Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:46am CEST
Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours provides a friendly, accessible way to learn DHTML. Beginning with the basic concepts, it will proceed with concise lessons on the DOM and style sheets. Later lessons will present real-world examples of useful DHTML applications, such as cascading menus, and continue with advanced techniques, such as animation and dynamic fonts.
After finishing this book, readers will be able to add advanced, interactive features to their Web pages, while adhering to standards and ensuring that older and alternate browsers will still be supported.
About the Author
Michael Moncur is the owner of Starling Technologies, a network consulting firm, and an independent Web developer. He has written a number of books, including Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours and several other best-selling books on networks and MCSE training.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:45am CEST
XML in Flash is an excellent introduction to creating state-of-the-art Flash applications with XML. XML is quickly becoming the most popular way to store and manage data. Flash's XML Socket makes it possible to network Flash front-ends to an application server. This allows developers to use a Flash interface for applications such as message boards, real-time chats, surveys, news feeds, and games.XML in Flash begins by illustrating the basics of XML and the Flash XML Object. In Part I, Flash is used as a teaching aid as you learn the basics of Flash/XML integration. Part II covers how Flash works with middleware languages, such as PHP and ASP, as well as performance and optimization. You will also create a Flash message board with a database. Part III delves into the advantages of XMLSocket. Hands-on projects include creating a stock market ticker to receive XML data from servers. Finally, the appendixes include invaluable reference information on XML, XMLNode objects, and XMLSocket objects, as well as Frequently Asked Questions. The example applications also illustrate the key concepts necessary for understanding the Flash/XML relationship. You will be able to use the applications on the accompanying Web site regardless of whether or not you spend the time to read and learn about their inner workings.
About the Author
Craig Swann has been an active member of the Flash community since it's early days and formed CRASH!MEDIA in 1997 as a way to express and explore this non-linear and interactive digital landscape. CRASH!MEDIA is a Toronto-based Interactive Design Agency that specializes in integrating fresh ideas with cutting edge technology. CRASH!MEDIA has worked on a wide range of Flash projects for the following companies: Coca-Cola, Intel, Alliance Atlantis, YTV, General Mills, University of Toronto, The Canadian Gemini Awards, MGI Software and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. As well as creating Flash rich-media ads for the Excite @ Home Network, Last year, CRASH!MEDIA's Flash site received the Best National/International Design award at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, and so far this year has received the coveted Macromedia Site of the Week Award. CRASH!MEDIA is currently extending into new wireless markets, creating wireless applications for Flash enabled devices including PocketPC, set-top boxes and PDA's.
Gregg Caines has been a freelance Web developer for a number of years, pinch-hitting for a number of big name companies including RaceFace, Durex, Aramark, and Crash!Media. His specialties are Flash, ASP, and PHP, but he enjoys tackling new languages and technologies just as much. When he's not downing cola's and hacking out web apps, he enjoys snowboarding, punk rock, and long walks on the beach.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:44am CEST
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence, 6th Dortmund Fuzzy Days, held in Dortmund, Germany, in May 1999.
The 68 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from an overwhelming number of submissions. Also included are three invited contributions and 13 poster presentations. The papers are devoted to foundational and practical issues in fuzzy systems, neural networks, and genetic algorithms and thus cover the whole range of computational intelligence.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:44am CEST
The book describes color management for the print production with a focus on implementing standards for separation, soft proof, contract proof, data delivery and printing.
The basics and strategies are targeted at setting up vendor-independent color management workflows which can easily be realized with leading applications from e.g. Adobe, AGFA, GMG, Heidelberg, Kodak and X-Rite.
The author explains with a unique graphical concept how different standards such as ISO 12647, SWOP, GRACoL, G7, ICC profile format and PDF/X fit together.
He describes the main points for setting up color management and quality control from the print buyer over photography, agency and pre-press to the printer. The book has a strong focus on communication between print buyer, photographer, agency, pre-press and printers. Based on the best practice in communication it explains the important steps for quality control for digital data, contract proofs and prints.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:43am CEST
…a comprehensive, practical cookbook of software testing with a slight mix of quality spices. …the book is a step-by-step guide of how to perform testing. It is practically focused and, in many of the chapters, the reader can follow the tasks (as if they were recipes) when performing testing activities.
