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Writing Secure Code free book download

2009-04-25T02:44:00.000-07:00

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Paperback: 650 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2 Sub edition (December 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735617228
ISBN-13: 978-0735617223

Book Description

Keep black-hat hackers at bay with the tips and techniques in this entertaining, eye-opening book! Developers will learn how to padlock their applications throughout the entire development process - from designing secure applications to writing robust cod

From the Publisher
No more malicious attacks! Learn the best practices for writing secure code, with samples in Microsoft Visual Basic®.NET, Visual C++®, Perl, and Visual C#®. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Introduction to Cryptography with Java Applets

2009-04-25T02:39:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.; 1 edition (December 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763722073
ISBN-13: 978-0763722074

Book Description
This book covers the mathematical basis of cryptography and cryptanalysis, like linear diophantine equations, linear congruences, and exponential congruences.

Book Info
Covers the mathematical basis of cryptography and cryptanalysis. Covers programming ciphers, and cryptanalytic attacks on ciphers.

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Foundations of Java for ABAP Programmers

2009-04-25T01:28:00.000-07:00

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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 27, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596250
ISBN-13: 978-1590596258
Product Description

The only beginning book of its kind, this book will teach you SAP/ABAP developers the skills you need for Java 5 programming. The book emphasizes the fundamentals of core Java SE 5 and Java EE 5, to get you up to speed with these technologies. Youll learn about the most important enterprise Java API found in the new Java EE 5 platform, which you can immediately use and integrate. Furthermore, the book elaborates on connecting to a database, SAP Java Connector, servlets, Java Server Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans, and Java Messaging.

About the Author
Alistair Rooney has been in corporate IT for 23 years. He has been an IT Manager, Project Manager, Technical Consultant, and Developer. He delivered the first Java course for SAP in Brussels and has been a dedicated evangelist for “externalizing corporate data” with Java. Alistair lives outside of Durban, South Africa, with his wife, two children, and various animals.

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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 27, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596250
ISBN-13: 978-1590596258
Product Description
The only beginning book of its kind, this book will teach you SAP/ABAP developers the skills you need for Java 5 programming. The book emphasizes the fundamentals of core Java SE 5 and Java EE 5, to get you up to speed with these technologies. Youll learn about the most important enterprise Java API found in the new Java EE 5 platform, which you can immediately use and integrate. Furthermore, the book elaborates on connecting to a database, SAP Java Connector, servlets, Java Server Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans, and Java Messaging.
About the AuthorAlistair Rooney has been in corporate IT for 23 years. He has been an IT Manager, Project Manager, Technical Consultant, and Developer. He delivered the first Java course for SAP in Brussels and has been a dedicated evangelist for “externalizing corporate data” with Java. Alistair lives outside of Durban, South Africa, with his wife, two children, and various animals.
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Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step

2009-04-25T01:25:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition (September 24, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735619557
ISBN-13: 978-0735619555

Book Description
Teach yourself how to use the latest version of Microsoft Projectone step at a time! Use easy, self-paced lessons to build exactly the skills you need to manage simple to complex projects.

About the Author
Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson are the authors of Microsoft Project 2000 Step by Step and Microsoft Project Version 2002 Step by Step, both from Microsoft Press. Carl is the UA Manager for Project at Microsoft. Carl is a certified Project Management Professional with extensive knowledge of Microsoft Project as well as specific usability issues.

Timothy is a technical editor with the Microsoft Project UA group, and he previously worked as a Project support professional for six years. He possesses in-depth technical knowledge about the software.

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The Frontiers of Project Management Research

2009-04-25T00:58:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Hardcover

Publisher: Project Management Inst (February 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1880410206
ISBN-13: 978-1880410202

Book Description
This first-of-its-kind publication from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) brings together 28 research papers from internationally known and well-established researchers in project management from around the globe. From them you will glean an insightful overview of past and current research findings, and take an eye-opening excursion along frontiers fertile for future investigation. You will also find a wealth of practical information that you can use now in managing your projects, be they organizing meetings, producing new products, or building skyscrapers.

Here are just a few of the many helpful insights awaiting your discovery within The Frontiers of Project Management Research:

• To know the field, read Project Management literature past and present. Over 3500 project management research articles have been published since 1960—the 1990s produced the largest volume, and certainly the most current information.

• Recognize the importance of measuring project success. Many factors contribute to it, but identifying and measuring the key ones for each project remains a critical, and sometimes elusive, achievement.

• Think project management is challenging now — wait ‘til tomorrow. Project management challenges are likely to increase in the future as projects, project environments, technology, and people relationships grow in complexity.

• Tailor your communications to key stakeholders’ levels of interest and power. Devote considerable time and attention to a project’s key players. Specifically define, demonstrate, and communicate the benefits from investments in project management to senior managers and others.

• Take the time to develop trusting relationships. Research confirms it—trust leads to better client relationships, accelerated time to market, and lower project costs.

• Planning is our most important process. Among all the research articles published in project management over the past 40 years, planning led over leading, controlling, executing, and improving.

Whatever your project management interests or informational needs, The Frontiers of Project Management Research offers you stimulating ideas for tomorrow and innovative approaches from today, all at your fingertips.

About the Author
Dennis P. Slevin is Professor of Business Administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. David I. Cleland is Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a PMI Fellow and has published 34 books in the project management field. He is often described as “the father of project management.” Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene University Endowed Fellow in Management and Professor of Management in the School of Business at Penn State-Erie

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Agile Project Management with Scrum

2009-04-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 192 pages
•Publisher: Microsoft Press (March 10, 2004)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 073561993X
•ISBN-13: 978-0735619937

Book Description
Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management#151;and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum to manage complex technology projects in detail, combining expert insights with examples and case studies based on Scrum. Emphasizing practice over theory, this book explores every aspect of using Scrum, focusing on driving projects for maximum return on investment.

About the Author
Ken Schwaber is the co-creator of Scrum. He is one of the leaders of the agile process revolution, as a signatory of the Agile Manifesto and founder and director of the Agile Alliance. He has been in the software development industry for more than 30 years and teaches and speaks at many conferences, including OOPSLA & Software Development.

