extensive experience in systems and network administration, and share a passion for making wireless more broadly available. The authors include detailed coverage for important new changes in specifications and in hardware and software, and they delve deep into cellular and Bluetooth technologies.

Whether you need your wireless network to extend to the edge of your desk, fit intoyour backpack, or cross county lines, the proven techniques in Wireless Hacks will show you how to get the coverage and functionality you're looking for.

Uml 2.0 in a Nutshell

Author: Dan Pilon

System developers have used modeling languages for decades to specify, visualize, construct, and document systems. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of those languages. UML makes it possible for team members to collaborate by providing a common language that applies to a multitude of different systems. Essentially, it enables you to communicate solutions in a consistent, tool-supported language.

Today, UML has become the standard method for modeling software systems, which means you're probably confronting this rich and expressive language more than ever before. And even though you may not write UML diagrams yourself, you'll still need to interpret diagrams written by others.

"UML 2.0 in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly feels your pain. It's been crafted for professionals like you who must read, create, and understand system artifacts expressed using UML. Furthermore, it's been fully revised to cover version 2.0 of the language.

This comprehensive new edition not only provides a quick-reference to all UML 2.0 diagram types, it also explains key concepts in a way that appeals to readers already familiar with UML or object-oriented programming concepts.

Topics include:

The role and value of UML in projects

The object-oriented paradigm and its relation to the UML

An integrated approach to UML diagrams

Class and Object, Use Case, Sequence, Collaboration, Statechart, Activity, Component, and Deployment Diagrams

Extension Mechanisms

The Object Constraint Language (OCL)

If you're new to UML, a tutorial with realistic examples has even been included to help you quickly familiarize yourself with the system.

50 Fast Digital Photo Projects or Oracle SQL Plus

2009-01-30T06:41:00.000-08:00

50 Fast Digital Photo Projects

Author: Gregory Georges

Suppose you could hand a friend an elegant leather-bound album of your best pictures, printed on fine art paper. Or create an online gallery to display your trip photos before you even get home. Or turn a favorite shot into a matted and framed gift print. You can do all this, and more, with the simple, step-by-step instructions you'll find right here.

Your guide to amazing digital photo projects

Create a first-rate scrapbook page
Make your own personal stationery with a watermark
Turn a photo into a large poster, create a digital frame and mat, or print a photo calendar
Produce your own bound portfolio or photo calendar
Order prints, greeting cards, or even bound photo books online
Create and e-mail a digital slideshow as a PDF file
Add graduated color effects or enhance photos with digital tints
Put together cool slideshows on DVD or on a Web page

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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide

Author: Jonathan Gennick

This book is the definitive guide to SQL*Plus. If youwant to take best advantage of the power and flexibility of this popular Oracle tool, you need this book.

SQL*Plus is an interactive query tool that is ubiquitous in the Oracle world. It is present in every Oracle installation and is available to almost every Oracle developer and database administrator. SQL*Plus has been shipped with Oracle since at least version 6. It continues to be supported and enhanced with each new version of Oracle, including Oracle8 and Oracle8i. It is still the only widely available tool for writing SQL scripts. Despite this wide availability and usage, few developers and DBAs know how powerful SQL*Plus really is.

This book introduces SQL*Plus, includes a quick reference to all of its syntax options, and, most important, provides chapters that describe, in step-by-step fashion, how to perform all of the tasks that Oracle developers and DBAs want to perform with SQL*Plus -- and maybe some they didn't realize they COULD perform with SQL*Plus. You will learn how to write and execute script files, generate ad hoc reports, extract data from the database, query the data dictionary tables, customize your SQL*Plus environment, and use the SQL*Plus administrative features (new in Oracle8i).

This book is an indispensable resource for readers who are new to SQL*Plus, a task-oriented learning tool for those who are already using it, and a quick reference for every user.

A table of contents follows:

Preface
1. Introduction to SQL*Plus
2. Interacting with SQL*Plus
3. Generating Reports with SQL*Plus
4. Writing SQL*Plus Scripts
5. Extracting Data with SQL*Plus
6. Exploring Your Database with SQL*Plus
7. Advanced Scripting
8. Tuning and Timing
9. The Product User Profile
10. Administration with SQL*Plus
11. Customizing Your SQL*Plus Environment

A. SQL*Plus Command Reference
B. Connect Strings and the SQL*Plus Command

Sex and the Internet or C How to Program

2009-01-29T02:30:00.000-08:00

Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians

Author: Cooper

This groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to thoroughly explore the topic of cybersex and the effects of Internet use on sexuality. Focusing on treatment and assessment issues and the clinical implications of cybersex, this authoritative volume provides mental health professionals with an analysis of the most recent empirical evidence along with research specific to the impact of Internet use on couples and families, gay men, people with disabilities, children, and the workplace. Edited by one of the leading researchers, clinicians and authors in the emerging field of sex and the Internet, this book addresses the growing complexity of Internet sex issues and their impact on psychological functioning.

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C++ How to Program

Author: Deitel

With over 250,000 sold, Harvey and Paul Deitel's C++ How to Program is the world's best-selling introduction to C++ programming. Now, this classic has been thoroughly updated! The Deitels' groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. The books in this series feature hundreds of complete, working programs with thousands of lines of code. Deitels' C++ How to Program is the most comprehensive, practical introduction to C++ ever published-with hundreds of hands-on exercises, roughly 250 complete programs written and documented for easy learning, and exceptional insight into good programming practices, maximizing performance, avoiding errors, debugging, and testing. The updated Fifth Edition now includes a new early classes pedagogy-classes and objects are introduced in Chapter 3 and used throughout the book as appropriate. The new edition uses string and vector classes to make earlier examples more object-oriented. Large chapters are broken down into smaller, more manageable pieces. A new OOD/UML ATM case study replaces the elevator case study of previous editions, and UML in the OOD/UML case study and elsewhere in the book has been upgraded to UML 2. The Fifth Edition features new mini case studies (e.g., GradeBook and Time classes). An employee hierarchy replaces Point/Circle/Cylinder to introduce inheritance and polymorphism. Additional enhancements include tuned treatment of exception handling, new “Using the Debugger” material and a new "Before You Begin" section to help readers get set up properly. Also included are separate chapters onrecursion and searching/sorting. The Fifth Edition retains every key concept and technique ANSI C++ developers need to master: control statements, functions, arrays, pointers and strings, classes and data abstraction, operator overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, I/O, templates, exception handling, file processing, data structures, and more. It also includes a detailed introduction to Standard Template Library (STL) containers, container adapters, algorithms, and iterators. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the source code from the book. A valuable reference for programmers and anyone interested in learning the C++ programming language and object-oriented development in C++.

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This is an exciting time in the C++ world, according to the MIT graduate authors of this classic introductory programming college text. Within the context of a new ANSI/ISO C++ standard, the major upgrade of this iteration (2d ed., 1998) is its large-scale case study on object-oriented design using Unified Modeling Language (UML). Each of the 21 chapters includes conventional structured programming, but concludes with a "thinking about objects" section using UML. Appendices support the text. The CD-ROM includes Microsoft Visual C++ 6 introductory edition. An ancillary package is available. The authors are the principals of a corporate training and content-creation organization and the authors of books on programming with Java and C-languages. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction to Computers and C++ Programming	1
Ch. 2	Control Structures	54
Ch. 3	Functions	142
Ch. 4	Arrays	222
Ch. 5	Pointers and Strings	282
Ch. 6	Classes and Data Abstraction	362
Ch. 7	Classes: Part II	416
Ch. 8	Operator Overloading	462
Ch. 9	Inheritance	518
Ch. 10	Virtual Functions and Polymorphism	562
Ch. 11	C++ Stream Input/Output	598
Ch. 12	Templates	646
Ch. 13	Exception Handling	666
Ch. 14	File Processing	702
Ch. 15	Data Structures	740
Ch. 16	Bits, Characters, Strings and Structures	798
Ch. 17	The Preprocessor	852
Ch. 18	C Legacy Code Topics	866
Ch. 19	Class string and String Stream Processing	892
Ch. 20	Standard Template Library (STL)	924
Ch. 21	ANSI/ISO C++ Standard Language Additions	1026
App. A	Operator Precedence Chart	1064
App. B	ASCII Character Set	1066
App. C	Number Systems	1067
App. D	C++ Internet and Web Resources	1080
	Bibliography	1085
	Index	1092

Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services or Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies

2009-01-27T22:18:00.000-08:00

Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

Author: D Sterling

Dive deep into the architecture of Exchange Web Services-and master the intricacies for accessing data with the new, unifying API. Exchange Web Services offers new functionality, replacing old, disparate APIs. Written by members of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Web Services product teams at Microsoft, this practical guide introduces developers to Exchange Web Services. It includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the architecture and key features, including messaging, folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and autodiscovery. Developers who are moving applications using previous APIs to Exchange Web Services will learn how to determine the correct Web services constructs-and the implications of those decisions. In addition, developers writing new software will develop a well-grounded understanding of the methods available and how to structure interaction with Exchange Server 2007 for maximum benefit and performance. This book assumes only knowledge of how to write HTTP requests, but it provides proxy examples in Microsoft Visual C#r.

Key Book Benefits:

• Features comprehensive information about Exchange Web Services features, including messaging, folders, calendaring, tasks, notifications, searching, availability, and autodiscovery

• Provides proxy examples in Visual C#, but assumes only knowledge of how to write HTTP requests

Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies

Author: Roger C Parker

More than 70 million people have made Microsoft Office the most popular business software package on the planet. Whether you're a newcomer to the power and productivity of the entire Office suite -- with its word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, Web design, desktop publishing, and e-mail software -- or discovering Microsoft Office for the first time, you'll find yourself right at home with the friendly advice and plain-English answers inside Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies.

Get all Office 2000 programs working together -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, PhotoDraw, and Internet Explorer -- and take your computing skills to the next level. Publish professional-looking Web pages from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and FrontPage. Organize your schedule and e-mail with Outlook; create dazzling slide presentations with PowerPoint; create documents quickly with Word; and budget your finances with Excel's cool charts and graphs.

Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers the Standard, Professional, and Premium editions of Office 2000, so whatever your needs, we've got the answers!

SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting or More Windows XP for Seniors

2009-01-26T18:07:00.000-08:00

SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting

Author: Peter Jones

Create SAP Business Intelligence reports

This hands-on guide covers all aspects of the SAP Business Intelligence Reporting toolkit, the cutting-edge set of utilities for delivering accurate and effective corporate reports. You will get step-by-step configuration, design, and implementation details. Specific business scenarios and detailed solutions illustrate important points throughout the book.

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More Windows XP for Seniors: Customizing and Managing Your PC

Author: Addo Stuur

Written specifically for seniors who want to manage their own computers, this book demonstrates how to personalize and configure Windows XP and how to install and remove programs. Also detailed is how to protect a PC, set up passwords for multiple users, save important information onto CDs, create backups, and troubleshoot.

Information Warfare or The Power of Ultimate Six Sigma

2009-01-25T13:55:00.000-08:00

Information Warfare: Principles and Operations

Author: Edward L Waltz

Here's a systems engineering-level introduction to the growing field of Information Warfare (IW) — the battlefield where information is both target and weapon. This comprehensive book provides engineers, system operators, and information technology users with an understandable overview of rapidly emerging threats to commercial, civil, and military information systems — and shows how these threats can be identified and systems protected.

Authored by a leading expert in advanced information-based technologies, this is the first book to detail the component principles, technologies, and tactics critical to success in the three key areas of IW: Information Dominance, Information Defense, and Information Offense. The author explains the quantification of information, describes the deductive, inductive and abductive processes that create knowledge, and provides essential technical background on:

• The knowledge creation processes of data fusion and data mining

• Information security technologies, including: encryption, authentication, authorization, and attack detection

• Information attack technologies, including: physical, infrastructure, and perceptual methods

Adding to the book's value are extensive citations to relevant unclassified literature, numerous examples of practical defense-related systems, clear explanations of basic IW theory, and much deeper and broader coverage of security issues than found in typical Internet security books.

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Presents the author's conception of the use of information in warfare, based on seminars that he has presented in the US and Europe since 1995. Topics include the role of technology in information-based warfare, information superiority through dominant battlespace awareness and knowledge, information warfare policy, the weapons of information warfare, cryptographic encryption measures, and physical-level system security. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
1	Concepts of Information in Warfare	1
2	The Role of Information Science in Warfare	49
3	The Role of Technology in Information-Based Warfare	83
4	Achieving Information Superiority Through Dominant Battlespace Awareness and Knowledge	107
5	Information Warfare Policy, Strategy, and Operations	139
6	The Elements of Information Operations	171
7	An Operational Concept (CONOPS) for Information Operations	229
8	Offensive Information Operations	251
9	Defensive Information Operations	301
10	The Technologies of Information Warfare	357
	About the Author	383
	Index	385

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The Power of Ultimate Six Sigma

Author: Keki Bhot

Developed by Motorola and popularized by Jack Welch and GE, Six Sigma remains today's hottest program for "zero defect" quality excellence. Now, Keki Bhote, member of the original Motorola team, presents an undiluted approach, applying his trademarked "Ultimate Six Sigma(r)" method to every business process — from manufacturing and customer retention to supply chain management and leadership.

