Posted: June 30th, 2008, 7:00pm CEST
Expert exam prep from leading Cisco authority Todd Lammle
Start your preparation here for Cisco's new CCENT entry-level networking certification, your entry point into Cisco's popular CCNA certification track. This comprehensive study guide from leading Cisco authority Todd Lammle thoroughly prepares you for the Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Part 1 exam (640-822) and the start of a career, with pages of exam essentials, real-world scenarios, and hands-on exercises. Topics include the operation of data networks, how to implement both switched and routed networks, and much more.
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Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need for the exam
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Practical hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills
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Real-world scenarios that put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles
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Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day
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Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam
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A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective
Look inside for complete coverage of all exam objectives.
About the Author
Todd Lammle, CCSI, CCNA/CCNP/CCSP, MCSE, CEH/CHFI, FCC RF Licensed, is the authority on Cisco certification. He is a world-renowned author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. Todd has over 25 years of experience working with LANs, WANs, and large licensed and unlicensed wireless networks. He is President of GlobalNet Training and Consulting, Inc., a network integration and training firm based in Dallas. You can reach Todd through his forum at www.lammle.com.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:57pm CEST
The book is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking. The book is divided into sections including:
- The C# Language: Basic language skills using console application. Content moves from the absolute basics to fairly involved OOP skills.
- Windows Vista Programming: Using basic Windows applications, reinforcing earlier OOP and debugging skills.
- Web Programming: Putting together basic Web applications, highlighting differences between Web and Windows programming.
- Data Access: Accessing all kinds of data sources from Web and Windows applications, including SQL usage, XML, file system data, and Web Services.
- Additional Techniques: "The fun stuff", including Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, Windows Communication Foundation, GDI+, networking, Windows Services, and so on.
The book makes complicated subjects seem easy to learn, and it inspires readers to investigate areas further on their own by providing references to additional material, and exercise questions that require significant effort and personal research to complete.
About the Author
Karli Watson is a freelance IT specialist, author, and developer. He is also a technical consultant for 3form Ltd. (www.3form.net) and Boost.net (www.boost.net), and an associate technologist with Content Master (www.contentmaster.com). For the most part, he immerses himself in .NET (in particular, C#) and has written numerous books in the field. He specializes in communicating complex ideas in a way that is accessible to anyone with a passion to learn, and spends much of his time playing with new technology to find new things to teach people.
During those rare times when he isn’t doing the above, Karli is probably wishing he were hurtling down a mountain on a snowboard or possibly trying to get his novel published. Either way, you’ll know him by his brightly colored clothes.
Christian Nagel is a software architect, trainer, and consultant, and an associate of Thinktecture (www.thinktecture.com), offering training and coaching based on Microsoft .NET technologies. His achievements in the developer community have earned him a position as Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for ASP.NET. He enjoys an excellent reputation as an author of several .NET books, such as Professional C#, Pro .NET Network Programming, and Enterprise Services with the .NET Frameworks, and he speaks regularly at international industry conferences.
Christian has more than 15 years of experience as a developer and software architect. He started his computing career on PDP 11 and VAX/VMS, covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since 2000, he has been working with .NET and C#, developing and architecting distributed solutions. He can be reached at www.christiannagel.com.
Jacob Hammer Pedersen is a systems developer at Fujitsu Service, Denmark. He’s been programming the PC since the early 1990s using various languages, including Pascal, Visual Basic, C/C++, and C#. Jacob has co-authored a number of .NET books and works with a wide variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from SQL Server to Office extensibility. A Danish citizen, he works and lives in Aarhus, Denmark.
Jon D. Reid is the director of systems engineering at Indigo Biosystems, Inc. (www.indigobio.com), an independent software vendor for the life sciences, where he develops in C# for the Microsoft environment. He has co-authored many .NET books, including Beginning Visual C# 2005, Beginning C# Databases: From Novice to Professional, Pro Visual Studio .NET, ADO.NET Programmer’s Reference, and Professional SQL Server 2000 XML.
Morgan Skinner started programming at school in 1980 and has been hooked on computing ever since. He now works for Microsoft as an application development consultant where he helps customers with their architecture, design, coding, and testing. He’s been working with .NET since the PDC release in 2000, and has authored several MSDN articles and co-authored a couple of books on .NET. In his spare time he relaxes by fighting weeds on his allotment. You can reach Morgan at www.morganskinner.com.
Eric White is an independent software consultant with more than 20 years of experience in building management information systems and accounting systems. When he isn’t hunched over a screen programming in C#, he is most likely to be found with an ice axe in hand, climbing some mountain.
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:27am CEST
Beginning C# is a book that offers a lot of guidance, in a format that readers find intuitive to follow. The exercise-based format of the Wrox Beginning series has a strong following by all levels of readers, and is one that works very well in the classroom or home. Written by a veteran programming instructor, this is the perfect mix of tutorial, and hands-on coding new programmers are looking for - written from their point of view.
Beginning C# is written for those readers with no prior programming experience who want a thorough, yet easy to understand, introduction to C# and Object Oriented Programming. Dr. Purdum uses his 25 years of teaching experience to teach readers:
- The C# syntax and concepts of Object Oriented Programming
- How to design and write C# programs that are functional and embody safe programming practices
- Tried and true tricks of the trade, from design concepts to debugging aids
- And all of these goals are done in an easy-to-read and enjoyable manner
and much more. Complete source code, examples, and discussion forms available at Wrox.com
About the Author
Dr. Jack Purdum started his programming career on an IBM 360 mainframe as a graduate student in the 1960s. In the mid - 1970s, he became interested in software development for microcomputers, and he founded his own software development company (Ecosoft, Inc.) in 1977. The company ’ s main product was a statistics package (Microstat) that he wanted to rewrite in a new language called C. Lacking a suitable C compiler, Dr. Purdum ’ s company developed its own MS - DOS - based C compiler and other programming tools. He has been involved with language instruction ever since. Dr. Purdum has authored 15 texts and numerous programming articles and has received several teaching awards. He is currently on the cusp of retirement from Purdue University ’ s College of Technology.
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 7:25am CEST
This is a book about Software for Data Analysis: using computer software to extract information from some source of data by organizing, visualizing, modeling, or performing any other relevant computation on the data. We all seem to be swimming in oceans of data in the modern world, and tasks ranging from scientific research to managing a business require us to extract meaningful information from the data using computer software.
This book is aimed at those who need to select, modify, and create software to explore data. In a word, programming. Our programming will center on the R system. R is an open-source software project widely used for computing with data and giving users a huge base of techniques. Hence,Programming with R.
