Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3, you will: Walk through sample RIA projects and see examples of amazing applications people have built with Flex Work with ActionScript 3.0 and the MXML markup language Build user interfaces using the controls and tools available with the framework Get a tour of controls available commercially and through open source Learn how Flex integrates with ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and J2EE in the server Build Flex-based widgets that let you display real-time data Use advanced controls to build 3D graphs, data dashboards, mapping applications, and more You'll find complete code for video players, a slideshow, a chat client, and an RSS reader, just to name a few. You also get plenty of tips, tricks, and techniques to leverage your existing programming skills, whether you come from an open source or Visual Studio-intensive background.

About the Author

Jack D. Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks. All of which make great holiday gifts and are available online here, and at your local bookstore. Jack also writes articles for O'Reilly, DevX and IBM Developerworks.

Emily Kim, President, Trilemtry, Inc., has co-authored and contributed to a number of books including a college-level workbook about the Internet and various ColdFusion books. Besides being a writer, Emily is also a programmer, designer and a Abobe Master Instructor.

Find out about TCP/IP-based network attack methods and threats to Windows NT/2000 computers and the preventive measures you can use to protect your infrastructure. Bulletproofing TCP/IP-based Windows NT/2000 Networks details the use of router access lists, firewalls, virus scanners and encryption. It includes examples of the configuration of hardware and software to prevent or minimize the effect of a wide range of communications-based attacks against TCP/IP networks and Windows NT/2000 hosts connected to such networks.

- Covers how TCP/IP operates and how TCP/IP attacks occur.
- Detailed coverage on how to secure both TCP/IP networks and the Windows NT/2000- host on such networks against different attack methods.
- Describes a new attack method, 'script-form attack', which could cause a company financial problems, and its prevention.
- Uses practical real-world examples of methods used to block potential attacks.

Aimed at TCP/IP network managers, LAN admiistrators, Windows NT/2000 administrators and network professionals. It can also be used for high level undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering and computer science courses covering network security.

Details how to discover TCP/IP-based network attack methods and threats to Windows 2000 or higher computers and the countermeasures that may be taken. Includes real-world examples, and detailed coverage of securing both Windows and TCP/IP networks against multiple types of attacks. Includes a companion Web site. Softcover. DLC: TCP/IP (computer network protocol).

Sitting at the foundation of every site is HTML. It's the only language that's essential to a web site's very existence. On the surface HTML may seem simple but there's much more to it that meets the eye. With different versions, many infrequently used elements and attributes, and varying ways that browsers interpret the language, only a comprehensive and up-to-date reference, like this book, has it completely covered.

The Ultimate HTML Reference is your definitive resource for mastering HTML. The entire language is clearly and concisely covered, along with browser compatibility details, working examples, and easy-to-read descriptions. Authored by one of the world's most renowned HTML experts, this is a comprehensive reference that you'll come back to time and time again.

This cross-referenced, easy-to-use book covers:

Every element and attribute in the HTML and XHTML Specifications, including an example of its correct use

Coverage of deprecated and proprietary elements

Detailed browser compatibility information will save you hours of painful debugging and frustration

About the Author
Ian works as a senior Web designer for Nationwide Building Society in the UK where he's largely responsible for promoting the Web accessibility ethic. Outside of this, Ian's also responsible for a site devoted to accessibility, called Accessify. Ian wrote the SitePoint book, "Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS"

Next Generation Networks (NGN) provide ubiquitous connectivity with pervasive accessibility to service, application, content and information.  NGN will bring tremendous advantages to companies and individuals, in terms of access to information, education and knowledge, efficiency, dematerialisation and new user experiences.

Next Generation Networks: Perspectives and Potentials explores the potentials of NGN and provides an outlook of future services for the end users and opportunities for the traditional network operators and new players. It creates a framework to aid the understanding of NGN, exploring the strategic development and practical deployment of NGN. This book provides a complete and comprehensive picture of the future directions, substantial benefits, issues, applications and services for NGN.

• Offers an in-depth exploration of NGN covering both basic and advanced concepts

• Examines critical issues with the implementation of NGN

• Covers NGN technology, architecture, transport, services, and evolution and standardization.

• Written by industry experts focusing on the business opportunities of NGN with chapters on NGN standardization, development and corporate responsibility

Next Generation Networks  is ideal for network operators, equipment vendors, researchers, Telecoms regulators and engineers working in next generation networking. It will also be of interest to graduate students on electrical engineering and computer science programmes with a focus on networks.

