Everything you need to build a great Web site …

Whether you want to start an online store, establish a Web presence for a brick-and-mortar business, or just

show off your family album, this book shows you how. Even if you’re fairly new to the Web world, you’ll soon learn both the aesthetic and technical aspects of Web design. From basic HTML to the secrets of JavaScript programmers and Flash wizards, this comprehensive, updated guidebook helps you use the latest tools, techniques, and standards to build great sites that get noticed.

Inside, you’ll find everything you need to know to create a Web site

Author: Eugene Ciurana
Publisher: Apress
Date: 2009-02-02
ISBN: 1430218312
164 pages | PDF

Developing with Google App Engine introduces development with Google App Engine, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure Google itself uses to develop and deploy massively scalable applications.

Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Google’s new Chrome browser? Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies has what you want to know!

Today, Google is so much more than another word for “search.” Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. You’ll learn to:

As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable
Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages.
Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and
designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high-profile, real-
world Web sites created by world-famous designers using CSS.

Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer’s process from start to
finish and how he overcame each site’s unique set of challenges. You’ll learn
what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and
techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can
turn regularly for more know-how and insights into designing large-scale,
professional-level Web sites with CSS.

What you will learn from this book

Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29063-7

Stop guessing, start testing, and enjoy greater success with your website.
If you’re looking for more leads, sales, and profit from your website, then look no further than this expert guide to Google’s free A/B and multivariate website testing tool, Google Website Optimizer. Recognized online marketing guru and New York Times bestselling author, Bryan Eisenberg, and his chief scientist, John Quarto-vonTivadar, show you how to test and tune your site to get more visitors to contact you, buy from you, subscribe to your services, or take profitable actions on your site. This practical and easy-to-follow reference will help you:

Get ready to make the most of Sony’s awesome entertainment device, and hacker’s dream - the PSP. Hacking the PSP covers everything you need to know to:

Transfer video and DVDs to your PSP
Transfer audio books and text
Hack the games you play every day (including using the PSP as an XBox game save device)
Move your TiVo and Replay TV shows to your PSP
Convert your DVDs to run on your PSP
Create your own quick-charge battery packs
Learn how to program the PSP
Repair your PSP
Create your own hacks and run homebrew software
Find all the online and offline resources you need

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Authors: Rachel Andrew, Kevin Yank
Format: PDF
Size: 17 mb
Year: 2008

Get ready to experience an eye-opening expos on CSS as you know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets, making old hacks and workarounds a distant memory.In this book, you’ll learn how to start taking full advantage of Internet Explorer 8 using the very latest CSS techniques — whilst still catering for those nasty old browsers. You’ll unearth what’s put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin, and gain an understanding from two experts why CSS has a very bright future.

CSS was conceived in an age when web site design was simple; its creators never anticipated the level of intricacy required in the designs that it would be asked to deliver today. Clever designers figured out ways to make CSS do what they needed, but using techniques so convoluted that it became unpredictable and difficult to master. CSS just became too hard …

The good news is, that’s all about to change, and this book will show you how!

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A mentalist’s toolkit of psychological quirks and techniques that anyone can use to enhance their performance and create stunning, original effects. No props and no stooges are required. Just observation and the application of simple methods that will change the way you interact with others - on and off stage - forever.
With respective backgrounds in Hypnosis and NLP, authors Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup have created an indispensable guide to powerful mental trickery. But this is no dry reference manual; instead you’ll find this an entertaining and above all, truthful, explanation of a range of techniques - many of which have remained hidden for years. Covering the use of suggestion, waking hypnosis and NLP methods of creating rapport, reading your subjects thoughts, etc, Sleight of Mind is the book for mentalists and magicians at any level

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Many Flex books cover the basics—this book does something different, and goes far further. The authors, leading Flash platform developers at Almer/Blank, working with Adobe User Group communities, are the creators of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX), a social media network for Adobe developers. In covering just how the RMX was built, this book contains all the knowledge you need to build similar large-scale Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex. From the inception of the idea through to deployment, the authors show the techniques needed to plan and build advanced applications. You’ll learn how to use forms, styles, validators, video, sound analysis, and framework caching, ensuring you make the most of the new features introduced in Flex 3. Powerful applications require solid back ends. This book shows how to hook up a Flex application to PHP back-end systems such as Drupal and OpenAds. You’ll learn how various parts of the RMX were built, including the blogs, event calendar, jobs board, and advertising system—elements that come together to really showcase the power of Flex. The RMX is built by Adobe Developers for Adobe Developers—a rewarding community relationship that guarantees results. The same spirit is carried into this book, with the authors wanting and helping to take you to the next level of Flash Platform application development.
In this book you’ll learn how to

* Effectively plan, wireframe, specify, develop, and release large-scale Flex applications, and discover what other development tools you’ll want to start using immediately
* Make your Flex applications look less like Flex with advanced styling and skinning techniques
* Harness advanced Flex form features, including coding validators and building your custom form components
* Implement a robust advertising system for a Flex application using OpenAds
* Build powerful, custom multimedia players in Flex, including video players with the native VideoDisplay class and from scratch, and music players with advanced sound visualization

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You’re on the go all the time — maybe for business, maybe because it’s a byproduct of your busy lifestyle. But either way, your life would be easier if you had Internet access wherever you are.