The book is packed with every technique and metric necessary for a fast, smooth implementation, giving readers everything they need to make their own companies world-class in their industry.

In addition, numerous case studies of benchmark companies illustrate the factors that contribute to success. Bhote includes assessment tools designed to help a company gauge its current status and measure future progress. This book is the ultimate guide to the ultimate quality assurance tool.

Author Biography: Keki Bhote (Glencoe, IL) is president of Keki R. Bhote Associates, a consulting group specializing in quality and productivity improvement. The author of a number of books on quality, including World Class Quality he has been selected by Quality Digest magazine as one of the "quality gurus of America."

NetBeans or Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse

2009-01-24T09:41:00.000-08:00

NetBeans: The Definitive Guide

Author: Tim Boudreau

As the Java programming language has increased in both functionality and complexity, developers have demanded more of their program editors. Gone are the days when a simple visual editor is sufficient for even small programming projects. While there are numerous IDEs available today for use by Java developers, one stands above the rest, not only for its functionality, but for its extensibility: NetBeans. In NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, you'll find out how to use this IDE to its fullest, making your Java programming more efficient and productive than ever before. You'll understand the basics of the IDE, and quickly be utilizing the various editor and explorer windows. You'll also master many of NetBeans' advanced features, and work with XML documents, CVS repositories, Javadoc trees, and web applications, all within the NetBeans framework.

In addition to teaching you how to use the existing features of NetBeans, this work goes on to cover developing additional modules for NetBeans. Through this instructional portion of the book, you will master the NetBeans APIs, and learn how to enhance NetBeans for your own specific needs. Whether you need to add customized behavior to handle your proprietary file formats, or want to redistribute NetBeans as a proprietary product, NetBeans: The Definitive Guide will allow you to master this open source IDE and all of its advanced features. Whether you are an enterprise developer looking for an IDE that can handle your complex program tasks, an open source developer looking to integrate NetBeans into your own visual projects, or a manager trying to maximize your team's development potential, NetBeans: The Definitive Guide is the book for you.

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Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse

Author: Doug Abbott

The Eclipse environment solves the problem of having to maintain your own Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is time consuming and costly. Embedded tools can also be easily integrated into Eclipse. The C/C++CDT is ideal for the embedded community with more than 70% of embedded developers using this language to write embedded code. Eclipse simplifies embedded system development and then eases its integration into larger platforms and frameworks.

In this book, Doug Abbott examines Eclipse, an IDE, which can be vital in saving money and time in the design and development of an embedded system. Eclipse was created by IBM in 2001 and then became an open-source project in 2004. Since then it has become the de-facto IDE for embedded developers. Virtually all of the major Linux vendors have adopted this platform, including MontVista, LynuxWorks, and Wind River.

*Details the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) essential to streamlining your embedded development process
*Overview of the latest C/C++ Developer's Toolkit (CDT)
*Includes case studies of Eclipse use including Monta Vista, LynuxWorks, and Wind River

Foreword: A Brave New World of Embedded Software Development Robert Day Day, Robert Ch. 1 Introducing Eclipse 1 Ch. 2 Installation 13 Ch. 3 Getting Started 31 Ch. 4 C/C++ Developer's Toolkit (CDT) 61 Ch. 5 Eclipse CDT - Digging Deeper 85 Ch. 6 Device Software Development Platform 109 Ch. 7 Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) 139 Ch. 8 Eclipse Advanced Features 169 Ch. 9 Eclipse-Based Development Products 205 Appendix A The Eclipse Public License 235 Appendix B The Embedded Linux Learning Kit 241 Index 243

SELinux by Example or Excel 2002 for Dummies

2009-01-23T05:29:00.000-08:00

SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)

Author: Frank Mayer

SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it's easier than ever to take advantage of its benefits.

SELinux by Example is the first complete, hands-on guide to using SELinux in production environments. Authored by three leading SELinux researchers and developers, it illuminates every facet of working with SELinux, from it's architecture and security object model to its policy language. The book thoroughly explains SELinux sample policies—including the powerful new Reference Policy—showing how to quickly adapt them to your unique environment. It also contains a comprehensive SELinux policy language reference and covers exciting new features in Fedora Core 5 and the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.

Thoroughly understand SELinux's access control and security mechanisms
Use SELinux to construct secure systems from the ground up
Gain fine-grained control over kernel resources
Write policy statements for type enforcement, roles, users, and constraints
Use optional multilevel security to enforce information classification and manage users with diverse clearances
Create conditional policies that can be changed on-the-fly
Define, manage, and maintain SELinux security policies
Develop and write new SELinux security policy modules
Leverage emerging SELinux technologies to gain even greater flexibility
Effectively administer any SELinux system

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Excel 2002 for Dummies

Author: Greg Harvey PhD

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2002 have become almost as commonplace on today's personal computers as word processors and games doesn't mean that they're either well understood or well used. If you're one of the many folks who has Office XP on your computer but doesn't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet, this means that Excel 2002 is just sitting there taking up a lot of space. Well, it's high time to change all that.

One look at the Excel 2002 screen (with all its boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize how much stuff is going on there. Excel 2002 For Dummies will help you make some sense out of the rash of icons, buttons, and boxes that you're going to be facing day after day. And when you ready to go beyond spreadsheet basics, this guide will also introduce you to

• Conjuring up charts

• Inserting graphics

• Designing a database

• Converting spreadsheets into Web pages

Most of all, Excel 2002 For Dummies covers the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In this book, you'll find all the information that you need to keep your head above water as you accomplish the everyday tasks that people do with Excel. This down-to-earth guide covers all these topics and more:

• Creating a spreadsheet from scratch

• Document recovery

• Formatting fundamentals

• Making corrections (and how to undo them)

• Retrieving data from your spreadsheets

• Protecting your documents

• Demystifyingformulas

Now, even if your job doesn't involve creating worksheets with a lot of fancy financial calculations or lah-dee-dah charts, you probably have plenty of things for which you could and should be using Excel. For instance, you may have to keep lists of information or maybe even put together tables of information for your job. Excel is a great list keeper and one heck of a table maker. You can use Excel anytime you need to keep track of products that you sell, clients who you service, employees who you oversee, or you name it.

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Getting In on the Ground Floor	9
Ch. 1	What All This Stuff?	11
Ch. 2	Creating a Spreadsheet form Scratch	57
Pt. II	Editing Without Tears	109
Ch. 3	Making It All Look Pretty	111
Ch. 4	Going Through Changes	151
Ch. 5	Printing the Masterpiece	187
Pt. III	Getting Organized and Staying That Way	213
Ch. 6	Oh, What a Tangled Worksheet We Weave!	215
Ch. 7	Maintaining Multiple Worksheets	241
Pt. IV	Life Beyond the Spreadsheet	263
Ch. 8	The Simple Art of Making Charts	265
Ch. 9	How to Face a Database	291
Ch. 10	Of Hyperlinks and Web Pages	313
Pt. V	The Part of Tens	343
Ch. 11	Top Ten New Features in Excel 2002	345
Ch. 12	Top Ten Beginner Basics	349
Ch. 13	The Ten Commandments of Excel 2002	351
	Index	353

Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers or Essential SharePoint 2007

2009-01-22T01:18:00.000-08:00

Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book

Author: Ellen Anon

In the new edition of this practical guide, master photographer Ellen Anon and digital-imaging expert Tim Grey show you how to capture the beauty of nature by shooting the best possible photos from the start—and then getting the most out of your images at your desktop. You’ll find eye-opening techniques, workflow ideas, and terrific Photoshop tools, plus a host of valuable tips and stunning examples from some of the most esteemed professional nature photographers working today.

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Thinking Digitally.

Photographic Techniques.

Choosing RAW versus JPEG.

What’s So Great About RAW?

Advantages and Disadvantages of Taking JPEGs.

Understanding Histograms.

Types of Histograms.

Interpreting Histograms.

Exposure.

“Expose Right” by Michael Reichmann.

White Balance in Nature Photography.

Photographing Elements to Composite Later.

Skies, Clouds, and Moons.

Expanding Camera Capabilities.

Photographing Parts of the Scene Individually.

Ethical Considerations.

Software Choices: Aperture and Lightroom.

Storage Considerations.

Chapter 2 Bridge.

Customizing Bridge.

Setting Bridge Preferences.

Downloading Images.

Creating a Metadata Template.

Renaming Your Images After Import.

Bridge Views and Workspaces.

Filmstrip View.

Light Table View.

Stacking Images.

Sorting and Editing.

Zooming and Comparing Images.

Rating Images.

Labeling Images.

Using Keywords.

Additional Features.

Chapter 3 Adobe Camera Raw.

Using the ACR Interface.

Seeing Your Image Within ACR.

Cropping and Rotating Within ACR.

Using the Retouch Tool.

Controlling the Default Appearance of Your Image.

Using the Basic Tab.

Setting White Balance.

Adjusting Tonalities.

Using theRecovery and Fill Light Sliders.

Using the Brightness and Contrast Sliders.

Modifying Saturation.

Setting the Other Tabs.

Setting the Tone Curves.

Sharpening Preview and Reducing Noise: The Detail Tab.

Correcting Color: The HSL/Grayscale Tab.

Alternate Interpretations: The Split Toning Tab.

Fixing Aberration and Vignetting: The Lens Corrections Tab.

Accounting for Camera Variation: The Camera Calibration Tab.

Setting ACR Workflow Options and Saving Files.

Choosing the Space.

Choosing the Depth.

Choosing the File Size and Resolution.

Opening an Image as a Smart Object.

Finishing Up in ACR.

Try It!

Batch Converting Multiple Images.

Chapter 4 Foundations.

Color Management.

Monitor Calibration.

Color Settings.

Setting Preferences.

General Settings.

Interface.

File Handling Settings.

Performance.

Cursors.

Plug-Ins.

Views and Zoom.

Windows and Workspaces.

Zoom Tool.

Hand Tool.

Navigator Panel.

Navigating by Keyboard Shortcuts.

Selection Tools.

The Lasso Tool.

The Magnetic Lasso.

The Magic Wand.

The Quick Selection Tool.

Using the Refine Edges Controls.

Combining Tools.

Saving and Loading Selections.

The Brush Tool.

The History Brush.

Building Tool Knowledge.

Chapter 5 Workflows and First Steps.

Flexible and Traditional Workflows.

Smart Objects.

Smart Filters.

The Flexible Workflow.

The Traditional Workflow.

Initial Cropping and Straightening in Photoshop.

Initial Cropping.

Straightening Horizons.

Understanding Layers.

Doing Cleanup in Photoshop.

The Photoshop Cleanup Tools.

Zooming, Navigating, and Layering for Cleanup.

Removing Dust.

Removing an Undesirable Object.

Creating New Background on Empty Canvas.

Chapter 6 Exposure Adjustments.

Shooting for Optimal Exposure.

Tonal Adjustments with Levels.

Revealing Detail.

Targeting Adjustments Using a Layer Mask.

Masking a Selection.

Painting on a Mask.

Blurring the Layer Mask.

Creating a Virtual Split Neutral-Density Filter.

Safe Dodge and Burn Layers.

Setting Up.

Painting with Light.

Correcting Mistakes.

Curves.

Clipping Preview.

Anchor Points.

Curves Presets.

The Shadow/Highlight Adjustment.

Emphasizing Your Subject.

Chapter 7 Color Adjustments.

Recognizing Color Casts.

Using Hue/Saturation to Reveal a Color Cast.

Using the Info Panel to Reveal a Color Cast.

Removing Color Casts.

Subjective Methods for Removing a Color Cast.

Objective Method for Removing a Color Cast.

Adding a Color Cast.

Modifying Colors to Match Nature or Add Impact.

Fine-Tuning with Selective Color.

Layer Masks and Color Adjustments.

Creating Layer Masks via Selections.

Creating Layer Masks Without Prior Selections.

Chapter 8 Composites.

Creating Panoramas.

In-Camera Considerations.

Photomerge.

Matching the Exposures of Each Segment of the Panorama.

Expanding Dynamic Range.

Expanding Latitude Manually.

The “Cookbook” Approach to Expanding Latitude.

Expanding Latitude via Merge to HDR.

Extending the Depth of Field.

Combining Elements from Multiple Pictures.

Advanced Selection Methods.

Combining Elements from Various Images.

Replacing a Sky or Other Background.

Chapter 9 Creative Effects.

Black and White.

Converting to Black and White.

Colorizing Black-and-White Images.

Filters.

Using Smart Filters on Smart Objects.

Using Filters Without Smart Objects.

Blurs.

The Liquify Filter.

Using the Filter Gallery.

Digital Montages.

Blending Modes.

Surreal Montages.

Cross and Flip Montages.

Mirror Images.

Multiple Subject Montages.

Digital Multiple Exposures.

The Evolution of an Image.

Chapter 10 Output.

Output Workflow.

Duplicating the Image.

Resizing.

Reducing Noise.

Sharpening.

Printing Your Images.

Soft Proofing.

Configuring the Print Settings.

Choosing the Best Paper.

Adding Borders.

Creating Business and Greeting Cards.

Creating a Business Card.

Creating the Print Layout.

Creating a Greeting Card.

Creating the Template.

Adding Images to the Layout.

Adding Text.

Save and Print.

Creating Slide Shows.

Creating a Web Gallery.