About the Author

Jingming Li Salina works and owns her own consultancy company LiSalina Telecom Consulting. She obtained her doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. She has worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Swisscom R&D department and as a Strategy & Planning Manger in the Mobile Technical Operation Department at Swisscom. Her research interests include WLAN, WiMAX, wireless access networks such as GSM, UMTS, and technical solutions for mobile operators.       

Pascal Li Salina works as a Corporate Responsibility Manager at Swisscom AG.

"Video can be hard to explain and contextualize. This book does a great job of making it easy to understand." - - Algie Abrams, Professional Systems Architect, Microsoft

How Video Works has been a bible for professionals in the video world since 1985. It offers easy to understand explanations of the entire world of video. A complete guide from analog video to all the new digital technologies, including HD, compression, and encoding. This book is a must-have for any broadcast or video production department. It is also perfect for the new video technician or non-tech creative professional who is just beginning to discover the digital world. Update your library with the brand new version of an industry standard.

* Now with full-color image section!
* Complete explanation of the new ATSC digital and HDTV video and audio standards
* New sections on optical media and fiber optics, updated MPEG material
* In-depth coverage of the new Broadband and cell phone standards
* Extensive explanation of new digital test signals and measurements
* A hands-on approach to learning about video recording, transmission, and playback.
* Complete glossary of terms covering both analog and digital video

About the Author

MARCUS WEISE has over thirty-five years experience in the television industry. As an expert in the new digital technology, he has operated in both production and post production as an Associate Director, Online Editor, and a Technical Consultant. He designed and oversaw the construction and eventually the operation of worldwide cable television facilities for TV GUIDE in Hollywood. Among his many credits as a Hi-definition online editor are CSI and CSI MIAMI.

Diana Weynand is an award winning producer, director, editor, and co-founder of Weynand Training International (www.weynand.com), an Apple Authorized Training Center and leader in training and curriculum development for emerging technologies. Diana was supervising editor for "The Barbara Walters Specials," directed and co-produced the Emmy nominated PBS series, ³Cinematic Eye,² and was online editor for "Real World." She is author of four best selling books on Final Cut Pro and co-author of "The Secrets of Videoblogging." Diana also writes on High Definition production.

"...there isn't anything he has left out in this small but powerful, full-color, 340 page guide -- a remarkable accomplishment in a book with a list price of US $25.00. This book can help motion graphics artists, broadcast designers, 3D animators, web artists, compositors and visual effects artists working for video and film based productions...I highly recommend The Focal Easy Guide to Discreet combustion 3 by Gary M. Davis without reservation.."
- Jack Pfeiffer, Creative Cow

"Davis is a veteran of the computer graphics industry and that certainly shines through with this exceptional gem of a book...With its easy-to-follow tutorials and clear, concise layout, you'll find everything you need to get started, and in comparison to the other literary training aids that are available for Combustion, this offering certainly ranks top of the tree." - 3D World

New edition of the market-leading book on this software package!

Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Combustion. Get a jump-start learning the major features or the software without bogging you down with unnecessary detail.

The author shares his professional insight and extensive training experience to ensure you'll get the most out of all the professional paint, animation, editing and 3D compositing tools Combustion offers. Also featured are many workflow tips which show how to tap into the full power of Combustion 4 in your effects and motion graphics work.

For useful tips and tutorials, visit the book's companion site at www.focalpress.com/companions/0240520106

* Unique, fast introduction to Combustion 4, but relevant to all versions
* Concise color coverage, written by an experienced professional and trainer
* Ideal for professionals, new users and those migrating to Combustion from other compositing or effects packages

About the Author

Gary M. Davis is a thirteen-year industry veteran and certified Autodesk Training Specialist for combustion, 3ds Max and Toxik--currently the only person in the world certified to teach all three. In this guide he shares his professional insight and extensive production and training experience to ensure you get the most out of the professional tools combustion offers.

Includes advice on making a great first impression

Be more confident in all walks of life

We could all use a little more confidence in our lives. With a push in the right direction, you can discover how to carry yourself confidently at work, at home, and even in relationships. This friendly guide shows you what confidence is and where it comes from, and offers practical tips and techniques to build on your skills, challenge your fears, and channel your energy into a more effective you.

