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Posted: August 31st, 2011, 9:56am CEST
Some people jump for the phone the instant something seems to be going wrong with their computer. There are certainly times when a tech guru can help you out of a tech jam, but there are other times when a call to tech support will wind you up on one of those lists of tech support stories about people who can't figure out why the drink holder is asking them to insert a CD. Here are the three instances where you will absolutely want to call a tech guru.
Repeated Freezing, Choppiness and Slowdown
When a computer freezes up the first time, maybe it's overheating. Put it in front of a fan or let it rest a little more often. When it slows down or gives choppy performance now and then, it may just be that it's overworked. Try closing some programs down. If it happens every day no matter what you're doing, call a tech guru because something's wrong.
Random Crashing and Shutting Down
If your computer is shutting itself down completely at random, it may be doing this as something of a defensive measure against viruses, malware and so on, or it could be a hardware malfunction. If it happens once, it might just be an automatic reboot to properly install some software. If it happens twice in a row, chances are it's a real problem that needs to be dealt with quickly in order to prevent any permanent damage from taking place.
Computer Refuses to Start Up
When a computer turns on, but just won't boot up for whatever reason, give it a couple tries and call your tech guru. If the computer just plain won't turn on, then chances are there's something wrong with the power cord or, if it's a laptop, perhaps the battery is dead and the computer needs to be recharged. It could be an issue with the thing just not being plugged in. When the computer starts up, then gives you some sort of error and immediately shuts itself back down, freezes up or shows a warning message of some sort, a tech guru should be able to talk you through just about any common problem.
It is worth noting that no matter how well your tech guru knows his or her stuff, they can't save data that's lost in a hard drive crash or a total system failure. Sometimes getting your computer back on track will effectively require starting over from scratch. If possible, buy or borrow a USB drive in order to store everything that you absolutely need to keep so that you can put it right back on the computer after the tech guys have patched your laptop or desktop back up. If you know how to fix a problem yourself, go for it. If not, call a tech guru.
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Posted: August 31st, 2011, 9:45am CEST
Scrum, a software development process developed by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986, has become highly popular as a general product development framework in today's businesses. If you're looking into trying this methodology, here are a few key terms that you need to familiarize yourself with before you get started.
• Product Owner - The "Product Owner" represents the customer's voice in the development process. The "Product Owner" is actually a member of the development team who researches customer opinions and stories, and adds them to product backlog for the team's reference.
• ScrumMaster - The "ScrumMaster" (or "Scrum Master") facilitates the entire process. He or she serves as the buffer between the team and impediments or distractions, keeping the team focused on the current tasks. A ScrumMaster can also act as the Product Owner if ned be.
• Teams - The teams involved in this methodology who have cross-functional skills that can used to do the actual development work, including analysis and research, design and development, testing, and even documentation. Scrum teams typically have 5-9 members in them, and are usually self-organized (though team managers/leaders still fall under the authority of the ScrumMaster).
• Backlog - Backlogs are lists of tasks that the team needs to work on. There are two types of backlogs: the product backlog, which is the overall list of what needs to be done during the entire process; and the sprint backlog, which is a list of tasks that need to be completed during the sprint.
• Sprint - Sprints in scrum methodology are time periods wherein the actual action and development occurs. They typically last for 2-4 weeks, and the tasks to be accomplished during each sprint are based on the sprint backlog.
• Sprint burn down chart - This is a checklist of tasks that is updated on a daily basis during a sprint. This is displayed in such a way that all the team members can see and update it easily, and keep track of what remains to be accomplished.
• Daily scrum - Short, daily meetings that occur during a sprint. During this meeting, the team discusses what was accomplished the previous day, what needs to be done, and any problems or impediments that are hindering progress.
• Sprint Retrospective - A longer meeting that occurs at the end of a sprint, wherein team members get together to discuss the previous sprint and how the next one can be further improved.
Wi Fi Security:
Security is now an essential element that forms the cornerstone of every corporate network. Without privacy, however, your solution is incomplete! My expertise in the areas of security and privacy has provided me with a valuable perspective that has enabled me to save my clients hundreds of thousands of dollars of what would have been revenue lost to hackers.
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Red Hat Certified Engineer Study Guide:
If you want to learn how to administer a Red Hat Linux system, this is the book for you. In it, you'll find clear and comprehensive explanations of the concepts you need to understand and the procedures you need to be able to perform. If you plan to take the RHCE exam, you will find this book to be even more valuable, because it focuses on the topics identified by Red Hat, Inc., as central to the RHCE exam. It contains many practice questions and exercises that will help you to prepare for and assess your readiness to take the RHCE exam. The book includes both questions and exercises because the RHCE exam has two kinds of tests: written and performance-based exams. The questions prepare you for the written part of the RHCE exam, and the exercises prepare you for the performance-based part of the exam. Once you master the questions and exercises, you will be able to approach the RHCE exam with confidence. However, the RHCE exam and this book are not for everyone. The RHCE exam is mostly a hands-on exam that attempts to assess your system administration skills. This book will help you to learn and refine these skills, but unless you've had some experience with Unix or Linux, you probably won't make much sense of this book or the RHCE exam. To succeed, you don't need to be a Unix or Linux expert—although it certainly won't hurt if you are—but you should be at least a Unix or Linux power user who has some experience in system installation and administration. If you've installed Linux on several systems and spent some time figuring out some system administration commands such as mount and unmount, you can expect to understand the material in this book.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:23am CET
Microsoft 70-227 V19 ISA:
This book will provide you questions and answers along with detailed explanations carefully compiled and written by our experts. Try to understand the concepts behind the questions instead of cramming the questions. Go through the entire document at least twice so that you make sure that you are not missing anything.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:18am CET
MCSE 70-227 ISA Server Training Guide:
This book takes you on a self-guided tour of all the areas covered by the Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server exam and teaches you the specific skills you need to achieve your certification. You also find helpful hints, tips, real-world examples, and exercises, as well as references to additional study materials.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:13am CET
How Secure Is Your Wireless Network:
Now you can have the awesome benefits of wireless LANs without falling victim to their notorious security flaws. Leading wireless security expert Lee Barken shows you practical workarounds and fixes for the vulnerabilities in today's WLANs, introduces high-security wireless protocols new to the marketplace, and offers step-by-step instructions for protecting all your wireless information, from the home to the enterprise.This is the definitive and easy-to-use WLAN security book you've been searching for-whether you're a network administrator,security specialist, manager, or home user.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:09am CET
Easy Microsoft Money:
Easy Microsoft Money 2004 is the perfect book for beginners who want to learn Microsoft's financial software through a visual, full-color approach. Topics include the Credit Center, Bill Estimator, portfolio customization, importing Quicken files, tracking your income and expenses, budgeting, managing account activity and much more! More than 100 tasks are covered, teaching you the basics of Money and arming you to make wise financial choices.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:05am CET
Design Patterns Explained:
As you read this book, you will gain a solid understanding of the ten most essential design patterns. You will learn that design patterns do not exist on their own, but are supposed to work in concert with other design patterns to help you create more robust applications. You will gain enough of a foundation that you will be able to read the design pattern literature, if you want to, and possibly discover patterns on your own.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 6:01am CET
An Introduction to Cryptography:
Cryptography is the stuff of spy novels and action comics. Kids once saved up bubble-gum wrappers and sent away for Captain Midnight's Secret Decoder Ring. Almost everyone has seen a television show or movie involving a nondescript suit-clad gentleman with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. The word "espionage" conjures images of James Bond, car chases, and flying bullets. And here you are, sitting in your office, faced with the rather mundane task of sending a sales report to a coworker in such a way that no one else can read it. You just want to be sure that your colleague was the actual and only recipient of the email and you want him or her to know that you were unmistakably the sender. It's not national security at stake, but if your company's competitor got a hold of it, it could cost you. How can you accomplish this? You can use cryptography. You may find it lacks some of the drama of code phrases whispered in dark alleys, but the result is the same: information revealed only to those for whom it was intended.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 5:55am CET
ActualTests Microsoft 070-291 Exam Cheat Sheet:
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Posted: March 12th, 2007, 4:51pm CET
Windows Server 2003 Exam Cram 2 (70-294):
This Exam Cram 2 helps you pass the 70-294 exam, which is a core exam in MCSE Windows Server 2003 certification program. This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead, it assumes that you have a solid foundation of knowledge but could use a refresher on important concepts, as well as a guide to exam topics and objectives. The book features test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, and a special Cram Sheet that includes tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else! The Cram Sheet is especially useful for last-minute review before the test begins.