Chapter 11 Time-Savers.

Actions and Batch Processing.

Creating an Action.

Advanced Controls in Actions.

Batch Processing.

Creating a Droplet.

Using the Image Processor.

Creating a Copyright Brush.

Individualizing Keyboard Shortcuts.

Index.

Interesting textbook: What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans or Global Ethics

Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Author: Scott Jamison

Essential SharePoint^® 2007 focuses relentlessly on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment, helping you maximize value and reduce risk.The authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around your business, hands-on. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work — with special attention to make-or-break organizational and political issues. Coverage includes: Defining collaboration strategies; building attractive, usable applications; architecting infrastructure; leveraging SharePoint content management and business intelligence; migrating from SharePoint 2003, and much more. Essential SharePoint^® 2007 was written for everyone involved in SharePoint 2007 projects: IT and line managers, consultants, analysts, project leaders, and developers.

Software Engineering or Totltxt

2009-01-20T21:06:00.000-08:00

Software Engineering

Author: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

This introduction to software engineering and practice addresses both procedural and object-oriented development. Is thoroughly updated to reflect significant changes in software engineering, including modeling and agile methods. Emphasizes essential role of modeling design in software engineering. Applies concepts consistently to two common examples – a typical information system and a real-time system. Combines theory with real, practical applications by providing an abundance of case studies and examples from the current literature. A useful reference for software engineers.

Book about: Reward Recognition Process in Total Quality Management or Inequality Democracy and Economic Development

Totltxt: The Big Book of Ltle Txt Msgs

Author: Inc Book Sales

Become A Textpert In No Time!

Enjoy all the weird and wonderful ways of using text messaging. Find out how to say, "I love you," "I hate you," "I hate your clothes," and how to sign off. There's even a selection of jokes that have been translated into text messages.

Guide to LATEX or AutoCAD LT 2000 For Dummies

2009-01-19T21:07:00.000-08:00

Guide to LATEX

Author: Kopka

LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference for all LaTeX users. In this completely revised edition, the authors cover the LaTeX2ε standard and offer more details, examples, exercises, tips, and tricks. They go beyond the core installation to describe the key contributed packages that have become essential to LaTeX processing.

Inside, you will find:

Complete coverage of LaTeX fundamentals, including how to input text, symbols, and mathematics; how to produce lists and tables; how to include graphics and color; and how to organize and customize documents
Discussion of more advanced concepts such as bibliographical databases and BIBTeX, math extensions with AMS-LaTeX, drawing, slides, and letters
Helpful appendices on installation, error messages, creating packages, using LaTeX with HTML and XML, and fonts
An extensive alphabetized listing of commands and their uses

New to this edition:

More emphasis on LaTeX as a markup language that separates content and form--consistent with the essence of XML
Detailed discussions of contributed packages alongside relevant standard topics
In-depth information on PDF output, including extensive coverage of how to use the hyperref package to create links, bookmarks, and active buttons

As did the three best-selling editions that preceded it, Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, will prove indispensable to anyone wishing to gain the benefits of LaTeX.

The accompanying CD-ROMis part of the TeX Live set distributed by TeX Users Groups, containing a full LaTeX installation for Windows, MacOSX, and Linux, as well as many extensions, including those discussed in the book.

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AutoCAD LT 2000 For Dummies

Author: Bud E Smith

Since AutoCAD first stormed the market in the early '80s it has grown to define a whole new way of creating architectural, mechanical, and technical drawings.

Let this guide walk you through the options included in the latest version -- AutoCAD LT 2000. For occasional CAD users and professional designers alike, AutoCAD LT 2000 For Dummies is an indispensable resource. It's equally valuable whether you're providing input on existing files or starting drawings from scratch. Look for helpful sections on...

Identifying new plotting architecture in AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD LT 2000
Plotting, reviewing, adding comments, and making changes to existing drawings
Using other Windows programs and the Internet with AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT drawings
Developing the necessary skills to create drawings from scratch in AutoCAD LT
Reusing information efficiently in order to improve productivity and consistency
Sharing and publishing drawings on the Web
Defining key vocabulary in a thoroughly updated glossary of AutoCAD LT terms

FileMaker Pro Design Scripting For Dummies or Micosoft Exchange Server 2003

2009-01-19T10:56:00.000-08:00

FileMaker Pro Design & Scripting For Dummies

Author: Timothy Trimbl

Get the scoop on designing databases for Mac and Windows

Use FileMaker Pro design and scripting to quickly, easily build databases that solve real problems

FileMaker Pro has grown up, and it's better than ever! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to design a great FileMaker application, build a database that works, add the functionality you need, populate your database, and venture into programming with ScriptMaker. You'll find out how to share and protect your database, too.

Discover how to

• Build a layout that works

• Create custom triggers and calculated fields

• Generate reports automatically

• Manage security

• Publish your database on the Web

• Embed pictures, sound, and video

Pt. I	Getting to know FileMaker Pro	7
Ch. 1	Introducing FileMaker Pro	9
Ch. 2	Creating a database	29
Ch. 3	Calculation programming : you have the power!	55
Pt. II	Building the perfect beast	77
Ch. 4	Designing a good FileMaker application	79
Ch. 5	Whipping the layout into shape	105
Ch. 6	Finding and sorting your data	125
Ch. 7	Making FileMaker do tricks	139
Pt. III	Taking control with FileMaker programming	155
Ch. 8	It's all in the script!	157
Ch. 9	Your programming toolbox	179
Pt. IV	FileMaker exposed! : sharing and protecting your database	193
Ch. 10	Share (data) and share alike	195
Ch. 11	Batten down the hatches! : keeping your data safe	227
Ch. 12	Putting your databases on the Web	241
Pt. V	The part of tens	255
Ch. 13	Ten cool things you can do with FileMaker	257
Ch. 14	Ten (or so) items to aid your FileMaker development	275

New interesting textbook: Lattice or Effective Software Test Automation

Micosoft Exchange Server 2003: Administration Companion

Author: Walter J Glenn

Get your mission-critical messaging and communication systems up and running quickly with the essential guide to installing, configuring, and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. This comprehensive administrator's reference details system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for everyday, on-the-job results. The authors are professional trainers, consultants, and writers who specialize in Microsoft Exchange Server and networking technologies. You get expert insights for using the improvements in Exchange Server interoperability, performance, user experience, and security features—must-know details for protecting and optimizing your technology investment.

Introduction to Data Compression or Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers

2009-01-19T01:43:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Data Compression

Author: Khalid Sayood

Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class.

Khalid Sayood provides an extensive introduction to the theory underlying today's compression techniques with detailed instruction for their applications using several examples to explain the concepts. Encompassing the entire field of data compression Introduction to Data Compression, includes lossless and lossy compression, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary techniques, context based compression, scalar and vector quantization. Khalid Sayood provides a working knowledge of data compression, giving the reader the tools to develop a complete and concise compression package upon completion of his book.

* New content added on the topic of audio compression including a description of the mp3 algorithm
* New video coding standard and new facsimile standard explained
* Completely explains established and emerging standards in depth including JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, MPEG-2, Group 3 and 4 faxes, JBIG 2, ADPCM, LPC, CELP, and MELP
* Source code provided via companion web site that gives readers the opportunity to build their own algorithms, choose and implement techniques in their own applications

1	Introduction	1
2	Mathematical preliminaries for lossless compression	13
3	Huffman coding	41
4	Arithmetic coding	81
5	Dictionary techniques	117
6	Context-based compression	141
7	Lossless image compression	163
8	Mathematical preliminaries for lossy coding	195
9	Scalar quantization	227
10	Vector quantization	273
11	Differential encoding	325
12	Mathematical preliminaries for transforms, subbands, and wavelets	355
13	Transform coding	391
14	Subband coding	423
15	Wavelet-based compression	473
16	Audio coding	515
17	Analysis/synthesis and analysis by synthesis schemes	537
18	Video compression	571
A	Probability and random processes	615
B	A brief review of matrix concepts	631
C	The root lattices	637

Book review: 101 Things You Didnt Know about Lincoln or Embracing Defeat

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop

Author: Martin Evening

Professional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe (based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling Photoshop author Martin Evening to provide advanced Photoshop users with never before seen tips and techniques.

Building on Martin Evening's successful Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series of titles, this new guide takes Photoshop users to further depths exploring the power of Photoshop CS4. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step tutorials, this advanced guide will appeal to those who want to take Photoshop beyond the boundaries.

* Become a Photoshop master with teaching from the dream team of professional photographers, Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe
* Unique, step-by-step tips and tricks will ensure your images stand above the rest
* Learn how to process your photos better using Camera Raw and Photoshop, plus the art of making great prints.

Teach Yourself Visually Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Access 2007 Illustrated Complete

2009-01-18T13:32:00.000-08:00

Teach Yourself Visually Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Author: Kate Shoup

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 140 Outlook 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:

* Entering and using contacts
* Setting up and sorting e-mail
* Forwarding to your mobile device
* Subscribing to an RSS feed
* Publishing calendars to the Web
* Tracking your tasks and to-dos
* Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
* Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
* Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

Go to: Thanksgiving or Game Bird Classic Recipes

Microsoft Office Access 2007-Illustrated Complete

Author: Lisa Friedrichsen

This Microsoft Office 2007 Illustrated Series book covers the essential information that you need to know about how to use Microsoft Access 2007. Our signature two-page spread design has been updated and refreshed to take full advantage of the new features of the Office 2007 software. This practical, easy to navigate book provides you with the essential knowledge you need to succeed at both work 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 Access 2007 Unit B: Building and Using Queries Unit C: Using Forms Unit D: Using Reports Unit E: Modifying the Database Structure Unit F: Creating Multiple Table Queries Unit G: Enhancing Forms Unit H: Analyzing Data with Reports Unit I: Importing and Exporting Data Unit J: Analyzing Database Design Using Northwind Unit K: Creating Advanced Queries Unit L: Creating Advanced Reports Unit M: Managing Database Objects Unit N: Creating Macros Unit O: Creating Modules and VBA Unit P: Maintaining the Database

Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner or Open Brand

2009-01-17T10:50:00.000-08:00

Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Michael Dawson

Description

If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical Python programming applications and you will learn how these skills can be put to use in real- world scenarios. Best of all, by the time you finish this book you will be able to apply the basic principles you've learned to the next programming language you tackle.

Features

· Fun approach to a difficult topic
· Readers will create games with Python as they learn the fundamentals of this programming language
· The CD will include games that readers can cut and paste into their own Web site
· The author provides challenges at the end of chapters to push readers to program on their own

Book about: Negócio Internacional

Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World

Author: Kelly Mooney

Many of the best brands today are of geek pedigree, powered by the technologies, traits and trends of the ascendant digital channel. Amidst the decline of mass marketing, push marketing tactics have been superseded by new forms of influence. These include the creating, sharing and influencing behaviors of an online population no longer content merely to consume, and the potent pairing of digital notoriety and network effects, which has given rise to the icitizenry.

From these sociocultural forces emerges a radical business imperative: to open up to consumer involvement in a brand's messages and offerings. Published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA Design Press, The Open Brand illuminates both the risks and immense rewards of doing so, and describes the essential consumer experiences that are requisite for cultural relevance—On-demand, Personal, Engaging, and Networked experiences, representing the chief values of the web-made world.

MCTS 70 643 Exam Cram or SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide

2009-01-16T23:37:00.000-08:00

MCTS 70-643 Exam Cram: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring

Author: Patrick Regan

The Smart Way to Study

Covers the critical information you'll need to know to score higher on Exam 70-643

• Administer Windows Server 2008 and Core Server using the Control Panel, Computer Management Console, Server Management Console, and other system tools

• Install roles and features in Windows Server 2008

• Use Windows Deployment Services to centrally manage the entire deployment process in any Windows environment

• Implement secure, reliable infrastructure for deploying websites and services

• Efficiently configure and manage disks, volumes, partitions, and server clusters

• Ensure high availability in production environments

• Configure Terminal Services RemoteApp, Gateway, load balancing, resources, licensing, client connections, and server options

• Configure Windows Media Server and Digital Rights Management to deliver audio and video content

• Deploy virtual machines using Hyper-V and Microsoft's other virtualization solutions

• Run Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to provide effective collaboration

CD Features MeasureUp Practice Questions!

• Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers

• Multiple test modes

• Random questions and order of answers

• Coverage of each 70-643 exam objective

Book review: An Introduction to Economic Dynamics or Case Studies in Organizational Communication

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055)

Author: Katherine Sierra

Get the book that shows you not only what to study, but how to study. The only classroom-based integrated study system for professional certification gives you complete coverage of all objectives for the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 exam, hundreds of practice exam questions, and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full practice exam software plus an adaptive test engine.

Web Redesign or Core Python Programming

2009-01-16T14:26:00.000-08:00

Web Redesign: Workflow that Works (Voices That Matter Series)

Author: Kelly Goto

If anything, this volume's premise--that the business of Web design is one of constant change-has only proven truer over time. So much so, in fact, that the 12-month design cycles cited in the last edition have shrunk to 6 or even 3 months today. Which is why, more than ever, you need a smart, practical guide that demonstrates how to plan, budget, organize, and manage your Web redesign - or even you initial design - projects from conceptualization to launch. This volume delivers! In these pages Web designer extraordinaire Kelly Goto and coauthor Emily Cotler have distilled their real-world experience into a sound approach to Web redesign workflow that is as much about business priorities as it is about good design. By focusing on where these priorities intersect, Kelly and Emily get straight to the heart of the matter. Each chapter includes a case study that illustrates a key step in the process, and you'll find a plethora of forms, checklists, and worksheets that help you put knowledge into action.