Discover how to

• Recognise your strengths
• See things from a brighter perspective
• Say ′No′ with confidence
• Build confidence in others
• Raise confident children

About the Author

Kate Burton is an independent executive coach, author, and trainer who enables individuals and organisations to focus their energy with confidence. She is co–author of the best selling Neuro–linguistic Programming For Dummies with Romilla Ready. Her business career began in corporate advertising and marketing with Hewlett–Packard. Since then she has worked with varied businesses across industries and cultures on how they can be great and confident communicators. What she loves most is delivering custom–built coaching and training programmes. She thrives on supporting people in boosting their motivation, self–awareness, and confidence. Her belief is that people all have unique talents, abilities, and core values. The skill is about honouring them to the full.

Brinley Platts is a leading executive coach, researcher, and consultant to FTSE 100 companies. He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on CIO and IT executive careers and works with international companies on the integration of senior executive life and career goals. He is a behavioural scientist by training, and his passion is to enable large organisations to become places where ordinary decent people can grow and express their talents freely to the benefit of all stakeholders. He is a co–founder of the Bring YourSELF To Work campaign, which aims to release the pent–up talent and passion of today’s global workforce to create the better world we all desire and want our children to inherit.

Numerous books have been written on Radar Systems and Radar Applications. A limited set of these books provides companion software. There is need for a comprehensive reference book that can provide the reader with hands-on-like experience. The ideal radar book, in my opinion, should serve as a conclusive, detailed, and useful reference for working engineers as well as a textbook for students learning radar systems analysis and design. This book must assume few prerequisites and must stand on its own as a complete presentation of the subject. Examples and exercise problems must be included. User friendly software that demonstrates the theory needs to be included. This software should be reconfigurable to allow different users to vary the inputs in order to better analyze their relevant and unique requirements, and enhance understanding of the subject.

Radar Systems Analysis and Design Using MATLAB® concentrates on radar fundamentals, principles, and rigorous mathematical derivations. It also provides the user with a comprehensive set of MATLAB1 5.0 software that can be used for radar analysis and/or radar system design. All programs will accept user inputs or execute using the default set of parameters. This book will serve as a valuable reference to students and radar engineers in analyzing and understanding the many issues associated with radar systems analysis and design. It is written at the graduate level. Each chapter provides all the necessary mathematical and analytical coverage required for good understanding of radar theory. Additionally, dedicated MATLAB functions/programs have been developed for each chapter to further enhance the understanding of the theory, and provide a source for establishing radar system design requirements. This book includes over 1190 equations and over 230 illustrations and plots. There are over 200 examples and end-of-chapter problems. A solutions manual will be made available to professors using the book as a text. The philosophy behind Radar Systems Analysis and Design Using MATLAB is that radar systems should not be complicated to understand nor difficult to analyze and design.

This book is a revision and extension of notes I wrote for a graduate seminar in relational database theory given at Stony Brook. The purpose of that course was to give students enough background in relational database theory to enable them to understand the current research being done in the field. I have not attempted to be exhaustive in covering all results in relational database theory-the field has already grown too large to cover everything. Instead, I have attempted to get within “one paper” of all current work: This book should give a student sufficient background to read recent papers in relational theory.

While most of the material presented here has been presented before, there is some new material, particularly on annular covers and in the chapter on database semantics. I have tried to bring material together that was available previously only in separate papers, and give some coherence to the results. That task has involved translating many of the results into standard notation, redoing some of the definitions, and constructing some new proofs for previously known theorems.

The book is aimed at a second course in databases, presumably at the graduate level, but possibly at the advanced undergraduate level. While an introductory course in database management systems is not an absolute prerequisite for this book, it is certainly desirable for some concrete motivation and intuition for the abstractions presented here. No specific course in mathematics is assumed, but there should be an acquaintance with set theory and the rudiments of formal logic. Some of the exercises require some sophisticated combinatorics, but those exercises are not central to the topic being developed-they are included for fun. Exercises that are deemed particularly difficult are marked with an asterisk.

Of course, I hope the book also will be a useful reference for researchers already working in the area. The bibliography is current through October 1981; some of the technical reports presumably have since appeared in journals and conference proceedings. I am grateful to Jeff Ullman for an advance copy of the bibliography to the second edition of Principles of Database Systems.

As a final exam preparation tool, the CCNP Quick Reference provides a concise review of all objectives on the four CCNP exams, including BSCI (642-901), BCMSN (642-812), ISCW (642-825) and ONT (642-845). This book provides you with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format. The easy-to-reference format and succinct presentation help you drill on key exam topics.

