To fully take advantage of Flash CS3, it's necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of ActionScript 3.0. From manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables to writing functions and conditional operators, ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training covers the vital skills necessary to master ActionScript 3.0. Instructor Todd Perkins uses numerous hands-on examples–including two game-building exercises–to explore ActionScript's powerful features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

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The Best Photoshop video-tutorial ever. You will improve your graphic skills by 75% !!! You will create effects you have never seen before. Over 7 hours of QuickTime videos. Easy to use interface for working side-by-side with Photosop. Videos viewable in 2 sizes: 1024×768 or 800×600.
It will learn you how to make:
Battle Type, Wood, Hot Butter Text, Electrical Wires, Wire F/X, Segmented Pipes, Apply Textures, Plastic Text, eptile Type, Rust & Type, Spaceship Buttons, Plastic Buttons, and Connectors.

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Learn how to create some of the most stunning text effects on the planet! Find the coolest collection of type effects in one place, all explained step-by-step for you to learn quickly and easily. This video picks up where most leave off! You will not only create jaw-dropping text effects, you will also learn how to apply the effects skillfully to almost any surface on any image. From wrapping type around spheres, cylinders to hugging the contours of vechicles and even rough surfaces, you will master it all. This video is jammed full of insider secrets.

Award winning designer and best-selling author, Colin Smith will be your personal coach. You will love his easy to understand, conversational style that will “just make sense”. Learning doesn’t have to be boring, you will have a lot of fun as you tear through these unique tutorials.

This fast loading CD ROM contains over 2 hours of sharp 800 x 600 video.

The advanced interface frees you up, instantly jump to any of the lessons with complete control over the playback. All the image files are included, so you canfollow along at your own pace! Also included are some fonts and brushes.

If you work with text, create packaging, signage, posters or covers this video s one of the best investments you can make.

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Back in the late 60's this book was pulled from all public libraries and store shelves by the government. It was said that the experiments and information contained herin were too dangerous for the general public. Today the book is extremely rare, so decent copies are worth up to  $2,000.
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments explains how to set up a home laboratory and contains over 200 experiments with high quality  illustrations.

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Visual Basic is the most popular programming language in existence. At the present time, it is estimated that there are over three million programmers using Visual Basic. It is also the most popular introductory programming language at most colleges and universities. This is going to become even more widespread with Visual Basic .NET. From the outset, this book is designed to teach an individual with no prior programming experience the art of object-oriented programming. The reader is carefully led through a thoughtful sequence of chapters that builds a solid foundation of programming knowledge and skills. Whether the reader is seeking general programming knowledge or specific skills in Web or database programming, this book provides the knowledge to gain those expertise.

Obviously, I think you should read this book. Whether you are a seasoned programmer or just beginning to explore computer programming, this book will be helpful to you. Embodied in this text are decades of teaching experience that have helped me to understand the learning process. I understand some of the major stumbling blocks students face while learning computer programming and how to get around them.

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With ADO.NET, you can build database-enabled applications and Web services with more speed, flexibility, and power than ever before. ADO.NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET teaches you all you'll need to know to make the most of ADO.NET - whether you're an experienced Visual Basic database programmer or not. The authors' realistic code examples and practical insights illuminate ADO.NET from its foundations to state-of-the-art data binding and application optimization.

If this book is titled ADO .NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET, why do I keep referring to Visual Studio? Well, in the past, VB (and its variants, VBScript and VB For Applications) was the most natural environment for ADO database programming. The other Visual Studio tools (Visual C++, Visual Interdev, Visual FoxPro) could all use ADO, but since ADO was designed around the COM (Component Object Model) architecture, VB was the easiest way to use the package. With the advent of Visual Studio .NET, this has all changed.

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Many articles have appeared in the press about Visual Basic .NET being radically different from prior versions of Visual Basic. Unfortunately, most of the articles leave you with more questions than answers. What exactly are the changes in Visual Basic .NET? Will it be possible to upgrade existing applications? Why does it break compatibility with Visual Basic 6? Visual Basic .NET includes an Upgrade Wizard, which upgrades up to 95 percent of your project’s code, but what about the other 5 percent? What are the common upgrade issues? How do you resolve them and get your project working in Visual Basic .NET? What about XML Web services and ADO.NET data access—how can existing programs take advantage of these new features?

In this book, we answer these questions and more. We provide a complete guide to upgrading, with both technical and conceptual information. To upgrade your applications, you will need to learn some new skills. We teach these skills and discuss the hows, whats, and whys of upgrading: how to recognize the micro-issues that need a one-line fix, what to do about macro-issues that involve redesign of your application, and why MS made the changes to Visual Basic.

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Learn essential security techniques for designing, developing, and deploying applications for MS Windows and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Michael Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services.

For many programmers, security has been something to avoid—because they don’t understand security concepts, they shy away from implementing security features for fear of making a mistake. Above all else, we hope this book will spark your interest in security. This is a fascinating and rapidly evolving area of computing, and the techniques we discuss in this book are no longer simply for security specialists; they are essential for every programmer.

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Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.1 combines industry-leading, real-time malware protection for enterprise workstations and network servers with graphical Web-based reporting and centralized management and administration capabilities. The solution automatically detects and repairs the effects of spyware, adware, viruses, and other malicious intrusions to enable enterprise-wide system uptime.

Symantec System Center™ enables centralized configuration, deployment, policy management, alerting and reporting, and allows administrators to audit the network to determine which nodes are vulnerable to virus attacks. Administrators can manage client and server groups logically, and can create, deploy, and lock down security policies and settings to keep systems up-to-date and properly configured.

Key Benefits :
- Ensures that servers and desktops stay updated and properly configured, saving time and cost of traveling from machine to machine.
- Detects and prevents spyware from spreading throughout the company infrastructure.
- Guards product from unauthorized access and attacks through integrated tamper protection.

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Readers will be able to build and program their own 8088 single-board computer by applying the interfacing concepts and techniques presented in this book. Coverage begins with the software architecture of the 80×86 family, including software model, instruction set and flag, and addressing modes. Abundant examples illustrate basic programming concepts such as the use of data structures, numeric conversion, string handling, and arithmetic. Hardware details of the entire 80×86 family are then examined, from pin and signal descriptions to memory and input/output system design. Advanced topics, including protected mode, WIN32 and Linux programming, and MMX technology are also introduced.

FEATURES:

- Robust coverage of hardware and software principles provides readers with good overall exposure to the 80×86 family.

- Features a wide variety of interfacing applications, including a complete microprocessor-based system that can be easily duplicated

- Teaches the relationship between the use of C programming and assembly language  for interfacing and control.

- Coverage of 16-bit and 32-bit programming, exposure to the Windows WIN32 and Linux execution environments, and the process of structured programming provides readers with a strong programming foundation. 

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This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many powerful but scantily documented modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the most frequently needed information–not just about the Python language itself, but also the most frequently used parts of the standard library and the most important third-party extensions.

Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition covers more than the language itself; it also deals with the most frequently used parts of the standard library, and the most popular and important third party extensions. Revised and expanded for Python 2.5, this book now contains the gory details of Python's new subprocess module and breaking news about Microsoft's new IronPython project. Our "Nutshell" format fits Python perfectly by presenting the highlights of the most important modules and functions in its standard library, which cover over 90% of your practical programming needs.

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Learning Python is an introduction to the increasingly popular interpreted programming language that's portable, powerful, and remarkably easy to use in both stand-alone and scripting applications. This book thoroughly introduces the elements of Python: types, operators, statements, classes, functions, modules, and exceptions. It also demonstrates how to perform common programming tasks and write real applications.

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Welcome to your no-experience-required, introductory guide to creating animations with Macromedia Flash! Flash Animation for Teens will help you develop the fundamental Flash skills that you need to confidently create your own animations. Covering the basics of Flash animation, this book uses Flash 8 to teach you the techniques you need to create a variety of animation styles, including games, web sites, stand-alone applications, and cartoons. Ideal for readers with little to no Flash experience, this project-based guide will help you conquer the basics and begin creating your own animations.

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Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- Applying Lighting renders
- Integrate Poser renders
- Professional retouching masterclass

Creative Tutorials
Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses including;
- Create a photomontage
- Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured:
- 2007 Graduate Showcase
- Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
- Win one of three work placements with McFaul

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Advanced Photoshop is the perfect magazine for honing already great Photoshop skills.
Each issue is packed full of inspiring interviews and challenging tutorials, tailor-made for the more advanced digital artist. Readers also benefit from an essential CD-ROM each issue. Whether you're a Photoshop professional or simply aspiring to be one. Advanced Photoshop will help you perfect your art.
Techniques:
- How to use the Art History Brush
- Create an Americana-style illustration
- Give your images a screen print look

Tutorials:
- Create an original playing card design
- Head to head: Radim Malinic and David Warner
- Design an original logo

Also featuring:
- Interview with Mike Campau from SeventhStreet
- The ins and out of copyright
- A round-up of perfect chairs for the overworked artist

Cd Content:
- Over 1000 photoshop brushes, 171 royalty-free stock images and 20 freeware fonts, etc.

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Issue highlights
- How to incorporate shadows
- Correctly resize your images
- Comic art in the digital age!

CD + PDF
Included in this issue

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques;
- How to incorporate shadows
- Correctly resize your images
- Comic art in the digital age

Creative Tutorials
Easy-to-follow creative tutorials;
- Master architectural perspective tricks
- How to create seamless patterns
- Drawing caricatures in CS2

Also featured;
- Interview with Apocryph
- Perfect software partners for Photoshop CS2
- Portfolios from Enrico Casarosa and Mad Monkey

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The field of teaching digital electronics has not changed significantly in the past 20 years. Many of the same books that first became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s are still being used as basic texts. In the 20+ years since these were written, the basic rules have not changed, but they do not provide strong links to modern electronics including CMOS logic, Programmable Logic Devices and microprocessor/microcontroller interfacing. Courses teaching introductory digital electronics will fill in the missing areas of information for students, but neither the instructors nor students have resources to explain modern technology and interfaces. One assumption made by all the standard texts is that experimenting with digital electronics cannot be done easily - in the proposed book, “digital guru” Myke Predko will show how readers can set up their own apparatus for experimenting with digital electronics for less than $10.

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Structured and practical in approach, David Bellamy's guide has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. The well-known teacher-artist helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide. The book is divided into three main parts. The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting; the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are 12 demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions.

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More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions! From home desktop to enterprise server, here's all the Linux you need With Fedora Core 6, you get the latest Linux technology and previews of upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux software. Run Fedora Core 6 live (no install required), install it to hard disk when you're ready, and add hundreds of Fedora Extras packages. Everything comes on the DVD and two CDs included with this book. Use the latest Linux desktop, server, and systems administration features as you learn skills that scale up to professional, commercial-quality Linux systems. Configure Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to: create documents, presentations, and spreadsheets with OpenOffice.org productivity applications; manage and play music (Rythmbox), video (Totem), and digital images (GIMP) on the desktop; communicate over the internet using; evolution e-mail, Firefox Web browser, and GAIM instant messenger; try out cutting edge Fedora 6 features: add 3D eye candy to your Fedora Desktop with AIGLX; install Fedora 6 on an Intel-based Mac to dual boot with Mac OS X; and, run Xen virtualization for multiple systems on your desktop.

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The effective management of risks online is likely to be the greatest business enabler / destroyer of the next decade. Clearly, organizations that do not move to full e-commerce functionality are unlikely to flourish; whereas those that ignore cyber crime and the "dark side" of the Internet are likely to get badly burnt.

This important new book highlights the key issues in online risk management, taking the premise that information security is no longer an issue confined to the IT department but is critical to all operational functions: finance, HR, marketing, production etc.

Nor are its solutions purely technical. With two thirds of security breaches said to be caused by human error, management controls and processes are equally important.

Published in association with the Institute of Directors in England, "The Secure Online Business" draws on the experience of leading firms and their advisers and uses up-to-date case studies to illustrate "best practice" in online risk management.

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(Collected and Compiled from a wide range of Online-Resources)

Publisher: MBP aka Bass.T (2006) | PDF | 10,7 Mb | 94 pages

Being in love with the art of Matte Painting, I collected these tutorials over one year from numerous onlineresources and eventually compiled them into this document. Originally intended for personal use only, I thought that maybe some people out there might be interested too, so I deceided to relase them to the public. No big thing, and defenitely nothing new – I just gathered these tutorials to have them all in one place. And if any – or all – of these tutorials happen to be new to you – even better! A great thanks goes out to all the artist who put a lot of their time and energy into the creation of these tutorials.
Happy painting! /MBP aka Bass.T/

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Windows Server 2008 is the name of the next server operating system from Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows Server 2003. It was known as codename Windows Server "Longhorn" until May 15, 2007, when Bill Gates announced its official title during his keynote address at WinHEC.

Windows Server 2008 is the server operating system containing many of the new client features from Windows Vista. This is a similar relationship to that between Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

It has been confirmed that this version of Windows Server supports x64 (64 bit), as well as x86 (32 bit) processors. IA-64 will be supported in the Datacenter Edition of Windows Server 2008. The IA-64 version will be optimized for high workload scenarios like database server and line of business applications. As such it is not optimized for use as a file server or media server. Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2008 will be the last 32-bit server operating system that it will produce.

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When Windows works properly, it's relatively easy to ignore; you can concentrate on the work you're trying to do and forget about the plumbing inside your computer. But when something goes wrong, it often requires an experienced guide to solve the problem and restore the computer to working condition. Everybody who uses Microsoft Windows eventually has to deal with cryptic error messages, frozen screens, and other more or less dramatic problems. Windows troubleshooting is the set of tools and techniques that can identify the source of a problem and find a solution.

It's Never Done That Before is a guide to Windows XP troubleshooting for people who don't spend their lives fixing computer problems. It includes basic troubleshooting techniques, specific instructions for solving the most common problems in Windows XP, and more general information for finding and fixing more obscure ones. It also provides pointers to explanations of BIOS beep codes and blue screen errors, instructions for using the troubleshooting tools supplied with Windows XP such as Safe Mode and the Recovery Console, and advice for dealing with device drivers, the ROM BIOS, and the Windows Registry. Viruses, spyware, and Internet connection problems are all included, along with advice for getting the most out of the Microsoft Knowledge base and other online information resources, and dealing with help desks and technical support centers.

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The proliferation of information housed in computerized domains makes it vital to find tools to search these resources efficiently and effectively. Ordinary retrieval techniques are inadequate because sorting is simply impossible. Consequently, proximity searching has become a fundamental computation task in a variety of application areas.

Similarity Search focuses on the state of the art in developing index structures for searching the metric space. Part I of the text describes major theoretical principles, and provides an extensive survey of specific techniques for a large range of applications. Part II concentrates on approaches particularly designed for searching in large collections of data. After describing the most popular centralized disk-based metric indexes, approximation techniques are presented as a way to significantly speed up search time at the cost of some imprecision in query results. Finally, the scalable and distributed metric structures are discussed.

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If you have experience with C++ and DirectX and have always wanted to program your own game, this is the book for you. Programming a Multiplayer FPS in DirectX takes you from the basic game design to a fully functioning game! All of the source code, assets, and tools are included?you just work through the tutorial-based chapters and watch the game come to life as you develop it. And as new features are added, you can begin playing with them to see them in action. Following a typical game development process, the book is separated into two distinct parts: Part One focuses on the design and development of the game engine, and Part Two concentrates on putting the game together using the engine. The theory has been kept to a minimum, so that you are following a hands-on approach and adding new functionality to your engine as you proceed. In the first part, you'll learn about the many facets of DirectX, C++, and object-oriented programming. You'll also learn how to design the engine and put the infrastructure into place. The next chapters will each add a new module to your engine including input, scripting, 3D rendering, sound, networking, and scene management. The second part covers the final development stages, including everything from game play to player management; it culminates with the complete multiplayer FPS game. Throughout the book you'll learn key topics that will bring you up to speed with industry proven techniques, while improving your confidence as a developer. And because DirectX is the most prevalent game development tool available, once you master this project, you'll have the skills you need to create a variety of games!

