The OpenGL® Programming Guide, Fifth Edition, provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Utility Library. The previous edition covered OpenGL through Version 1.4. This fifth edition of the best-selling "red book" describes the latest features of OpenGL Versions 1.5 and 2.0, including the introduction of the OpenGL Shading Language.

You will find clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and many basic computer graphics techniques, such as building and rendering 3D models; interactively viewing objects from different perspective points; and using shading, lighting, and texturing effects for greater realism. In addition, this book provides in-depth coverage of advanced techniques, including texture mapping, antialiasing, fog and atmospheric effects, NURBS, image processing, and more. The text also explores other key topics such as enhancing performance, OpenGL extensions, and cross-platform techniques.

This fifth edition has been extensively updated to include the newest features of OpenGL Versions 1.5 and 2.0, including:

• Storage of vertex arrays in buffer objects for faster rendering
• Occlusion queries for course-grain visibility testing
• Non-power-of-two dimensioned texture maps
• Point sprites
• Separate stencil operations for RGB and alpha
• Rendering to multiple color buffers using GLSL

Most importantly, this edition discusses the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and explains the mechanics of using this new language to create complex graphics effects and boost the computational power of OpenGL.

Dave Shreiner, a leading OpenGL consultant, was a longtime member of the core OpenGL team at SGI. He authored the first commercial OpenGL training course, and has been developing computer graphics applications for more than two decades.

The OpenGL graphics system is a software interface to graphics hardware. (The GL stands for Graphics Library.) It allows you to create interactive programs that produce color images of moving three-dimensional objects. With OpenGL, you can control computer-graphics technology to produce realistic pictures or ones that depart from reality in imaginative ways. This guide explains how to program with the OpenGL graphics system to deliver the visual effect you want.

This guide has 15 chapters. The first five chapters present basic information that you need to understand to be able to draw a properly colored and lit three-dimensional object on the screen.

• Chapter 1, “Introduction to OpenGL,” provides a glimpse into the kinds of things OpenGL can do. It also presents a simple OpenGL program and explains essential programming details you need to know for subsequent chapters.


• Chapter 2, “State Management and Drawing Geometric Objects,” explains how to create a three-dimensional geometric description of an object that is eventually drawn on the screen.


• Chapter 3, “Viewing,” describes how such three-dimensional models are transformed before being drawn on a two-dimensional screen. You can control these transformations to show a particular view of a model.


• Chapter 4, “Color,” describes how to specify the color and shading method used to draw an object.


• Chapter 5, “Lighting,” explains how to control the lighting conditions surrounding an object and how that object responds to light (that is, how it reflects or absorbs light). Lighting is an important topic, since objects usually don’t look three-dimensional until they’re lit.

The remaining chapters explain how to optimize or add sophisticated features to your three-dimensional scene. You might choose not to take advantage of many of these features until you’re more comfortable with OpenGL. Particularly advanced topics are noted in the text where they occur.

• Chapter 6, “Blending, Antialiasing, Fog, and Polygon Offset,” describes techniques essential to creating a realistic scene—alpha blending (to create transparent objects), antialiasing (to eliminate jagged edges), atmospheric effects (to simulate fog or smog), and polygon offset (to remove visual artifacts when highlighting the edges of filled polygons).


• Chapter 7, “Display Lists,” discusses how to store a series of OpenGL commands for execution at a later time. You’ll want to use this feature to increase the performance of your OpenGL program.


• Chapter 8, “Drawing Pixels, Bitmaps, Fonts, and Images," discusses how to work with sets of two-dimensional data as bitmaps or images. One typical use for bitmaps is describing characters in fonts.


• Chapter 9, “Texture Mapping,” explains how to map one-, two-, and three-dimensional images called textures onto three-dimensional objects. Many marvelous effects can be achieved through texture mapping.


• Chapter 10, “The Framebuffer,” describes all the possible buffers that can exist in an OpenGL implementation and how you can control them. You can use the buffers for such effects as hidden-surface elimination, stenciling, masking, motion blur, and depth-of-field focusing.


• Chapter 11, “Tessellators and Quadrics,” shows how to use the tessellation and quadrics routines in the GLU (OpenGL Utility Library).


• Chapter 12, “Evaluators and NURBS,” gives an introduction to advanced techniques for efficient generation of curves or surfaces.


• Chapter 13, “Selection and Feedback,” explains how you can use OpenGL’s selection mechanism to select an object on the screen. Additionally, the chapter explains the feedback mechanism, which allows you to collect the drawing information OpenGL produces, rather than having it be used to draw on the screen.


• Chapter 14, “Now That You Know,” describes how to use OpenGL in several clever and unexpected ways to produce interesting results. These techniques are drawn from years of experience with both OpenGL and the technological precursor to OpenGL, the Silicon Graphics IRIS Graphics Library.


• Chapter 15, “OpenGL 2.0 and the OpenGL Shading Language,” discusses the changes that OpenGL 2.0 introduces. This includes an introduction to the OpenGL Shading Language, also commonly called the "GLSL," which allows you to take control of portions of OpenGL’s processing for vertices and fragments. This functionality can greatly enhance the image quality and computational power of OpenGL.

In addition, there are several appendices that you will likely find useful:

• Appendix A, “Order of Operations,” gives a technical overview of the operations OpenGL performs, briefly describing them in the order in which they occur as an application executes.


• Appendix B, “State Variables,” lists the state variables that OpenGL maintains and describes how to obtain their values.


• Appendix C, “OpenGL and Window Systems,” briefly describes the routines available in window-system-specific libraries, which are extended to support OpenGL rendering. Window system interfaces to the X Window System, Apple MacIntosh, IBM OS/2, and Microsoft Windows are discussed here.


• Appendix D, “Basics of GLUT: The OpenGL Utility Toolkit,” discusses the library that handles window system operations. GLUT is portable and it makes code examples shorter and more comprehensible.


• Appendix E, “Calculating Normal Vectors,” tells you how to calculate normal vectors for different types of geometric objects.


• Appendix F, “Homogeneous Coordinates and Transformation Matrices,” explains some of the mathematics behind matrix transformations.


• Appendix G, “Programming Tips,” lists some programming tips based on the intentions of the designers of OpenGL that you might find useful.


• Appendix H, “OpenGL Invariance,” describes when and where an OpenGL implementation must generate the exact pixel values described in the OpenGL specification.


• Appendix I, “Built-In OpenGL Shading Language Variables and Functions,” lists all of the built-in variables and functions available in the OpenGL Shading Language.

Finally, an extensive Glossary defines the key terms used in this guide.

The fifth edition of the OpenGL Programming Guide includes new and updated material, covering both OpenGL Versions 1.5 and 2.0:

• Coverage of the following new core capabilities of OpenGL Version 1.5 has been added:
• Storage of vertex arrays in buffer objects
• Occlusion queries
• Addition of GL_LEQUAL and GL_GEQUAL texture comparison functions for use with shadow-mapping
• Minor token updates
• Coverage of the following OpenGL 2.0 core features:
• Addition of the OpenGL Shading Language for programming vertex and fragment shaders
• Output of different color values to multiple color buffers from programmable shaders
• Relaxation of the power-of-two size requirement for texture maps
• Rendering of texture-mapped point sprites
• Separate stencil operations for front- and back- facing polygons
• Bug fixes

This guide assumes only that you know how to program in the C language and that you have some background in mathematics (geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, and differential geometry). Even if you have little or no experience with computer graphics technology, you should be able to follow most of the discussions in this book. Of course, computer graphics is a huge subject, so you may want to enrich your learning experience with supplemental reading:

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes (Addison-Wesley, 1990)— This book is an encyclopedic treatment of the subject of computer graphics. It includes a wealth of information but is probably best read after you have some experience with the subject.