Core Python Programming

Author: Wesley J Chun

New to Python? The definitive guide to Python development for experienced programmers

Covers core language features thoroughly, including those found in the latest Python releases

Learn advanced topics such as regular expressions, networking, multithreading, GUI, and Web/CGI

Includes brand-new chapters on database, Internet, Jython, and COM Client programming

Presents hundreds of code samples and practical exercises to strengthen your Python skills

Python is an agile, robust, expressive, fully object-oriented, extensible, and scalable programming language. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In Core Python Programming, Second Edition, leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project.

Using practical code examples, Chun introduces all the fundamentals of Python programming: syntax, objects and memory management, data types, operators, files and I/O, functions, generators, error handling and exceptions, loops, iterators, functional programming, object-oriented programming and more. After you learn the core fundamentals of Python, he shows you what you can do with your new skills, delving into advanced topics, such as regular expressions, networking programming with sockets, multithreading, GUI development, Web/CGI programming and extending Python in C.

This edition reflects major enhancements in the Python 2.x series, including 2.5 as well as capabilities set for future versions. It contains new chapters on database and Internet client programming, plus coverage of many new topics, including new-style classes, Java and Jython, Microsoft Office (Win32 COM Client) programming, and much more.

Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits

Gain a deep understanding of Python's objects and memory model as well as its OOP features, including those found in Python's new-style classes

Build more effective Web, CGI, Internet, and network and other client/server applications

Learn how to develop your own GUI applications using Tkinter and other toolkits available for Python

Improve the performance of your Python applications by writing extensions in C and other languages, or enhance I/O-bound applications by using multithreading

Learn about Python's database API and how to use a variety of database systems with Python, including MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite

Core Python Programming delivers

Systematic, expert coverage of Python's core features

Powerful insights for developing complex applications

Easy-to-use tables and charts detailing Python modules, operators, functions, and methods

Dozens of professional-quality code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications

What People Are Saying

"The long-awaited second edition of Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming proves to be well worth the wait—its deep and broad coverage and useful exercises will help readers learn and practice good Python."

—Alex Martelli, author of Python in a Nutshell and editor of Python Cookbook

"There has been lot of good buzz around Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming. It turns out that all the buzz is well earned. I think this is the best book currently available for learning Python. I would recommend Chun's book over Learning Python (O'Reilly), Programming Python (O'Reilly), or The Quick Python Book (Manning)."

—David Mertz, Ph.D., IBM DeveloperWorks®

"I have been doing a lot of research [on] Python for the past year and have seen a number of positive reviews of your book. The sentiment expressed confirms the opinion that Core Python Programming is now considered the standard introductory text."

—Richard Ozaki, Lockheed Martin

"Finally, a book good enough to be both a textbook and a reference on the Python language now exists."

—Michael Baxter, Linux Journal

"Very well written. It is the clearest, friendliest book I have come across yet for explaining Python, and putting it in a wider context. It does not presume a large amount of other experience. It does go into some important Python topics carefully and in depth. Unlike too many beginner books, it never condescends or tortures the reader with childish hide-and-seek prose games. [It] sticks to gaining a solid grasp of Python syntax and structure."

—http://python.org bookstore Web site

"[If ] I could only own one Python book, it would be Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun. This book manages to cover more topics in more depth than Learning Python but includes it all in one book that also more than adequately covers the core language. [If] you are in the market for just one book about Python, I recommend this book. You will enjoy reading it, including its wry programmer's wit. More importantly, you will learn Python. Even more importantly, you will find it invaluable in helping you in your day-to-day Python programming life. Well done, Mr. Chun!"

—Ron Stephens, Python Learning Foundation

"I think the best language for beginners is Python, without a doubt. My favorite book is Core Python Programming."

—s003apr, MP3Car.com Forums

"Personally, I really like Python. It's simple to learn, completely intuitive, amazingly flexible, and pretty darned fast. Python has only just started to claim mindshare in the Windows world, but look for it to start gaining lots of support as people discover it. To learn Python, I'd start with Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun."

—Bill Boswell, MCSE, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online

"If you learn well from books, I suggest Core Python Programming. It is by far the best I've found. I'm a Python newbie as well and in three months time I've been able to implement Python in projects at work (automating MSOffice, SQL DB stuff, etc.)."

—ptonman, Dev Shed Forums

"Python is simply a beautiful language. It's easy to learn, it's cross-platform, and it works. It has achieved many of the technical goals that Java strives for. A one-sentence description of Python would be: 'All other languages appear to have evolved over time--but Python was designed.' And it was designed well. Unfortunately, there aren't a large number of books for Python. The best one I've run across so far is Core Python Programming."

—Chris Timmons, C. R. Timmons Consulting

"If you like the Prentice Hall Core series, another good full-blown treatment to consider would be Core Python Programming. It addresses in elaborate concrete detail many practical topics that get little, if any, coverage in other books."

—Mitchell L Model, MLM Consulting

"Core Python Programming is an amazingly easy read! The liberal use of examples helps clarify some of the more subtle points of the language. And the comparisons to languages with which I'm already familiar (C/C++/Java) get you programming in record speed."

