In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will uncover the inner workings of TCP/IP. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of TCP/IP from the ground up.

 

Practical discussions provide an inside look at TCP/IP components and protocols. 

Step-by-step instructions walk you through many common tasks.  

Q&As at the end of each hour help you test your knowledge. 

Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions and help you steer clear of potential problems.

 

If you're looking for a smart, concise introduction to the protocols that power the Internet, start your clock and look inside. Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours is your guide to the secrets of TCP/IP.

 

Learn about...

• Protocols at each layer of the TCP/IP stack
• Routers and gateways
• IP addressing
• Subnetting TCP/IP networks
• Name resolution techniques
• TCP/IP utilities such as ping and traceroute
• TCP/IP over wireless networks
• IP version 6
• The World Wide Web and how it works
• TCP/IP mail protocols such as POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP
• Casting, streaming, and automation
• Web services
• Detecting and stopping network attacks

About the Author

Joe Casad is an engineer, author, and editor who has written widely on computer networking and system administration. He has written or co-written 12 books on computers and networking. In a past life, he was the editor of C/C++ Users Journal and senior editor of UnixReview.com.

Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition is a revision of the classic that you have been waiting for! This is a detailed guide to game design and planning from first concept to the start of development, including case studies of well known games. Originally published in 1999, Game Architecture and Design, has been updated by the original authors Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris. They tap back into what they teach so well and update this classic with skills and techniques found in the industry today. With more than just re-usable code, it's a comprehensive study that deals specifically with the issues of game design, team building and management, and game architecture. Through the use of real-world experiences and case studies, Andrew and Dave share it all. They show you what's worked and why as well as what to avoid and how to fix any errors. This intelligent and well-argued book is a glimpse into the often-disordered world of game development. Readers will gain solid advice and know-how that can bring some order to the often-chaotic world found in game development.

About the Author

Andrew Rollings, a freelance consultant, designed and wrote a core part of the cryptography system used by the Bank of England, several Swiss banks, and the European Commission. He contributes to game development magazines and wrote Game Architecture and Design, 1E , Coriolis (11/99). Dave Morris holds a M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and has worked as a best-selling author and game designer for 15 years. Specifically, he's worked on the following well-known games: Warrior Kings, London Racer 2, Knight Rider, and Knife Edge.

“For Drupal to succeed, we need books like this.”

–Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead

 

“Drupal faces a common problem on the Web–the relative lack of new, high quality themes. Front End Drupal tackles this problem directly and is designed to help both experienced designers and rank novices get an understanding of how Drupal theming works. In fact, I’ll be the first to admit I learned a lot from this book.”

– Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead

 

The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates

 

Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates.

 

Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums.

A computer algebra system (CAS) not only has the ability to "crunch numbers" and plot results, like traditional computing languages such as Fortran and C, but it can also perform the symbolic manipulations and analytic derivations required in most undergraduate and graduate science and engineering courses. To introduce students in these disciplines to mathematical modeling and computation using a CAS, the authors have previously published Computer Algebra Recipes: A Gourmet ^s Guide to the Mathematical Models of Science, based on the Maple CAS. Judging by course evaluations and reader feedback, the response to this book and the CAS approach has been quite favorable. After observing students' enthusiasm, their higher quality of work, their ability to solve more realistic problems, and best of all, their ability to answer "what if?" questions, we believe that the importance of using a CAS in learning and exploring mathematically based science subjects cannot be overstated.

With the release of new, more powerful, versions of the Maple CAS since the first edition was published and the accumulation of many insightful comments and helpful suggestions from readers of the text, it seemed timely to produce a second edition. However, incorporating the necessary changes and suggestions would make an already lengthy book even longer, so the topics of the first edition have been reorganized and expanded into two new standalone volumes based on the expected mathematical level of the reader.