• 3D Computer Graphics by Andrew S. Glassner (The Lyons Press, 1994)— This book is a nontechnical, gentle introduction to computer graphics. It focuses on the visual effects that can be achieved, rather than on the techniques needed to achieve them.

Another great place for all sorts of general information is the Official OpenGL Web Site. This Web site contains software, documentation, FAQs, and news. It is always a good place to start any search for answers to your OpenGL questions:

http://www.opengl.org/

Once you begin programming with OpenGL, you might want to obtain the OpenGL Reference Manual by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (also published by Addison-Wesley), which is designed as a companion volume to this guide. The Reference Manual provides a technical view of how OpenGL operates on data that describes a geometric object or an image to produce an image on the screen. It also contains full descriptions of each set of related OpenGL commands—the parameters used by the commands, the default values for those parameters, and what the commands accomplish. Many OpenGL implementations have this same material online, in the form of manual pages or other help documents, which are probably more up-to-date. Ther...

To pass the state licensing exam, you need knowledge and confidence. This comprehensive review guide gives you plenty of both. It’s packed with sample questions to help you focus your efforts, review material on all aspects of the 2002 National Electrical Code (NEC), the lowdown on business competency requirements, and tips for studying and test-taking that will help you conquer any anxiety.

• Learn the definitions, specifications, and regulations of the 2002 NEC
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• Are you planning to build a website with an open source enterprise portal solution using SOA framework, ESB and Web 2.0 technologies?
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• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
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The Handbook of Research on Wireless Security combines research from esteemed experts on security issues in various wireless communications, recent advances in wireless security, the wireless security model, and future directions in wireless security. As an innovative and current reference source for students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers in the field of wireless security, this handbook will make an invaluable addition to any library collection.

Logic's basic elements are unfolded in this book. The relation of and the transition from Logic to Logic Programming are analysed.

With the use and the development of computers in the beginning of the 1950's, it soon became clear that computers could be used, not only for arithmetical computation, but also for symbolic computation. Hence, the first arithmetical computation programs, and the first programs created to answer elementary questions and prove simple theorems, were written simultaneously. The basic steps towards a general method based on Logic, were accomplished in 1965 by Robinson and later by Kowalski and Colmerauer who made use of Logic directly as a Logic Programming language.

Each chapter includes solved as well as unsolved exercises provided to help the reader assimilate the corresponding topics. The solved exercises demonstrate how to work methodically, whereas the unsolved exercises aim to stimulate the reader's personal initiative. The contents of the book are self-contained; only an elementary knowledge of analysis is required. Thus, it can be used by students in every academic year, as simply reading material, or in the context of a course. It can also be used by those who utilize Logic Programming without having any particular theoretical background knowledge of Logic, or by those simply interested in Logic and its applications in Logic Programming.

Zecharia Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. He is distinguished by his ability to translate and interpret ancient Sumerian and other ancient texts. A graduate of the University of London, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years. He now lives and writes in New York City.

Nobody spends more time with Apple's computers and software than the writers and editors at Macworld, the world's foremost Mac authority. Now Macworld's team of experts take you inside Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5, to help you master important new features, discover hidden tricks, and work around glitches - all to make sure you have the best Leopard experience possible.

Inside this 90-page book, you'll find all the information you'll need to set up Leopard smoothly and get started with its most important new features. Learn how to master the Web with Safari 3, track down files with Spotlight's improved search tools, automate tedious tasks with Automator, and access files and programs from afar. Our experts also offer step-by-step advice on recovering from crashes, freezes, and other Mac ailments - and show you how to back up your system with Time Machine to ensure you can recover quickly from more serious problems.

Let Macworld's experts show you how to get the most out of Leopard and your Mac.

GWT 1.5 is a game–changing technology, but it doesn’t exist in a bubble. Real deployments need to connect to your database, enforce authentication, provide protection from security threats, and allow good search engine optimization.

To show you all this, this book looks at the code behind a real live web site called ToCollege.net. This application specializes in helping students who are applying to colleges, allowing them to manage their application process and compare the rankings that they give to each school. It’s a slick application that’s ready for you to sign up and use.

The audience for this book either owns another GWT book for the basic tutorials or is comfortable using the online documentation and forums when they’re stuck, which allows this book to move quickly and focus on answering the bigger architecture questions.

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Jeff Dwyer is a developer and entrepreneur who is the founder of ToCollege.net and MyHippocampus.com. His background is in medical software, where he has published research on aneurysm stress and endovascular repair and has patented techniques in anatomical visualization. As a developer, Jeff likes nothing better than to leverage high–quality open source code so he can focus on the core elements of his projects. He believes that GWT has fundamentally altered the feasibility of large Web 2.0 applications.

In the early 1970s, fuzzy systems and fuzzy control theories added a new dimension to control systems engineering. From its beginnings as mostly heuristic and somewhat ad hoc, more recent and rigorous approaches to fuzzy control theory have helped make it an integral part of modern control theory and produced many exciting results. Yesterday's "art" of building a working fuzzy controller has turned into today's "science" of systematic design. To keep pace with and further advance the rapidly developing field of applied control technologies, engineers, both present and future, need some systematic training in the analytic theory and rigorous design of fuzzy control systems. Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control Systems provides that training by introducing a rigorous and complete fundamental theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, and then building a practical theory for automatic control of uncertain and ill-modeled systems encountered in many engineering applications. The authors proceed through basic fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy systems theory and conclude with an exploration of some industrial application examples. Almost entirely self-contained, Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control Systems establishes a strong foundation for designing and analyzing fuzzy control systems under uncertain and irregular conditions. Mastering its contents gives students a clear understanding of fuzzy control systems theory that prepares them for deeper and broader studies and for many practical challenges faced in modern industry.

In Executing SOA, four experienced SOA implementers share realistic, proven, “from-the-trenches” guidance for successfully delivering on even the largest and most complex SOA initiative.

This book follows up where the authors’ best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture Compass left off, showing how to overcome key obstacles to successful SOA implementation and identifying best practices for all facets of execution—technical, organizational, and human. Among the issues it addresses: introducing a services discipline that supports collaboration and information process sharing; integrating services with preexisting technology assets and strategies; choosing the right roles for new tools; shifting culture, governance, and architecture; and bringing greater agility to the entire organizational lifecycle, not just isolated projects.

Executing SOA is an indispensable resource for every enterprise architect, technical manager, and IT leader tasked with driving value from SOA in complex environments.

Coverage includes

·  Implementing SOA governance that reflects the organization’s strategic and business focus

·  Running SOA projects successfully: practical guidelines and proven methodologies around service modeling and design

·  Leveraging reusable assets: making the most of your SOA repository

·  Enabling the architect to choose the correct tools and products containing the features required to execute on the SOA method for service design and implementation

·  Defining information services to get the right information to the right people at the right time

·  Integrating SOA with Web 2.0 and other innovative products and solutions

·  Providing highly usable human interfaces in SOA environments

Learn how to…

--Install the latest version of the Windows network operating system

--Design and implement Active Directory Forests, Trees, and Domains

--Configure Windows servers for a number of different roles including domain controller, remote access server, file server, print server, Web server, and much more

--Add users to your domain’s Active Directory and organize users in groups and organizational units

--Implement network services such as DNS, DHCP, Windows Deployment Services, and Routing and Remote Access

--Secure your servers with the Windows Firewall and IPSec and make your domain more secure using the Active Directory Certificate Services

Register your book at informit.com/sams/title/9780672330124 for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Joe Habraken is an information technology and new media professional with more than 15 years of professional experience in the information technology and digital media production fields. Joe is a best-selling author and his recent publications include Home Wireless Networking in a Snap, Skinning Windows XP, and Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (with Matt Hayden). Joe currently serves as an associate professor at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, where he teaches a variety of new media— and information technology-related courses. Joe is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Cisco Certified Network Associate.