Well, when it comes to the Internet, you CAN take it with you! You just need the right stuff, and Mobile Internet For Dummies tells you what that is, how to find it, and how to use it. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips on choosing the best mobile device, software, and service provider for your needs, but that’s not all. You’ll see how to use your mobile Web browser, find made-for-mobile content (and create your own) and much more.

Mobile Internet For Dummies explains how the Mobile Internet differs from the garden-variety Internet, and shows you how to:

* Find your mobile phone browser
* Use the Mobile Internet to surf, shop, blog, watch movies, and more — on the go
* Send and receive e-mail from your mobile device
* Locate other mobile applications
* Watch TV on your mobile phone
* Manage your kids’ access to the Mobile Internet
* Secure and name a mobile Internet site and acquire mobile Web development tools
* Build your own made-for-mobile Web site
* Use your Mobile Internet site to promote your business and generate revenue

With the help of Mobile Internet For Dummies, you’ll be able to stay connected wherever you happen to be, and maybe even make it pay off with a bit of income.

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* Targeting the snags, glitches, and predicaments cited most frequently by readers, bestselling author Dan Gookin clearly explains how to diagnose and cure common PC problems, whether they originate with software, the operating system, or hardware
* This updated edition features new, expanded coverage of laptop woes as well as Internet and e-mail issues, broadband connections, spam blocking, and security concerns
* Provides advice on how to prevent PC problems in the first place and create a safe and secure PC environment
* Dan Gookin is known for his ability to explain technology in an easy-to-understand and enjoyable fashion; his writing style, name, and reputation are unparalleled in the industry

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A fully updated eBay business primer from Marsha Collier, renowned eBay business expert!

Whether you’re thinking about starting an eBay business or are already up and running, this step-by-step guide will lead you down the smart path to making a regular income on eBay. With solid tips from the bestselling eBay expert, this reference helps you get your eBay business off the ground and manage the basics of listing items, completing transactions, and keeping your buyers happy.

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Paul McFedries, an Office “insider,” that will help you learn the Office applications inside and out. Designed to bridge the gap between your expectation and reality, you will go beyond the basics and learn newly discovered techniques, shortcuts, and best practices. Through real-world examples that showcase how the tips and tricks can be used in everyday business tasks, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus will help you get the most out of Office 2007.

Part I MICROSOFT WORD TRICKS

Chapter 1 Text Tricks
Chapter 2 Formatting Tricks
Chapter 3 Document Tricks
Chapter 4 Page Layout Tricks

Part II MICROSOFT EXCEL TRICKS

Chapter 5 Formula and Function Tricks
Chapter 6 Workbook and Worksheet Tricks
Chapter 7 Data Analysis Tricks
Chapter 8 Chart Tricks

III MICROSOFT POWERPOINT TRICKS

Chapter 9 Slide and Presentation Tricks
Chapter 10 Animation Tricks
Chapter 11 Slide Show Tricks

IV MICROSOFT OUTLOOK TRICKS

Chapter 12 Email Tricks
Chapter 13 Calendar and Contacts Tricks

V MICROSOFT ACCESS TRICKS

14 Table and Query Tricks
Chapter 15 Form and Report Tricks

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The unexpected pleasure of reading books about databases is that they are often written by authors with highly organized minds. Paul DuBois and his editors at New Riders have assembled MySQL with a clarity and lucidity that inspires confidence in the subject matter: a (nearly) freely redistributable SQL-interpreting database client/server primarily geared for Unix systems but maintained for Windows platforms as well. What isn’t “free” about MySQL (the application) is its server’s commercial use; all clients and noncommercial server use are free. DuBois’s tome isn’t free either, but its list price is modest in light of its value and the value of its namesake.

The volume is superbly organized into 12 chapters and 10 appendices and contains a concise table of contents and a comprehensive 50-page index. It is peppered with references to the online HTML documentation that comes with the source and binary distributions (which are available and easy to install in stable rpm and tar releases.)

The first third of MySQL is an excellent instruction tool for database newbies; the second third is a detailed reference for MySQL developers; and the last third consists of clearly annotated appendices, including C, Perl (but not Python), and PHP interfaces.

Perhaps as an indication of the collective will of the developers of MySQL, DuBois does not separate Windows 95/98/NT design or development specifics from its main discussions. Platform-independent design is a goal, not a reality, and users will have to rely on newsgroups and mailing lists for details. Moreover, security issues are addressed in a mere 18 pages, a large part of which is devoted to standard Unix file and network-access permissions. Next to nothing is mentioned about defense against common hacking strategies, the use of secure shell interfaces, or access encryption.

Although it is nearly 800 pages in length, DuBois’s book is thankfully not encyclopedic. It is a valuable précis of the MySQL database, and its easy-to-skim look and feel will make it an excellent browse for database experts who want to know what is and is not possible within MySQL, the application. –Peter Leopold –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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MySql is a very popular relational database for a number of reasons: it is free for most applications; while not open source it is heavily used by the open source community; and it runs easily on Windows and UNIX. The author’s approach is to use two sample databases to explain SQL (structured query) databases with Perl, PHP, and C; administering MySql; and security. This book will be very popular with users who already understand relational databases and are trying to move from Microsoft or Oracle to MySql.

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This fully updated and revised edition of the bestselling Complete Wireless Design takes a uniquely practical approach to designing complex receivers and transmitters found in advanced analog and digital wireless communication systems, right down to the circuit level.