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Reviewed and endorsed by Guillaume Laforge and Dierk Koenig of Groovy, The Definitive Guide to Grails, by Grails lead Graeme Rocher, is for anyone looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. It will show you the new direction web frameworks are taking and specifically how a dynamic scripting language like Groovy can be harnessed on the JavaTM platform for productive Grails development.

This book takes you through the Grails development life cycle, including its project infrastructure, screen generation, full automatic object mapping to relational database systems, and a flexible, easy-to-use web layer. This book also demonstrates how Grails complements Java web development. Topics include creating domain classes in the Java platform while still accessing advanced features like dynamic persistent methods, using Grails controllers to call business logic written in the Java specification, and testing your Java application logic using Grails test cases.

The author tackles new issues like writing web applications with dynamic languages, an agile approach, Ajax, and more.
The Java platform has always been about choice, and this book demonstrates how you can use select aspects of Grails that you choose.
The book makes up for the current lack of solid Groovy documentation.

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All software is based on the principle of manipulating data. Whether it's the code that runs inside your VCR to start recording at a specific time, or air traffic control software, code is always working with data in one form or another.

Today, we find that sophisticated applications store their data in a "database", a central repository of data overseen by a Database Management System, or DBMS. A DBMS does two things. Firstly, it handles the storage of the data. Secondly, it provides mechanisms for retrieving data as well as adding, removing, and changing data. A DBMS endeavors to do this in the most efficient way possible.

Over the years, the DBMS market has grown into a mature sophisticated industry in its own right, offering products designed for use in large enterprise environments like Oracle 9i or MS SQL Server 2000, down to products designed for use on the desktop like MS Access. In some cases, you even find that software packages include their own DBMS software for managing their own proprietary databases.

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This book provides a hands-on approach to learning Visual Basic.NET, one of the most popular and easy-to-learn language provided by the .NET framework. The book is aimed at readers with programming knowledge of earlier versions of Visual Basic. These readers are assumed to be experienced application developers who have knowledge of developing applications using any of the earlier versions of Visual Basic.

The book starts with a few overview chapters that cover the key concepts of Visual Basic.NET. These chapters act as an information store for readers and provide a concrete idea about the concepts. After that follows a chapter on how to migrate existing Visual Basic applications to the .NET platform. A major part of the book revolves around professional projects that are based on real-life situations. They follow a simple-tocomplex approach to cover specific subject areas and to guide the readers in implementing their learning in practical scenarios. The projects range from a simple project to create a Windows application using ADO.NET as the data access model to a complex project to create a Web application using a Web service. In addition, there are projects that will introduce how to create a Word-to-XML converter application and how to create a mobile Web application. These projects help readers accomplish their goals by understanding the practical and real-life application of Visual Basic.NET.

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MS Visual Basic .NET Step by Step—Version 2003 is a comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic programming using the MS Visual Basic .NET 2003 software. I’ve designed this course with a variety of skill levels in mind so that new programmers can learn software development fundamentals in the context of useful, real-world applications and experienced Visual Basic programmers can quickly master the essential tools and programming techniques offered in the Visual Basic .NET upgrade. Complementing this comprehensive approach is the book’s structure—six topically organized parts, 22 chapters, and more than 65 step-by-step exercises and sample programs. By using this book, you’ll quickly learn how to create professional-quality Visual Basic .NET applications for the MS Windows operating system and a variety of Web browsers. You’ll also have fun!

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The MS .NET Framework represents an exciting new world for developers who work with MS Access, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications. This book provides complete, practical details on how to take advantage of this world by building or upgrading Access-based client applications with Visual Basic .NET. It gives you specific instructions about how the .NET Framework pertains to Access development. Then it explores programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET, and puts it all together with examples and code samples that show how to develop robust Web applications and services with these tools.

This book targets developers and computer fans who use Access databases and want to get a firm grasp of the MS .NET Framework. These two defining elements (Access and the .NET Framework) define the book’s scope and its treatment of topics. While other types of databases can be used to create solutions with .NET, this book deals almost exclusively with Access databases. The book demonstrates Visual Basic .NET programming techniques instead of addressing a broad range of languages compatible with the .NET Framework because developers creating solutions with Access and MS Office are likely to have experience programming with VBA. Beyond that, many classic Visual Basic developers have substantial experience with Access databases even if they currently work primarily with another database type, such as SQL Server.

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Configure, run, and troubleshoot Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Home Basic with the detailed coverage you'll find in this comprehensive guide. With a task-based approach and clear, no-nonsense instructions, the book helps you become an advanced user of Windows Vista—even if you're just starting out.From essentials such as administering your computer and surfing the Web securely to advanced maneuvers such as creating your own movies and burning DVDs, you'll find what you need to master the powerful features of Windows Vista.
Coverage includes:

    * Getting up to speed with Windows Vista
    * Improving performance, troubleshooting problems, and recovering from disaster
    * Customizing your desktop and making the most of bundled programs
    * Protecting your computer with Windows Update, Windows Defender, and Windows Firewall
    * Making the most of Vista's features for portable computers
    * Communicating online with e-mail and instant messaging
    * Enjoying music, movies, DVDs, and TV on your computer
    * Burning DVDs, playing games, and creating a media library
    * Building a wired, wireless, or combination network—and securing it
    * Sharing files and printers with other users of your computer or network

Secure Your Computer, Your Network, and Your Online Activities

Full Coverage for Power Users, Home Office Users, and Beginners

All the Information You Need to Make the Most of Windows Vista Home Premium

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Create great documents, Excel charts, and slide shows, and organize your e-mail

What's new at the Office? A lot, and this book takes you through all the cool changes and enhancements so you can rev up and go. Find your way around the new interface, dress up your documents, create spreadsheets that actually make sense, give presentations that wow your audience, and organize your life.

Discover how to

Locate commands on the Ribbon
Use Live Preview
Stop spam with Outlook(r)
Format and enhance Word documents
Work with Excel(r) formulas
Store and find data in Access

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Visual Basic.NET Database Programming walks the readers step-by-step through the topics they need to know to use databases effectively. This book teaches with real-world scenarios how to load, display, manipulate, modify and save data in databases. It shows the reader how to build multi-tier applications that implement enterprise-wide business solutions, build Web Servers, manage large amounts of data, find specific records, sort data, perform complex queries, and use XML–an integral part of data handling in Visual Basic.NET.

Visual Basic .NET Database Programming explains how you can use databases in your Visual Basic.NET applications. It talks briefly about several different ways a program can manage data but focuses heavily on the most common type of database in use today: a relational database. Using a relational database and Visual Basic .NET, you can build programs that store, modify, find, and display data quickly and easily.

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Visual Basic .NET Unleashed is a complete book on the fundamentals of programming in a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities like true inheritance and polymorphism, event handlers, structured exception handling, and Web services. In addition to presenting you with fundamentals, it is the charter of this book to give you extra insight and advice based on real-world experience to help you become more productive with Visual Basic .NET than you ever were able to be with Visual Basic 6.

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed was written to help the new and professional programmer make the transition to a completely revamped language. This book will help you make the transition to Visual Basic .NET smoothly and completely, and provide you with a comprehensive source for all of your VB programming needs.

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VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell, provides a concise and thorough reference to the types found in the core namespaces of the .NET Framework Class Library. A companion to VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, this is a reference that VB.NET programmers will turn to repeatedly. Due to a special partnership between O'Reilly and Microsoft, this book also includes a CD that integrates the book's reference into Visual Studio .NET.

As a reference guide to the core classes, we think you'll find Visual Basic .NET Core Classes in a Nutshell to be an essential book regardless of your level of experience with Visual Basic. Whether you are an experienced Visual Basic developer or a relatively new programmer just beginning to work with Visual Basic and the .NET platform, you'll find that Visual Basic .NET Core Classes in a Nutshell provides an extremely helpful description of each type in the namespaces documented in Part II, along with a useful list of type members that features VB syntax.

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Like so many children, as a youth I was mystified by this wonderful and exasperating thing called memory. In casual and relaxed situations it worked so smoothly that I hardly ever noticed it; in examinations it only occasionally performed well, to my surprise, but was more often associated with 'bad memory', the fearful area of forgetting. Since I spent much of my childhood in the country with animals, I began to realise that the misnamed 'dumb' creatures seemed to have extraordinary memories, often superior to my own. Why, then, was human memory apparently so faulty?

I began to study in earnest, eagerly devouring information about how the early Greeks had devised specific memory systems for various tasks; and how, later, the Romans applied these techniques to enable themselves to remember whole books of mythology and to impress their audiences during senatorial speeches and debates. My interest became more focused while I was in college, when the realisation slowly dawned on me that such basic systems need not be used only for 'rote' or parrotlike memory, but could be used as gigantic filing systems for the mind, enabling extraordinarily fast and efficient access, and enormously enhancing general understanding. I applied the techniques in taking examinations, in playing games with my imagination in order to improve my memory, and in helping other students, who were supposedly on the road to academic failure, achieve first-class successes.

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 Use Your Head is written to help you do just that. By the time you have finished the book you should understand much more about how your mind works and how to use it to the best advantage, be able to read faster and more efficiently, to study more effectively, to solve problems more readily and to increase the power of your memory.

This introductory section gives general guide lines about the book's contents, and the ways in which these contents are best approached.

Each chapter deals with a different aspect of your brain's functioning. First the book outlines the most up-to-date information about the brain and then applies this information to the way in which your vision can be best used.

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The most widely used spreadsheet application in the world, Excel is a key part of the MS Office suite of applications. You can use Excel for anything from a small spreadsheet of household finances to monster databases of all your company’s products, customers, and sales. You can use Excel either on its own or together with the other Office applications.

Excel 2003 builds on the many previous versions of Excel to deliver powerful functionality and many new features along with a slick and easy-to-use interface. If you’re new to Excel, you’ve got a large amount to learn. If you’re coming to Excel 2003 as an experienced user of earlier versions, you’ve still got plenty to learn. But either way, this book will get you up to speed quickly.

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How to reshape and reposition your company to meet tougher challenges and outsmart your competitors.

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McGraw-Hill's Demystified titles are the most efficient, interestingly written, brush-ups you can find. Organized as self-teaching guides, they come complete with key points, background information, questions at the end of each chapter, and even final exams. You'll be able to learn more in less time, evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, and reinforce your knowledge and confidence.

This complete self-teaching guide takes an introductory approach to robotics, guiding readers through the essential electronics, mechanics, and programming skills necessary to build their own robot.

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Darling, who has written books about astronomy and science for young adults, has followed the successful formula found in his Universal Book of Astronomy (Wiley, 2004), to compile an encyclopedia of mathematical terms, concepts, and problems; short biographies of pioneering mathematicians; puzzles; diagrams; pictures; and history. Entries cover subjects ranging from the fairly simple (arithmetic) to the more complex (Cabali-Yau space). The goal is to present "the unusual and the outrageous, the fanciful and the fantastic: a compendium of the mathematics they didn't teach you in school."

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This classic study of perspective is an absolute must for any serious students of design, benefiting amateurs and professionals alike. Dozens of examples are illustrated, including parallel, angular, and oblique perspectives, as well as ascending and descending planes. Other images show how to create a “cone of rays,” and add depth and realism to curved objects. The techniques can be used for laying out a garden, predicting the shadow effects of a tall building, and accurately capturing the interplay of angles, light, and shadow.

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The registry is the heart and soul of MS Windows XP. In my other registry books, I said the same thing about the registry in every version of Windows since MS Windows 95, and by the time you're finished reading this book, I hope you'll agree. The registry contains the configuration data that makes the operating system work. The registry enables developers to organize configuration data in ways that are impossible with other mechanisms, such as INI files. It's behind just about every feature in Windows XP that you think is cool. More importantly, it enables you to customize Windows XP in ways you can't through the user interface.

Windows XP and every application that runs on MS's latest desktop operating system do absolutely nothing without consulting the registry first. When you double-click a file, Windows XP consults the registry to figure out what to do with it. When you install a device, Windows XP assigns resources to the device based on information in the registry and then stores the device's configuration in the registry. When you run an application such as MS Word 2002, the application looks up your preferences in the registry. If you were to monitor the registry during a normal session, you'd see the registry serves up thousands of values within minutes.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money shows that any numbskull can master personal finance. In this second edition, a father-and-daughter writing team, Robert K. Heady and Christy Heady, give readers the best advice culled from their many years of experience in consumer rights and money management. The Headys believe that money must be managed for the long haul and that there are no quick ways to build wealth. The guide is easy to read, witty, and scornful of the hype dished out by banks and other peddlers of personal finance. It provides a plethora of personal-finance tips for consumers, including how to get the best deal on a mortgage, pay off debt, and bank online. The authors expose financial pitfalls such as bank-sold mutual funds, dealer financing for motor vehicles, extended warranties, and those dreaded bank fees. A full chapter is devoted to the evils of credit cards, which they feel is the biggest ripoff in the financial world. The writers contend that the toughest thing about saving is making the decision to do it. You should get going by putting aside a little amount of money each month through a mutual fund or dividend reinvestment plan. "The whole idea of managing money is to save a dollar here and there and then take that dollar and build it into two," they write. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to understand that.

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-Be inspired by 10 web design lessons from 10 of the worlds best web designers
-Get creative with cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques
-Learn breathtaking design skills while remaining standards-compliant

Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while still maintaining cross-browser support, standards compliance, and accessibility. That's why we got together ten of the world's most talented web designers to share their secrets with you. Web Standards Creativityis jam-packed with fresh, innovative design ideas. The topics range from essential CSS typography and grid design, effective styling for CMS-driven sites, and astonishing PNG transparency techniques, to DOM scripting magic for creating layouts that change depending on browser resolution and user preference, and better print layouts for web pages. We're sure you will find something here to inspire you! This full-color book's examples are not just stunning to look at, but also fully standards-compliant, up-to-date, and tested in current browsers including Internet Explorer 7. Playing by the rules doesn't have to mean drab or dull websitesWeb Standards can be fun!

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As a web user, you'll no doubt have noticed some of the breathtaking applications available in today's modern web, such as Google Maps and Flickrdesktop applications than the old style web sites you are used to. You've probably also wished that you could create such things, and then thought "nahhh, I'd need to know a lot of complicated code to be able to even start creating sites like these." Well, think again. There is a lot of complicated code involved in cutting edge "Ajax style" web applications, but a lot of the hard work is already done for you, and available on the Web. JavaScript libraries exist to provide most of that Ajax/DOM Scripting functionality out of the box. Application programming interfaces (APIs) exist to allow you to transplant complicated applications such as Google Maps and Flickr right into your own web sites. And hosting services such as Flickr and YouTube provide all you need to store and retrieve your media (be it images, video, or whatever) at your leisure, without having to worry about bandwidth issues and file naming nightmares. All you need to know is enough to successfully wire together all this functionality successfully and responsibly, and this book shows you how. It starts from the very beginning of your journey, showing you what's available, what you need, and how to set up an effective development environment. After a solid base has been built, it shows you how to build up each aspect of your site, including storing, retrieving, and displaying content, adding images and video to your site, building effective site navigation and laying it all out beautifully using CSS, promoting your content so you will attract visitors to your site, and adding special effects to enhance usability and design asthetics…all with ready-made functionality available on the Web! Life as a web developer has never been easier.

