XML (Extensible Markup Language) is the language that enables efficient interchange of structured data across the Web. Written in non-technical language, this book covers the details of the language and demonstrates its use through real-world examples. The book also explains how to build an XML application from start to finish.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. XML: An Inside Look
Chapter 2. Creating an XML Document
Chapter 3. Document Type Definitions
Chapter 4. XML Schema
Chapter 5. XLink, XPath, XPointer
Chapter 6. XSLT
Chapter 7. XML Parsers and Transformations
Chapter 8. Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Chapter 9. XQuery
Chapter 10: MSXML
FINAL EXAM
ANSWERS TO QUIZZES AND FINAL EXAM
INDEX
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This book is intended for people who need to combine global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), inertial navigation systems (INSs), and Kalman filters. Our objective is to give our readers a working familiarity with both the theoretical and practical aspects of these subjects. For that purpose we have included “realworld” problems from practice as illustrative examples.
We have included “Real world” problems from practice as illustrative examples. We also cover the more practical aspects of implementation: how to represent problems in a mathematical model, analyze performance as a function of model parameters, implement the mechanization equations in numerically stable algorithms, assess its computational requirements, test the validity of results, and monitor performance in operation with sensor data from GNSS and INS. These important attributes, often overlooked in theoretical treatments, are essential for effective application of theory to real-world problems.

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AppDev J2EE: Complete Java 2 Enterprise Edition Training Series
In this course, you’ll learn about the tools and technologies of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Software Development Kit. You will understand how to design and implement an Enterprise Application using the Java 2 Language and how to use the tools within the SDK to provide rapid development and deployment.

You’ll learn the characteristics of what makes an enterprise application, scalable, reliable, and secure using techniques such as transaction management, packaging and deployment. You’ll see how the J2EE platform can support a multitude of operating systems, such as Red Hat Linux and Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Server products.

# 6 CD-ROMs (Sessions) or Videos with over 7 hours of instruction by Campbell Gunn.
# Courseware including hands-on labs and sample code to reinforce important concepts
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# Comprehensive, understandable, and reusable as reference material.

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Visual Basic .NET Black Book is a comprehensive reference and problem-solving guide for Visual Basic programmers. It covers Visual Basic.NET tips, examples, and how-tos on everything from programming to managing the development of Visual Basic applications. It provides in-depth material on the new object-oriented features of Visual Basic .NET. Readers will also learn about the crucial Visual Basic tool set in detail including the best Visual Basic programming practices, from design tools to interface design. Using the popular Black Book format, this book provides in-depth analyses of VB.NET technologies and hundreds of immediate programming solutions making it an invaluable resource.
This book has been designed to give you the Visual Basic .NET coverage you just won’t find in any other book. Other books often omit not only the larger topics, like deploying your program after you’ve created it, but also the smaller ones like covering just about every Windows and Web control that comes with Visual Basic .NET in depth-from the text box control to three-state checkboxes, from datetime pickers to hot tracking tab controls, and from Web page validation controls to ad rotators. And the advanced topics are here too, like creating your own Windows and Web controls, writing Windows and Web services, distributed data applications, multithreading, deploying applications, and more.

Steven Holzner is a former contributing editor for PC Magazine and has authored more than 60 books ranging in subject from assembly language to C++. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. Steven was on the faculty of Cornell University for 10 years, where he earned his Ph.D., and has also been on the faculty of his undergraduate school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Steven Holzner | Pages: 1184 | File type: CHM | Size : 7.1 MB

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Large Sparse Numerical Optimization (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540129146 | edition 1984 | PDF | 105 pages | 6,17 mb

PREFACE
In the spring of 1983 I taught a graduate course entitled ‘Large Sparse Numerical Optimization’. Each week I prepared a set of lecture notes to reflect the material being covered. This manuscript is the result. The purpose of the course was to discuss recent developments in the area in order to prepare a student to pursue research. I hope this manuscript will prove useful to others with a similar purpose in mind.
My class was comprised of graduate students from applied mathematics, computer science, and operations research. All students had strong mathematical backgrounds and were familiar with computational methods in mathematics. In addition, most students had some familiarity with numerical optimization, optimization theory and graph-theoretic concepts (or at least I assumed they did). The students were required to do all exercises listed at the end of each chapter. In addition, each student either presented a paper in the area (- I supplied a number of possibilities) or worked on one of the research problems listed in the notes. It was a fun course 7

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Master the design and deployment of small and medium-sized businesses networks
* Master design and deployment best practices specifically tailored to small and medium-sized businesses networks
* Understand the diverse array of SMB solutions, avoiding the pitfalls of the one-size-fits-all approach
* Learn about CRM, security, wireless LAN and unified communications solutions, as well as VoIP and IP Telephony solutions

Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses zeros in on critical solutions for networking professionals who are deploying computer networks within a small or medium-sized business. It addresses core networking issues, including security, customer relations management (CRM), wireless LANs, unified communications, IP telephony, and more. For networking professionals, this book is a one-stop reference and design guide for the effective implementation of networking solutions that enhance the bottom line. The book is separated into two parts — the first part explores the network design process, surveys the SMB landscape, and identifies the network requirements from the edge to the core for an effective solution implementation. The second part identifies multiple security solutions, Cisco’s integration with popular CRM solutions, design models for ICS 7750 deployment in the context of an IP Telephony solution, Wireless LAN solutions, and Cisco’s Unity and IP/TV solutions.

Cisco Press | ISBN: 1587051435 | 336 pages | August 12, 2004 | CHM | 1 Mb

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Cisco authorized self-study book for CCNA fundamentals

Prepare for the CCNA INTRO exam 640-821 or CCNA exam 640-801 with a Cisco authorized self-study guide. You’ll learn how to:

* Describe the basic components of a PC, the OSI model, and fundamental networking concepts and terminology
* Create a simple Ethernet network and describe the components and functions of an Ethernet LAN
* Determine the most appropriate network topology for typical user requirements
* Describe issues related to shared LANs, add hubs and switches to expand an Ethernet LAN, and optimize LANs
* Define how networks can be connected by routing protocols and how data is transmitted via routed networks
* Test the connectivity between hosts on a routed network
* Construct a network addressing scheme with subnet mask computations
* Compare UDP to TCP and explain the functions of both protocols in communicating with sites not on an Ethernet LAN
* Define major WAN access technologies
* Verify the default configuration of Cisco IOS devices
* Use Cisco IOS commands to determine network operational status and performance

CCNA Self-Study: Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) is a Cisco authorized, self-paced learning tool for fundamental CCNA knowledge. This book helps you become literate in the basics of internetworking, TCP/IP, and the use of Cisco IOS Software on Cisco switches and routers. An excellent introduction to computer networking, this book addresses fundamental terms and concepts as well as basic procedures for working with the Cisco command-line interface (CLI) to configure and operate Cisco IOS devices.

Designed as a self-study guide for the INTRO component of the CCNA exam, this comprehensive tutorial imparts important knowledge and skills necessary to describe and identify major network and WAN components along with their functions and purposes. This book covers topics on network types, network media, switching fundamentals, TCP/IP, IP addressing and routing, WAN technologies, operating and configuring Cisco IOS devices, and managing network environments. Divided into three core parts, this book covers internetworking basics, internetworking layers, and administering Cisco devices. Each chapter ends with extensive review questions to test your knowledge acquisition.

Full of detailed information and easy-to-grasp tutorials, CCNA Self-Study: Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) presents fundamental internetworking terms, concepts, and components and shows you how to apply this information to configure basic network connectivity via serial and LAN networks using PCs, hubs, routers, and switches. Whether you are studying to become CCNA certified or are simply seeking to gain a better understanding of networking fundamentals using the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) seven layer model, you will benefit from the information presented in this book.

CCNA Self-Study: Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed training solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

About the Author
Steve McQuerry, CCIE No. 6108, is an instructor, technical writer, and internetworking consultant with more than 10 years of networking industry experience. He is a certified Cisco Systems instructor teaching routing and switching concepts to internetworking professionals throughout the world. Steve is also a consultant with Intrellix LLC (www.intrellix.com), an internetworking consulting company specializing in post sales consulting services.

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Developers in the J2EE space may feel that they’ve got a good handle on all the different open-source tools and utilities that are floating out there around on the Internet; I know I did. After reading just the first three chapters, it became (painfully) obvious that I was wrong.
— Ted Neward, Author, Instructor, Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.NET

Open source has had a profound effect on the Java community. Many Java open source projects have even become de-facto standards. The principal purpose of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget is to guide you through the development of a real enterprise Java application using nothing but open source Java tools, projects, and frameworks.

This book is organized by activities and by particular open source projects that can help you take on the challenges of building the different tiers of your applications. The authors also present a realistic example application that covers most areas of enterprise application development. You’ll find information on how to use and configure JBoss, Ant, XDoclet, Struts, ArgoUML, OJB, Hibernate, JUnit, SWT/JFace, and others. Not only will you learn how to use each individual tool, but you’ll also understand how to use them in synergy to create robust enterprise Java applications within your budget.

Enterprise Java Development on a Budget combines coverage of best practices with information on the right open source Java tools and technologies, all of which will help support your Java development budget and goals.

About the Author
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC, an international speaker, a board member of the Central Ohio Java Users Group, and a JBuilder certified developer and instructor. He has spent 7 years developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and transportation industries. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, J2EE, and related technologies.

Brian Sam-Bodden has spent over ten years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis Software, where he focuses on object modeling and Java, particularly Java EE. He has worked as an architect, developer, mentor, trainer, and code monkey for several Fortune 500 companies in various industries including taxation, insurance, retail sciences, telecommunications, banking, finance, distribution and scientific data management. As an independent consultant, he has promoted the use of open source in the industry by educating his clients on the cost benefits and productivity gains they can achieve.

He is a frequent speaker at user groups at both national and international conferences. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer, and Enterprise Architect. Brian also co-authored the Apress Java title Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies (2004). Aside from spending time with his wife and son, Brian spends most of his time writing code or on the mat practicing Brazilian jiujitsu.

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If you’re ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to “Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!” this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop’s most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

About the Author

A senior engineer from NASA once said that this man gave the best technical seminar he ever attended. That same year a computer-phobic who had been struggling with Photoshop for years proclaimed that “He takes the Boogie Man out of Photoshop!” This seems to be Ben Willmore’s special gift; he has an uncanny ability to connect with users of every level and mindset; whether it’s first-timers taking their first sniff of Photoshop, or razor-sharp nerds and nerdettes who are on the fast track to technical illumination. The common echo that Ben leaves in his wake seems to be “Aha! I finally GET Photoshop!”

To date, Ben has personally taught over 45,000 Photoshop users on three continents. His descriptions of Curves and Channels are thought to be the best in the industry and his breakthrough teaching style of “not-just-how-but-why,” has made him the in-house instructor of choice for companies such as Mercedes Benz, Adobe Systems, America Online, the U.S. Airforce, Lexis Nexis and Fisher-Price Toys. His award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques is said to be “Arguably, one of the best Photoshop books ever written.” by Photoshop User’s publisher, Jim Workman. His latest book ‘Photoshop CS2: Up to Speed’ is a new concept in books and is the only book focused exclusively on the new features in Photoshop CS2. He is also co-author (with Jack Davis) of “How to Wow: Photoshop for Photographers”, and creator of the best-selling Master Series videos.

He continues to be a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events worldwide, including Photoshop World, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Royal Photographic Society of England. He’s a member of the Dream Team for NAPP and writes for numerous digital imaging and photography publications, including a monthly column for Photoshop User magazine. In 2004 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. His reputation as the “expert’s expert” prompted NAPP’s president, Scott Kelby, to say, “When we get stuck, we call Ben!”

Ben sold his house in the mountains of Colorado in early 2006 and started to live a mobile lifestyle. His home is a 1997 40′ Prevost bus (often referred to as a Rock Star Bus) that was converted by Liberty coach into a motorhome. The bus is pretty much a one bedroom apartment on wheels. Ben spends his time driving to speaking events and photographing National Parks and small town America.

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CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCENT™ and CCNA® ICND1 exam. This fully updated edition presents complete reviews and a more challenging and realistic exam preparation experience.
Senior instructor and best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. The material is presented in a concise manner, focused on increasing your understanding of exam topics and preparing you for the numerous challenges the exams present.

CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks sections help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly and help increase your speed in answering questions, a difficult hurdle many exam candidates face on the new exams. A Final Preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your final study plan. Special troubleshooting sections help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text. The bonus DVD contains more than

60 minutes of personal video mentoring from the author focused mainly on bringing difficult subnetting concepts to life.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging practice questions, this book provides you with more detailed information and more realistic practice exercises than any other CCNA study guide, enabling you to succeed on the exam the first time.

CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.

# Hardcover: 696 pages
# Publisher: Cisco Press; 2nd edition (September 15, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1587201828
# ISBN-13: 978-1587201820

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This book is a complete reference to IIS7.0—both for developers and administrators. In addition to covering the common administrative tasks, this book will take an in depth look at IIS7.0 extensibility and operations management. This information will be pulled from people running major intranets and web hosting facilities.
The book will differentiate itself from other IIS 7.0 books by showing how to:

*Automate administrative tasks.
*Monitor and manage an IIS environment, including MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) and MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager). This information would be useful to systems administrators after they have deployed an IIS solution, by ensuring they are able to stabilize and monitor the environment.
*Debug and troubleshoot IIS. Few people (outside PSS and so forth) have the necessary information on available tools and how to use them effectively.
*Secure the IIS environment–including coverage of authentication protocols, PKI/SSL etc. Most books merely remark that a particular protocol is “secure” (or not secure) without detailing how these protocols work, what their strengths are, and how they can be subverted.
*Extend IIS7.0 through the use of ISAPI filters and HTTPModules.
*Master advanced topics (such as Network Load Balancing/High Availability) that are not covered by other books. Our author team has experience in large scale IIS hosting that few others do.
What you will learn from this book
*How to maximize use of the brand-new FTP server and FastCGI support
*Techniques for automating administrative tasks
*The basics of the new administration tools
*Tips for performance monitoring and tuning
*Ways to extend IIS 7 through the use of ISAPI filters and HTTP modules
*Details for determining whether a particular protocol is secure
*Advanced topics such as programmatic configuration and management and load balancing web farms
Who this book is for
This book is for developers and IIS administrators.

Wrox; Pap/Onl edition (March 10, 2008) | PDF(file-812pages) | 10mb

Professional IIS 7/byKen Schaefer(Author),Jeff Cochran(Author),Scott Forsyth(Author),Rob Baugh(Author),Mike Everest(Author),Dennis Glendenning(Author)

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In today’s heterogeneous computer environments, especially UNIX servers and workstations, it is essential that the system administrator have basic knowledge of different operating systems. This redbook is written for Sun Solaris administrators who wants to transfer their knowledge of Solaris UNIX skills to the AIX 5L operating system. This redbook will basically compare system administration tasks in Solaris 8 to AIX 5L Version 5.1. This redbook shows the reader similarities and differences between each operating system. This redbook will also introduce Solaris administrators to IBM pSeries architecture. It is assumed that the reader of this redbook already has Solaris 8 system administration skills, and are familiar with Sun hardware. In the first section on each chapter, we will briefly mention how the Solaris tasks are carried out. In the last section on each chapter, we will provide a quick reference that will be in handy to use. This redbook is a valuable tool for system administrators and other technical support personnel who deal with AIX 5L and Solaris operating systems.