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Posted: March 12th, 2007, 4:46pm CET
The Gurus Guide To SQL Server Architecture & Internals:
The latest book from the highly regarded and best-selling author Ken Henderson, The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals is the consummate reference to Microsoft SQL Server. Picking up where documentation and white papers leave off, this book takes an all-inclusive approach to provide the most depth and breadth of coverage of any book on SQL Server architecture, internals, and tuning.
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Posted: March 12th, 2007, 4:42pm CET
Secret Guide To Making Ninja Weapons Part3:
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 9:37am CET by Betterbooks
Web Services Theory & Practice:
This is a soup-to-nuts reference guide on all aspects of Web Services - where Web Services is a fast emerging set of Internet-specific middle ware technology to further promote the growth of all aspects of e-business via standardization, collaboration and "franchising". This book is best characterized as an executive brief for IT and senior management rather than a nuts-and-bolts technical guide for portal implementers. Think of it as the "Cliffs Notes on Web Services". Given this audience, the book consistently focuses on business needs, value propositions, ROI, proven solutions and actual examples of current implementations. Each chapter also ends with a 10-item "Q&A" section that consolidates and summarizes the information discussed in the chapter. The book is illustrated with detailed technical diagrams, includes lots of arresting subtitles and contains many bullet lists and tables to facilitate (and encourage) productive skimming.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 9:33am CET by Betterbooks
The Ultimate Stretching Manual:
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The Secret of Good Posture:
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 9:24am CET by Betterbooks
The Science Of Sales Success:
The Science of Sales Success shows readers how to achieve the perfect win-win sales situation. Providing a system for giving customers more measurable benefits than competitors, Josh Costell shows how sales professionals can make fewer calls to win higher-profit orders. Costell used his "selling is a science" theory to propel him from rookie status to national sales manager of a Fortune 500 company just three years out of college. Now he reveals how to:
- Apply a quantifiable approach to selling in order to duplicate success
- Speed up "advance or abandon" decisions to make productivity explode
- Create bonds and motivate customers to share decision-making information.
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The Complete Home Veterinary Guide 3rd Edition:
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Teaching English Spelling A Practical Guide:
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SQL For Dummies 6TH Edition Aug 2006:
See how SQL interfaces with today's environments. Start building and using relational databases with SQL's newest features.The database may be the twenty-first century filing cabinet, but building one is a little more complex than sliding drawers into a metal box. With this book to guide you through all the newest features of SQL, you'll soon be whipping up relational databases, using SQL with XML to power data-driven Web sites, and more! Discover how to:
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 9:07am CET by Betterbooks
Six Days of War:
In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in West Bank, the intifada and the rise of Palestinian terror: all are part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of this dramatic and pivotal event, the first to explore it both as a military struggle and as a critical episode in the global Cold War. Oren spotlights all the participants - Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American - telling the story of how the war broke out and of the shocking ways it unfolded. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities - Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin - that precipitated this earthshaking clash.
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Posted: March 14th, 2007, 9:03am CET by Betterbooks
Sams Python Phrasebook:
Python Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Python. Concise and Accessible, Easy to carry and easy to use�lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable guide, Flexible and Functional, Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets�so you can readily code functional Python in just about any situation.
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Posted: March 13th, 2007, 11:27am CET by Betterbooks
Marketing Insights From A To Z-80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know:
In Marketing Insights from A to Z, Philip Kotler, one of the undisputed fathers of modern marketing, redefines marketing’s fundamental concepts from A to Z, highlighting how business has changed and how marketing must change with it. He predicts that over the next decade marketing techniques will require a complete overhaul. Furthermore, the future of marketing is in company-wide marketing initiatives, not in a reliance on a single marketing department. This concise, stimulating book relays fundamental ideas fast for busy executives and marketing professionals. Marketing Insights from A to Z presents the enlightened and well-informed musings of a true master of the art of marketing based on his distinguished forty-year career in the business. Other topics include branding, experiential advertising, customer relationship management, leadership, marketing ethics, positioning, recession marketing, technology, overall strategy, and much more.Philip Kotler (Chicago, IL) is the father of modern marketing and the S. C. Johnson and Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, one of the definitive marketing programs in the world. Kotler is the author of twenty books and a consultant to nonprofit organizations and leading corporations such as IBM, General Electric, Bank of America, and AT&T.
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Posted: March 13th, 2007, 11:22am CET by Betterbooks
Making Your Fortune In Real Estate Investing:
This book can give you all of the basic information that you need to get started. Make this book the catalyst to get you started and to find within yourself the desire to succeed. I hope this book encourages you to start taking persistent actions toward becoming a real estate investor with various sources of income.