With this document as your guide, you will review topics on routing, switching, secure remote access networks, network security, and quality of service (QoS). This fact-filled Quick Reference allows you to get all-important information at a glance, helping you to focus your study on areas of weakness and to enhance memory retention of essential exam concepts.

CCNP Quick Reference is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco® that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/ authorizedtraining.

Denise Donohue, CCIE® No. 9566, is manager of Solutions Engineering for ePlus Technology in Maryland. Denise was a Cisco instructor and course director for Global Knowledge and did network consulting for many years.

Brent Stewart, CCNP®, CCDP®, CCSI, MCSE, is a network administrator for CommScope. He is responsible for designing and managing a large-scale worldwide IP network.  He participated in the development of BSCI with Cisco and has written and taught extensively on CCNA® and CCNP.

Jerold Swan, CCIE No. 17783, CCNP, CCSP®, is a senior network engineer for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund in Ignacio, CO. Prior to that he was a Cisco instructor and course director for Global Knowledge.

About the Author

Denise Donohue, CCIE No. 9566, is manager of Solutions Engineering for ePlus Technology in Maryland. She is responsible for designing and implementing data and VoIP networks, supporting companies based in the National Capital region. Prior to this role, she was a systems engineer for the data consulting arm of SBC/AT&T. Denise was a Cisco instructor and course director for Global Knowledge and did network consulting for many years.

Brent Stewart, CCNP, CCDP, CCSI, MCSE, is a network administrator for CommScope. He is responsible for designing and managing a large-scale worldwide IP network. He participated in the development of BSCI with Cisco and has written and taught extensively on CCNA and CCNP.

Jerold Swan, CCIE No. 17783, is a senior network engineer for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund in Ignacio, CO. Prior to that he was a Cisco instructor and course director for Global Knowledge. He has also worked in IT in the higher education and service provider fields. He holds CCNP and CCSP certifications.

Acne is the most common skin disease in the United States, affecting more than 60 million adults and teenagers each year. Acne For Dummies addresses the causes of acne, and, most importantly, what can safely be done to cover it up, treat it, and minimize scarring. The book covers everything from daily skin care, over-the-counter acne preparations, and when to see a dermatologist to the hazards and benefits of prescription acne medications and the range of dermatological procedures available to erase aftereffects. Also covered are specific issues common to acne as seen in various ethnic groups and other skin problems, such as rosacea, a condition that people often mistake for acne.  

Clear up acne misconceptions and get effective treatment!

Pimples. Blemishes. Zits. Spots. Whatever you call them, they aren't pretty. But these days, there are lots of treatments. In this friendly guide, a dermatologist explains how you can clear up your complexion, whether you're a teenager or an adult, complete with color photos to help you identify your skin condition. From purchasing over-the-counter products to visiting a dermatologist, find the answers you need for optimal skin care.

Discover how to

• Understand your type of acne
• Assess your treatment options
• Safely use prescription medications, including Accutane®
• Get treatment for scarring
• Clear up rosacea, razor bumps, and other acne impostors

About the Author

Herbert P. Goodheart, MD, has been in the private practice of dermatology for over 25 years. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a member of the Greater New York Dermatological Society. For 20 years, Dr. Goodheart was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Dermatology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, and is now an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the Mount Sinai College of Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Goodheart is the author of Goodheart’s Photoguide of Common Skin Disorders, Diagnosis and Management, a clinical guide to assist the primary care provider and dermatologist-in-training in the identification and treatment of common skin disorders. The book, which is in its second edition, was a unanimous choice for first prize in dermatology at the annual British Medical Association Book Awards for 2004. He also is a contributing editor of Women’s Health in Primary Care, a medical journal for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Dr. Goodheart’s monthly column, “Dermatology Rounds,” provides information on the wide spectrum of skin disorders affecting women.

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual international forum that provides opportunities for librarians, researchers and experts to exchange their research results, innovative ideas, service experiences and state-ofthe-art developments in the field of digital libraries. Building on the success of the first six ICADL conferences, the 7th ICADL conference hosted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China aimed to further strengthen the academic collaboration and strategic alliance in the Asia- Pacific Region in the development of digital libraries.

The theme of ICADL 2004 was: Digital library: International Collaboration and Cross-fertilization, with its focus on technology, services, management and localization.

The conference began with an opening ceremony and the conference program featured 9 keynote speeches and 5 invited speeches by local and international experts. During the 3-day program, 40 research paper presentations were given in 3 parallel sessions. The conference also included 6 tutorials and an exhibition. The conference received 359 submissions, comprising 248 full papers and 111 short papers. Each paper was carefully reviewed by the Program Committee members. Finally, 44 full papers, 15 short papers and 37 poster papers were selected.