-Software Testing, Verification & Reliability, Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept. 2005
Whether you are inheriting a test team or starting one up,
daily basis, explaining what you need to focus on strategically, tactically, and operationally.
Using a risk-based approach, the author addresses a range of questions about software product development. The book covers unit, system, and non-functional tests and includes examples on how to estimate the number of bugs expected to be found, the time required for testing, and the date when a release is ready. It weighs the cost of finding bugs against the risks of missing release dates or letting bugs appear in the final released product.
It is imperative to determine if bugs do exist and then be able to metric how quickly they can be identified, the cost they incur, and how many remain in the product when it is released. With this book,test managers can effectively and accurately establish these parameters.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:40am CEST
The 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, held in Phuket Thailand on August 6 – 8, 2008 is aimed at bringing together researchers and scientist, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. This publication captures 20 of the conference’s most promising papers, and we impatiently await the important contributions that we know these authors will bring to the field.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:40am CEST
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSVIS 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in July 2006.
The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote paper, and 2 working group reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on HCI research, critical systems, model based development, cognitive aspects of interaction, use of models, haptics and multimodality, prototyping and evaluation, supporting user interface development, and group discussions.
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:40am CEST
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2007, held in Nice, France, in January 2007, colocated with POPL 2007, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. All current aspects of declarative programming are addressed including implementational issues and innovative applications in areas such as database management, software engineering, functional logic, decision support systems, constraint programming, model checking, probabilistic programming, Java and Prolog programming.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 7:38pm CEST
Given SAP’s dominance in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, many companies and their managers encounter SAP AG applications in some form or another. Of those organizations, some utilize Activity-Based Costing/Management concepts to perform more accurate cost assignments or drive performance initiatives. Managers are then faced with trying to determine how Activity-Based Costing can be incorporated into the SAP environment. We have written this book to help business managers understand the capabilities of the SAP R/3 business application to support Activity-Based Costing, Management, and Budgeting. This book is not intended as a primer in Activity-Based Costing (ABC): many such conceptual introductions have already been written. In order to bring the focus on the application of ABC concepts to an SAP R/3 environment, it is assumed that the reader has knowledge of the ABC framework.
This book is divided into three parts: the conceptual foundation, the capabilities of SAP ABC, and integration with other tools.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:46pm CEST
Windows Server 2008 is the first update to Microsoft’s server operating system in nearly five years, and among the major changes is the new Internet Information Services 7.0, which probably marks the biggest departure from previous IIS versions that we have ever seen.
Previous recent releases of IIS have concentrated on improving security and reliability and thus have mostly involved changes “under the hood.” For administrators and developers, adaptation to the new products had been relatively simple.
With IIS 7.0, however, Microsoft has fundamentally changed the way the product works, with new configuration, delegated administration, and extensibility options designed to address perceived feature weakness compared to competing products. At the same time, IIS 7.0 now has new, real-time diagnostic and troubleshooting features and absorbs functionality from ASP.NET (such as caching and forms-based authentication), making this available across all requests.
With the addition of a brand-new FTP server and FastCGI support, IIS 7.0 leapfrogs its major competitors in feature and flexibility options and indicates a clear effort by Microsoft to capture more of the public-facing web server market, in addition to its existing strong presence in the corporate sphere.
For administrators and developers, the fundamental changes in the way that IIS 7.0 works, is administered, and can be extended mean that the knowledge required to fully take advantage of IIS 7.0’s new features is substantially greater than in previous versions.