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Posted: March 13th, 2007, 11:18am CET by Betterbooks
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Contemporary Research in E-Marketing:
Contemporary Research in E-Marketing brings the intrinsically inter-disciplinary work of e-marketing, by academic researchers from various fields, to one outlet. This book fuels the cross-fertilization of ideas and greater dissemination of key research concepts. Contributions from fields as diverse as marketing, management, MIS, communication, computer science and finance offer exposure to cutting-edge ideas with broad scope and international focus.
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Posted: March 13th, 2007, 11:11am CET by Betterbooks
101 Healing Stories for Kids & Children:
101 Healing Stories for Children and Teens is a must read for everyone working with this age group. George Burns takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique, and empirical foundations during the trip. Given that Burns utilizes all three aspects of the Confucian story referred to in the book�teaching, showing, and involving�any reader using this resource should increase their understanding of how stories can be used therapeutically.
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:35pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 314 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (January 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059652773X
If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you’re ready for C# design patterns — elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers you a clear introduction to the classic object-oriented design patterns, and explains [...]
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:32pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 420 pages
Publisher: Make Books; 2 edition (November 20, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059651493X
If you think Knoppix is just a Linux demo disk, think again. Klaus Knopper created an entire Linux distribution on a bootable CD (and now a DVD) so he could use his favorite open source tools on any computer. This book includes a collection [...]
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Paperback: 886 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 3 edition (January 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059651610X
Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more [...]
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:26pm CET by keem1201
Hardcover: 170 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038734828X
This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. [...]
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:22pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 472 pages
Publisher: Wrox (December 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 047010161X
Beginning Spring Framework 2
Developing server-side applications with Java Enterprise Edition can be complex and time consuming. The Spring Framework is designed from the ground up to make it easier than ever. With this book as your guide, you quickly learn how to use the latest features of [...]
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:17pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (December 7, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032124642X
Cross-Platform Development in C++ is the definitive guide to developing portable C/C++ application code that will run natively on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix platforms without compromising functionality, usability, or quality.
Long-time Mozilla and Netscape developer Syd Logan systematically addresses all the technical and management challenges [...]
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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 3:15pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 830 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 6 edition (November 19, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 007149247X
Your one-stop guide to Linux–fully revised and expanded
Get in-depth coverage of all Linux features, tools, and utilities from this thoroughly updated and comprehensive resource, designed for all Linux distributions. Written by Linux expert Richard Petersen, this book explains how to get up-and-running on [...]
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Posted: February 27th, 2008, 1:51pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (June 8, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 007148745X
Find real-world solutions to PHP programming problems
Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage [...]
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Posted: February 27th, 2008, 1:49pm CET by keem1201
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1st edition (May 8, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321154207
This handbook presents the laws that significantly impact software engineering. This book begins with requirements definitions and concludes with maintenance and withdrawl. Along the way, it identifies and discusses existing laws that significantly impact software engineering. Software engineers who wish to reacquaint (or ecquaint) [...]
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Posted: February 27th, 2008, 1:48pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; Spi edition (September 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0121016250
“Read the book from cover to cover… is rewarding and provides one with a feel for the state of the art in relation to data mining from genetics databases… I would highly recommend the book to anyone currently doing research in the biological sciences and [...]
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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Academic Press (December 16, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0124705057
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Paperback: 554 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 28, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540427171
In this book, the author develops a generative theory of shape with two properties fundamental to intelligence: maximizing transfer of structure, and maximizing recoverability of generative operations. The theory is applied in considerable detail to CAD, perception, and robotics. A significant aspect of this book [...]
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 3:51pm CET by keem1201
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 29, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540241663
Bioinformatics as a discipline arose out of the need to introduce order into the massive data sets produced by the new technologies of molecular biology: large-scale DNA sequencing, measurements of RNA concentrations in multiple gene expression arrays, and new profiling techniques in proteomics. As such, [...]
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Posted: February 26th, 2008, 3:39pm CET by keem1201
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Focal Press (November 9, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240520157
Software packages are complex. Shouldn’t software books make it easier? Simplify your life with The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 5! This short, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down the software to its essentials. It covers only the key features [...]
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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 5:53am CET by keem1201
Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 9, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387699368
Understanding sequence data, and the ability to utilize this hidden knowledge, creates a significant impact on many aspects of our society. Examples of sequence data include DNA, protein, customer purchase history, web surfing history, and more.
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Publisher: Wrox PressAuthor: Jeremy WischusenISBN: 0470497262Release Date: 23 November 2009
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9781420076660 (1420076663), Auerbach Publications, 2010
With their ability to cross traditional boundaries and achieve a level of functionality greater than their component elements, mega-systems have helped corporations and government organizations around the world resolve complex challenges that they otherwise couldn’t address with stand-alone systems. Engineering Mega-Systems: The Challenge of Systems Engineering in the Information Age provides a clear understanding of the engineering of this class of systems—a process that demands consideration of increasing program scale and the rapid change of underlying technologies.
Written by Renee Stevens, a Senior Principal Engineer at The MITRE Corporation with decades of experience analyzing, engineering, and acquiring large-scale systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies, this book explains how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently different from that of large-scale monolithic systems. It supplies the vocabulary and framework needed to explore the issues relevant to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into the Profiler diagnostic tool that helps?you understand the nature and context of the system at hand and, on that basis, select the most appropriate processes, tools, and techniques.
Stevens examines commercial and government applications of mega-systems to provide insight into the contemporary challenges of engineering these systems in three critical dimensions: engineering processes, management processes, and the larger context in which these systems are developed and deployed. Complete with two case studies in engineering mega-systems that illustrate valuable lessons learned and highlight emerging practices, this book supplies the understanding and the tools needed to begin engineering, characterizing, and acquiring mega-systems across multiple dimensions.
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9781430230601 (1430230606), Apress, 2010
Business Intelligence (BI) software allows you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, which makes comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software—called BI 2.0—which is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.
As computers and software have evolved, more data can be presented to end users with increasingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight can be used to transform traditional user-interfaces filled with boring data into fully interactive analytical applications that quickly deliver insight from large data sets. Furthermore, RIA applications now include 3D spatial-design capabilities that move beyond a simple list or grid and allow for interesting layouts of aggregated data. BI 2.0 implemented via an RIA technology can truly bring out the power of BI and deliver it to an average user on the Web.
Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 4 provides developers, designers, and architects with a solid foundation in BI design and architecture concepts for Microsoft Silverlight. This book covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without an existing BI infrastructure. Author Bart Czernicki provides you with examples of how to build small BI applications that are interactive, highly visual, statistical, predictive—and most importantly—intuitive to the end-user.
BI isn’t just for the executive branch of a Fortune 500 company—it is for the masses. Let Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 4 show you how to unlock the rich intelligence you already have.