R provides a general language for interactive computations, supported by techniques for data organization, graphics, numerical computations, modelfitting, simulation, and many other tasks. The core system itself is greatly supplemented and enriched by a huge and rapidly growing collection of software packages built on R and, like R, largely implemented as open-source software. Furthermore, R is designed to encourage learning and developing, with easy starting mechanisms for programming and also techniques to help you move on to more serious applications. The complete picture— the R system, the language, the available packages, and the programming environment—constitutes an unmatched resource for computing with data.
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:48am CEST
"Linear and Nonlinear Programming" is considered a classic textbook in Optimization. While it is a classic, it also reflects modern theoretical insights. These insights provide structure to what might otherwise be simply a collection of techniques and results, and this is valuable both as a means for learning existing material and for developing new results. One major insight of this type is the connection between the purely analytical character of an optimization problem, expressed perhaps by properties of the necessary conditions, and the behavior of algorithms used to solve a problem. This was a major theme of the first and second editions. Now the third edition has been completely updated with recent Optimization Methods. Yinyu Ye has written chapters and chapter material on a number of these areas including Interior Point Methods.
This book is designed for either self-study by professionals or classroom work at the undergraduate or graduate level for technical students. Like the field of optimization itself, which involves many classical disciplines, the book should be useful to system analysts, operations researchers, numerical analysts, management scientists, and other specialists.
About the Author
David G. Luenberger has directed much of his career toward teaching "portable concepts" - organizing theory around concepts and actually "porting" the concepts to applications where, in the process, the general concepts are often discovered. The search for fundamentals has explicitly directed his research in the fields of control, optimization, planning, economics, and investments, and in turn, it is the discovery of these fundamentals that have motivated his textbook writing projects.
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:40am CEST
LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference for all LaTeX users. In this completely revised edition, the authors cover the LaTeX2ε standard and offer more details, examples, exercises, tips, and tricks. They go beyond the core installation to describe the key contributed packages that have become essential to LaTeX processing.
Inside, you will find:
- Complete coverage of LaTeX fundamentals, including how to input text, symbols, and mathematics; how to produce lists and tables; how to include graphics and color; and how to organize and customize documents
- Discussion of more advanced concepts such as bibliographical databases and BIBTeX, math extensions with AMS-LaTeX, drawing, slides, and letters
- Helpful appendices on installation, error messages, creating packages, using LaTeX with HTML and XML, and fonts
- An extensive alphabetized listing of commands and their uses
New to this edition:
- More emphasis on LaTeX as a markup language that separates content and form--consistent with the essence of XML
- Detailed discussions of contributed packages alongside relevant standard topics
- In-depth information on PDF output, including extensive coverage of how to use the hyperref package to create links, bookmarks, and active buttons
As did the three best-selling editions that preceded it, Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, will prove indispensable to anyone wishing to gain the benefits of LaTeX.
The accompanying CD-ROM is part of the TeX Live set distributed by TeX Users Groups, containing a full LaTeX installation for Windows, MacOSX, and Linux, as well as many extensions, including those discussed in the book.
About the Author
Helmut Kopka was previously a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie in Germany. He was involved in writing one of the first TeX drivers for HP LaserJet and subsequently introduced TeX and LaTeX into his institute, where it has become the standard text-processing system for scientific publications.
Patrick W. Daly is a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie in Germany. He has written formatting styles for several scientific journals and is the author of the natbib package for flexible bibliographic citations and of the custom-bib system for customizing bibliographic styles for use with BibTeX.
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:37am CEST
The standardization of 35 mm film nearly 100 years ago paved the way for the growth of the motion picture industry. From its humble roots in nickelodeons and peep shows, the motion picture business evolved into popular entertainment for the masses. Along the way, the 35 mm film standard was extended to support sound, color, wide screen presentation, and multi-channel digital soundtracks.
The film-making process is being revolutionized by the adoption of digital imaging technologies. Digital post production was widely embraced in the 1990s, and digital cinema distribution and exhibition is now taking off with a consensus standard supported by all of the major studios.
This book describes the color mastering and encoding methods for digital cinema, looking back at the traditional film process, providing insight into the evolving digital intermediate process, and reviewing the basis for the color encoding standards for digital cinema distribution. One can only hope that these digital cinema standards can be as capable and enduring as 35 mm film.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:43am CEST
Learn how Lean IT can help companies deliver better customer service and value
Lean Enterprise Systems effectively demonstrates how the techniques derived from Lean Manufacturing, combined with the thoughtful application of information technology, can help all enterprises improve business performance and add significant value for their customers. The author also demonstrates how the basic concepts of Lean Manufacturing can be applied to create agile and responsive Lean IT.
The book is divided into three parts that collectively explore how people, processes, and technology combine forces to facilitate continuous improvement:
* Part One: Building Blocks of the Lean Enterprise sets forth the essentials of Lean. Readers discover where, when, and how Lean IT adds substantial value to the Lean Enterprise through integrated processes of planning, scheduling, execution, control, and decision making across the full spectrum of operations.
* Part Two: Building Blocks of Information Systems explores the primary components of an enterprise information system and how these components may be integrated to improve the flow of information supporting value streams. Readers learn how information systems help organize and deliver knowledge when and where it's needed.
* Part Three: Managing Change with IT demonstrates how the skillful combination of process and information technology improvements empowers people to continuously improve the Lean Enterprise. Readers develop the skills to exploit emerging information technology tools and change management methods, crafting a Lean IT framework-reducing waste, complexity, and lead time-while adding measurable value.
Executives, managers, and improvement teams across a broad range of industries, as well as IT professionals, can apply the techniques described in this publication to improve performance, add value, and create competitive advantage. The book's clear style and practical focus also makes it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in business, operations management, and business information systems.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:23am CEST
Learn all the command lines for all Linux shells in this one-stop guide
There's a lot to be said for going back to basics. Not only does this Bible give you a quick refresher on the structure of open-source Linux software, it also shows you how to bypass the hefty graphical user interface on Linux systems and start interacting the fast and efficient way—with command lines and automated scripts. You'll learn how to manage files on the filesystem, start and stop programs, use databases, even do Web programming—without a GUI—with this one-stop resource.
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Understand the Linux desktop and various command-line parameters
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Learn filesystem navigation, file handling, and the basics of bash shell commands
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Write shell scripts to automate routine functions and reports
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Harness nesting loops and structured commands
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Monitor programs, master file permissions, and make queries
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Run scripts in background mode and schedule jobs
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Use sed, gawk, and regular expressions
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Explore all alternate shells, including ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh
About the Author
Richard Blumhas worked in the IT industry for over 18 years as both a systems and network administrator. He has administered UNIX, Linux, Novell, and Microsoft servers, as well as help design and maintain a 3,500-user network utilizing Cisco switches and routers. He has automated network monitoring with Linux shell scripts and written scripts in most of the common Linux shell environments. He is the author of several books, including
Professional Linux Programming (Wrox) and
Linux For Dummies, 8th Edition (Wiley).