Learn how to…

--Install the latest version of the Windows network operating system

--Design and implement Active Directory Forests, Trees, and Domains

--Configure Windows servers for a number of different roles including domain controller, remote access server, file server, print server, Web server, and much more

--Add users to your domain’s Active Directory and organize users in groups and organizational units

--Implement network services such as DNS, DHCP, Windows Deployment Services, and Routing and Remote Access

--Secure your servers with the Windows Firewall and IPSec and make your domain more secure using the Active Directory Certificate Services

Register your book at informit.com/sams/title/9780672330124 for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Joe Habraken is an information technology and new media professional with more than 15 years of professional experience in the information technology and digital media production fields. Joe is a best-selling author and his recent publications include Home Wireless Networking in a Snap, Skinning Windows XP, and Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (with Matt Hayden). Joe currently serves as an associate professor at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, where he teaches a variety of new media— and information technology-related courses. Joe is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Cisco Certified Network Associate.

At an alarming rate, companies continue to create death-march projects, repeatedly! What's worse is the amount of rational, intelligent people who sign up for a death-march projectsaeprojects whose schedules, estimations, budgets, and resources are so constrained or skewed that participants can hardly survive, much less succeed. In Death March, Second Edition, Ed Yourdon sheds new light on the reasons why companies spawn Death Marches and provides you with guidance to identify and survive death march projects.

Yourdon covers the entire project lifecycle, systematically addressing every key issue participants face: politics, people, process, project management, and tools. No matter what your role--developer, project leader, line-of-business manager, or CxO--you'll find realistic, usable solutions. This edition's new and updated coverage includes:

• Creating Mission Impossible projects out of DM projects

• Negotiating your project's conditions: making the best of a bad situation

• XP, agile methods, and death march projects

• Time management for teams: eliminating distractions that can derail your project

• "Critical chain scheduling": identifying and eliminating organizational dysfunction

• Predicting the "straw that breaks the camel's back": lessons from system dynamics

• Choosing tools and methodologies most likely to work in your environment

• Project "flight simulators": wargaming your next project

• Applying triage to deliver the features that matter most

• When it's time to walk away

This isn't a book about perfectly organized projects in "textbook" companies. It's about your project, in your company. But you won't just recognize your reality: you'll learn exactly what to do about it.

EDWARD YOURDON has been called one of the ten most influential people in software, and has been inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame alongside Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray, James Martin, Grace Hopper, and Bill Gates. An internationally recognized consultant, he is author or coauthor of more than 25 books, including Byte Wars, Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, and Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. He co-developed the popular Coad/Yourdon methodology, co-founded the influential Cutter Consortium Business Technology Council, and serves on the Board of Directors of iGate and Mascot Systems.

At an alarming rate, companies continue to create death-march projects, repeatedly! What's worse is the amount of rational, intelligent people who sign up for a death-march projectsaeprojects whose schedules, estimations, budgets, and resources are so constrained or skewed that participants can hardly survive, much less succeed. In Death March, Second Edition, Ed Yourdon sheds new light on the reasons why companies spawn Death Marches and provides you with guidance to identify and survive death march projects.

Yourdon covers the entire project lifecycle, systematically addressing every key issue participants face: politics, people, process, project management, and tools. No matter what your role--developer, project leader, line-of-business manager, or CxO--you'll find realistic, usable solutions. This edition's new and updated coverage includes:

• Creating Mission Impossible projects out of DM projects

• Negotiating your project's conditions: making the best of a bad situation

• XP, agile methods, and death march projects

• Time management for teams: eliminating distractions that can derail your project

• "Critical chain scheduling": identifying and eliminating organizational dysfunction

• Predicting the "straw that breaks the camel's back": lessons from system dynamics

• Choosing tools and methodologies most likely to work in your environment

• Project "flight simulators": wargaming your next project

• Applying triage to deliver the features that matter most

• When it's time to walk away

This isn't a book about perfectly organized projects in "textbook" companies. It's about your project, in your company. But you won't just recognize your reality: you'll learn exactly what to do about it.

EDWARD YOURDON has been called one of the ten most influential people in software, and has been inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame alongside Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray, James Martin, Grace Hopper, and Bill Gates. An internationally recognized consultant, he is author or coauthor of more than 25 books, including Byte Wars, Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, and Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. He co-developed the popular Coad/Yourdon methodology, co-founded the influential Cutter Consortium Business Technology Council, and serves on the Board of Directors of iGate and Mascot Systems.

About the Author

Steven Holzner is the author of more than 70 books on programming, and has been writing on Java topics ever since Java has been around. His books have sold more than 1.5 million copies and have been translated into 16 languages around the world. He has a Ph.D. from Cornell University, has been on the faculty of both Cornell and MIT, and is a former contributing editor to PC Magazine. He's long used JSP in commercial environments, and specializes in Web development.

Written by two leading experts and approved by SAP's ABAP Language Group, ABAP Objects provides an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to SAP application programming for Release 4.6. The focus is on ABAP Objects, which is treated here not as an add-on, but as an integral part of the ABAP language. An indispensable guide for novice and experienced programmers alike, ABAP Objects includes coverage of these essential topics:

• The new ABAP Workbench and the most important features of the ABAP language.
• The fundamentals of ABAP programming, including the ABAP runtime environment.
• The core ABAP language elements.
• The two ABAP programming models - classical and object-oriented - and their relevant statements.
• Advanced concepts of OO programming with ABAP Objects.
• Programming the SAP user interface.
• Database access with OpenSQL.
• ABAP glossary and a complete list of system fields.

The book also includes two CDs carrying a fully operational SAP Basis System, and containing all the example programs from the book.

Dr Horst Keller is a member of SAP's ABAP Language Group and one of the authors of the ABAP Objects official documentation.
Sascha Krüger is a certified SAP consultant and project leader with leading German IT and telecomms consultancy SHS Informationssysteme AG (www.shs.de).

Written by two leading experts and approved by SAP's ABAP Language Group, ABAP Objects provides an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to SAP application programming for Release 4.6. The focus is on ABAP Objects, which is treated here not as an add-on, but as an integral part of the ABAP language. An indispensable guide for novice and experienced programmers alike, ABAP Objects includes coverage of these essential topics:

• The new ABAP Workbench and the most important features of the ABAP language.
• The fundamentals of ABAP programming, including the ABAP runtime environment.
• The core ABAP language elements.
• The two ABAP programming models - classical and object-oriented - and their relevant statements.
• Advanced concepts of OO programming with ABAP Objects.
• Programming the SAP user interface.
• Database access with OpenSQL.
• ABAP glossary and a complete list of system fields.

The book also includes two CDs carrying a fully operational SAP Basis System, and containing all the example programs from the book.

Dr Horst Keller is a member of SAP's ABAP Language Group and one of the authors of the ABAP Objects official documentation.
Sascha Krüger is a certified SAP consultant and project leader with leading German IT and telecomms consultancy SHS Informationssysteme AG (www.shs.de).

This book presents complete code listings and output, followed with analysis that explains exactly what the listings are doing. These practical code examples can be incorporated easily by the reader into other projects. Coverage includes SQL, as well as SQL in an enterprise setting and on the Web and Intranet.

Authors Ryan Stephens and Ronald Plew are Database Administrators for Unisys Federal Systems. They are also instructors at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis where they teach SQL and various database classes.

About the Author

Ryan K. Stephens currently works for Unisys Federal Systems, where he is a database administrator and is responsible for government-owned databases throughout the United States. In addition to his full-time job, Ryan teaches SQL and various database classes at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He also serves part-time as a programmer for the Indiana Army National Guard.

Ronald R. Plew is a database administrator for Unisys Federal Systems. He is an instructor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis where he teaches SQL and various database classes. Ron also serves as a programmer for the Indiana Army National Guard.

This book presents complete code listings and output, followed with analysis that explains exactly what the listings are doing. These practical code examples can be incorporated easily by the reader into other projects. Coverage includes SQL, as well as SQL in an enterprise setting and on the Web and Intranet.