What you’ll learn
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Design rich BI solutions for the masses
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Discover tips for using engaging BI designs for application presentation
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Consume BI data as a service
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Understand and create SaaS models in BI
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Craft BI solutions using the most advanced Silverlight 4.0 technology through C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
Who this book is for
There are four core audiences for this book:
# Business intelligence professionals/developers: Cube designers, report writers, SharePoint administrators, and others in this group are looking for a resource to gain additional wisdom on cutting-edge BI concepts. These readers will gain ideas that go beyond the capabilities of the traditional BI tools they are used to.
# Senior developers or architects: Developers who are familiar with writing traditional software applications and want to broaden their understanding of concepts in order to include BI fall into this category. Some may have never written any BI applications in their careers but are interested in what BI has to offer. These readers will understand the core BI concepts and how to apply them using application techniques.
# CTOs/BI directors: These are senior managers who make strategic decisions with BI. The technical examples will probably be overly technical for these readers. However, the numerous visual aids within this book will help these strategic managers make better decisions after seeing next-generation BI concepts implemented.
9781441969804 (1441969802), Springer, 2010
Information infrastructures are integrated solutions based on the fusion of information and communication technologies. They are characterized by the large amount of data that must be managed accordingly. An information infrastructure requires an efficient and effective information retrieval system to provide access to the items stored in the infrastructure. Terminological Ontologies: Design, Management and Practical Applications presents the main problems that affect the discovery systems of information infrastructures to manage terminological models, and introduces a combination of research tools and applications in Semantic Web technologies. This book specifically analyzes the need to create, relate, and integrate the models required for an infrastructure by elaborating on the problem of accessing these models in an efficient manner via interoperable services and components.
About this book:
• Includes the common framework for integration of terminological models into information infrastructures, covering the different management steps (acquisition, storage, and access).
• Provides a revision of the main requirements of terminological models in different information retrieval systems and proposes integration solutions to facilitate and simplify its management.
• “This book is essential for those who will have to create ontologies from existing terminological databases,” comments Dr. Jacques Teller, University Of Liege, Belgium.
Terminological Ontologies: Design, Management and Practical Applications is geared toward information management systems and semantic web professionals working as project managers, application developers, government workers and more. Advanced undergraduate and graduate level students, professors and researchers focusing on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text or reference book.
9781584889298 (1584889292), CRC Press, 2009
Programming knowledge is often necessary for finding a solution to a biological problem. Based on the author’s experience working for an agricultural biotechnology company, Python for Bioinformatics helps scientists solve their biological problems by helping them understand the basics of programming. Requiring no prior knowledge of programming-related concepts, the book focuses on the easy-to-use, yet powerful, Python computer language.
The book begins with a very basic introduction that teaches the principles of programming. It then introduces the Biopython package, which can be useful in solving life science problems. The next section covers sophisticated tools for bioinformatics, including relational database management systems and XML. The last part illustrates applications with source code, such as sequence manipulation, filtering vector contamination, calculating DNA melting temperature, parsing a genbank file, inferring splicing sites, and more. The appendices provide a wealth of supplementary information, including instructions for installing Python and Biopython and a Python language and style guide.
By incorporating examples in biology as well as code fragments throughout, the author places a special emphasis on practice, encouraging readers to experiment with the code. He shows how to use Python and the Biopython package for building web applications, genomic annotation, data manipulation, and countless other applications.
9781847197740 (1847197744), Packt Publishing, 2010
In the SOA world, managing distributed services and service infrastructures is critical. Oracle Enterprise Manager - an all-encompassing management product - facilitates increased management capabilities for databases, application servers, and packaged applications. BPEL PM and OSB are two compelling, market leading products that are driving Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation across enterprises.
There is a lack of clarity around real-world operational use cases that would help operational administrators in their day-to-day tasks. Further, the documentation available online does not provide much information on administering BPEL PM and OSB with Enterprise Manager Grid Control efficiently.
This book will help you set up the framework for managing operational tasks from a central location using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control in a step-by-step functional approach. You will learn to automate various operational tasks that are essential for the smooth running of Oracle SOA products in production, thus increasing the efficiency of your SOA projects.
This book shows how top-drawer management capabilities from Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control can be used to effectively manage your Oracle SOA environment. You start by discovering one or more BPEL and OSB components centrally. The book then explains how to monitor BPEL processes and OSB services, and how to get alerts on service availability and performance problems. It covers the management of BPEL and OSB infrastructure components and how to manage their configurations in a central repository. It follows a hands-on approach, showing you how to use an automated approach for deploying BPEL processes and OSB projects.
By the end of this book, you will have learned several techniques to set up a framework that will help you manage your SOA environment from a central location.
A step-by-step guide to using Enterprise Manager Grid Control to automate common operational tasks essential for the smooth running of Oracle SOA products such as BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Service Bus
What you will learn from this book
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Explore BPEL Process Manager and OSB targets
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Monitor BPEL processes, partner links, OSB proxy, and business services using a combination of server metrics and synthetic tests
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Monitor the BPEL instances causing errors by creating SOAP tests
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Manage the BPEL and OSB infrastructure by monitoring configuration changes
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Manage service-level expectations around SOA services
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Create a dashboard to monitor critical SOA services, key metrics, and SLAs
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Deploy BPEL and OSB artifacts in an automated fashion to ensure that the deployments are conducted in an error free manner
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Manage the configuration settings of the BPEL and OSB infrastructure, including setting baselines and comparisons
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Clone an existing SOA Suite from one instance to another to automate the creation of a new SOA Suite environment
Approach
This book is a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate the management of BPEL Process manager, SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus. Each chapter has a problem-solution approach, starting with a real-world problem and then providing the solution to the problem using illustrative examples.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for BPEL and OSB administrators who deal with Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle SOA Suite, or Oracle Service Bus in a production environment and who need to automate operational tasks. If you are an SOA architect or associated with SOA governance, this book will serve as an eye opener for the many available features to provide production assurance in complex SOA environments.
A general awareness of Service-Oriented Architecture is expected, as well as an awareness of Oracle SOA products such as BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Service Bus. No specific management or operational expertise is required.
9781847198860 (1847198864), Packt Publishing, 2010
Silverlight makes it much easier to build web applications with highly usable, interactive, and exciting user interfaces. However, with so many new options open to designers and developers, making the best use of the tools available is not always so easy. It's ease of use and rapid development process has left one area completely uncovered - how to design, build, and implement professional and usable interfaces, and create an enjoyable user experience and interaction.
Written by a Microsoft MVP and Silverlight Prototyping Specialist, this book is the first and only book on developing Silverlight User Interfaces. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to build all the user interface elements that users look forward to in a cutting edge app. This book offers essential recipes, with each recipe depicting the commonly used user interface patterns built with Silverlight, and in some cases, with WPF to showcase the possibilities.