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:21am CEST
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Visual C# 2008. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Visual C# from the ground up.
By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something.
Watch Out! cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.
Learn how to...
- Use the powerful design environment of Visual Studio 2008
- Design a feature-rich interface using components such as tree views and tabs
- Create robust applications using modern error handling
- Draw fast graphics using GDI+
- Build a database application using ADO.NET
- Distribute a Visual C# 2008 application
About the Author
James Foxall is vice president of Tigerpaw Software, Inc. (www.tigerpawsoftware.com), a Bellevue, Nebraska, Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in commercial database applications. He manages the development, support, training, and education of Tigerpaw CRM+, an award-winning CRM product designed to automate contact management, marketing, service and repair, proposal generation, inventory control, and purchasing. At the start of 2008, the current release of Tigerpaw CRM+ had more than 16,000 licensed users. Foxall’s experience in creating certified Office-compatible software has made him an authority on application interface and behavior standards of applications for the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office environments.
Foxall has been writing commercial product code for more than 14 years, in both singleprogrammer and multiple-programmer environments. He’s the author of numerous books, including Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basicand MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams. He also has written articles for Access-Office-VBA Advisorand Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal. Foxall has a bachelor’s degree in management of information systems (MIS). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and an international speaker on Microsoft Visual Basic. When not programming or writing about programming, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar, listening to amazing bands like Pink Floyd and OSI, and playing computer games. You can reach him at www.jamesfoxall.com/forums.Introduction
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:19am CEST
Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software
"Patrick is a pragmatist with a purist's knowledge. He has a deep understanding of what 'smells' right, and he knows when and how to find the right balance to get the job done. This philosophy of balanced 'pure pragmatism' pervades this book and makes it useful."
—from the foreword by Scott Hanselman, Author of ComputerZen Blog, www.computerzen.com; Senior Program Manager, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation
Writing code is rewarding, but writing high-quality code, on time and at the lowest possible cost, is what makes a software project successful. As the role of a professional developer has evolved and taken on additional responsibilities, it is now necessary to work in concert with a team in order to improve both the process and final results of a software project. This unique book introduces a set of concrete best practices and construction techniques that can be applied to the development process and to actual code construction, so that you can confidently solve business problems rather than deal solely with pure coding tasks.
Patrick Cauldwell understands that it is no longer sufficient to just write software that solves a problem; it must also be fast, scalable, reliable, and easy to use. In this reference, he explains how to build software that is of high quality at a lower cost and shares with you the practical steps you must take in order to transition from software engineer to technical lead.
What you will learn from this book
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Practical steps you can take to combine different developmental philosophies, processes, and construction techniques into a unified approach to software
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Methods for deciding which parts of a project you need to write yourself versus what you can buy or reuse
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Tools and processes you can employ to improve source code quality and maintainability
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How to create, run, organize, and measure tests, and then make them more useful to developers and testers
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Ways that programming by contract can make your code easier for developers to understand and use
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Recommended techniques for handling errors in your code that will make your application easier to debug and support
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced software developers who are looking to improve their development skill set and bring a higher level of discipline to a project.
Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
About the Author
Patrick Cauldwell somehow found his way to a career in software despite earning a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies. From a work-study job in the student computer lab at college through early jobs in quality assurance and localization, and finally into full-time software engineering, Patrick has always been interested in what makes computers tick. He’s worked in a wide range of software operations, from very large projects at Intel to a very small start-up to a consulting job in the midst of the .COM boom.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:17am CEST
In Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3, authors Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis demonstrate how to use Dreamweaver CS3 and CSS together to create highly individualized, standards-based layouts. Through hands-on projects with visuals, the book gives readers an in-depth understanding of Dreamweaver's 32 CSS-based layouts (new in Dreamweaver CS3) and their application, enabling every user of Dreamweaver to learn CSS effectively and easily.
About the Author
Recognized as a Dreamweaver, accessibility, CSS and XHTML expert by the worldwide Web community, Stephanie Sullivan frequently presents at conferences, where her insightful, down-to-earth, and entertaining sessions garner top ratings. Stephanie's tutorials and educational articles appear regularly on sites such as Adobe's Developer Center. Greg Rewis is the Worldwide Senior Evangelist for Web Tools for Adobe and spends over 200 days a year on the road, talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, speaking at industry conferences, and leading specialized advanced training sessions featuring Adobe's Web Tools product line.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:08am CEST
This book is set up to teach you the basics of Flash and what you need to know to design Flash games that are playable on the Wii. The first two chapters teach the basic concepts of working with Flash and ActionScript (Flash’s programming language). From there, you will learn to create a basic game and play it on your Wii. After that, each chapter teaches a new technique you can use in your Wii Flash games. The game-creating chapters build on each other, so if you’re new to Flash and ActionScript, you can go through them in order. If you feel comfortable with Flash and ActionScript, you can skip around the book to any chapter you’d like.
The example files for this book can be downloaded from this book’s page on the McGraw-Hill Professional web site (www.mhprofessional.com).
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:08am CEST
Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the Java™ programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable? Look no further! Effective Java™, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb: working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges you encounter every day.
This highly anticipated new edition of the classic, Jolt Award-winning work has been thoroughly updated to cover Java SE 5 and Java SE 6 features introduced since the first edition. Bloch explores new design patterns and language idioms, showing you how to make the most of features ranging from generics to enums, annotations to autoboxing.
Each chapter in the book consists of several “items” presented in the form of a short, standalone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and outstanding code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:07am CEST
Wi-Fi networking is supposed to be simple. So why do so many people tear their hair out when trying to configure their wireless networks?It's all about the details. In this book, Wi-Fi experts Glenn Fleishman and Adam Engst put AirPort through its paces, teaching you in step-by-step, illustrated examples about how to remove the frustration in your configuration. The book covers the range of your AirPort and Wi-Fi needs, starting with how to pick the appropriate base station and adapter card--Apple is often best, but it's worth considering alternatives. It tells you how to determine the best place for your Wi-Fi equipment, and then how to configure your base station and computer for precisely your needs. A long section explains setting up your own dynamic addressing, a common need for home networks with a mix of computers and needs. Next, the book covers six ways to improve your network's coverage area and range, providing higher speeds at longer distances. Finally, you find out about securing your network: both keeping intruders out and securing the data that passes over the network. Four appendices cover related issues, including AirPort Express configuration, setting up a software base station, using AirPort Management Utilities, and finding the right Wi-Fi adapter for an older Mac or PC.
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:05am CEST
After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.
About the Author
Christopher Schmitt is an award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. He is the author of CSS Cookbook, which was named Best Web Design Book of 2006, and one of the first books that looked at CSS-enabled designs, Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders). Kevin Lawver has been on the web for thirteen years, and writing web applications for almost eleven while working for AOL for twelve. He's built big ones, small ones, and gone about it in many different ways. 