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Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need.
Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information. This book provides a record of current research and practical applications in Web searching. It includes techniques that will improve the utilization of the Web by the design of Web sites, as well as the design and application of search agents. This book presents research and related applications in a manner that encourages additional work toward improving the reduction of information overflow, which is so common today in Web search results.
Idea Group Publishing (August 1, 2004) | PDF(file-427pages) | 4.7mb

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Presents an introduction to programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX 9.0. It teaches the fundamentals of Direct3D and shader programming, after which the reader will be prepared to go on and learn more advanced techniques. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I explains the mathematical tools that will be used throughout this book.

Part II shows how to implement elementary 3D techniques, such as defining 3D geometry, lighting, texturing, alpha blending, and stenciling by using shaders and the HLSL. Part III is largely about applying Direct3D to implement a variety of interesting techniques and special effects, such as working with meshes, character animation, terrain rendering, picking, particle systems, environment mapping, normal mapping, and rendering to textures.

About the Author
Frank D. Luna is a program-mer for Hero Interactive. He has been programming interactive 3D graphics for over eight years and has been using DirectX since its fifth iteration. He is the author of Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 from Wordware Publishing, Inc., and lives in Los Angeles.

544 pages | May 21, 2006 | CHM | 5 Mb

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Written by mainframe and midrange professionals George Farr and Phil Coulthard, Java for S/390 & AS/400 COBOL Programmers is designed to help COBOL programmers make the jump to Java. It teaches COBOL programmers how to read and write Java programs and helps them understand the concepts necessary to continue to improve their Java skills. Rather than serve merely as an overview, Java for S/390 & AS/400 COBOL Programmers is a massive work of more than 900 pages that addresses Javas syntax and much of the Java Development Kits (JDKs) functionality through comparisons with COBOL. It also introduces applets, Java Native Interface (JNI)

Chapter 1 - The World of Java
Chapter 2 - Java Flow of Control
Chapter 3 - Java Syntax
Chapter 4 - Structured Operations and Statements
Chapter 5 - Data Types And Variables
Chapter 6 - Arrays,Vectors, And Hashtables
Chapter 7 - String Manipulation
Chapter 8 - Date And Time Manipulation
Chapter 9 - An Object Orientation
Chapter 10 - Exceptions
Chapter 11 - Threads
Chapter 12 - User Interface
Chapter 13 - Database Access
Chapter 14 - More Java
Appendix A - COBOL For OS/390 Flow Of Control
Appendix B - ILE COBOL Flow Of Control
Appendix C - Object-Oriented COBOL On OS/390
Appendix D - Using Java On OS/390
Appendix E - Using Java On OS/400
Appendix F - Software Loading Instructions

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This book shows how to determine quality requirements of services, it discusses and considers the various means of allocating network resources and of supervising the service quality. Furthermore, it explores strategies for allocating network resources and their relation to revenue or operator utility as well as service allocation optimization. The book concludes with a Nokia case study that illustrates the previously mentioned concepts.

Essential reading for networking professionals wishing to understand service quality management in IP networks, as well as students needing to understand principles and basic techniques of service quality management.

The challenge to present-day IP networks comes from advanced realtime services such as streaming and voice/video conferencing, which are demanding applications from the viewpoint of network technology. This book addresses the service quality support technologies needed to deliver different types of content over IP network.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Drivers for the Adoption of Multi-service Networks
Chapter 02 - Service Quality Requirements
Chapter 03 - Network Mechanisms for Multi-service Quality Support
Chapter 04 - Traffic Engineering for Multi-service IP Networks
Chapter 05 - Mapping Service Requirements to Network Resources
Chapter 06 - Service Level Management Techniques
Chapter 07 - Measurements
Chapter 08 - Mechanisms for Dynamic Service Quality Control
Chapter 09 - Case Study: Service Quality Support in an IP-based Cellular RAN
Chapter 10 - Conclusion

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More than 100,000 programmers owe their careers to Professor John Smiley. In this unique guide, the guru himself will teach you, in a classroom setting, how to program with C++. Learn from more than 100 questions and answers as well as real-world programming projects.
Book Info
Professor John Smiley, the programmer guru itself teaches you, in a classroom setting, how to program with C++. Learn from more than 100 questions and answers as well as real-world programming projects. Softcover.

From the Back Cover

The easiest technical book you’ll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself!

Join Professor Smiley’s C++ class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding, and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You’ll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so that you can create an application that achieves programming objectives–just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you’ll learn important programming basics–like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given–then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy.

Learn fundamental programming concepts, which can be applied to multiple languages
Develop your C++ skills with real-world, hands-on programming projects
Work with program variables, constants, and C++ data types
Create and run a C++ program using Windows Notepad
Adapt to runtime conditions with selection structures and statements
Use loops to increase your programming power
Learn about pointers, arrays, objects, classes, and more

About the Author
John Smiley is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He is also a consultant and professor at Penn State University, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and Holy Family College. John has consulted and created several online program-ming courses for ZDU, SmartPlanet, and ElementK.

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Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics,
electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The
use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to
programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used
by students and design engineers worldwide.
This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know
more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education
tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a
unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined
into a wide range of fascinating robots.

* Full step-by-step instructions for 5 complete self-build robots
* Introduces key techniques in electronics, programming and construction - for
robust robots that work first time
* Illustrations, close-up photographs and a lively, readable text make this a
fun and informative guide for novice and expericenced robot builders

Table of Contents

Introduction: Making a Robot 1
Robot Behaviour 9
Robot Mechanics 25
Robot Electronics 53
PICs in Control 105
PIC Programming 133
Projects 165
The Scooter 166
The Android 209
A robotic toy 246
The Quester 258
The gantry 297
Index 364

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The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between wireless networking and service research communities who have hitherto confined their work to their respective specialties. It not only focuses on the latest technology enablers for speedier and more reliable wireless networking in the home, but also integrates these enablers to provide workable end-to-end solutions from a user’s perspective. The scope is limited to approaches that will enhance the user’s experience in consuming content in the private and secure setting of the home.
From the Back Cover
A broad overview of the home networking field, ranging from wireless technologies to practical applications
In the future, it is expected that private networks (e.g., home networks) will become part of the global network ecosystem, participating in sharing their own content, running IP-based services, and possibly becoming service providers themselves. This is already happening in the so-called “social networks” and peer-to-peer file sharing networks on the Internet—making this emerging topic one of the most active research areas in the wireless communications field.
This book bridges the gap between wireless networking and service research communities, which, until now, have confined their work to their respective fields. Here, a number of industry professionals and academic experts have contributed chapters on various aspects of the subject to present an overview of home networking technologies with a special emphasis on the user as the center of all activities. Coverage includes:
*Networked home use cases and scenarios
*Media format, media exchange, and media interoperability
*Location-aware device and service discovery
*Security in smart homes
*Secure service discovery protocol implementation for wireless ad-hoc networks
*Multimedia content protection in consumer networks
*Mobile device connectivity in home networks
*Unlicensed mobile access/generic access network
*Wireless sensor networks in the home
*Ultra-wideband and sensor networking in the home environment
With a balanced mix of practice and theory, Technologies for Home Networking focuses on the latest technologies for speedier, more reliable wireless networking and explains how to facilitate workable end-to-end solutions from a user’s perspective. This book is an ideal resource for practicing engineers, designers, and managers with an interest in home networking and also serves as a valuable text for graduate students.

Wiley-Interscience (February 11, 2008) | PDF(file-218pages) | 3.3mb

Technologies for Home Networking /bySudhir Dixit(Editor),Ramjee Prasad(Editor)

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This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world’s foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating excursion of the most brilliant chess game, providing highlights into and explanations of each and every move.

Seirawan begins each game with a description of the historical atmosphere of the chess world –and sometimes the world at large–at the time the game was played. When he delves into the game itself, he starts with the reasoning behind the opening moves. From there he provides both a play-by-play description of the game and an analytical commentary, all the while examining the moves in terms of place development and possible tactical and strategic opportunities. Along the way, a handful of the players are profiled in biographies.

In Winning Chess Brilliancies readers will get a taste of the most dazzling chess combinations devious strategies, and downright cruel blows as world champions risk it all! This book is truly a celebration of the sport of chess.

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Just as every business needs to effectively employ Business Intelligence (BI) to stay competitive, every IT professional needs to master BI to stay employed in this fastest-growing segment of Information Technology. Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence is the quickest path to understanding BI, and it is essential reading for all who work with SQL Server 2005. It is written from a practical perspective, perfect for anyone who uses the tools in SQL Server 2005s extraordinarily rich BI product suite.

This book explains how best to use Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SQL Server Data Mining. It also describes best practices for implementing end-to-end BI solutions in small, medium, and large business environments. And it provides important information about integrating BI with various client tools, including Excel, Business Scorecards, Proclarity, and SharePoint Portal Server. Developers, end users, and even managers will find this an enlightening guide to the power and promise of SQL Server 2005 BI. Highlights include the following:

* Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the SQL Server 2005 BI tool suite
* Concise, yet thorough, so you can use all BI tools effectively
* Special focus on features to useand avoidto cleanly scale BI solutions
* Full of sound, practical guidance on real-world best practices
* Essential reading for developers and users with any level of BI experience

About the Author
Lynn Langit is the founder and lead architect of WebFluent, which for the past six years has trained users and developers in building BI solutions. A holder of numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCT, MCITP, MCDBA, MCSD.NET, MCSE, and MSF, she also has ten years’ experience in business management. This unique background makes her particularly qualified to share her expertise in developing successful real-world BI solutions using SQL Server 2005.

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Add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery to your Flash applications. This book builds upon your understanding of basic ActionScript (AS) syntax with the foundational skills that you need to use XML in Flash applications and AS2 or AS3 to migrate your existing applications.

Beginning with an introduction to XML, XML parsing methods, and a short introduction to AS2 you learn how to create a universal XML load/onload Class as well as a universal XHTML parser. Then you learn how to use Components using XML as the data source, including the menu, menubar, datagrid and tree component. Finally, a tutorial projectthe design and development of a Real Estate Web site that contains an XML search enginepulls it all together with hands-on experience.

All the applications use XML as the data source and are written as class files. Select parts of the Real Estate Web site are redeveloped in AS3 for purposes of illustration. The new XML class is presented and specific code examples demonstrate techniques to apply methods and use properties. Particular attention is paid to the differences between AS2 and AS3 and how to effectively transition from one AS version to the other.

The companion CD contains code for all of the properties and methods of the AS2, AS3, and XML class examples. Components for the Real Estate Web site project are also provided.

* Build on basic ActionScript syntax skills
* Add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery

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What an amazing world we live in! Almost anything you can imagine can be researched, compared, admired, studied, and in many cases, bought, with the click of a mouse. The Internet has changed our lives, putting a world of opportunity before us. Unfortunately, it has also put a world of opportunity into the hands of those whose motives are less than honorable. A firewall, a piece of software or hardware that erects a barrier between your computer and those who might like to invade it, is one solution.If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably received some unsavory and unsolicited e-mail. If you run a business, you may be worried about the security of your data and your customers’ privacy. At home, you want to protect your personal information from identity thieves and other shady characters. Firewalls For Dummies® will give you the lowdown on firewalls, then guide you through choosing, installing, and configuring one for your personal or bus iness network.

Firewalls For Dummies® helps you understand what firewalls are, how they operate on different types of networks, what they can and can’t do, and how to pick a good one (it’s easier than identifying that perfect melon in the supermarket.) You’ll find out about

* Developing security policies
* Establishing rules for simple protocols
* Detecting and responding to system intrusions
* Setting up firewalls for SOHO or personal use
* Creating demilitarized zones
* Using Windows or Linux as a firewall
* Configuring ZoneAlarm, BlackICE, and Norton personal firewalls
* Installing and using ISA server and FireWall-1

With the handy tips and hints this book provides, you’ll find that firewalls are nothing to fear – that is, unless you’re a cyber-crook! You’ll soon be able to keep your data safer, protect your family’s privacy, and probably sleep better, too.

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Attain the wealth and prosperity you’ve dreamed of with easy-to-apply feng shui principles! Easy to understand and fun to read, Feng Shui and Money helps readers connect to the spiritual and psychological dimensions of their financial lives through the ancient practice of feng shui. Starting out with the captivating history of this ancient Chinese philosophy, this entertaining guide covers the basic principles of feng shui thought throughout the ages and its wide popularity today. Next, it offers innovative suggestions for favorable interior arrangements at home and in the office, time-proven rituals to create prosperity, dozens of chi enhancement exercises, and valuable advice for tending one’s spiritual landscape. Finally, readers will find a nine-week action plan that shows how to translate these feng shui principles into an individual, achievable program of financial and spiritual renewal. Written by an experienced psychotherapist and feng shui consultant, this pragmatic yet sensitive book offers a refreshing, lively blend of Asian spirituality and Western psychological insight.

About the Author
Eric Shaffert is a certified psychotherapist and feng shui consultant who specializes in revealing the relationship between financial health and the layout and design of one’s environment. An innovative and entrepreneurial thinker, he has applied the principles of feng shui to residential areas, business environments, and websites. He has a masters degree from Catholic University and a background in Tibetian tantric feng shui, transpersonal psychology, and body-centered therapy. He lives in New York City.

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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides a “simple” set of operations that allows you to more easily monitor and manage network devices like routers, switches, servers, printers, and more. The information you can monitor with SNMP is wide-ranging–from standard items, like the amount of traffic flowing into an interface, to far more esoteric items, like the air temperature inside a router. In spite of its name, though, SNMP is not especially simple to learn.
O’Reilly has answered the call for help with a practical introduction that shows how to install, configure, and manage SNMP. Written for network and system administrators, the book introduces the basics of SNMP and then offers a technical background on how to use it effectively. “Essential SNMP” explores both commercial and open source packages, and elements like OIDs, MIBs, community strings, and traps are covered in depth. The book contains five new chapters and various updates throughout. Other new topics include:
Expanded coverage of SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3
Expanded coverage of SNMPc
The concepts behind network management and change management
RRDTool and Cricket
The use of scripts for a variety of tasks
How Java can be used to create SNMP applications
Net-SNMP’s Perl module
The bulk of the book is devoted to discussing, with real examples, how to use SNMP for system and network administration tasks. Administrators will come away with ideas for writing scripts to help them manage their networks, create managed objects, and extend the operation of SNMP agents.

Once demystified, SNMP is much more accessible. If you’re looking for a way to more easily manage your network, look no further than “Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition,”

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Enterprise JavaBeans was recently voted “Best Java Book” by the editors and readers of Java Developer’s Journal. Readers of JavaPro named it the “Best Java Book for Experts.” And Amazon.com included it in the Top Computer Books for 2000. Now the best only gets better! In the new 3rd edition, Enterprise JavaBeans has been completely revised and updated with a thorough introduction to the new 2.0 version of the EJB specification. Significantly different from the earlier version, the 2.0 specification introduces three dramatic improvements: A completely new version of container-managed persistence; local interfaces; and a totally new kind of bean called the “message driven bean.”

