Hacking RSS and Atom
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0764597582 | edition 2005 | PDF | 602 pages | 10,4 mb
Now you can satisfy your appetite for information
This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It's about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds-making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It's about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn't thought up yet. Because if you can't have fun with the technology, what's the point?
A sampler platter of things you'll learn to do
* Build a simple feed aggregator * Add feeds to your buddy list * Tune into rich media feeds with BitTorrent * Monitor system logs and events with feeds * Scrape feeds from old-fashioned Web sites * Reroute mailing lists into your aggregator * Distill popular links from blogs * Republish feed headlines on your Web site * Extend feeds using calendar events and microformats

Stephen Webber, "DJ Skills: The essential guide to Mixing and Scratching"
ISBN: 0240520696 | 2007 | PDF | 288 pages | 6.2 MB


The complete package - the art and style of all types of DJs, including Dance and Hip-Hop DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing & Scratching is the most comprehensive, up to date approach to DJing ever produced. With insights from top club, mobile, and scratch DJs, the book includes many teaching strategies developed in the Berklee College of Music prototype DJ lab.

Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, "Inside Angels and Demons: The Story Behind the International Bestseller"
2009 | ISBN 1593154895 | PDF | 544 pages | 1.6 MB


Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction. This book teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge. Inside Angels and Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown's historical mysteries.

Introduction to Database Systems, An (8th Edition)
Publisher: Addison Wesley | ISBN: 0321189566 | edition 2003 | DJVU | 1024 pages | 26,8 mb
The newest edition of the classic An Introduction to Database Systems incorporates the latest developments in relational databases, including semantic modeling, decision support, and temporal modeling. There's better information on distributed databases, security, and the mathematics of relational databases too. With the same strong coverage of fundamental theory that made its predecessors stand out, this book ranks as the definitive textbook for those studying database systems.
This is an extraordinarily academic book. In his preface, C.J. Date goes so far as to lament having to use Structured Query Language (SQL) in some of his examples because it's "so far from being a true embodiment of relational principles." What's more, he writes in a very academic style, peppering his heavily footnoted prose with mathematical expressions and words like relevar and tuple. The academic style and highbrow language isn't a bad thing, since this book deals with complicated, largely abstract phenomena in depth.
Be aware that An Introduction to Database Systems is a far cry from the highly graphical, problem-focused books that target the community of commercial database developers, and as such requires more careful study. This book is about theories, concepts, and ideals rather than problems, solutions, and specific implementations. Per se, it will enable you to become a better database programmer--but only if you supplement it with practical guides and hands-on experience.

Rachel A. Koestler-Grack, "Bruce Lee"
2007 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0791092747 | PDF | 2.6 MB


Born in San Francisco, Bruce Lee grew up learning how to survive on the rough-and-tumble streets of Kowloon, Hong Kong, where he became a mischievous punk and member of a street gang. When he came back to the United States, however, he was ready to become someone. Through hours of philosophical pondering and rigorous physical training, Lee built himself up to an unstoppable fighting machine. Defying traditional methods, he created a whole new system of kung fu, one that had no limitations. Lee caused a sensation when he introduced the world to his brand of martial arts, and he became a famous martial-arts actor before suddenly dying from a brain swelling at age 32. In this biography, readers will learn why, even today, more than 30 years after his untimely death, Bruce Lee remains an influential pop-culture icon, remembered as the greatest martial-arts fighter the world has ever known.

Diane Warner, "Complete Book of Wedding Toasts"
2006 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 1564148157 | PDF | 1.4 MB


The wedding toast - that poignantly tender gesture proposed to the newlyweds, a mysterious melding of poetry, quotations, prayer, wit, anecdote, and heart-rendered sentiment. Why so mysterious? Because the wedding toast has evolved through the years from a simple "To your health and happiness" to a soliloquy that requires personalization, preparation, practice, and presentation. It's enough to scare you half to death! In fact, statistics show that, next to dying, public speaking is most Americans' greatest fear, and the fear is understandable. After reading this book, however, your fears should be alleviated when you see how easy it really is to compose and deliver your toast.

Jason Cochran, "Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More"
2009 | ISBN: 0470308699 | 384 pages | PDF | 6,3 MB


Spend less, see more. This is the philosophy behind Pauline Frommer’s guides. Written by travel expert Pauline Frommer and her team of hand-picked writers, these guides show how to truly experience a culture, meet locals, and save money along the way.

HackNotes(tm) Web Security Pocket Reference
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN: 0072227842 | edition 2003 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,89 mb
Let consultant, trainer, and author Mike Shema show you how to guard against standard and uncommon network penetration methodologies and eliminate susceptibility to e-commerce hacking. Plus, learn to bolster Web application security and secure vulnerable hacking function areas.