Posted: April 1st, 2008, 8:57pm CEST by ClareGo
InnerWorkings .NET Training provides practical, self-paced training for .NET developers. Using hands-on coding challenges, you learn about key .NET techniques in a realistic learning environment.
With this sample, you get one hour of FREE hands-on learning material on the LINQ to SQL functionality available in .NET Framework 3.5. You will learn to generate strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and entity classes using the ORM designer, and use them to retrieve data from a database. You’ll also learn to create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) database data through a strongly typed LINQ to SQL data context and its associated entity classes.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:09pm CEST by ganelon
Shooting great photos is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints—in full color, of course!
You rarely find a photo you can take with a digital camera or scan on a desktop scanner that doesn’t need some kind of brightness, contrast, or color correction. Taking pictures with your camera is only half of your job when you want to print pictures or host them on the Web. The other half of your job is editing in your digital darkroom.
In this book, you can find out how to get color just right by setting up a digital darkroom in your home (or wherever you work on your digital photos) and using the plentiful and robust tools in Photoshop Elements to correct tone and color.
In this book, we try to provide a comprehensive view of tone and color correction, using the tools available in Photoshop Elements versions 4 and 5. We stick to what Elements provides you in the application without using third-party products designed to overcome limitations in the program. What Elements offers off-the-shelf is all you need to create the pictures you want with proper brightness, contrast, and color.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Understanding Color
Chapter 02 - Controlling Lighting
Chapter 03 - Calibrating Your Monitor
Chapter 04 - Color Profiles and File Formats
Chapter 05 - Making Tonal and Brightness Corrections
Chapter 06 - Correcting Contrast
Chapter 07 - Using Adjustment Layers
Chapter 08 - Identifying Color Problems
Chapter 09 - Color Correcting Skin Tones
Chapter 10 - Using Levels and Color Variations to Make Color Corrections
Chapter 11 - Advanced Color-Correction Methods
Chapter 12 - Camera Raw Color Correction
Chapter 13 - Printing
Chapter 14 - Soft Proofing Color
Chapter 15 - Ten Tips for Better Tone and Color
Chapter 16 - Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Photoshop
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:07pm CEST by -cosmos-
You're a beginner who wants to design a state-of-the-art family web site. You've just started a new job, and you need to learn Dreamweaver fast. Or maybe you're a professional who's been using another program but is now switching to Macromedia's leading web design tool. Learning Dreamweaver 8 gets you up to speed, quickly and efficiently.
Straightforwardly practical, with speed as the by-word, this hands-on guide focuses on the best practices for constructing both interactive and static web sites. While explaining core concepts clearly and thoroughly, so that beginners have a solid conceptural and technical foundation, it cuts through the clutter that might slow down a beginner tackling a subject as vast as web design and a tool as robust as Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction emphasizes learning by doing, with short, task-oriented chapters that demonstrate theory by presenting design solutions and explaining the principles that make them work. Plenty of screen shots, illustrations, and sample layouts accompany rapid prototyping techniques for site production.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:05pm CEST by -cosmos-
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by witforce
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks–and the need to protect both business and personal data–have never been greater. We've updated "Building Internet Firewalls" to address these newer risks.
What kinds of security threats does the Internet pose? Some, like password attacks and the exploiting of known security holes, have been around since the early days of networking. And others, like the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled Yahoo, E-Bay, and other major e-commerce sites in early 2000, are in current headlines.
Firewalls, critical components of today's computer networks, effectively protect a system from most Internet security threats. They keep damage on one part of the network–such as eavesdropping, a worm program, or file damage–from spreading to the rest of the network. Without firewalls, network security problems can rage out of control, dragging more and more systems down.
Like the bestselling and highly respected first edition, "Building Internet Firewalls," 2nd Edition, is a practical and detailed step-by-step guide to designing and installing firewalls and configuring Internet services to work with a firewall. Much expanded to include Linux and Windows coverage, the second edition describes:
Firewall technologies: packet filtering, proxying, network address translation, virtual private networks
Architectures such as screening routers, dual-homed hosts, screened hosts, screenedsubnets, perimeter networks, internal firewalls
Issues involved in a variety of new Internet services and protocols through a firewall
Email and News
Web services and scripting languages (e.g., HTTP, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, RealAudio, RealVideo)
File transfer and sharing services such as NFS, Samba
Remote access services such as Telnet, the BSD "r" commands, SSH, BackOrifice 2000
Real-time conferencing services such as ICQ and talk
Naming and directory services (e.g., DNS, NetBT, the Windows Browser)
Authentication and auditing services (e.g., PAM, Kerberos, RADIUS);
Administrative services (e.g., syslog, SNMP, SMS, RIP and other routing protocols, and ping and other network diagnostics)
Intermediary protocols (e.g., RPC, SMB, CORBA, IIOP)
Database protocols (e.g., ODBC, JDBC, and protocols for Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server)
The book's complete list of resources includes the location of many publicly available firewall construction tools.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:59pm CEST by -cosmos-
In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a collection of sample scripts. Written for those of you new to ActionScript 3.0, the book describes how ActionScript and Flash work, giving you a clear look into essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, migrating legacy projects to ActionScript 3.0, classes, and much more. You will learn important techniques through hands-on exercises, and then build on those skills as chapters progress. ActionScript 3.0 represents a significant change for many Flash users, and a steeper learning curve for the uninitiated. This book will help guide you through a variety of scripting scenarios. Rather than relying heavily on prior knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP), topics are explained in focused examples that originate in the timeline, with optional companion classes for those already comfortable with their use.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:56pm CEST by tech-geek
BIRT, which stands for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, is an Eclipse-based open-source reporting system for Java and J2EE based web applications. Including the word "Tools" in the acronym is appropriate, since BIRT is in fact a collection of development tools and technologies used for developing reports utilizing the BIRT runtime framework component on your application server. BIRT isn't essentially a product, but a series of core technologies on top of which products and solutions are built, similar in fashion to the Eclipse framework. This book has a fast-paced, task-driven, tutorial style, which provides understanding and structure, not just lists of steps to follow. The focus is on the most visible and familiar product built with the BIRT framework, which is the BIRT Report Designer. The BIRT Report Designer is an Eclipse plug-in that utilizes BIRT technologies to allow users to design reports in the BIRT document format. Also covered is the BIRT charting engine, which lets you add charts to your application.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:22am CEST by ganelon
Learn to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites using the exciting enhancements in the Dreamweaver CS3 version. You get a thorough understanding of the basics and then progress to learning how to produce pages with pizzazz, connect to live databases, integrate with Flash and Photoshop, use advanced technologies like Spry and Ajax, incorporate Flash, Shockwave, QuickTime, and WAV files, import Photoshop files directly into Dreamweaver, and enjoy Web success.