The new version of container-managed persistence (CMP) beans in 2.0 is more portable and robust than in the older 1.1 version. Most significant is the introduction of the relationship fields, which allow entity beans to declare relationships with each other as natural references. In order to make this huge leap in component relationships possible, EJB 2.0 had to redesign how entity beans are defined and interact. Our new 3rd edition examines this critical CMP model in detail.

Local interfaces are thoroughly discussed as well. Local interfaces allow beans that are co-located to interact without the overhead of remote method calls. This improves the performance of beans considerably and complements the CMP relationship fields.

Message driven beans are a new kind of enterprise bean based on asynchronous messaging and the Java Message service (JMS). Instead of responding to Java RMI calls, message driven beans process JMS messages sent by messaging clients. An entire chapter is devoted to message-driven beans and how to use them effectively.

In addition, the 3rd edition contains an architecture overview, information on resource management and primary services, design strategies, and XML deployment descriptors.

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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition presents the ANSI C++ standard beginning with a discussion of the essential elements of C++ programming: loops, expressions, functions, and classes. It walks readers through the basics of object-oriented programming: classes, inheritance, templates, and exceptions, as well as the latest object-oriented programming techniques. C++ Primer Plus contains hundreds of sample programs. The friendly tone, concise programs, and end-of-chapter review exercises allow beginners to write their own programs immediately.

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Jesse Liberty’s C++ Unleashed presents focused explanations of the core features and complexities of C++. The text covers advanced object-oriented analysis and design strategies and implementation issues associated with memory management, STL container classes, iterators, and algorithms. Manipulate data using dynamic data structures and recursion, efficient sorting algorithms, and advanced hashing and parsing techniques.



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The java language has been growing from strength to strength since its inception in 1995. It has since proved to be both powerful and extraordinarily easy to learn and use. This is what makes it ideal for the beginner. With dramatic changes to it’s handling of files, and the introduction of native support for XML, java has been updated to work faster and to be current with the incredible rise of XML as a medium for communicating data.
This edition of the Beginning Java books outlines everything the beginning programmer needs to know to program with the Java programming language and the 1.4 Java Developer Kit. With the release of JDK 1.4, programmers can look forward to the most stable edition yet, and even better performance than was available previously.

Ivor’s inimitable style has proved to be a hit with nearly half a million people with its easy to learn approach and the many useful examples. Regularly voted the most popular java programming book, this book teaches java from scratch and assumes no previous knowledge. It is also suitable for those who have got some programming experience, especially C or C++, which will make learning easier. Either way you will soon become expert in creating your own programs.

It includes a full explanation of Object Oriented programming. A comprehensive introduction to swing is accompanied by a significant application that you will develop through the last half of the book, and which demonstrates all of the necessary skills for creating fully features java applications.

To add to this, help from your peers and from the author are available through the unique programmer to programmer mailing lists, forums, and newsgroups all in addition to our one-to-one email support helping you to overcomes any difficulties, and work through the exercises with programmers just like yourself.

The following new subjects are also covered in this book:

New and Improved Utility class in the Collections Framework
lar Expressions
IO APIs
XML Processing

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With the release of WebLogic Server 7.0 in June 2002, BEA positioned WebLogic Server as the premier J2EE Web Services development platform. With the next release in late 2002, WLS will integrate WebLogic Workshop and other key tools to provide developers with a stable, market-leading product designed for the next generation of Java applications based on Web Services on the latest J2EE platform. BEA WebLogic Server is the leading J2EE application server, holding almost 40% of the market share in this competitive category. WebLogic Server Unleashed is designed to be the definitive reference work for the WLS developer, offering an in-depth look at the capabilities provided by WLS 7.X and illustrating the best development practices.

From the Publisher
“BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 Unleashed” is the definitive reference for the WebLogic developer, offering an in-depth look at the capabilities provided by WebLogic Server and illustrating the best development practices. The book covers WebLogic’s role in every aspect of a J2EE application: from working with Servlets, JavaServer Pages and Enterprise JavaBeans, to managing distributed systems including transactions with JTA, directory services with JNDI, messaging with JMS, and more. The authors pay special attention to testing, optimizing and debugging within WebLogic, implementing security features, and administering WebLogic applications.

- Configure hardware and software for a successful WebLogic installation - Gather the right mix of skills and background to build WebLogic applications - Architect and deploy Web applications with JSP and Java Servlets

- Leverage the J2EE APIs for handling transactions, messaging, databases, mail services, and more

- Build applications with JSP Tag Libraries and Jakarta Struts

- Learn best practices and design strategies for Enterprise JavaBeans

- Test, debug, and optimize WebLogic applications using JUnit, JProbe, and JMeter

- Integrate WebLogic into enterprise systems with XML, Web services, jCOM, JCo, and CORBA, including Tuxedo applications

- Administer WebLogic applications and work with clustered servers

- Develop WebLogic Server applications using WebLogic Workshop 8.1

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Electrical Repair is a basic instruction manual on home wiring and repair. The book covers AC/DC, volts, watts, fuses, and circuit breakers, national and local codes, and caution signs and safety concerns. Learn when it’s best to do-it-yourself and when you need to bring in the pros. Also covered are extension cords and multiple strips, switches and receptacles, installing fixtures and adding new circuits, and working around existing wiring.

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As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur’an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to introduce the Qur’an and its intellectual heritage to English-speaking audiences have been hampered by the lack of available resources. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an seeks to remedy that situation. In a discerning summation of the field, Jane McAuliffe brings together an international team of scholars to explain its complexities. Comprising fourteen chapters, each devoted to a topic of central importance, the book is rich in historical, linguistic and literary detail, while also reflecting the influence of other disciplines. For both the university student and the general reader, The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an provides a fascinating entrée to a text that has shaped the lives of millions for centuries.

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Use of Beowulf clusters (collections of off-the-shelf commodity computers programmed to act in concert, resulting in supercomputer performance at a fraction of the cost) has spread far and wide in the computational science community. Many application groups are assembling and operating their own “private supercomputers” rather than relying on centralized computing centers. Such clusters are used in climate modeling, computational biology, astrophysics, and materials science, as well as non-traditional areas such as financial modeling and entertainment. Much of this new popularity can be attributed to the growth of the open-source movement.

The second edition of Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux has been completely updated; all three stand-alone sections have important new material. The introductory material in the first part now includes a new chapter giving an overview of the book and background on cluster-specific issues, including why and how to choose a cluster, as well as new chapters on cluster initialization systems (including ROCKS and OSCAR) and on network setup and tuning. The information on parallel programming in the second part now includes chapters on basic parallel programming and available libraries and programs for clusters. The third and largest part of the book, which describes software infrastructure and tools for managing cluster resources, has new material on cluster management and on the Scyld system.

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Everybody who has worked with Cisco routers for any length of time has had to ask their friends and co-workers for example router configuration files that show how to solve a common problem. A good working configuration example can often save huge amounts of time and frustration when implementing a feature that you’ve never used before. The Cisco Cookbook gathers hundreds of example router configurations all in one place. As the name suggests, Cisco Cookbook is organized as a series of recipes. Each recipe begins with a problem statement that describes a common situation that you might face.
After each problem statement is a brief solution that shows a sample router configuration or script that you can use to resolve this particular problem. A discussion section then describes the solution, how it works, and when you should or should not use it. The chapters are organized by the feature or protocol discussed. If you are looking for information on a particular feature such as NAT, NTP or SNMP, you can turn to that chapter and find a variety of related recipes. Most chapters list basic problems first, and any unusual or complicated situations last. The Cisco Cookbook will quickly become your “go to” resource for researching and solving complex router configuration issues, saving you time and making your network more efficient.

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The first edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming quickly became an indispensable reference for both novice and experienced PL/SQL developers. Packed with examples and recommendations, it helped everyone using PL/SQL (from the Oracle Forms developer to the database administrator) make the most of this powerful language.
Oracle8 presents PL/SQL programmers with new challenges by increasing both the possibilities and complexities of the language. This new edition updates the original book for Oracle8, adding chapters describing the new PL/SQL object features (object types, collections, object views, and external procedures). The second edition also contains a much-requested chapter on tuning PL/SQL, as well as expanded discussions of debugging and tracing PL/SQL execution.

The book comes with a companion diskette containing the Companion Utilities Guide for Oracle PL/SQL Programming, an online tool developed by RevealNet, Inc. The online guide contains more than 100 file of source code and documentation prepared by the authors.

Even if you’ve already read the first edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, you’ll find an enormous amount of new and revised information in this second edition and on its companion diskette. If you’re new to PL/SQL, you’ll soon find yourself on the road to mastery.

NOTE: To make room for the new material, some summaries and code from the first edition have been moved to the companion disk.

Oracle PL/SQL Programming is divided into seven parts:

Foreword Preface

Part I: Programming in PL/SQL

1. Introduction to PL/SQL
2. PL/SQL Language Fundamentals
3. Effective Coding Style
Part II: PL/SQL Language Elements
4. Variables and Program Data
5. Conditional and Sequential Control
6. Database Interaction and Cursors
7. Loops
8. Exception Handlers
9. Records in PL/SQL
10.PL/SQL Tables
Part III: Built-in Functions and Packages
11. Character Functions
12. Date Functions
13. Numeric, LOB, and Miscellaneous Functions
14. Conversion Functions
Part IV: Modular Code
15. Procedures and Functions
16. Packages
17. Calling Stored PL/SQL Functions from SQL
Part V: PL/SQL Oracle8 Features
18. Object Types
19. Nested Tables and VARRAYs
20. Object Views
21. External Procedures
Part VI: Making PL/SQL Programs Work
22. Code Design Tips
23. Managing Code in the Database
24. Debugging PL/SQL
25. Tracing PL/SQL
26. Tuning PL/SQL
Part VII: Appendixes
A. What’s on the Companion Disk?
B. Calling Stored Procedures from PL/SQL Version 1.1
C. Built-in Packages

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If you’re involved in any way with the design and manufacturing industry, you’ve probably had to work with AutoCAD drawings. But not everyone needs to be an expert at AutoCAD - many users really need to know only a few of its vast array of tools. If you’re someone who doesn’t need to or want to be an AutoCAD power user but wants to be able to use AutoCAD proficiently, this book is for you. Introducing AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 covers the basic drawing and editing tools that most users will need to produce quality AutoCAD drawings.
You won’t find information about every last feature. Instead, this book presents AutoCAD’s essential features through a combination of tutorials and reference material to give you a concise, easy-to-use companion for your work with AutoCAD. It’s designed so that you can quickly learn the tools you need…when you need them.

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Quickly Master AutoCAD 2009 Essentials
The new edition of this hands-on guide helps users of all skill levels learn the basics of AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT® 2009 easily and efficiently. Bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers clear explanations, a task-based approach, and pages of real-world examples and exercises to make this thorough book more valuable and useful than ever. Whether you’re new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you’ll find the fast, focused introduction to AutoCAD you need to get quickly up to speed.
*Explore the all-new interface in AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009
*Navigate the new Ribbon panel to access the tools you need
*Master the basics of drawing and editing with precision
*Add and edit notes and dimensions
*Learn the fundamentals of 2D drawings and 3D models
*Understand layers, blocks, groups, and external references
*Find areas and distances quickly
*Easily extract hidden data

Sybex (May 5, 2008) | PDF(file-413pages) | 11.5mb(rar size)
Introducing AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009/byGeorge Omura(Author)

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In Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3, authors Stephanie Sullivan and
Greg Rewis demonstrate how to use Dreamweaver CS3 and CSS together to
create highly individualized, standards-based layouts. Through hands-on
projects with visuals, the book gives readers an in-depth understanding
of Dreamweaver’s 32 CSS-based layouts (new in Dreamweaver CS3) and their
application, enabling every user of Dreamweaver to learn CSS effectively
and easily.

360 Pages | PDF | Size: 16.3 Mb

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Prepare yourself for the ultimate test of your brain power!
We’re devised over 500 IQ puzzles to stretch your logical and lateral thinking abilities to the limit.
This book has been meticulously compiled from some of the most devious puzzles you’ve seen. Some will require keen mathematical skill, others an ability to recognise abstract patterns, but all our puzzles are supremely logical and can be solved with the right approach.
If you have a sharp mind, some of the answers to these puzzles will jump straight out of the page at you. However, others will require a bit more thought. Try not to rush for an answer straight away – have faith in your abilities and all will become clear – and don’t feel tempted to have a peek at the answer page too soon. If you feel completely stumped by one particular puzzle, then move on and come back to it later – coming up with the solution to a later puzzle just might give you the inspiration you need!

But the idea of this book is not about right and wrong answers, it’s about exercising your mind and flexing your mental muscles. With the right approach, you too can discover your IQ potential.

The large variety of puzzles here are designed to test your powers of lateral thinking and problem solving to the max! You’ll have to be able to recognize patterns and sequences, spot similarities and differences and even pick your way through our convoluted mindbenders.

The solutions to all the puzzles in this book are staring you right in the face – you just have to be looking at them in the right way!
So sit back, relax your body and let your brain take the strain – it’s all a matter of logic.

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Explore a ton of powerful BSD UNIX commands This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to use and administer servers and desktops running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or any other BSD flavor.

Expand your BSD UNIX expertise in these and other areas:

- Using the shell
- Finding online software
- Working with files
- Playing with music and images
- Administering file systems
- Backing up data
- Checking and managing running processes
- Accessing network resources
- Handling remote system administration
- Locking down security

309 Pages | PDF | 2.6 Mb

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C# is a modern, object-oriented language that enables programmers to quickly build a wide range of applications for the next-generation Microsoft .NET platform. Because of its elegant design, which combines the raw power of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic, C# is a great choice for architecting a wide range of components-from high-level business objects to system-level applications. Get a head start on developing in C# with this first printed look at the complete C# language specification. This MSDN guide includes the essential features and basic concepts of the C# language, plus in-depth analysis of the lexical structure of the language. It also provides details about types, variables, conversions, expressions, statements, namespaces, classes, structures, arrays, interfaces, enumerators, delegates, exceptions, and attributes; information on how C# simplifies coding by omitting pointers as a data type-or lets you get closer to the hardware by declaring and operating on pointers in unsafe code-a list of attributes used for creating programs that interoperate with COM programs, plus a list of other key references.
Other new and available .NET related titles in the MSDN series of substantial interest to professional developers include: • Web Applications in the Microsoft.NET Framework • Microsoft Visual Studio.NET • The Microsoft.NET Framework • Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Specifications

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In JavaServer Faces, developers learn how to use the new JavaServer Faces framework to build real-world web applications. The book contains everything you’ll need: how to construct the HTML on the front end; how to create the user interface components that connect the front end to your business objects; how to write a back-end that’s JSF-friendly; and how to create the deployment descriptors that tie everything together. This book is a complete guide to the crucial new JSF technology.
JavaServer Faces, or JSF, brings a component-based model to web application development that’s similar to the model that’s been used in standalone GUI applications for years. The technology builds on the experience gained from Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and numerous commercial and open source web application frameworks that simplify the development process. In JavaServer Faces, developers learn how to use this new framework to build real-world web applications. The book contains everything you’ll need: how to construct the HTML on the front end; how to create the user interface components that connect the front end to your business objects; how to write a back-end that’s JSF-friendly; and how to create the deployment descriptors that tie everything together. JavaServer Faces pays particular attention to simple tasks that are easily ignored, but crucial to any real application: working with tablular data, for example, or enabling and disabling buttons. And this book doesn’t hide from the trickier issues, like creating custom components or creating renderers for different presentation layers. Whether you’re experienced with JSF or a just starting out, you’ll find everything you need to know about this technology in this book. Topics covered include:
The JSF environment
Creating and rendering components
Validating input
Handling user-generated events
Controlling page navigation
Working with tabular data
Internationalization
Integration between JSF and Struts
Developing custom renderers and custom components
JavaServer Faces is a complete guide to the crucial new JSF technology. If you develop web applications, JSF belongs in your toolkit, and this book belongs in your library.

