Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
By Jennifer Grappone,&nbspGradiva Couzin,

* Publisher: Sybex
* Number Of Pages: 336
* Publication Date: 2006-06-13
* Sales Rank: 2873
* ISBN / ASIN: 0471787531
* EAN: 9780471787532
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Sybex
* Studio: Sybex Book Description:

Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.

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Hilbert's 10th Problem (Foundations of Computing)
By Yuri Matiyasevich

* Publisher: The MIT Press
* Number Of Pages: 288
* Publication Date: 1993-10-13
* Sales Rank: 855824
* ISBN / ASIN: 0262132958
* EAN: 9780262132954
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: The MIT Press
* Studio: The MIT Press Book Description:

At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians, held that year in Paris, the German mathematician David Hilbert put forth a list of 23 unsolved problems that he saw as being the greatest challenges for twentieth-century mathematics. Hilbert's 10th problem, to find a method (what we now call an algorithm) for deciding whether a Diophantine equation has an integral solution, was solved by Yuri Matiyasevich in 1970. Proving the undecidability of Hilbert's 10th problem is clearly one of the great mathematical results of the century.

This book presents the full, self-contained negative solution of Hilbert's 10th problem. In addition it contains a number of diverse, often striking applications of the technique developed for that solution (scattered previously in journals), describes the many improvements and modifications of the original proof - since the problem was "unsolved" 20 years ago, and adds several new, previously unpublished proofs.

Included are numerous exercises that range in difficulty from the elementary to small research problems, open questions,and unsolved problems. Each chapter concludes with a commentary providing a historical view of its contents. And an extensive bibliography contains references to all of the main publications directed to the negative solution of Hilbert's 10th problem as well as the majority of the publications dealing with applications of the solution.

Intended for young mathematicians, Hilbert's 10th Problem requires only a modest mathematical background. A few less well known number-theoretical results are presented in the appendixes. No knowledge of recursion theory is presupposed. All necessary notions are introduced and defined in the book, making it suitable for the first acquaintance with this fascinating subject.

Yuri Matiyasevich is Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg.

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Cryptography for Internet & Database Applications
By Nick Galbreath,&nbspNicholas Galbreath,

* Publisher: Wiley
* Number Of Pages: 320
* Publication Date: 2002-07-15
* Sales Rank: 834465
* ISBN / ASIN: 0471210293
* EAN: 0723812210299
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Wiley
* Studio: Wiley Book Description:

Cryptography is the gold standard for security. It is used to protect the transmission and storage of data between two parties by encrypting it into an unreadable format. Cryptography has enabled the first wave of secure transmissions, which has helped fuel the growth of transactions like shopping, banking, and finance over the world's biggest public network, the Internet. Many Internet applications such as e-mail, databases, and browsers store a tremendous amount of personal and financial information, but frequently the data is left unprotected. Traditional network security is frequently less effective at preventing hackers from accessing this data. For instance, once-private databases are now completely exposed on the Internet. It turns out that getting to the database that holds millions of credit card numbers-the transmission-is secure through the use of cryptography, but the database itself isn't, fueling the rise of credit card information theft.
A paradigm shift is now under way for cryptography. The only way to make data secure in any application that runs over the Internet is to use secret (also known as private) key cryptography. The current security methods focus on securing Internet applications using public keys techniques that are no longer effective. In this groundbreaking book, noted security expert Nick Galbreath provides specific implementation guidelines and code examples to secure database and Web-based applications to prevent theft of sensitive information from hackers and internal misuse.

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Next Generation SDH/SONET: Evolution or Revolution
By Huub van Helvoort

* Publisher: Wiley
* Number Of Pages: 254
* Publication Date: 2005-04-29
* Sales Rank: 953674
* ISBN / ASIN: 0470091207
* EAN: 9780470091203
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: Wiley
* Studio: Wiley Book Description:

Since the turn of the twentieth century, telecommunications has shifted from traditional voice transport to data transport, although digitized voice is still a large contributor. Instead of an evolution of existing transport standards, a revolution was necessary in order to enable additional data-related transport.