The authors have focused on capturing the very best of the new features in IIS 7.0 and how you can take advantage of them. The writing styles vary from chapter to chapter because some of the foremost experts on IIS 7.0 have contributed to this book. Drawing on our expertise in deployment, hosting, development, and enterprise operations, we believe that this book captures much of what today’s IIS administrators need in their day-to-day work.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:43pm CEST
Creative Environments is a follow-up on the book Creative Space in the same series and by the same authors, serving this time as editors of a broader book on computational intelligence and knowledge engineering tools for supporting knowledge creation. This book contains four parts. The first part presents a further development of models of knowledge creation presented already in Creative Space, in particular the Triple Helix of normal academic knowledge creation and a new, integrated model of normal academic and organizational knowledge creation, called Nanatsudaki (seven waterfalls) Model. The second part presents computational intelligence tools for knowledge acquisition by machine learning and data mining, for debating, brainstorming, for roadmapping and for integrated support of academic creativity. The third part presents the use of statistics for creativity support, virtual laboratories, gaming and role playing for creativity support, methods of knowledge representation and multiple criteria aggregation, distance and electronic learning. The last part addresses knowledge management and philosophical issues and contains chapters: on management of technology and knowledge management for academic R&D; on knowledge management and creative holism or systems thinking in the knowledge age; on technology and change or the role of technology in knowledge civilisation; on the emergence of complex concepts in science; and the final chapter on summary and conclusions, including a proposal of an integrated episteme of constructive evolutionary objectivism, necessary for the knowledge civilization age.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:43pm CEST
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Empirical Software Engineering, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in June 2006. The purpose of this workshop was to identify the progress of empirical software engineering since 1992, to summarize the state-of-the-art in ESE, to summarize the state-of-the-practice in ESE in industry, and to develop an ESE roadmap for research, practice, education and training.
The 54 revised full papers in this state-of-the-art survey were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations during the workshop, that provided a forum for a small but representative group of leading experts in software engineering with an emphasis on empirical studies from both universities and industry to meet and reflect on past successes and failures, assess the current state of the practice and research, identify challenges, and define future directions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the empirical paradigm, measurement and model building, technology transfer and education, as well as roadmapping.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST
If you are a an engineer working for a telecommunications carrier or Internet service provider, or a manufacturer or student interested in communication technology and digital communications, this comprehensive overview of broadband access technologies is essential reading for you. The book offers you an in-depth understanding of unbundling for voice and data services, and provides expert guidance on hardware considerations and critical communication protocols.
You get extensive coverage of the various alternatives for the customer premises, including home networking, single equipment customer premises, and multi-equipment customer premises. Supported with nearly 250 illustrations and including over 120 equations, the book covers a wide range of key topics to help you with your work in the field, from telecommunication networks evolution, existing infrastructure and dial-up modems, and HDSL and ADSL, to the digital subscriber line access multiplexer, protocol architecture, and VDSL. Moreover, the book dedicates entire chapters to the emergent voice over video DSL, Wireless Local Loop, and Optical and EFM Access Networks.
About the Author
Maurice Gagnaire is an associate professor in the networking department at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, where he received his Ph.D. in computer science and networks. He is also a member of the IEEE Communications Society.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST
The issue of identifying wetlands, quantifying their change over time, and characterizing the influences of nature and humans on them is a difficult one. Wetlands are a mix of terrestrial and aquatic systems that create a unique condition. Long of secondary interest in the minds of the public, scientists, and engineers, they have been evaluated on a systematic basis in detail only as of late. Now, a number of people are seeking knowledge of wetlands and techniques to better characterize, monitor, and maintain these unique features in the landscape. To that end, Wetland Landscape Characterization was written.
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:19pm CEST
During the final decade of the twentieth century, Microsoft achieved historic levels of marketing success in the computing business. Microsoft offered an alternative so economically appealing to the computing industry that resistance seemed futile in all but a few cases.
Two questions remain. First, “Is there a solution to the downtime and business interruption often associated with Microsoft Server platforms?” This alone is compelling enough for some computing environments in which the Microsoft solution is not considered acceptable.
The second question is “How can this solution cost-effectively increase the capacity of our data processing resources?” In other words, how can the Microsoft solution grow with future computing needs.
Clustering provides an answer to both of these questions.
For a moment let us turn to a story told by the late, great Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Her words, in what we simply call the oxen story, provide an illuminating parallel to the computing system dilemma that we face. The story expressed her vision about the future of computing; Rear Admiral Hopper was, in effect, predicting the future in which we are now living. She has our deepest respect as an inventor and visionary in the field of computing. This story of hers really says it all.