This authoritative book uses real-life examples to provide a solid foundation in the subject, and simple algebra to guide you through specific analysis and design processes. In addition, you’ll find all the information you’ll need for performing full circuit and electromagnetic software simulations to ensure the optimum performance of all completed projects. Plus, this in-depth step-by-step guide comes with a CD-ROM containing new simulation and design software. Engineers and technicians will not find a more thorough, practical book than Complete Wireless Design.

Updates include:

* Fully worked out design samples, complete with RF simulation results
* Special sections on power amplifier design and printed circuit board layout
* Brand-new chapters covering antenna design and RF test and measurement
* Tips and techniques on performing accurate RF circuit simulations
* How to design for EMI control to pass FCC product testing
* The latest software for use in wireless design

This COMPLETELY updated edition teaches you how to design:

* Amplifiers
* Oscillators
* Frequency synthesizers
* Filters
* Mixers
* Antennas
* Support circuits
* Communication systems

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There’s a great deal of excitement surrounding the use of Linux in embedded systems — for everything from cell phones to car ABS systems and water-filtration plants — but not a lot of practical information. Building Embedded Linux Systems offers an in-depth, hard-core guide to putting together embedded systems based on Linux.

Updated for the latest version of the Linux kernel, this new edition gives you the basics of building embedded Linux systems, along with the configuration, setup, and use of more than 40 different open source and free software packages in common use. The book also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of using Linux in an embedded system, plus a discussion of licensing issues, and an introduction to real-time, with a discussion of real-time options for Linux.

This indispensable book features arcane and previously undocumented procedures for:

* Building your own GNU development toolchain
* Using an efficient embedded development framework
* Selecting, configuring, building, and installing a target-specific kernel
* Creating a complete target root filesystem
* Setting up, manipulating, and using solid-state storage devices
* Installing and configuring a bootloader for the target
* Cross-compiling a slew of utilities and packages
* Debugging your embedded system using a plethora of tools and techniques
* Using the uClibc, BusyBox, U-Boot, OpenSSH, thttpd, tftp, strace, and gdb packages

By presenting how to build the operating system components from pristine sources and how to find more documentation or help, Building Embedded Linux Systems greatly simplifies the task of keeping complete control over your embedded operating system.

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This is the perfect guide if VoIP engineering is not your specialty. It is the perfect introduction to VoIP security, covering exploit tools and how they can be used against VoIP (Voice over IP) systems. It gives the basics of attack methodologies used against the SIP and H.323 protocols as well as VoIP network infrastructure.
* VoIP Isn’t Just Another Data Protocol
IP telephony uses the Internet architecture, similar to any other data application. However, from a security administrator’s point of view, VoIP is different. Understand why.
* What Functionality Is Gained, Degraded, or Enhanced on a VoIP Network?
Find out the issues associated with quality of service, emergency 911 service, and the major benefits of VoIP.
* The Security Considerations of Voice Messaging
Learn about the types of security attacks you need to protect against within your voice messaging system.
* Understand the VoIP Communication Architectures
Understand what PSTN is and what it does as well as the H.323 protocol specification, and SIP Functions and features.
* The Support Protocols of VoIP Environments
Learn the services, features, and security implications of DNS, TFTP, HTTP, SNMP, DHCP, RSVP, SDP, and SKINNY.
* Securing the Whole VoIP Infrastructure
Learn about Denial-of-Service attacks, VoIP service disruption, call hijacking and interception, H.323-specific attacks, and SIP-specific attacks.
* Authorized Access Begins with Authentication
Learn the methods of verifying both the user identity and the device identity in order to secure a VoIP network.
* Understand Skype Security
Skype does not log a history like other VoIP solutions; understand the implications of conducting business over a Skype connection.
* Get the Basics of a VoIP Security Policy
Use a sample VoIP Security Policy to understand the components of a complete policy.

*Provides system administrators with hundreds of tips, tricks, and scripts to complete administration tasks more quickly and efficiently
*Short on theory, history, and technical data that ultimately is not helpful in performing their jobs
*Avoid the time drains associated with securing VoIP

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Author: Joseph Lowery / Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0764579851 / PDF / 289 pages / English / size: 7 MB

CSS Hacks and Filters follows, roughly, an old-to-new, simple-to-complex structure. The oldest browsers CSS designers are still struggling with are covered first, followed by more up-to-date, standards-based browsers.

Internet Explorer’s proprietary conditional comment technology is important enough (given Internet Explorer’s continued prevalence and CSS bugs) to deserve a chapter by itself. In all these early chapters, I tackled real-world CSS problems and explained how the hacks covered can solve them. Later chapters explore the intersection of CSS with other Web technologies such as JavaScript, the Document Object Model (DOM), and application servers. Graphics and other visual media weigh heavily in the modern Web, and manipulating them properly with CSS is the subject of Chapter 7. Accessibility is a well-deserved hot button and techniques for applying CSS in a responsible fashion are explored in Chapter 8.
The latter portion of the undefined is intended to offer practical examples for designers trying to put it all together—and keep it there. You’ll find separate chapters on CSS layouts, navigations systems, and debugging. My ongoing work with Dreamweaver persuaded me to present a couple of additional real-world chapters to address the use of CSS in Macromedia’s world-class and widely used authoring tool: one chapter is on core CSS use in Dreamweaver and the other concerns Dreamweaver templates and CSS. This “getting-it-done” attitude is carried over into the two appendixes. The resources listed in Appendix A should give you a full spectrum of jumpingoff places, and the tables in Appendix B are intended to help you find a safe place to land.

