Despite the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, navigating through a company’s financial statements can still be a tricky proposition. The EDGAR Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements covers not only how to find the red flags but also how to find the signs of underlying financial strength. It is absolutely critical to have the necessary tools for effective analysis. Clear and accessible, written in an easily readable, step-by-step style that hits every key element, this book gives you those tools. It will not be long before you can easily maneuver through financial statements. There has not been a relevant financial statement analysis book for the average investor since early 2001 and investing has changed markedly since then.
About the Author
Tom Taulli is an investment banker and entrepreneur from Newport Beach, CA. The author of Investing in IPOs and The M&A Handbook, Taulli is also a regular contributor to print and online resources including Motley Fool, CBS Marketwatch, and others. He has also been a guest commentator on CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV.
Software development - especially for small teams & projects - often ends up unmanaged and suffering from the ever present problem of feature creep. This book presents a simple set of processes and practices that allow you to manage these projects without getting in the way. This book looks at what is needed to manage software development projects, how Trac and Subversion meets these needs, and how to install, configure and use them.
This book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks. After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails-FreeBSD virtual environments-to secure your network. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Next it covers using the ifconfig utility to configure interfaces with different layer protocols and about connectivity testing and debugging tools. After covering using User PPP or Kernel PPP for Point-to-Point Protocol network configuration it explains basic IP forwarding in FreeBSD and the use of the built-in routing daemons, routed and route6d, which support RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, and RDISC. Next it covers the OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD daemons that you can install to run OSPF and BGP on your host. Then it covers setup and configuration of IPFW and PF, and finally looks at some important internet services and how to set them up on your FreeBSD server
This lecture provides an introduction to the problem of managing the energy demand of mobile devices. Reducing energy consumption, primarily with the goal of extending the lifetime of battery-powered devices, has emerged as a fundamental challenge in mobile computing and wireless communication. The focus of this lecture is on a systems approach where software techniques exploit state-of-the-art architectural features rather than relying only upon advances in lower-power circuitry or the slow improvements in battery technology to solve the problem. Fortunately, there are many opportunities to innovate on managing energy demand at the higher levels of a mobile system. Increasingly, device components offer low power modes that enable software to directly affect the energy consumption of the system. The challenge is to design resource management policies to effectively use these capabilities.
As most of the real-world applications interact with the data stored in relational databases, so every VB programmer needs to know how to access data. This book specifically covers how to interact with SQL Server 2005 databases using VB 2008. This book also covers LINQ and ADO.NET 3.5, the most exciting features of .NET Framework 3.5. The chapters that focus on the database concepts will help you understand the database concepts as if you’d learned them from a pure database concepts book. I have also covered many new features of T-SQL that SQL Server 2005 has brought in.
The book has been written in such a way that it will be easily understood by beginners and professionals alike. If you want to learn Visual Studio 2008 to build database applications, then this is the right book for you. It will not only walk you through all the concepts that an application developer may have to use, but will also explain what each piece of code you will write does.
The chapters in this book are organized in such a manner that you will build a strong foundation before moving on to the next higher-level chapter.
Who This Book Is For
If you are an application developer who likes to interact with databases using C#, then this book is for you—it covers programming SQL Server 2005 using VB 2008.
This book does not require or even assume that you have a sound knowledge of VB 2005, SQL Server 2000, and database concepts. I have written this book in such a way that, even if you don’t have any of that background, you can pick up this book and learn. I have covered all the fundamentals that other books assume a reader must have before moving on with the chapters. This book is a must for any application developer who wants to interact with databases using VB 2008 and development tools.