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Managing Open Source Projects: A Wiley Tech Brief

2009-04-13T08:32:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 208 pages
•Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (April 20, 2001)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0471403962
•ISBN-13: 978-0471403968
Linux User, September 2001
“an essential practical guide”

Book Description
The only guide to managing and integrating the open source model
With the phenomenal success of Linux, companies are taking open source business solutions much more seriously than ever before. This book helps to satisfy the growing demand for guidance on how to manage open source enterprise development projects. Expert Jan Sandred explores the open source philosophy, describes current software tools for managing open source projects, and provides expert guidance on how to organize and manage open source projects using the Internet as a collaboration tool. With the help of several fascinating and instructive case studies, Sandred explores practical concerns such as building, motivating, and managing virtual teams; structuring tasks and meeting deadlines; establishing trust; project management software tools; maintaining project security; and more.

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New Directions in Project Management

2009-04-13T08:27:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Hardcover: 560 pages
•Publisher: AUERBACH; 1 edition (September 26, 2001)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 084931190X
•ISBN-13: 978-0849311901

Book Description

Organizations that rely on computing technology for survival understand the critical importance of managing projects that meet strategic goals and objectives. The diversity of business globalization and electronic commerce combined with the unceasing pace of technical change continues to challenge efforts for more proficient project management techniques. Presenting the tools you need to meet the challenges of the new business environment, New Directions in Project Management covers best practices in all areas of managing software development projects practices that have been determined by measurable results not vague ideologies.
In addition to a comprehensive treatment of software development project management, this book covers managing outsourced projects, team- and consensus-building, requirements definition, systems integration, measurement and metrics, and quality assurance testing. Rather than force-feeding a particular vision of project management and one methodology, the integrated approach combined with detailed concepts and techniques presented here offer you valuable advice and guidance for your projects success.

Successful planning for the challenges of the new business environment will remain complex, but not unachievable. In this environment, project management cannot be viewed only as a solitary management activity but as a set of dynamic principles that can be cultivated and improved through practical experience. This demands the best of your skills. Covering software development project management from all sides, New Directions in Project Management gives you the advantage.

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Covers managing outsourced projects, team and consensus-building, requirements definition, systems integration, measurement and metrics, and quality assurance testing.

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International Project Management

2009-04-13T08:15:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 277 pages
•Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (October 31, 2002)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0124499856
•ISBN-13: 978-0124499850

Book Description

‘International Project Management’ provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents.

The purpose of this book is to answer:

* What is an international project and why is it different?
* What are the critical success factors for managing international projects?
* How are vendors and outsourcing managed across national boundaries?
* How do businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues?
* How are international communications set up and coordinated?
* What should a manager look for in an international project leader?
* How does a business select the right vendors for an international project?
* How are inadequate or incompatible infrastructure and technology issues overcome?
* How are the legal and bureaucratic limitations on project management dealt with?

* Presents over 150 specific lessons learned and guidelines for managing international projects

* Explains how businesses can effectively address

* Shows how a business can select the right vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries

Book Info
Provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. Authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects.

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Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

2009-04-13T08:11:00.000-07:00

Product Details

•Hardcover: 912 pages
•Publisher: Wiley; 8 edition (February 14, 2003)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0471225770
•ISBN-13: 978-0471225775

Book Description
* Completely revised and streamlined for course use including expanded problems and exercises.
* Content has been refocused on the critical aspects of project management.
* Supplemented by instructors packages for both academic use and corporate trainers, includes online PowerPoint(r) presentations, student workbook, instructor’s manual, and a new book of case studies.

Book Info
Up-to-date coverage of the basic concepts and principles of project management, covering all of the essential elements of the subject, from organizational framework and structure to planning, controlling, and scheduling processes. Previous edition not cited. DLC: Industrial project management. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover
A quintessential model for project management–the streamlined edition of the landmark reference

This revised edition of the bestselling project management “bible” offers a new, focused presentation of the critical aspects of project management. Written by one of the best-known and respected authorities on the subject, this extraordinary book gives the leaders of today and tomorrow a profound understanding of project management.

Project Management, Eighth Edition covers every key component of the subject, from the intricate framework of organizational behavior and structure that can determine project success to the planning, scheduling, and controlling processes vital to effective project management. New features of this edition include:

•Completely updated coverage, with new expanded problems and exercises
•More than a dozen real-world case studies spanning a wide range of industries
About the Author
HAROLD KERZNER, Ph.D., prominent instructor for the International Institute of Learning (IIL), is currently Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio and President of Project Management Associates, a consulting and training firm that conducts seminars for leading U.S. and international corporations. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois and has taught engineering at that institution and business administration at Utah State University, where he received the 1998 Distinguished Service Award. The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Project Management Institute has honored Dr. Kerzner by instituting the Kerzner Award for Project Management Excellence.

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Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

2009-04-12T01:22:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 432 pages
•Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 5, 2003)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1590590961
•ISBN-13: 978-1590590966

Book Description

…from my experience, most teams that say they’re doing XP don’t actually do the practices.

— Alistair Cockburn, Xp And The Cmm

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos) takes a satirical look at the increasingly hyped Extreme Programming methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach quotes such as, “XPers are not afraid of oral documentation,” “Schedule is the customers problem,” “Dependencies between requirements are more a matter of fear than reality” and “Concentration is the Enemy.”

In between the chuckles, though, there is a serious analysis of XPs many flaws. The authors also examine C3, the first XP project, whose team (most of whom went on to get XP book deals shortly before C3s cancellation) described themselves as “the best team on the face of the Earth”. (In a later chapter, the authors also note that one problem which can affect pair programmers is overconfidence or is that “eXcessive courage”?). The authors examine whether the problems that led to C3s “inexplicable” cancellation could also afflict present-day XP projects.

In the final chapter (Refactoring XP) Matt and Doug suggest some ways of achieving the agile goals of XP using some XP practices (used in moderation) combined with other, less risk-laden methods.

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“Any one [XP] practice doesn’t stand well on its own (with the possible exception of testing). They require the other practices to keep them in balance.” – Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained, (Chapter 11)

“Well, from my experience, most teams that say they’re doing XP don’t actually do the practices.