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 9:39am CEST
AT the time of going to press, it is twelve years ago since Stephen Darbishire photographed the Coniston saucer. Twelve years since the writer first examined and correlated the Darbishire and Adamski photographs by orthographic projection in Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer.
At that time the scientific world was clamouring for 'just one tiny shred of scientific evidence' to justify the existence of flying saucers. 'Show us just one' they said, 'and we might begin to think there is something in it'.
The analysis of these two photographs was in the strictest sense scientific, and the resulting conclusions were fair and unbiased. Yet although these offered something a little better than the 'tiniest shred of scientific evidence', for the only alternative amounted to a world-wide conspiracy, the conspicuous silence which followed, both in the national dailies and the scientific press, left no doubt as to their interest. Perhaps it was simply a case of the lay public press not being able to understand, despite my attempts to portray the claim simply. Maybe it was out of sheer scientific aloofness that the technical press chose to ignore it. But the fact remains—the analysis did not fail to impress all those who read it. And further, the claim is just as valid today as it was then; it still stands up to sensible consideration.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 9:37am CEST
"Great book! Fills a void in the Java world. Necessary reading for all Java developers, designers, and interface designers."
--Theo Mandel, Ph.D., author of The Elements of User Interface Design
The adoption of the Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines has contributed to a consistent user interface that gives Java applications a recognizable, uniform design. However, the distinctions between interface designers and developers in today's Internet application development environment are increasingly blurred. Most developers also design applications, though few are solely dedicated to interface design tasks. With this situation in mind, the second edition of this award-winning book includes:
- New, updated, and expanded guidelines
- A companion CD-ROM with code samples and a large collection of graphics designed for use with Java Foundation Classes (JFC) components
- A comprehensive list of terms translated into nine languages
The Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines, Second Editioncontinues to be an invaluable resource for creating cross-platform Java applications and applets with JFC components. The book covers design concepts underlying the Java look and feel and techniques for managing cross-platform delivery, applets, accessibility, and internationalization. It introduces the visual design and behavior provided with the Java look and feel and provides instruction in the design of application graphics. Reference chapters discuss windows, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, basic controls, text components, tables, and tree components.
About the Author
The Java Look and Feel Group at Sun Microsystems creates interface standards that enable designers and developers to build outstanding human interfaces with the Java programming language.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:22am CEST
The Only Certification Study System Based on 300,000+ Hours of IT Training Experience
- 100% Complete Coverage--All official test objectives for the Dreamweaver MX certification exam are covered in detail
- Hands-on Exercises--Step-by-step instruction modeled after classroom labs
- Exam Watch--Warnings based on thorough post-exam research identifying the most troublesome exam topics and how to answer them correctly
- Three Types of Practice Questions--Knowledge, scenario, and lab-based questions, all with in-depth answers
- From the Classroom--Discussions of important issues direct from the classroom
Full coverage of the topics you need to review, including how to:
- Define a new site and define an existing site
- Create a document and set page properties
- Achieve page layout with tables, frames, and layers
- Add content to the source code
- Create image maps, jump menus, and navigation bars and add links
- Build forms and insert form objects
- Work with behaviors
- Build Web applications and add server-side functionality
- Manage HTML and CSS styles
- Manage content and work with templates
- Set up preview browsers
- Test, troubleshoot, and manage your Web site
About the Author
Marc Campbell designs Web sites (including destination sites for DC Comics and MAD Magazine), e-government portals, e-business applications, and online fanzines. He has used Dreamweaver on a near-daily basis since 1999. Marc taught a 12-hour Dreamweaver unit in his comprehensive Web design class for Millennium Institute of Computers, familiarizing him with the needs of students seeking certification and employment in Web design fields. As an author, he wrote PageMaker 7 from A to Z as well as several magazine articles on computer topics.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:20am CEST
A Fully Integrated Study System for OCP Exam 1Z0-050
Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g New Features for Administrators exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test, and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCP objectives for exam 1Z0-050, including:
- Installation and upgrades
- Partitioning and storage
- Intelligent infrastructure
- Diagnostics and fault management
- Performance
- Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
- Security
- Oracle SQL Performance Analyzer
- SQL plan management
- Automatic SQL tuning
On the CD-ROM:
- One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCP exam
- Detailed answers and explanations
- Score report performance assessment tool
- Complete electronic book
- Bonus exam available free with online registration
About the Author
Sam R. Alapati, OCP, is an experienced Oracle DBA who currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America's national office in Los Colinas, Texas. Previously, he was a senior principal consultant for Oracle Corporation in New York.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:19am CEST
The original Struts project revolutionized Java web development and its rapid adoption resulted in the thousands of Struts-based applications deployed worldwide. Keeping pace with new ideas and trends, Apache Struts 2 has emerged as the product of a merger between the Apache Struts and OpenSymphony WebWork projects, united in their goal to develop an easy-to-use yet feature-rich framework. Struts 2 represents a revolution in design and ease of use when compared to classic Struts. It adds exciting and powerful features such as a plugin framework, JavaServer Faces integration, and XML-free configuration.
Struts 2 In Action introduces the Apache Struts 2 web application framework and shows you how to quickly develop professional, production-ready modern web applications. Written by Don Brown, one of the leading developers of Struts 2, Chad Davis, a passionate Struts 2 developer, along with Scott Stanlick, this book gently walks you through the key features of Struts 2 in example-driven, easy-to-digest sections.
Struts 2 in Action delivers accurate, seasoned information that can immediately be put to work. This book is designed for working Java web developers-especially those with some background in Struts 1 or WebWork. The core content, covering key framework components such as Actions, Results, and Interceptors, includes new features like the annotation-based configuration options. You'll find chapters on Struts 2 plugins, FreeMarker, and migration from Struts 1 and WebWork 2. Finally, new topics such as the Ajax tags, Spring Framework integration, and configuration by convention give familiar subjects new depth.
About the Author
Don Brown is the Technical Lead for Hosted Services at Atlassian Software Systems, with a background in the commercial and US Department of Defense sectors. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has been a Struts committer since 2003. He is also a committer on several Apache Commons projects and a frequent speaker at JavaOne, ApacheCon, and Java user groups.
Chad Davis is a J2EE developer, software consultant, and writer. He has a wide background in writing that ranges from government research and public relations to academic writing in computer science. In addition to publications in a variety of computer science journals, he has published poetry and written ddraft legislation at the state level.
Scott Stanlick is a corporate IT instructor with experience in embedded systems, client-server applications, and large scale distributed applications. As a musician needing a "real job" to buy musical gear, he earned a B.A. in Computer Science and has been writing software to pay for his drumming habit ever since. He builds web sites during his free time and plays shows most weekends.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:18am CEST
SOA is one of the latest technologies enterprises are using to tame their software costs - in development, deployment, and management. SOA makes integration easy, helping enterprises not only better utilize their existing investments in applications and infrastructure, but also open up new business opportunities. However, one of the big stumbling blocks in executing SOA is security. This book addresses Security in SOA with detailed examples illustrating the theory, industry standards and best practices.