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Textpattern is a powerful, PHP-based content management system that allows you to build pretty much any kind of data-driven website quickly and easily. It is very popular among designers and developers alike, and has an active community of users. Sound good? Well, you're in luckthe book you're holding now shows you how to use every aspect of Textpattern to a professional standard. Textpattern (and this book) appeals to two main groups of people: Firstly, the web designer who has mastered the fundamentals of XHTML and CSS and wants to create sites that have fresh and dynamically changing information, but is not familiar with server-side coding and databases. Never fearTextpattern enables you to integrate your XHTML knowledge, inserting dynamic aspects into your already solid site design. Secondly, PHP developers who are looking for a content management system upon which to build additional functionality and want a hand with the design aspects of their site. Again, Textpattern fills in those holes. The book leaves no stone unturned. It starts by introducing you to Textpattern and guiding you through its very simple installation process. After the core features of the administrative interface are explored, the book dives into building sites with TXP, using CSS, articles, forms, pages, and more to create fully customized templates. Development follows next, looking at installing plugins and building your own custom plugins to further enhance your Textpattern-based site. The book concludes with several case studies to provide ideas and inspiration, including a weblog, an e-commerce site, and an online review directory. 

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Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra to your websites except a little specialized HTML markup. Microformats provide a more formalized technology for adding commonly used semantics (such as contact details, location, and reviews) to today's Web. Unlike XML or the semantic Web, microformats use ubiquitous technologies like HTML and XHTML, existing developer skills, and current web tools, and, perhaps most important, they work in all of today's web browsers. This book is a comprehensive guide to microformats. It explores why, in Bill Gates's words, "We need microformats"; how microformats work; and the kinds of problems microformats help solve. the book covers every current microformat, with complete details of the syntax, semantics, and uses of each, along with real-world examples and a comprehensive survey of the tools available for working with them. the book also features case studies detailing how major web content publishers such as yahoo put microformats to work in their web applications. Written by one of the Web's best-known educators, John Allsopp, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 will help you painlessly get up to speed with this exciting technology.

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In this book, you'll learn

• All the ActionScript 3.0 (including math and trigonometry functions) and Flash rendering techniques you'll need to start animating with code
• Basic motion principles such as velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing
• How to handle user interaction via the keyboard and mouse
• Advanced motion techniques such as springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics
• All the basic 3D concepts you need to do 3D in Flash, from simple perspective to full 3D solids complete with backface culling and dynamic lighting

Flash has long been one of the most approachable, user-friendly tools for creating web-based animations, games, and applications. This has contributed to making it one of the most widely used programs for creating interactive web content. With each new version of Flash, ActionScript, its built-in scripting language, has become more powerful and a little more complex, too. ActionScript, now at version 3.0, has significantly matured as a programming language, bringing power and speed only previously dreamed about to Flash-based animation, going far beyond traditionally used keyframes and tweens.

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User Interface Design for Mere Mortals takes the mystery out of designing effective interfaces for both desktop and web applications. It is recommended reading for anyone who wants to provide users of their software with interfaces that are intuitive and easy-to-use. The key to any successful application lies in providing an interface users not only enjoy interacting with but which also saves time, eliminates frustration, and gets the job done with a minimum of effort. Readers will discover the secrets of good interface design by learning how users behave and the expectations that users have of different types of interfaces.

Anyone who reads User Interface Design for Mere Mortals will benefit from

• Gaining an appreciation of the differences in the “look and feel” of interfaces for a variety of systems and platforms

• Learning how to go about designing and creating the most appropriate interface for the application or website being developed

• Becoming familiar with all the different components that make up an interface and the important role that each of those components plays in communicating with users

• Understanding the business benefits that flow from good interface design such as significantly reduced support costs

• Gaining invaluable insights into how users behave, including the seven stages of human interaction with computers

• Working through case study based, in-depth analysis of each of the stages involved in designing a user interface

• Acquiring practical knowledge about the similarities and differences between designing websites and traditional desktop applications

• Learning how to define, conduct, and analyze usability testing

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The Executive's Guide to Information Technology is a sophisticated and comprehensive guide to running a cost-effective, efficient, and business delivery-focused corporate Information Technology (IT) unit. Eschewing the theoretical for the practical, the book gives managers the guidance they need to handle any problem effectively. It provides specific policies, approaches, and tools for each critical IT management functionó from application management to vendor management.

IT management experts John Baschab and Jon Piot provide the techniques IT managers and executives need to accurately assess their current operations. Further, they offer a step-by-step improvement plan designed to raise productivity and service levels while reducing costs significantly. The authors begin by examining the symptoms and causes of waste, inefficiency and underperformance in typical IT departments before offering in-depth analysis of each operational area of IT management. They present current and emergent best practices for transforming the department into a world-class service organization.

Packed with prescriptive advice and hard-earned insight, this comprehensive resource is organized into stand-alone chapters that provide quick access to important information when managers need it. In addition, spreadsheets, documents, and checklists are designed to aid in planning and decision-making and can be easily accessed on the included CD-ROM.

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One of the first titles in this new imprint, Fundamentals of Creative Design offers an introduction to key elements of the creative process. Each subject matter, or ‘fundamental’, uses detailed diagrammatic explanation, associated theories, and historical references to explain the underlying principles of design practice. Examples from contemporary designers and practitioners will be examined in terms of Brief, Process and Result and accompanied by personal explanations from the creatives involved. This book offers a unique insight into the working methods of creative professionals and enables the reader to understand both how and why these fundamental rules are so important.

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Organized in a practical problem-and-solution format, More Exceptional C++ picks up where the widely acclaimed Exceptional C++ leaves off, providing successful strategies for solving real-world problems in C++. Drawing from years of in-the-trenches experience, Herb Sutter provides tested techniques and practical solutions for programmers designing modern software systems with C++, from small projects to enterprise applications.

Built around forty programming puzzles, More Exceptional C++ helps you understand the rules and issues critical to successful software design and development in C++. New themes included in this sequel place a strong emphasis on generic programming, memory management, and using the C++ standard library, including coverage of important techniques like traits and predicates. Also included are guidelines and considerations to remember when using standard containers and algorithms–topics rarely covered in-depth in other sources.

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Network programming is one of the core tasks of enterprise-level development-the need for disparate computers to communicate efficiently and securely, whether within the same building, or across the world, remains fundamental to the success of many systems. With the .NET Framework comes a new set of classes for tackling networking tasks.

After reading this book, you will be a confident .NET network programmer, and understand the underlying protocols. The current set of protocols supported by .NET classes is limited to the transport-level protocols TCP and UDP, and the application-level protocols HTTP and SMTP. In this book, we provide not only full coverage of these classes, but also examples of implementing application-level protocols in .NET-thus this book will be vital reading for anyone who needs to use a protocol that isn't currently supported by .NET, as well as for anyone who wants to get-to-grips with the predefined protocols.

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This is a coder's book. It's intended to help developers build applications that make use of T-SQL. It's not about database administration or design. It's not about end-user or GUI application development. It's not even about server or database performance tuning. It's about developing the best T-SQL code possible, regardless of the application.
You'll have to judge for yourself whether these goals have been met, but my hope is that, regardless of the degree of success, the effort will at least be evident.

This book uses SQL Server's Northwind and pubs sample databases extensively. You'll nearly always be able to determine which database a particular example uses from the surrounding commentary or from the code itself. The pubs database is used more often than Northwind, so, when it's not otherwise specified or when in doubt, use pubs.

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This book was written for Visual Basic programmers by a Visual Basic programmer. In my description of how to work with Visual Basic .NET, I first build a foundation, providing background about the changes in computing and software development that make knowing about the MS .NET Framework of vital interest to programmers as well as a practical necessity. I cover the essentials of object-oriented programming in Visual Basic .NET and explain how to build your own classes and work with the .NET Framework classes, how to work with arrays and collections, and how to debug and handle errors in your programs. From our foundation, we climb to the next level. I cover the details of how to work with .NET assemblies, how to work with files and data streams, and how to monitor files over a network, including how to build a Windows service application that runs on a server.

In three full chapters I cover how programming for data access has changed with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET. Then we move to the world of Web services—programs and components designed to run on the Internet. In the last chapter, I bring together what's been covered throughout the earlier chapters. Along the way, you'll see plenty of useful and interesting sample code.

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Exploits. In most information technology circles these days,the term exploits has become synonymous with vulnerabilities or in some cases,buffer overflows. It is not only a scary word that can keep you up at night wondering if you purchased the best firewalls,configured your new host-based intrusion prevention system correctly,and have patched your entire environment,but can enter the security water-cooler discussions faster than McAfee’s new wicked anti-virus software or Symantec’s latest acquisition.

Exploits are proof that the computer science,or software programming,community still does not have an understanding (or,more importantly,firm knowledge) of how to design,create,and implement secure code.

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My previous book, You Can Do It!, was written for the complete newcomer to programming. I made no assumptions about the reader’s prior knowledge and skills other than that they were capable of using a M$ Windows–based machine at the general level of accessing the Internet. It should not matter to such people what language is used for their practical experience of programming. I chose C++ because I felt certain that it was well up to the task, as long as I used a carefully chosen subset and augmented the Standard Library with a library of my own design that would support writing programs that newcomers would find interesting. The priority of that book was learning sound programming.

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For many years now, Microsoft Access has allowed users all over the world to design and develop Windows-based database applications. Microsoft Office Access 2003 continues to be the world’s most popular database. This book is for people who have already mastered the use of Microsoft Access databases and now are ready for the next step —programming. Access 2003 Programming by Example with VBA, XML, and ASP takes non-programmers through the detailed steps of creating Access databases from scratch and then shows them how to retrieve and manage their data programmatically using various programming languages and techniques.

With this book at hand, users can quickly build the toolset required for developing their own database solutions. This book proves that, given the right approach, programming an Access database from scratch and controlling it via programming code can be as easy as designing and maintaining databases with Access built-in tools. Anyone interested in learning how to get started with VBA programming in Access will benefit from this book’s 303 hands-on examples and 11 step-by-step projects.

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Why do we care about database security?

If money could be said to exist anywhere in a network, it exists on a database server. When we say that modern economies are reliant on computers, what we really mean is that modern economies are reliant on database systems. Databases are behind the systems that affect almost every aspect of our lives — our bank accounts, medical records, pensions, employment records, phone records, tax records, car registration details, supermarket purchases, our children's school grades — almost every piece of information of significance in our lives is stored in a modern relational database management system. Since this volume covers seven of the most popular relational database systems, chances are that your personal information is currently being stored in the very systems that are the subject of this book.

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This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export their finished projects for Web and broadcast. Of course, readers will also learn how to take advantage of the new features of Flash CS3–the streamlined user interface, native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files, revamped drawing tools, new video encoding features, code editing enhancements, and much more.

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Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach will serve all of your Ajax needs, by providing adaptable solutions for common tasks you'll want to implement on web sites using the next generation of Ajax and REST techniques. As a JavaScript developer, your time is precious, so you'll want to solve problems that present themselves in your work as quickly as possible. You can pick up the code provided in this book, adapt it, or plug it straight into your own applications.

The book mainly focuses on illustrating and explaining how to build applications that use JavaScript, Ajax, and REST Web Services, along with some user interface issues. Specifically, the following topics are covered: implementing JavaScript unit tests; explaining the intent of Dynamic Languages, Web Services and SOA; defining and implementing contracts using REST; understanding why JavaScript Functions have state; implementing JavaScript "Generics", which are a mixture between real Generics and a replacement algorithm; using code blocks; using functions to make decisions; understanding the difference of JavaScript code that behaves like a value type or a reference type; implementing proxies, delegates, mixins, and overloaded functions; implementing a complete Ajax and Web Service architecture; defining a Web Service using REST; handling large or slow or real-time data sets; implementing shopping cart type architectures; and solving the back button problem using Ajax.

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Today's richest market is the New Customer Majority: middle-aged and older adults who make up the biggest percentage of the buying public. Never before have adults 40 years and older been in the majority. Understanding this population and persuasively selling to it require a new kind of marketing research arsenal.

In Ageless Marketing, authors David Wolfe and Robert Snyder document the results of a groundbreaking research project on the aging boomer generation, detailing the core values, buying behaviors, and emotional factors that distinguish the New Customer Majority. As more companies seek sales from multiple age groups, ""ageless marketing"" becomes critical to financial performance. Companies that master its subtleties have realized amazing profits. New Balance, for example, saw an annual rate of 25 percent or more with its ageless marketing themes, even when the athletic shoe industry had shown no growth since 1997.

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Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage in several real-world situations-including business.

This book is ideal for anyone who likes puzzles, brainteasers, games, gambling, magic tricks, and those who want to apply math and science to everyday circumstances. Several hacks in the first chapter alone-such as the "central limit theorem,", which allows you to know everything by knowing just a little-serve as sound approaches for marketing and other business objectives. Using the tools of inferential statistics, you can understand the way probability works, discover relationships, predict events with uncanny accuracy, and even make a little money with a well-placed wager here and there.

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Mastering the development of Microsoft .NET Framework applications in C# is less about knowing the C# language and more about knowing how to use the functionality of the .NET Framework class library most effectively. Visual C# 2005 Recipesexplores the breadth of the .NET Framework class library and provides specific solutions to common and interesting programming problems. Each solution (or recipe) is presented in asuccinct problem/solution format and most are accompanied by working code samples.

Visual C# 2005 Recipes is not intended to teach you how to program, nor to teach you C#. However, if you have even the most rudimentary experience programming applications built on the .NET Framework using C#, you will find this book to be an invaluable resource. Ideally, when you are facing aproblem, this book will contain arecipe that provides the solution, or at least it will point you in the right direction. Even if you just want to broaden your knowledge of the .NET Framework class library, Visual C# 2005 Recipesis the perfect resource to assist you.

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To bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add new functionality to your applications. You get the goods straight from the masters in an informal, code-intensive style. Part of our new Developer's Notebook series.

When MS introduced the Visual Basic .NET programming language, as part of its move to the .NET Framework two years ago, many developers willingly made the switch. Millions of others, however, continued to stick with Visual Basic 6. They weren't ready for such a radical change, which included an object-oriented environment similar to Java. They liked the old Visual Basic just fine. In an effort to win over those diehard VB6 developers, the company has included a new version of VB.NET in its upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET development platform. Visual Basic 2005 comes with innovative language constructs, new compiler features, dramatically enhanced productivity and an improved debugging experience. The language's new version is now available in beta release, and MS is encouraging developers to give it a test drive. Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook provides the ideal test track.

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ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and easily deploy your Windows apps via web servers, file servers, or even CDs. But while ClickOnce delivers web-style deployment of your application, that's only part of the story. Once you've installed an application using ClickOnce, it can automatically check for new updates to the application, which saves time in application maintenance and upgrades. And on the security front, a ClickOnce application runs within a secure sandbox and you configure it using the Code Access Security model.

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This book provides a complete application- and example-oriented introduction to the database system MySQL. No previous knowledge of SQL or database design is assumed.

MySQL is on the verge of repeating in the database market the success achieved by Linux in the operating system sector. In combination with PHP or Perl, MySQL is increasingly used as the database system for web sites. (A favorite combination is Linux + Apache + MySQL + Perl or PHP. Such systems are called “LAMP systems” for short.) MySQL is not just for small web sites; it is used by large firms with huge amounts of data, such as Yahoo!, Slashdot, and NASA.