The author's experience in designing and developing user interfaces enables him to share insights on creating professional interfaces in a clear and friendly way. The book starts off with recipes dealing with fixed and fluid layouts, building custom command link controls, working with navigation, and collapsible panels, and then moves on to the more advanced topics such as calendars, alternating row colors, and task panes. The author covers a number of different UI patterns, controls, and approaches accompanied by XAML and C# code where needed (and explained), along with usage context and practical, proven, and professional techniques for specific controls and patterns.
From maps to task panes, and web cam support to pixel shaders, this Cookbook provides you with a rich selection of Silverlight UI recipes. It covers all that you need to know in order to design and implement a user interface, together with professional user experience and interface guidelines to make your solutions and applications pleasurable for your users.The author has found himself in the role of both, a designer and a developer, at different points in his professional career, and his motive was to create a book that will serve as a useful resource for designers and developers trying to find their way with Silverlight and Expression Blend.By the end of the book, you will be able to create a rich, professional, and standards-compliant user interface.
Design and implement professional user interfaces with Silverlight.
What you will learn from this book
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Implement liquid versus fixed layouts to choose the best design for your application
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Build custom controls like navigation pane, split button, and command link button to suit your application's needs
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Good design practices for patterns like wizards, tabs, status bar area and window locations
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Menu usage practices-classical and contextual ones together with guidelines
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Design and implement navigation patterns, expanders, tiled sections, task panes, and collapsible panels for saving space and minimizing visual distractions
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Design and implement calendar controls to allow user-specific time and date input
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Represent large data sets using alternating row colours as a design technique
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Create a responsive UI and remove the visual noise from the interfaces for a rich user experience
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Enable full screen Silverlight experiences for interactive applications such as games, maps, and media players.
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Add and utilize the maps and geo-based UI controls for a truly immersive map experience for your users
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Use the pixel shading techniques to achieve amazing visual effects on images and controls
Approach
Written in a Cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for designers and developers who want to learn about how to design and implement numerous user interface patterns with Silverlight. It will take you a step further by providing you with professional and proven user interface and user experience guidelines wherever possible. The book is designed in such a way that you can explore it chapter-by-chapter, or read it in any order.
Who this book is written for
If you are a developer or designer who knows the basics of Silverlight, has a smattering of C# and XAML, and wants to build applications with elegant and attractive interfaces, then this book is for you.
9781847198945 (1847198945), Packt Publishing, 2010
JavaFX Script enables you to easily create rich Internet applications by embedding multimedia components. Although you can create stylish Internet applications by modifying these default components, even advanced users find it challenging to create impressive feature-rich Internet applications with JavaFX. Also, there are limited JavaFX components to work with and by default these components don't look visually appealing.
This book explores limitless possibilities to style your application by coding JavaFX components to display your content in a more appealing fashion. The recipes in this book will help you to create customized JavaFX components with which you can make modern, feature-rich applications.
First, you will be introduced to the JavaFX SDK and other development tools available to help you be productive during development. You will create an application in JavaFX by arranging complex graphical components (and non-graphical libraries) with simplified declarative constructs. You will then explore the fun side of JavaFX by using transformation techniques to manipulate the location and dimensions of objects. The next chapter is about the GUI components that are available in the framework, which provide a high level of interactivity. You will learn how to use the media component to play media content. Then we will access data and manipulate data locally or remotely. You will explore many deployment options and integration tips and tricks to take advantage of runtime contexts. Finally, you will interact with pure Java code to read and write files in JavaFX and to establish interactions with computing platforms.
Get quick solutions to create modern rich Internet applications using the various JavaFX features ranging from JavaScript fundamentals to more complicated topics including visual controls, custom components, multimedia, animation, effects, web and data services, deployment practices, and much more
What you will learn from this book
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Dive into the JavaFX scripting language fundamentals by creating and declaring classes, functions, trigger variables, and more
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Create complex graphical components with simplified declarative constructs and arrange these building blocks to create applications in JavaFX
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Effortlessly make your objects visually appealing by applying cool effects
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Quickly build an application that provides a high level of interactivity by using JavaFX GUI controls
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Seamlessly play audio and video in several formats using built-in media components
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Access data and manipulate data locally or remotely using tools that are available in JavaFX
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Achieve data visualization using the newly added feature - JavaFX chart components
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Make your applications available for easy access and use by implementing deployment options such as Java WebStart and applets available in JavaFX
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Take advantage of runtime contexts to interact with the executing environment with integration tips and tricks
Approach
This book is a comprehensive collection of recipes that elaborate on known use cases. You will find an organized step-by-step procedure to accomplish each task followed by detailed explanations to better understand how and why each step was undertaken, and many links to online references and other related sections in the book that supplement the subject in question. The book is written so that you can work through the recipes in order or go straight to the recipes that interest you; where a recipe depends on other recipes they are clearly referenced.
Who this book is written for
If you are a Java developer, Rich Internet Application content developer, or graphic designer who wants to build RIAs featuring animations, videos, and other feature-rich content, this book is for you. Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, and JavaFX components is not essential, but will help you exploit this book to your advantage.
9781849510004 (1849510008), Packt Publishing, 2010
JavaScript is an important part of web development in today's Web 2.0 world. While there are many JavaScript frameworks in the market, learning to write, test, and debug JavaScript without the help of any framework will make you a better JavaScript developer. However, testing and debugging can be time consuming, tedious, and painful. This book will ease your woes by providing various testing strategies, advice, and tool guides that will make testing smooth and easy.
This book shows you the most essential features of JavaScript, which you will be using in your daily development, testing, and debugging tasks. You will learn to use the most basic functions of JavaScript to perform ad hoc testing quickly and efficiently.
This book is organized in an easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial style to maximize your learning. You will first learn about the different types of errors you will most often encounter as a JavaScript developer. You will also learn the most essential features of JavaScript through our easy to follow examples.As you go along, you will learn how to write better JavaScript code through validation. Learning how to write validated code alone will help you improve tremendously as a JavaScript developer and most importantly, to write JavaScript code that runs better, faster, and with less bugs.
As our JavaScript program gets larger, we need better ways of testing our JavaScript code. You will learn how to go about various testing concepts and how to use them in your test plan. After which, you will learn how to implement the test plan for your code. To accommodate more complex JavaScript code, you will learn more about the built-in features of JavaScript to identify and catch different types of JavaScript error. Such information helps to spot the root of the problem so that you can act on it.
Finally, you will learn how to make use of the built-in browser tools and other external tools to automate your testing process.
Learn how to test and debug JavaScript through example-driven tutorials.