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Looking for a unique set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems? From hacks to customize the user environment to networking, securing the system, and optimization, BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and accomplishing more with fewer resources. If you want more than the average BSD user–to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools–this book is a must-have.
In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users. Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of some of today’s largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system, then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily stable and flexible, BSD also offers plenty of fertile ground for creative, time-saving tweaks and tricks, and yes, even the chance to have some fun. “Fun?” you ask. Perhaps “fun” wasn’t covered in the manual that taught you to install BSD and administer it effectively. But BSD Hacks, the latest in O’Reilly’s popular Hacks series, offers a unique set of practical tips, tricks, tools–and even fun–for administrators and power users of BSD systems. BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and getting more done, with fewer resources. You’ll take advantage of the tools and concepts that make the world’s top Unix users more productive. Rather than spending hours with a dry technical document learning what switches go with a command, you’ll learn concrete, practical uses for that command. The book begins with hacks to customize the user environment. You’ll learn how to be more productive in the command line, timesaving tips for setting user-defaults, how to automate long commands, and save long sessions for later review. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas:
Customizing the User Environment
Dealing with Files and Filesystems
The Boot and Login Environments
Backing Up
Networking Hacks
Securing the System
Going Beyond the Basics
Keeping Up-to-Date
Grokking BSD
If you want more than your average BSD user–you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own–BSD Hacks is a must-have. This book will turn regular users into power users and system administrators into super system administrators.

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After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book

What you will learn from this book

* The various user-defined functions and triggers
* How to create and change tables
* Ways to manage keys, write scripts, and work with stored procedures
* Techniques for programming with XML
* How to use Reporting Services and Integration Services
* The different peripheral features of SQL

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Programming Linux Games discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community.

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This book can teach you how to debug more effectively. It is a complete and pragmatic overview of debugging, written by a talented researcher who has developed many clever ways to isolate bugs. It explains best practices for finding and fixing errors in programs, ranging from systematically tracking error reports, reproducing failures, observing symptoms, isolating the cause, and correcting defects. Along with basic techniques and commonly used tools, the book also explores the author’s innovative techniques for isolating minimal input to reproduce an error and for tracking cause and effect through a program.
Studying this book will make you a better programmer. You will be able to find and fix errors in your code (and your colleague’s code) faster and more effectively, a valuable skill that will enable you to finish projects earlier and produce programs with fewer defects. Also, if you read between the lines you will learn how to write code that is more easily tested and debugged, which further increases your ability to find and correct defects. And thinking hard about what can go wrong with your program can help you avoid mistakes in the first place, so you have less to debug.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
- 1 How Failures Come To Be
- 2 Tracking Problems
- 3 Making Programs Fail
- Reproducing Problems
- Simplifying Problems
- Scientific Debugging
- Deducing Errors
- Observing Facts
- Tracking Origins
- Asserting Expectations
- Detecting Anomalies
- - Causes And Effects
- Isolating Failure Causes
- Isolating Cause-Effect Chains
- Fixing The Deffect

477 pages | PDF | 4 Mb

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Preparing for the CCNP® certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.
This book helps you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNP BSCI exam (642-901). The guide summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS® Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, providing you with tips and examples of how to apply the commands to real-world scenarios. Configuration examples throughout the book provide you with a better understanding of how these commands are used in simple network designs.

Eight CCNP BSCI topic areas are covered, including

* Network Design Requirements
* EIGRP
* OSPF
* Integrated IS-IS
* Manipulating Routing Updates
* BGP
* Multicast
* IPv6
Scott D. Empson, «CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide (Self-Study Guide)»
Cisco Press | ISBN 1587201895 | 1 edition (May 7, 2007) | PDF | 1.15 Mb | 192 pages

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This book will provide you, the server administrator, with the necessary knowledge to install and configure Tomcat, as well as many of the most popular enhancements to the Tomcat package.

Table of Contents
Professional Apache Tomcat
Chapter 1 - Apache and Jakarta Tomcat
Chapter 2 - JSP and Servlets
Chapter 3 - Tomcat Installation
Chapter 4 - Tomcat Installation Directory and Architecture
Chapter 5 - Basic Tomcat Configuration
Chapter 6 - Web Application Administration
Chapter 7 - Manager Configuration
Chapter 8 - Advanced Tomcat Features
Chapter 9 - Class Loaders
Chapter 10 - HTTP Connectors
Chapter 11 - Web Server Connectors
Chapter 12 - The WARP Connector
Chapter 13 - The AJP Connector
Chapter 14 - Tomcat and IIS
Chapter 15 - JDBC Connectivity
Chapter 16 - Tomcat Security
Chapter 17 - Additional Uses for Ant
Chapter 18 - Log4J
Chapter 19 - Shared Tomcat Hosting
Chapter 20 - Server Load Testing
Appendix A - Axis
Appendix B - Apache SSL Setup
Index

Amit Bakore
Debashish Bhattacharjee
Sandip Bhattacharya
Vivek Chopra
Chad Fowler
Ben Galbraith
Romin Irani
Sing Li
Chanoch Wiggers

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AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is Adobes open-source technology that lets Web developers and programmers create Rich Internet Applications that run outside of any Web browser. This Visual QuickPro Guide teaches everything you need to know to begin creating applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power and reach of the Internet.
The book uses a visual, step-by-step approach and covers all the fundamental AIR concepts, without the fluff, confusing segues, and technical jargon that bog down so many other
computer books. Author Larry Ullman has a well-earned reputation for writing books that are accessible, easy-to-follow, and, above all, useful. This book focuses solely on developing AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript, although formal knowledge of JavaScript is not required.

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Reinforces the advanced students’ competence in both spoken and written English. This work focuses on features of the language that are already familiar and practises them. It consists of grammar notes followed by exercises. It is useful for classwork, homework, or for self-study.
Advanced English Practice (3rd Edition) | English | 321 Pages | 8.36 Mb | PDF

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Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. For programmers in need of a better understanding of UNIX systems programming. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads by Kay A. Robbins and Steven Robbins

UNIX processes, files, and special files
Signals and timers
POSIX threads, semaphores, and IPC
TCP, UDP, multicast, and the Web
Features projects on Internet radio, server performance, timers, web caching, and shells
Learn how to design and implement reliable UNIX software whether you are using Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, or another POSIX-based system.

This completely updated classic (originally titled Practical UNIX Programming) demonstrates how to design complex software to get the most from the UNIX operating system. UNIX Systems Programming provides a clear and easy-to-understand introduction to the essentials of UNIX programming. Starting with short code snippets that illustrate how to use system calls, Robbins and Robbins move quickly to hands-on projects that help readers expand their skill levels.

This practical guide thoroughly explores communication, concurrency,and multithreading. Known for its comprehensive and lucid explanationsof complicated topics such as signals and concurrency, the bookfeatures practical examples, exercises, reusable code, and simplifiedlibraries for use in network communication applications.

A self-contained reference that relies on the latest UNIX standards,UNIX Systems Programming provides thorough coverage of files, signals,semaphores, POSIX threads, and client-server communication. Thisedition features all-new chapters on the Web, UDP, and serverperformance. The sample material has been tested extensively in theclassroom.

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“Humorous and wise . . . Lowndes helps readers focus on what’s important and gives them a good chuckle along the way.”
–Publishers Weekly
Making friends can be intimidating for anyone, especially if you are naturally shy. This can be an obstacle not only in social interactions but in romantic and work relationships as well. Now there is hope from communications expert Leil Lowndes’s How to Be a People Magnet. The bestselling author of How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You, Lowndes reveals specific and proven techniques for attracting friends and lovers and keeping them for life. She uncovers the secrets of attracting friends for fun and romance as well as networking to strengthen business contacts and relationships. Her advice is effective, yet easy for anyone–shy or bold–to implement.

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Some folks are human magnets. People smile at them wherever they go. They have faithful friends who would do anything for them. They get invited to all the parties. They have more dates than they can handle. What’s their secret? According to bestselling author Leil Lowndes, beloved and popular people know the secret of fearless communicating . . . and now you can, too. How to Be a People Magnet will teach you how to walk fearlessly into any situation with total confidence, authority, and flair and to walk away with whatever you want—a new friend, a new customer, or a new lover. You’ll also learn how to:
• Make strangers like you instantly
• Stamp out that Fatal FUD Factor (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)
• Make everyone around you feel singularly special
• Know when to smile, when not to smile, and why one size doesn’t fit all
• Listen to someone’s heart, not his or her words
• Fine-tune your tongue, depending on to whom you’re talking
• Avoid the two biggest mistakes when meeting someone new
• Develop a round table of friends who will be there for you, whatever happens
• Market yourself like a Hollywood celebrity
• Benefit from the surprising studies on what separates social “winners” from social “losers”

Plus, you’ll find out how to prevent simple shyness from trashing your life and why having a high OQ (Optimism Quotient) is the key to communication success.

Like Leil Lowndes’s top-selling titles How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You and How to Talk to Anybody About Anything, How to Be a People Magnet is brimming with helpful hints, tips, and ideas for approaching, attracting, and communicating with just about anyone. Whether you’re a shy gal or guy or you’re just looking for ways to improve your social skills, How to Be a People Magnet will show you exactly what’s needed to successfully add new friends and lovers to your life. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Leil Lowndes is an internationally acclaimed communications consultant and speaker whose work has been praised by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Time magazine. She is the author of five books, including the bestselling How to Talk to Anybody About Anything, How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You, and Talking the Winner’s Way, as well as the award-winning audiocassette series Conversation Confidence.

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Although Sparta’s early history is not clear, by the end of the 8th century most of the other cities of Lakedaimon had been reduced to subject status. The Lakedaimonians were the only full time army in ancient Greece and were thus truly an elite force. The institutions of the state and the system of education were organised with a view to creating superbly trained soldiers. Nick Sekunda examines this unique military machine in this book describing the organisational systems of the Spartan army through the Hellenistic period, how they were trained, the battles they fought, and the society that produced them.
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An unrivalled illustrated reference source on fighting men and commanders, past and present. Each volume is packed with full colour artwork, making military history uniquely accessible to enthusiasts of all ages.

About the Author
Nicholas Sekunda was born in 1953. After studying Ancient History and Archaeology at Manchester University, he went on to take his Ph.D. in 1981. He has taken part in archaeological excavations in Poland, Iran and Greece, participated in a research project on ancient Persian warfare for the British institute of Persian Studies. He has published numerous books and academic articles, and is currently teaching at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Torun, Poland.

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In the tradition of O’Reilly’s “In a Nutshell” series, Python in a Nutshell offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up all 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.
Ask any Python aficionado and you’ll hear that Python programmers have it all: an elegant language that offers object-oriented programming support, a readable, maintainable syntax, integration with C components, and an enormous collection of precoded standard library and extension modules. Moreover, Python is easy to learn but powerful enough to take on the most ambitious programming challenges. But what Python programmers have lacked is one concise and clear reference resource, with the appropriate measure of guidance in how best to use Python’s great power. Now Python in a Nutshell fills this need. In the tradition of O’Reilly’s “In a Nutshell” series, 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 modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up all 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 focuses on Python 2.2 (and all its point releases), currently the most stable and widespread Python release. This book includes:

* A fast-paced tutorial on the syntax of the Python language itself
* An explanation of object-oriented programming in Python, covering both the classic and new-style object models
* Coverage of other core topics, including exceptions, modules, strings, and regular expressions
* A quick reference for Python’s built-in types and functions, as well as the key modules in the Python standard library, including sys, os, time, thread, math, and socket, among many others
* Reference material on important third-party extensions, such as Numeric and Tkinter
* Information about extending Python and embedding it into other applications

Python in a Nutshell provides a solid, no-nonsense quick reference to information that programmers rely on the most. This latest addition to the best-selling “In a Nutshell” series will immediately earn its place in any Python programmer’s library.

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This new book, written specifically for this version of the software, not only offers the basics of how to create, save, set up, run, and print a basic bullets-and-background slideshow, but takes you into the world of multimedia, animation, and interactivity. You’ll learn how to add pictures, sound, video, animated effects, and controls (buttons and links) to their slides, along with ways to pull text, spreadsheets, and animations created in other programs. You can also create your own reusable design templates and learn to automate repetitive tasks with macros. Learn how to take advantage of advanced functions (such as adding custom background images) that existed in previous PowerPoint versions, but were so cleverly hidden that few people ever found them.

Like every other application in Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint is loaded with features. So many, in fact, that even veterans don’t know where to find them all. Microsoft solved this problem in PowerPoint 2007 by redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes features easy to locate and use. PowerPoint 2007 also boasts improved graphics, additional templates, the ability to save custom layouts, and improved collaboration through SharePoint. One thing Microsoft hasn’t improved is its poor documentation. To learn the ins and outs of all the features in PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft merely offers online help. If you’re familiar with previous versions of the program, you may be lost the first time you fire up the new PowerPoint; or you would be if it weren’t for PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual.

This new book, written specifically for this version of the software, not only offers the basics of how to create, save, set up, run, and print a basic bullets-and-background slideshow, but takes you into the world of multimedia, animation, and interactivity. You’ll learn how to add pictures, sound, video, animated effects, and controls (buttons and links) to their slides, along with ways to pull text, spreadsheets, and animations created in other programs. You can also create your own reusable design templates and learn to automate repetitive tasks with macros. Learn how to take advantage of advanced functions (such as adding custom background images) that existed in previous PowerPoint versions, but were so cleverly hidden that few people ever found them.

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Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema explores the implications for motion picture post production processes and changes required to the supporting equipment and software. While a new concept to the motion picture community, the selection of the wide gamut, output-referred XYZ color space for digital cinema distribution is based on decades of color science and experience in other industries. The rationale for choosing XYZ and the other color encoding parameters is explained and the book also provides a full case study of the development of DLP Cinema® projectors by Texas Instruments. Finally, this book explores how the XYZ color encoding concept can be extended to support enhanced display technologies in the future.