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Since its creation, Visual Basic (VB) has steadily grown into the world’s most popular programming language. But popularity doesn’t always mean respect, and for years the development community has been split between those who think Visual Basic is a revolutionary way to solve just about any programming problem and those who think VB should be sent to the bargain bin to make room for a return to “serious” C++ or Java coding. As a result, Visual Basic programmers have a reputation for being a slightly paranoid bunch.

Recently, Visual Basic has been through the greatest change of its life. It’s morphed into a modern, object-oriented language that’s built on MS’s .NET Framework—the same plumbing that powers such heavyweights as C#. Although most VB developers believe that the .NET Framework will eventually replace old-style Visual Basic 6, a surprising number haven’t made the jump yet. Some don’t trust the new technology (and the never-ending name changes). Others are too busy with real work to think about making a move. And a few are scared off by the radical new model and inevitable migration headaches.

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Identity and Access Management are rapidly gaining importance as key areas of practice in the IT industry, and directory services provide the fundamental building blocks that enable them. For enterprise developers struggling to build directory-enabled .NET applications, The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming will come as a welcome aid.

Microsoft MVPs Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn have written a practical introduction to programming directory services, using both versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET Framework. The extensive examples in the book are in C#; a companion Web site includes both C# and Visual Basic source code and examples.

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Linux is productive enough to use as your only desktop system and powerful enough to run entire corporate enterprise installations. Get the most out of Linux for your home, small business, or corporate computing needs with this comprehensive reference as your guide. Walk through 16 different Linux distributions, find step-by-step instructions, discover new programming tools—and tap into the world of free software. This is the book you need to succeed with Linux.

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Effective Email with Jeff Van West is a series of video-based tutorials that will teach you the most effective ways to use email for communication and productivity. We all know how annoying junk email can be, and Jeff will help ensure that your messages are never considered spam. Not only will you learn how to write effective emails, you'll also learn management techniques for some popular email applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail. Jeff also shares techniques for creating HTML-based email newsletters, sending and receiving to and from multiple accounts, designing for PDA-based email, and organizing your inbox. Improve your email work habits, increase your email software knowledge, and keep your customers and colleagues happy

When it comes to performing your daily SQL Server tasks, technical documentation tends to tell you morethan you need to know. Let’s say that you’re in ahurry, and you want to add a unique constraint to atable before someone inserts aduplicate value into it. Where do you look?
 
One obvious choice is SQL Server Books Online. With its massive amounts of useful information, you know that the answer has to be there somewhere. Unfortunately, finding this information may involve several click-throughs and red herrings. Once you doarrive at the correct page, the information you need may be integrated into alarger syntax block, with unrelated functionality or examples.

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipeswas written in order to address the need for fast information retrieval and use. Topics are presented in atask-based format. Each topic (recipe) provides the necessary background to get you started, presents one or more examples, and then concisely explains how it all works.

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The purpose of this book is to help you build relational databases and get valuable information out of them by using SQL. SQL is the international standard language used around the world to create and maintain relational databases. This edition covers the latest version of the standard, SQL:2003, as augmented in 2005 with a thorough treatment of the use of XML with SQL.

This book doesn’t tell you how to design a database (I do that in Database Development For Dummies, also published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.). Here I assume that you or somebody else has already created a valid design. I then illustrate how you implement that design by using SQL. If you suspect that you don’t have a good database design, by all means, fix your design before you try to build the database. The earlier you detect and correct problems in a development project, the cheaper the corrections will be.

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After completing this self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program will have learned how to build web-based applications on the scale of Amazon.com. Unlike the desktop applications that most students have already learned to build, server-based applications have multiple simultaneous users. This fact, coupled with the unreliability of networks, gives rise to the problems of concurrency and transactions, which students learn to manage by using the relational database system.

After working their way to the end of the book, students will have the skills to take vague and ambitious specifications and turn them into a system design that can be built and launched in a few months. They will be able to test prototypes with end-users and refine the application design. They will understand how to meet the challenge of extreme business requirements with automatic code generation and the use of open-source toolkits where appropriate. Students will understand HTTP, HTML, SQL, mobile browsers, VoiceXML, data modeling, page flow and interaction design, server-side scripting, and usability analysis.

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2005 brings us an enhanced Visual Basic language (renamed this time Visual Basic 2005). New features have been added that cement this language’s position as  a true object-oriented language. With Visual Basic 2005, it is still going to be a challenge for the traditional VB6 developers to learn, but it is an easy road and books like this are here to help you on your path.

In this book, we cover Visual Basic virtually from start to finish. We begin by looking at the .NET Framework and end by looking at the best practices for deploying .NET applications. In between, we look at everything from database access to integration with other technologies such as XML, along with investigating the new features in detail. You will see that Visual Basic 2005 has emerged as a powerful yet easy-to-use language that will allow you to target the Internet just as easily as the desktop.

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This book is acomprehensive, hands-on guide to the Visual Basic .NET programming language addressed to readers with some programming background. No background in Visual Basic is required, however.

While I show you the syntax of VB .NET, this book is not designed to teach you syntax. I have taken this approach because trying to force VB .NET into the framework of older versions of VB is ultimately self-defeating—you cannot take advantage of its power if you continue to think within an older paradigm.

First off, I have tried to give you a complete treatment of object-oriented programming in the context of the VB .NET language. I feel pretty strongly that without a firm foundation here, it is impossible to take full advantage of the power that VB .NET can bring to you.

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The goal of trading is to make money, and for many, profits are the best way to measure that success. Author Valerii Salov knows how to calculate potential profit, and in Modeling Maximum Trading Profits with C++, he outlines an original and thought-provoking approach to trading that will help you do the same.

This detailed guide will show you how to effectively calculate the potential profit in a market under conditions of variable transaction costs, and provide you with the tools needed to compute those values from real prices. You'll be introduced to new notions of s-function, s-matrix, s-interval, and polarities of s-intervals, and discover how they can be used to build the r- and l-algorithms as well as the first and second profit and loss reserve algorithms. Optimal money management techniques are also illustrated throughout the book, so you can make the most informed trading decisions possible.

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Modeling Maximum Trading Profits with C++ contains a comprehensive overview of trading, money management, and C++.

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As the demand for higher bandwidth has lead to the development of increasingly complex wireless technologies, an understanding of both wireless networking technologies and radio frequency (RF) principles is essential for implementing high performance and cost effective wireless networks.

Wireless Networking Technology clearly explains the latest wireless technologies, covering all scales of wireless networking from personal (PAN) through local area (LAN) to metropolitan (MAN). Building on a comprehensive review of the underlying technologies, this practical guide contains how to implementation information, including a case study that looks at the specific requirements for a voice over wireless LAN application. This invaluable resource will give engineers and managers all the necessary knowledge to design, implement and operate high performance wireless networks.

Explore in detail wireless networking technologies and understand the concepts behind RF propagation.
Gain the knowledge and skills required to install, use and troubleshoot wireless networks.
Learn how to address the problems involved in implementing a wireless network, including the impact of signal propagation on operating range, equipment inter-operability problems and many more.
Maximise the efficiency and security of your wireless network.

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Reading No Limit Hold'em Theory and Practice requires considerably more effort than most other poker books, and it feels disjointed in places, but I would not say that it is poorly written. It just doesn't provide the amount of background material tying everything together that one finds in poker books aimed at a less sophisticated audience. This book discusses many different types of no limit situations, but more of them are applicable to cash games than tournament games. There is, though, enough information here to benefit players of both types of games. The book is difficult to read, but the information it contains is excellent, and I strongly recommend it to intermediate and advanced no limit hold'em players of all sorts.

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After a quick introduction to the design process Catalysis, this book moves on to carefully defining objects, their attributes, operations, and collaborations. (Generally, Catalysis objects and components are "decoupled" so that they can work more independently, leading to easier reuse and customization.)

The authors then turn to modeling and design, using a spreadsheet program as their example. Next, the authors discuss component-based design, where projects are assembled with components. The book closes with an effective tour of the actual Catalysis design process, illustrated with a case study for a video-rental store. All design documents, written in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), are provided along with some useful expert advice on creating better design documents and components.

Judging from the evidence here, the Catalysis design method can offer some real advantages for today's software, which often must evolve to meet unforeseen requirements (international markets or new platforms such as the Web). Designed according to the principles outlined in the book, components and designs can offer a higher level of reuse. Even if you do not actually adopt the Catalysis process, this authoritative and admirably clear book offers a wealth of design expertise for anyone interested in being more productive with objects and UML

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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.

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SOA Using Java™ Web Services is a hands-on guide to implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with today’s Java EE 5 and Java SE 6 platforms. Author Mark Hansen presents in explicit detail the information that enterprise developers and architects need to succeed, from best-practice design techniques to state-of-the-art code samples.

Hansen covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications. He begins by reviewing the “big picture,” including the challenges of Java-based SOA development and the limitations of traditional approaches. Next, he systematically introduces the latest Java Web Services (JWS) APIs and walks through creating Web services that integrate into a comprehensive SOA solution. Finally, he shows how application frameworks based on JWS can streamline the entire SOA development process and introduces one such framework: SOA-J.

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Tag clouds are everywhere on the web these days. First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of web sites as visual evidence of their membership in the elite corps of "Web 2.0." This PDF analyzes what is and isn't a tag cloud, offers design tips for using them effectively, and then goes on to show how to collect tags and display them in the tag cloud format. Scripts are provided in Perl and PHP.

Yes, some have said tag clouds are a fad. But as you will see, tag clouds, when used properly, have real merits. More importantly, the skills you learn in making your own tag clouds enable you to make other interesting kinds of interfaces that will outlast the mercurial fads of this year or the next.

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Whether you've already made the move to Visual Basic .NET, or you want to know what's in it for you when you do, Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects will show you the kinds of opportunities that .NET makes available. It will allow you to make clear, informed decisions about the right way to develop your projects, and show you how the trade-off between performance and flexibility can be made successfully.

As well as these, this book contains the author's Component-based, Scalable, Logical Architecture (CSLA .NET), an object-oriented framework that can act as the foundation for a diverse range of enterprise applications, and which you're free to examine, use, and modify for your needs.

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We reside in various communities and live in one world. Although we may reside in Beijing, China, on a kibbutz in Israel, or in Muleshoe, Texas, we are aware of the impact of world events on our lives.

This has not always been true. Throughout most of history, life generally was impacted by dominant qualities in one’s communityora region reachable within one day. Important events that impacted the lives of those living thousands of miles away generally were unknown and had little impact outside that immediate area. Now, however, knowledge of events that occur throughout the world can be received in real time and can impact others’ lives greatly.

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 Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 earns a gold star and a prized place in my development book library. Brian is an exceptional teacher of technology, best practices, and technique. He continues to educate at every presentation I attend; his book carries that quality to paper. I found this book to be highly informative and full of all the important steps and examples necessary to learn this technology. In this book, Brian demonstrates a firm grasp on the concepts and I really enjoy his efforts to promote best practices at every chance. Definitively a cover-to-cover read.

Data binding is the most important part of many business applicationsand one of the most difficult things to understand. Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 is the first book to focus on this crucial area of development. It will quickly get you up to speed on binding data sources to Windows Forms components. The book contains clear examples in C# that work with SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Visual Basic .NET examples are available on the book's Web site.

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Visual Basic .NET WAS not written by Visual Basic programmers. The entire .NET family of languages was created by C programmers. C—and its cohort OOP—is an academic language. Visual Basic is a popular language. These facts have consequences.

The authors of this book are not beholden to any organization. We're not writing for MS Press, nor are we affiliated with any corporation or school. Indeed, we like to think that we're not dependent on anyone for our paycheck—other than you, dear reader—and can therefore be more objective than many of our colleagues.

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MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database program. 
 
MySQL is more like Micro$oft SQL Server (a server-based database program) than Access (mainly for desktop users). With MySQL running on a server, you can easily use it for business systems or database-driven websites.
 
Easy to use and configure, MySQL is also capable of industrial strength applications. Depending on the computer it’s installed on, MySQL can hold several terabytes of information per table. 

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Visual Studio .NET is filled with thousands of features and functionalities that make our lives as developers more efficient. Not only is it a code editor, compiler, and debugger, but it contains features to stress-test, analyze, and optimize you code, and to allow easy integration with code documentation reporting, or smart-device programming, such as the Pocket PC.

The number of features that Visual Studio .NET contains is immense. I doubt that many .NET developers know all of its features, shortcuts, and functionalities. Being a fan of keyboard shortcuts and tidbits that make my life as a developer better, or simply faster, I began to collect Visual Studio .NET tips and tricks. When startet out as a small list became bigger and bigger, leading to workshops I gave in Visual Studio .NET. Those workshops finally evolved into this book.

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The fun and easy way to conquer statistics and probability Probability For Dummies expands upon students intuitive understanding of the concept of probability through use of examples and clear explanations of mathematics behind this fascinating science. Included is discussion of set theory, counting, permutations and combinations, random variables, conditional probability, joint distributions, conditional expectations, gambling, and actuarial applications and probability modeling. The book also includes sample problems with a minimal reliance on complicated calculus. Packed with real-life examples and thorough explanations of math problems, students and professionals in such fields as investment banking, forensic science, and engineering will have just the straightforward, friendly guide they're looking for. Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD (Columbus, OH), is a Statistics Education Specialist and auxiliary faculty member of the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University. Her books include Statistics For Dummies (0-7645-5423-9) and the Statistics Workbook For Dummies

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Ncurses is a programming library with an API that allows programmers to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner; it's currently the most popular way to program a console in the Unix environment. The book serves as a tutorial that walks C language programmers from the very basics of ncurses to the more advanced functions, such as manipulating windows, reading the keyboard, color text, using the mouse, and other more advanced possibilities. The book is also a reference that contains more than 180 standard ncurses library functions and constants and explains how each of these options is optimally used. It contains various notes which describe the function behavior, while sample code and programs round out the reference.

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Develop your own games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance! Now you can write, compile, and run Game Boy programs right on your Windows desktop! "Programming the Nintendo Game Boy Advance: The Unofficial Guide" will show you how you can use the free HAM SDK to create your own games for the Game Boy Advance. When you?re ready to take the game off of your desktop and run it on a real Game Boy, you?ll get plenty of coverage on your options with multi-link cables and flash linkers as well as details for purchasing either. Staying focused as a true console programming book, "Programming the Nintendo Game Boy Advance: The Unofficial Guide" gives you the tips and skills that you need to develop a career as a console game programmer. All you need to get started is experience programming with C and professional game programming aspirations.

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Make your Web pages stand out above the noise with JavaScript and the expert instruction in this much-anticipated update to the bestselling JavaScript Bible. With renowned JavaScript expert Danny Goodman at your side, you'll get a thorough grounding in JavaScript basics, see how it fits with current Web browsers, and find all the soup-to-nuts detail you'll need, whether you're a veteran programmer or just starting out. This is the JavaScript book Web developers turn to again and again.

    * Master JavaScript fundamentals and write your first practical script
    * Develop code for both single- and cross-platform audiences and evolving standards
    * Get the essentials of document object models and HTML element objects
    * Write scripts that dynamically modify Web pages in response to user actions
    * Learn the power of new Ajax technologies to create efficient Web page user interfaces
    * Apply the latest JavaScript exception handling and custom object techniques
    * Create interactivity with sites like Google Maps

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Practical Subversion, Second Edition draws on the experience of its authors, Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooney—both Subversion project members—to guide you through a complete introduction to this popular code management solution. And this edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes to the popular Subversion version control system. After a crash course on Subversion’s key features, including a theme project that you’re encouraged to follow, you’ll explore best practices, migration tips for moving from other versioning solutions, Subversion integration, and an overview of the Subversion APIs.