—Michael Santos, Ph.D., Green Hills Software

Preface xxiii

Acknowledgments xxxv

Part I: Core Python 2

Chapter 1 Welcome to Python! 4

1.1 What Is Python? 5

1.2 Origins 6

1.3 Features 6

1.4 Downloading and Installing Python 11

1.5 Running Python 13

1.6 Python Documentation 22

1.7 Comparing Python 23

1.8 Other Implementations 26

1.9 Exercises 27

Chapter 2 Getting Started 30

2.1 Program Output, the print Statement, and "Hello World!" 32

2.2 Program Input and the raw_input() Built-in Function 33

2.3 Comments 35

2.4 Operators 35

2.5 Variables and Assignment 37

2.6 Numbers 37

2.7 Strings 39

2.8 Lists and Tuples 40

2.9 Dictionaries 40

2.10 Code Blocks Use Indentation 41

2.11 if Statement 41

2.12 while Loop 42

2.13 for Loop and the range() Built-in Function 43

2.14 List Comprehensions 45

2.15 Files and the open() and file() Built-in Functions 46

2.16 Errors and Exceptions 47

2.17 Functions 48

2.18 Classes 50

2.19 Modules 52

2.20 Useful Functions 54

2.21 Exercises 55

Chapter 3 Python Basics 60

3.1 Statements and Syntax 61

3.2 Variable Assignment 64

3.3 Identifiers 67

3.4 Basic Style Guidelines 69

3.5 Memory Management 75

3.6 First Python Programs 79

3.7 Related Modules/Developer Tools 84

3.8 Exercises 85

Chapter 4 Python Objects 88

4.1 Python Objects 89

4.2 Other Built-in Types 91

4.3 Internal Types 93

4.4 Standard Type Operators 96

4.5 Standard Type Built-in Functions 101

4.6 Categorizing the Standard Types111

4.7 Unsupported Types 116

4.8 Exercises 117

Chapter 5 Numbers 120

5.1 Introduction to Numbers 121

5.2 Integers 122

5.3 Double Precision Floating Point Numbers 125

5.4 Complex Numbers 126

5.5 Operators 127

5.6 Built-in and Factory Functions 136

5.7 Other Numeric Types 145

5.8 Related Modules 148

5.9 Exercises 151

Chapter 6 Sequences: Strings, Lists, and Tuples 156

6.1 Sequences 158

6.2 Strings 168

6.3 Strings and Operators 170

6.4 String-Only Operators 178

6.5 Built-in Functions 184

6.6 String Built-in Methods 188

6.7 Special Features of Strings 192

6.8 Unicode 197

6.9 Related Modules 206

6.10 Summary of String Highlights 208

6.11 Lists 209

6.12 Operators 211

6.13 Built-in Functions 216

6.14 List Type Built-in Methods 220

6.15 Special Features of Lists 224

6.16 Tuples 232

6.17 Tuple Operators and Built-in Functions 233

6.18 Special Features of Tuples 235

6.19 Related Modules 239

6.20 *Copying Python Objects and Shallow and Deep Copies 240

6.21 Summary of Sequences 243

6.22 Exercises 246

Chapter 7 Mapping and Set Types 252

7.1 Mapping Type: Dictionaries 253

7.2 Mapping Type Operators 258

7.3 Mapping Type Built-in and Factory Functions 260

7.4 Mapping Type Built-in Methods 265

7.5 Dictionary Keys 268

7.6 Set Types 273

7.7 Set Type Operators 276

7.8 Built-in Functions 280

7.9 Set Type Built-in Methods 281

7.10 Operator, Function/Method Summary Table for Set Types 283

7.11 Related Modules 283

7.12 Exercises 285

Chapter 8 Conditionals and Loops 290

8.1 if Statement 291

8.2 else Statement 292

8.3 elif (aka else-if) Statement 294

8.4 Conditional Expressions (aka "the Ternary Operator") 295

8.5 while Statement 296

8.6 for Statement 298

8.7 break Statement 304

8.8 continue Statement 305

8.9 pass Statement 306

8.10 else Statement . . . Take Two 307

8.11 Iterators and the iter() Function 309

8.12 List Comprehensions 313

8.13 Generator Expressions 315

8.14 Related Modules 320

8.15 Exercises 320

Chapter 9 Files and Input/Output 324

9.1 File Objects 325

9.2 File Built-in Functions [open() and file()] 326

9.3 File Built-in Methods 329

9.4 File Built-in Attributes 336

9.5 Standard Files 337

9.6 Command-Line Arguments 338

9.7 File System 339

9.8 File Execution 348

9.9 Persistent Storage Modules 348

9.10 Related Modules 351

9.11 Exercises 353

Chapter 10 Errors and Exceptions 358

10.1 What Are Exceptions? 360

10.2 Exceptions in Python 361

10.3 Detecting and Handling Exceptions 364

10.4 Context Management 382

10.5 *Exceptions as Strings 386

10.6 Raising Exceptions 386

10.7 Assertions 389

10.8 Standard Exceptions 391

10.9 *Creating Exceptions 394

10.10 Why Exceptions (Now)? 401

10.11 Why Exceptions at All? 402

10.12 Exceptions and the sys Module 403

10.13 Related Modules 404

10.14 Exercises 405

Chapter 11 Functions and Functional Programming 408

11.1 What Are Functions? 408

11.2 Calling Functions 409

11.3 Creating Functions 412

11.4 Passing Functions 418

11.5 Formal Arguments 428

11.6 Variable-Length Arguments 433

11.7 Functional Programming 439

11.8 Variable Scope 453

11.9 Recursion 466

11.10 Generators 467

11.11 Exercises 471

Chapter 12 Modules 476

12.1 What Are Modules? 477

12.2 Modules and Files 478

12.3 Namespaces 480

12.4 Importing Modules 484

12.5 Features of Module Import 486

12.6 Module Built-in Functions 491

12.7 Packages 493

12.8 Other Features of Modules 496

12.9 Related Modules 500

12.10 Exercises 501

Chapter 13 Object-Oriented Programming 504

13.1 Introduction 506

13.2 Object-Oriented Programming 514

13.3 Classes 518

13.4 Class Attributes 520

13.5 Instances 526

13.6 Instance Attributes 531

13.7 Binding and Method Invocation 540

13.8 Static Methods and Class Methods 542

13.9 Composition 544

13.10 Subclassing and Derivation 545

13.11 Inheritance 547

13.12 Built-in Functions for Classes, Instances, and Other Objects 558

13.13 Customizing Classes with Special Methods 564

13.14 Privacy 585

13.15 *Delegation 587

13.16 Advanced Features of New-Style Classes (Python 2.2+) 595

13.17 Related Modules and Documentation 615

13.18 Exercises 618

Chapter 14 Execution Environment 626

14.1 Callable Objects 628

14.2 Code Objects 635

14.3 Executable Object Statements and Built-in Functions 636

14.4 Executing Other (Python) Programs 649

14.5 Executing Other (Non-Python) Programs 653

14.6 Restricted Execution 663

14.7 Terminating Execution 663

14.8 Miscellaneous Operating System Interface 666

14.9 Related Modules 668

14.10 Exercises 668

Part II: Advanced Topics 670

Chapter 15 Regular Expressions 672

15.1 Introduction/Motivation 673

15.2 Special Symbols and Characters 676

15.3 REs and Python 683

15.4 Regular Expressions Example 698

15.5 Exercises 705

Chapter 16 Network Programming 710

16.1 Introduction 711

16.2 Sockets: Communication Endpoints 715

16.3 Network Programming in Python 718

16.4 *SocketServer Module 732

16.5* Introduction to the Twisted Framework 737

16.6 Related Modules 741

16.7 Exercises 742

Chapter 17 Internet Client Programming 746

17.1 What Are Internet Clients? 747

17.2 Transferring Files 748

17.3 Network News 756

17.4 Electronic Mail 766

17.5 Related Modules 778

17.6 Exercises 779

Chapter 18 Multithreaded Programming 786

18.1 Introduction/Motivation 787

18.2 Threads and Processes 789

18.3 Python, Threads, and the Global Interpreter Lock 790

18.4 thread Module 795

18.5 threading Module 800

18.6 Related Modules 814

18.7 Exercises 814

Chapter 19 GUI Programming 818

19.1 Introduction 819

19.2 Tkinter and Python Programming 821

19.3 Tkinter Examples 826

19.4 Brief Tour of Other GUIs 840

19.5 Related Modules and Other GUIs 848

19.6 Exercises 851

Chapter 20 Web Programming 854

20.1 Introduction 855

20.2 Web Surfing with Python: Creating Simple Web Clients 859

20.3 Advanced Web Clients 869

20.4 CGI: Helping Web Servers Process Client Data 875

20.5 Building CGI Applications 878

20.6 Using Unicode with CGI 892

20.7 Advanced CGI 894

20.8 Web (HTTP) Servers 906

20.9 Related Modules 909

20.10 Exercises 913

Chapter 21 Database Programming 918

21.1 Introduction 919

21.2 Python Database Application Programmer's Interface (DB-API) 924

21.3 Object-Relational Managers (ORMs) 946

21.4 Related Modules 958

21.5 Exercises 960

Chapter 22 Extending Python 962

22.1 Introduction/Motivation 963

22.2 Extending Python by Writing Extensions 965

22.3 Related Topics 981

22.4 Exercises 982

Chapter 23 Miscellaneous 984

23.1 Web Services 985

23.2 Programming Microsoft Office with Win32 COM 989

23.3 Python and Java Programming with Jython 1002

23.4 Exercises 1006

Appendix A Answers to Selected Exercises 1011

Appendix B Reference Tables 1021

Index 1049

Data Communications and Networking or Distributed Systems

2009-01-14T18:19:00.000-08:00

Data Communications and Networking

Author: Behrouz A Forouzan

As one of the fastest growing technologies in our culture today, data communications and networking presents a unique challenge for instructors. As both the number and types of students are increasing, it is essential to have a textbook that provides coverage of the latest advances, while presenting the material in a way that is accessible to students with little or no background in the field. Using a bottom-up approach, Data Communications and Networking presents this highly technical subject matter without relying on complex formulas by using a strong pedagogical approach supported by more than 700 figures.

Now in its Fourth Edition, this textbook brings the beginning student right to the forefront of the latest advances in the field, while presenting the fundamentals in a clear, straightforward manner. Students will find better coverage, improved figures and better explanations on cutting-edge material. The "bottom-up" approach allows instructors to cover the material in one course, rather than having separate courses on data communications and networking.

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

Author: Andrew S Tanenbaum

Virtually every computing system today is part of a distributed system. Programmers, developers, and engineers need to understand the underlying principles and paradigms as well as the real-world application of those principles. Now, internationally renowned expert Andrew S. Tanenbaum – with colleague Martin van Steen – presents a complete introduction that identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, with extensive examples of each. Adds a completely new chapter on architecture to address the principle of organizing distributed systems. Provides extensive new material on peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and Web services, virtualization, and application-level multicasting. Updates material on clock synchronization, data-centric consistency, object-based distributed systems, and file systems and Web systems coordination. For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.

Beginning Database Driven Application Development in Java EE or The Pay Pal Wars

2009-01-14T09:06:00.000-08:00

Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java EE: Using GlassFish

Author: Yuli Vasiliev

Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java™ EE: Using GlassFish™ focuses on the open source GlassFish persistence engine. This book shows Java programmers how to develop applications utilizing relational database technologies with examples using Oracle and MySQL and the GlassFish application development framework and deployment platform all based on Java EE.

The book explains in detail how you can organize your Java EE solution into a multilayer architecture, placing most emphasis on how to implement the persistence and database tiers of an application.

Through many examples, this book shows how you can efficiently use the Java Persistence features available in the Java EE platform. Find out how you can greatly simplify the task of building the persistence layer of your Java EE application by moving some application logic into the underlying database, utilizing database views, stored programs, and triggers.

The book also explains how to deploy Java EE applications to GlassFish, a free, open source Java EE 5–compliant application server.

What you’ll learn

Use the GlassFish persistence layer in conjunction with GlassFish Java EE application server.

Organize the database and persistence tiers of a Java EE application; and utilize MySQL or Oracle database applications when building the database tier.

Work with EJB 3 JPA object/relational mapping features; plug JPA into Java EE transactional environment; and implement persistence with the EJB 3 EntityManager.

Integrate and use JSF (web–tier) using emerging GlassFish JSF Framework (Scales) and other JSFtools/frameworks.

Deploy applications to GlassFish Application Server.

Who is this book for?

The book is appropriate for Java developers who want to learn how to develop Java EE applications interacting with a relational database via the Java Persistence API (JPA) and then deploy them to the open source GlassFish Application Server.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

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The Pay Pal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and The Rest of Planet Earth

Author: Eric M Jackson

When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history – as told by former insider Eric Jackson – is an engrossing study of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. The entrepreneurs that Thiel and Levchin recruited to overhaul world currency markets first had to face some of the greatest trials ever thrown at a Silicon Valley company before they could make internet history. Business guru Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence," called the hardcover edition of The PayPal Wars "a real page turner" that featured what he called "the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed." The new paperback edition will feature updated material and even more insights on the state of internet commerce.

SAS System for RegressionThird Edition or Optimal Control Systems

2009-01-13T21:54:00.000-08:00

SAS System for Regression,Third Edition

Author: Rudolf Jakob Freund

Learn to perform a wide variety of regression analyses using SAS software with this example-driven revised favorite from SAS Publishing. With this third edition you will learn the basics of performing regression analyses using a wide variety of models including nonlinear models. Other topics include performing linear regression analyses using PROVC REG and diagnosing and providing remedies for data problems, including outliers and multicollinearity. Examples feature numerous SAS procedures including REG, PLOT, GPLOT, NLIN, RSREG, AUTOREG, PRINCOMP, and others. A helpful discussion of theory is supplied where necessary. Some knowledge of both regression and the SAS System are assumed. The updated third edition includes revisions, updated material, and new material. You'll find information on using SAS/INSIGHT software, regression with a binary response with emphasis on PROC LOGISTIC, and nonparametric regression (smoothing) using moving averages and PROC LOESS. Additionally, updated material throughout the book includes high-resolution PROC REG graphics output, data sets by the OUTEST option described and illustrated, and using PROC SCORE to predict another data set. Supports releases 6.12 and higher of SAS software.

	Acknowledgments	vii
Chapter 1	Regression Concepts	1
1.1	Statistical Background	1
1.2	Performing a Regression with the IML Procedure	9
1.3	Regression with the SAS System	12
Chapter 2	Using the REG Procedure	15
2.1	Introduction	15
2.2	A Model with One Independent Variable	17
2.3	A Model with Several Independent Variables	20
2.4	Various MODEL Statement Options	24
2.5	Further Examination of Model Parameters	36
2.6	Plotting Results	43
2.7	Creating Data I: the OUTPUT Statement	52
2.8	Creating Data II: Other Data Sets	55
2.9	Creating Data III: ODS Output	57
2.10	Predicting to a Different Set of Data	57
2.11	Exact Collinearity: Linear Dependency	60
2.12	Summary	62
Chapter 3	Observations	63
3.1	Introduction	63
3.2	Outlier Detection	64
3.3	Specification Errors	77
3.4	Heterogeneous Variances	81
3.5	Correlated Errors	86
3.6	Summary	94
Chapter 4	Multicollinearity: Detection and Remedial Measures	95
4.1	Introduction	95
4.2	Detecting Multicollinearity	97
4.3	Model Restructuring	101
4.4	Variable Selection	108
4.5	Biased Estimation	120
4.6	Summary	125
Chapter 5	Curve Fitting	127
5.1	Introduction	127
5.2	Polynomial Models with One Independent Variable	128
5.3	Polynomial Plots	132
5.4	Polynomial Models with Several Variables	134
5.5	Response Surface Plots	138
5.6	A Three-Factor Response Surface Experiment	142
5.7	Curve Fitting without a Model	148
5.8	Summary	155
Chapter 6	Special Applications of Linear Models	157
6.1	Introduction	157
6.2	Multiplicative Models	158
6.3	Spline Models	164
6.4	Indicator Variables	169
6.5	Binary Response Variable: Logistic Regression	173
6.6	Summary	184
Chapter 7	Nonlinear Models	185
7.1	Introduction	185
7.2	Estimating the Exponential Decay Model	186
7.3	Fitting a Growth Curve with the NLIN Procedure	192
7.4	Fitting Splines with Unknown Knots	198
7.5	Additional Comments on the NLIN Procedure	203
7.6	Summary	204
Chapter 8	Using SAS/INSIGHT Software for Regression	207
8.1	Introduction	207
8.2	Multiple Linear Regression: the BOQ Data	207
8.3	A Polynomial Response Surface: the FISH Data	215
8.4	Logistic Regression: the DYSTRO Data	218
8.5	Nonparametric Smoothing: the Barbados Data	221
8.6	Summary	225
	References	227
	Index	229

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Optimal Control Systems

Author: D Subbaram Naidu

The theory of optimal control systems has grown and flourished since the 1960's. Many texts, written on varying levels of sophistication, have been published on the subject. Yet even those purportedly designed for beginners in the field are often riddled with complex theorems, and many treatments fail to include topics that are essential to a thorough grounding in the various aspects of and approaches to optimal control.
Optimal Control Systems provides a comprehensive but accessible treatment of the subject with just the right degree of mathematical rigor to be complete but practical. It provides a solid bridge between "traditional" optimization using the calculus of variations and what is called "modern" optimal control. It also treats both continuous-time and discrete-time optimal control systems, giving students a firm grasp on both methods. Among this book's most outstanding features is a summary table that accompanies each topic or problem and includes a statement of the problem with a step-by-step solution. Students will also gain valuable experience in using industry-standard MATLAB and SIMULINK software, including the Control System and Symbolic Math Toolboxes.
Diverse applications across fields from power engineering to medicine make a foundation in optimal control systems an essential part of an engineer's background. This clear, streamlined presentation is ideal for a graduate level course on control systems and as a quick reference for working engineers.

Booknews

Naidu (Idaho State University) introduces the theory and concepts useful for optimizing the control of physical systems which are dynamic and hence described by ordinary differential equations. Written for a second level graduate course, the textbook covers the calculus of variations, the linear quadratic regulator system, discrete-time systems, the Pontryagin minimum principle, and constraints on control and state variables. MATLAB and SIMULINK implementations are provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Physics for Game Developers or Practical Dojo Projects

2009-01-13T11:42:00.000-08:00

Physics for Game Developers

Author: David M Bourg

Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By applying the laws of physics, you can realistically model nearly everything in games that bounces around, flies, rolls, slides, or isn't sitting still, to create compelling, believable content for computer games, simulations, and animation. Physics for Game Developers serves as the starting point for those who want to enrich games with physics-based realism.

Part one is a mechanics primer that reviews basic concepts and addresses aspects of rigid body dynamics, including kinematics, force, and kinetics. Part two applies these concepts to specific real-world problems, such as projectiles, boats, airplanes, and cars. Part three introduces real-time simulations and shows how they apply to computer games. Many specific game elements stand to benefit from the use of real physics, including:

The trajectory of rockets and missiles, including the effects of fuel burn off
The collision of objects such as billiard balls
The stability of cars racing around tight curves
The dynamics of boats and other waterborne vehicles
The flight path of a baseball after being struck by a bat
The flight characteristics of airplanes

You don't need to be a physics expert to learn from Physics for Game Developers, but the author does assume you know basic college-level classical physics. You should also be proficient in trigonometry, vector and matrix math (reference formulas and identities are included in the appendixes), and college-level calculus, including integration anddifferentiation of explicit functions.

Booknews

This book shows how to create believable content in computer games, simulation, and animation by applying the laws of physics to moving objects in the game. Early chapters review basic concepts of rigid body dynamics, covering kinematics, force, and kinetics, and later chapters apply these concepts to real-world problems with projectiles, boats, airplanes, and cars. Final chapters introduce real-time simulations and show how they apply to computer games. A college level understanding of physics is assumed, plus proficiency in trigonometry, vector and matrix math, and calculus. Bourg is professionally involved in computer game development and consulting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Practical Dojo Projects

Author: Frank Zammetti

The era of professional JavaScript development has arrived! Gone are the days when writing all the client–side code for your applications by hand yourself was the norm. Gone are the days when scrounging around the Internet to find a snippet of code to do something you need could lead to either decent code or utter garbage that you’d surely regret using later.

No, writing high–quality JavaScript these days is a whole lot easier with the advent of top–notch libraries that save you time and effort, and one that stands out from most others is Dojo.

Dojo is a library like few others: written by some of the best JavaScript coders around today, providing nearly everything you’ll need to write modern Rich Internet Applications, all in one place. From Ajax to widgets, to client–side persistence and language extensions, and many points in between, Dojo has it all.

In Practical Dojo Projects, you’ll learn all about what Dojo has to offer. You’ll see it in action in the form of five fully functional applications, which include

A contact manager for storing info for all the important people in your life

A code cabinet: a place to store, index, and get code snippets from

A stock tracker to keep track of your stock portfolio

A message forum for open discussions on topics you define

Even a fun little game!