It is true that security is important in any system. SOA brings in additional security concerns as well rising out of the very openness that makes it attractive. If we apply security principles blindly, we shut ourselves of the benefits of SOA. Therefore, we need to understand which security models and techniques are right for SOA. This book provides such an understanding.
Usually, security is seen as an esoteric topic that is better left to experts. While it is true that security requires expert attention, everybody, including software developers, designers, architects, IT administrators and managers need to do tasks that require very good understanding of security topics. Fortunately, traditional security techniques have been around long enough for people to understand and apply them in practice. This, however, is not the case with SOA Security.
Anyone seeking to implement SOA Security is today forced to dig through a maze of inter-dependent specifications and API docs that assume a lot of prior experience on the part of readers. Getting started on a project is hence proving to be a huge challenge to practitioners. This book seeks to change that. It provides bottom-up understanding of security techniques appropriate for use in SOA without assuming any prior familiarity with security topics on the part of the reader.
Unlike most other books about SOA that merely describe the standards, this book helps you get started immediately by walking you through sample code that illustrates how real life problems can be solved using the techniques and best practices described in standards. Whereas standards discuss all possible variations of each security technique, this book focusses on the 20% of variations that are used 80% of the time. This keeps the material covered in the book simple as well as self-sufficient for all readers except the most advanced.
About the Author
Dr. Tamarao (Rama) Kanneganti is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at HCL EAI Services. Rama has a Ph.D. in programming languages from Rice University and has worked at Bell Labs in databases and large programming systems. Currently, he advises enterprise clients in formulating and evaluating SOA strategies. Rama works out of Grosse Pointe Woods (near Detroit), Michigan, USA.
Prasad A. Chodavarapu is General Manager (Technology) at HCL EAI Services, Bangalore, India. Prasad leads service teams designing and deploying integration solutions at enterprises world-wide. Prasad's current focus is on the use of application-oriented networking technologies to implement and secure SOA.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:11am CEST
If you're a web developer, you know that you can use Ajax to add rich, user-friendly, dynamic features to your applications. With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a new Ajax tool from Google that automatically converts Java to JavaScript, you can build Ajax applications using the Java language.
GWT in Practice is an example-driven, code-rich book designed for web developers already familiar with the basics of GWT who now want hands-on experience. After a quick review of GWT fundamentals, GWT in Practice presents scores of handy, reusable solutions to the problems you face when you need to move beyond "Hello World" and "proof of concept" applications. This book skips the theory and looks at the way things really work when you're building. I also shows you where GWT fits into the Enterprise Java Developer's toolset. Written by expert authors Robert Cooper and Charlie Collins, this book combines sharp insight with hard-won experience. Readers will find thorough coverage of all aspects of GWT development from the basic GWT concepts to in depth real world example applications.
The first part of the book is a rapid introduction to the GWT methodology The second part of the book then delves into several practical examples which further demonstrate core aspects of the toolkit The book concludes by presenting several larger GWT applications including drag and drop support for UI elements, data binding, processing streaming data, handling application state, automated builds, and continuous integration.
Along the way GWT in Practice covers many additional facets of working with the toolkit. Various development tools are used throughout the book, including Eclipse, NetBeans, IDEA, Ant, Maven, and, of course, the old fashioned command line. The book also addresses integrating GWT with existing applications and services along with enterprise and team development.
About the Author
Robert Cooper is a JEE developer with 15 years of web development experience. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including the ROME RSS/Atom API plugins for Podcasting and MediaRSS, is the author of the FeedPod text-to-speech podcasting system, and the gwt-maven plugins for supporting Maven based builds for Google Web Toolkit.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:09am CEST
This is the first book focused exclusively on Internet worms, offering you solid worm detection and mitigation strategies for your work in the field. This ground-breaking volume enables you to put rising worm trends into perspective with practical information in detection and defense techniques utilizing data from live networks, real IP addresses, and commercial tools. The book helps you understand the classifications and groupings of worms, and offers a deeper understanding of how they threaten network and system security.
After examining how a worm is constructed and how its major life cycle steps are implemented, the book scrutinizes targets that worms have attacked over the years, and the likely targets of the immediate future. Moreover, this unique reference explains how to detect worms using a variety of mechanisms, and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of three approaches—traffic analysis, honeypots and dark network monitors, and signature analysis. The book concludes with a discussion of four effective defenses against network worms, including host-based defenses, network firewalls and filters, application layer proxies, and a direct attack on the worm network itself.
Along with the enormous growth of the Internet, threats to all computers are increasing in severity, especially from worms, which can easily exploit any weakness in a network and can lead to its total compromise. This is the first book focused exclusively on Internet worms, offering computer and network security professionals solid worm detection and defense strategies for their work in the field.
Text focuses exclusively on Internet worms, offering worm detection and mitigation strategies to help professionals with their challenging work in the field.
About the Author
Jose Nazario is a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, an internet security company. He is also a consultant and researcher at Crimelabs Research, a think tank and consulting firm. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University. He has published extensively.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:06am CEST
A Comprehensive, Thorough Introduction to High-Speed Networking Technologies and Protocols
Network Infrastructure and Architecture: Designing High-Availability Networks takes a unique approach to the subject by covering the ideas underlying networks, the architecture of the network elements, and the implementation of these elements in optical and VLSI technologies. Additionally, it focuses on areas not widely covered in existing books: physical transport and switching, the process and technique of building networking hardware, and new technologies being deployed in the marketplace, such as Metro Wave Division Multiplexing (MWDM), Resilient Packet Rings (RPR), Optical Ethernet, and more.
Divided into five succinct parts, the book covers:
Complete with case studies, examples, and exercises throughout, the book is complemented with chapter goals, summaries, and lists of key points to aid readers in grasping the material presented.
Network Infrastructure and Architecture offers professionals, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students a fresh view on high-speed networking from the physical layer perspective.
About the Author
Krzysztof Iniewski, PhD, is a founder and President of CMOS Emerging Technologies, Inc., a high-technology consulting company in Vancouver, Canada. Previously, Dr. Iniewski served as a university professor and R&D manager. He holds twenty-eight international patents and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an editor of Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices; VLSI Circuits: A System Perspective; and VLSI Circuits for Bio-Medical Applications.
Carl McCrosky, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). Previously, Dr. McCrosky was principal engineer with PMC-Sierra, Inc., professor of computer science at the University of Saskatchewan, chief scientist of HyperCore, Inc., and a partner in Andyne Computing, Ltd.