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The Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese. The book is divided into two sections:

· Section 1 provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures

· Section 2 practises everyday functions such as making introductions, apologizing, expressing needs
A comprehensive answer key at the back of the book enables students to check on their progress.

Main features include:

· exercises graded according to level of difficulty

· cross referencing to the related Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
· topical exercises which develop students’ vocabulary base

The Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is ideal for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, from beginner to intermediate and advanced students. It can be used both independently and alongside the Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar.

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Increasing reliance on the Internet in both work and home environments has radically increased the vulnerability of computing systems to attack from a wide variety of threats. Firewall technology continues to be the most prevalent form of protection against existing and new threats to computers and networks. A full understanding of what firewalls can do, how they can be deployed to maximum effect, and the differences among firewall types can make the difference between continued network integrity and complete network or computer failure. Firewall Fundamentals introduces readers to firewall concepts and explores various commercial and open source firewall implementations–including Cisco, Linksys, and Linux–allowing network administrators and small office/home office computer users to effectively choose and configure their devices. Firewall Fundamentals is written in clear and easy-to-understand language and helps novice users understand what firewalls are and how and where they are used. It introduces various types of firewalls, first conceptually and then by explaining how different firewall implementations actually work. It also provides numerous implementation examples, demonstrating the use of firewalls in both personal and business-related scenarios, and explains how a firewall should be installed and configured. Additionally, generic firewall troubleshooting methodologies and common management tasks are clearly defined and explained.

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Without strategy, a chess game is just a series of tactical tricks. A good strategy binds together the tactics, and enables a player to make methodical progress towards victory. This book makes sure the reader will never be short of winning strategies. Angus Dunnington utilizes his many years of chess playing and training to provide an arsenal of ideas that can be employed in many types of positions. These plans have been proven in many grandmaster games, so readers can be sure that by using them their game will be soundly based. “101 Winning Chess Strategies” offers attacking and defensive strategies, guidance on when to adopt particular plans, lessons from grandmaster games distilled into a user-friendly form, and tips from an Olympiad trainer.

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According to an Indian saying, the game of chess is a sea in which a mosquito can drink and an elephant can bathe. To which many chess players would surely like to add: ‘And in which it’s very easy to drown in the middle game!’ In contrast to the opening or the endgame, the middle game seems to offer little in the way of concrete starting-points for methodical study. In Power Chess with Pieces former world championship candidate Jan Timman shows the way through the fascinating maze of the middle game. What, after all, is the point of getting an advantage in the opening if you don’t know how to exploit this advantage? On the basis of countless examples encountered in his rich chess career, Jan Timman deals with themes like ‘strong knight against bishop’ and the ‘dominant bishop pair’. How is one to proceed when one emerges from the opening with a strong knight and one’s opponent is stuck with a bad bishop? And is the bishop pair really as strong as they say? And how can one put this asset to maximum use? Or, conversely, how can one contain the damage if the roles are reversed? With his lucid style and practical approach, Timman follows in the footsteps of his teachers Max Euwe and Mikhail Botvinnik. Power Chess with Pieces is a book that will delight and instruct enthusiastic beginner and seasoned club player alike.

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The only resource with specific,hands-on guidance for greening your business Want to take advantage of profit-enhancing opportunities while minimizing negative environmental and social impact? This practical guide shows you how to implement green business practices and gain competitive advantage through reduced costs, product and process innovation, increased productivity, and more. You’ll cultivate an eco-minded workforce and manage environmental opportunities and threats at every level of your organization. DOWNLOAD HERE

Attract new customers and boost your sales with a surefire marketing plan

Want to launch a powerhouse marketing campaign? This resource-packed tool kit shows you step by step how to implement and execute effective marketing strategies in today’s viral world. You’ll improve customer communications, create buzz with publicity, set up winning sales promotions, launch successful Web campaigns, generate sales with action ads, and much more.

Create a breakthrough marketing plan — set your objectives, adjust for the economic cycle, plan your marketing communications, and cut costs while maximizing impact

Design hard-hitting ads for your campaign — get insights and how-to tips for creating winning ads that produce leads and sales

Increase your brand identity — from business cards to brochures, catalogs to coupons, newsletters to blogs, get your message across

Hone your marketing skills — improve your customer service, market research, creativity, and writing for marketing, sales, and the Web

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FEELING GOOD FEELS WONDERFUL
The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be cured without drugs.In FEELING GOOD, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns adds an ALL-NEW CONSUMER’S GUIDE TO ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.

- Recognize what causes your mood swings
- Nip negative feelings in the bud
- Deal with guilt
- Handle hostility and criticism
- Overcome addiction to love and approval
- Build self-esteem
- Feel good everyday

BEGIN NOW, TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF FEELING GOOD

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An all-new guide that unlocks the secrets of greater Office 2007 productivity-a must-have for power users and everyone who would like to work more efficiently

Offers scores of tips, tricks, and techniques to boost productivity with the programs people use every day-Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

Topics covered include dealing effectively with e-mail, effectively managing files, using and creating templates, reusing and remixing content, sharing and reviewing content, and efficiently managing time and scheduling

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The long-awaited BlackBerry Storm is here! Take advantage of all the cool things your new touch-screen BlackBerry can do with BlackBerry Storm For Dummies.