“Houston, we have a problem.” – Jim Lovell, Apollo 13

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos) takes a satirical look at the increasingly hyped Extreme Programming methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach— quotes such as, “XPers are not afraid of oral documentation,” “Schedule is the customer’s problem,” “Dependencies between requirements are more a matter of fear than reality” and “Concentration is the Enemy.”

In between the chuckles, though, there is a serious analysis of XP’s many flaws. The authors also examine C3, the first XP project, whose team (most of whom went on to get XP book deals shortly before C3’s cancellation) described themselves as “the best team on the face of the Earth”. (In a later chapter, the authors also note that one problem which can affect pair programmers is overconfidence— or is that “eXcessive courage”?). The authors examine whether the problems that led to C3’s “inexplicable” cancellation could also afflict present-day XP projects.

In the final chapter (Refactoring XP) Matt and Doug suggest some ways of achieving the agile goals of XP using some XP practices (used in moderation) combined with other, less risk-laden methods.” –>

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Effective GUI Testing Automation: Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool

2009-04-12T01:15:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 445 pages
•Publisher: Sybex (November 26, 2004)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0782143512
•ISBN-13: 978-0782143515

Book Description

Have you tried using an “automated” GUI testing tool, only to find that you spent most of your time configuring, adjusting, and directing it?

This book presents a sensible and highly effective alternative: it teaches you to build and use your own truly automated tool. The procedure you’ll learn is suitable for virtually any development environment, and the tool allows you to store your test data and verification standard separately, so you can build it once and use it for other GUIs. Most, if not all, of your work can be done without test scripts, because the tool itself can easily be made to conduct an automatic GUI survey, collect test data, and generate test cases. You’ll spend virtually none of your time playing with the tool or application under test.
Code-intensive examples support all of the book’s instruction, which includes these key topics:

•Building a C# API text viewer
•Building a test monkey
•Developing an XML viewer using xPath and other XML-related classes
•Building complex, serializable classes for GUI test verification
•Automatically testing executable GUI applications and user-defined GUI controls
•Testing managed (.NET) and unmanaged GUI applications
•Automatically testing different GUI controls, including Label, TextBox, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, Menu
•Verifying test results
Effective GUI Test Automation is the perfect complement to Li and Wu’s previous book, Effective Software Test Automation: Developing an Automated Software Testing Tool. Together, they provide programmers, testers, designers, and managers with a complete and cohesive way to create a smoother, swifter development process—and, as a result, software that is as bug-free as possible.

From the Back Cover
Have you tried using an “automated” GUI testing tool, only to find that you spent most of your time configuring, adjusting, and directing it?

This book presents a sensible and highly effective alternative: it teaches you to build and use your own truly automated tool. The procedure you’ll learn is suitable for virtually any development environment, and the tool allows you to store your test data and verification standard separately, so you can build it once and use it for other GUIs. Most, if not all, of your work can be done without test scripts, because the tool itself can easily be made to conduct an automatic GUI survey, collect test data, and generate test cases. You’ll spend virtually none of your time playing with the tool or application under test.

Code-intensive examples support all of the book’s instruction, which includes these key topics:

•Building a C# API text viewer
•Building a test monkey
•Developing an XML viewer using xPath and other XML-related classes
•Building complex, serializable classes for GUI test verification
•Automatically testing executable GUI applications and user-defined GUI controls
•Testing managed (.NET) and unmanaged GUI applications
•Automatically testing different GUI controls, including Label, TextBox, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, Menu
•Verifying test results
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Effective Software Test Automation: Developing an Automated Software Testing Tool

2009-04-12T01:08:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 400 pages
•Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (February 19, 2004)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0782143202
•ISBN-13: 978-0782143201

Book Description

“If you’d like a glimpse at how the next generation is going to program, this book is a good place to start.”
—Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobbs Journal (October 2004)

Build Your Own Automated Software Testing Tool

Whatever its claims, commercially available testing software is not automatic. Configuring it to test your product is almost as time-consuming and error-prone as purely manual testing.

There is an alternative that makes both engineering and economic sense: building your own, truly automatic tool. Inside, you’ll learn a repeatable, step-by-step approach, suitable for virtually any development environment. Code-intensive examples support the book’s instruction, which includes these key topics:

•Conducting active software testing without capture/replay
•Generating a script to test all members of one class without reverse-engineering
•Using XML to store previously designed testing cases
•Automatically generating testing data
•Combining Reflection and CodeDom to write test scripts focused on high-risk areas
•Generating test scripts from external data sources
•Using real and complete objects for integration testing
•Modifying your tool to test third-party software components
•Testing your testing tool
Effective Software Test Automation goes well beyond the building of your own testing tool: it also provides expert guidance on deploying it in ways that let you reap the greatest benefits: earlier detection of coding errors, a smoother, swifter development process, and final software that is as bug-free as possible. Written for programmers, testers, designers, and managers, it will improve the way your team works and the quality of its products.

From the Back Cover

“If you’d like a glimpse at how the next generation is going to program, this book is a good place to start.”
Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobbs Journal (October 2004)

Build Your Own Automated Software Testing Tool

Whatever its claims, commercially available testing software is not automatic. Configuring it to test your product is almost as time-consuming and error-prone as purely manual testing.

There is an alternative that makes both engineering and economic sense: building your own, truly automatic tool. Inside, you’ll learn a repeatable, step-by-step approach, suitable for virtually any development environment. Code-intensive examples support the book’s instruction, which includes these key topics:

•Conducting active software testing without capture/replay
•Generating a script to test all members of one class without reverse-engineering
•Using XML to store previously designed testing cases
•Automatically generating testing data
•Combining Reflection and CodeDom to write test scripts focused on high-risk areas
•Generating test scripts from external data sources
•Using real and complete objects for integration testing
•Modifying your tool to test third-party software components
•Testing your testing tool
Effective Software Test Automation goes well beyond the building of your own testing tool: it also provides expert guidance on deploying it in ways that let you reap the greatest benefits: earlier detection of coding errors, a smoother, swifter development process, and final software that is as bug-free as possible. Written for programmers, testers, designers, and managers, it will improve the way your team works and the quality of its products.