Authors Ryan Stephens and Ronald Plew are Database Administrators for Unisys Federal Systems. They are also instructors at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis where they teach SQL and various database classes.

About the Author

Ryan K. Stephens currently works for Unisys Federal Systems, where he is a database administrator and is responsible for government-owned databases throughout the United States. In addition to his full-time job, Ryan teaches SQL and various database classes at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He also serves part-time as a programmer for the Indiana Army National Guard.

Ronald R. Plew is a database administrator for Unisys Federal Systems. He is an instructor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis where he teaches SQL and various database classes. Ron also serves as a programmer for the Indiana Army National Guard.

• PowerShell language and environment
• Regular expression reference
• PowerShell automatic variables
• Standard PowerShell verbs
• Selected .NET classes and their uses
• WMI reference
• Selected COM objects and their uses
• .NET string formatting
• .NET datetime formatting

A few years ago, Perl was a secret of UNIX® programmers who wanted to combine the power of grep, awk, sed, tr, shells and C in a single easy language. These days it's everywhere, as the source language for the CGI scripts that make the Internet go 'round.

This Second Edition of Perl by Example is completely revised and updated to bring you up to the minute with:

* Complete coverage of Perl 5.
* Bug fixes to existing versions.
* Full treatment of CGI scripting.

Written with the same friendly tone and filled with practical examples, Perl by Example still focuses on bringing you practical information without a lot of fluff. From basic scripting to complex network applications, you'll maximize your learning with:

* Hands-on tutorials, from simple reports to sophisticated Perl scripts.
* One-to-one comparisons with other familiar languages and utilities.
* Convenient reference for ongoing learning.

The enclosed CD-ROM contains distributions of Perl for Windows 3.1, 95, NT, and UNIX systems, plus multiple add-on libraries for all users. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Ellie Quigley has taught scripting languages in Silicon Valley for more than twenty years. Her Perl and shell programming classes at the University of Santa Cruz Extension program have become part of Silicon Valley lore. Her best-selling books include UNIX® Shells by Example, Fourth Edition; PHP and MySQL by Example (with coauthor Marko Gargenta); and JavaScript by Example, all from Prentice Hall.

Read the following statements:

• The earth is flat!

• The earth is the center of the universe!

• Men shall never fly!

• Java will never work properly on the mainframe!

All four statements had a lot of advocates for a long time, but all of them turned out to be wrong. Completely wrong.

In this IBM® Redbook we show how Java and DB2® for z/OS™ and OS/390® can work together and form a strong combination that can run your mission-critical enterprise applications. This publication focusses on the new IBM Universal Driver for SQLJ and JDBC, IBM's new JDBC driver implementation, supporting both Type 2 and Type 4 driver connectivity to the members of the DB2 family, including DB2 for z/OS, and DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows.

This publication provides guidance on the different ways to set up your environment to hook a Java program up to a DB2 for z/OS subsystem, through JDBC or SQLJ, using the Type 2 driver and the Type 4 driver.

We provide an SQLJ tutorial, and demonstrate how to develop and deploy SQLJ programs using the new SQLJ support functions that became available with WebSphere® Studio Application Developer.

We demonstrate the use of Java and DB2 using native Java programs, as well as through the use of Servlets and JSPs running on a WebSphere Application Server.

One unforgettable story.1,000 unforgettable SAT vocabulary words.

Alexa McCurry leads an ordinary teenager's life in upstate New York—until she embarks on a summer adventure in Central America. While working at a potentially boring internship in a marine DNA lab, she befriends a local boy, José, and a remarkable dolphin, Pecas. Together, Alexa and José uncover an ominous secret: Pecas' missing baby may be a captive at a marine biology facility. In a riveting tale of intrigue, Alexa and José work to unravel the mystery—and lead the reader on a vocabulary-expanding adventure.

The Marino Mission is a fun and painless way to master 1,000 tough SAT vocabulary words. Why spend all day looking at lists of words and definitions when you can read a gripping page-turner that incorporates SAT vocabulary words right into the text? Even better, words are defined at the bottom of each page so you don't have to flip to the back of the book to find definitions. Plus, self-tests at the end of the novel help you retain what you learn and prepare for test day. Once you open up The Marino Mission, you'll hardly know you're studying at all!

About the Author

Karen B. Chapman, Ph.D., grew up in upstate New York and graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biology. She received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at both the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at Harvard Medical School. Currently, she resides in Northern California with her husband and four young children.

Learning the basics of a modeling technique is not the same as learning how to use and apply it. To develop a data model of an organization is to gain insights into its nature that do not come easily. Indeed, analysts are often expected to understand subtleties of an organization's structure that may have evaded people who have worked there for years.

Here's help for those analysts who have learned the basics of data modeling (or "entity/relationship modeling") but who need to obtain the insights required to prepare a good model of a real business.

Structures common to many types of business are analyzed in areas such as accounting, material requirements planning, process manufacturing, contracts, laboratories, and documents.

Lee Creighton, Ph.D., is the documentation manager for the JMP division at SAS Institute. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State University. He is currently interested in methods of teaching statistics, user interface design, and issues in localization. Prior to working at SAS, Lee taught high school and college mathematics in North Carolina..He is the co-author of several books on statistical methods, including Introduction aux Plans d'Expériences and Regression Using JMP.

Ann Lehman, Ph.D., joined SAS Institute in 1979 and is a senior statistical writer, working with JMP since its inception in 1988. A co-author of JMP for Basic Univariate and Multivariate Statistics: A Step-by-Step Guide and many other JMP user's manuals, Ann has a diverse background that includes editing and coauthoring SAS user's guides, writing and teaching SAS courses, and serving as technical editor of the JMPer Cable, JMP's technical newsletter.

The aim of the book is to present a review of emerging new areas of interest involving nonlinear signal and image processing theories, techniques, and tools.

More than 30 leading researchers have contributed to this book covering the major topics relevant to nonlinear signal processing. These topics include recent theoretical contributions in different areas of digital filtering and a number of applications in genomics, speech analysis and synthesis, communication system, active noise control, digital watermarking, feature extraction, texture analysis, and color image processing.

The book is intended as a reference for recent advances and new applications of theories, techniques, and tools in the area of nonlinear signal processing. The target audience are graduate students and practitioners working on modern signal processing applications.

About the Author

Giovanni L. Sicuranza is Professor of Signal and Image Processing and head of the Image Processing Laboratory at the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica Elettronica Informatica, University of Trieste (Italy), where he has given courses on analog circuits, digital circuits, and digital signal and image processing. He was also a teacher in European courses on image processing and analysis, and the organizer of the EURASIP course on Linear and Nonlinear Filtering of Multidimensional Signals (Trieste, Italy, 1990).His research interests include multidimensional digital filters, polynomial filters, processing of images and image sequences, image coding, and neural networks for signal processing. He has published a number of papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He contributed chapters for four books and is the co-editor of the books Multidimensional Processing of Video Signals, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1992 and Nonlinear Image Processing, Academic Press, 2001.

Stephen Marshall received a first-class honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham in 1979 and a Ph.D. degree in image processing from University of Strathclyde in 1989. In between, he worked at Plessey Office Systems, Nottingham, University of Paisley, and the University of Rhode Island, USA. In recent years, his research activities have been focused in the area of nonlinear image processing. He has pioneered new design techniques for morphological filters based on a class of iterative search techniques known as genetic algorithms. The resulting filters have been applied as four-dimensional operators to successfully restore old film archive material. The work is now the subject of a Scottish Enterprise, Proof of Concept Program, to commercialise these techniques. He has published over 100 conference and journal papers on these topics including IEE, IEEE, SPIE, SIAM, ICASSP, VIE, and EUSIPCO.