Your BlackBerry Storm can help you organize your calendar, surf the Internet, and stay in constant contact. it even works like a modem for your laptop. BlackBerry Storm For Dummies shows you how to unlock all of the exciting capabilities of your BlackBerry Storm. You’ll discover how to:

Customize your BlackBerry Storm, learn to navigate the touch screen, manage power consumption, and protect your device

Set up your contacts, keep notes, synchronize lists with your desktop, and manage your calendar

Keep in touch with e-mail, PIN-to-PIN and instant messaging, and phone calls

Browse the Internet and keep track of key sites

Play music and videos, take pictures or mini-movies, and tune in the news

Activate Storm’s built-in GPS and use Google Maps or BlackBerry Map

Synchronize your BlackBerry with your desktop so your data is consistent wherever you go

Prepare your laptop to use your BlackBerry Storm as a modem

Install and manage third-party applications

Keep your personal information safe

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Make your own repairs and maintain your bike like a pro

Want to be your own grease monkey? This plain-English guide gives you expert tips for keeping your bicycle in great condition and handling most repairs by yourself. You’ll also see how to extend the life of your bike, increase your riding comfort, and improve safety through routine maintenance. No matter the make or size of bicycle, this hands-on resource has all the tips you need!

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Bloggers love WordPress! If you’re ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash.

Professional blog designer Lisa Sabin-Wilson shows you how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the Wordpress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you’re just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help.

Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it’s easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.

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Are you bemused by blogs? Eager to become a blogger? Google Blogger For Dummies can help you start blogging sooner than you think.

More than 14 million people are promoting a business, connecting with family and friends, and sharing opinions with Google Blogger. This book helps you start a Blogger account, create content, build an audience, make money from your blog, and more, all without learning to program. You’ll be able to:

Learn the parts of a blog, what Blogger does, and how to choose goals and blog topics.

Choose a domain name, learn to use the dashboard, pick a template, and configure settings.

Dress up your blog with themes and find out where to get plenty of free ones
Learn blogging etiquette and some secrets for long-term success.

Make money from your blog with Google Adsense, contextual and text link ads, and merchandising with CafePress
Set up multi-user blogs or branch into mobile blogging, podcasting, or video blogging.

Take advantage of social networking sites and learn simple search engine optimization techniques
Maintain your blog with tools like Blog This! and Quick Edit.

Moderate comments effectively, track your stats, and more.

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ilverlight is Microsoft’s new web-based User Interface (UI) technology, based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is introducing many revolutionary concepts in the world of UI development. Silverlight uses XAML, with tools like Expression Design and Expression Blend, to create astonishing UI effects (such as gradients, compositions, and animations.) In addition to the richness of the UI elements, Silverlight 2 allows the use of C# or VB in addition to JavaScript to automate web pages. With Silverlight, you have the power of .NET on multiple platforms (IE and Firefox on Windows, Firefox and Safari on Macintosh, and Firefox on Linux). The author brings you up to speed very quickly with numerous hands-on examples.

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Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time. The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach have been carefully selected and tested with the professional developer in mind. You’ll find clearly and succinctly stated problems, well–architected solutions, and ample discussion of the code and context so you can see immediately how the solution will support your project. Enjoy practical coverage of Silverlight development in many projects and contexts, including * Designing complete, rich, interactive user experiences * Manipulating content and the runtime environment through the Silverlight Plugin Runtime API * Consuming, transforming, and displaying content in your Silverlight web application through XML, LINQ–based data access, and isolated storage * Building custom controls for your Silverlight project * Integrating rich media, including audio and video, to create a very dynamic user interface and experience * Using new Silverlight 2 features, including .NET Framework integration, the use of dynamic languages like Python and Ruby in Silverlight development, and digital rights management support Find instant solutions, comprehensive Silverlight 2 coverage, and time–saving expert advice, all in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach.

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Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. With four–color graphics and screenshots throughout, Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial written from professional developer to professional developer. You’ll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you’re most productive in–no matter what the target platform.

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By implementing effective Web marketing strategies, you can quickly build a successful Web site and business. But how do you take on search engine optimization and search engine marketing to achieve the results you want? Web Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how! This guide helps you apply your marketing knowledge to the Web world, taking you on the path to online marketing success.

In this book you’ll find out how to use online tools to spread your marketing message; establish a strong Web presence; promote your site with e–mail marketing, search engine optimization, pay–per–click, and social networking tools; and measure your marketing success. You’ll also discover how to:

* Craft an online marketing plan, set site goals, and define your market
* Uncover what makes an effective online storefront and what your site must offer to encourage shoppers
* Use e–mail marketing effectively and spread the word via e–newsletters
* Safeguard copyrights, link legally, and use disclaimers, terms of use, and privacy policies
* Entice customers with video blogs, Webcasts and podcasts, or widgets and gadgets on your site
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Managing your life takes more than meditation — it takes a better Outlook!

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The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive reference on DSC for systems designers and implementers, researchers, and graduate students.

This book gives a clear understanding of the performance limits of distributed source coders for specific classes of sources and presents the design and application of practical algorithms for realistic scenarios. Material covered includes the use of standard channel codes, such as LDPC and Turbo codes, to DSC, and discussion of the suitability of compressed sensing for distributed compression of sparse signals. Extensive applications are presented and include distributed video coding, microphone arrays and securing biometric data.