To use this book, you need only two items: the Dreamweaver software and a desire to make cutting-edge Web pages. (If you don’t have Dreamweaver, you can download a trial copy from www.adobe.com.) From quick design prototyping to ongoing Web site management, Dreamweaver automates and simplifies much of a Webmaster’s workload. Dreamweaver is not only the first Web authoring tool to bring the ease of visual editing to an HTML-code–oriented world, it also brings a point-and-click interface to complex coding whether server-side or client-side. The Dreamweaver CS3 Bible is designed to help you master every nuance of the program.
Are you styling your pages and creating your layouts with CSS? Are you building multipage Web applications? Are you creating a straightforward layout with the visual editor? Do you need to extend Dreamweaver’s capabilities by building your own custom objects? With Dreamweaver and this book, you can weave your dreams into reality for the entire world to experience.
Dreamweaver CS3 Bible can take you from raw beginner to full-fledged professional if read cover to cover. However, you’re more likely to read each section as needed, taking the necessary information and coming back later. To facilitate this approach, Dreamweaver CS3 Bible is divided into seven major task-oriented parts. After you’re familiar with Dreamweaver, feel free to skip around the book, using it as a reference guide as you increase your own knowledge base.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Part 1 - Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS3
Part 2 - Designing and Crafting Core Pages
Part 3 - Adding Advanced Design Features
Part 4 - Incorporating Dynamic Data
Part 5 - Including Multimedia Elements
Part 6 - Enhancing Productivity and Web Site Management
Part 7 - Extending Dreamweaver
Part 8 - Appendix
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:22am CEST by Crimson
Mike Meyers, the leading authority on CompTIA A+ training and certification, has helped hundreds of thousands of people master the skills covered on the CompTIA A+ exams–and now he can help you, too. Completely updated for the new CompTIA A+ standards, Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+® Guide: PC Technician will help you pass CompTIA A+ exams 220-602, 220-603, and 220-604 and become an expert computer technician. Inside, you'll find helpful on-the-job tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations.
Learn how to:
- Work with CPUs, RAM, and motherboards
- Configure CMOS and BIOS settings
- Install internal devices and removable-media drives
- Provide proper power and cooling
- Install and configure hard drives
- Work with the command-line interface
- Troubleshoot Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
- Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies
- Install sound and video cards
- Install and troubleshoot printers
- Connect to networks and manage Internet connections
- Implement security measures
- Establish good communication skills
The CD-ROM features:
- Two full practice exams for each CompTIA A+ exam: 220-602, 220-603, and 220-604
- One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Mike Meyers teaching key CompTIA A+ topics
- Electronic copy of the book
- Complete exam objective map
- List of official CompTIA A+ acronyms
- Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians
Each chapter includes:
- Learning objectives
- Photographs and illustrations
- Real-world examples
- Try This! and Cross Check exercises
- Tech tips, notes, and warnings
- End-of-chapter quizzes and lab projects
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:20am CEST by mrblue
Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well as on the web. These developments mean that tagging has broad implications for information management, information architecture and interface design. And its reach extends beyond these technical domains to our culture at large. We can imagine, for example, the scrapbookers of the future curating their digital photos, emails, ticket stubs and other mementos with tags. This book explains the value of tagging, explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to improve the user experience. It exposes tagging's superficial simplicity to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information architecture, online community and collective intelligence.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:18am CEST by nostriker
The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way. Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:17am CEST by Crimson
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML, and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses. This book covers all released components whether utility, control, core file, or CSS tool. Methods of the YAHOO Global Object are used and discussed throughout the book. The basics of each control will be presented, along with a detailed example showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. Besides giving you a deep understand of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS. You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straight away in your own applications.
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Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:16am CEST by -cosmos-
The bestselling series Japanese for Busy People has guided hundreds of thousands of students to a fluent, natural, and precise use of the Japanese language. Volume I teaches the absolute minimum amount of Japanese to live in Japan and handle everyday situations.
In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course.
In Book I, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced.
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