Groovy is one of a new breed of dynamic languages that run on the Java platform. You can use these new languages on the JVM and intermix them with your existing Java code. You can leverage your Java investments while benefiting from advanced features including true Closures, Meta Programming, the ability to create internal DSLs, and a higher level of abstraction.

If you're an experienced Java developer, Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You'll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming including using Meta Programming, Builders, Unit Testing with Mock objects, processing XML, working with Databases and creating your own Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs).

About the Author

Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. He is a frequent invited speaker at international software conferences and user groups. He's author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly) and coauthor of the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

* Creating and strengthening their business websites with Google Page Creator, Google Analytics, and Google Checkout.

* Improving communication with clients and co-workers using Google Talk, Google SMS, and Google Groups.

* Marketing themselves to prospective customers using Google AdWords, AdSense, and Google directory placement.

* Improving their visibility by creating business blogs with Blogger.

Complete with information on research tools like Google Local, Google News, and Google Alerts, this is the ultimate guide for businesses of every size.

About the Author

Greg Holden (Chicago, IL) has written more than 30 books on computers and the Internet, including Starting an Online Business for Dummies , Selling Beyond eBay (978-0-8144-7349-8), and How to Do Everything with Your eBay Business. He is founder and owner of Stylus Media, his own small Internet-based business.

"Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing" covers the essential aspects of research in this emerging technology, and explains the latest development in this field. It describes the framework of multimedia fingerprinting, discusses the challenges that may be faced when enforcing usage polices, and investigates the design of fingerprints that cope with new families of multiuser attacks that may be mounted against media fingerprints. The discussion provided in the book highlights challenging problems as well as future trends in this research field, providing readers with a broader view of the evolution of the young field of multimedia forensics.

About the Author

K. J. Ray Liu is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland in College Park. Dr. Liu's research interests span all aspects of signal processing with application to image/video, wireless communications, networking, and medical biomedical technology. He has published more than one hundred papers, many of which are in archival journals, books, and book chapters. He has won many awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Senior Award for Best Paper in VLSI in 1993 and the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994. Wade Trappe received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994, and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the University of Maryland in 2002. He is currently an assistant professor at the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rutgers University. His research interests include multimedia security, cryptography, wireless network security, and computer networking.

Dr. Trappe is a co-author of the textbook "Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory", Prentice Hall, 2001. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing, Communication, and Computer societies.

Z. Jane Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, Canada. She received the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996 (with the highest honor), and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and 2002 (with the Outstanding Engineering Doctoral Student Award), respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since Aug. 2004, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia. Dr. Wang's research interests are in the broad areas of statistical signal processing, information sec

• This book is the essential resource for anyone who wants to make their web application a full participant in the new Internet.
• This book is intended for intermediate–to–advanced Rails developers—people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll–your–own blog.
• In particular, it’s targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizens—sharing the functionality of their app with other sites to the betterment of everyone.
• Application projects include iPhone, Facebook, and REST for the enterprise.

• Develop REST web services in Rails 2 Framework.
• Build from the server–side perspective and integrate with PHP.
• Build from the client side using a JavaScript widget.
• Develop RESTful application on Rails for the Apple iPhone.
• Create a Facebook application using REST on Rails.
• Examine REST on Rails for the Enterprise.

This book is intended for intermediate–to–advanced Rails developers—people who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical roll–your–own blog.

• Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional

Ben Scofield develops web applications for the DC area–based Viget Labs. He has been designing and building for the Web since 1998, and has been happily obsessed with Ruby and Rails for several years. He’s worked on a variety of sites, and has spoken at RailsConf and RubyConf. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, dog, and (soon) child.

Ian Oppermann, from 1996 to 2002, was CTO of an Australian Software Development company developing network planning and optimisation tools. He also earned his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1997 where his thesis explored CDMA physical layer technologies. In 2005, he completed an MBA at the University of London. Ian Oppermann is currently the Director of OSP (Operations Solutions Performance) Products within Nokia Networks Finland. Within his product development portfolio are leading edge network planning and optimisation tools for 2G and 3G technologies.

Andreas F. Molisch received his M. Sc., Ph.D., and habilitation degrees from the TU Vienna, Austria, in 1990, 1994, and 1999, respectively. His current research interests are multiple-antenna systems, wireless channel measurement and modeling, ultra wideband systems, sensor networks, and OFDM.

Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto obtained her Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1987 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. In 1991, she joined the Faculty of Engineering of University of Rome La Sapienza, where currently she is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the Infocom Department. Christian Politano, ST Microelectronics, F-01630 St Genis, France.

Domenico Porcino, a professor at Philips Research Laboratories, Cross Oak Lane, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5HA, UK.

• Investigate features of the KDE desktop and its Internet applications
• Save your settings and data between reboots with persistent storage
• Employ Knoppix as a system administration multitool to replace failed servers and more
• Use the CD/DVD as a rescue disc to repair filesystems or a system that won't boot
• Rescue Windows systems with Knoppix to back up files and settings, hack the registry, and more
• Explore other live CDs based on Knoppix that could augment your system
• Easily install the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution with all of your hardware detected and configured
• Remaster Knoppix to include your favorite software and custom branding

Receiver: space-time processing, antenna combining, reduced rank processing, robust beamforming, subspace methods, synchronization, equalization, multi-user detection, iterative methods.

Channel: propagation, measurements and sounding, modeling, channel estimation, direction-of-arrival estimation, subscriber location estimation.

Transmitter: space-time block coding, channel side information, unified design of linear transceivers, ill-conditioned channels, MIMO-MAC strategies.

Network Theory: channel capacity, network capacity, multihop networks.

Technology: antenna design, transceivers, demonstrators and testbeds, future air interfaces.

Applications and Systems: 3G system and link level aspects, MIMO HSDPA, MIMO-WLAN/UMTS implementation issues.

This book serves as a reference for scientists and engineers who need to be aware of the leading edge research in multiple-antenna communications, an essential technology for emerging broadband wireless systems.

About the Author

Thomas Kaiser is a Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen- Germany. He is also a Co-Leader of the Smart Antenna Research Team at Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany. In Summer 2005, he was a visiting professor in the Smart Antenna Research Group, Stanford University, USA. He holds a PhD in Communications (with distinction), Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg, Germany (1991-1995). Dr. Kaiser is also an Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Society, an e-letter student activity chair in IEEE German Signal Processing Chapter, student branch counselor in IEEE Student Branch Duisburg and IEEE Senior member.

André Bourdoux received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (specialisation in micro-electronics) in 1982 from the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His current interests span the areas of wireless communications theory, signal processing and transceiver architectures with a special emphasis on broadband and multi-antenna systems. He is the author and co-author of several conference and journal papers and of 2 patents applications in the field of SDMA and MIMO transmission. He is senior researcher at the Wireless Group of IMEC's division of Design Technology for Integrated Information and Communication Systems (DESICS).

Holger Boche is a Professor at the Heinrich-Hertz-Chair for Mobile Communications at Berlin University of Technology. He wrote about several issues in journal papers. Dr. Boche attended lots of conferences such as FIR Linear Relay Network with Frequency Selective Channels, and Optimal sequences for asynchronous CDMA channels with different SIR requirements.

Javier Rodriuez Fonollosa received the telecommunication engineering degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1992. He is the author of 15 journals and more than 70 conference papers in the area of Signal Processing and Communications. He was elected IEEE Senior Member and member of the Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in February 1998 and January 1999 respectively. His research interests include many different aspects of statistical signal processing for communications.

Jorgen Bach Andersen is a Professor Emeritus, Doctor of Technology Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. He was Professor at Aalborg University from 1974 to 2003. Professor Bach Andersen holds several prestigious assignments and memberships in national and international scientific societies and paved the way for the development of systems for wireless communications. Professor Andersen can be said to be one of the founding fathers of the mobile communications sector in Northern Jutland.