By the time you’ve finished reading, you’ll have a firm grasp on what Dojo is all about, and you’ll have the preparation you need to begin to use it yourself in your own projects. See you inside!

What you’lllearn

Uncover the fundamentals of Dojo, its core, Dojo Widgets, and DojoX.

Build sophisticated JavaScript/Ajax–based applications starting with a Dojo contact manager.

Create a code cabinet, a place to store snippets of code for later reuse using Dojo and Dojo Offline (based on Google Gears).

See how to build an interactive and fun came application using Dojo.

Build a stock watcher application, which allows you to enter ticker symbols and will show you real–time updates using some available web service; show net gain/loss over various time periods (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) with various charts and graphs.

Take Dojo into social networking by building a messaging forums application.

Who is this book for

Web application developers, senior projects leads, and application architects

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.

Rise of the Argonauts or Destroy All Humans

2009-01-13T02:31:00.000-08:00

Rise of the Argonauts: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Prima Development Staff

• Maps: Labeled maps of the entire Argonauts world.
• Weapons: Learn when and how to upgrade Jason's weapons, armor and stats to help give you the advantage in every situation.
• Combo’s: Master every combo and attack!
• Collectables: Tips and tricks will help you uncover every collectable and unlock every achievement.
• Gods: Learn how to earn favor with each god to unlock devastating special abilities.

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Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon Official Strategy Guide

Author: BradyGames

BradyGames’ Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

A comprehensive walkthrough with the best strategies and game-tested tips for every mission.
Detailed mission maps pinpointing the location of key objectives, items and more.
Expert boss strategies.
Game unlockables revealed!

Platform: PS3, Xbox 360

Genre: Action/Adventure

This product is available for sale worldwide.

American Black Chamber or Designing Web Usability

2009-01-12T14:19:00.000-08:00

American Black Chamber

Author: Herbert O Yardley

This book is a classic in nonfiction literature. When published in 1931, The American Black Chamber was an instant sensation and quickly became a best-seller. Erle Stanley Gardner termed the book "one of the most interesting books I have ever read." For those interested in real-life spies, intelligence, breaking codes, and especially intrigue, The American Black Chamber is one of the most absorbing nonfiction books ever published.

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Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity

Author: Jakob Nielsen

Can you afford to be less knowledgable than your competitors? Over 100,000 Internet professionals around the world have already bought this book. Users experience the usability of a site before they have committed to using it and before they have spent any money on potential purchases. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Jakob Nielson, shares with you the full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, Nielsen delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation. Nielsen has arrived at a series of principles that work in support of his findings: 1. that web users want to find what they're after quickly, and 2. if they don't know what they're after, they nevertheless want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.

Library Journal

While everyone wants to design cool web sites, no one wants to think simple and consider whether the design actually accomplishes its goal, which is usually to sell, teach, or entertain. The sole exception is Nielsen, who has made a living speaking and writing about what works and what doesn't work in interactive media. His simple, well-written, and well-illustrated book discusses web usability, page design, content design, site design, intranet design, accessibility for users with disabilities, international use, future directions, and simplicity. Buy more than one copy. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Fantasy Techniques or SolidWorks 2007 Bible

2009-01-11T20:06:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Fantasy Techniques

Author: Derek Lea

Photoshop Elements may be the little brother of Photoshop, but it's no slouch when it comes to digital image manipulation, as this book proves. Packed with fun and challenging projects that will appeal to all Photoshop Elements users, Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Fantasy Techniques is a masterclass in photographic wizardry-the only limit is your imagination!

	Creating Fantastic Images	6
	Composition Techniques	8
	Creating Compositions	10
	Selection Tools and Techniques	12
	Using Layers	14
	Levels Adjustment Layers	16
	Flattening and Merging Layers	18
	Introductory Projects	20
	Bowler Hat Or Apple?	22
	The Two-Handed Butterfly	28
	The Flying Gargoyle	34
	Faces and Figures	40
	Abducted By Aliens	42
	Frozen Forever In Stone	50
	People Of The Trees	58
	The Pixelated Man	66
	Nightmare Scenario	74
	The Undead	82
	Robot Revealed!	92
	A Face In The Leaves	100
	The Living Statue	110
	A Mask Of Butterflies	118
	Fantastic Scenes	124
	Flying Saucer Attack	126
	The Creatures Come To Life	136
	A City In The Clouds	146
	Medusa Under The Sea	156
	Two Towers By The Sea	166
	The Paintings Paint Themselves	176
	The Clairvoyant	188
	Cybernetic Scene	198
	Driving Your Spaceship	208
	Reference	218
	Glossary	220
	Index	222
	Acknowledgments	224

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SolidWorks 2007 Bible

Author: Matt Lombard

"The most complete resource for SolidWorks on the market. Matt Lombard's in-depth knowledge plus his snappy wit and wisdom make SolidWorks accessible to users at all levels."
-- Mike Sabocheck, Territory Technical Manager, SolidWorks Corporation

The most comprehensive single reference on SolidWorks

Whether you're a new, intermediate, or professional user, you'll find the in-depth coverage you need to succeed with SolidWorks 2007 in this comprehensive reference. From customizing the interface to exploring best practices to reinforcing your knowledge with step-by-step tutorials, the techniques and shortcuts in this detailed book will help you accomplish tasks, avoid the time-consuming pitfalls of parametric design, and get a firm handle on one of the leading 3D CAD programs on the market.

* Customize the user interface and connect hotkeys to macros
* Create sketches, parts, assemblies, and drawings
* uild intelligence into parts
* Work with patterns, equations, and configurations
* Learn multibody, surface, and master model techniques
* Write, record, and edit Visual Basic(r) macros

Design with advanced 3D features

Increase speed and efficiency with subassemblies

Use multibody models to their full potential

What's on the CD-ROM?

The CD includes all the parts, assemblies, drawings, and examples you need to follow the tutorials in each chapter. You'll also find finished models, templates, and more.

See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements

Adobe Illustrator CS4 How Tos or Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2007

2009-01-11T08:55:00.000-08:00

Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (How-Tos Series)

Author: David Karlins

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 4, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using all the new features as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.

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Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2007: The Book by and for Professionals

Author: Rodolfo Ambriz

Designed for the busy, practicing project manager, Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Office Project 2007 will help you get up to speed quickly with Project 2007 and enable you to create effective schedules more efficiently. Through the use of helpful screen shots, hands-on exercises, illustrations, and review questions, this guide instructs you on how to build dynamic schedules that will allow you to explore what-if scenarios and dramatically decrease the time you spend making static scheduling changes.

Excel 2007 Charts or Advanced Rails Recipes

2009-01-10T23:44:00.000-08:00

Excel 2007 Charts

Author: John Walkenbach

Excel, the top number-crunching tool, now offers a vastly improved charting function to help you give those numbers dimension and relativity. John Walkenbach, a.k.a. Mr. Spreadsheet, clearly explains all these charting features and shows you how to choose the right chart for your needs. You’ll learn to modify data within the chart, deal with missing data, format your chart, use trend lines, construct “impossible” charts, create charts from pivot tables, dress them up with graphics, and more.

Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps

Author: Mike Clark

From the author of the indispensable "Rails Recipes," and with the help of a new master Rails chef in the kitchen, here are 72 new ways to kick your Ruby on Rails apps up a notch. "More Rails Recipes" is a collection of practical recipes for dressing up your web application with little fuss. You'll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most cutting-edge Rails techniques so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier.
Developers by the thousands are coming to Rails-the benefits are clear, both to individuals and their organizations.
But how can a developer be expected to write idiomatic, effective Rails code when the technology is so new? The answer is to work alongside masters, people who've been there from the start (and who have the scars to prove it). And, what better way to learn from their experience than to look at their code and read their explanations of why it's written that way? And even better imagine if that code can be lifted and placed right into your own application.
This is better than just cut-and-paste: the recipe format means you'll understand the code, and be able to modify it to suit your needs. And the list of recipes is so broad that you're bound to find tips and techniques where you'll say "Oh! That's how they do that," or, "I didn't know you could do that in Rails."
With "More Rails Recipes," a following up to the popular original "Rails Recipes," you can cook up a storm.

High Definition Postproduction or The Rational Guide To Extending SSIS 2005 with Script

2009-01-10T11:32:00.000-08:00

High Definition Postproduction: Editing and Delivering HD Video

Author: Steven E Brown

* Real-world postproduction paths show how it's being done today
* Numerous HD tables clear up what format is used for which purpose
* Ample information on HDV
* Debunks myths and answers common questions about HD

Avoid costly missteps in postproduction and get it right the first time with this book. Written by an in-the-trenches professional who works with HD every day, High Definition Postproduction is an overview of this exciting opportunity for film and video production and postproduction professionals. High Definition production and editing is here and definitely a reality. High-def network shows are aired on a weekly basis. Several HD-only channels are well into their production schedules. HD is even used for major film productions and post production processes. However, unlike the existing 4x3, NTSC format, the HD world has many variables. This ability to choose various frame rates, frame sizes, bit rates, and color space options makes this an exciting, yet somewhat daunting challenge. The future may hold even more options as electronics continue to evolve and manufactures continue to exploit this format. Naturally, all of these options can lead to confusion and errors.

This book begins with an overview of the HD format and then covers commonly-asked questions. A chapter on shooting details how to smooth the path for post. Postproduction workflows, including the digital intermediate, are covered in great detail, and are enhanced by real-world examples.

From HDV to the high-end cameras used in Star Wars and Sin City, this book is your complete guide to HD.

The Rational Guide To Extending SSIS 2005 with Script

Author: Donald Farmer

The Integration Services feature of Microsoft[Registered] SQL Server 2005 brings together data from diverse sources in a high-performance data integration platform, to enable users to work across multiple applications that may not have been designed to cooperate. With this book, you'll learn how scripting in SQL Server Integration Services can enable you to easily add new, fully-integrated functionality to achieve your enterprise data integration needs. Donald Farmer, Microsoft's Group Program Manager for SQL Server Integration Services, clearly explains how to build practical and useful scripts for this exciting new SQL Server 2005 feature. His systematic approach, friendly tutorials, and numerous examples are suitable for both developers and IT professionals alike.

Ivor Hortons Beginning Visual C 2008 or Joel on Software

2009-01-10T02:20:00.000-08:00

Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2008

Author: Ivor Horton

Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2008

Proudly presenting the latest edition of one of the all-time bestselling books on the C++ language, successful author Ivor Horton repeats the formula that has made each previous edition so popular by teaching you both the standard C++ language and C++/CLI as well as Visual C++ 2008. Thoroughly updated for the 2008 release, this book shows you how to build real-world applications using Visual C++ and guides you through the ins and outs of C++ development.

Horton's accessible approach and detailed examples cover both flavors of the C++ language-native ISO/ANSIC++ Windows application development using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), as well as the development of C++/CLI Windows applications using Windows Forms. He also introduces you to the techniques you can use for accessing data sources in both MFC and Windows Forms, and working examples demonstrate each programming technique that is being discussed. With this book by your side, you are well on your way to becoming a successful C++ programmer.

What you will learn from this book

• How to use the Standard Template Library, a powerful and extensive set of tools for organizing and manipulating data in your native C++ programs

• Techniques for finding errors in your C++ programs

• The ways that Microsoft(r) Windows(r) applications are structured and the elements that are essential for each application

• How to create and use common controls in order to build the graphical user interface for your application

• Ways to develop your own libraries using MFC

• Thedifferent controls that are available for accessing data sources, how they work, and how to customize them

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who wants to write C++ applications for the Microsoft Windows OS. No prior experience of any programming language is assumed.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Programming with Visual C++ 2008.

Chapter 2: Data, Variables, and Calculations.

Chapter 3: Decisions and Loops.

Chapter 4: Arrays, Strings, and Pointers.

Chapter 5: Introducing Structure into Your Programs.

Chapter 6: More about Program Structure.

Chapter 7: Defining Your Own Data Types.

Chapter 8: More on Classes.

Chapter 9: Class Inheritance and Virtual Functions.

Chapter 10: The Standard Template Library.

Chapter 11: Debugging Techniques.

Chapter 12: Windows Programming Concepts.

Chapter 13: Windows Programming with the Microsoft Foundation Classes.

Chapter 14: Working with Menus and Toolbars.

Chapter 15: Drawing in a Window.

Chapter 16: Creating the Document and Improving the View.

Chapter 17: Working with Dialogs and Controls.

Chapter 18: Storing and Printing Documents.

Chapter 19: Writing Your Own DLLs.

Chapter 20: Connecting to Data Sources.

Chapter 21: Updating Data Sources.

Chapter 22: More on Windows Forms Applications.

Chapter 23: Accessing Data Sources in a Windows Forms Application.

Appendix A: C++ Keywords.

Appendix B: ASCII Codes.

Appendix C: Windows Message Types.

Index.

New interesting textbook: Análise de Estratégia Contemporânea

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters that will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

Author: Joel Spolsky

Spolsky is knowledgeable, funny and free of unnecessary religious fervor. Joel on Software is a must-read.

— Daniel Shefer, Slashdot contributor

...having (Joel on Software) in one place, edited, with an index, is probably the best twenty-five dollars you'll spend this year.