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A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW

2009-04-12T01:00:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 240 pages
•Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (May 15, 2003)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0130093653
•ISBN-13: 978-0130093653

Writing LabVIEW software to perform a complex task is never easy—especially when those last-minute feature requests cause a complexity explosion in your system, forcing you to rework much of your code! Jon Conway and Steve Watts offer a better solution: LCOD-LabVIEW Component Oriented Design—which, for the first time, applies the theories and principles of software design to LabVIEW programming. The material is presented in a lighthearted, engaging manner that makes learning enjoyable, even if you’re not a computer scientist.

•LCOD software engineering techniques make your software more robust and better able to handle complexity—by making it simpler! Even large, industrial-grade applications become manageable.
•Design to embrace flexibility first, making changes and bug fixes much less painful
•Pragmatic discussion of the authors’ tried and tested techniques, written by—and for—working programmers
•Covers design principles; LCOD overview, implementation, and complementary techniques; engineering essentials; style issues; and more
•Complete with practical advice on requirements gathering, prototyping, user interface design, and rich with examples
•Work through an example LCOD project (all code included on companion Web site) to tie the lessons together
This book is intended for test engineers, system integrators, electronics engineers, software engineers, and other intermediate to advanced LabVIEW programmers. None of the methods discussed are complex, so users can benefit as soon as they are proficient with the syntax of LabVIEW.Go to the companion Web site located at http://author.phptr.com/watts/ for full source code and book updates.

About the Author

JON CONWAY has 20 years’ experience in writing software, with half of that in LabVIEW. His fieldsof expertise include real time, robotics, databases, DAQ, DSP, and multiple software languages andoperating systems; his idea for LCOD arose from his experience gained working on complex softwareprojects. Jon is a partner in Structured Software Design Consultants of Hampshire, UK.

STEVE WATTS has 15 years of experience in writing test software, and has been programming inLabVIEW for 6 years. His areas of expertise include OOD, the Yourdon methodology, CASE tools,electronics, lasers, switching system design, DAQ, statistical process control, databases, userinterface design, software engineering, as well as a variety of programming languages. Steve is apartner in Structured Software Design Consultants of Hampshire, UK.

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Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process

2009-04-12T00:50:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Hardcover: 187 pages
•Publisher: Wiley (August 2, 2004)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0471653942
•ISBN-13: 978-0471653943

Book Description

Praise for Detail Process Charting
“A must-read for any competitive organization, Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process provides a comprehensive, yet clear, explanation of how to utilize one of the most powerful tools available to improve work processes. [Graham] has successfully integrated the history, success stories, and wisdom of those in the field who have applied this time-tested tool.”
-Jim Denyes, Training Manager
Naval Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Training Center
Author, Work Smarter, Not Harder
“This book will be a valuable resource for all those interested in work simplification and its implementation. Excellent answers to the ‘who,’ ‘what,’ ‘when,’ ‘how,’ and ‘why’ of work simplification are provided in an understandable and very useful level of detail. Graham has obviously ‘been there, done that.’ “
-John A. Roberts III, Adjunct Professor
School of Business Administration, University of Dayton
“The keys to this approach . . . are the involvement of the workers and the simplicity of the charting approach. Even those participants who have never seen a process chart can almost instantly see how the process works, their role in it, and how it can be improved. This level of involvement means continuous buy-in, which significantly improves the chances of success. The emphasis on the document as the key process element and the ability to diagram the document to flow easily, rapidly, and clearly set this approach apart from all the others.”
-Fredric D. Heilbronner, Director of Systems Consulting, eForms
Digital Consulting & Software Services, Inc.
“Much has been written about charting and business systems analysis, but I have not seen anything as comprehensive and clear as Ben Graham’s book. Writing in simple, easy-to-follow language with plentiful illustrations and practical examples, this book takes the reader through the full spectrum of the charting process from initial analysis to managing charting libraries. This book is a must-have for all process improvement analysts and managers wanting to improve their organizational efficiency.”
-Robert Barnett, Managing Director
Robert Barnett and Associates Pty. Ltd.

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Praise for Detail Process Charting
“A must-read for any competitive organization, Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process provides a comprehensive, yet clear, explanation of how to utilize one of the most powerful tools available to improve work processes. [Graham] has successfully integrated the history, success stories, and wisdom of those in the field who have applied this time-tested tool.”
-Jim Denyes, Training Manager
Naval Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Training Center
Author, Work Smarter, Not Harder
“This book will be a valuable resource for all those interested in work simplification and its implementation. Excellent answers to the ‘who,’ ‘what,’ ‘when,’ ‘how,’ and ‘why’ of work simplification are provided in an understandable and very useful level of detail. Graham has obviously ‘been there, done that.’ “
-John A. Roberts III, Adjunct Professor
School of Business Administration, University of Dayton
“The keys to this approach . . . are the involvement of the workers and the simplicity of the charting approach. Even those participants who have never seen a process chart can almost instantly see how the process works, their role in it, and how it can be improved. This level of involvement means continuous buy-in, which significantly improves the chances of success. The emphasis on the document as the key process element and the ability to diagram the document to flow easily, rapidly, and clearly set this approach apart from all the others.”
-Fredric D. Heilbronner, Director of Systems Consulting, eForms
Digital Consulting & Software Services, Inc.
“Much has been written about charting and business systems analysis, but I have not seen anything as comprehensive and clear as Ben Graham’s book. Writing in simple, easy-to-follow language with plentiful illustrations and practical examples, this book takes the reader through the full spectrum of the charting process from initial analysis to managing charting libraries. This book is a must-have for all process improvement analysts and managers wanting to improve their organizational efficiency.”
-Robert Barnett, Managing Director
Robert Barnett and Associates Pty. Ltd.

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Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You

2009-04-11T11:07:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 310 pages
•Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (January 23, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0977616614
•ISBN-13: 978-0977616619

Book Description

Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can’t finish each day’s task without having to scan through version control system output, looking for the file you want?
If so, you’re wasting that computer on your desk. Offload the drudgery to where it belongs, and free yourself to do what you should be doing: thinking. All you need is a scripting language (free!), this book (cheap!), and the dedication to work through the examples and exercises.