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With its pre–coded modules, open source Joomla! is popular for building interactive Web sites without writing code. This Web site design tool lets you build sites with discussions, polling, RSS feeds, picture submissions, shopping carts, and a lot more, quickly and easily and the quickest, easiest way to learn how to use it is Joomla! For Dummies.

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Got a new MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro? Want the scoop on Mac laptop basics, using Mac OS X Leopard, networking a laptop, or connecting your laptop to wireless devices? There’s no better place to find what you need than MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition!

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Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for administering SQL Server 2008. Zero in on core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information you need to solve problems and get the job done—whether at your desk or in the field! Get fast facts to: • Plan, deploy, and configure SQL Server 2008 • Administer server and surface security, access, and network configuration • Import, export, transform, and replicate data • Use SQL Server Management Studio for core administrative tasks • Manipulate schemas, tables, indexes, and views • Automate maintenance and implement policy-based management • Monitor server activity and tune performance • Manage log shipping and database mirroring • Perform backups and recovery

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The expert tuition and approach to rapid learning in Accelerated SQL Server 2008, one of the first SQL Server 2008 books available, will enable SQL Server and other database professionals to make the leap to the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship database management system quickly. Take full advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008, know what tools are available, and quickly realize the power and ease of use that SQL Server 2008 has to offer. * Lightning–quick introduction to SQL Server 2008 * Written by top experts in the field * Provides a solid grounding in key features and technologies

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Topics covered include:
What’s new in Dreamweaver CS3
Dreamweaver CS3 Jumpstart
Creating web sites
Styling pages with CSS
Working with Snippets and library items
Using tables and frames
Adding Flash, video, and audio content
In addition, the book comes with a companion DVD with video tutorials and all of the files needed for the lessons, including final, completed Dreamweaver files. A free Instructor’s Guide is available online.

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Flex 3 in Action is an easy-to-follow, hands-on Flex tutorial. Chock full of examples, this book goes beyond feature coverage and helps you put Flex to work in real day-to-day tasks.

Publisher: Manning Publications (February 28, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1933988746
ISBN-13: 978-1933988740

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C++ is a programming language that is both procedure-oriented and object-oriented. VTC author Tim Heagarty builds on what you learned in C Programming and adds the basic structure and procedures of C++. With an emphasis on OOP you will learn constructors, classes, templates, exception handling and more. To start learning about C++ now, click on the links.

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Wireless Networking is one of the fastest-growing technologies in both consumer and business arenas today. It’s become the primary means of communication for mobile users on the go, and allows us all to watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, and even conduct business from small mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and laptops. This title, by veteran VTC author Bobby Rogers, delivers a solid foundation on these technologies to the up-and-coming wireless administrator. Both newcomers and experienced administrators will gain insight on administering both basic and complex wireless networks.

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Now you can take your Excel charting skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Excel 2007 Charts Made Easy shows you how to upgrade from simple pie and bar charts to rich data visualization using the full range of charts available in the latest version of the software. Discover how easy it is to create custom charts with compelling effects and to display data in more meaningful ways.

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Anyone who has ever used the Internet before has used The Domain Name System (DNS). Not only is DNS used on the Internet to convert easily readable names to machine readable IP addresses, but it is widely used on almost every IP based application. Virtual Training Company author Blair Rampling explains to users the details of what DNS is, how it works, and how to work with DNS clients and servers on both Microsoft Windows and Unix platforms. Prerequisites are that users have a basic knowledge of TCP/IP, Unix, and administration of Microsoft Windows. Topics include: setting up DNS Zones and Records, using DNS with Active Directory in Windows, installing and configuring BIND 9 for Unix, DNS Security, troubleshooting DNS, and much more. Third-Party DNS Tools such as Webmin, Men and Mice QuickDNS, and Incognito DNS Commander are also discussed. To start learning today, simply click on one of the movie topics below.

01 Welcome
0101 Welcome
0102 Introduction

02 An Introduction to DNS
0201 What is DNS?
0202 What is DNS Used for?

03 How Does DNS Work?
0301 The DNS Namespace
0302 The DNS Request Process

04 Configuring DNS Clients
0401 Collecting The Required DNS Settings
0402 Configuring Microsoft Windows DNS Clients
0403 Configuring Unix DNS Clients

05 Using DNS Clients
0501 The Available DNS Clients
0502 Using NSLOOKUP in Interactive Mode
0503 Using NSLOOKUP in Batch Mode
0504 Using DIG in Unix
0505 WHOIS

06 About Zones and Records
0601 What are Zones?
0602 What are Records?
0603 Exploring the Various Record Types

07 DNS Server Architecture
0701 Planning Your DNS Server

08 Microsoft Windows DNS Servers
0801 Installing the MS Windows DNS Server
0802 Configuring the MS Windows DNS Server
0803 Creating/Configuring a Primary Forward Zone
0804 Creating Other Types of Zones
0805 Configuring Records
0806 Configuring Sub Domains