This book contains:

* Brilliant 4-color illustrations that compliment the color science explanations
* Never before published industry information from author Glenn Kennel, a world leader in digital cinema color technology
* Descriptions of key issues and background on decisions that were made in the standardization process
By Glenn Kennel, Glenn Kennel is VP/GM of Feature Film Services at Laser Pacific Media Corporation, a leading provider of a full range of post production services for television and feature film. Recently, he worked for the DLP Cinema group of Texas Instruments in a role that included technology and business development. Previously, in a twenty year career with Kodak, he led the development of the Cineon digital film scanners and laser recorders and the prototype HDTV telecine that became the Spirit Datacine. As a consultant, he helped DCI draft the technical specifications for digital cinema. Kennel also chairs the SMPTE DC28 Color ad hoc group and the DC28.20 Distribution working group. He is a SMPTE Fellow and has received the SMPTE Journal Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
* Brilliant 4-color illustrations compliment the color science explanations
* Never before published industry information from author Glenn Kennel, a world leader in digital cinema color technology
* This book describes the key issues and provides background on decisions that were made in the standardization process

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Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. It is now being used by an increasing number of major organizations, including NASA and Google.
Updated for Python 2.4, The “Python Cookbook,” 2nd Edition offers a wealth of useful code for all Python programmers, not just advanced practitioners. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday.

It now includes over 200 recipes that range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks, such as monitoring a network and building a templating system. This revised version also includes new chapters on topics such as time, money, and metaprogramming.
Here’s a list of additional topics covered:
Manipulating text
Searching and sorting
Working with files and the filesystem
Object-oriented programming
Dealing with threads and processes
System administration
Interacting with databases
Creating user interfaces
Network and web programming
Processing XML
Distributed programming
Debugging and testing
Another advantage of The “Python Cookbook,” 2nd Edition is its trio of authors–three well-known Python programming experts, who are highly visible on email lists and in newsgroups, and speak often at Python conferences.
With scores of practical examples and pertinent background information, The “Python Cookbook,” 2nd Edition is the one source you need if you’re looking to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems.

Book Info
A collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples written by Python programmers in the style of the popular Perl Cookbook. Anyone interested in Python programming will want this wealth of practical advice, snippets of code, and patterns of program design. Softcover. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Zope is a powerful application server and content management system, but because it is an open-source technology there is a tremendous need for reliable, practical documentation showing developers how to leverage Zope to its fullest.Written by developers at Beehive Electronic Media Inc., one of the world’s leading Zope consulting firms, Zope Web Application Construction Kit provides readers with a practical, straightforward guide — along with all the needed software — to setting up and developing powerful Web applications using Zope.
From the Back Cover
Zope is a powerful application server and content management system, but because it is an open-source technology there is a tremendous need for reliable, practical documentation showing developers how to leverage Zope to its fullest. Written by developers at Beehive Electronic Media Inc., one of the world’s leading Zope consulting firms, Zope Web Application Construction Kit provides readers with a practical, straightforward guide — along with all the needed software — to setting up and developing powerful Web applications using Zope.

About the Author

Martina Brockmann was born in 1978 in Eastern Germany. She finished school in 1998 and moved to Berlin, where she started studying History and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. When she started working at beehive two years later, Martina made first contact with Zope. At beehive she wrote documentation and user manuals for beehiveÕs own projects and for projects of beehiveÕs customers. Earlier this year Martina worked as a co-writer for Zope: Content Management and Web Application Server, which is the first German Zope book.

K. Kirchner was born in Berlin in 1977 and finished school in 1996. After getting a degree in Commercial Correspondence, Kirchner started studying Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and began working at beehive GmbH. Since then, Kirchner has been writing e-books on Zope and documentation for projects of beehiveÕs customers, and has co-authored the first German Zope book Zope: Content Management and Web Application Server. Mark Pratt is the managing director of beehive GmbH. He co-wrote the CMF chapter as well as Chapter 1 with K. Kirchner.

Sebastian Lühnsdorf has been working for beehive GmbH since June 1995. He is responsible for planning, designing, and implementing Web applications based on Zope. He is the co-author of the free Zope product the MetaPublisher and created the CMFMetaPublisher especially for this book.

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Beginning with a basic primer on reverse engineering-including computer internals, operating systems, and assembly language-and then discussing the various
applications of reverse engineering, this book provides readers with practical, in-depth techniques for software reverse engineering. The book is broken into two parts, the first deals with security-related reverse engineering and the second explores the more practical aspects of reverse engineering. In addition, the author explains how to reverse engineer a third-party software library to improve interfacing and how to reverse engineer a competitor’s software to build a better product.
* The first popular book to show how software reverse engineering can help defend against security threats, speed up development, and unlock the secrets of competitive products
* Helps developers plug security holes by demonstrating how hackers exploit reverse engineering techniques to crack copy-protection schemes and identify software targets for viruses and other malware
* Offers a primer on advanced reverse-engineering, delving into “disassembly”-code-level reverse engineering-and explaining how to decipher assembly language

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Sometimes, the best way to advance is in reverse

If you want to know how something works, you take it apart very carefully. That’s exactly what this book shows you—how to deconstruct software in a way that reveals design and implementation details, sometimes even source code. Why? Because reversing reveals weak spots, so you can target your security efforts. Because you can reverse-engineer malicious code in order to neutralize it. Because understanding what makes a program work lets you build a better one. You’ll learn how here.

* Learn to read compiler-generated assembly language code for IA-32 compatible processors
* Decipher an undocumented file format or network protocol
* Understand when reverse engineering is legal, and when—and why—it may not be
* See how hackers use reversing to defeat copy protection technology
* Find out how to pull the plug on malicious code
* Determine how to prevent others from reversing your code, and find out how effective such steps can be
* Explore reverse engineering on the .NET platform and its assembly language, MSIL
* Observe the dissection of a real-world malicious program and see how the attacker used it to control infected systems

About the Author
Eldad Eilam is a consultant in the field of reverse engineering. He assists clients with operating system and in-depth software reverse engineering, and has devoted several years to developing advanced reverse engineering techniques.

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An enormous system comprising myriad technologies, options, and releases, Oracle’s complexities have spawned numerous areas of specialization. For each area of specialization there are equally specialized how-to books and manuals. O’Reilly’s Oracle Essentials claims a unique place among these books. Rather than focusing on one area, the book explains the foundational concepts of the Oracle technology and the core technical and business aspects of using it. The new edition of this classic book, Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g, distills a vast amount of knowledge into an easy-to-read volume covering every aspect of the Oracle database. Readers of all levels will learn about Oracle’s features and technologies, including the product line, architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, tuning, and much more. Featuring focused text, abundant illustrations, and helpful hints, the new edition offers a valuable overview of Oracle’s Database 10g–the industry’s first database to support grid computing. Recent releases such as Oracle 9i and 8i are also covered. The book contains chapters on:

* Oracle products, options, and overall architecture for Oracle 10g and prior recent releases
* Installing and running Oracle: how to configure, start up, and shut down the database, and various networking issues
* Oracle data structures, datatypes, and ways of extending datatypes, with an introduction to Oracle objects (e.g., tables, views, indexes)
* Managing Oracle: security, the Oracle Enterprise Manager, fragmentation and reorganization, and backup and recovery
* Oracle performance: characteristics of disk, memory, and CPU tuning
* Multi-user concurrency, online transaction processing (OLTP), and high availability
* Hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPP, NUMA) and their impact on Oracle
* Data warehousing and distributed databases
* Network deployment: using Oracle as an Internet computing platform and for grid computing
* What’s new in Oracle 10g: a summary of the database changes described in the book

Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g was written for anyone whose job involves managing or building systems using Oracle DBMS technology or working with staff that uses Oracle technology. This book is the perfect all-in-one source for understanding the complexities and capabilities of Oracle.

About the Author
Rick Greenwald has been active in the world of computer software for nearly two decades, including stints with Data General, Cognos, and Gupta. He is currently an analyst with Oracle Corporation. He’s published six books and countless articles on a variet
Robert Stackowiak is Senior Director of E-Business Intelligence for Oracle Corporation’s Enterprise Technology Center. He works with Oracle’s largest customers in North America, providing insight into the company’s products and data warehousing strategy.

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Get noticed. Get discovered.
It’s YourSpace
There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It’s all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.
Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:

* Embedding graphics
* Creating animated images
* Developing your own background
* Building custom cursors
* Changing profile text styles
* Getting kinky with links
* Adding a comments box
* Altering your contact table
* Redesigning the navigation bar
* Making DIV overlays

A companion Web site provides even more tricks and techniques.
Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more.

About the Author
John Pospisil is the founder of CogentInsights, a marketing and communications consultancy specializing in new and converging media. He was the product development champion and founding editor of Computer CHOICE, a magazine launched by the Australian Consumers’ Association in 1995 and still one of Australia’s most credible and independent IT titles. And he really had fun putting this book together.

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This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more. From the Back Cover
Going somewhere? Or just getting back?
Great vacation photos—too bad you can’t remember where you took them. And wouldn’t it have been terrific to find a pizza joint when you bumped into yourcollege buddy in that little ski town? Well, by making Google Maps and Google Earth do your bidding, you can find out not only where you’re going, but where you’ve been. Get an aerial view of the beach in that picture. Pinpoint every Thai takeout in your girlfriend’s zip code. Plan the Great International Rollercoaster Tour. Here’s how.

Get Going
Create applications that let you do all this and more

1. Make maps that reveal statistical data
2. Plot routes to include or avoid key factors
3. Build a community site
4. Create a realtor’s presentation
5. Calculate distances for routes
6. Show where your holiday photos were taken
7. Merge Flickr photos onto a map
8. Highlight archaeological information

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Become a cyber-hero - know the common wireless weaknesses
“Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional.”
–Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program
Wireless networks are so convenient - not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who’d like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network’s armor.

Discover how to:

* Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system
* Combat denial of service and WEP attacks
* Understand how invaders think
* Recognize the effects of different hacks
* Protect against war drivers and rogue devices

About the Author
Kevin Beaver, CISSP, is a 16-year specialist in security assessments and incident response.
Peter T. Davis, CISSP, has worked with information systems audits and security for 24 years.

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* Knoppix is an innovative Linux distribution that does not require installation, making it ideal to use for a rescue system, demonstration purposes, or many other applications
* Shows hack-hungry fans how to fully customize Knoppix and Knoppix-based distributions
* Readers will learn to create two different Knoppix-based live CDs, one for children and one for Windows recovery
* Teaches readers to use Knoppix to work from a strange computer, rescue a Windows computer that won’t boot, repair and recover data from other machines, and more
* Includes Knoppix Light 4.0 on a ready-to-use, bootable live CD

From the Back Cover
Knoppix is so cool. It’s easy to use, ultra-portable, and doesn’t care what platform you’re using. It camps on your system without canceling out your regular installation or messing with your files. And it’s really fun to play with. Here are all kinds of ways to customize Knoppix for your particular needs, plus the scoop on various Knoppix distros. Learn to build a Knoppix first-aid kit for repairing cranky Windows and rescuing precious data, or create your own Live CD. Sweet!

What can you do with it?

Hundreds of things including these:

* Surf the Web
* Listen to music
* Fix Linux®
* Fix Windows®
* Test system security
* Create diskless clients
* Build a Knoppix distro for kids
* Personalize your own distro

About the Author
Scott Granneman is an author, educator, and consultant. Scott’s book on the Firefox web browser, Don’t Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox, has garnered wide praise. In addition, he is a monthly columnist for SecurityFocus and for Linux Magazine, and he blogs professionally on the Open Source Weblog. He is currently an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a variety of courses about technology, social software, and the Internet. Finally, as a co-owner of WebSanity, Scott helps nonprofits and businesses use the company’s Content Management System to take full advantage of the Web’s communication, sales, and service opportunities. He’s been using Linux for a decade, and swears by it.

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By following this resource, corporations can go wireless and still protect mission-critical data. Top corporate security consultant, Stewart Miller covers security for Windows, Linux, Macs, Palms, and other PDAs, and shows how to prevent breaches caused by weak encryption protocols. This work review security approaches for the different standards currently competing for the U.S. market. It addresses data compromise, unauthorized access, and denial of service - all critical to WLAN users. It covers the 802.11 IEEE standard in regards to security, performance, and throughput. It also discusses encryption and privacy through the WEP (Wired Equivalent privacy) protocol.

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This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It is of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures. For example, the next generation of computer game consoles will all be multiprocessor-based, and the game industry is currently struggling to understand how to address the programming challenges presented by these machines.
This change in the industry is so fundamental that it is certain to require a significant response by universities, and courses on multicore programming will become a staple of computer science curriculums.

TITLE: The The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
Author: Maurice Herlihy
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (March 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123705916
ISBN-13: 978-0123705914

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Among network designers and administrators, wired Ethernet is a known quantity. Plenty is known about how to build good twisted-pair network infrastructures, how to keep them secure, and how to monitor their excess capacity. Not so for the wireless Ethernet networks (built around the IEEE 802.11x standards)–these hold much more mystery for even experienced network designers. 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide aims to codify the body of knowledge needed to design and maintain wireless local area networks (LANs).
The authors succeed admirably in this, covering what installation and administration teams need to know and digging into information of use to driver writers and others working at lower levels.The only significant detail that’s been excluded has to do with security–a notorious weak point of 802.11x LANs. The authors cover the feeble but widely used Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) authentication protocol in detail and devote another whole chapter to 802.1x, which is an emerging authentication scheme based on Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). The author has considerable skill in communicating information graphically and does a great job of using graphs to show how communications frequencies shift over time and how conversations among access points and network nodes progress over time. This is indeed an authoritative document. Topics covered: How IEEE 802.11a and 802.11b wireless networks (also known as WiFi networks) work, and how to configure your own. The framing specification is covered well, as are authentication protocols and (in detail) the physical phenomena that affect IEEE 802.11x radio transmissions. There’s advice on how to design a wireless network topology, and how to go about network traffic analysis and performance improvement.

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E-mail is a powerful marketing communications tool which excels at developing relationships with existing customers and acquiring new customers. This second edition builds on the authors successful formula, describing a practical approach to e-mail marketing for all marketers looking to exploit its potential or take their e-mail to the next level. Total e-Mail Marketing 2e draws on expertise and latest examples from leading European practitioners to detail practical tips to improve campaign results. Packed with brand new case studies and checklists to get you started or improve on past campaigns, the book covers all aspects of e-mail marketing, including:

* Planning effective, integrated e-mail campaigns and e-newsletters
* How to rapidly build a quality house list and select the best tools to manage it
* Ethical and legal constraints in a fast-moving sector
* Design and write HTML and text format e-mails for maximum response
* Getting through the SPAM filters to maximize deliverability
* Targeting, personalizing, measuring and improving e-mail campaigns
* Integrating emerging technologies like blogs, RSS and mobile messaging
* Practical dos and donts

A vital supplement to the authors book e-Marketing eXcellence, also in its 2nd editon and co-written with PR Smith, this text is relevant to all marketers specializing in e-marketing or not as it offers an integrated campaign perspective and shows how to maximize integrated e-marketing results.

* Completely updated edition of the bestselling e-mail marketing handbook.
* Brand new examples reflect the latest best practice in this fast-moving area.
* Tried-and-tested structure offers an integrated campaign perspective, crucial for all marketers wanting to maximize the benefits of e-mail.

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Throughout banking, mathematical techniques are used. Some of these are within software products or models; mathematicians use others to analyse data. The current literature on the subject is either very basic or very advanced.
The Mathematics of Banking offers an intermediate guide to the various techniques used in the industry, and a consideration of how each one should be approached. Written in a practical style, it will enable readers to quickly appreciate the purpose of the techniques and, through illustrations, see how they can be applied in practice. Coverage is extensive and includes techniques such as VaR analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, extreme value theory, variance and many others.