Wolfgang Utschick received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees (both with honors) in electrical engineering from the Munich University of Technology (TUM), in 1993 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 - 2002 he was head of the Signal Processing Group at the Institute of Circuit Theory and Signal Processing at the TUM. Since October 2002 Wolfgang Utschick is Professor for Signal Processing at the Munich University of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. He authored and co-authored many papers on the field of neural networks and signal processing w.r.t. to communication applications and holds some patents on the field of wireless communications.

• Does not bore with syntax!
• Helps you learn the underlying concepts involved in querying a database, and from there the syntax is easy
• Provides exceptionally clear examples and explanations
• Is academically sound while being practical and approachable

• Write simple queries to extract data from a single table.
• Understand relational algebra and calculus and why they are important.
• Combine data from many tables into one business result.
• Avoid pitfalls and traps such as Cartesian products and difficulties with null values.
• Summarize large amounts of data for reporting purposes.
• Apply set theory to the problems of manipulating data and generating reports.

Beginning SQL Queries is aimed at intelligent laypeople who need to extract information from a database, and at developers and other IT people who are new to SQL. The book is especially useful for business intelligence analysts who must ask more complex questions of their database than their GUI–based reporting software supports. Such people might be business owners wanting to target specific customers, scientists and students needing to extract subsets of their research data, or end users wanting to make the best use of databases for their clubs and societies.

Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned?

Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability engineer with a long and successful paper prototyping history, this book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. You'll see how to simulate various kinds of interface elements and interactions. You'll learn about the practical aspects of paper prototyping, such as deciding when the technique is appropriate, scheduling the activities, and handling the skepticism of others in your organization. Numerous case studies and images throughout the book show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work.

Learn how to use this powerful technique to develop products that are more useful, intuitive, efficient, and pleasing:

• Save time and money - solve key problems before implementation begins
• Get user feedback early--use it to focus the development process
• Communicate better--involve development team members from a variety of disciplines
• Be more creative--experiment with many ideas before committing to one

About the Author

Carolyn Snyder is an internationally recognized usability consultant with 10 years of experience in usability and another 10 as a software engineer and project manager. She has taught usability testing and paper prototyping to development teams at dozens of companies. She is co-author of Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide and E-Commerce User Experience.

The 9 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data integration, software architectures, services and migration, as well as on model-based and semantic approaches.

Leadership is fundamentally different from management, but traditional leadership skills were based on an ill-fitting, management-oriented model. When leadership is recognized as a discrete professional specialty, new techniques and methods are needed to operationalize the new values-based theories. In addition to distinguishing leadership from management, this book distinguishes inner leadership, practiced by those in the middle ranks, from leadership as practiced by the CEO. Inner leadership is an applied complex of specialized knowledge theory, skills, attitudes, and attributes used to make things happen in the lives and behavior of other community members.

The leader’s goal is to cause followers to accept the leader’s values—e.g., his or her standards of what are acceptable goals, behavior, and overall conduct—as their own. It is an intimate personal, life-transforming task that resolves itself into a set of discrete techniques—sets of attitudes, actions and intentions—that distinguish leaders from managers or other corporate workers. The special focus of the 21 leadership techniques presented here is on those unique methods of group interaction that characterize leadership activities in the middle of the corporation. These techniques represent a substantial body of inner leadership practice that differentiates leadership from all other group roles and functions.

About the Author

Gilbert W. Fairholm is an Adjunct Professor of Management Systems at the University of Richmond and Adjunct Professor of Leadership at Averett University. He is an emeritus member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Senior Fellow of The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Municipal Management.

Microdisplays are tiny, high-resolution electronic displays, designed for use in magnifying optical systems such as HDTV projectors and near-eye personal viewers. As a result of research and development into this field, Microdisplays are   incorporated in a variety of visual electronics, notably new 3G portable communications devices, digital camera technologies, wireless internet applications, portable DVD viewers and wearable PCs.

Introduction to Microdisplays encapsulates this market through describing in detail the theory, structure, fabrication and applications of Microdisplays. In particular this book:

• Provides excellent reference material for the Microdisplay industry through including an overview of current applications alongside a guide to future developments in the field
• Covers all current technologies and devices such as Silicon Wafer Backplane Technology, Liquid Crystal Devices, Micromechanical Devices, and the emerging area of Organic Light Emitting Diodes
• Presents guidance on the design of applications of Microdisplays, including Microdisplays for defence and telecoms, from basic principles through to their performance limitations

Introduction to Microdisplays is a thorough and comprehensive reference on this emerging topic. It is essential reading for display technology manufacturers, developers, and system integrators, as well as practising electrical engineers, physicists, chemists and specialists in the display field. Graduate students, researchers, and developers working in optics, material science, and telecommunications will also find this a valuable resource.

About the Author

David Armitage, Consultant, Los Altos, CA94024, USA

Dr Ian Underwood, Reader, Dept of Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL,  Scotland

Dr Shin-Tson Wu, Provost Professor of Optics, University of Central Florida, School of Optics – CREOL, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard PO Box 162700, Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA

The authors introduce the basic terminology of satisfiability modulo theories and then, in separate chapters, study decision procedures for each of the following theories: propositional logic; equalities and uninterpreted functions; linear arithmetic; bit vectors; arrays; pointer logic; and quantified formulas. They also study the problem of deciding combined theories and dedicate a chapter to modern techniques based on an interplay between a SAT solver and a decision procedure for the investigated theory.

This textbook has been used to teach undergraduate and graduate courses at ETH Zurich, at the Technion, Haifa, and at the University of Oxford. Each chapter includes a detailed bibliography and exercises. Lecturers' slides and a C++ library for rapid prototyping of decision procedures are available from the authors' website.

What’s most important when deciding what to include in a new release? Is it bug fixes? Or programming productivity features? Or end-user functionality that will help the developer sell upgrades to applications to their customer and user base? Visual FoxPro 8.0 combines the best of all worlds. So what’s new in Visual FoxPro 8.0? Lots of things! New base classes, including CursorAdapter, Collection, and XMLAdapter. Powerful new tools, including the Toolbox, Task Pane Manager, and Code References. Structured error handling featuring the new TRY…CATCH…ENDTRY structure. Improvements in the database engine, including SQL enhancements, a View Designer that actually works, and an updated OLE DB provider. The list goes on and on. What’s New in Visual FoxPro 8 organizes the new features into functional categories and shows you how and why to use each of them. No matter what your area of interest, there’s a lot of new stuff in the latest to appear from the Fox labs in Redmond—and you won’t find a better, more concise guide of what’s new, and how to use it, than in this compendium put together by two of the finest Fox developers on the planet.

About the Authors

Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow’s Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000. She is currently the magazine’s Technical Editor and co-author of the popular “Advisor Answers” column.

Tamar is co-author of the Hacker’s Guide To Visual FoxPro 7.0 (and its award-winning predecessor), What’s New in Visual FoxPro 7.0 and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. She is the Technical Editor of Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing).

Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT), the award-winning Stonefield Query, and the CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8. Doug is co-author of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 and What’s New in visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing). Doug writes the monthly “Reusable Tools” column in FoxTalk. He has spoken at ever Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over North America.

Major Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE, among others, have released mature, full-featured versions suitable for day to day use on an average computer user's day to day computer, including not only a complete operating system but also a Microsoft Office-compatible application suite and a plethora of additional tools available for free download. At the same time, more and more people are become frustrated with Microsoft's continuing security problems and privacy, licensing and pricing issues. As a result, Linux is going to make serious inroads on the desktop in 2003 and beyond.

But today's experienced computer user doesn't have time to set up and learn a new operating system and programs alone. This book shows an ordinary computer user who is comfortable with using Microsoft Windows and associated popular applications how Linux works and how using it is similar in many ways to their current software.

Then it guides them through the wonderful world of popular Linux applications that perform the same day to day functions they're used to on their Windows computer - word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics processing, email, Internet browsing, pictures, music and video, and more.