Next Generation SDH/SONET provides a detailed description of the enablers of efficient data transport over any synchronous network. These include virtual concatenation (VCAT), the operation to provide more granularity, and the link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS), an extension of VCAT that provides more flexibility. Equally, generic framing procedure (GFP), the methodology that efficiently transports asynchronous, or variable bit-rate data signals over a synchronous or constant bit-rate, is explored in detail.

â—� Describes new extensions to SDH/SONET standards to provide more granularity and flexibility in their structures, enabling the efficient transport of data-related signals such as Ethernet and FICON

â—� Presents comprehensive sections on the implementation of multi-service transport platforms (MSTP) enabled by VCAT, LCAS and GFP

â—� Provides valuable advice on how to exploit existing networks to create or extend LANs towards metro (MAN) or wide (WAN) area networks and also to support storage area (SAN) networks

This volume will appeal to manufacturers, engineers and all those involved in developing and deploying SDH, SONET and OTN technology. It will also be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students on network communications courses.

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Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Eighth Edition
By Marcia Stewart,&nbspJanet Portman,&nbspRalph E. Warner,

* Publisher: NOLO
* Number Of Pages: 590
* Publication Date: 2006-05-30
* Sales Rank: 13013
* ISBN / ASIN: 1413304141
* EAN: 9781413304145
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: NOLO
* Studio: NOLO Amazon.com:

Anyone who has ever been a landlord knows that the rental business is tightly regulated. As the authors of Every Landlord's Legal Guide point out, "a landlord either knows and follows the law or doesn't stay in business long." This book clearly outlines what the law requires of a landlord and, just as importantly, offers advice on how to be conscientious yet profitable. This useful book is filled with helpful information on finding good tenants, agreements and leases, liability issues, and even terminations and evictions. The advice is extremely thorough. For example, the chapter on the landlord's maintenance duties contains information on who is responsible for minor repairs, ways to avoid problems by instituting a preventive-maintenance program, and even possible tenant responses to landlord negligence. The book is rounded out with a chapter on finding a lawyer and an appendix of state laws that may affect your business. Dozens of sample forms are included both as blank hard copies in the book and as templates on the enclosed disk. This book is extremely user-friendly: Stilted legalese is translated into simple English, handy icons highlight particular points in the text, and sidebars provide in-depth analysis on a variety of issues. The authors maintain that success is based on "choosing tenants carefully, keeping good tenants happy, teaching mediocre tenants how to improve and getting rid of bad tenants by applying policies that are strict, fair and legal." This book will help you do just that. --C.B. Delaney

The all-in-one resource every landlord needs.

The best, most effective way to make and save money as a landlord is to keep up with the law --and with Every Landlord's Legal Guide, you can do it.

From move-in to move-out, Every Landlord's Legal Guide helps you handle the issues you're likely to face, helping you avoid hassles and headaches -- not to mention legal fees. Here is everything you need to:

*choose tenants *prepare a lease or rental agreement *collect and return deposits *avoid discrimination charges *hire a property manager *keep up with repairs and maintenance *minimize liability *deal with problem tenants *and more

Every Landlord's Legal Guide provides over 30 documents you'll need, including leases and rental agreements,as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

The 8th edition is completely revised to provide your state's current laws, and discusses how new federal bankruptcy laws affect your ability to evict tenants.

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Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans(TM) Platform
By Tim Boudreau,&nbspJaroslav Tulach,&nbspGeertjan Wielenga,

* Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
* Number Of Pages: 640
* Publication Date: 2007-04-30
* Sales Rank: 5961
* ISBN / ASIN: 0132354802
* EAN: 9780132354806
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
* Studio: Prentice Hall PTR Book Description:

The open-source NetBeans Platform is an extraordinarily powerful framework for building "write once, run anywhere" rich client applications. Now, for the first time since the release of NetBeans IDE 5.0, there's a comprehensive guide to rich client development on the NetBeans Platform.

Written for Java developers and architects who have discovered that basic Swing components are not enough for them, this book will help you get started with NetBeans module development, master NetBeans' key APIs, and learn proven techniques for building reliable desktop software. Each chapter is filled with practical, step-by-step instructions for creating complete rich client applications on top of the NetBeans Platform and plugins for NetBeans IDE.