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If consultants did not have to market and sell themselves, I am sure
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* Shows power users how to take Windows XP to the next level, focusing on functionality, networking, and overall performance
* Features to-the-point coverage that skips introductory explanations and focuses instead on the real-world tips and tricks power users need to become more productive
* Written in a friendly, approachable style by experienced XP author and power user Curt Simmons
* Topics covered include scripting, managing applications, making the most of digital media, power management, hardware management, the registry and file systems, security, auditing, backup and data storage, system performance, system recovery, Microsoft’s popular download XP Power Toys, networking, and wireless

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Everything you need to know about

* Using third-party interface and application compatibility tools
* Working with digital media applications
* Managing power, security, hardware, and software
* Auditing files and restoring data
* Setting up wireless, workgroup, and remote networks
* Applying Service Pack 1 for improved security, compatibility, and stability
* Maximizing system performance
* Having fun with Windows XP Power Toys

Learn how you can harness all the power of Windows XP

If you’re ready to use all the features of Windows XP to your best advantage, here’s how to sharpen your skills as a power user. This book enables you to take control of the system, configure operating system services, build and manage networks, handle the interface, expand XP’s capabilities with scripting, enhance security features, experiment with Power Toys, and a whole lot more. Packed with step-by-step instructions and thorough coverage of configuration and performance, it takes you to a new level of Windows expertise.

About the Author
Curt Simmons is a technical trainer and author of more than thirty books on Microsoft® and Internet technologies, including several bestsellers. Considered an expert on Microsoft Office and Windows, he recently penned Windows XP Secrets, Windows XP Headaches, Windows XP Networking Inside Out and How to Do Everything with Windows XP.

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One of the secrets to the ever-increasing popularity of Windows Server can be found in the simplicity its administration. The easy-to-use GUI, consistent set of tools, and wizards that walk you through complex tasks allow you to install, configure and maintain Windows servers without any knowledge of programming or scripting languages or learning complicated command-line syntax. It’s possible, in fact, to accomplish about 90% of all Windows administration without ever opening a command prompt or running a script! But what about the other ten percent of the time? While it’s true that most common, day-to-day tasks of Windows administration can be performed from the GUI, it’s not always the best way, especially with complex or repetitive tasks Scripts and command-line tools often provide a faster, more flexible approach.

Windows Server Hacks reveals techniques that go well beyond basic management tasks found in most handbooks to help busy system administrators master the more powerful features of Windows Server. Windows Server Hacks focuses on scripts and other tools that will make your life as an administrator much easier. These tools, or hacks–quick and dirty solutions to problems, or clever ways of doing things–were created by other professionals who’ve also had to struggle to find solutions to administering Windows environments. You’ll save valuable time using their scripts, tools, tips, and advice. Plus, you can easily learn to customize the scripts to create even more powerful tools for your own, specific needs. The book includes secrets of the masters in such areas as Active Directory, User Management, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP, File and Print, IIS, performance and security. The hundred, industrial strength hacks in the book range from those that deal with general administration to more esoteric hacks in the areas of network deployment, patch management, and backup and recovery. No matter which Windows server you use–NT, IIS, 2000, or 2003–this book will put the knowledge and expertise of veteran system administrators and hackers to work for you. Windows Server Hacks will make your life easier while expanding your understanding of the capabilities of Windows Server.

About the Author
Mitch Tulloch is a trainer, consultant, and author living in Winnipeg, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In addition to his many Nutshell books for O’Reilly (Windows 2000 Administration, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server)

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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. Using PHP, and MySQL, two open source technologies the are often combined to develop web applications, the book offers detailed information on designing relational databases and on web application architecture, both of which will be useful to readers who have never dealt with these issues before. The book also introduces Hugh and Dave’s Online Wine Store, a complete (but fictional) online retail site implemented using PHP and MySQL.
What do eBay, Amazon.com and CNN.com have in common? They’re all applications that integrate large databases with the Web. The popularity (and power) of these applications stems from their accessibility and usability: thousands of users can access the same data at the same time without theneed to install any additional software on their computers. Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL offers web developers a mixture of theoretical and practical information on creating web database applications. Using PHP, and MySQL, two open source technologies that are often combined to develop web applications, the book offers detailed information on designing relational databases and on web application architecture, both of which will be useful to readers who have never dealt with these issues before. The book also introduces Hugh and Dave’s Online Wines, a complete (but fictional) online retail site that allows users to browse, search a database, add items to a shopping cart, manage their membership, and purchase wines. Using this site as an example, the book shows you how to implement searching and browsing, store user data, validate user input, manage transactions, and maintain security. If you want to build small to medium-scale web database applications that can run on modest hardware and process more than a million hits a day from users, this book will show you how.

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Using Samba, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration. It covers all versions of Samba from 2.0 to 2.2, including selected features from an alpha version of 3.0, as well as the SWAT graphical configuration tool. Updated for Windows 2000, ME, and XP, the book also explores Samba’s new role as a primary domain controller and domain member server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP authentication and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and accessing shared files and printers from Unix clients.

This book, which has been officially adopted by the Samba Team and is under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration. The 2nd edition focuses on Samba 2.2 and covers the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print. Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Samba is so robust, flexible, fast, and secure that many people are choosing it over Windows NT/2000/XP for their file and print services. Samba is also free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. This book will help you make file and print sharing as robust, powerful, and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself. Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration–on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems–to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether a user sees the folder they expect or a cryptic error message. The range of this book knows few bounds. Wondering how to integrate Samba’s authentication with that of a Windows PDC? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting. Whether you’re playing on one note or a full three-octave range, on your personal computer or an enterprise network, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

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With in-depth complete coverage on the installation process, editing and typesetting, graphical user interfaces, programming system administration, and managing Internet sites, Inside Linux is the only book “smart users” new to Linux will need. Many of the users new to Linux have an understanding of computer technology and will be looking for just the right reference to fit their sophisticated needs. This book guides users to a high level of proficiency with all the flavors of Linux, and help them with crucial system administration chores. Inside Linux is different than other books available because it’s a unique blend of a how-to and a reference guide.

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The author of Inside Linux acknowledges that adequately teaching how to use Linux involves more than communicating a series of recipes. For that reason, he goes to considerable effort to explain what’s going on when the user executes various commands. He uses procedures to expose facts about Linux’s innards, rather than as mere strategies for achieving desired effects. Therefore, his prose–particularly his extended coverage of the bash shell–reads like a scientist’s journal: If we do this, here’s what happens (and by the way, here’s why). The approach is more leisurely than that of many introductory Linux books, and it leads to a deeper understanding of what’s going on under the shell.

The author shows how to configure and use XFree86, the K Desktop Environment (KDE), and GNOME. These are handy skills to have, even if most distributions will more or less automate those processes and some readers may wish instead for information on more obscure aspects of the operating system. Coverage of network configuration, where an intimate knowledge of the command line and configuration files is critical, suits this book’s experiment-and-observe format very well. The reader gets to see lots of important pieces of software in action. There’s nothing about Apache, but the sections on setting up FTP and Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) services are particularly detailed. –David Wall

Topics covered: Linux for those unfamiliar with the operating system, with particular focus on the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, Red Hat Linux 6, Slackware Linux 4, and SuSE Linux 6.1 distributions. Installation of XFree86, KDE, and GNOME are covered, as are the mechanics of setting up a TCP/IP network at the command line. Coverage of FTP and UUCP services conclude this book.

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Get ready to dive headfirst into the world of programming! “Game Programming with Python, Lua, and Ruby” offers an in-depth look at these three flexible languages as they relate to creating games. No matter what your skill level as a programmer, this book provides the guidance you need. Each language is covered in its own section?you’ll begin with the basics of syntax and style and then move on to more advanced topics. Follow along with each language or jump right to a specific section! Similar features in Python, Lua, and Ruby?including functions, string handling, data types, commenting, and arrays and strings?are examined. Learn how each language is used in popular game engines and projects, and jumpstart your programming expertise as you develop skills you’ll use again and again!

About the Author
Tom Gutschmidt has been a freelance technical writer for the past two years, with articles mainly appearing on Earthweb, Gamelan, and Developer.com. He also worked as an editor for the RPG website GameBanshee for the year 2001. Currently he is the youngest member of a small development team in an encryption and key management company (Widevine Technologies). Gutschmidt has worked on a number of open source game projects, do freelance work currently making web based games, and actively work on mod development.

His current projects include running an online gaming site that focuses on NWN mods and flash game development. The site has a small but regular following. He is wrapping up production on a full length NWN game mod that is in the late stages of beta testing.

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The ANSI/ISO C++ Professional Programmers Handbook is a concise professional C++ reference tool that presents all of the changes and addenda to the language specification. It contains tips and guidelines for exerting the full potential of C++ as a multi-purpose object-oriented programming language. The new Standard Briefing component provides coverage of the latest version of the C++ language including additions and modifications to the language, new constructs such as built-in bool type, namespaces, RTTI, new header file conventions, internalization, memory management and new cast notation. Additionally, we’ve included a Manual of Programming Style, a Compatibility Compendium, and Future Directions overview.

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Danny Kalev is a certified system analyst and software engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in C++ and object-oriented analysis and design. Danny’s technical interests involve networking, distributed data systems, compiler technology, and embedded systems. He is currently working towards an MA degree in Applied Linguistic at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel and is a contributing columnist for the C/C++ User’s Journal. As a member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee, Danny has been involved with every aspect of the language, deciding the rationale behind every new feature of the language and the recommended ways of using it. He has taken part in C++ projects in such diverse fields as data processing, networking, real-time programming, virtual machines, GUI, AI, automated speech synthesis and processing, compilers and parsers.

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The in-depth UNIX guide for every end-user: completely updated and full of examples!

* For every key UNIX platform: practical examples, real depth!
* Covers all basic UNIX commands, plus sed, grep, awk, vi, and more
* Complete shell programming coverage—plus NEW programming section covering C/C++, Java(tm), and Internet development
* KornShell, Bash, C Shell, and Shell Programming
* Windows interoperability, in depth: Samba, NFS, Windows 2000 Services for UNIX, and much more

UNIX end-users desperately need an up-to-date reference guide with real depth: one that teaches UNIX commands and doesn’t just list them! In UNIX User’s Handbook, Second Edition, best-selling UNIX author Marty Poniatowski covers every topic UNIX users need to master—with exceptional clarity and practical, real-world examples. Part I brings together thorough coverage of virtually every key aspect of day-to-day UNIX operation and end-user administration. Part II presents an in-depth programming reference. Part III covers every leading option for Windows interoperability. You’ll find fast, easy answers for all this and more:

* Getting started: login, mail, Internet access, and key UNIX file management commands
* All basic UNIX commands and a complete UNIX file system overview (cd, cp, file, ls, mv, pwd, rm, rmdir, cut, paste, split, sort, diff, and more)
* Key UNIX tools—including in-depth coverage of find, vi, find, grep, sed, and awk
* Shells and shell programming: Bash, Korn, and C
* Full programming section—including a NEW user-centered introduction to C/C++ and Java
* End-user administration: processes, startup, shutdown, users/groups, backup, software management, printing, and more
* Networking and Internet protocols
* UNIX/Windows interoperability: Samba, X Window, NFS, Posix, Windows 2000 Services for UNIX, and other alternatives
* Performance and monitoring

This new edition has been updated throughout and redesigned for even faster, easier access to information. Whatever your experience, whatever UNIX version you use, you won’t find a more useful reference!

About the Author

MARTY PONIATOWSKI, a technical consultant for Hewlett-Packard in the New York metropolitan area, has worked with UNIX systems since 1981. His best-selling books include HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit and HP-UX 11.x System Administration “How To” Book (Prentice Hall PTR).

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Designed to help you maximize system integrity and availability on any Unix system-including clusters, monitor systems, disks, networks applications, and databases, with tips for recovery and prevention. Provides quick reference diagnostics and recovery section for systems operators. Softcover. DLC: UNIX (Computer file).

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Preface

This book is intended for system administrators and operators who are responsible for maintaining the integrity and availability of mission-critical UNIX systems. The book provides a description of the fault monitoring tools and techniques available for UNIX servers, including systems that are configured as high availability clusters.

This book can therefore be a handy quick reference for an operator trying to troubleshoot a problem in the customer environment, by pointing out where to find key diagnostic messages and describing how to take recovery actions.

A system administrator responsible for the initial configuration and administration of UNIX systems will also find this book useful because it describes the procedures to follow to set up the appropriate levels of system monitoring. The product descriptions can also help in making purchasing decisions as the customer determines the appropriate amount of event monitoring needed in their environment.

An overview of the tasks performed by an operator is provided, with details on how events are received and processed. The remainder of the book focuses on the types of events that can be received, how they are detected, how operators receive event notifications, and how problems can be investigated and recovery performed. The goal is to introduce the necessary tools, but not to show how every possible problem can be solved.

This book provides numerous descriptions of how fault management tools and products can be used to solve a variety of problems. Many of the chapters are focused on specific computer components, such as disks or databases, to be helpful to operators with specific roles. Here is a description of the individual chapters:

Chapter 1, “Analyzing the Role of System Operators,” describes the tasks performed by a system operator and the evolution of fault management.
Chapter 2, “Enumerating Possible Events,” describes the various types of events that are interesting to monitor on a UNIX system.
Chapter 3, “Using Monitoring Frameworks,” describes monitoring frameworks and the administrative tasks that must be done before they can be used.
Chapter 4, “Monitoring the System,” describes the tools and products used to monitor the UNIX server.
Chapter 5, “Monitoring the Disks,” describes the tools and products used to monitor external disk devices.
Chapter 6, “Monitoring the Network,” provides an overview of the many tools available for detecting problems and events related to the use of the network.
Chapter 7, “Monitoring the Application,” describes methods for monitoring the response times and availability of critical applications.
Chapter 8, “Monitoring the Database,” focuses specifically on tools to detect problems and events related to database usage.
Chapter 9, “Enterprise Management,” discusses the problems with trying to deal with fault management for the large-scale customer enterprise.
Chapter 10, “UNIX Futures,” discusses the future plans of some of the major UNIX system vendors in the area of fault management.
Appendix A, “Standards,” describes fault management standards that have emerged and how you can benefit from them.

The Glossary contains the important terms used in the book, and their definitions.
Although it is assumed that most customers concerned about fault management will implement high availability solutions, this book does not describe how to create highly available computing environments. Readers needing additional information on high availability may check Hewlett-PackardÕs external Web site on high availability (hp/go/ha) or read Clusters for High Availability by Peter Weygant.

In general, this book does not discuss the configuration and installation of the hardware and software components of your UNIX system. You should rely on your vendorsÕ product manuals for this.

Many of the examples used in this book were created on HP-UX servers. Other UNIX platforms behave similarly, and we note when tools are supported only on certain UNIX platforms.