Also included are chapters on file compatibility, how to use Windows programs on a Linux computer, with and without a Windows license, and, for those a bit more technically adept or curious, how things work “under the hood”.

Computer users are discovering that they don't have to pay hundreds of dollars for an operating system, and then hundreds more for common applications, and that the alternatives are less expensive and more secure. But there are a lot of choices out there. This book helps the experienced user get comfortable with those choices and how to use them.

About the Editor

Chris Herborth is an award-winning senior technical writer with more than 10 years of experience in the field of technology with a background in operating systems, programming, and other interesting areas. When he's not playing with his son or hanging out with his wife, Chris spends his spare time designing and writing video games, enjoying various Nintendo GameCube titles, and fretting over how long it takes him to finish playing games on his PC.

Your cat is by nature a clean, fastidious creature—so why has he stopped using the litter box? And what can you do to get him back on track? This book gives you the inside scoop on litter box protocol and how to better understand your cat's needs so you can nip problems in the bud—or prevent them before they start.

Good Cat! outlines a step-by-step retraining program for your cat that clearly explains:

• How to pinpoint the cause of the problem
• Why punishing your cat isn't the answer
• The pros and cons of various types of litter and litter boxes
• How to teach your cat litter box basics
• The best methods for removing odors and stains
• How to introduce change without upsetting your cat

Your cat is trying to tell you something when he rejects the litter box. With this book, you'll discover how to respond properly—so you can say Good Cat!

What makes a well-behaved cat forget her manners, and what to do about it

Each year, thousands of cats lose their homes when their owners become frustrated with inappropriate elimination behavior, not realizing it can be corrected. In this unique guide, Shirlee Kalstone provides a complete list of factors that can trigger unacceptable bathroom habits and offers an uncomplicated, step-by-step system to retrain the most recalcitrant cat.

Shirlee Kalstone (New York, NY) has been a breeder of dogs and cats for 40 years and is the author of 12 pet books.

About the Author

SHIRLEE KALSTONE has been a breeder and owner of cats and dogs for nearly forty years. She is the author of twelve books on pets, including Poodle Clipping and Grooming: The International Reference, Third Edition (Howell), How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days, The Common Sense Book of Kitten and Cat Care, and The Common Sense Book of Puppy and Dog Care.

Make sure you get a good ROI (Return on Investment) from your college courses and career choices. Whether you're a student pounding the books or a graduate pounding the pavement, What Can You Do with a Major in Business? alerts you to diverse job options, some of which you probably haven't considered. It addresses specific concerns of business majors with valuable information, including:

• Advice on college and curriculum choices—courses, internships, advanced degrees, and more
• Tips to energize and expand your job search
• Profiles of real graduates, their jobs, and how they got them
• Objective audits of their careers from the manager of a recreational facility, a city/county administrator, a marketing field representative, a public relations specialist, and an import/export broker
• Overviews of typical salary levels, hours, and work environments
• Extensive additional resources, including Web sites, professional organizations, periodicals, and more

With practical information and enlightening insight from your peers in business careers, this book helps you analyze opportunities and choose a career that lets you make the most of your assets. Bottom line, that's the key to success.

The hottest jobs with America’s most popular college degree

Business is by far America’s most popular college major–more than a quarter of a million U.S. students receive business BAs each year. The most economical guide for students and grads to be sure they are aware of the range of opportunities a business degree can yield, What Can You Do with a Major in Business? explores hot jobs in areas such as finance, public relations, and marketing–with career paths, salary info, real-life profiles, and much more.

Series author Jennifer A. Horowitz (New York, NY) holds degrees from Columbia University's Teachers College and from Barnard College in writing. She has worked in New York City schools, with educational publishers, and as an advisor to parents of gifted children.

About the Author

Kate Shoup Welsh is a freelance writer and editor. During the course of her career, she has penned three books and cowritten a screenplay.

This book helps you get from the lab to life! Whether you're considering majoring in biology, choosing a college or classes, or already have your degree and your lab coat, this is your definitive guide to diverse career opportunities, some of which you probably haven't considered. It goes beyond the basics to address specific concerns of biology majors with valuable information, including:

• Advice on college and curriculum choices—— courses, internships, advanced degrees, and more
• Tips to energize and expand your job search
• Profiles of real graduates, their jobs, and how they got them
• Eye-opening, objective information from a healthcare professional, education and outreach program manager, zookeeper, science reporter, healthcare attorney, and public health consultant
• Overviews of typical salary levels, hours, and work environments
• Extensive additional resources, including Web sites, professional organizations, periodicals, and more
• Licensing requirements

Learn what your peers in the work world like about their jobs—and what they don't. Learn about the routes they took and the mistakes they made. Then you'll be prepared to thoroughly examine your options and chart your course to success!

About the Author

Bart Astor is the author of numerous books, articles, and interactive programs that have appeared in national magazines and Web sites. He is a contributing author and editor for various college guides and publisher of the College Planning Quarterly, a national newsletter on college admission and financial aid.

Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS provides a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture before exploring the more complex data transformations involved in moving data between different servers, applications, and providers. The book then focuses on DTS programming via the DTS object model, enabling developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. Advanced topics are explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, and data warehouses. With code and case studies, this book gives the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential.

Who is this book for?

This book is principally aimed at database programmers and administrators who have a working knowledge of SQL Server, and who wish to take DTS beyond its most basic level and tailor it to their needs. It will also appeal to managers and project managers who want to gain an understanding of DTS and how it could benefit their businesses.

What does this book cover?

• A detailed explanation of the seventeen principal DTS tasks
• Connecting to, querying, and converting heterogeneous data
• Dynamic configuration of your DTS packages
• Enhancing your DTS packages with VBScript and Visual Basic
• Writing your own custom tasks
• Using DTS in a data-warehousing environment
• Employing DTS in other applications
  

About the Author

He also works as a Sr. SQL Server DBA and spends most of his time deep in DTS and SQL Server.

Todd Robinson (MCP, MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCNA) lives in Atlanta, GA where he is an internet application developer and data warehousing guru for Metlife. He specializes in MTS/COM+, ASP, XML, SQL Server and related Windows DNA technologies. In addition to his normal job duties at Metlife, he is President of GradesNow.com an internet application service for teachers, students and parents to allow access to grades online.

Renaissance and Reformation: Almanac provides extensive background information and includes exploration of both the Italian and Northern Renaissance, the Protestant, Catholic, and Counter Reformations, and much more. (20030601)

Profiles fifty people who played a significant role during the Renaissance and Reformation periods in Europe, including John Calvin, Peter Paul Rubens, Catherine de Medici, and Johannes Kepler.

• Features the work of hundreds of today's leading experts in the field.
• Presents practical, practice-enhancing tools including pre-diagnosis management information for the initial treatment and relief of symptoms · emergency care guidelines for acute care of the pediatric patient · and treatment boxes for quick reference.

• Offers access to www.currentpediatrictherapy.com where you'll find the complete contents online, fully searchable · the text's entire collection of illustrations, downloadable into PowerPoint® for presentations · and more.
• Adds sections on Dentistry, Orthopedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, and Behavioral Science.
• Includes a new first section on Presenting Problems.

Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession.

Through engrossing stories—from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist—Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can:

• Explore possible selves
• Craft and execute “identity experiments”
• Create “small wins” that keep momentum going
• Survive the rocky period between career identities
• Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
• Make time for reflection—without missing out on windows of opportunity
• Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming

About the Author

Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring practitioners and a reliable reference for experienced group facilitators, including chapters on

• Creating positive ongoing client relationships
• Building trust and improving communications
• Facilitating group brainstorming sessions
• Drawing out the best in people
• Developing a collaborative environment
• Designing and facilitating dialogue
• Managing conflicting agendas
• Working with multicultural groups
• Using improvisation
• Understanding virtual meetings
• Facilitating team start-up
• Assessing group decision processes
• Building expertise in facilitation
• Reviewing core facilitation competencies
• Modeling positive professional attitudes

This wide-ranging collection also features a CD-ROM with the complete collection of articles published in the first five issues of Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal.