Do you need to know how to write systems, services, and applications using the TinyOS operating system? Learn how to write nesC code and efficient applications with this indispensable guide to TinyOS programming. Detailed examples show you how to write TinyOS code in full, from basic applications right up to new low-level systems and high performance applications. Two leading figures in the development of TinyOS also explain the reasons behind many of the design decisions made and, for the first time, how nesC relates to and differs from other C dialects. Handy features such as a library of software design patterns, programming hints and tips, end-of-chapter exercises, and an appendix summarizing the basic application-level TinyOS APIs make this the ultimate guide to TinyOS for embedded systems programmers, developers, designers, and graduate students.

About the Author

Philip Levis is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. A Fellow of the Microsoft Research Faculty, he is also Chair of the TinyOS Core Working Group and a Member of the TinyOS Network Protocol (net2), Simulation (sim), and Documentation (doc) Working Groups.

David Gay joined Intel Research in Berkeley in 2001 where he has been a designer and the principal implementer of the nesC language, the C dialect used to implement the TinyOS sensor network operating system, and its applications. He has a diploma in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

In January 1999, I was preparing to teach an introductory programming class in Java. I had taught it three times and I was getting frustrated. The failure rate in the class was too high, and, even for students who succeeded, the overall level of achievement was too low.

One of the problems I saw was the books. I had tried three different books (and had read a dozen more), and they all had the same problems. They were too big, with too much unnecessary detail about Java and not enough high-level guidance about how to program. And they all suffered from the trap door effect: they would start out easy, proceed gradually, and then somewhere around Chapter 4 the bottom would fall out. The students would get too much new material, too fast, and I would spend the rest of the semester picking up the pieces.

Two weeks before the first day of classes, I decided to write my own book. I wrote one 10-page chapter a day for 13 days. I made some revisions on Day 14 and then sent it out to be photocopied.

Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and intranet applications using Liferay portal, this is where your search ends.

This book shows how Java developers can use Liferay as a framework to develop custom intranet systems, based on Liferay portal platform thus helping you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive and collaborative end-user experience!

The author's experience customizing Liferay using Java enables him to explain in a clear and precise manner how to build custom systems on top of Liferay portal.

Using this book you can customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web content, and other information from both existing in-house applications (HR, CRM) and external sources (such as Alfresco, FatWire, Magnolia, Vignette).

What you will learn from this book? This book will give you plenty of hands-on examples to customize and extend Liferay portal. You will learn how to:

• Work with the JSR-286 portlets and Extension environment, helping you to build larger applications and reuse portlets in different scenarios
• Build basic and advanced Struts portlets with permissions and a set of actions helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web applications
• Manage communities and pages with locale and tracking features to employ layout templates dynamically
• Customize WYSIWYG editor FCKEditor - Making images, links, videos, games, video queues, video lists, and play lists as part of web content
• Empower CMS and WCM providing you with one central place to aggregate and manage all content
• Build My Community - Share web sites, pages, and portlets with friends allowing you to introduce control panel and inter-portlet communication
• Develop layout templates and themes in the Plugins SDK environment so that you can customize the overall look and feel of web sites and pages
• Build your Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes enabling you to be a part of the team without sacrificing your preferences
• Stage, schedule, and publish web content with workflow capability allowing you to alter and manage what you have created
• Build custom attributes, OpenSearch, Spring services, and web services thus helping you to build dynamic web sites smoothly

Approach

This book focuses on teaching by example. Every chapter provides an overview, and then dives right into hands-on examples so you can see and play with the solution in your own environment. All code samples run on both the latest Enterprise and Community releases.

Who this book is written for?

This book will be most useful to professional Java developers who want to build custom web sites, portals, and highly customized intranet applications using Liferay portal as a framework.

This book is for Java developers, and you will get most from the book if you already work with Java but you need not have prior experience on Liferay portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and Lucene, no prior experience using these is assumed.