What you will learn from this book
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Relationship between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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Different types of JavaScript error
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How to perform ad hoc testing
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How to validate your JavaScript code
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Different testing concepts
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Create a test plan and implement it
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How to test more complex code by using JavaScript's exception handling
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Learn how to test the user interface controlled by JavaScript
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How to debug your code using tools such as Google Chrome, Javascript Debugger, and Firefox's Venkman Extension.
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How to further automate your testing process using Sahi, Qunit, and JsLitmus
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Other testing tools that will make your testing process easier and less painful
Approach
This book is organized such that only the most essential information is provided to you in each chapter so as to maximize your learning. Examples and tutorials are given in an easy to follow, step-by-step manner so that you can see how the testing process is being carried out and how the code is being written. The source code also contains detailed explanation so that you know what the code is doing. Multiple screenshots are used in places that matter so that you have a visual sense of what is happening.
Who this book is written for
Beginner JavaScript developers looking for essential ways to write, test, and debug JavaScript for different purposes and situations.
9781435487383 (1435487389), Course Technology PTR, 2009
Written by best-selling PC repair author and educator Jean Andrews, the fifth edition of A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting maps fully to CompTIA's 2009 A+ Exam objectives. This full-color guide is the most complete, step-by-step book available for learning the fundamentals of supporting and troubleshooting computer hardware. At the same time, it prepares readers to successfully pass the A+ 220-701 and 220-702 exams. The new edition is formatted to support any teaching or learning style and course format, featuring an essentials-to-practical organization within each chapter and inclusion of tabs distinguishing exam content. Further content and live demonstrations with Jean Andrews are available on the accompanying CD, making this new edition a total solution for hardware maintenance and repair.
9781430228622 (1430228628), Friends of Ed, 2010
This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs. It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow.
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Introduces Flash Catalyst
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Focuses on production process
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Covers the interrelation between Flash Catalyst and Photoshop/Illustrator/Flex/Flash
What you’ll learn
Starting from scratch, you’ll learn the basic concepts and interface functionality of Flash Catalyst, and get practical experience by working on carefully crafted real-life projects throughout the book. You’ll learn every stage of the process, from the first design sketches to the Flex Developer hand over, and how you can make design changes to assets while the developers work on the code. You’ll also learn how to make your designs functional by adding simple buttons and scroll bars, and how to make sure that developers can precisely interpret your vision.
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Converting Photoshop/Illustrator artwork to interactive designs
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Sketching designs with interactivity
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Sketching designs with transitions
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Working with the FXG format
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Designing with fluid layouts in Catalyst
Who this book is for
This book is for designers experienced with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks who want to include Flash Catalyst in their workflows. It’s also for the general audience looking to design rich Internet applications using Catalyst.
9781435456426 (1435456424), Course Technology PTR, 2010
TORQUE FOR TEENS, SECOND EDITION teaches beginners the techniques they need to design their very own video games using Garage Games' powerful 3D computer game engine, Torque. Written in simple language, each chapter begins with a basic overview of the topic being covered, followed by step-by-step instructions to help readers conquer each new skill presented, and ending with a summary to reinforce what they've learned. Throughout the course of the book readers will put their new skills into action with a hands-on project that ends with the creation of a first-person shooter game. Each chapter builds upon the previous until their very own video game is complete. This second edition covers the latest-and-greatest version of the software, including updates and new interfaces.
9781849511063 (1849511063), Packt Publishing, 2010
Most users on the Internet have a few favorite Internet web applications that they use often and cannot do without. These popular applications often provide essential services that we need even while we don't fully understand its features or how they work. Ruby empowers you to develop your own clones of such applications without much ordeal. Learning how these sites work and describing how they can be implemented enables you to move to the next step of customizing them and enabling your own version of these services.
This book shows the reader how to clone some of the Internet's most popular applications in Ruby by first identifying their main features, and then showing example Ruby code to replicate this functionality.
While we understand that it connects us to our friends and people we want to meet up with, what is the common feature of a social network that makes it a social network? And how do these features work? This book is the answer to all these questions. It will provide a step-by-step explanation on how the application is designed and coded, and then how it is deployed to the Heroku cloud platform. This book's main purpose is to break up popular Internet services such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook to understand what makes it tick. Then using Ruby, the book describes how a minimal set of features for these sites can be modeled, built, and deployed on the Internet.
Break up and rewrite popular social networking and other Internet applications using Ruby
What you will learn from this book
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Discover in depth the major features of TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook and what makes them work
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Discover how each of these popular Internet services can be modeled with DataMapper
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Create clones of these Internet services using Rack and Sinatra
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Use third-party authentication providers with OpenID
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Deploy the cloned Internet services to the cloud using Heroku
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Use Amazon S3 to store data for your clones
Approach
This is a hands-on book with plenty of well - explained code. Each chapter has a standalone project in which a complete web application with specific features of a social networking site is emphasized. The final chapter of the book is a project that has a complete and fully developed social networking site. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the features of the Internet service and the market it is within. After extracting the main features of the service, the chapter goes into explaining how a clone of the service can be designed, followed by a short description of the technologies and platforms being used. The bulk of the chapter goes into describing how the clone is built, with step-by-step explanations and code examples. Finally, the chapter shows how the finished clone can be deployed on the Internet.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for web application programmers with an intermediate knowledge of Ruby. You should also know how web applications work and you have used at least some of the cloned Internet services before. If you are a trying to find out exactly how can you make your very own customized applications such as TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, or Facebook, this book is for you. Programmers who want to include features of these Internet services into their own web applications will also find this book interesting.
9781849511520 (1849511527), Packt Publishing, 2010
Alfresco 3 is the leading open source enterprise content management system that offers powerful features for interacting with the content in its repository from outside the system. These include the support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) implementation, reusable web scripts, and a Web Services API.
This is the first book to show you how to use Web Services in Alfresco. Packed with examples, you'll learn how to build applications using Alfresco remote APIs based on SOAP and REST. You'll see how to use different APIs and bindings such as WebServices, WebScripts, and CMIS.
Alfresco 3 Web Services starts off by showing you the services exposed by the Alfresco Web Services API, and how the API fits into the Alfresco software architecture.You learn to develop your application firstly by setting up and testing your Java development environment using the Alfresco SDK in Eclipse IDE and secondly by associating the Alfresco source code and Javadocs in Eclipse.
With the help of real world practical examples, you learn how to do things like create, sort, and call Web Scripts, and invoke remote calls to Alfresco repository. To get the most from the Web Services API, you need to know about the basics of the Content Manipulation Language (CML), and the book takes you through this.