Daniel Minoli has worked and published extensively in the technology field, with more than thirty years of hands-on experience in networking, IT, telecommunications, wireless, and video/IPTV. He has helped develop systems and solutions for such organizations as SES Americom, Prudential Securities, AT&T, Telcordia, New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and more.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:04am CEST
Digital technologies have been engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia to YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital rights management, and the other new architectures of agency and control. We have fewer accounts of how these new capacities transform our shared cultures, our understanding of them, and our capacities to act within them. Advancing that account is the goal of this volume.
About the Author
Joe Karaganis is a program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His work focuses on changes in the organization of cultural production in the digital context and on the intersection between information policy and social practice. He directs two programs at the SSRC: Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere and Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology.
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 8:03am CEST
The vast majority of searchers never make it past page two of Google or click on sponsored listings, so being at the top of the standard search results can literally transform your business. Having your site in the top 10 is like having a store near the entrance of the largest shopping mall in history, while if you're outside the top 20 you could experience the frustration of an empty shop with few visitors and poor conversion rates.
Search engine optimization (or SEO for short) involves making it easy for search engines to find your website and boosting your position in their rankings. Get to the Top on Google is the first book to address all aspects of search engine marketing comprehensively through a simple, seven-step methodology, tried and tested with clients small and large, including Amazon and Microsoft. Designed to be accessible for the beginner but comprehensive enough for the skilled marketer, the book is illustrated with global case studies and covers emerging ideas in Web 2.0, local search optimization and the future of search itself.
Discover how to attract searchers with the phrases that pay, how to court the crawl of the Google spiders, tips for copywriting and link building, how to target the long tail, and techniques for tracking and fine-tuning your campaign to make more money online. This book could be the best investment you ever make in your website and your business.
About the Author
David is a leading search engine optimization (or S.E.O) expert and has initiated and steered multi-million pound e-business projects at two of the UK's biggest companies (British Airways and Centrica) and played a leading role in the relaunch and Internet marketing of the AA's website in 2001. As principal consultant and owner of SEO Expert Services, he works with companies large and small to improve their search engine placement. A regular speaker on e-commerce at industry and professional events, David is passionate about the power of the internet to transform our society. David is an L.S.E graduate, Chartered Accountant and IT Professional. He is a qualified C.S.E.M search engine marketeer and member of S.E.M.P.O, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:01am CEST
Part of the TotalRecall: IT Certification System Series, this new book fills the gap existing in the complete study aid material available for candidates preparing to set the CompTIA Security+ Exam. This book covers information associated with each exam topic in detail and includes information found in no other book. This manual is designed to provide information to help readers study for and pass CompTIA's Security+ certification exam. Every effort has been made to make this manual as complete and accurate as possible. Just reviewing the table of contents, you will see that through TotalRecall Publications, I was given the freedom to build on what I have learned from running a Voc Tech school. For example, the chapter numbers are written in Base 2.
The goal here is to reinforcement, learn binary math, since that is how much of computing works. In this release, we teamed up with other alpha geek around the world with the end result is you will not find another Security+ book with more geekie details, if you need them. This title (ExamInsight) is a reference manual for those who are thinking, "I want to make sure I know what I think I know before I spend a couple hundred bucks on a SY0-101 exam." The ExamInsight Book contains 400 well-researched pages that follow CompTIA's certification Objectives. The contents were thoroughly tech-reviewed by Michael Woznicki and confirmed to be directly related to the Security+ SY0-101 exam. If you are already in Security networking, and don't want/need a complete certification/reference/killer idea book, try the ExamWise For Security+
About the Author
The lead authors, Tcat Houser, a CompTIA certification content veteran, and Helen O'Boyle, a long-time multi-platform Security specialist, have combined their talents and background in earning dozens of certifications, to create this guide. It is useful to both Security+ certification candidates and those wanting to read an excellent survey of current security topics.
Tcat Houser (Network+, MCSE, Server+, CTT+) has garnered other milestones such as IBM PSE and Microsoft MCSE/MCT. This is the result of almost 40 years of "fussing with electronics". When not writing or teaching, he is doing research. Tcat accomplishes so many tasks because to him, it isn’t work, its fun, and he has fun 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can reach him by sending mail to Author@bfqpress.com or Tcat@Tcat.net.
Looking back at the last book where I (Tcat Houser) was the lead author (i-Net+ Exam Prep 1576105989) the independent reviews were very good, and most readers understood that I had two intentions. One, ace the test. Two, supply the information to be a reference manual and/or alert the reader to upcoming technologies so as today’s hero, the reader was not tomorrow’s zero.
In the two years since that release, I led a number of career changers through CompTIA and wrote my own courseware. Building on that learning, you have this release.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:57am CEST
Facelets is a templating language developed from the ground up with JavaServer™ Faces (JSF™) in mind. Because Facelets has come about as aresult of many of the concerns with JavaServer™ Pages (JSP™) API when building JSF views, it steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSF-centric view technology. Its top properties are templating, code reuse, and ease of development.
Focusing on these priorities allows Facelets to help make JSF suitable for large-scale projects. For example, one of the first things a Facelets developer finds is that the technology immediately leads to a reduction in user interface (UI) code. Take our advice: use Facelets in your applications instead of JSP. In this book, we will show you how to maximize your JSF productivity with Facelets by leveraging it the right contexts.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:56am CEST
You already know Excel 2007. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteedto make you more productive with Excel 2007.
- Minimal text and maximum illustrations
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Task-oriented, step-by-step approach
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Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations
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Self-contained, two-page lessons
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Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more
How easy is it?
Look for these symbols marking the difficulty of each task.
- Demonstrates a new spin on a common task
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Introduces a new skill or a new task
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Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge
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Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies
About the Author
Denise Etheridge ( Burlington, NJ) is the president and founder of BayCon Group, Inc. She publishes Web sites, provides consulting services on accounting-related software, and teaches college-level computer and accounting courses. Denise has also written several Web-based software tutorials, and has been training and assisting clients with the implementation of accounting-related software since 1985. Stanford University and the United States House of Representatives are among her former clients.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:55am CEST
The field of radionavigation signals and systems has seen significant growth in recent years. Satellite systems are very efficient, but owing to their limited exposure and/or availability in some environments, they do not cover the whole spectrum of applications. Thus, many other positioning techniques are being developed.
Now, Global Positioning presents an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of various systems with a specific emphasis on those that are satellite-based. Beginning with a description of the evolution of positioning systems, the book provides detailed coverage of the three main Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellations, discusses how to cope with indoor positioning, defines development activities and commercial positioning, and proposes a vision for the future of the field.