— Greg Wilson, Dr. Dobb's Journal

(Joel Spolsky's) genuine desire to make the software world a better place keeps us coming back for more.

— Bruce Hadley, softwareCEO

This book will challenge, encourage, upset, and entertain you. Spolsky knows his stuff, and he's got the war wounds to prove it. This book is worth the price of admission...

— Tom Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings

An entertaining oportunity to get to know one of today's most influential developer/authors.

— IT Conversations' producer Doug Kaye interviews Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky began his legendary web log in March 2000, in order to offer insights for improving the world of programming. Spolsky based these observations on years of personal experience.

The result just a handful of years later? Spolsky's technical knowledge, caustic wit, and extraordinary writing skills have earned him status as a programming guru! His blog has become renowned throughout the programming world--now linked to more than six hundred websites and translated into over thirty languages.

Joel on Software covers every conceivable aspect of software programming--from the best way to write code, to the best way to design an office in which to write code! All programmers, all people who want to enhance their knowledge of programmers, and all who aretrying to manage programmers will surely relate to Joel's musings.

Slashdot.org

Spolsky is knowledgeable, funny and free of unnecessary religious fervor. Joel on Software is a must-read for developers, product managers and those who want more insight into the world of developing software.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Advanced Application Development or Domain Driven Design

2009-01-09T15:09:00.000-08:00

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Advanced Application Development: Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3

Author: Ben Forta

The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time—used by more ColdFusion developers to learn the product than any other books. Volume 3, Advanced Application Development introduces advanced ColdFusion features and technologies, including ensuring high availability, security and access control implementations, Java and .NET integration, using feeds and web services, connecting to IM networks, and server OS integration.
Complete coverage of ColdFusion 8 starts in Volume 1, Getting Started (ISBN 0-321-51548-X) and Volume 2 Application Development (ISBN 0-321-51546-3).

Domain-Driven Design: Tacking Complexity In the Heart of Software

Author: Eric Evans

This is not a book about specific technologies. It offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting an extensive set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains. Intertwining design and development practice, this book incorporates numerous examples based on actual projects to illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development.

Readers learn how to use a domain model to make a complex development effort more focused and dynamic. A core of best practices and standard patterns provides a common language for the development team. A shift in emphasis - refactoring not just the code but the model underlying the code - in combination with the frequent iterations of Agile development leads to deeper insight into domains and enhanced communication between domain expert and programmer. Domain-Driven Design then builds on this foundation, and addresses modeling and design for complex systems and larger organizations.

With this book in hand, object-oriented developers, system analysts, and designers will have the guidance they need to organize and focus their work, create rich and useful domain models, and leverage those models into quality, long-lasting software implementations.

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Putting the Domain Model to Work	1
Ch. 1	Crunching Knowledge	7
Ch. 2	Communication and the Use of Language	23
Ch. 3	Binding Model and Implementation	45
Pt. II	The Building Blocks of a Model-Driven Design	63
Ch. 4	Isolating the Domain	67
Ch. 5	A Model Expressed in Software	81
Ch. 6	The Life Cycle of a Domain Object	123
Ch. 7	Using the Language: An Extended Example	163
Pt. III	Refactoring Toward Deeper Insight	187
Ch. 8	Breakthrough	193
Ch. 9	Making Implicit Concepts Explicit	205
Ch. 10	Supple Design	243
Ch. 11	Applying Analysis Patterns	293
Ch. 12	Relating Design Patterns to the Model	309
Ch. 13	Refactoring Toward Deeper Insight	321
Pt. IV	Strategic Design	327
Ch. 14	Maintaining Model Integrity	331
Ch. 15	Distillation	397
Ch. 16	Large-Scale Structure	439
Ch. 17	Bringing the Strategy Together	485
	Conclusion	499
	App.: The Use of Patterns in This Book	507
	Glossary	511
	References	515
	Photo Credits	517
	Index	519

Print Is Dead or Computer Systems

2009-01-09T04:57:00.000-08:00

Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Author: Jeff Gomez

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, paper shortages, radio, TV, computer games, and fluctuating literacy rates, the bound stack of printed paper has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.

Newspapers are struggling for readers and relevance; downloadable music has consigned the album to the format scrap heap, and the digital revolution is now about to leave books on the high shelf of history. In Print Is Dead, Gomez explains how authors, producers, distributors, and readers must not only acknowledge these changes, but drive digital book creation, standards, storage, and delivery as the first truly transformational thing to happen in the world of words since the printing press.

New interesting textbook: Geschäft: Seine Gesetzliche, Ethische und Globale Umgebung

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Author: Randal E Bryant

A PROGRAMMER'S PERSPECTIVE

This book is for programmers who want to write faster and more reliable programs. By learning how programs are mapped onto the system and executed, readers will better understand why programs behave the way they do and how inefficiencies arise. Computer systems are viewed broadly, comprising processor and memory hardware, compiler, operating system, and networking environment. With its programmer's perspective, readers can clearly see how learning about the inner workings of computer systems will help their further development as computer scientists and engineers. It also helps prepare them for further study in computer architecture, operating systems, compilers, and networking.

Topics include: data representations, machine-level representations of C programs, processor architecture, program optimization, memory hierarchy, linking, exceptional control flow, virtual memory and memory management, system-level 1/O, network programming, and concurrent programming. The coverage focuses on how these areas affect application and system programmers. For example, when covering data representations, it considers how the finite representations used to represent numbers can approximate integer and real numbers, but with limitations that must be understood by programmers. When covering caching, it discusses how the ordering of loop indices in matrix code can affect program performance. When covering networking, it describes how a concurrent server can efficiently handle requests from multiple clients.

The book is based on Intel-compatible (IA32) machines executing C programs on Unix or related operating systems such as Linux. Somefamiliarity with C or C++ is assumed, although hints are included to help readers making the transition from Java to C.

A complete set of resources, including labs and assignments, lecture notes, and code examples are available via the book's Web site at csapp.cs.cmu.edu.

	Preface
	About the Authors
1	A Tour of Computer Systems	1
Pt. I	Program Structure and Execution
2	Representing and Manipulating Information	24
3	Machine-Level Representation of Programs	122
4	Processor Architecture	254
5	Optimizing Program Performance	376
6	The Memory Hierarchy	454
Pt. II	Running Programs on a System
7	Linking	538
8	Exceptional Control Flow	584
9	Measuring Program Execution Time	650
10	Virtual Memory	690
Pt. III	Interaction and Communication Between Programs
11	System-Level I/O	776
12	Network Programming	800
13	Concurrent Programming	846
A	HCL Descriptions of Processor Control Logic	905
B	Error Handling	925
	Bibliography	949
	Index	953

Emperors New Mind or Wicked Cool PHP

2009-01-08T11:54:00.000-08:00

Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

Author: Roger Penros

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do?
In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose--eminent physicist and winner, with Stephen Hawking, of the prestigious Wolf prize--puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. Penrose examines what physics and mathematics can tell us about how the mind works, what they can't, and what we need to know to understand the physical processes of consciousness.
He is among a growing number of physicists who think Einstein wasn't being stubborn when he said his "little finger" told him that quantum mechanics is incomplete, and he concludes that laws even deeper than quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind. To support this contention, Penrose takes the reader on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as complex numbers, Turing machines, complexity theory, quantum mechanics, formal systems, Godel undecidability, phase spaces, Hilbert spaces, black holes, white holes, Hawking radiation, entropy, quasicrystals, the structure of the brain, and scores of other subjects.
The Emperor's New Mind will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in modern physics and its relation to philosophical issues, as well as to physicists, mathematicians, philosophers and those on either side of the AI debate.

Interesting textbook: The Betrayal of America or Bobby and J Edgar

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

Author: William Steinmetz

PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too.

Instead of starting at "Hello World," "Wicked Cool PHP" assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you'll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.

"Wicked Cool PHP" contains a wide variety of scripts to process credit cards, check the validity of email addresses, template HTML, and serve dynamic images and text. The 76 easily implemented scripts will also teach you how to:

Send and receive email notifications Track your visitors' behavior with cookies and sessions Override PHP's default settings Manipulate dates, images, and text on the fly Harness SOAP and other web services Create an online poll, ecard delivery system, and blog

But it's not all fun and games: Security is a big concern when programming any web application. So you'll learn how to encrypt your confidential data, safeguard your passwords, and prevent common cross-site-scripting attacks. And you'll learn how to customize all of the scripts to fit your own needs.

Dynamic Web content doesn't have to be difficult. Learn the secrets of the craft from two experienced PHP developers with "Wicked Cool PHP,"

Introduction     xiii
The Faqs of Life-The Scripts Every PHP Programmer Wants (or Needs) to Know     1
Including Another File as a Part of Your Script     2
What Can Go Wrong?     3
Highlighting Alternate Row Colors in a Table     4
Hacking the Script     5
Creating Previous/Next Links     7
Using the Script     10
Printing the Contents of an Array     11
Turning an Array into a Nonarray Variable That Can Be Restored Later     12
What Can Go Wrong?     12
Sorting Multidimensional Arrays     13
Hacking the Script     14
Templating Your Site with Smarty     14
Installing Smarty     14
A Brief Smarty Tutorial     15
What Can Go Wrong?     16
Hacking the Script     17
Configuring PHP     19
Configuration Settings and the php.ini File     20
Locating Your php.ini File     20
Revealing All of PHP's Settings     21
Reading an Individual Setting     21
Error Reporting     22
Common Error Messages     23
Suppressing All Error Messages     24
Extending the Run Time of a Script     24
What Can Go Wrong?     25
Preventing Users from Uploading Large Files     25
Turning Off Registered Global Variables     25
Enabling Magic Quotes     26
What Can Go Wrong?     26
Restricting the Files that PHP Can Access     26
What Can Go Wrong?     27
Shutting Down Specific Functions     27
Adding Extensions to PHP     27
Adding PHP Extensions     28
Installing Extensions with a Web-Based Control Panel     29
What Can Go Wrong?     32
PHP Security     33
Recommended Security Configuration Options     35
SQL Injection Attacks     35
Preventing Basic XSS Attacks     37
Using SafeHTML     38
What Can Go Wrong?     39
Protecting Data with a One-Way Hash     40
Hacking the Script     41
Encrypting Data with Mcrypt     41
Hacking the Script     43
Generating Random Passwords     43
Using the Script     44
Working with Forms     45
Security Measures: Forms Are Not Trustworthy     45
Verification Strategies     46
Using {dollar}_POST, {dollar}_GET, {dollar}_REQUEST, and {dollar}_FILES to Access Form Data     47
Fetching Form Variables Consistently and Safely     47
Trimming Excess Whitespace     47
Importing Form Variables into an Array     48
Making Sure a Response Is One of a Set of Given Values     51
Hacking the Script     51
Using Multiple Submit Buttons     52
Validating a Credit Card     52
Using the Script     54
Hacking the Script     55
Double-Checking a Credit Card's Expiration Date     55
Using the Script     56
Checking Valid Email Addresses     56
Checking American Phone Numbers     57
Working with Text and HTML     59
Extracting Part of a String     59
Hacking the Script     61
Making a String Uppercase, Lowercase, or Capitalized     62
What Can Go Wrong?     62
Finding Substrings     63
What Can Go Wrong?     64
Replacing Substrings     64
What Can Go Wrong?     65
Finding and Fixing Misspelled Words with pspell     65
Working with the Default Dictionary     66
Adding a Custom Dictionary to pspell      68
What Can Go Wrong?     69
Regular Expressions     69
Regular Expression Basics     69
Special Character Sequences     70
Pattern Repeaters     71
Grouping     71
Character Classes     71
Putting It All Together     72
Matching and Extracting with Regular Expressions     72
Replacing Substrings with Regular Expressions     74
Rearranging a Table     75
Creating a Screen Scraper     75
Hacking the Script     77
Converting Plaintext into HTML-Ready Markup     77
Automatically Hyperlinking URLs     80
Stripping HTML Tags from Strings     80
Working with Dates     81
How Unix Time Works     81
Getting the Current Timestamp     82
Getting the Timestamp of a Date in the Past or Future     83
Creating Timestamps from a String     83
Creating Timestamps from Date Values     84
Formatting Dates and Times     85
Calculating the Day of the Week from a Given Date     88
Finding the Difference Between Two Dates     88
Using the Script     89
Hacking the Script      90
MySQL Date Formats     90
Working with Files     91
File Permissions     91
Permissions with an FTP Program     92
The Command Line     93
What Can Go Wrong?     93
Placing a File's Contents into a Variable     93
Hacking the Script     95
What Can Go Wrong?     95
Creating and Writing to a File     96
Checking to See If a File Exists     96
Deleting Files     97
Uploading Images to a Directory     97
Using the Script     101
What Can Go Wrong?     101
Hacking the Script     101
Reading a Comma-Separated File     101
User and Session Tracking     103
Using Cookies and Sessions to Track User Data     104
Cookies     104
Sessions     104
Creating a "Welcome Back, Username!" Message with Cookies     105
What Can Go Wrong?     106
Using Sessions to Temporarily Store Data     107
What Can Go Wrong?     109
Checking to See If a User's Browser Accepts Cookies     109
Redirecting Users to Different Pages     110
Forcing a User to Use SSL-Encrypted Pages     111
Extracting Client Information     111
Session Timeouts     115
A Simple Login System     116
Working with Email     119
Using PHPMailer to Send Mail     120
Installing PHPMailer     120
Using the Script     121
Adding Attachments     122
What Can Go Wrong?     123
Using Email to Verify User Accounts     124
Working with Images     129
Creating a CAPTCHA (Security) Image     129
Creating Thumbnail Images     136
Using cURL to Interact with Web Services     141
Connecting to Other Websites     142
Using Cookies     144
Transforming XML into a Usable Form     144
Using Mapping Web Services     146
Using PHP and SOAP to Request Data from Amazon.com     149
Building a Web Service     151
Intermediate Projects     155
A User Poll     156
Creating a Ballot Form     157
Processing the Ballot     159
Getting Poll Results     160
Hacking the Script     162
Electronic Greeting Cards     162
Choosing a Card      164
Sending the Card     165
Viewing the Card     169
Hacking the Script     171
A Blogging System     171
Creating Blog Entries     172
Displaying an Entry     174
Adding Comments     178
Creating a Blog Index     178
Hacking the Script     181
Appendix     183
Index     185

Running Linux 5th Edition or Becoming a Teacher

2009-01-07T23:42:00.000-08:00

Running Linux, 5th Edition

Author: Matthias Dalheim

You may be contemplating your first Linux installation. Or you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or setting up an FTP server. Running Linux, now in its fifth edition, is the book you'll want on hand in either case. Widely recognized in the Linux community as the ultimate getting-started and problem-solving book, it answers the questions and tackles the configuration issues that frequently plague users, but are seldom addressed in other books.