09 Unix DNS Servers
0901 What DNS Servers are Available for Unix?
0902 Installing BIND 9 from Binary Distribution pt. 1
0903 Installing BIND 9 from Binary Distribution pt. 2
0904 Installing BIND 9 from Source Code
0905 Configuring BIND 9 Options pt. 1
0906 Configuring BIND 9 Options pt. 2
0907 Configuring BIND Zones pt. 1
0908 Configuring BIND Zones pt. 2
0909 Configuring BIND Records pt. 1
0910 Configuring BIND Records pt. 2
0911 Configuring Subdomains in BIND
0912 Configuring using RNDC pt. 1
0913 Configuring using RNDC pt. 2

10 Advanced Windows DNS Features
1001 Configuring Dynamic DNS in Windows
1002 Configuring Record Scavenging in Windows
1003 Configuring Round Robin DNS in Windows
1004 Configuring NOTIFY in Windows
1005 Configuring WINS Integration in Windows

11 DNS And Active Directory in Windows
1101 Active Directory and DNS Working Together
1102 Active Directory DNS Configuration

12 Advanced BIND Features
1201 Configuring Dynamic DNS in BIND
1202 Configuring Round Robin DNS in BIND
1203 Configuring NOTIFY in BIND
1204 Configuring Internal BIND Server for Split DNS
1205 Configuring External BIND Server for Split DNS
1206 Alternate BIND Logging

13 DNS Security
1301 Potential DNS Security Problems
1302 Restricting Zone Transfers and Interfaces
1303 Setting Zone ACLs in Windows
1304 Dynamic DNS Security/Cache Pollution
1305 BIND TSIG Keys and Encryption
1306 Restricting BIND Zone Transfers/Interfaces
1307 Jailing BIND

14 Troubleshooting
1401 Troubleshooting a Microsoft DNS Server
1402 Troubleshooting a BIND Server

15 The Windows DNSCMD Utility
1501 Installing DNSCMD and an Introduction pt. 1
1502 Installing DNSCMD and an Introduction pt. 2
1503 DNSCMD Features pt. 1
1504 DNSCMD Features pt. 2

16 Third-Party DNS Tools
1601 Installing and Configuring Webmin
1602 Using Webmin pt. 1
1603 Using Webmin pt. 2
1604 Installing/Configuring Men and Mice QuickDNS
1605 Using Men and Mice QuickDNS
1606 Installing Incognito DNS Commander

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With the impressive growth the games industry has enjoyed for the past decade, game developers, educators, and marketing firms are excitedly envisioning serious games applications for computer game technologies. These applications- serious games- represent opportunities for game developers to apply their talents to areas outside of the entertainment industry. Developing Serious Games is a practical handbook that details what’s involved in developing these serious games. It explores the emergence of serious games as a viable niche in the multi-billion dollar gaming industry, and it covers the various types of serious games, including military, academic, medical, and training & development. From there it continues with a discussion of the enabling technology trends, emerging standards, and the tools that promise to reinforce the current trajectory of development and user demand for serious games.

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Written by a team of Oracle insiders, this authoritative book provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools. You′ll learn how to leverage Oracle features and how those features can be used to provide solutions to a variety of needs and demands. Plus, you′ll get valuable tips and insight based on the authors′ real–world experiences and their own implementations.

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Oracle databases sit behind a large number of Web servers. The latest release, Oracle 8i is sold as an Internet database, and gives developers tools to build Web applications. O’Reilly Books have begun to create a series of developers reference guides to working with Oracle 8i, intended for experienced Oracle developers wanting to get to grips with the latest Oracle technologies.

Oracle Web Applications is a guide to using Oracle 8i for content management, application development and application integration. You’ll learn about its support for the latest Internet technologies, including XML, and Oracle’s WebDB application development tools. There’s also an overview of the InternetLite technologies that allow you to deliver Oracle databases to handhelds like the Palm organiser.

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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built-in feature set for working with location-based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in todays mobile and highly connected world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address * The special nature of spatial data and its role in professional and consumer applications * Issues in spatial data management such as modeling, storing, accessing, and analyzing spatial data * The Oracle Spatial solution and the integration of spatial data into enterprise databases * How spatial information is used to understand business and support decisions, to manage customer relations, and to better serve private and corporate users When you read Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, you’re learning from the very best. Ravi Kothuri is a key member of Oracle’s Spatial development team. Albert Godfrind consults widely with Oracle clients on the implementation of Oracle Spatial, develops training courses, and presents frequently at conferences. Together they have crafted a technically sound and authoritative fountain of information on working with spatial data in the Oracle database. What you’ll learn Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g delivers in helping you fully understand Oracles spatial data feature set. In reading the book, you’ll learn * About new Oracle Spatial features in Oracle Database 11g, including support for the European Petroleum Standards Group (EPSG) data model, the ability to publish to Google Earth, integration with Google Maps, and much more * The use of Oracles built-in SDO_GEOMETRY data type for storing location-based data * How to geocode your data, beginning with postal addresses and ending with SDO_GEOMETRY objects that enable future analysis as well as forming the foundation of working with spatial data within Oracle * How to create and display maps to help you visualize and analyze your geocoded data * About network modeling, which is useful in computing routes, travel distances, and proximity based upon travel time * How to optimize analysis of your spatial data by creating spatial indexes and custom operators

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Brush up on the basics of CSS. If you’ve been using CSS in your own projects, you might want to skip this chapter.
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Learn techniques for styling and formatting text in your documents
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Nokia’s smartphones pack a powerful computer into a very small space. Unlike your desktop or laptop, your smallest computer can be connected to the Internet all the time, and can interact with the world around it through its camera, voice recognition, and its traditional phone keypad. Nokia smartphones combine these features with impressive storage options and a host of networking protocols that make this smallest computer the only thing a road warrior truly needs.