Everyday Scripting with Ruby is divided into four parts. In the first, you’ll learn the basics of the Ruby scripting language. In the second, you’ll see how to create scripts in a steady, controlled way using test-driven design. The third part is about finding, understanding, and using the work of others–and about preparing your scripts for others to use. The fourth part, more advanced, is about saving even more time by using application frameworks.

About the Author
Brian Marick graduated in 1981 with one degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and another one in English Literature. In his early career, he continued to be confused about his identity. Sometimes he was a programmer. Sometimes he was a tester. He became better at each because he understood the other. Brian is the author of The Craft of Software Testing, which promotes test design techniques, how testers support the team, and unscripted exploratory manual testing. He was an author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and was the second chair of the Agile Alliance board of directors. Because the Agile methods encourage cross-disciplinary work, he’s once again without a fixed identity. When consulting, he sticks his nose into everything

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Google Advertising Tools: Cashing in with AdSense, AdWords, and the Google APIs

2009-04-11T10:53:00.000-07:00

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•Paperback: 366 pages
•Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (January 19, 2006)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0596101082
•ISBN-13: 978-0596101084

Book Description

When it comes to advertising on the web, you just can’t argue with the numbers. A $7 billion market today is expected to grow to $18.9 billion by 2010. Jupiter Research also estimates that search advertising will be a larger share of the market than display advertising by 2010. These phenomenal numbers are due largely to Google, which has changed the way the world publishes content - and advertises.
“Google Advertising Tools” from O’Reilly examines the business and technology behind making money with content and advertising on the web. This focused, easy-to-read guide shows you how to use Google’s advertising services to make it happen. You’ll find all the background information you need to work with Google AdSense, which automatically delivers text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site, and Google AdWords, which lets you generate text ads that accompany specific search term results.

This book has specific and detailed sections on:

Turning your web site into a profit center with AdSense

Making sense of AdSense metrics

Driving traffic to your site

Optimizing sites for search engine placement

Working with AdWords campaigns, auctions, and reports

Managing campaigns dynamically using the AdWords APIs

Once you’ve read all four parts, you’ll have a comprehensive picture of how advertising works on the web and how you can use the Google advertising programs to your advantage.

About the Author
Harold Davis is a strategic technology consultant, hands-on programmer, and author of many well-known books. He’s also a popular speaker at trade shows and conventions, giving presentations on topics ranging from digital photography to wireless networking, web services, and programming methodologies. Books include: “Building Research Tools For Google for Dummies” (Wiley), “Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser” (Apress), “Red Hat Linux 9: Visual QuickPro Guide”, and “Visual Basic .NET: Visual QuickStart Guide” (both Peachpit Press). Harold has served as a consultant for investment funds, technology companies, and Fortune 500 corporations. In recent years, he has been VP of Strategic Development at YellowGiant Corporation, a company providing infrastructure for Internet marketing, Chief Technology Officer at a CRM analytics startup, a Technical Director at Vignette Corporation, a leader in customer-centric content management, and a Principal in the enterprise consulting practice at Informix Software.

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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide

2009-04-11T10:25:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 382 pages
•Publisher: O’Reilly/Adobe Developer Library; 1st edition (January 4, 2008)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 059652787X
•ISBN-13: 978-0596527877

Book Description

In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they’ve gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a collection of sample scripts. Written for those of you new to ActionScript 3.0, the book describes how ActionScript and Flash work, giving you a clear look into essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, migrating legacy projects to ActionScript 3.0, classes, and much more. You will learn important techniques through hands-on exercises, and then build on those skills as chapters progress. ActionScript 3.0 represents a significant change for many Flash users, and a steeper learning curve for the uninitiated. This book will help guide you through a variety of scripting scenarios. Rather than relying heavily on prior knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP), topics are explained in focused examples that originate in the timeline, with optional companion classes for those already comfortable with their use. As chapters progress, the book introduces more and more OOP techniques, allowing you to choose which scripting approach you prefer. Learning ActionScript 3.0 reveals: New ways to harness the power and performance of AS3 Common mistakes that people make with the language Essential coverage of text, sound, video, XML, drawing with code, and more Migration issues from AS1 and AS2 to AS3 Simultaneous development of procedural and object-oriented techniques Tips that go beyond simple script collections, including how toapproach a project and which resources can help you along the way The companion web site contains material for all the exercises in the book, as well as short quizzes to make sure you’re up to speed with key concepts. ActionScript 3.0 is a different animal from previous versions, and Learning ActionScript 3.0 teaches everything that web designers, GUI-based Flash developers, and those new to ActionScript need to start using the language.

Praise

“The best ActionScript book ever written.”
-Lee Brimelow, Creator of The Flash Blog

About the Author
Rich Shupe has been designing and developing with Flash since it was called FutureSplash, and has been teaching ActionScript programming to all levels of students since ActionScript became available. He founded his own training and development company, FMA, in 1995. He is a recognized authority on several technologies, including Flash, Director and QuickTime. In addition to his production experience, Rich has been teaching professionally for 10 years, and is a full-time faculty member at New York’s School of Visual Arts’ Computer Art Dept.

Zevan Rosser is a freelance designer/programmer/consultant and computer artist. He teaches ActionScript and Flash animation at New York’s School of Visual Arts and FMA. When he’s not working on commercial projects he works on his personal site, http://www.shapevent.com.

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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML and CSS

2009-04-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

Book details

•Paperback: 840 pages
•Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (6 Aug 2004)
•Language English
•ISBN-10: 0764570781
•ISBN-13: 978-0764570780

What is this book about?

Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows standards–based principles, but also teaches readers ways around problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.

While XHTML is the “current” standard, the book still covers HTML because many people do not yet understand that XHTML is the official successor to HTML, and many readers will still stick with HTML for backward compatibility and simpler/informal Web pages that don′t require XHTML compliance.

The book teaches basic principles of usability and accessibility along the way, to get users into the mode of developing Web pages that will be available to as many viewers as possible from the start. The book also covers the most commonly used programming/scripting language — JavaScript — and provides readers with a roadmap of other Web technologies to learn after mastering this book to add more functionality to their sites.