This fifth edition of Running Linux is greatly expanded, reflecting the maturity of the operating system and the teeming wealth of software available for it. Hot consumer topics such as audio and video playback applications, groupware functionality, and spam filtering are covered, along with the basics in configuration and management that always have made the book popular.

"Running Linux" covers basic communications such as mail, web surfing, and instant messaging, but also delves into the subtleties of network configuration--including dial-up, ADSL, and cable modems--in case you need to set up your network manually. The book can

make you proficient on office suites and personal productivity applications--and also tells you what programming tools are available if you're interested in contributing to these applications.

Other new topics in the fifth edition include encrypted email and filesystems, advanced shell techniques, and remote login applications. Classic discussions on booting, package management, kernel recompilation, and X configuration have also been updated.

The authors of Running Linux have anticipated problem areas, selected stable and popular solutions, andprovided clear instructions to ensure that you'll have a satisfying experience using Linux. The discussion is direct and complete enough to guide novice users, while still providing the additional information experienced users will need to progress in their mastery of Linux.

Whether you're using Linux on a home workstation or maintaining a network server, Running Linux will provide expert advice just when you need it.

1	Introduction to Linux	3
2	Preinstallation and installation	34
3	Desktop environments	67
4	Basic Unix commands and concepts	102
5	Web browsers and instant messaging	135
6	Electronic mail clients	149
7	Games	167
8	Office suites and personal productivity	194
9	Multimedia	277
10	System administration basics	335
11	Managing users, groups, and permissions	384
12	Installing, updating, and compiling programs	401
13	Networking	440
14	Printing	484
15	File sharing	522
16	The X Window system	571
17	System start and shutdown	590
18	Configuring and building the kernel	608
19	Text editing	627
20	Text processing	657
21	Programming tools	681
22	Running a Web server	768
23	Transporting and handling email messages	776
24	Running an FTP server	797
25	Running Web applications with MySQL and PHP	809
26	Running a secure system	828
27	Backup and recovery	850
28	Heterogeneous networking and running Windows programs	865

Books about: Unnatural Death or Roosevelts Secret War

Becoming a Teacher (with MyLabSchool)

Author: Forrest W Parkay

“It is readable, up-to-date, and very practical in its’ application. It covers a variety of topics in an interesting manner that is hard to find in other texts.”
–John A. Beaupre, Illinois Central College

“All of the chapters are important and deal with content that is vital for students to know.”
–Anthony J. Coletta, William Patterson University

Becoming a Teacher, Seventh Edition, takes a straightforward look at what it means to be a professional teacher in today's rapidly changing, high-stakes environment of education. Building upon a strong “mentoring” message that has long been the tradition of Becoming a Teacher, the Seventh Edition helps students make difficult decisions about their teaching future by fostering an awareness of the realities of teaching in America today. This no-nonsense approach provides students with the tools and information necessary to answer the questions, “What does it take to become a professional teacher?” and “Do I want to teach?” Along the way, the authors provide practical perspectives for meeting the challenges of teaching.

New to this Edition:

Special features at the beginning and end of each of the book's four parts explore four “Big Picture” issues facing education today: teacher resiliency, teaching in socially toxic environments, the changing demographic of today's students, and preparing a literatepopulace.
Revised “Meeting the Standards” features in each chapter provide prospective teachers with guidelines for acquiring the skills necessary to meet the performance standards developed by INTASC, NCATE, PRAXIS, and NBPTS, and for meeting the accountability criteria contained in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.
A new “Case for Reflection” feature in each chapter presents problem-solving situations to resolve, providing readers an opportunity to apply new learning to develop practical solutions in specific problem-solving contexts.
A new "Teachers' Voices” feature in each chapter presents short, teacher-authored articles illustrating how teachers apply chapter content to actual classroom situations and providing readers firsthand insights into real-world challenges teachers face.
New in MyLabSchool! Parkay E-book with integrated pre- and post-tests that generate individualized study plans to help students focus their attention and efforts where they’re needed most.

See inside back cover for [Insert MyLabSchool Logo] Access Code!

Oracle Database 10g Backup and Recovery or Learning GNU Emacs

2009-01-07T13:30:00.000-08:00

Oracle Database 10g Backup and Recovery

Author: Matthew Hart

The Most Complete Guide to Maximizing Oracle Recovery Manager

Deploy a rock-solid data backup and disaster recovery strategy with the in-depth guidance of this authoritative volume. From the exclusive publishers of Oracle Press books, Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup & Recovery shows you, step by step, how to set up RMAN-ready databases, create reliable backup tapes and discs, and perform accurate Oracle system restores. Find out how to use RMAN from the command line and from Enterprise Manager, generate meaningful lists and reports, and automate administrative tasks using third-party media management tools. Plus, you'll learn to perform incremental backups, Flashback recoveries, and database cloning.

Set up, configure, and maintain Oracle Database 10g RMAN
Use RMAN recovery catalogs, target database packages, and control files
Centralize backup tape management using Oracle Secure Backup
Perform online, offline, and incremental system backups
Monitor and tune performance with Enterprise Manager Grid Control and Database Control
Accomplish complete and partial RMAN database restores
Improve functionality using VERITAS NetBackup, EMC NetWorker Module, and Tivoli Storage Manager
Overcome human errors using Flashback Versions Query and Transaction Query
Create clone and standby databases from tape and disc backups
Work with Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases and sync-and-split hardware technologies

Matthew Hart is the co-author of three books for Oracle Press, Oracle 9i for Windows 2000: Tips & Techniques, Oracle 9i RMAN Backup& Recovery, and most recently Oracle 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and DataGuard. He has worked with high availability technologies in Oracle since version 7.3, and has worked with RMAN since its inception. He has spent considerable time perfecting backup and recovery strategies for Oracle customers.

Robert G. Freeman is an Oracle DBA. Among the other books Robert has written are the bestselling titles Oracle Database 10g New Features, Oracle 9i RMAN Backup and Recovery, and Oracle 9i New Features. Robert also wrote the Oracle Press book Portable DBA: Oracle.

Part I: Getting Started with RMAN in Oracle Database 10g

Chapter 1: Oracle Database 10g Backup and Recovery Architecture Tour

Chapter 2: Introduction to the RMAN Architecture

Part II: Setup Principles and Practices

Chapter 3: RMAN Setup and Configuration

Chapter 4: Media Management Considerations

Chapter 5: Oracle Secure Backup

Chapter 6: Enhancing RMAN with VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle

Chapter 7: Configuring EMC NetWorker Module for Oracle

Chapter 8: RMAN and Tivoli Storage Manager

Part III: Using RMAN Effectively

Chapter 9: RMAN Backups

Chapter 10: RMAN Restore and Recovery

Chapter 11: Using Oracle Enterprise Manager for Backup and Recovery

Chapter 12: RMAN Advanced Recovery Topics

Chapter 13: Surviving User Errors: Flashback Technologies

Chapter 14: Maintaining RMAN

Chapter 15: Monitoring and Reporting on RMAN

Chapter 16: Performance Tuning RMAN Backup and Recovery Operations

Part IV: RMAN in the Oracle Ecosystem

Chapter 17: Duplication: Cloning the Target Database

Chapter 18: RMAN and Data Guard

Chapter 19: RMAN and Real Application Clusters

Chapter 20: RMAN in Sync and Split Technology

Chapter 21: RMAN in the Workplace: Case Studies

Part V: Appendixes

Appendix A: RMAN Syntax Reference Guide

Appendix B: Exploring the Recovery Catalog

Appendix C: Setting Up an RMAN Test Environment

INDEX
Go to: Oracle Database 10g PL SQL Programming or The Real MCTS MCITP Exam 70 648 Upgrading Your MSCA on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008

Learning GNU Emacs (3rd Edition)

Author: Debra Cameron

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacsfamily of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment—you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It is a thorough guide that will also "grow" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It takes you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customization and programming.

The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.

Learning GNU Emacs, third edition, covers: How to edit files with Emacs Using the operating system shell through Emacs How to use multiple buffers, windows, and frames Customizing Emacs interactively and through startup files Writing macros to circumvent repetitious tasks Emacs as a programming environment for Java, C++, and Perl, among others

Using Emacs as an integrated development environment (IDE) Integrating Emacs with CVS, Subversion and other change control systems for projects with multiple developers Writing HTML, XHTML, and XML with Emacs

The basics of Emacs Lisp

The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers. Also useful for readers switching from other Emacs implementations to GNU Emacs.

	Oracle architecture	3
	Software options	15
	Configuration planning	18
	Installation	22
	Initialization parameters	26
	Backup and recovery	30
	Security	80
	The data dictionary	117

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword from Mike Meyers
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Introduction to Operating Systems	1
Ch. 2	DOS	39
Ch. 3	The Windows Desktop	87
Ch. 4	Windows NT 4.0 Workstation	125
Ch. 5	Windows 98	179
Ch. 6	Windows 2000 Professional	231
Ch. 7	Windows XP Professional	287
Ch. 8	Macintosh OS 9 and OS X	327
Ch. 9	Linux	369

1	Declarations and access control	1
2	Object orientation	81
3	Assignments	173
4	Operators	275
5	Flow control, exceptions, and assertions	315
6	Strings, I/O, formatting, and parsing	411
7	Generics and collections	521
8	Inner classes	635
9	Threads	673
10	Development	759

Science Applications Books

Making Music with Your Computer or Elements of Compiler Design

Making Music with Your Computer

Elements of Compiler Design

Understanding the Digital Economy or C Network Programming Volume I

Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns

Booknews

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The ABCs of LDAP or Photoshop CS for Beginners DVD

The ABCs of LDAP: How to Install, Run, and Administer LDAP Services

Photoshop CS for Beginners DVD

CCNA or Computer Security Fundamentals

Ccna

Table of Contents:

Computer Security Fundamentals

Pro NetBeans IDE 55 Enterprise Edition or The Scheme Programming Language 3rd Edition

Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition

The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition

Booknews

Table of Contents:

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book or Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

Table of Contents:

Oracle DBA Pocket Guide or Programming Excel with VBA and NET

Oracle DBA Pocket Guide

Table of Contents:

Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

Querying XML or Digital Signal Processing

Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context

Table of Contents:

Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Based Approach

Microprocessor Design or Microsoft Office Access 2007 Introductory

Microprocessor Design: A Practical Guide from Design Planning to Manufacturing

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Microprocessor

Chapter 2: Computer Components

Chapter 3: Design Planning

Chapter 4: Computer Architecture

Chapter 5: Microarchitecture

Chapter 6: Logic Design

Chapter 7: Circuit Design

Chapter 8: Layout

Chapter 9: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Chapter 10: Microprocessor Packaging

Chapter 11: Silicon Debug and Test

GLOSSARY

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Microsoft Office Access 2007 Introductory

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook or Learn to Make Great Digital Photos for 5 Bucks

Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook

Table of Contents:

Learn to Make Great Digital Photos for 5 Bucks

An Introduction to Programming Using Interactive Data Language or Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book

An Introduction to Programming Using Interactive Data Language (IDL)

Table of Contents:

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book

E Commerce For Dummies or Alternative Digital Photography

E-Commerce For Dummies

Alternative Digital Photography

Daniel Lombardo - Library Journal

Table of Contents:

Geekonomics or Murachs Visual Basic 2005

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Murach's Visual BASIC, 2005

Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh or Transcending CSS

Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Table of Contents:

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

Autonomous Systems And Intelligent Agents In Power System Control And Operation or Digital Capital

Autonomous Systems And Intelligent Agents In Power System Control And Operation

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs

Publishers Weekly

The Standard

Internet Book Watch

Business Week - Kirsanov

What People Are Saying

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Open Source for the Enterprise or Managing Industrial Knowledge

INDEX
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