Rich Client Programming's wide-ranging content covers

• Why modular development makes sense for small, medium, and large applications
• Using NetBeans to accelerate development and improve efficiency
• Leveraging NetBeans productivity features, from the Component Palette to Code Completion
• Leveraging NetBeans' modular architecture in your own applications
• Implementing loosely coupled communication to improve code maintainability and robustness
• Managing user- and system-configuration data
• Building reloadable components with solid threading models
• Constructing sophisticated multiwindow applications and presenting rich data structures to users
• Adding user-configurable options
• Integrating Web services with NetBeans desktop applications
• Automating module updates and providing user help

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed
By Tammy Fox

* Publisher: Sams
* Number Of Pages: 624
* Publication Date: 2007-04-20
* Sales Rank: 63624
* ISBN / ASIN: 0672328925
* EAN: 9780672328923
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: Sams
* Studio: Sams
* Average RatinBook Description:

This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex or challenging.

Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings together today’s best practices for the entire system lifecycle, from planning and deployment through maintenance and troubleshooting. Fox shows how to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness by automating day-to-day maintenance through scripting, deploying security updates via Red Hat Network, implementing central identity management services, and providing shared data with NFS and Samba.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed contains extensive coverage of network and web services, from the Apache HTTP server and Sendmail email services to remote login with OpenSSH. Fox also describes Red Hat’s most valuable tools for monitoring and optimization and presents thorough coverage of security–including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

• Streamline deployment with Kickstart
• Find, install, update, remove, and verify software
• Detect, analyze, and manage hardware
• Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas
• Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems
• Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely
• Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery
• Script and schedule tasks to run automatically
• Provide unified identity management services
• Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail
• Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications
• Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield
• Set up firewalls with iptables
• Enable the Linux Auditing System
• Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently

Tammy Fox served as technical leader of Red Hat’s documentation group, where she wrote and revised The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. She was founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, now an online publication reaching more than 800,000 system administrators and others interested in Linux and open source. She wrote Red Hat’s LogViewer tool and has written and contributed to several Red Hat configuration tools. Fox is also the founding leader of the Fedora Docs Project.

Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to updates and to download example scripts presented in this book.

Category: Linux/Networking

Covers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

User Level: Intermediate�Advanced

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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (3rd Edition)
By Grady Booch,&nbspRobert A. Maksimchuk,&nbspMichael W. Engel,&nbspBobbi J. Young,&nbspJim Conallen,&nbspKelli A. Houston,

* Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
* Number Of Pages: 704
* Publication Date: 2007-04-30
* Sales Rank: 173364
* ISBN / ASIN: 020189551X
* EAN: 9780201895513
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
* Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional Amazon.com:

In this eagerly awaited second edition, Grady Booch draws upon the rich and varied results of those projects and offers improved methods for object development and a new, unified notation. With numerous examples implemented in C++, Booch illustrates essential concepts, explains the method, and shows successful applications in a variety of fields. Booch also gives pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management. A two-time winner of Software Development's coveted Jolt Cola Product Excellence Award!

Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition--the first revision in 13 years--readers can learn to apply object-oriented methods using new paradigms such as Java, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, and .NET.

The authors draw upon their rich and varied experience to offer improved methods for object development and numerous examples that tackle the complex problems faced by software engineers, including systems architecture, data acquisition, cryptoanalysis, control systems, and Web development. They illustrate essential concepts, explain the method, and show successful applications in a variety of fields. You'll also find pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management.

New to this new edition are

• An introduction to the new UML 2.0, from the notation's most fundamental and advanced elements with an emphasis on key changes
• New domains and contexts
• A greatly enhanced focus on modeling--as eagerly requested by readers--with five chapters that each delve into one phase of the overall development lifecycle.
• Fresh approaches to reasoning about complex systems
• An examination of the conceptual foundation of the widely misunderstood fundamental elements of the object model, such as abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, and hierarchy
• How to allocate the resources of a team of developers and mange the risks associated with developing complex software systems
• An appendix on object-oriented programming languages

This is the seminal text for anyone who wishes to use object-oriented technology to manage the complexity inherent in many kinds of systems.

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