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When you’re trying to harness the power of PowerPoint, you don’t want to wade through lots of background and definitions; you want to make things happen! Power Point Just the Steps for Dummies puts your hands and eyes to work immediately so you can finish any PowerPoint project in a flash.  Just choose your task, follow the step-by-step instructions and vivid illustrations, and POOF! It’s done. In seconds, you’ll be:

    * Creating a new presentation
    * Resizing or moving an object
    * Duplicating a slide
    * Using the outlining toolbar
    * Adding notes to a slide
    * Printing your presentation
    * Setting up a slide show
    * Working with pictures and clip art
    * Coloring text and objects
    * Modifying the slide master
    * Creating a template
    * Inserting a diagram or chart
    * Adding sound and video
    * And more

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Organizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world, Play to Your Strengths shows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business results that are measurable and profitable and that will create exceptional, enduring competitive advantages.

This bottom-line-boosting guide gives managers, senior executives, and consultants the theory, tools, and processes they need to:

• Measure the effects of people on business results
• Determine the impact of strategies before making them
• Focus on the organization's most effective people strategies
• Deliver more money to the bottom line in a sustainable manner
• Create enduring, copy-proof competitive advantages

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MS Visual Basic has the largest user base of any development language in the world, and the ranks are growing. Estimates put the number of users of Visual Basic at about 3 million. Once considered a hobbyist's language, Visual Basic has quickly gained the respect of serious developers and is now widely used in corporate and other commercial environments. Visual Basic .NET further raises the bar, as it now shares the common language runtime used by Visual C# .NET and other MS .NET languages.

It also shares the same IDE, debugging tools, and much more. In the past, there were many arguments about the utility of Visual Basic in building enterprise solutions. Much of this debate pitted the RAD attributes of Visual Basic against the power attributes of C++. Visual Basic was capable of doing amazing things, but often you had to resort to API calls and third-party components to get "under the hood" of MS Windows. Now, the playing field is truly level. Visual Basic .NET's generous flexibility, combined with its focus on maintaining backward compatibility, has always made it an extremely powerful language. Unfortunately, these attributes also seem to encourage sloppy programming, and that simply won't do in today's fast-paced development environments.

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In the Visual Basic 6.0 to VB.NET Migration for Developers course from LearnKey, Visual Basic developers will learn how to migrate to the latest version of this favored application building tool. Expert instructor Shannon Horn begins by explaining .NET, Microsoft�s web services and applications platform, and then moves logically and progressively through the migration issues VB developers will face. At the conclusion of this course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to move your development efforts to VB.NET.

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 • Increase earning potential with technical mastery.
 • Enhance employment opportunities with IT development knowledge.
 • Gain new skills in a useful, productive manner

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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a method of remotely storing and receiving data using devices called RFID tags. RFID tags can be small adhesive stickers containing antennas that allow them to receive and respond to transmissions from RFID transmitters. RFID tags are used to identify and track everything from Exxon EZ passes to dogs to beer kegs to library books. RFID tags use a standard that has already been hacked by several researchers.

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If you’re reading this, you are likely ready to work with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and are seeking some direction.

This book provides information about XMLand the issues involved in designing XML-based solutions for business problems. It does so in a case-study format, with each chapter taking one part of the single main project, and leading you through the design of a solution for that, so that by the end of the book, you will understand every aspect of using XMLto design business solutions.

After a broad-stroke introduction to XMLtechnologies, the book surveys solutions to typical business and technology needs that are best solved using XML. You’ll tackle XMLmarkup—more specifically, the kind of markup that you find “under the hood” of everyday applications and web services. Commonly available resources are used to show you the fundamentals of what XMLmarkup is, how to get at valuable information through these resources, and how to begin providing valuable information to others through XML.

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Software is built on abstractions. Pick the right ones, and programming will flow naturally from design; modules will have small and simple interfaces; and new functionality will more likely fit in without extensive reorganization. Pick the wrong ones, and programming will be a series of nasty surprises: interfaces will become baroque and clumsy as they are forced to accommodate unanticipated interactions, and even the simplest of changes will be hard to make. No amount of refactoring, bar starting again from scratch, can rescue a system built on flawed concepts.

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Improving business processes, whatever or wherever they are in the enterprise, is an acknowledged way of improving the bottom line. Whether it's re-engineering, Six Sigma, TQM, or any number of other techniques, the problem is that it's usually such a huge undertaking that it's more work than it's worth. Kelvin F. Cross proposes that results can be achieved much more easily by going in and performing "surgical strikes" on specific areas that need improvement, without turning the entire thing into a "science project." And now his method is available for anyone seeking to streamline process structures. Using case studies from companies including AT&T, GE, and Weight Watchers International to illustrate the remarkable results that can be achieved, Quick Hits sums up the ten key areas that are perfect targets for surgical strikes, demonstrating exactly how to handle each type of problem. By showing how to determine which approach to use for any given situation, the book gives readers an arsenal of tactical and judicious methods designed to be low risk, low cost, and very effective.

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An examination of unique security problems posed by wireless ad hoc networks and their solutions

Security for Wireless Ad hoc Networks helps pave the way for the commercialization of wireless ad hoc networks by addressing the unique security risks that these networks raise. The author team offers a critical analysis of existing research findings and also discusses the direction and preliminary findings of ongoing research. Readers learn the advantages and disadvantages of the leading proposed security schemes. Moreover, readers are given the tools they need to assess the security implications of the protocols they design.

This text begins with a discussion outlining the threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities inherent in ad hoc wireless networks. Next, the authors introduce basic security concepts that serve as a foundation for the text's examination of strategies and techniques forsecuring the network. Among the topics presented are:

• Basic cryptography mechanisms
• Key management
• Secure routing
• Intrusion detection
• Security policy management
• Secure location determination

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This book is for developers with a desire to learn about this new and exciting technology and how it can be a benefit in their environment. While a previous knowledge of SQLServer 2000, T-SQL, and previous versions of SQLXMLwill come in handy, it is certainly not a perquisite to reading this book. Adecent understanding about XMLand related technologies (such as XQuery) will also be useful when reading this book, but it isn’t necessary.

MS is serious about XMLand it could not be more evident than with the release of SQLServer 2005, supporting a full-blown new xml data type. This new data type can be used as a column or in variables and stored procedures. It also supports technologies such as XQuery and XMLData Manipulation Language, which provides full query and data modification capabilities on the xml data type.

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Micro$oft has always provided world-class development tools for developers. From the release of Visual Basic 1 to Visual Studio 2005, Micro$oft has provided groundbreaking tools to make developers’ lives easier. With the release of Visual Studio 2005, we’ve done a considerable amount of work to help the individual developer be even more productive—refactoring, the My Namespace, edit-and-continue, and improvements in the .NET Framework are just a few examples.

But with Visual Studio 2005, we’ve expanded our focus beyond the developer to the entire development process itself. Visual Studio Team System takes a larger view of the developer’s world. It acknowledges the project management aspects of development, the architecture, and the testing phase of the development life cycle; in other words, Visual Studio Team System takes into account the entire software development life cycle. This shift away from purely an individual’s perspective is designed to ease the burden on development organizations by helping every member of the team gain more insight, and oversight, of the software development life cycle.

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The audience for which this book is intended, is quite literally, anyone who feels it is to his or her benefit to know something about SQL performance or about how to design tables and indexes effectively, as well as those having a direct responsibility for designing indexes, anyone coding SQL statements as queries or as part of application programs, and those who are responsible for maintaining the relational data and the relational environment. All will benefit to a varying degree if they feel some responsibility for the performance effects of what they are doing.

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Linux Bible 2007 Edition is here to open your eyes to what Linux is, where it came from, and where it's going. But, most of all, the book is here to hand you Linux and help you get started. Because Linux is the operating system of free speech and free choice, Linux Bible gives you choices in selecting the Linux that is right for you.

Unlike other books on Linux, this book doesnít tie you to one Linux distribution. The book teaches you the essentials of Linux graphical interfaces, shell commands, and basic system administration. Separate chapters break down many of the major Linux distributions available today. Then descriptions of the major software projects in most Linux distributions (KDE and GNOME desktops, Apache Web servers, Samba file and printer sharing, and so on) guide you in setting up and using those features, regardless of which Linux you choose.

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Programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about combining existing features to solve particular problems. With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), you can transform Excel into a task-specific piece of software that will quickly and precisely serve your needs. This single-source reference and how-to guide will teach you to use the complete range of Excel programming tasks to solve problems. Developers looking forward to .NET development will also find discussion of how the Excel object model works with .NET tools, including Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).

Why program Excel? For solving complex calculations and presenting results, Excel is amazingly complete with every imaginable feature already in place. But programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about combining existing features to solve particular problems. With a few modifications, you can transform Excel into a task-specific piece of software that will quickly and precisely serve your needs. In other words, Excel is an ideal platform for probably millions of small spreadsheet-based software solutions.

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The Windows Server 2003 Planning Network Infrastructure course from LearnKey prepares you with the knowledge and skills needed to plan and maintain a Windows Server 2003 network. Expert instructor Michael Storm demonstrates critical skills like how to plan for server and network security, routing and remote access, and server availability. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand the skills required to plan a Windows Server 2003 network, and be prepared to pass MCP exam 70-293.
 
Benefits   

 • This course meets MCP exam 70-293 objectives.
 • Develop your abilities and IT credibility.
 • Increase your career opportunities and earning potential. 5 CDs 

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The Exchange Server 2003 Implementation course from LearnKey provides in-depth training on implementation, managing, and troubleshooting an Exchange Server 2003. Expert instructor Aaron Spurlock takes you through installation, configuration and upgrading from earlier versions. He also covers exchange security, managing address lists, and more. If you have a working knowledge of networking principles and Internet protocols or experience with Windows Server 2003, this is the course for you. This courses meet the requirements to pass MCP exam 70-284

Benefits   

 • Enhance your career with the messaging specialist credential.
 • Increase your earning potential with IT certification.
 • Meet the requirements to pass MCP exam 70-284.

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The Windows Server 2003 Implementing Network Infrastructure course from LearnKey prepares you with the knowledge and skills needed to implement, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2003 network. Expert instructor Aaron Spurlock covers critical topics like how to implement server IP addressing, name resolution, network security, routing and remote access. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand the skills required to implement a Windows Server 2003 network, and be prepared to pass MCP exam 70-291. Windows 2003 Implementing A Network Infrastructure Aaron Spurlock

Benefits

• Develop your abilities and IT credibility.
• Increase your career opportunities and earning potential.
• This course meets MCP exam 70-291 objectives.

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The definitive guide to penetrating and defending wireless networks.

Straight from the field, this is the definitive guide to hacking wireless networks. Authored by world-renowned wireless security auditors, this hands-on, practical guide covers everything you need to attack — or protect — any wireless network.

The authors introduce the 'battlefield,' exposing today's 'wide open' 802.11 wireless networks and their attackers. One step at a time, you'll master the attacker's entire arsenal of hardware and software tools: crucial knowledge for crackers and auditors alike. Next, you'll learn systematic countermeasures for building hardened wireless 'citadels''including cryptography-based techniques, authentication, wireless VPNs, intrusion detection, and more.

If you're a hacker or security auditor, this book will get you in. If you're a netadmin, sysadmin, consultant, or home user, it will keep everyone else out.

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Harness the power of Access 2007 with the expert guidance in this comprehensive reference. Beginners will appreciate the thorough attention to database fundamentals and terminology. Experienced users can jump right into Access 2007 enhancements like the all-new user interface and wider use of XML and Web services. Each of the book's six parts thoroughly focuses on key elements in a logical sequence, so you have what you need, when you need it. Designed as both a reference and a tutorial, Access 2007 Bible is a powerful tool for developers needing to make the most of the new features in Access 2007.

• Build Access tables using good relational database techniques
• Construct efficient databases using a five-step design method
• Design efficient data-entry and data display forms
• Utilize the improved Access report designer
• Use Visual Basic for Applications and the VBA Editor to automate applications
• Build and customize Access 2007 ribbons
• Seamlessly exchange Access data with SharePoint
• Employ advanced techniques such as the Windows API and object-oriented programming
• Add security and use data replication in your Access applications

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This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export their finished projects for Web and broadcast. Of course, readers will also learn how to take advantage of the new features of Flash CS3 - the streamlined user interface, native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files, revamped drawing tools, new video encoding features, code editing enhancements, and much more.

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Straight from the pen of this Master Card Worker comes a new book which we feel sure will become a popular reference source for all that is best in CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC. If you are interested in Card Magic at all, you MUST have this book. Guaranteed to give you more useful, entertaining, audience preferred card effects, than any other book available. 272 pages full of astounding effects, routines, ideas by Harry Lorayne and some of his friends, including some of the best minds in Card Magic: Dai Vernon, Francis Carlyle, Johnny Benzais, Frank Garcia, Herb Zarrow, Alex Elmsley, Al Leech, Jay Ose, Sam Schwartz, Ken Krenzel, Howard Schwartzman, Bill Simon, Walter Cummings, Paul Curry, Oscar Weigle, and others. Chapter for chapter, page for page, line for line, the most clearly and concisely written, and best magic content of ANY book you’ve ever possessed. Effective card mysteries you will do immediately, unique card tricks with which you will bewilder your friends, novel card mysteries you may have seen the experts do, all these revealed in this beautiful 272 page, easy to understand, DELUXE EDITION. One of the many unsolicited letters we have received praising “Close-Up Card Magic”.

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Built on the .NET 2.0 platform, Telligent's Community Server allows web developers to implement a robust community site where users can share, discuss, and interact in very powerful ways. With its open API and available source code, Community Server is customizable using available 3rd party modules, or you can write your own code to extend Community Server's functionality.

Inside this book, our Community Server experts guide you through the product's implementation and customization and will get you started with your first community site quickly. You'll learn methods for UI modification and enhancement, how to add new functionality through modules, and how to write your own custom module code. You'll also get tried-and-true advice for administering your Community Server site, creating reports, implementing security, building localized installations, and more.

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The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Advanced Semantic Web technologies are now enabling a wide range of tasks of central importance to the management of life science information. This book introduces these technologies to life science and bioinformatics professionals, illustrating their utility and highlighting their implementation in biological, medical and clinical scenarios. In six parts the book covers the topics of database and literature integration, knowledge representation, knowledge visualization, the utilization of formal knowledge representations, and access to distributed knowledge. The factors impacting on the establishment of the semantic web in life science and the legal challenges that will impact on its proliferation are addressed in the concluding part.

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The quick and easy solution for slow-running PCs

Jump-start your PC today with CA PC Pitstop Optimize and the easy-to-follow advice in this straightforward, reader-friendly guide. You'll find state-of-the-art software that regains hard drive space, revs up your Internet connection, and fixes registry errors, a $30.00 value included with this book.

• Understand the typical and annoying problems that affect PCs
• Remove "junk" files and free up disk space
• Fine-tune Internet settings for better operation
• Adjust Windows settings to improve performance
• Follow easy instructions to install the software
• Get up to speed on troubleshooting
• Download regular updates

CA Founded in 1976, CA is a global company with 150 offices in more than 45 countries, and revenues of $3.5 billion in 2005. With over 15,000 employees, CA provides products and support to more than 980f Fortune 1000® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions, and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide. CA products cover systems, networks, security, storage, and databases.