About the Author

Jonas X. Yuan

Jonas X. Yuan is a senior technical analyst at CIGNEX. Jonas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, where he focused on Integrity Control in Federated Database Systems. He earned his M.S and B.S. degrees in China, where he conducted research on expert systems for predicting landslides. Jonas is experienced in Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Previously, he has worked as a Project Manager and a Technical Architect in Web GIS (Geographic Information System). He has deep, hands on, skills in J2EE technologies. In particular, he developed a BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Engine called BPELPower from scratch in NASA data center. He also has strong experience on content management within the context of medical-legal billing case management. Furthermore, he is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Alfresco, and Portals such as Liferay.

Welcome to VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming. This book covers Visual Studio Tools for Office programming, with a primary emphasis on the several new VSTO programming features available for Microsoft Office 2007. VSTO is a phenomenon that means different things to different people. This book introduces developers
to VSTO as a platform for developing enterprise solutions based on Microsoft Office application.

This book covers Microsoft VSTO objects for Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, and Project, which can be a significant challenge for the typical VBA developer—one set of target readers for this book. This book is focused more on the features of VSTO and how to work with the heavily-built Office object models. Although you might not be familiar with .NET programming, this book will help you to adapt easily to the new VSTO with .NET programming environment.

VSTO brings the Office applications to the .NET programming world. With VSTO 3.0, you can create add-ins for the six Microsoft Office applications, customize the Ribbon feature of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite, and create application-level custom task panes. This book strives to follow the same model. It explains VSTO’s concepts and basic programming in a way that helps beginners to get started and helps advanced users to get better. In addition to this, the book includes chapters for all of the Office applications, which describe how the programming and customization works, what its requirements are, and how it will simplify typical tasks.

'An invaluable primer for any architect or client considering integrated photovoltaics.' - Architecture Today

'Comprehensive and authoritative.' - RIBA Journal

'It is tempting to suggest that a copy of this excellent book should be sent to George W Bush!' - Building Engineer

'This book is a concise and useful guide to building-integrated photovoltaics.' - Architectural Review

An invaluable primer for any architect or client considering integrated photovoltaics. - Architecture Today

This book is a concise and useful guide to building-integrated photovoltaics. - Architectural Review

Solar energy is set to play an ever-increasing role in generating the form and affecting the appearance and construction of buildings. This new guide provides an overview of how PVs work and how they are incorporated in the design of buildings.

This groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will:

• Explore every component of a Twitter application and learn how the API responds
  
• Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work
• Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book
  
• Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory.

Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology.

"Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery."
--Alex Payne, Twitter API Lead

"Twitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book!"
--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop

About the Author

Kevin Makice is currently a Ph.D. student at the Indiana University School of Informatics, the first such doctoral program in the nation. His research interests center around local use of technology and the application of relational psychology to complexity and design. Prior to completing his Masters of Science in Human-Computer Interaction in 2006, Kevin was the primary Internet programmer for TicketsNow, a clearinghouse for sports, theatre, and entertainment tickets available in the secondary market. Along with three others, he won the CHI 2005 student competition by designing a concept for ad-hoc volunteering system for elderly residents in assisted-living centers. Past research includes political wikis, tangible interfaces for children's games, machinima, and network analysis of ball movement in basketball. Much of his blogging and academic efforts over the past year has focused on exploring Twitter as a means of community building.

This is a unique 21st-century monograph that reveals a basic, yet deep understanding of the universe, as well as the human mind and body all from the perspective of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

This book starts with both non-mathematical and mathematical preliminaries. It presents the basics of both non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics, and introduces Feynman path integrals and their application to quantum fields and string theory, as well as some non-quantum applications. It then describes the quantum universe in the form of loop quantum gravity and quantum cosmology. Lastly, the book turns to the human body and mind, applying quantum theory to electro-muscular stimulation and consciousness.

It can be used as a graduate (or advanced undergraduate) textbook for a two-semester course in quantum physics and its modern applications. Some parts of the book can also be used by engineers, biologists, psychologists and computer scientists, as well as applied mathematicians, both in industry and academia.

Contents: Elements of Quantum Mechanics; Feynman Path Integrals; Quantum Universe; Quantum Biophysics in Human Body: Electro Muscular Stimulation; Quantum Games and Quantum Computers; Quantum Mind.