Special features of the book include:
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Exercises to test and challenge the reader's understanding
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Direct comparison between constellations and other positioning systems
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Mathematical content kept to a minimum in order to maximize accessibility and readability
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Descriptions of European and U.S. discussions for Galileo
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Historical aspects and links between the distant past and current systems
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Footnotes that provide hints and comments to the reader
At a time when the positioning domain is experiencing such immense transformation, it is vital to have a solid understanding of the fundamental principles, current tech-nologies, and future improvements that will help estimate the performance and limita-tions of existing systems. Global Positioning fills an important need for professionals and students in a variety of fields who want a complete and authoritative overview of global positioning techniques.
About the Author
Nel Samama, PhD, has been Associate Professor in the Electronics and Physics Department at the Institut Telecom/Telecom & Management SudParis (France) since 1997. Previously, he spent nearly a decade with Thomson-CSF (now Thales).
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:54am CEST
Integrate and manage workflow across Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, Dreamweaver®, Acrobat®, and Flash®
Harness all the tools in the Adobe Creative Suite 3 toolbox with this in-depth guide from well-known Creative Suite experts Ted Padova and Kelly L. Murdock. This "Big Picture" book not only covers all the latest features and programs in CS3, it teaches you how to use them in a seamless, integrated workflow, as they were designed. You'll come away with techniques that keep your projects running smoothly and make you a more productive designer.
- Set up efficient workflows for teams, studios, or freelancers
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Manage color across Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver
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Create, transform, and add effects to objects and layers
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Export designs for Web and screen viewing
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Easily revisit earlier versions of files
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Add hyperlinks, animation, and movie and sound clips
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Soft-proof, pre-flight, and prepare files for a variety of outputs
Manage files with Adobe Bridge
Assemble projects with InDesign
Add motion graphics with Flash
About the Author
Ted Padova has taught classes in graphic design and digital prepress at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at UCLA for more than 16 years. He has written more than 25 books on Adobe software, including Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible and Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms.
Kelly L. Murdock has authored or coauthored more than 20 books on Web design, graphics, and multimedia, including five editions of the 3ds max Bible and two editions of the Illustrator Bible. He is a freelance designer with a background in engineering and computer graphics.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:53am CEST
LightWave v9 Lighting is the only book on the market from a professional artist explaining the theory and application of lighting with LightWave 3D. The book has the following key features: Describes step-by-step everything you need to know about the qualities of light; Clearly explains modern lighting concepts; Steps through LightWave's impressive toolset, describing the qualities and uses of each tool and feature; Addresses lighting design issues, dealing with everything from the motivation of a light source to the emotional impact of color on the scene; Companion CD is packed with images and plugins, and includes a demo version of LightWave 3D version 9; Includes a 16 page color insert of lighting examples.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:51am CEST
A practical guide to creating a secure network infrastructure
* Understand basic cryptography and security technologies
* Identify the threats and common attacks to a network infrastructure
* Learn how to create a security policy
* Find out how to recover from a security breach
* Study specific implementation scenarios for securing your network environment
Designing Network Security is a practical guide designed to help you understand the fundamentals of securing your corporate network infrastructure. This book takes a comprehensive look at underlying security technologies, the process of creating a security policy, and the practical requirements necessary to implement a corporate security policy.
You will gain a thorough understanding of basic cryptography, the most widely deployed security technologies, and some emerging security technologies. You will be able to guide the architecture and implementation of a security policy for a corporate environment by knowing possible threats and vulnerabilities and understanding the steps required to perform a risk management assessment. Through the use of specific configuration examples, you will learn to specify the features required in network infrastructure equipment to implement the given security policy, including securing the internal corporate infrastructure, Internet access, and the dial-in environment.
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
About the Author
Merike Kaeo, CCIE No. 1287, has been in the networking industry for more than 15 years. As a member of the IEEE and IETF, she brings a wealth of technical and practical knowledge to the community, helping professionals to understand complex networking concepts. Merike was employed with Cisco Systems, Inc., beginning in June 1993, where she worked primarily on technical issues relating to router performance, network routing protocols, network design, and network security. From 1988 to 1993, Merike worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, designing and implementing the original FDDI backbone for the NIH campus using Cisco routers. She received her BSEE degree from Rutgers University in 1987 and completed her MSEE degree from George Washington University in 1998.
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:47am CEST
Updating the previous edition's tips to make them compatible with Excel 2007, and featuring new tips that are only available in Excel 2007, this new edition of Mr. Excel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. Mr. Excel then walks readers through through the specific steps to solve the issue. Alternate strategies are also provided, along with common "gotchas" that trip users up, leaving readers with not only answers to their specific dilemmas, but also with new and quicker ways to use formulas and spreadsheets.
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 5:35am CEST
Promising drug discovery efforts in the race to cure emerging diseases and thwart bioterrorism
It was not too long ago that scientists believed that the discovery of powerful antimicrobial agents and vaccines would lead to the eradication of viral diseases. A warning, however, of the looming threat of viral diseases on U.S. national security was sounded in the 2000 National Intelligence Estimate, The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States. This report predicted that infectious diseases would endanger U.S. citizens at home and abroad, threaten U.S. forces deployed overseas, and exacerbate social and political instability.
In the post-9/11 world, we can clearly see the gravity of those predictions, which greatly underscore the need for this timely publication. This is the first book that tackles head-on the myriad viral threats for which no effective drug treatments currently exist. Among the threats covered are potential bioterrorism agents and emerging viruses such as smallpox, influenza, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, Nipah, Hendra, Lassa fever, Junin, dengue, West Nile, and yellow fever.
The editor of this publication has assembled an international team of leading experts, giving readers a cutting-edge view on current drug discovery efforts to find novel antiviral agents in the battle to combat these diseases and threats. Following a general introduction to the problems of emerging diseases and bioterrorism, each chapter discusses potential strategies for the discovery of antiviral agents, reveals recent findings, and points to promising directions for further research. Many of the contributors have honed their knowledge and offer unique insights based on their work with powerful viruses such as herpes and HIV.
A variety of different strategies and targets are discussed in the ongoing exploration for effective treatment modalities. Specific targets of the virus's genomes and proteomes are presented as sources for antiviral agent prospectors. These include interferon evasion proteins, proteases, helicases, RNA polymerases, and methyl transferases. In addition, other targets presented are s-adenosylhomocystein hydrolase (SAH) and inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH). Generic approaches discussed include lethal mutagenesis, immunocamouflage, and prenylation inhibitors. Prodrugs and acyclic nucleoside monophosphates are among the antiviral countermeasures presented from the medicinal/bioorganic chemical arsenal.
With so much at stake, the need to collect promising antiviral drug discovery strategies in one volume and disseminate it to all researchers in the field has never been greater. This is urgent reading for all researchers in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, drug discovery, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and public health. This publication can help them in their charge to protect the health of the world against the perilous threat of emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism.
About the Author
PAUL F. TORRENCE, PhD, is Professor of Chemistry at Northern Arizona University. He is the editor of Biomedical Chemistry: Applying Chemical Principles to the Understanding and Treatment of Disease and serves on the editorial boards for the journals Antiviral Research and Current Medicinal Chemistry.