From the Back Cover
As the Web has evolved, tools and methods for creating Web pages have also changed and matured. This book teaches you to create Web sites using a combination of new and mature technologies and shows you the best practices that have emerged for using these technologies.

In these pages you will learn to build Web sites with traditional HTML and its successor XHTML. You will see how CSS can be used to make your Web pages more attractive by controlling the presentation and formatting of pages, and how to use JavaScript™ to enhance the power of your pages. Along the way you will learn how to make your pages work in several generations of Web browsers, including new Web–enabled devices such as mobile phones. You′ll also learn techniques that make your site more usable and accessible.

What you will learn from this book

•How to create Web sites using established standards
•The differences between HTML and its successor XHTML
•How to include images and links in your pages
•Methods of collecting information from visitors to your site using forms
•Ways to control the appearance of your pages (such as fonts, colors, and backgrounds) using CSS
•How to use tables, frames, and CSS to control page layout
•Design issues such as creating simple navigation and usable forms
•How to deliver Web pages to a wide range of devices
•The basics of using JavaScript in your pages

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to understand the language of the Web and learn to create Web pages. You should know how to access and view Web pages with a browser, but previous programming experience is not necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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JSP Examples and Best Practices

2009-04-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

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book details

•Paperback: 308 pages
•Publisher: Apress; 1st edition (April 15, 2002)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1590590201
•ISBN-13: 978-1590590201

book Description
While most other books merely instruct on basic JSP and servlet development, JSP Examples and Best Practices gives you some of the best practices and design principles, enabling you to build scalable and extensible enterprise Java applications. And JavaServer Pages technology can be used to build complex enterprise applications in a highly re-usable manner.

This book takes basic JSP and applies sound architectural principles and design patterns, to give you the tools to build scalable enterprise applications using JSP. Further, this book covers new features of the JSP 1.2 specification, including the standard filtering mechanism.

About the Author
Andrew Patzer is a web architect for a consulting firm located in the Midwest. His first book, Professional Java Server Programming, is a bestseller and one of the first books to cover J2EE technologies. Andrew recently served as a lead systems architect for an industry-leading application service provider in the insurance industry. He was directly involved in designing and building a J2EE development framework upon which the company’s key product was built. Andrew has delivered several presentations over the years to both local user groups and national conferences.

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UML 2 Toolkit

2009-04-11T06:03:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 552 pages
•Publisher: Wiley (October 13, 2003)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0471463612
•ISBN-13: 978-0471463610

book Description

Gain the skills to effectively plan software applications and systems using the latest version of UML

UML 2 represents a significant update to the UML specification, from providing more robust mechanisms for modeling workflow and actions to making the modeling language more executable. Now in its second edition, this bestselling book provides you with all the tools you’ll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. You’ll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as use-case diagrams, classes and their relationships, dynamic diagrams, system architecture, and extending UML. The authors take you through the process of modeling with UML so that you can successfully deliver a software product or information management system.

With the help of numerous examples and an extensive case study, this book teaches you how to:

•Organize, describe, assess, test, and realize use cases
•Gain substantial information about a system by using classes
•Utilize activity diagrams, state machines, and interaction diagrams to handle common issues
•Extend UML features for specific environment or domains
•Use UML as part of a Model Driven Architecture initiative
•Apply an effective process for using UML
The CD-ROM contains all of the UML models and JavaTM code for a complete application, JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.4.1, and links to the Web sites for vendors of UML 2 tools.

From the Back Cover

Gain the skills to effectively plan software applications and systems using the latest version of UML

UML 2 represents a significant update to the UML specification, from providing more robust mechanisms for modeling workflow and actions to making the modeling language more executable. Now in its second edition, this bestselling book provides you with all the tools you’ll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. You’ll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as use-case diagrams, classes and their relationships, dynamic diagrams, system architecture, and extending UML. The authors take you through the process of modeling with UML so that you can successfully deliver a software product or information management system.

With the help of numerous examples and an extensive case study, this book teaches you how to:

•Organize, describe, assess, test, and realize use cases
•Gain substantial information about a system by using classes
•Utilize activity diagrams, state machines, and interaction diagrams to handle common issues
•Extend UML features for specific environment or domains
•Use UML as part of a Model Driven Architecture initiative
•Apply an effective process for using UML

The CD-ROM contains all of the UML models and JavaTM code for a complete application, JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.4.1, and links to the Web sites for vendors of UML 2 tools.

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Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API

2009-04-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 384 pages
•Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (April 23, 2004)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0782143334
•ISBN-13: 978-0782143331

book Description

Google’s Web Services provide all kinds of powerful capabilities that you can leverage in your Internet programs. Here’s a book that teaches you how to develop practical Google Web Services applications. Learn how to embed the popular search engine in a web site, create applications for optimizing complex searches, automatically monitor the web for specified information, develop custom applications to avoid objectionable material, and much more. Even find out how to use Google Web Services and Amazon Web Services together. In “Mining Google Web Services”, you will discover how to develop these real-world applications using VBA, Visual Studio, PHP, Java, and Mobile Devices.

From the Back Cover
Google Brings Data Mining to the People!

Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.

Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications. With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results—faster and more easily. Here’s a little of what you’ll find covered inside:

Improving the speed and accuracy of searches; Performing data mining across the Internet; Using Google Web Services to search a single website; Building search applications for mobile devices; Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability; Analyzing Google data; Creating searches for users with special needs; Discovering new uses for Google; Obtaining historical data using cached pages; Performing spelling checks on any text; Reducing the number of false search hits;

Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.

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Software Architecture in Practice

2009-04-11T05:57:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Hardcover: 452 pages
•Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 30, 1997)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0201199300
•ISBN-13: 978-0201199307

book Description

The concepts and practice of software architecture are introduced–what a system is designed to do and how its components are meant to interact with each other. The authors cover not only essential technical topics for specifying and validating a system, but, for the first time, emphasize the importance of the business context in which large systems are designed. .

From the Inside Flap

Software architecture is an important field of study that is becoming more important and more talked about with every passing day. But, to our knowledge, there exists little practical guidance on how to manage software architecture within a real software development organization from a technical or from a managerial perspective. This book has emerged from our belief that the coupling of the software architecture of a system and its business and organizational context has not been well explored.