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Oxford Practice Grammar is for students of English
at a middle or ‘intermediate’ level. This means
students who are no longer beginners but who are
not yet expert in English. The book is suitable for
those studying for the Cambridge First Certificate
in English. It can be used by students attending
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Covers the latest major release of PHP, the most popular open source Web scripting language, in the friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style
* PHP is installed on nearly nine million servers, and usage has grown at the rate of 6.5 percent per month for the past two years
* PHP is easy to learn, well suited for Web development, and can be embedded with HTML, making it a good choice for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce sites and other Web applications; a database-friendly language, it connects easily to Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, and other databases
* Explains how to acquire and install PHP, how PHP’s features make it a useful scripting language, and how to use PHP for three of the most common applications: interactive Web sites, database storage, and common operating system tasks

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Start programming PHP and make your Web site interactive
Discover arrays of variables, start writing scripts, and get object oriented
The script calls for an interactive Web site – where do you start? Right here, with a fast and friendly way to get the hang of PHP 5 programming! You’ll also discover all the other cool things you can do with PHP, like managing files, interacting with databases, using system commands, and more.
The Dummies Way

* Explanations in plain English
* “Get in, get out” information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Janet Valade is the author of PHP & MySQL For Dummies. In addition, she has authored and revised chapters for several Linux books and for a Webmaster certification book.
Janet Valade has 20 years experience in the computing field. She worked as a Web designer/programmer for an engineering firm. Prior to that, Janet worked for several years in a university environment as a systems analyst. During her tenure, she supervised the installation and operation of computing resources, designed and developed a data archive, provided technical support for faculty and students, wrote numerous technical papers, and developed and presented seminars and workshops on a variety of technology topics.

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* Complete tutorial for database developers!
* Thorough coverage of PL/SQL
* Practical “cookbook” techniques

Effectively create and manage complex databases with Oracle! Systems and database expert Kevin Owens explores PL/SQL, Oracle’s answer to the Structured Query Language (SQL), and teaches you what you need to know to build robust and complex databases for your business.Using easy-to-follow instructions and examples, this book presents techniques to take advantage of Oracle features such as triggers and stored procedures-features that allow your databases to incorporate business rules which are easy to manage and modify as the business evolves. Topics covered include:

* Viewing constraints in the data dictionary
* Complex rule enforcement
* PL/SQL program units and language features
* Data types and composite structure
* Error handling and exceptions
* Inter-process communications
* Declarative constraints, including primary key, unique, foreign key, check, and much more

Programming Oracle Triggers and Stored Procedures, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for database developers, designers, and project leaders looking to build and maintain truly intelligent, complex databases

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Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story.

With Card Games For Dummies, Second Edition, you’ll not only be able to play the hottest card games around, you can also apply game-winning strategies and tips to have fun and beat your opponents. Now updated, this hands-on guide shows you everything you need to know—the basics, the tricks, and the techniques—to become a master card player, with expanded coverage on poker as well as online gaming and tournaments. Soon you will have the card-playing power to:
Pin down your opponents in Texas Hold’em
Show off your power in Stud Poker
Hit wisely in Blackjack
Break hearts ruthlessly in Hearts
Mix up the night with Gin and Rummy
Build yourself a victory in Bridge
Send them fishing in Go Fish

This straightforward, no-nonsense guide features great ways to improve your game and have more fun, as well as a list of places to find out more about your favorite game. It also profiles different variations of each game, making you a player for all seasons!

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Hardback with dust jacket, first edition, 162 pages, blue boards. This is a collection of composed problems. Book is good to very good: wear to edges and corners, previous owner’s name on front end paper, which also has 1/2 by 1 inch section torn from top front corner. Contents and clean and tight; one page is dog-eared. Dust jacket is good only, now enhanced by plastic mylar, chips along top edge and corners, two inch closed tear at bottom of spine with flap.

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Understanding your cash flow is vital. Cash Management helps you to keep track of how much money you’re making (or not). Chapters include: understanding cash flow, knowing where the money is, the rules of credit management, reducing debtor days, influencing non-paying or slow-paying customers, and managing stock.

‘A brand new series aimed at small businesses, with another four volumes to come later in the year. These cover different subjects to most series and they look great. Ideas, examples, tips and sources of further information add up to a great little package in each.’

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Blanchard, author of the bestselling One Minute Manager, has a made a career out of writing the business equivalent of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The self-appointed “Chief Spiritual Officer” of Ken Blanchard Companies, he portrays a business world in which magic tricks and mentors encountered in bohemian cafes lead troubled employees to promotions and advertising awards. Blanchard’s point here is that managers are too busy and distracted to effectively mentor employees and that workers need to assume responsibility for their own failures and successes-seeking the advice of superiors only when they absolutely need to. This is undeniably true. The modern workplace-an uncertain world where layoffs and reorganizations occur with unsettling frequency-requires self-reliance. However, in Blanchard’s “business parable,” self-reliance is found amid a background of invariably cheerful coworkers, loving, maternal bosses and implausibly charming strangers. Blanchard’s first maxim is correct: “Ultimately, it’s in your own best interest to accept responsibility for getting what you need to succeed in the workplace.” But readers may find his fairytale enactment of it too saccharine to be practical.

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As many executives have discovered, winning at poker has more in common with winning in business than meets the eye. Now anyone who wants to make more money and succeed in business can use these cunning strategies to their full advantage–at the card table and at the conference table.

As many executives like Bill Gates have discovered, winning at poker has more in common with winning in business than meets the eye. Now everyone who wants to make more money and succeed in business can use these cunning strategies to their full advantage- at the card table and at the conference table. Useful, entertaining, and shrewd, this is the only book that shows readers how to use Hold ‘em poker to beat the competition, no matter the odds.

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If you’re using PHP 4, then chances are good that an upgrade to PHP 5 is in your future. The more you’ve heard about the exciting new features in PHP 5, the sooner that upgrade is probably going to be. Although an in-depth, soup-to-nuts reference guide to the language is good to have on hand, it’s not the book an experienced PHP programmer needs to get started with the latest release. What you need is a lean and focused guide that answers your most pressing questions: what’s new with the technology, what’s different, and how do I make the best use of it? In other words, you need a copy of Upgrading to PHP 5. This book is targeted toward PHP developers who are already familiar with PHP 4. Rather than serve as a definitive guide to the entire language, the book zeroes in on PHP 5’s new features, and covers these features definitively. You’ll find a concise appraisal of the differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5, a detailed look at what’s new in this latest version, and you’ll see how PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 code. See PHP 4 and PHP 5 code side-by-side, to learn how the new features make it easier to solve common PHP problems. Each new feature is shown in code, helping you understand why it’s there, when to use it, and how it’s better than PHP 4. Short, sample programs are included throughout the book. Topics covered in Upgrading to PHP 5 include:
The new set of robust object-oriented programming features
An improved MySQL extension, supporting MySQL 4.1, prepared statements, and bound parameters
Completely rewritten support for XML: DOM, XSLT, SAX, and SimpleXML
Easy web services with SOAP
SQLite, an embedded database library bundled with PHP 5
Cleaner error handling with exceptions
Other new language features, such as iterators, streams, and more.

Upgrading to PHP 5 won’t make you wade through information you’ve covered before. Written by Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of the popular PHP Cookbook, this book will take you straight into the heart of all that’s new in PHP 5. By the time you’ve finished, you’ll know PHP 5 in practice as well as in theory.

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Over the past three years PHP has evolved from being a niche language used to add dynamic functionality to small sites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale, business-critical Web systems.

The rapid maturation of PHP has created a skeptical population of users from more traditional “enterprise” languages who question the readiness and ability of PHP to scale, as well as a large population of PHP developers without formal computer science backgrounds who have learned through the hands-on experimentation while developing small and midsize applications in PHP.

While there are many books on learning PHP and developing small applications with it, there is a serious lack of information on “scaling” PHP for large-scale, business-critical systems. Schlossnagle’s Advanced PHP Programming fills that void, demonstrating that PHP is ready for enterprise Web applications by showing the reader how to develop PHP-based applications for maximum performance, stability, and extensibility.

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John Hagel III, Arthur G. Armstrong, “Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities”
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press | 1997 | ISBN 0875847595 | PDF | 235 pages | 1.04 MB

Virtual communities are groups of people who share common interests and needs who come together on-line. Most are drawn by the opportunity to share a sense of community with like-minded strangers-regardless of where they live. But virtual communities are more than just a social phenomena: what starts off being a group drawn together by common interests ends up being a group with a critical mass of purchasing power-based in part on the fact that in communities, members can exchange information with each other on such things as a product’s price and quality.

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Oleg Davydov’s Inside Out examines Russia’s foreign economic relations from 1992 to 1996, a period of drastic change and transformation. During these years, as it underwent the change from being a state monopoly to liberalism, Russia’s economy was rebuilt and the very principle of foreign trade redefined. After 1992, both industrial and agricultural enterprises in Russia were unchainedand received the right to trade freely without any permission from “the top.” Davydov studies the changing role of the government in Russia’s economy as it actively searches for new markets as well as seeks to integrate Russia’s economy into the world’s. These economic reforms, Davydov proposes, should result in the integration of the Commonwealth member countries, Russia’s admittance into the WTO, and the creation of a free trade zone with the EC all of which will provide tremendous opportunities for Russia as it embarks on the road of a sustained and democratic development.

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Large international corporations and accountants representing international interests require the most up-to-date information regarding tax issues in countries around the world. “PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Taxes 2001-2002: Worldwide Tax Summaries” gives readers up-to-date information on corporate tax issues, rules, rates, and regulations on the tax systems of over 100 countries. With insights on tax planning, foreign investment, tax reform, and more, it’s a comprehensive resource.

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Organisational Change in Post-Communist Europeprovides a unique and detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. This is an excellent resource for students interested in Central and Eastern European post-communist transition and its impact on human resource management, organizational behavior and the management of change in the region.

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This book examines aspects of the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system during the first ten years of the WTO. It covers a representative cross-section of the issues and situations WTO Members have dealt with under the Dispute Settlement Understanding. The book is unique in that it includes contributions from virtually the entire gamut of actors involved in the day-to-day operation of the WTO dispute settlement system: Member government representatives, private lawyers who litigate on behalf of Member governments in the system, Appellate Body members, Appellate Body Secretariat staff, and WTO Secretariat staff. It also includes contributions from several academics who closely follow and carefully scrutinize all that goes on within the system. It therefore provides fascinating insights into how the system has operated in practice, and how the lessons of the first decade can be applied to make the system even more successful in the years to come. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/219250282/Key.Issues.in.WTO.Dispute.Settlement.The.First.Ten.Years_20.zip

Since publishing the first edition of this classic that has sold over 250,000 copies, the challenges of keeping customers-or creating customer loyalty-has become even more urgent. Ultimately, every successful enterprise must attract, serve, and win the loyalty of customers by providing worthwhile products and delivering excellent service. Turned-off customers produce devastating ripple effects that quickly drag companies into a morass of mediocrity, while organizations that creatively apply a constant flow of small, customer-centered innovations see consistent and persistent strengthening of their customer base. This book will get all managers and employees thinking about the little things that can make all the difference. If everyone in an organization improves awareness of the simple yet powerful ideas in this volume, the company can and will see dramatic improvements in service and customer loyalty. The impact on the bottom line will be dramatic. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/219250420/50.Powerful.Ideas.You.Can.Use.to.Keep.Your.Customers_20.zip

A defense of liberalism, understood as a perfectionist doctrine that presupposes an ideal but controversial notion of human well-being. Drawing on recent developments in liberal theory, Bert van den Brink develops an alternative defense of liberalism. He argues that liberal theorists should admit that their doctrine is not neutral with regard to conceptions of the good life–that it in fact fosters ideals of personal autonomy and a pluralist environment. These ideals generate irreconcilable, tragic conflicts between liberal and nonliberal ideals, and it is only by taking these conflicts seriously that liberals can learn of the unwanted consequences of liberal doctrine, effectively rebut critics, and react adequately to the complex pluralism of contemporary societies. Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/219250297/The.Tragedy.of.Liberalism.zip

OCS is becoming the dominant product for large-scale collaboration–blending core functions of e-mail, file serving, and diary management with the additional functionality of web conferencing, instant messaging, and wireless access. Pro Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g provides all you need to know to install and configure OCS for use, but this book is much more than a to-do list.
It covers the architecture of the server processes and the applications, giving you the theoretical background to take OCS beyond the basics. There’s no need to worry if you’re new to the Oracle database, Oracle Components for Java environment (OC4J), HTTP web servers, or LDAP Internet directories–everything is explained carefully. But if you are already familiar with these topics, you’ll learn how to fully exploit them in order to optimize your OCS installation.
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Join the leagues of thousands of programmers and learn C++ from some of the best. The fifth edition of the best seller Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, written by Jesse Liberty, a well-known C++ and C# programming manual author and Bradley L. Jones, manager for a number of high profiler developer websites, has been updated to the new ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. This is an excellent hands-on guide for the beginning programmer. Packed with examples of syntax and detailed analysis of code, fundamentals such as managing I/O, loops, arrays and creating C++ applications are all covered in the 21 easy-to-follow lessons. You will also be given access to a website that will provide you will all the source code examples developed in the book as a practice tool. C++ is the preferred language for millions of developers-make Sams Teach Yourself the preferred way to learn it!

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A Programmer’s Introduction to C# 2.0, Third Edition is a critical update to the highly successful second edition. It is written by a member of the original C# language-design team and a C# program manager, so you can be certain this book contains the expertise you’re looking for.

This third edition covers the new elements of C# 2005 that you’ll soon embrace. This comprehensive tutorial explains features like generics, iterators, anonymous types, and partial classes. It is sure to be a key resource for all you C# programmers!
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Learn how to define the projects, including time restraints, the scope, and who is responsible.

In jargon-free language, Andrews and Johnson explain how managers can get the most out of their IT investment. The authors focus on successfully managing IT projects, including controlling project scope.

You’ll also receive Executive Book Alert, which keeps business executives up-to-date on the latest in business thinking. Their editors scour the book lists and catalogs, talk with business book publishers, and network with top business authors, to find the next best business books to summarize. As they do this, they will share the results of their research in this e-Newsletter.  Download this free Revolutionizing IT book summary

This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can start using the program right away. Rather than include every detail, Access for Starters: The Missing Manual shows you how to work with Access’s most-used features and Microsoft’s new context-sensitive user interface. Ideal for small businesses and households, Access runs on PCs and manages large stores of information, including data, pages of text, and pictures — everything from a list of family phone numbers to an enormous product catalog. However, each new version of the program crammed in yet another set of features; so many that even the pros don’t know where to find them all. Access 2007 breaks the mold: Microsoft completely redesigned the user interface with a tabbed toolbar and context-sensitive menus that makes features easy to locate. One thing that hasn’t improved is Microsoft’s documentation. Even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. This concise For Starters Manual sticks with the basics — just enough to get you going on your own Access database.

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This book is written for beginners in the developer track who are looking to get an exposure to SQL Server Integration Services; DBA’s who are testing water with the Visual Studio IDE but without a wide programming experience; SQL 2000 Data Transformation Services users who are trying to move into SQL Server 2005 Integration Services; Microsoft programming professionals in Small Businesses who wear multiple hats (jack of all trades)—developer, programmer, and DBA with a little bit of experience in each of these.

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The ultimate example of the generalist approach is of course the design and implementation of programming languages themselves. As problem solving tools go, it is hard to get more general than a programming language like C#. When designing new programming languages (or new versions of old programming languages), we think about common problems that are faced every day by real developers and figure out how to create a language which solves them in a general, aesthetically pleasing, and powerful way that is broadly applicable.