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The jokey, conversational style of the Complete Idiot's Guide series is better suited to some of its many subjects than to others, but for the Guide to Grammar and Style, it works. This book might not be appropriate for professional proofreaders in search of the definitive use of the en dash, but it is a solid, amusing volume for those who daydreamed through grade school and would like to brush up on the fundamentals. Puns, silly humor, and hyperbole abound, but so do the entertaining quotations from beloved masters of the English language that author Laurie E. Rozakis has managed to dig up. For every "The rules of standard written English are … more frightening than a sail on the Titanic," there is an amusing tidbit such as this one, courtesy of Calvin Trillin: "Whom is a word invented to make everyone sound like a butler. Nobody who is not a butler has ever said it out loud without feeling just a little bit weird." For every "Like my thighs, the distinction between that and which is becoming less firm," we have someone such as James Thurber to show us how to break a rule in style. "When I split an infinitive," Thurber is said to have admonished a meddlesome editor, "it is going to damn well stay split!" The text is highly energetic, and Rozakis cuts to the chase. For instance, she summarizes one chapter this way: "Don't be a sexist pig; ditch doublespeak; end euphemisms; can clichés." And she offers us these wise words, from Thomas Jefferson: "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

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How to Cheat at Managing MS Operations Manager 2005 is written for system administrators and systems engineers who are responsible for the upkeep and administration of IT environments,from a two server environment to a large enterprise.This book will is a must-read for anyone looking at implementing an enterprise management solution,and is specifically interested in the MS Operations Manager 2005 offering.

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The Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure course from LearnKey prepares you with the knowledge and skills needed to plan, implement, and maintain a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. Expert instructor Dale Brice-Nash demonstrates how to set up and maintain Active Directory structure and topology, and how to plan and implement user, computer, and group security. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand the skills required to manage and maintain an Active Directory infrastructure within a Windows Server 2003 environment.

Benefits  

 • Develop your IT abilities and credibility.
 • Increase your career opportunities and earning potential.
 • Be prepared to pass MCP exam 70-297.

5 CDs

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The Windows 2000 Skills Update from LearnKey is a comprehensive course for experienced network administrators who need to incorporate Windows 2000 into existing Windows NT 4.0 networks. Expert Michael Storm provides critical information and practical insights based on experience to show network managers how to prepare for, implement and manage mixed-environment networks.

Benefits  

• Gain technical mastery of network environments.  

• Integrate Windows 2000 into existing Windows NT 4.0 networks.  

• Enhance your career opportunities increased IT knowledge.

4 CDs

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The Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows Server 2003 upgrade exam is available only to current MCSAs or MCSEs on Windows 2000. In the Windows Server 2003 MCSA Skills Update course from LearnKey, you'll build on current abilities to develop skills needed to manage and maintain a Windows Server 2003 network. Expert instructor Aaron Spurlock shows you how to manage users and groups, active directory, servers, web services, security, DNS configuration, and disaster recovery. 

Benefits  

 • Be prepared to pass MCP exam 70-292.
 • Update your certification and increase your valuable IT mastery.
 • Increase your career opportunities and earning potential.

3 CDs

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The Windows Server 2003 Managing a Network Environment course from LearnKey prepares you with the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure, and administer Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Aaron Spurlock shows you techniques for monitoring and optimizing physical and logical devices. He will guide you through managing users, computers and groups, configuring access to resources and disaster recovery contingency planning. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand how to manage and maintain a Windows Server 2003 environment.

Benefits:

• This course meets MCP exam 70-290 objectives.

• Develop your abilities and IT credibility.

• Increase your career opportunities and earning potential.

5 CDs 

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MySQL Stored Procedure Programming covers a lot of ground. The book starts with a thorough introduction to stored procedures programming and functions, covering the fundamentals of data types, operators, and using SQL in stored procedures. You'll learn how to build and maintain stored programs — covering transactions, stored functions, and triggers — and how to call and use MySQL-based stored procedures in a variety of languages, including PHP, Perl, Python, .NET, and Java. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer can afford to do without.

The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a huge milestone - one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption of the already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious about building the web-based database applications of the future, you need to get up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work — and how to build them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer can afford to do without.

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Dimensional applications are best and most easily built using a dimensional language. These dimensional applications are typified by the related notions of OLAPand dimensional data warehouses and marts. MDX (for MultiDimensional eXpressions) is the most widely accepted software language used for these applications. The book you read here, MDX Solutions, is the second edition of a guide to learning and using MDX. Since the first edition of MDX Solutions, the number of analytical applications that use MDX has grown very large, and several more servers and many third-party and homegrown client tools now allow you to use MDX to express the logic you use to calculate and to retrieve your information.

As a language, MDX is rather different in style and feel from SQL, and quite different from other programming languages like C++, C#, Lisp, Fortran, and so on. You can think of the formula language of a spreadsheet like Excel as another programming language, and while it is different than Excel, characterizing MDX as a sort of Excel-like SQL or a SQL-like Excel seems more apt than any other analogy. (If you’re familiar with other OLAP query or calculation languages, it has more in common with them, but many readers will not be.)

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While Oracle continues to improve the security features of its product, it still has a long way to go. David Litchfield has devoted years to relentlessly searching out the flaws in this ubiquitous database system and creating defenses against them. Now he offers you his complete arsenal to assess and defend your own Oracle systems.

Like The Shellcoder's Handbook and The Database Hacker's Handbook, this in-depth guide explores every technique and tool used by black hat hackers to invade and compromise Oracle. It shows you how to find the weak spots and defend them. Without that knowledge, you have little chance of keeping your databases truly secure.

• Discover how to deal with the security flaws revealed in the Oracle RDBMS
• Explore some never-before-published forays into Oracle security holes and learn to defend them from attack
• Learn why independent security assessments are not necessarily a guarantee of safety
• See how Oracle 10g Release 2 has improved its security features and where the flaws remain
• Take advantage of extensive and valuable code downloads on the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/go/ohh

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Audio and speech processing have achieved important status in development in the last three decades, improving the standard of living of many people. Regarding these applications, several signal processing algorithms have been developed to assist the speech impaired and improve the learning ability of children. Advances in Audio and Speech Signal Processing: Technologies and Applications provides a comprehensive approach of signal processing tools regarding the enhancement, recognition, and protection of speech and audio signals. Advances in Audio and Speech Signal Processing: Technologies and Applications offers researchers and practitioners the information they need to develop and implement efficient signal processing algorithms in the enhancement field.

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How to Manage Conflict is a practical guide offering advice and suggestions for successfully handling all types of discord. Each chapter provides directions to conquer rough terrain and builds upon five strategies: understanding the critical ingredients for collaborative thinking, aligning responsibilities to the needs of others, building into daily interactions the practices necessary for support, developing conflict resolution skills and negotiation skills to resolve various types of challenges, and developing personal tools and systems for dealing with tensions and pressures. In a short amount of time, users will immediately learn how to apply these strategies favorably and effectively.

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Linux Bible 2006 Edition is here to open your eyes to what Linux is, where it came from, and where it’s going. But, most of all, the book is here to hand you Linux and help you get started. Because Linux is the operating system of free speech and free choice, Linux Bible gives you choices in selecting the Linux that is right for you.

Unlike other books on Linux, this book doesn’t tie you to one Linux distribution. The book teaches you the essentials of Linux graphical interfaces, shell commands, and basic system administration. Separate chapters break down most of the major Linux distributions available today. Then descriptions of the major software projects in most Linux distributions (KDE and GNOME desktops, Apache Web servers, Samba file and printer sharing, and so on) guide you in setting up and using those features, regardless of which Linux you choose.

To calm your fears that “free” software can’t be that good, this book guides you through the strange and circuitous path of open source software development that led to the Linux phenomenon. It also details the major companies and organizations that are behind Linux and the open source movement today.

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Featuring basic concepts explained in plain English, Learning PHP and MySQL is the ideal guide for newcomers attracted to the popular PHP and MySQL combination. Learn how to generate dynamic web content in a slow, easy-to-follow fashion. Also covers error handling, security, HTTP authentication, and more. Part of O'Reilly's bestselling "Learning" series.

The PHP scripting language and MySQL open-source database are quite effective independently, but together they make a simply unbeatable team. When working hand-in-hand, they serve as the standard for the rapid development of dynamic, database-driven websites. This combination is so popular, in fact, that it's attracting many programming newbies who come from a web or graphic design background and whose first language is HTML. If you fall into this ever-expanding category, then this book is for you.

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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the standard modeling language for software and systems development. This statement alone is a pretty conclusive argument for making UML part of your software repertoire, however it leaves some questions unanswered. Why is UML unified? What can be modeled? How is UML a language? And, probably most importantly, why should you care?

Systems design on any reasonably large scale is difficult. Anything from a simple desktop application to a full multi-tier enterprise scale system can be made up of hundredsand potentially thousandsof software and hardware components. How do you (and your team) keep track of which components are needed, what their jobs are, and how they meet your customers' requirements? Furthermore, how do you share your design with your colleagues to ensure the pieces work together? There are just too many details that can be misinterpreted or forgotten when developing a complex system without some help. This is where modelingand of course UMLcomes in.

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This book teaches you how to create your own role-playing game (RPG) using Visual Basic and DirectX.I teach you,step-by-step,how to construct each part ofthe game using DirectX components such as Direct3D.Ifyou think RPGs are fun to play,wait until you start working on your very own! Constructing an RPG is far more interesting than playing one, because you are in complete control over the RPG world,and you can let your imagination loose to create adventures for others to enjoy.

Before you can get to the point where you can design an adventure and build an RPG with Visual Basic,you need to learn the language and get up to speed on DirectX.My goal with this book is to teach you just what you need to know in order to make this happen,without going into detail.You learn what you need to know to construct an RPG and nothing more.

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Today,digital audio applications are part of our every dayl ives.Popular examples include audio CDs, MP3 audio players, radio broadcasts, TV or video DVDs, video games, digital cameras with sound track, digital camcorders, telephones, telephone answering machines and telephone enquiries using speech or word recognition. Various new and advanced audiovisual applications and services become possible based on audio content analysis and description. Search engines or specific filters can use the extracted description to help users navigate or browse through large collections of data. Digital analysis may discriminate whether an audio file contains speech, music or other audio entities, how many speakers are contained in a speech segment, what gender they are and even which persons are speaking. Spoken content may be identified and converted to text.

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MS SQL Server 2005 Notification Services covers the basic problems of notification applications, describes the SQL Notification Services platform and describes how to use it to build rich, scalable notification applications. Written by Shyam Pather, the Technical Lead for the SQL Notification Services Team, this book is based on his three years of experience teaching SQL Notification Services to new customers. This book is your complete resource for learning SQL Notification Services application development and the underlying architectural concepts.

Notification Services offers a simple, declarative programming model that lets you build your application with much less development effort than would be required if you were building it from scratch. Using this programming model, you can get a working prototype of a typical application running in just a single day. Furthermore, the platform offers a number of sophisticated features, such as support for multiple languages and device types, scheduled subscriptions, user-defined matching logic, and multicast delivery, that you can incorporate into your applications by setting a few options. These kinds of beyond-the-obvious features set the most advanced notification applications apart from the rest.

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Written by the premier author in Windows administration, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of Windows 2003 administrators preparing for the MS Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) exams, MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell is invaluable. With the recent revisions of the MCSE exams including simulations, success is even more difficult. Not only does this book provide the resources administrators need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. They can think of this book as the notes they would have highlighted and then recorded for every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in Exams 70-290, 70-291, 70-293, and 70-294 (and by association Exams 70-292 and 70-296).

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

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

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 As more corporations adopt Linux as the networking backbone for their IT systems, the demand for certified technicians will become even greater. Passing the LPI exams will broaden your career options because the LPIC is the most widely known and respected Linux certification program in the world. Linux Journal recognized the LPI as the best Training and Certification Program. The exams were developed by the Linux Professional Institute, an international, volunteer-driven organization with affiliates in a dozen countries.

The core LPI exams cover two levels. Level 1 tests a basic knowledge of Linux installation, configuration, and command-line skills. Level 2 goes into much more depth regarding system troubleshooting and network services such as email and the Web. The second edition of LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell is a thoroughly researched reference to these exams. The book is divided into four parts, one for each of the LPI exams. Each part features not only a summary of the core skills you need, but sample exercises and test questions, along with helpful hints to let you focus your energies.

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Lesson 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Page (33:05 min)
1 Comparing the Sites Used in the Training
2 Getting Started with Site Setup
3 Visual Aids & Tips for Designing with Tables
4 Controlling Window Size
5 Introducing Guides & Navigation Tools
6 Status Bar, CSS Styles, & Layer Preferences
7 When to Use HTML Tags Instead of CSS
8 Accessibility & File Types/Editors Preferences
9 Customizing Your Favorite Objects

Lesson 2: Enhancing Dreamweaver® with Extensions (20:06 min)
1 Downloading Extensions from the Exchange Site
2 Creating a Slideshow Using an Extension
3 Updating the Remote Site to View the Slideshow
4 Adding Flash® Buttons Using an Extension

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Today's leading organizations have seized on the concept of transparency as the key to gaining the confidence of investors, employees, and customers–and gaining profits. In The Transparency Edge, leadership expert Barbara Pagano demonstrates that transparency is more than an excellent policy–it is a powerful management skill that managers can learn and use to make themselves and their organizations more competitive.

Presenting the nine behaviors that every successful leader uses to gain a transparency edge, Pagano shows readers how to use these techniques to build loyalty, gain trust, and establish an impeccable reputation for integrity

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Robert Irwin is America's #1 real estate expert. But don't take our word for it–the sales figures speak for themselves. To date, his real estate titles have sold more than one and a half million copies.

Of all of his books, those in the bestselling "Tips and Traps" series continue to be the most popular(more than 500,000 sold), and two of those–Tips and Traps When Buying a Home and Tips and Traps When Selling a Home–have gone on to become the #1 guides in their respective subjects.

In the seven years since those two classics were last revised the real estate market has undergone many dramatic changes. Irwin has updated these bestsellers to reflect these changes so readers can be successful in their real estate endeavors.

Featuring fully revised facts and figures that reflect the most recent changes in the real estate market,Tips and Traps When Buying a Home, Third Editionprovides first-time and experienced home buyers alike with practical, step-by-step information on a broad range of proven home buying strategies, along with indispensable advice and guidance on:

*Buying in an "Up" market

*"Flipping," buying with "options," bidding wars, and other new facts of life

*The latest new financing options

*The new rules of closing costs

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Interactive exercises and trading guidelines for using today's most strategically advanced "event-trading" technique High-profile events and announcements can cause tremendous swings in stocks and sectors, and often point out tremendous opportunities to investors who know how to read them. When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? is a "how-to" for knowing which events matter versus which are meaningless, and how to take advantage of the former for consistent trading success. Emphasizing the practical side of trading, When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? features exercises, Q&As, and checklists for using investing techniques in day, swing, value, or virtually any other trading or investing style. This hands-on book explores: Techniques for finding the best stock in a given sector Methods for profitably combining technical and fundamental analysis Ways to continually assess market and sector trends

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*Covering the new features and capabilities of Windows Vista, this book gets readers up to speed fast on interface changes, security options, and setup processes
*Simple, easy-to-follow instructions for common Windows Vista tasks show readers how to carry out essential activities and gain competence and confidence
*Bargain-priced at only $14.99, this book explains how to navigate the desktop, create files, copy and delete files and folders, connect to the Internet, search the Web, use e-mail, and much more

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XHTML promises to expand the power and versatility of the Web and pave the way for XML. With crystal-clear explanations and compelling case studies, this step-by-step guide shows you how to take advantage of this exciting new Web standard. From working with the rigorous XHTML structure and retrofitting your HTML code to extending XHTML with XML, this guide is just what you need to position yourself and your sites for the XML future.