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 5:33am CEST
"Biographies profiles more than 50 artists, writers, humanists, kings, queens, and religious leaders in three- to five- page essays and sidebars...The Saaris' Renaissance will be a top choice for student researchers, particularly those in need of primary-source materials." (School Library Journal )
"The text is well written and precise in all volumes. Vocabulary is well defined, either by parentheses in the body of the article or by accompanying glossaries. Sidebars provide additional information and biographical material that supplement the text. Suggestions are given for research projects and activities, and dated Web sites are listed for further information. An affordable, quality reference for school and public libraries as a resource for reports and projects, this set provides a vivid, sometimes chilling glimpse of the people who actually lived in this brilliant and turbulent historical period."
-- VOYA (June 2003) (VOYA )
This resource brings the people of the Renaissance and Reformation to life for today's students.
Renaissance and Reformation: Biographies introduces students to 50 people of the era, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Gutenberg, Ben Jonson, and others. (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.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 5:03pm CEST
Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems.
This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.
The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.
About the Author
Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn was appointed a Fellow of the ACM (1999) "for important contributions in complexity theory and in the design, analysis, and practice of combinatorial and geometric algorithms." A Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University since 1975, and a director of the Max-Plack-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, he has coauthored over 250 refereed papers/articles, in collaboration with 200 researchers. Other awards include the Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation in 1986 and the Konrad Zuse Medal of the German Society for Informatics in 1995.
Prof. Peter Sanders is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. A leading researcher in the area of theoretical and experimental algorithm analysis, in particular related to efficient algorithms for parallel processing and communication in networks, his responsibilities include organizing the European Symposium on Algorithms in Karlsruhe in 2008.
The authors have considerable experience teaching on the topic of algorithms and working on related industrial projects.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 6:59am CEST
iSCSI: The Universal Storage Connection is an informative overview and in-depth guide to the emerging iSCSI standard, the technology that enables data storage, access, and management over networks, intranets, and the Internet. The iSCSI protocol reduces the total cost of ownership of shared storage solutions and enables an organization to tie together disparate systems and data, including both server class systems and laptop and desktop systems. Numerous leading technology companies, including IBM®, Cisco Systems®, and Intel®, are currently supporting iSCSI initiatives.
Written for network and data storage professionals, this comprehensive book introduces iSCSI and explores its growing role within the data storage industry. It describes each element of the technology in detail—from session establishment through error handling—and examines the relationship between iSCSI and the SCSI protocol from which it evolved.
Specific topics discussed include:
- iSCSI's use in small office, midrange, and high-end settings
- TCP/IP fundamentals, and how they apply to iSCSI
- The importance of data integrity
- New hardware that addresses bandwidth and latency issues
- iSCSI naming conventions
- The establishment of a communication path between the host system and storage controller
- Commands and data sequencing
- Control of the flow of commands
- Task management
- Error handling
- Companion technologies, including discovery and security processes
- Backup and disaster preparation
- iSCSI performance issues
In addition, the book includes an explanation of the technologies that hardware vendors are implementing to permit direct memory placement of iSCSI messages without additional main processor involvement.
A helpful icon appears throughout the book, mapping out appropriate reading tracks based on your technical level.
Comprehensive, clearly written, and organized for easy access, this iSCSI handbook serves as both an excellent starting point for those involved in data storage solutions and a guide to understanding the technically detailed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) iSCSI Standards document.
About the Author
John L. Hufferd has been a key technical leader and manager within IBM for more than thirty-five years and currently directs projects dealing with networks, storage, and SANs. He is the technical coordinator for the iSCSI track of the IPS workgroup in the IETF standards association.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 6:55am CEST
Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips to master the fundamentals of communicating your message effectively with the latest version of Office Publisher. Youll learn how to create professional-looking marketing and business materials, such as cards, flyers, and newsletters, by working with layout and design tools. Youll even learn how to export publications to PDF format for easy distribution and how to publish presentations to the web. With Step By Step, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Includes an easy-search companion CD with hands-on practice files, a complete eBook, a bonus quick reference to the new user interface, and more!
Key Book Benefits:
-Includes coverage of the fundamentals for designing effective business and marketing communications
-Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises
-Includes an easy-search companion CD with practice files, a complete eBook, and other resources
About the Author
Joyce Cox has over 20 years' experience developing training materials about technical subjects for non-technical audiences. She is the author or coauthor of dozens of books about Microsoft Office applications and Microsoft Windows®, including Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step by Step, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 Step by Step, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Step by Step. Joyce is the vice president of Online Training Solutions, Inc. She was president of and principle author for Online Press, where she developed the Quick Course series of computer training books for beginning and intermediate adult learners. She was also the first managing editor of Microsoft Press, an editor for Sybex, and an editor for the University of California.
Joan Preppernau is the author of over a dozen books about Windows and Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step by Step, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Step by Step, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Step by Step from Microsoft Press. In addition, Joan helped develop the Quick Course books for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 2000, both published by Online Training Solutions, Inc., where she is the president. Having learned about computers literally at her father's knee, Joan's wide-ranging experiences in the computer industry contribute to her enthusiasm for producing interesting, useful, and understandable training materials.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 6:51am CEST
Many organizations utilize traditional wire-based networking technologies to establish connections among computers. These technologies fall into the following three categories:
• Local area networks (LANs)
• Metropolitan area networks (MANs)
• Wide area networks (WANs)
LANs support the sharing of applications and printers, transfer of files, and sending e-mail within a room or building. Today, the industry standard for LANs is ethernet technology with 10baseT Category 5 twisted-pair wiring. MANs, which can cover the size of a college campus or large city, interconnect LANs by using protocols such as FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) and depend on leased circuits and optical fiber for transmission of the data. WANs, on the other hand, utilize telephone circuits, leased lines, and private circuits to support worldwide networking by using circuit and packet switching protocols.
Traditional networking technologies offer tremendous capabilities from an office, hotel room, or home. Activities such as communicating via e-mail with someone located in a faraway town or conveniently accessing product information from the World Wide Web are the result of widespread networking. But, limitations to networking through the use of wire-based systems exist because you cannot utilize these network services unless you are physically connected to a LAN or a telephone connection.
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 6:51am CEST
SGML and markup languages can make your life easier. In this chapter, you learn:
- Why markup languages are so popular
- What SGML has to do with ISO and CALS
- How SGML makes information transportable
- How SGML protects your formatting and structure
- How SGML is already gaining popularity on the Internet
- What the future holds for SGML
Why Markup Languages Are So Popular
Markup languages, such as SGML and HTML, have changed the nature of information. Thanks to them, you can transport information across the planet and through all kinds of computer platforms and hosts. Your documents