On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees of ICADL 2004, we would like to express our appreciation to all authors and attendees for participating in the conference. We also thank the sponsors, Program Committee members, supporting organizations and helpers for making the conference a success. Without their efforts, the conference would not have been possible.

Finally, we hoped everyone who attended enjoyed the conference program and also their stay in Shanghai. We firmly look forward to the impact of ICADL 2004 in the promotion of digital libraries in Asia and beyond.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004, held in Hiroshima, Japan in November 2004.

The 55 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 227 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on data semantics, p2p systems, semantic Web mining, tools and methodologies for Web agents, user interfaces and visualization, large scale knowledge management, semantic Web services, inference, searching and querying, semantic Web middleware, integration and interoperability, ontologies, and industrial track.

This book contains the written contributions to the International Symposium on Medical Simulation (ISMS 2004) held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on June 17–18, 2004.

The manuscripts are organized around five thematic sections relating to the multidisciplinary field of medical simulation: soft tissue properties and modeling, haptic rendering, real-time deformable models, anatomical modeling, and development frameworks.

The objectives of the symposium were to gather researchers to present their most recent, and promising work, to highlight research trends, and to foster dialogue and debates among participants. Live demonstrations were also included at the meeting, but could not be included in this volume. Finally, to address questions about areas for improvement and future directions of the field, we organized a panel of experts, including technical, medical and educational representatives.

This event followed the successful symposium organized by Hervé Delingette and Nicholas Ayache in France in June 2003. At that meeting we agreed that it would be beneficial for the community to have an annual gathering for the medical simulation community where researchers could exchange ideas and share their work in this emerging field. ISMS 2004 was co-organized by CIMIT/Harvard Medical School and Rutgers University.

We received 50 submissions from 14 different countries. Each was evaluated by three members of the scientific committee. We selected 16 manuscripts for oral presentation and 16 for poster presentation. All accepted manuscripts were allowed a written contribution of equal length. These published contributions are from research institutes, universities or companies from our diverse research community, including: Germany, Russia, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Korea, Israel, Canada and the United States of America.

The quality of the selected contributions implies that the conference will be an important milestone in the development of this new, but rapidly growing field at the convergence of several disciplines with key applications for the future of health care. We hope all the participants enjoyed this intense and stimulating scientific event.

In the late sixties, the definition of ALGOL 68 I 11 , for a long time called ALGOL X, reached some stability. It is at that period (1967) our team started the project of writing a compiler for that language. We had two goals in mind : (I) to make significant research in the field of compiler methodology, (2) to point out the special difficulties encountered in the design of the compiler and thus possibly influence the definition of the language.

This book is concerned with the first goal only ; ALGOL 68 should be considered a support to explain and develop compiling principles and techniques.

The whole book is directly based on the actual compiler we have written for the Electrologica-X8 computer ; this compiler has been operational since early 1973o Since May 1975, it is available on the "BS-computer", the Philips prototype developed by MBLE and which is at the origin of the UNIDATA 7720. In fact, the X8 has been microprogrammed on the BS [22] ; it is worthwhile to mention that microprogramming did not introduce any significant loss in efficiency.

The book does not require a very deep knowledge of ALGOL 68 except in some special cases described here for the sake of completeness only. The reading of some general description of the language as provided by 117] is however assumed.

This book is dedicated to the people who practise IT service management. Through their knowledge and experiences we have shaped the present and can see further toward the future along our journey to service excellence.

Over the past two decades the world of IT has changed dramatically. The IT Infrastructure Library framework has grown along with it and has shaped a community of practice that has spawned an entire industry. What hasn’t changed in all that time is the need for us as practitioners of service management to learn how best practices evolve and how they support and influence the customer’s successes or failures.

In a world of growing complexity, choice and globalization, ITIL has remained at the heart of the industry, growing and evolving to meet the needs of service providers. The current version of ITIL is a product of this evolution.

Within the pages of this book, we will introduce ITIL to the novice, further educate the practitioner and transform our understanding of IT service management best practices.

This book captures the basic concepts of the ITIL Service Lifecycle and its benefits. It serves as a reference to ITIL service management practices, but should not be considered a substitute for the ITIL core practice set.

It is from here we begin the journey into the ITIL service management practices.