Examples such as the bookshop application show you how to sign in, change user sessions, get, remove and change public and private associated contents, manage a cart for your e-commerce application, and so on.Next, by implementing a Microsoft .NET application using the Alfresco Web Services API, you see how to perform operations against the repository from your .NET application. The book provides you with REST and SOAP concepts, their comparison, basics of the FreeMarker language, Atom Publishing Protocol, JavaScript controllers, and the Apache Chemistry project.
By the end of this book, you will be able to put together your knowledge about CMIS and the Apache Chemistry toolkit to develop a complete working application that uses Alfresco, via CMIS, as a back-end storage. Last but not the least, this book also covers the WebServices security profiles - the best practices for Web Services to promote better interoperability.
A step-by-step guide to implementing the SOAP API, Web Scripts, and CMIS.
What you will learn from this book
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Gain a comprehensive overview of the specifications of Web services
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Learn how to manipulate contents in Alfresco using different operations and APIs
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Build applications on top of Alfresco using Alfresco Web Services API
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Extend the Alfresco RESTful API using WebScripts
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Make your own different output renditions using FreeMarker
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Explore the CMIS specification with all the details about the Alfresco implementation
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Learn how to contact Alfresco with your client using one of the bindings of CMIS
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Make your CMIS integration more standard using the Apache Chemistry project
Approach
The book is a detailed guide to building integrations on top of Alfresco filled with tons of examples and sample code. It is intended to be a complete overview to help developers choose a specific API with related method invocations.
Who this book is written for
If you are a web developer who wants to build business applications on top of Alfresco, then this is the book for you. Basic understanding of XML, Web development concepts (HTTP, MVC) and Web Services is required.
9780470879504 (0470879505), For Dummies, 2010
A friendly guide to the Olympus E-PL1, the latest trend in digital cameras
Hybrids offer the flexibility of interchangeable lenses and a large sensor in a smaller body. The Olympus E-PL1 lightens your load without sacrificing shooting power and this fun and friendly guide helps you better understand your camera's controls, features, and potential. Veteran author Julie Adair King presents you with examples on how to use your camera's main functions in order to create effective and memorable digital photos.
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Explains how to work with lenses and shoot in auto mode
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Covers the on-board controls and situational shooting
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Addresses manipulating focus and color controls
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Discusses printing, posting online, and other ways to share images
Get started shooting with Olympus E-PL1 For Dummies!
9780470882627 (047088262X), Sybex, 2010
Autodesk’s official guide to architectural visualization using 3ds Max Design
Exclusively endorsed by Autodesk, this comprehensive tutorial and reference thoroughly covers 3ds Max Design, the 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software used for architectural visualizations. It also includes essential material for students preparing for the new Certified Associate and Certified Professional exams. Examples come from projects that architects, designers, and planners actually encounter each day, while the workflows and instructions have been tested in real-world applications.
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The official guide endorsed by Autodesk, with comprehensive information on using 3ds Max Design 2011 as well as achieving certification
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Features step-by-step instructions and real-world projects that readers will actually encounter
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Covers using the 3ds Max interface, working with Revit and AutoCAD files, using the data and scene management tools, modeling, simulating lighting effects, analyzing sustainable design features, setting up animated walkthroughs, and much more
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Explains how to render real-world surfaces with architectural material and how to choose the renderer that creates the desired effect
Mastering Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 covers every facet of this powerful program.
Posted: December 14th, 2011, 2:35pm CET by admin
Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
by Jeremy McAnally
There is a little bit of introductory stuff we need to talk about before we set you loose on Ruby. You wouldn’t want to get psyched about a new gadget, get it home, and then figure out you need batteries, a grapefruit, and the ability to speak three languages to even open the box would you? You would? Well then answer me this: How would Ruby react to large, elastic monsters taking over an estuary? You don’t know the answer!? Well, plainly we need to take a good, hard look at a few things before we turn you loose.
Ruby is an open-source, multi-paradigm, interpreted programming language (a bit of a mouthful I know! I’m going to explain it, I promise!). Ruby was created by Yukihiro ‘Matz’ Matsumoto, a very fine Japanese gentleman who currently resides in Shimane Prefecture, Japan; Matz’s work on the language was started on February 24, 1993 (commonly considered the birthday of the language; I hear that over in Japan they roll out a two-story cake and sing) and released to the public in 1995. Ruby is often hailed as one the most expressive and concise languages available to developers today. In that spirit of expressiveness, let’s look at exactly what it all means. Let us now eviscerate these verbal furbelows with conviction!
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Posted: December 14th, 2011, 2:25pm CET by admin
An Old Salt’s Guide to Free Maritime Websites
by Donald Brands/Capt. Don Brands
More years ago than I care to admit, I was a junior quartermaster on a Coast Guard Cutter. I had the job of maintaining and looking up all sorts of nautical information and Federal laws. In the age of paper this could sometimes be a daunting task. It could take hours if you didn’t fully know your way through the labyrinth of paper produced by our government. (I didn’t) Today you can find this information on the Internet very quickly.
Another source of difficulty and expense in the age of paper was to acquire, pay for and store all of the necessary charts and publications necessary to properly operate a vessel. Today you can search government records and download charts, publications and other nautical information directly from the Internet. Furthermore, what a lot of people don’t realize is that the US government gives away all of this information for free. It’s free as long as you access and download it yourself in electronic form over the Internet.
You can still buy paper versions, but even these are no longer provided by the government. They are reprints from government information. Some are authorized reprints under government sanction and others have no legal/official value as they lack that sanction.
All vessels can download these electronic publications for free. Commercial vessels can still be in full compliance with the laws for carriage of this information as long as they can show a correction procedure for them and redundancy. It is required to have a backup computer system for this data. Nautical charts can be carried in electronic form as well, but most commercial interests are still required to carry paper charts anyway. They can use the electronic variety, but paper charts need to be available. That will probably change in the near future. Pleasure vessels do not have these restrictions.
I have actually taken a two week trip from Louisiana to New York using only my laptop computer for reference and navigation. Be sure to have a backup in the form of paper or another computer (I did) anything can happen.
This ebook is a list of the various websites that I have found to be of use to the mariner. Some is real time information, like weather and sea conditions; other sites are for the charts and pubs that I have been discussing. Besides being extremely useful and convenient, these sites could save you anywhere from $100 to $1000 or more depending on your cruising area or voyage intentions. All web locations are hyperlinked for easy reference.
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Posted: November 11th, 2011, 2:05pm CET by admin
Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer
by Vasu Jain
Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $7 Value eBook Expires 11/16/2011.
Microsoft Office is one of the most popular and user friendly office suites in the market. With Office 2010, Microsoft had made it bigger by integrating features for Office Web Apps and Mobile Office and significant changes to User Interface and included a lot of new features in Office Suite. This eBook offers more than 50 tips and tricks focused on making sure that you get the most out of Office 2010 with ease.