About the Author
Sandy Schuman is president of Executive Decision Services LLC, a consulting firm in Albany, New York, specializing in strategic decision making, collaborative problem solving, consensus building, public involvement, and information management. He is also a research associate at the Center for Policy Research, University at Albany, SUNY. Schuman is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and speaks widely at conferences on facilitation, decision making, conflict resolution, and collaborative systems. He moderates the Electronic Discussion on Group Facilitation and is the editor of Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal.

Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets

• Is the first book to cover Google’s new Mapplet technology
• Shows you how to create Google Maps–based applications and publish to maps.google.com
• Provides a single–source resource and practical guide to Mapplets and mashups
• Teaches you how to mash up Mapplets using location–specific data
• Includes examples of real–world applications

Readers will be taken through the process of building a mashup of multiple data sources and APIs, using Tourfilter’s concert and event data to map concerts and venue information happening nearby. Creating GeoRSS and KML files will also be covered, showing readers how to publish their content with geographic metadata and encouraging their users to interact with their data in new and interesting ways.

This book is aimed at developers, designers, and technologists looking to explore Google’s new Mapplet technology. The book will be a great resource for those just getting into Map–based applications and mashups, as well as for seasoned Maps developers looking to reach an extended audience with their mashups on maps.google.com.

Readers of the book should be familiar with JavaScript, basic HTML and CSS, PHP, and some SQL.

Michael Young is a Technologist in the Research & Development group of The New York Times Company. He is currently focused on building new digital media products and services, primarily in the mobile space.

This new collection of research presents a range of research on topics from the impact of ultra-violent video games on children and youth who participate in entertainment violence, to the benefits these technologies have to offer. Video games, computers, and the Internet can provide opportunities for problem solving, creativity, and autonomy, and in particular, carefully constructed software can offer an alternative to traditional classroom learning.

Children's Learning in a Digital World is one of the first books to examine the impact of computers in both formal or school learning environments and informal learning contexts. It presents exciting and challenging new ideas from international scholars on the impact of computers, the Internet, and video games on children's learning, as well as the social and cultural issues that affect technology use.

About the Author

Teena Willoughby is Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University, and Director of their Research Institute for Youth Studies. She is the winner of Brock's Research Award for 2003-5, and of the Book of the Year Award for Shaffer, Wood, & Willoughby; Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, First Canadian Edition (2002).

Eileen Wood is Professor in the Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University. She is winner of the Book of the Year Award for Shaffer, Wood, & Willoughby; Developmental psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, First Canadian Edition (2002) and for The World Of Psychology (Third Canadian Edition).

• Learn the Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008 development environments
• Create designs using Blend 2's unique tools
• Use XAML and C# to add interactivity to your designs
• Publish your Rich Media Applications to the Web using Silverlight

"This insightful and helpful book shows you how to take complete control of your emotions and achieve peak performance in every area of your life."
—Brian Tracy, author of Create Your Own Future

Get a Grip! offers a powerful prescription for living and thriving in today's high-stress world. This reader-friendly guide takes a straightforward approach to conquering stress, presenting quick and easy tactics for relaxing and reviving the mind, body, and spirit. Stress expert Bob Losyk gives you the tools to identify the causes of stress in your life and shows you which stress-busting techniques best fit your lifestyle and schedule. Based on a wide range of influences—including nutrition and diet, meditation and breathing techniques, and relaxation exercises—you'll develop your own effective, personalized stress-fighting regimen. This book is for everyone who wants to live a better life—from CEOs to homemakers.

Inside, you'll discover:

• The causes of stress and its impact on organizations and individuals
  
• How to measure your stress and get off the road to job burnout
  
• Exercise, meditation, and stretching techniques for relaxation and stress relief
  
• Tips on healthy nutrition for increased mental and physical well-being
  
• Fresh ideas for fun activities that rejuvenate your spirit and sense of humor
  
• Valuable insight on balancing your life and living it to the fullest
  
• Advice on simplifying and balancing your priorities to get more done under less pressure
  
• And fifty quick ideas for getting a grip on stress—now!

No matter what causes your stress—and no matter how little time and how many commitments you have—Get a Grip! will help you find easy ways to reduce everyday tension and live a happier, healthier life.

About the Author

BOB LOSYK is a business consultant, trainer, and international speaker on the topic of stress management. His clients include such corporations as American Express, IBM, Inc. magazine, Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Corporation, Honda, Subway, Taco Bell, and many more.

Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition gives developers a formal introduction to XML technology, starting with indepth coverage of basic syntax and fundamental "pieces" of XML, including DTDs, Schemas, and Namespaces. The authors then cover various applications of XML, including transforming and displaying XML documents using CSS and XSL, locating data within XML documents using Xpath, Xlink and Xpointer, programming XML with SAX or DOM, including XML in Java or .NET applications, XML Scripting with Perl, XHTML and WML for presentation on traditional and handheld Web browsers, and querying data or documents with Xquery. The final chapters cover technologies related to XML such as SVG, SMIL, and RDF, focusing on the practical features developers can put to use today.

About the Author

David Gulbransen is the CEO of Vervet Logic, an XML tools development company. More than 5,000 businesses have licensed XML Pro, their XML editor, including The European Union, the Library of Congress, IBM, Prudential, Intel, Cisco Systems, New York Life, Harvard University, and Purdue University. More than 30,000 developers receive Vervet's newsletters. David has been involved with XML since before there was a standard, shipping the final version of XML Pro as XML 1.0 was made final. Today Vervet's strategic partnerships include IBM, Sun, BlueStone, Siber Logic, and OpenText. His most recent book was Special Edition Using XML Schema.

Whether you’re making your first foray into real estate investing or have invested for a number of years, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate will show you how to acquire income-producing real estate and build your wealth by using borrowed money. Long-time real estate advisor Tyler Hicks offers proven strategies and real-world examples to illustrate how much MIF–Money in Fist–you can realistically earn by investing in real estate.

A valuable guide for new, experienced, or affluent real estate investors, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate covers all the bases, from finding loans to hiring an accountant and an attorney to help with the business. Letters from individuals who have successfully followed the strategies outlined in this book are also included to help you understand exactly what you must do to make this plan work for you.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate discusses important real estate topics–including creative financing, acquiring single-family homes, and becoming a private lender client–to allow you to make the most of your investments in real estate.

Proven strategies for successful real estate investing

Anyone–whether they are making their first foray into real estate investing or have invested for a number of years–can acquire properties without using their own savings. 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate shows readers how, regardless of their credit history, they can acquire income-producing real estate by using borrowed money. Longtime real estate investor Tyler Hicks offers proven strategies and real-world examples to illustrate how much MIF–Money in Fist–readers can realistically earn by investing in real estate. Valuable to both new as well as more experienced and affluent real estate investors, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate covers all the bases, from hiring an accountant and an attorney to help with the business to the legal aspects of real estate. Letters from individuals who have successfully followed the strategies outlined in this book are also included as both a motivational tool and as a testament to this proven real estate investing program. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource discusses important real estate topics–such as finding loans, creative financing, acquiring single-family homes, and becoming a private lender client–and allows readers to make the most of their investments in real estate.

Tyler G. Hicks (Rockville Center, NY) is a longtime real estate investor and director of a large lending organization that has made millions of dollars in real estate loans. Hicks has also written several bestselling books on real estate investing, including How to Make Big Money in Real Estate.

About the Author

TYLER G. HICKS is a long-time real estate advisor and director of a large lending organization that has made millions of dollars in real estate loans. Hicks has also written several books on real estate investing, including How to Make Big Money in Real Estate.