Our experience with designing and reviewing large and complex software-intensive systems has led us to recognize the role of business and organization in the design of the system and also in its ultimate success or failure. Systems are built to satisfy an organizationis requirements (or assumed requirements in the case of shrink-wrapped products), and these requirements determine the extent to which a system must meet performance targets, be highly available, interoperate with other systems, or be designed for long lifetimes. These properties of a system are constrained by the systemis software architecture; or, to put it another way, the desire to achieve these properties influences the design choices made by a software architect.

In this book we demonstrate this coupling through the use of case studies drawn from real systems, including the following: In Chapter 7, we show how the desire to quickly and easily share documents within an organization, with a minimum of centralized control, led to the software architecture of the World Wide Web. In Chapter 11, we discuss how the extreme safety requirements of air traffic control led one company to build a system around an architecture for achieving ultrahigh availability. In Chapter 14, we describe how the distribution of the subsystems of a flight simulator to different remotely located developers led to an architecture geared to enable the easy integration of these subsystems. In Chapter 16, we explain how the need to satisfy simultaneous product deliveries led (in fact, forced) one company to adopt an architecture that enabled the company to economically build a set of complex, related software systems as a product line.

These and other case studies show how the architectures flow from requirements of organizations and their business models, from the experience of the organizationis architects, and from the prevailing design climate.

In addition, we discuss how architectures themselves can be powerful vehicles for influencing all of the preceding. A successful product or set of products can influence how other products are built; certainly, the case study of the software underlying the World Wide Web is a good example of this. Before this system existed, there was far less network awareness; less thought was given to accessibility of data; and security was the concern of only a few organizations, typically financial institutions and government agencies.

This book is aimed at the software professionalothe person designing and implementing large software-intensive systemsoand at the managers of software professionals. It does not contain, for example, detailed financial justification for using a software architecture, for doing early architectural analyses, or for investing in a product line approach to building software. We provide only anecdotal evidence to support the claims that these pay off, although we passionately believe they do.

A software architecture is the development product that gives the highest return on investment with respect to quality, schedule, and cost. This is because an architecture appears early in a productis lifetime. Getting it right sets the stage for everything to come in the systemis life: development, integration, testing, and modification. Getting it wrong means that the fabric of the system is wrong, and it cannot be fixed by weaving in a few new threads or pulling out a few existing ones, which often causes the entire fabric to unravel. Also, analyzing architectures is inexpensive, compared with other development activities. Thus, architectures give a high return on investment partially because decisions made for the architecture have substantial downstream consequences and because checking and fixing an architecture is relatively inexpensive.

We also believe that reusable components are best achieved within an architectural context. But components are not the only artifacts that can be reused. Reuse of an architecture leads to the creation of families of similar systems, which in turn leads to new organizational structures and new business opportunities.

A large percentage of this book is devoted to presenting real architectures that were designed to solve real problems in real organizations. We chose the case studies to illustrate the types of choices that architects must make to achieve their quality goals and to show how organizational goals affect the final systems.

In addition to the case studies, this book offers a set of techniques for designing, building, and evaluating software architectures. We look at techniques for understanding quality requirements in the context of an architecture and for building architectures that meet these quality requirements. We look at architecture description languages as a means of describing and validating software architectures. We look at techniques for analyzing and evaluating an architectureis fitness for its purpose. Each of these techniques is derived from our experience, and the experience of our colleagues at the Software Engineering Institute, with a variety of software systems. These systems range up to millions of lines of code and are large-team, multiyear development efforts.

We have also provided a visual language for describing software architectures that contains enough expressiveness to describe both procedural and object-oriented systems and enough generality to describe systems at any granularity: a division of functionality, a set of software structures, a set of hardware structures, or any combination of these. Although a visual notation is not, in itself, documentation of an architecture, it is an integral part of such a documentation. One of our complaints with the state-of-the-practice in architecture today is the vagueness of architectural descriptions. We hope that the visual language described here is a contribution to the field, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of architectural documentation.

The book targets software professionals, or students who have knowledge and experience in software engineering, and we anticipate the following three classes of readers:

Practicing software engineers who wish to understand both the technical basis of software architecture and the business and organizational forces that are acting on them Technical managers who wish to understand how software architecture can help them to supervise the construction of systems more effectively and improve their organizations Students in computer science or softwar
e engineering who might use this book as supplemental reading in a first or second software engineering course

Although business issues are discussed throughout the book (for example, how an architecture affects an organizationis ability to compete in a market or how the architecture underlying a product family affects time to market), we present this material without going into the business issues in great depth and without using business jargon. We are, after all, software engineers. The technical sections are presented in more depth. These sections represent current work in the field of software architectureothe point where research meets practice; they are the philosophical foundations of the book. The case studies illustrate these technical foundations and show how they are realized in practice. However, we have written the case studies in such a way that expertise in the application domain from which each case study was drawn is not required. You will not need to be a pilot to understand either the air traffic control system or the flight simulation case studies. However, you will need to have a reasonable background in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline to benefit from the lessons of the case studies.

One final note on the organization of the book. Software Architecture in Practice is not intended to be a prescriptive method for architectural design. In fact, we believe that it is impossible to satisfactorily create such a prescriptive design method. Any design involves trade-offs: Modifiability affects performance, security affects modifiability, scalability affects reliability, and everything affects cost. Any prescriptive method implicity or explicitly assumes that some of these qualities are more important than others and guides users toward the maximization of that goal. Our feeling is that although such an approach may be appropriate in a specific domain, it cannot possibly work in general. Quality requirements are different from organization to organization and from year to year.

By way of contrast, we offer a toolbox approach to design. We believe that different architectural tools and techniques are appropriate for different situations and different quality goals. No single technique will ever suffice. So, we present a number of different architectural tools (layering, multiple views, patterns, blackboards, and so forth) and techniques (analysis methods, integration strategies, engineering principles) and illustrate their usage in different business and technical contexts.