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Chapter 1: Plan Your Web 2.0 Blog
Chapter 2: Choose Your Blog Tool
Chapter 3: Explore More Blogging Options
Chapter 4: Blog Design and Template Editing
Chapter 5: Share Your Blog Headlines and Story Feeds via RSS and Atom
Chapter 6: Multimedia and Your Blog
Chapter 7: Tag, Bookmark, and Publicize Content
Chapter 8: Collaborate with Users Through Wikis
Chapter 9: Communicate with Users: Forums, Community Blogs, and Newsletters
Chapter 10: Grow and Maintain Your Blog
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Inside Windows Home Server User’s Guide, you’ll learn how to install, configure, and use Windows Home Server and understand how to connect to and manage different clients such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center, and more. It’s straightforward and easy-to-understand style will help you maximize all the benefits that Windows Home Server can bring. This guide includes the following:
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Using this book, you should be able to pick up the beginning concepts of game development pretty easily. It takes you through the simple sprite-based games, all the way through a basic 3-D game implementation.
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This book for developers familiar with Ruby on Rails who want to develop and roll out small applications deals with a key feature or functional area of a complex, full-scale Rails application in each chapter, from installing Ruby, Rubygems, and Rails on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X and setting up a Subversion repository, to improving user interfaces with Ajax, deploying with Capistrano, and scaling through caching and the Mongrel server. Shortened to Rails or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideal for building business applications, accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites with tools to rapidly build MVC web applications, providing easy rollout and update of applications, centralized processing and data handling, simple maintenance, straightforward development, and scalability. All businesses have small processes that can be automated to reduce costs and simplify everyday operations using intranet applications built on Rails.

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This book bridges the gap between what you’ll learn from a typical beginner book about Ruby on Rails and what you’ll need to know to create a solid, professional, spectacular, complex web application. Professional Ruby on Rails is a guide to taking a beginner web site and making it great. The book covers topics of interest to a web professional who is trying to develop and deploy a complex application. These topics include:
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Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.

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Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails–the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You’ll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You’ll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout.

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The only authorized textbook for use in the Cisco Networking Academy Program CCNA 1 and 2 courses
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Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT), Second Edition, is a Cisco-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCVP IP telephony foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge needed to install, configure, and maintain a Cisco IP telephony solution. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of Cisco Unified CallManager version 4.1, the call routing and signaling component for the Cisco IP telephony solution.

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PL/SQL, Oracle’s powerful procedural language, has been the cornerstone of Oracle application development for nearly 15 years. Although primarily a tool for developers, PL/SQL has also become an essential tool for database administration, as DBAs take increasing responsibility for site performance and as the lines between developers and DBAs blur.

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Like most PL/SQL programmers, you’ve found Oracle PL/SQL Programming to be a reference book you can’t do without. Packed with examples and recommendations, it’s a book that has helped everyone, from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators, make the most of PL/SQL. But you can’t always carry it with you, and even at your desk there are times when you just need a reminder, a quick answer to a problem you’re up against. For times like those, PL/SQL experts Stephen Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, and Chip Dawes have written a new edition of Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference. Updated for Oracle9i, this little book is easy to take with you and use anywhere for quick problem solving.

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Securing SQL Server is one of the most important responsibilities of the SQL Server professional. Ensuring your data are safe requires a combination of good systems and database administration, and intelligent application design - weaving a security plan that matches the capabilities and vulnerabilities of each contributing part.

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This is the second edition of the popular practitioner’s guide to SQL, the industry-standard database query language. Like most computer languages, SQL can be overwhelming when you first see it, but for years readers have relied on this book to clear the confusion and explain how SQL works and how to use it effectively. Packed with tips, tricks, and good information, SQL Clearly Explained, Second Edition teaches database users and programmers everything they need to know to get their job done including
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PL/SQL, Oracle’s programming language for stored procedures, delivers a world of possibilities for your database programs. PL/SQL supplements the standard relational database language, SQL, with a wide range of procedural features, including loops, IF-THEN statements, advanced data structures, and rich transactional control–all closely integrated with the Oracle database server. Learning Oracle PL/SQL offers the guidance you need to come up to speed on PL/SQL, whether you’re a beginner or already experienced with another programming language.Topics include:
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Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of Rail’s model/view/controller framework. It’s an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

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Inside XML is an intelligent and easy-to-follow guide to today’s proliferating XML standards. Aside from being a road map to the latest and greatest in what’s on the horizon with XML, this book gives you what you need to know to be productive with existing XML tools right now.

The tour begins with an introduction to the XML used in real-world applications (like the Chemical Markup Language, CML, and the Vector Markup Language, VML [for graphics]). While many books give you the basics, this one excels at explaining the conventions of designing robust XML document types in detail. With dozens of short examples, you’ll learn XML conventions thoroughly, including some of the best practices for creating readable, maintainable content. The author highlights certain lines of XML code, so it’s easier to see what’s important.

After 200 pages of in-depth material on how to design XML documents, the book turns to using XML in actual browsers (both in Netscape and Internet Explorer). This practical focus means that you get to explore available Microsoft tools and how they sometimes differ from official W3C standards.

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