The book is divided into seven sections. Section 1 will be covering Office 2010 features as a whole while Section 2-5 covers features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook respectively. Section 6 includes some additional utilities for Office 2010, and Section 7 will dive into Office Web apps and Office Mobile Apps.
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Posted: October 31st, 2011, 2:25pm CET by admin
Be a Super Hero on Free Online Games
by Luis Paulo Dobreira
In this ebook players will find some useful tips about making the most out of their virtual lives without neglecting real life. It’s a great read for fans of the genre and neophytes alike, striking a perfect balance between the advantages of free to play online games (like free MMORPG, browser games and MMO games) and not letting them rule over your life. This is an eBook that has something for everyone and can’t be missed!
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Posted: September 22nd, 2011, 3:11pm CEST by admin
Beyond Chat: How To Boost Online Sales with Rich Media Customer Engagement
by Netop
This paper examines how online retailers can use a new hosted solution to harness the power of rich media audio, video and live chat to truly engage prospective customers, reducing confusion and increasing sales and service levels. E-Commerce shopping cart abandonment rates remain shockingly high with 62% of all potential purchasers abandoning their shopping carts. What’s behind the continued high attrition? Most experts agree that it’s customer confusion and lack of information exacerbated by poor online customer service options. Typical customer service mechanisms such as email, telephone support and text-only chat often lead to lengthy service times and frustrated customers. So, how do online retailers convert visitors into customers and replicate the type of service traditionally seen only in brick and mortar stores?
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Posted: September 15th, 2011, 3:11pm CEST by admin
Interactive Chat Everywhere: Website, Email and Social Media for E-Commerce and Online Customer Service
by Netop
Learn how to use interactive live chat on your website, in your email campaigns and with social media to reach more customers online, more effectively. Businesses around the world are using live chat to boost online sales, reduce customer service costs and increase customer satisfaction. Now, new developments in chat technology make it possible to extend chat beyond your web site to online advertising, email marketing, press releases and even social media. Learn how you can use rich media chat to leverage social media, and transform traditional one-way marketing campaigns into interactive conversations that reach more customers.
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Posted: May 25th, 2011, 4:39pm CEST by admin
2 Free Computer & Internet Ebooks
by Various Authors
These ebooks include:-
- ELN and the Paperless Lab by Labtronics Inc. (Computers And Internet, Science – Put Content Into Point Form)
- Advanced Bash Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper (Linux, Computer Science, Shell Scripting, Bash, Programming)
ELN and the Paperless Lab
by Labtronics Inc.
ELN and the Paperless Lab is a new book on ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebooks) that covers a full range of topics, everything from explaining ELN basics to managing a successful ELN project. Labtronics, an industry leader in the ELN market space, has collected some of the best articles about Electronic Laboratory Notebooks that have been written in the last couple of years and assembled them into a 150 page book. Also included are special articles that have been written specifically for this book by industry experts. ELN and the Paperless Lab answers the questions that are most important to anyone who is using, or considering using an Electronic Laboratory Notebook in a laboratory.
- What is the current state of the industry?
- How does a QC ELN differ from an R&D ELN?
- What problems does an ELN solve?
- How are instruments integrated with ELN?
- How do you ensure that you will have a successful deployment?
- What are the legal implications?- How is ROI calculated?
- How does an ELN connect to other lab systems, such as LIMS?
Robert Pavlis, President of Labtronics commented, If you are interested in the automation of laboratories, this book is must reading. It will save you hundreds of hours in research time.
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Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
by Mendel Cooper
A complete tutorial and reference on writing shell scripts in Bash, under Linux or UNIX. Contains many example scripts.
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Advanced Bash Scripting Guide – 1004 pages, 3.1MB (PDF)
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Posted: April 15th, 2011, 4:41pm CEST by admin
A Comprehensive Guide To Windows Security
by Jaibee Joseph
The book defines all those protection techniques to protect your personal computer from Hackers, Viruses and accidental data loss.
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A Comprehensive Guide To Windows Security – 24 pages, 1.46 MB (PDF)
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Posted: March 5th, 2011, 6:05pm CET by admin
202 Tips to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Online
by Terje Sannarnes
It is not a surprise that a lot of people think about possessing their own online business to become a successful entrepreneur. Even if you have already launched a web project, just be sure that it is very important to manage it properly. In this e-book I would like to give you 202 tips for an upcoming entrepreneur. It is very important to take into consideration all these recommendations to avoid various difficulties in the future. Hope that my instructions will be helpful both for beginning and experienced online entrepreneurs! So, lets start!
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202 Tips to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Online – 25 pages, 867KB (PDF)
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TrendSiters – Digital Content and Web Technologies
by Sam Vaknin
Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues.For more about the author and his work please visit: www.narcissistic-abuse.com
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Posted: December 17th, 2010, 6:05pm CET by admin
Content
by Cory Doctorow
Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.Hailed by Bruce Sterling as ‘a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,’ the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information-even if it’s just a free download of the newest Britney Spears MP3-he leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine …
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Posted: December 15th, 2010, 5:20pm CET by admin
The Minimum You Need to Know about Java and xBaseJ
by Roland Hughes
This book provides a much needed tutorial for the xBaseJ project. Even if you know little about Java and nothing about XBASE data storage you will be banging out applications like a pro by the end of this tutorial. The book is written in the same informative and entertaining style as the rest of ‘The Minimum You Need to Know’ book series. Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in VMS platforms. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation (now owned by Hewlett-Packard).
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Posted: November 19th, 2010, 10:16am CET by admin
20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web
by The Google Chrome Team
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web. Here’s what you’ll find here:
- First we’ll look at the Internet, the very backbone that allows the web to exist. We’ll also take a look at how the web is used today, through cloud computing and web apps.
- Then, we’ll introduce the building blocks of web pages like HTML and JavaScript, and review how their invention and evolution have changed the websites you visit every day. We’ll also take a look at the modern browser and how it helps users browse the web more safely and securely.
- Finally, we’ll look ahead to the exciting innovations in browsers and web technologies that we believe will give us all even faster and more immersive online experiences in the future.
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Posted: October 26th, 2010, 4:26pm CEST by admin
The (VERY) Unofficial Guide To Facebook Privacy
To fully understand the privacy of Facebook and how it’s likely to evolve, you need to understand one thing…Facebook executives want everyone to be public. As the service evolves, executives tend to favor our open access to information, meaning information you think is private will slowly become public, but that doesn’t mean you can be private if you want to. Facebook gives its users the option to lock things down, but users need to be aware of their controls, how to use them and how to prepare for future Facebook privacy changes. Facebook has not and will not make information obvious, and that’s where this guide comes in.
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