Carol Hamer, “Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone ”
Apress (August 13, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598806 | 415 pages | PDF | 4,8 Mb

Creating Mobile Games: Using Javaâ„¢ ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:
Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
Covers the new MIDP3
What you’ll learn
Start using the MIDP2 and MIDP3 in the newly open sourced Java ME Games API.
Add a truly professional look-and-feel to your Java ME games.
Use threads, tones, and other media.
Store and retrieve data and enable networking.
Create advanced interactive messaging with optional APIs for multiplayer gaming.
Explore a complete business model for independent developers (distributing their own games) as well as for larger companies.
Who is this book for?

Software engineers with some knowledge of Java who would like to switch to MicroEdition programming, particularly games

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Donald Bales , “Beginning PL/SQL: From Novice to Professional ”
Apress (August 24, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598822 | 476 pages | PDF | 5,5 Mb

Get started with PL/SQL, the built-in language that every Oracle developer and database administrator must know, in Beginning PL/SQL, a fast-paced and example-filled tutorial. Learn from author Don Bales’ extensive experience to discover the most commonly used aspects of PL/SQL without wasting time with obscure and obsolete features.

Author Don Bales takes his 20+ years of experience and a wealth of statistics he’s gathered on PL/SQL usage over those years and applies the 80/20 rule — cover what’s most needed and used by PL/SQL professionals and avoid what’s not necessary! The result is a book that covers all the key features of PL/SQL without wasting your time discussing esoteric and obsolete parts of the language. Learn what really matters, so that you can get to work feeling confident with what you know about PL/SQL.
Discover the 20% of PL/SQL that gives you 80% of the bang–key topics covered include variables and datatypes, executing statements, working with cursors, real-world objects, debugging, testing, and more.
Learn how to write production-level, object-oriented PL/SQL–you’ll explore relational PL/SQL, but unlike most other books on the subject, Don Bales emphasizes the use of PL/SQL’s object-oriented features as well.
Work through real examples of using of PL/SQL–you’ll learn PL/SQL by applying it to real-world business problems, not by heavy theory.
What you’ll learn
How important SQL is in PL/SQL
How to use PL/SQL in both a relational and object-relational setting
How to create maintainable, modular, and reusable PL/SQL program units
The importance of testing as you go, and of building a permanent test plan for each module
The importance of building debugging capabilities into your code and building a permanent debug facility for each module
The importance of documenting as you go, and in the process building a permanent documentation set for your reusable modules
How to apply modular PL/SQL to solve real-world problems
Who is this book for?
Anyone who wants to learn how to create stored procedures against an Oracle database using PL/SQL. Programmers developing applications to be deployed against an Oracle database will need PL/SQL to take full advantage of the power Oracle has to offer. Database administrators who wish to implement functionality exposed only via PL/SQL package interfaces will also find this book useful.

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Jeffrey Sambells, Aaron Gustafson , “AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques ”
friends of ED (July 23, 2007) | ISBN: 1590598563 | 570 pages | PDF | 11.5 Mb

As a web designer or developer, you know how powerful DOM scripting is for enhancing web pages and applications, adding dynamic functionality and improving the user experience. You’ve got a reasonable understanding of JavaScript and the DOM, but now you want to take your skills further. This book is all you need to do soit shows you how to add essential functionality to your web pages, such as on the fly layout and style changes, interface personalization, maps and search using APIs, visual effects using JavaScript libraries, and much more.
Includes a quick recap of the basics, for reference purposes.
Packed with real world JavaScript solutions from beginning to end
Written by “Beginning Google Maps” author Jeffrey Sambells, and includes a case study by JavaScript guru Aaron Gustafson.
What you’ll learn
A quick recap of the HTML and CSS DOM, methods, and events.
Shows you the basics of how to add dynamic effects and respond to user actions to your web sites using CSS and JavaScript.
Introduces Ajax to the mix, showing you how to use it, and when not to use it.
Learn best practices (such as graceful degredation) and productivity improvement via code reuse (libraries and APIs)
Create Mashups using search, photo and mapping APIs.
Build better, more dynamic user experiences using libraries such as Prototype and Scriptaculous.
Who is this book for?
This book is for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers who already have a reasonable to good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Marian V. Iordache, Panos J. Antsaklis, “Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach”
Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (June 9, 2006) | ISBN: 0817643575 | 281 pages | PDF | 2,4 Mb

Increasing complexity in engineering projects raises difficult challenges in industry and requires effective tools for correct-by-construction design or design verification. This book addresses the design of such tools for correct-by-construction synthesis of supervisors for systems and specifications represented in the discrete-event framework. The approach employed uses Petri nets as discrete-event models and structural methods for the synthesis of supervisors, and may lead to significant computational benefits.
Highlighting recent progress in the design of supervisors by structural methods, the book represents a novel contribution to the field. One of the main features of the presentation is the demonstration that structural methods can address a variety of supervisor specifications under diverse supervision settings.
Additional features of the text:

* Applications of the methods presented are emphasized by considering various concurrency assumptions as well as types of system uncontrollability and unobservability.

* Treatment of the supervision problem for decentralized settings and hybrid dynamical systems.

* A focus on both theory and practice: formal proofs are provided in a sound mathematical setting to guarantee performance and correctness; at the same time, the authors have worked out the relevant details to ensure the methods are ready to implement in software.

* Many of the presented methods have been realized in software as functions of a MATLAB toolbox, which have been used to solve many of the examples of the book.

The work is self-contained and includes necessary background on Petri nets and supervision. Requiring only basic knowledge of undergraduate-level discrete mathematics, the text is accessible to a broad audience. Researchers and developers from various engineering fields may find effective means to reduce the complexity of design problems in the discrete-event setting. Graduate students may use the work as a self-study reference, and portions of the text may be used in advanced courses on discrete-event systems.

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Charles A. Shoniregun, “Synchronizing Internet Protocol Security”
Springer; 1 edition (July 20, 2007) | ISBN: 038732724X | 223 pages | 5.2 MB

The open design of the internet has not only opened many new opportunities for communications, but it has also opened many new avenues for attacks against organizational network and computing resources. Information security has become a major concern in recent times, as more and more computers are being connected to the global internet. With so much data transferring over public networks, the risk for sensitive information has increased exponentially, while the increase of internet hosts continually requires additional function support.

Synchronizing Internet Protocol Security (SIPSec) focuses on the combination of theoretical investigation and practical implementation, which provides an in-depth understanding of the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) framework. The standard internet protocol is completely unprotected, allowing hosts to inspect or modify data in transit. This volume identifies the security problems facing internet communication protocols along with the risks associated with internet connections, and also proposes a SIPSec Model.

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Witold Abramowicz, Heinrich C. Mayr , “Technologies for Business Information Systems ”
Springer ( 2007-03-05) | ISBN: 1402056338 | 432 pages | PDF | 6.7 Mb

The material collected in Technologies for Business Systems covers a broad range of applications of computer science methods and algorithms in business practice. It presents a research cutting edge in development, implementation, and improvement of computer systems. The computer science and information systems topics covered in the book include data warehouses, ERP, XML, ontologies, rule languages, software engineering and Business Process Management.

This book is best suited for researchers and practitioners working with Management Information Systems and students in this field.

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