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The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Office - one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with Office 2007, including how to navigate the new user interface. With coverage of core Office programs, and highlights of new programs, you will learn how to create professional-quality documents, powerful spreadsheets, and compelling slide presentations. You will also discover how to get your Web site up and running, how to take notes electronically, and how to manage your e-mail communications and workday. You'll even step through the fundamentals of working with Microsoft InfoPath® forms and collaborating with Microsoft Office SharePoint®, Microsoft Office LiveMeeting, and Microsoft Office Groove. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

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Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use while refusing to compromise on speed, power, and flexibility. It's Linux for human beings–designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. Ubuntu is the most in-demand Linux distribution, and this official guide will get you up and running quickly.

Learn how to seamlessly install and customize Ubuntu for your home or small businesses. Its open source power can be used in schools, government, or by corporations, and is suitable for both desktop and server use. The Ubuntu community is built on the premise that software should be available free of charge, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

Ubuntu is by its very nature a community-driven, collaborative platform, and the development of this book has been inspired and driven by this process. This is why the book is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license and why some chapters (Chapters 3, 4, and 7) are actually included with Dapper itself. With this in mind, we hope the content in the book continues to grow and evolve in new areas and bring more and more users over to Ubuntu. It is an exciting time to be a part of Open Source and an exciting time to be a part of Ubuntu.

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The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine confirmed this by voting Ubuntu as the best Linux distribution in each publication's 2005 Readers Choice Awards. None of that simplification, however, makes Ubuntu any less fun if you're a hacker or a power user.

Like all books in the "Hacks" series, Ubuntu Hacks includes 100 quick tips and tricks for all users of all technical levels. Beginners will appreciate the installation advice and tips on getting the most out of the free applications packaged with Ubuntu, while intermediate and advanced readers will learn the ins-and-outs of power management, wireless roaming, 3D video acceleration, server configuration, and much more.

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The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine confirmed this by voting Ubuntu as the best Linux distribution in each publication's 2005 Readers Choice Awards. None of that simplification, however, makes Ubuntu any less fun if you're a hacker or a power user.

Like all books in the "Hacks" series, Ubuntu Hacks includes 100 quick tips and tricks for all users of all technical levels. Beginners will appreciate the installation advice and tips on getting the most out of the free applications packaged with Ubuntu, while intermediate and advanced readers will learn the ins-and-outs of power management, wireless roaming, 3D video acceleration, server configuration, and much more.

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Everyone's talking about Ubuntuit's not just 100% free, it's the most useful, practical desktop Linux ever! Now, Linux expert Marcel Gagné reveals Ubuntu's amazing power and helps you migrate from Windows faster than you ever thought possible.

Moving to Ubuntu Linux will teach you how to do virtually anything with Ubuntuwrite documents, create spreadsheets, surf the Web, use email, listen to music, watch movies, and play games.

It's pretty mind-blowing that a free operating system can best one that costs hundreds of dollars and is backed by a hundred-billion-dollar corporation, but it's true. The essential verity of the open source software movement is that programmers who are doing what they love will always do a better job than programmers who are working merely to make a living.

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Everyone's talking about Ubuntuit's not just 100% free, it's the most useful, practical desktop Linux ever! Now, Linux expert Marcel Gagné reveals Ubuntu's amazing power and helps you migrate from Windows faster than you ever thought possible.

Moving to Ubuntu Linux will teach you how to do virtually anything with Ubuntuwrite documents, create spreadsheets, surf the Web, use email, listen to music, watch movies, and play games.

It's pretty mind-blowing that a free operating system can best one that costs hundreds of dollars and is backed by a hundred-billion-dollar corporation, but it's true. The essential verity of the open source software movement is that programmers who are doing what they love will always do a better job than programmers who are working merely to make a living.

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Cross Site Scripting Attacks starts by defining the terms and laying out the ground work. It assumes that the reader is familiar with basic web programming (HTML) and JavaScript. First it discusses the concepts, methodology, and technology that makes XSS a valid concern. It then moves into the various types of XSS attacks, how they are implemented, used, and abused. After XSS is thoroughly explored, the next part provides examples of XSS malware and demonstrates real cases where XSS is a dangerous risk that exposes internet users to remote access, sensitive data theft, and monetary losses. Finally, the book closes by examining the ways developers can avoid XSS vulnerabilities in their web applications, and how users can avoid becoming a victim. The audience is web developers, security practitioners, and managers.

*XSS Vulnerabilities exist in 8 out of 10 Web sites
*The authors of this book are the undisputed industry leading authorities
*Contains independent, bleeding edge research, code listings and exploits that can not be found anywhere else

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Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Excel 2007–from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Excel 2007–all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, you'll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Office Excel 2007 experience to the next level. This information-packed complete reference shows you how to get the most out of Office Excel 2007. You will learn how to navigate the product's new features and capabilities, including the new formatting and editing advances such as Live Preview. You'll explore new graphics capabilities, master the charting interface, and learn how to create dynamic lists with PivotTable® reports. You'll even learn how to automate Office Excel with macros, custom functions, and more. Plus, you'll get tools, eBooks, and more on the companion CD. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

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As the saying goes, "People don't plan to fail–they fail to plan." In business, this failing is fatal–because planning is essential to the well-being and success of any company. Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan cuts past the traditional planning problems, and provides readers with a documented method of building a simplified business plan that works!

The book helps managers find a sensible starting point, understand the value of an integrated planning model, and finally write a logical business plan. Four features make it all work:

1. A Seven-Step Planning Process–How you plan to integrate planning down to the lowest level.
2. Your Management Story–Defining what the company is "about," and asking yourself if it makes a good "story."
3. The Concept of backPlanning–Where do you want to be, and how do you work backward from there?
4. The 5-Page Business Plan–How can you create a concise, functional, and user-friendly plan–in just 5 pages?

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

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

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"Learn How to Program Using Your Web Browser" is intended for readers of any age who want to learn how to program. It assumes no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and there are no requirements for software purchase or installation beyond what is available on any contemporary computer. The software used for teaching programming will be JavaScript, which can be written using any text editor, and displayed in almost any Web browser, regardless of operating system. Despite the unfortunate word "script" in the language name, in actuality JavaScript is a modern programming language. Learn How to Program will teach the basics of programming using JavaScript. While displaying the results of running JavaScript programs in Web pages will be used to motivate readers - a simple example is changing text when the user moves the mouse over it in a Web page - very emphatically this is not a book about programming JavaScript. It is a book about general principles of good programming practice for complete novices. The target reader is likely a twelve or thirteen year old, who is just starting to get curious about what makes a computer work - or an office worker who has been using computer applications for years, and would like to spend some time delving deeper into what makes them tick.

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Linux is a fast-growing operating system with power and appeal, and enterprises worldwide are quickly adopting the system to utilize its benefits. But as with all operating systems, performance problems do occur causing system administrators to scramble into action. Finally, there is a complete reference for troubleshooting Linuxquickly! Linux Troubleshooting for System Administrators and Power Users is THE book for locating and solving problems and maintaining high performance in Red Hat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux systems.

This book not only teaches you how to troubleshoot Linux, it shows you how the system worksso you can attack any problem at its root. Should you reinstall if Linux does not boot? Or can you save time by troubleshooting the problem? Can you enhance performance when Linux hangs or runs slowly? Can you overcome problems with printing or accessing a network? This book provides easy-to-follow examples and an extensive look at the tools, commands, and scripts that make Linux run properly.
- A troubleshooting guide for all Linux users: Focuses on common problems with start-up, printing, login, the network, security, and more
- Restore Linux when boot, startup, or shutdown failsand reinstall Linux properly when all troubleshooting fails
- Explains how to use some of the most popular Linux performance tools, including top, sar, vmstat, iostat, and free
- Handle storage problems and CPU slamming to ensure high Linux performance
- Solve hardware device problems by deciphering error messages and using the lspci tool
- Use backup/recover commands and tape libraries to create proper backups
- Identify and correct remote and network printing problems using spooler commands

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The book you are holding in your hand is a battle plan.You are engaged in mortal combat and might not even recognize the kind of battle you have to fight.But fight it you will,and fight it you must.

If you are reading this foreword,the title Hack Proofing XML has interested you. You might have picked it up in some bookstore and are thumbing through it to get a sense of whether or not you are willing to plunk down the ducats to buy it.Or you might have ordered it online.How you got the book into your hands doesn’t matter a whit.You are here,and the dialogue has begun.

Wherever these words find you,find a comfortable place to sit down and read these few introductory pages in one swoop.It will only take a few minutes,but it’s important.Really.

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Configure, run, and troubleshoot Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Home Basic with the detailed coverage you'll find in this comprehensive guide. With a task-based approach and clear, no-nonsense instructions, the book helps you become an advanced user of Windows Vista—even if you're just starting out.

From essentials such as administering your computer and surfing the Web securely to advanced maneuvers such as creating your own movies and burning DVDs, you'll find what you need to master the powerful features of Windows Vista.

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C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET introduces Microsoft's new extensions to the C++ syntax that allow you to target the common language runtimethe key to the heart of the .NET 3.0 platform. In 12 no-fluff chapters, Microsoft insider Gordon Hogenson takes you into the core of the C++/CLI language and explains both how the language elements work and how Microsoft intends them to be used. Compilable code samples illustrate the syntax as simply as possible, and more elaborate code samples show how the new syntax might typically be used.

The book is a beginners guide, but it assumes a familiarity with programming basics. And it concentrates on explaining the aspects of C++/CLI that make it the most powerful and fun language on the .NET Framework 3.0. As such, this book is ideal if youre thinking of migrating to C++/CLI from another language. By the end of this book, youll have a thorough grounding in the core language elements together with the confidence to explore further that comes from a solid understanding of a languages syntax and grammar.

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This book contains some of the most up-to-date information available anywhere on a wide variety of topics related to Techno Security. As you read the book, you will notice that the authors took the approach of identifying some of the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities and then discussing the countermeasures to address them. Some of the topics and thoughts discussed here are as new as tomorrows headlines, whereas others have been around for decades without being properly addressed. I hope you enjoy this book as much as we have enjoyed working with the various authors and friends during its development. Donald Withers, CEO and Cofounder of TheTrainingCo.

Jack Wiles, on Social Engineering offers up a potpourri of tips, tricks, vulnerabilities, and lessons learned from 30-plus years of experience in the worlds of both physical and technical security.

Russ Rogers on the Basics of Penetration Testing illustrates the standard methodology for penetration testing: information gathering, network enumeration, vulnerability identification, vulnerability exploitation, privilege escalation, expansion of reach, future access, and information compromise.

Johnny Long on No Tech Hacking shows how to hack without touching a computer using tailgating, lock bumping, shoulder surfing, and dumpster diving.

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Here's what you need to know to buy, set up, and make the most of HDTV. Be prepared when you head to the electronics store!

Plasma or LCD? 720p or 1080p? Blu-ray or HD DVD? Confused? What you need is this handy guide — it answers those questions and a whole lot more. It helps you choose the right HDTV for your needs, find sources of HDTV broadcasts, install and configure your system, and hook up cool HDTV sources like disc players, PCs, and game consoles.

Discover how to
* Translate the jargon, standards, and acronyms
* Incorporate HDTV into your home theater
* Be sure you're getting true HD channels
* Add a game console
* Prepare for the transition to digital TV

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GNU/Linux is an immensely popular operating system that is both extremely stable and reliable. But it can also induce minor headaches at the most inopportune times, if you're not fully up to speed with its capabilities. A unique approach to running and administering Linux systems, Linux Annoyances for Geeks addresses the many poorly documented and under-appreciated topics that make the difference between a system you struggle with and a system you really enjoy. This book is for power users and system administrators who want to clear away barriers to using Linux for themselves and for less-trained users in their organizations. This book meticulously tells you how to get a stubborn wireless card to work under Linux, and reveals little-known sources for wireless driversand information. It tells you how to add extra security to your systems, such as boot passwords, and how to use tools such as rescue disks to overcome overly zealous security measures in a pinch. In every area of desktop and server use, the book is chock full of advice based on hard-earned experience.

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Being saddled with a terrible supervisor can turn even the best job into a nightmare. Unfortunately, not every boss is the great symbol of managerial perfection one would hope for. In fact, more people than not consider themselves stuck with a "bad boss." But short of remaining miserable or quitting a job, what can be done about it?

A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses provides readers with savvy, practical advice for coping with managers and supervisors who are mean, incompetent, unethical, and worse. The book includes powerful strategies for not only working with—but thriving under—such bad boss types as:

-The Great Betrayers—how to defend yourself against a corporate backstabber
-The Know-Nothing Bosses—what to do when a boss is clueless
-The Bad Communicators—how to respond when a boss is consistently unclear

Whether a boss is high-strung, incompetent, or a power-mad tyrant, this book has the solution.

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If you're new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 is an ideal step-by-step introduction to this database query tool, with everything you need for programming SQL using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005-one of the most powerful and popular database engines used today. Plenty of books explain database theory. This guide lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. You don't need prior database knowledge, or even prior computer knowledge.

SQL Server is one of the most powerful database engines used today. Microsoft's latest release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, is a comprehensive database platform that provides secure and reliable storage for both relational and structured data, enabling one to build and manage high-performance data applications. SQL Server 2005's close integration with Microsoft Visual Studio, the Microsoft Office System, and a suite of new development tools set SQL Server 2005 apart from previous versions and from other database engines. This system allows developers to build, debug, and operate applications faster then ever before.

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This book covers the things that aren't already covered in the documentation that came with your equipment and the things you can't just figure out on your own. It is organized into a series of well-organized, bite-sized, quickly accomplished tasks, that lets you zero right in on particular tasks you want to accomplish. This hands-on approach to setting-up a secure home wireless network will have your network up and running in no time.

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This book is for those who wonder whether they should transit from Excel/VBA to Excel/VSTO. It was not written for people who want to learn programming in Excel, nor was it written for those (professional) developers who want to know all the ins and outs of VSTO programming.

This Excel user's guide to VSTO—the new Excel Macro programming language being promoted by Microsoft—shows how to perform the equivalent VBA actions with VSTO. The differences between the VSTO and VBA development environments are explained, helping Excel users decide if they should embrace VSTO or seek out other technologies.

My only intention is to help VBA users to make the right decision as to whether they should transit to VSTO and, if they decide to do so, to be aware of the hurdles they have to leap and the benefits they will reap.

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Web Parts are reusable components that extract data from existing Microsoft or non-Microsoft applications for use in ASP.NET Web pages; they can also be used to build user controls.
Presents developers with an understanding of how Web Parts work and how they can be developed.
Examines how to secure and integrate Web Parts into other Windows systems (SQL Server, Office, ASP.NET, Content Manager)

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* Organized around common problems rather than technology or protocols, this reference shows readers all their options
* Helps make the best decisions based on available budget
* Explains the limitations and risks of each solution
* Excellent visuals–intuitive illustrations and maps, not graphs and charts
* How to implement the chosen solution

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If you are familiar with creating HTML web pages but aren’t familiar with creating dynamic, data driven web applications, you should consider learning ASP. And Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit is the perfect learning tool. The Starter Kit provides the unbeatable combination of programmer/author Scott Mitchell and the step-by-step learning method of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself series. The accompanying CD includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn web development tool, and all projects developed in the book’s examples. (more…)

This is the ultimate guide to the design, migration, implementation, administration, management, and support of an Exchange Server 2007 environment. The recommendations, tips, and tricks covered are based on more than two years of early adopter implementations of Exchange 2007. The authors highlight the features and functions that organizations both large and small have found to be the important components in Exchange 2007, including the new Outlook Web Access mail, functions that better support mobile devices, server-to-server mailbox replication for better data recovery, and integrated voicemail unified messaging.