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You’re no idiot, of course. You know smoking is bad for you and channel surfing doesn’t constitute exercise. But when it comes to figuring out how to care for your heart, you feel like the Tin Man with a rusty ticker. Don’t reach for the oil can just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to a Happy, Healthy Heart gives you the information you need on your bodys’ most important muscle.

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Just what the doctor ordered for the anxiety-ridden speaker-to-be, this indispensable, fun-to-read reference contains solid information, tips, alerts, and more to help the average person prepare and give powerful presentations. With just the right touch and full of wit, this is the book to read and read again before speaking in public.

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Turn on the TV, drop by a newsstand, or just browse the checkout your local supermarket and you’ll see firsthand that Texas Hold ‘Em is the poker game everyone’s playing. It’s a game that’s deceptively simple, yet within its easy framework you’ll find truth and trickery, boredom and fear, skill and misfortune—in other words, all the things that make life fun and worth living!

Texas Hold’em For Dummies introduces you to the fundamental concepts and strategies of this wildly popular game. It covers the rules for playing and betting, odds, etiquette, Hold’em lingo, and offers sound advice to avoid mistakes. This handy reference guide gives new and even seasoned players winning strategies and tactics not just for playing the game, but for winning.

Texas Hold ‘Em is a game of both skill and chance. But it’s a game that can be beaten, and whether you want to make money, sharpen your game, or just have a good time, Texas Hold ‘Em for Dummies will give you the winning edge.

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ISBN: 9780596008710 | 382 pages | July 1, 2005 | CHM | 10.99MB

A car PC or carputer is a car tricked-out with electronics for playing radio, music and DVD movies, connecting to the Internet, navigating and tracking with satellite, taking photos, and any electronic gadget a person wants in a car. All these devices are managed and controlled through a single screen or interface.

The only place car PC enthusiasts can go for advice, tips and tools is a handful of hard-to-find Web sites–until now. Car PC Hacks is your guide into the car PC revolution. Packing MP3 players, handheld devices, computers and video-on-demand systems gives you a pile too heavy to carry. But add a car and put them together, you’ve got a powerful and mobile multimedia center requiring no lifting. The next time you give kids a lift, you won’t hear, “Are we there yet?” Instead, expect “We’re there already?” as they won’t want to leave the car while playing video games from multiple consoles. Car PC Hacks is the first book available to introduce and entrench you into this hot new market. You can count on the book because it hails from O’Reilly, a trusted resource for technical books. Expect innovation, useful tools, and fun experiments that you’ve come to expect from O’Reilly’s Hacks Series. Maybe you’ve hacked computers and gadgets, and now you’re ready to take it to your car. If hacking is new and you would like to mix cars and computers, this book gets you started with its introduction to the basics of car electrical systems. Even when you’re unclear on the difference between amps and watts, expect a clear explanation along with real-life examples to get on track. Whether you’re venturing into car PC for the first time or an experienced hobbyist, hop in the book for a joy ride.

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Curious about Google Sites as well as how group partnership Web sites can assistance we share papers online from assorted locations? Curious about Google’s brand new Chrome browser? Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies has what we wish to know!

Publisher: For Dummies (February 9, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470396784
ISBN-13: 978-0470396780

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GIS (geographic information system) is a totally cool technology that has been called “geography on steroids.” GIS is what lets you see the schools in your neighborhood or tells you where the nearest McDonald’s is. GIS For Dummies tells you all about mapping terminology and digital mapping, how to locate geographic features and analyze patterns such as streets and waterways, and how to generate travel directions, customer location lists, and much more with GIS.

Great tips for real poker fans,all Full Tilt Poker Tips From The Pros from March 14, 2005 until present.

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Language: English
ISBN: 0071613749
Paperback: 720 pages
Released: Jan 2009

THE WORLD’S #1 BEST SELLING COMPUTER SECURITY BOOK–fully expanded and updated.”Right now you hold in your hand one of the most successful security books ever written. Rather than eing a sideline participant, leverage the valuable insights Hacking Exposed 6 provides to help yourself, your company, and your country fight cyber-crime.” –From the Foreword by Dave DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee, Inc.

Meet the formidable demands of security in today’s hyperconnected world with expert guidance from the world-renowned Hacking Exposed team. Following the time-tested “attack-countermeasure” philosophy, this 10th anniversary edition has been fully overhauled to cover the latest insidious weapons in the hacker’s extensive arsenal.

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Want to assert yourself as a cutting–edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application.

In Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax development techniques are brought together to show you how to create the hottest PHP web applications, from planning and design up to final implementation, without going over unnecessary basics that will hold you back. This book includes must–have application features such as search functionality, maps, blogs, dynamic image galleries, and personalized user areas. The Zend Framework is used extensively to build the application, allowing you to focus on developing the application rather than on reinventing the wheel.

Topics covered include application planning and design; setting up the application framework; using CSS for easier styling; adding dynamic effects the easy way using JavaScript libraries such as Prototype and script.aculo.us; and implementing several must–have web application features such as user login, blogs, dynamic image galleries, search functionality, mapping with Google Maps, and much more. Zervaas covers everything in a practical, tutorial style so you can start working on your own projects as quickly as possible.

In the introduction to this do-it-yourself manual on the history, teachings, practices, and applications of Buddhism, author Gary Gach feints, “A few people may scoff that this is sacrilegious, or something.” Yes, reading about suchness (the “unrepeatable interpenetration of impermanences”) in the standardized format of a Complete Idiot’s Guide is ironic. But Buddhism, of all religions, embraces irony and paradox. Think of this book as a koan, as the sound of one hand clapping.

Anyway, modernity has already adopted Buddhism as a life-style; as Gach points out, “zen influence (lowercase) has extended to martial arts, gardening, haiku, motorcycle maintenance, you name it.” You can’t get through the day without hearing something described as “very zen.” Yet enlightenment cannot be commodified! It’s always already there for free. That’s why the Buddha is smiling.

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This book contains information on the latest PC-related technology, including the latest Windows OSs, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DSL, cable modems, PDAs, firewalls, and more.

An analysis of the inner components of your computer - and whether or not it’s feasible to upgrade them.

Instructions on replacing and upgrading the components your PC needs to help you become a multimedia mavern.

Advice on how to choose the best replacement components, how to install them, and mistakes to avoid.

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You may have been making some money on the side with eBay®, but if you’ve done much business at all, you know that it’s not always as easy as it seems. Whether you want to be a full- time seller or make money on the side, this book will guide you step-by-step through creating the eBay® business you’ve dreamed of. It covers the basics of an eBay® business including record keeping, taxes, legal issues, sourcing, promotion, fraud protection, fulfillment, and other details entrepreneurs need to know. It also helps you determine what to sell, how to price it, and the details of working with services like PayPal.

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How did a world-famous dancer with no knowledge of the stock market, or of finance in general, make 2 million dollars in the stock market in 18 months starting with only $10,000? Darvas is legendary, and with good reason. Find out why.

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Chess is a game where profound strategic thinking must be allied with clever short-term tactics. Most previous works on strategy focus on specific aspects of chess strategy, but Lars Bo Hansen’s aims here are different. He creates a framework in which the various elements can be systematically included and organized - a framework that will help chess-players to think about chess strategy during practical play. The theory of business strategy is extensively developed, and Hansen adopts the novel approach of investigating whether any of the vast amounts of research and modelling done for business purposes can be applied in chess. He finds that there are indeed many useful parallels, and focuses on how these ideas can be used to good effect by chess-players both in their preparation and when making over-the-board decisions.

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In this book, readers will learn the basics of recording on to CD, from backing-up data files to transferring their favourite music tracks from cassettes and vinyl. Customised CD’s containing photographic, audio and video data are also explained. The book covers all the major pitfalls to watch out for too, including media quality, copyright issues and buffer underrun errors. The major software burning programmes are also covered, including Adaptec’s Easy CD Creator, NTI and Nero CD.

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For anyone who wants to learn and enjoy the most expressive and romantic of languages, the third edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Italian is the first choice for a whole new generation of enthusiastic students of Italian. This updated edition includes two new quick references on verbs, grammar, and sentence structure; two new appendixes on Italian synonyms and popular idiomatic phrases; and updated business and money sections.

• First two editions have sold extraordinarily well
• Italian is the fourth most popular language in the United States

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You’re no idiot, of course. You know that hypnotist entertainers can hypnotize audience members and make them cluck like chickens and bark like dogs. But when it comes to understanding how you can improve your health and well-being from hypnosis, you start to feel v-e-r-r-y s-l-e-e-p-y. Don’t nod off yet, get hypnotized! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hypnosis, written by noted psychologist and hypnotherapist Dr. Roberta Temes, shows you how to responsibly use hypnosis to improve your quality of life.

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What trait do championship poker players and world-class customer service professionals have in common? The ability to reliably read people.

Customer Tells, the innovative new book by bestselling author Dr. Marty Seldman, focuses on the key concept of the “tell,” the ability to read mannerisms, to understand what people mean but are not saying, and to respond accordingly. In poker, the “tell” means knowing the cards a competitor holds; in customer service, it means understanding the customer’s subtle ways of communicating how they want to be treated, even if they can’t articulate it.Seldman, one of the world’s foremost executive coaches and organizational psychologists, uses the principles of Customer Tells in his seminars nationwide. By teaching business professionals of every level how to read tells in customers’ communication styles, body language, dress, questions, reactions, facial expressions, and choices of words, he has increased both their bottom line and employee retention levels.

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Part of the new Cracking the Code Series, Wireless Programming with J2ME provides a look at the code behind wireless Java applications.

Think of J2ME as a tiny version of Java specifically for mobile devices –– perfect for bringing powerful, robust applications to mobile phone, pagers, PDAs, and other handhelds. Writing applications for handheld and mobile devices is different than regular Java programming. Mobile developers have to deal with limited screen real estate, bandwidth and computing power. This book covers six wireless applications complete with Flow Diagrams and line–by–line code description. It covers all of J2ME including CDC,CLDC and MIDP with an emphasis on practical code.

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Author: Joel Comm

What google never told you about making mobey with adsense

When I came out with “What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense” in January 2005, I never imagined
that it would become so popular. Since that time, I have released a third edition, several other ebooks, a member site,
a telecourse series and find myself booked for multiple speaking engagements. Life is funny…

Today marks another milestone for me as I am pleased to announce the revised and expanded fourth edition of my AdSense
ebook, known also by it’s shorter (and easier to say) name, Google AdSense Secrets.

The 235-page fourth edtion is absolutely packed with AdSense goodness! It features the latest AdSense updates that deal with issues such as smart pricing and section targeting. It contains extended chapters on getting traffic to your site and how to get started with AdSense. And I’ve included even more case studies to provide real-life examples of AdSense done properly. The goal is to help my readers pick more money off the Google. And it seems to be working.

This guide is ideal for beginners and intermediate level users, providing strategies for building profitable websites,
monetizing with AdSense, as well as a number of other avenues for generating revenue.

Summary: Joel Comm Didn’t Crack the Code - This Time He Literally Rewrote IT!
Rating: 5

I read the original version of Joel’s book, so I thought that the newest version would probably be a waste of time.
But, I am very familiar with how important it is for Joel to provide value and over deliver. I wasn’t disappointed!

Instead of just restating or rearranging the words from the original version, Joel added all kinds of new strategies
and tips to really get your Google Adsense campaigns on steroids. It’s not a new version but a whole new book
altogether.

It has made a real difference in my campaigns. Just by changing the font and banners colors, I went from averaging
between $550 - $600 a month, to generating that a week. I never would have been able to do that without reading his
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Why is everyone so excited about OOP? The chief problem with computer programs is complexity. Large programs are probably the most complicated entities ever created by humans. Because of this complexity, programs are prone to error, and software errors can be expensive and even life threatening (in air-traffic control, for example). Object-Oriented Programming offers a new and powerful way to cope with this complexity. Its goal is clearer, more reliable, more easily maintained programs.

Of the Object-Oriented Programming languages, C++ is by far the most widely used. (Java, a recent addition to the field of OO languages, lacks certain features, such as pointers, that make it less powerful and versatile than C++.)

This book teaches Object-Oriented Programming with the C++ programming language, using either Microsoft or Borland compilers. It is suitable for professional programmers, students, and kitchen-table enthusiasts.

You can use this book even if you have no previous programming experience. However, such experience, in BASIC or Pascal, for example, certainly won’t hurt.

You do not need to know the C language to use this book. Many books on C++ assume that you already know C, but this one does not. It teaches C++ from the ground up. If you do know C, it won’t hurt, but you may be surprised at how little overlap there is between C and C++.

You should be familiar with the basic operations of Microsoft Windows, such as starting applications and copying files.

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PDF | 707 Pages | 8 MB | Published: Apress 2008
Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition covers every step of the design and building process involved in creating powerful, extendable e–commerce web sites. Based around a real–world example involving a web site selling t–shirts, you’ll learn how to create and manage a product catalog, build and integrate a shopping cart, and process customer accounts and PayPal/credit card transactions.

With the e–commerce framework in place, authors Emilian Balanescu and Cristian Darie show you how to integrate advanced features sure to set your web site apart from the competition. You’ll learn how to expand your catalog using Amazon Web Services, optimize the web site for the search engines, and take advantage of Ajax to build an even more user–friendly shopping cart.

Other highlights:

* The authors show you how to build a complex, extendable e–commerce web site using sound development practices.
* This second edition has been updated to take advantage of a more flexible templating system, and new chapters cover Ajax integration and search engine optimization.
* The text goes beyond basic product and customer management, showing you how to integrate product reviews, process payments using both credit cards and PayPal, and expand your web site catalog using third–party services such as Amazons affiliate program.

What you’ll learn

* Build an extensible e–commerce web site using sound development techniques.
* Increase sales through proven techniques such as cross–selling, upselling, and enhancing customer service offerings.
* Expand your product and service offerings by integrating with reseller programs such as Amazon Affiliates via XML web services.
* Take advantage of search engine optimization techniques to make your web site more easy to find.

Who is this book for?

This book was written for individuals seeking to build e–commerce web sites using the PHP language and MySQL database.

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PDF | 400 pages | English | McGraw-Hill
by Andrew Goodman (Author)

Description

Reach millions of targeted new customers at the precise moment they’re looking for the products and services you’re selling with help from this hands-on guide. Winning Results with Google AdWords, Second Edition reveals the latest strategies for writing successful ads, selecting and grouping specific keywords, increasing conversion rates, and maximizing online sales* You’ll also learn how to expand your ad distribution, test and tweak your ads, track results, and much more. Find out how boost visibility and increase profits with a Google AdWords campaign!
* Create strategic groups of ads and keywords
* Understand Google’s Quality Score ad ranking system and quality-based bidding
* Use the keyword tool to your advantage
* Develop a successful bidding strategy
* Write, test, and refine winning ads
* Filter out inappropriate prospects
* Expand proven ad campaigns
* Measure success using Google Analytics and other methods

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Theme Like a Professional!

Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.

During the course of the book you’ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged in with the book so you’ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to. You can take a look at the three sites online here:

* Demo Blog Theme http://superpreviewer.com/creatifblog
* Demo Portfolio Theme http://superpreviewer.com/creatifportfolio
* Demo General Site Theme http://superpreviewer.com/creatifsite

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