Rand H. Morimoto, Ph.D., MCSE has been in the computer industry for more than 25 years and is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT-consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area that was one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft on Exchange 2007. Dr. Morimoto has written a best-selling book on Microsoft Exchange for every version over the past 12 years.

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English Grammar WorkbookFor Dummies doesn’t concentrate on what we English teachers (yes, I confess I am one) call descriptive grammar— the kind where you circle all the nouns and draw little triangles around the prepositions. A closely guarded English-teacher secret is that you don’t need to know any of that terminology (well, hardly any) to master grammar. Instead, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies concentrates on functional grammar— what goes where in real-life speech and writing.

Each chapter begins with a quick explanation of the rules (don’t smoke, don’t stick your chewing gum on the bedpost, be sure your sentence is complete, and so forth). Okay, I’m kidding about the smoking and the chewing gum, but you get the idea. I start off telling you what’s right and wrong in standard English usage.

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This books covers 100 of the most frequent and useful phrasal verbs in English, with their main meanings. You may find that a phrasal verb has other meanings that are not covered in this book, but our aim is to give you what you need to master the phrasal berbs that you need in everyday English.

The phrasal verbs in this book are arranged in alphabetical order according to the particles, so that "look after" comes before "bring up", but you can do the pages in any order, as each page deals with a separate verb. There are also ten revision pages, which bring together verbs that have been covered in the other pages.

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Compiled by Red Hat Software, Inc., the company that has assembled the most popular x86 installation of Linux, this command reference is massive, authoritative, and as complete as any reference can be.

In 1,500 pages of tiny print, this heavy-duty tome documents every command, utility, file system, library function, and administration tool in the operating system. Linux also features a detailed kernel reference guide and a good index. And if the print size bothers you, the entire contents of the book are included on the companion CD-ROM, along with the Unix version of the Adobe Acrobat reader. In Acrobat, you can adjust the font size to something more readable. If you’re running a Linux system and acting as your own system administrator, Linux: Complete Command Reference is an indispensable reference.

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 Techniques The latest and greatest techniques;
- Applying Lighting renders
- Integrate Poser renders
- Professional retouching masterclass

Creative Tutorials
Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses including;
- Create a photomontage
- Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured:
- 2007 Graduate Showcase
- Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
- Win one of three work placements with McFaul

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These projects are fun to build and fun to use

Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or build your own metal detector

Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations — a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics.

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This is a practical guide to common problems in English grammar and usage. It is written for foreign students who would like to know more about English, and who want to avoid mistakes. It is written wspecially for intermediate students,  but more advanced learners may also find it useful. The explanations are made as simple as possible.

The book descibes standard modern British English, and gives realistic examples of spoken and written language (both formal and informal). There are some information about American usage, but the book is not a systematic guide to American English.

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This is a book which uses jokes to highlight grammatical patterns. Humorous learning materials have a number of advantages. Firstly, they increase motivation by being potentially amusing. Secondly, they are memorable and can help the learner to remember grammar. Lastly, they lead to spontaneous practice and consolidation of grammar through the learner's natural desire to share jokes with others.

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Whether you're designing houses, landscapes, or machines, there are AutoCAD tricks-of-the-trade that even seasoned users don't know—tips that can improve your skills, understanding, and productivity. This practical, in-depth book reveals those secrets. You'll find smart ideas on customization, applying graphics standards, managing symbol libraries, leveraging 3D, and more. It even includes an insider's look at features that are used in the field but often ignored in other books, such as DOS functions, scripts, and AutoLISP® programming. The final chapter, AutoCAD Puzzlers, challenges readers to solve real problems from real AutoCAD users.

• Explore real-world solutions and best practices. Is it faster to produce an accurate drawing or an inaccurate one? Find out why you should take technical graphics standards seriously and how to make AutoCAD apply them
• Harness information rarely found in other books, such as how to rapidly change thousands of drawings using scripts and batch files, how to use the Visual LISP® editor to produce and debug AutoLISP programs, and more
• Take full advantage of AutoCAD's interface to improve your productivity

• Enjoy bonus extras, including the AutoLISP programs, other code used in the book, and a review of key features by release 

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Create powerful presentations faster using ready-made templates and Smart Tags.

Organize information and add impact with clip art, SmartArt diagrams, tables, and charts.

Make your presentation come alive with custom animations

Add narration, animation, 3-D effects, and movie

Add comments and e-mail your presentation to othersfor review and collaboration

Deliver your presentation in a meeting room on multiple screens

Use Groove and SharePoint Team Services to collaborate and share documents and information

Prepare for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam

Practice your new skills with the useful workshops inside

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Everything you need to know about starting and growing your own business, from USAToday.com's small business columnist, Steven D. Strauss.

Entrepreneurship has many potential rewards, and also carries unique challenges. Learn what works and what doesn't, along with scores of tips and hints in an easy-to-read compendium from one of the nation's foremost authorities on small business.

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With more and more small-office and home computers being left connected to the Internet at all times, the owners of those machines are being faced with problems that used to confront only big operations. The authors of Firewalls for Dummies spread the message: everyone with a cable modem, data satellite dish, or DSL connection needs a firewall now. Thankfully, though, these guys go beyond merely showing how to set up turnkey personal firewall products–too many Dummies books explain the obvious and the generally intuitive–and reveal how to set up the sorts of firewalls that protect sizable networks. By understanding these techniques, small operators can plan for growth and improve their level of protection. What's more, this book provides a serious explanation of corporate firewall products and techniques that's appropriate for people who build and maintain big systems. The authors generally steer away from showing how to configure specific firewall products, though a few of the biggies–Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, BlackICE, ZoneAlarm, and Check Point FireWall-1–get comparative overview coverage. Mostly, they favor more general firewall configuration strategies and techniques. These they explain with a lot of prose, a fair number of conceptual diagrams, and tables that sum up permission rules. This is a worthwhile read

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A group of seven concept designers gathered together in Los Angeles to begin work on a new creative experience; to explore new ideas and images apart from their regular design jobs. CONCEPT DESIGN 1 is a result of these efforts. Featuring designers from: Minority Report, Spider-Man, X-Men United, The Cat in The Hat, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Armageddon, Batman & Robin, Men in Black, The Abyss, Total Recall, Contact, and Terminator 2.

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Ordinary reading skills won't do in today's world because there is too much informatio and too little time to assimilate it. If you read at the average speed of 250 words per minute, you're at a major disadvantage trying to take in the facts and concepts you need to perform well in school or on the job. For the metter, you're at a severe disadvantage even at speed of 400-600 words per minute, a rate that's in the top range for the most experienced students and adults.

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This is a textbook for intermediate students of English who need to study and practice using the grammar of the languate. It can be used as a classroom text of for self-study. It will be specially usefull in cases where, in the teacher's view, existing course material do not provide adequate coverage of grammar.

This book is intended mainly for intermediate students (that is, students who have already studied the basic structures of English). It concentrates on those structures which intermadiate students want to use but which often cause difficulty. The book will probably be most useful at middle and upper-intermediate levels (where all or nearly all of the material will be relevant), and can serve both as a basis for review and as a means of practicing new material. The book will also be useful for more advanced students who still make a log of grammatical mistakes and who need a book for reference and practice.

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This book has been written to help you learn new vocabulary. You already know hundreds of English words, but to speak and write English in normal situations you need at least 1-2,000 words. In this book, there are around 1,250 new words and phrases for you to learn. You will find them on the left-hand page of each unit. Every new word or phrase is used in a sentence or in a conversation, or has a picture with it, or has some explanation of what it means. On the right-hand page there are exercises and other activities to help you practice using the words and to help you to remember them.

The book has been written so that you can use it yourself, without teacher. You can do the units in any order you like, but we believe it is a good idea if you do Units 1 and 2 first, as they will help you to work the rest of the book in the best possible way.

You should also have a dictionary with you when you use the book. This is because sometimes you may want to check the meaning of something, or find a word in your own language to help you remember the English word. Sometimes, you will also need a dictionary for the exercises; we will tell you when this is so.

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The world's leading introduction to networking-fully updated for tomorrow's key technologies.

Computer Networks, Fourth Edition is the ideal introduction to today's networks-and tomorrow's. This classic best seller has been thoroughly updated to reflect the newest and most important networking technologies with a special emphasis on wireless networking, including 802.11, Bluetooth, broadband wireless, ad hoc networks, i-mode, and WAP. But fixed networks have not been ignored either with coverage of ADSL, gigabit Ethernet, peer-to-peer networks, NAT, and MPLS. And there is lots of new material on applications, including over 60 pages on the Web, plus Internet radio, voice over IP, and video on demand.Finally, the coverage of network security has been revised and expanded to fill an entire chapter.

Author, educator, and researcher Andrew S. Tanenbaum, winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, carefully explains how networks work on the inside, from underlying hardware at the physical layer up through the top-level application layer. Tanenbaum covers all this and more:

-Physical layer (e.g., copper, fiber, wireless, satellites, and Internet over cable)

-Data link layer (e.g., protocol principles, protocol verification, HDLC, and PPP)

-MAC Sublayer (e.g., gigabit Ethernet, 802.11, broadband wireless, and switching)

-Network layer (e.g., routing algorithms, congestion control, QoS, IPv4, and IPv6)

-Transport layer (e.g., socket programming, UDP, TCP, RTP, and network performance)

-Application layer (e.g., e-mail, the Web, PHP, wireless Web, MP3, and streaming audio)

-Network security (e.g., AES, RSA, quantum cryptography, IPsec, and Web security)

-The book gives detailed descriptions of the principles associated with each layer and presents many examples drawn from the Internet and wireless networks.

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Embedded software is in almost every electronic device designed today.There is software hidden away inside our watches, microwaves, VCRs, cellular telephones, and pagers; the military uses embedded software to guide smart missiles and detect enemy aircraft; communications satellites, space probes, and modern medicine would be nearly impossible without it. Of course, someone has to write all that software, and there are thousands of computer scientists, electrical engineers, and other professionals who actually do. Each embedded system is unique and highly customized to the application at hand. As a result, embedded systems programming is a widely varying field that can take years to master. However, if you have some programming experience and are familiar with C or C++, you’re ready to learn how to write embedded software. The hands-on, no-nonsense style of this book will help you get started by offering practical advice from someone who’s been in your shoes and wants to help you learn quickly. The techniques and code examples presented here are directly applicable to real-world embedded software projects of all sorts. Even if you’ve done some embedded programming before, you’ll still benefit from the topics in this book, which include:

Testing memory chips quickly and efficiently
Writing and erasing Flash memory
Verifying nonvolatile memory contents with CRCs
Interfacing to on-chip and external peripherals
Device driver design and implementation
Optimizing embedded software for size and speed

So whether you’re writing your first embedded program, designing the latest generation of hand-held whatchamacalits, or simply managing the people who do, this book is for you.

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Are you ready to jump into the world of game development? "Game Development with ActionScript" is the guide that can show you the way! You?ll cover the basics of programming with ActionScript and will explore the incredible development possibilities offered by Macromedia Flash MX 2004. You'll develop the animation techniques you need to keep players coming back for more. Transform your game as you learn how ActionScript can be used to create amazing sound effects that flow seamlessly into your game?s script. When you?re ready, move on to advanced math and components topics that can take your game to new levels of realism. By the time you're finished, you'll be able to put everything you've learned together and begin creating amazing, eye-popping games!

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This book is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace. Much of this book is dedicated to illustrating the use of the global information infrastructure by terrorists for the communication and coordination of distributed terrorist cells, the gathering of target intelligence, and the use of cyber criminal activities as a force multiplier for both physical attacks and infrastructure destabilization. This book identifies the underlying technologies of the global information infrastructure as a means for presenting how critical this emerging domain has become. It then discusses the current attack methods and lays out a series of scenarios for key industry sectors. Lastly, Cyber Terrorism: Political and Economic Implications puts forward prevention and response policies for reducing cyber terrorism activities in the context of traditional information security objectives.

People and systems are vulnerable to the methods and processes they employ to get things done. This is because they learn to trust their underlying successes and apply this trust to future applications of their approach. There is a clear link between the elimination of trust and the instillment of fear. It has been proposed that the attacks of September 11th in 2001 (i.e., when the World Trade Towers were destroyed, the Pentagon was damaged, the flight over Pennsylvania was downed, and thousands perished) occurred as a result of asymmetric thinking on the part of the terrorist group al Qaeda.

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Excel is the most sophisticated spreadsheet program available in the world of personal Ecomputing. As such, this program is much more than just an electronic version of an accountant’s familiar green sheet for crunching numbers. For millions of users the world over, Excel is also their number one forms designer, their interface to the corporate database, as well as their premier charting program.

Given Excel’s indisputable versatility, it should come as no surprise that mastering the basics of the program, not to mention its finer points, is no small undertaking. My experience, however, in teaching adults to use all manner of Excel’s capabilities has convinced me that this mastery is greatly accelerated with just a modicum of hands-on experience judiciously applied to rather simple butrealistic data-related problems.

As its name suggests, Excel Workbook For Dummiesis designed to give you the kind of hands-on experience with all the major aspects of the program you need to start using the program for business or home with a certain degree of confidence and efficiency. As you’d expect from this type of book, the workbook is primarily composed of questions and exercises that give you plenty of opportunities to experience the purpose and benefits of Excel’s many features.

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Once, in an evening class, one of my adult students said, ‘If there’s a right way to spell a word, I want to know it.’ On another occasion, at the end of a punctuation session on possessive apostrophes, a college student said rather angrily, ‘Why wasn’t I told this years ago?’

This book has been written to answer all the questions that my students over the years have needed to ask. I hope all who now use it will have their questions answered also and enjoy the confidence and the mastery that this will bring.

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301 Legal Forms Letters & Agreements is a best-selling 'document library' software product, packed with forms, letters and agreements for general business and domestic and family use. It provides 301 ready-drafted legal documents in Microsoft Word format, written and approved by solicitors, for business or personal use. Each document has annotated, fill-in fields that show clearly what to say and where.

'301 Legal Forms' will prove invaluable to any individual or business wanting to save legal fees, 'when you need it in writing'!

Approved by solicitors Jennifer Musgrave, Tessa Shepperson, Susan Singleton and Melanie Slocombe.

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ASP.NET is Microsoft's popular technology for creating dynamic web sites that pull unique information for each visitor rather than showing everyone the same static HTML pages. The introduction of the exciting 2.0 version allows for a far easier relationship between data and ASP.NET than ever before. In this book, bestselling author John Kauffman and Microsoft ASP.NET data insider Bradley Millington guide you through the most important uses of ASP.NET—working with databases in your ASP.NET web sites.

As you progress from simple to more complex topics, you'll be introduced to the many additional ASP.NET and data connectivity tools that Microsoft's Web Platform and Tools team has released. Kauffman and Millington take you beyond the basics to discuss the permutations, pitfalls, and best practices that occur in real business scenarios.

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Why do readers turn to the Adobe Acrobat Bible again and again? Because whether you're already experienced with Adobe Acrobat or you're learning to use this powerful tool for the first time, you'll find exactly what you need to know in these well-organized pages. Packed with helpful tips and step-by-step instructions, this latest edition will guide you through both basic and advanced features, enabling you to take full advantage of everything Acrobat 8 has to offer.

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