Not surprisingly, most of the case studies use a mix of tools and techniques because they were chosen to illustrate how software architecture was the foundation for a successful system. These systems were successful precisely because they chose the right tools and implemented them using the right techniques. Anything less would not have resulted in a successful system, as we hope to persuade you in the coming pages. 0201199300P04062001

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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

2009-04-11T05:50:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Hardcover: 720 pages
•Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition (April 30, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 020189551X
•ISBN-13: 978-0201895513
In this eagerly awaited second edition, Grady Booch draws upon the rich and varied results of those projects and offers improved methods for object development and a new, unified notation. With numerous examples implemented in C++, Booch illustrates essential concepts, explains the method, and shows successful applications in a variety of fields. Booch also gives pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management. A two-time winner of Software Development’s coveted Jolt Cola Product Excellence Award! –This text refers to the edition.

book Description

Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition–the first revision in 13 years–readers can learn to apply object-oriented methods using new paradigms such as Java, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, and .NET.

The authors draw upon their rich and varied experience to offer improved methods for object development and numerous examples that tackle the complex problems faced by software engineers, including systems architecture, data acquisition, cryptoanalysis, control systems, and Web development. They illustrate essential concepts, explain the method, and show successful applications in a variety of fields. You’ll also find pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management.

New to this new edition are

•An introduction to the new UML 2.0, from the notation’s most fundamental and advanced elements with an emphasis on key changes
•New domains and contexts
•A greatly enhanced focus on modeling–as eagerly requested by readers–with five chapters that each delve into one phase of the overall development lifecycle.
•Fresh approaches to reasoning about complex systems
•An examination of the conceptual foundation of the widely misunderstood fundamental elements of the object model, such as abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, and hierarchy
•How to allocate the resources of a team of developers and mange the risks associated with developing complex software systems
•An appendix on object-oriented programming languages

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A First Course in Abstract Algebra

2009-04-08T09:24:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Hardcover: 536 pages
•Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 6th edition (November 1998)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0201335964
•ISBN-13: 978-0201335965

Book Description

An introduction to abstract algebra. Provides valuable experience for any further axiomatic study of mathematics. DLC: Algebra, Abstract. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn

2009-04-08T08:37:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 377 pages
•Publisher: Sybex (January 21, 2005)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0782143784
•ISBN-13: 978-0782143782

Book Description

This is the first and only book to teach HTML and CSS simultaneously–the way they are used! Save time and boost your productivity by learning how to include CSS hooks in HTML markup from the start. Easy-to-follow tutorials along with insights from an experienced teacher/author, make this book ideal for beginning web designers and bloggers. The companion CD offers third-party programs, browsers, plus code examples and templates to help you design your own site. The color insert discusses how to design and implement basic web page elements (logos, navigation, text, images, etc.) and features a color chart of web-safe colors.

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Almost all web designers use Cascading Style Sheets to control the presentation of the websites they construct out of HTML. Why learn one and then the other when you can just as easily—and much more effectively—learn both at the same time? This book’s integrated approach speeds your progress and leaves you with a stronger, more cohesive set of skills. Inside, you’ll learn about:

Writing well-structured HTML for use by any web-capable device

Designing page layouts using CSS

Controlling fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders, and margins

Using lists to create attractive, button-like menus

Using images as backgrounds, links, page content, and decoration

Creating and styling forms

Personalizing your weblog

Understanding and applying design and usability principles

Publishing and testing your pages

Validating your code

Making pages accessible to all visitors

Throughout the book you’ll find real-world examples of effective CSS-based pages.

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Microsoft Windows XP Networking Inside Out

2009-04-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 800 pages
•Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 16, 2002)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0735616523
•ISBN-13: 978-0735616523

Book Description

Hey, you know your way around a desktop-now dig into the Windows XP operating system and really put its networking features to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving networking solutions, checklists, network troubleshooting tips, and workarounds-all in concise, fast-answers format. Learn the tools and techniques for configuring and managing networking with Windows XP-including workgroup, domain, Internet, and remote networking, plus every network component and feature in between.

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Flash XML Applications

2009-04-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 336 pages
•Publisher: Focal Press (October 5, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0240809173
•ISBN-13: 978-0240809175

Book Description

Flash applications are essential delivery mechanisms for seamless, user controlled delivery of content produced by 2 million Flash developers for 98% of the world’s computers

Add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery to your Flash applications. This book builds upon your understanding of basic ActionScript (AS) syntax with the foundational skills that you need to use XML in Flash applications and AS2 or AS3 to migrate your existing applications.

Beginning with an introduction to XML, XML parsing methods, and a short introduction to AS2 you learn how to create a universal XML load/onload Class as well as a universal XHTML parser. Then you learn how to use Components using XML as the data source, including the menu, menubar, datagrid and tree component. Finally, a tutorial project-the design and development of a Real Estate Web site that contains an XML search engine-pulls it all together with hands-on experience.

All the applications use XML as the data source and are written as class files. Select parts of the Real Estate Web site are redeveloped in AS3 for purposes of illustration. The new XML class is presented and specific code examples demonstrate techniques to apply methods and use properties. Particular attention is paid to the differences between AS2 and AS3 and how to effectively transition from one AS version to the other.

The companion CD contains code for all of the properties and methods of the AS2, AS3, and XML class examples. Components for the Real Estate Web site project are also provided.

* Build on basic ActionScript syntax skills
* Add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery

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Professional MFC With Visual C++ 6

2009-04-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Hardcover: 1203 pages
•Publisher: Wrox Press; 4th edition (December 1999)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1861000154
•ISBN-13: 978-1861000156

Book Description

The MFC is a class library that provides a collection of C++ classes, taking the drudgery out of writing software for Windows. The classes are targeted at the features your application needs - such as status bars, the implementations required for multiple document windows, and support for context-sensitive help - which means that using MFC saves you coding time which you can use to implement other features in your application.
This book will give a detailed discussion of the majority of classes present in Microsoft’s application framework library, and the tools provided by Visual C++ 6. Throughout the book, you will learn how all of the features in the environment come together with the features of MFC, giving you tremendous power to develop your application.

From the Publisher

“Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6″ is a revised version of “Professional MFC with Visual C++ 5″. It covers Visual C++ 6 and MFC 6, including the new features and updates of these latest versions.
This book is for professional developers with a desire to get under the covers of the Microsoft Foundation Classes to find out why Microsoft implemented things the way they did. A good grasp of C++ and some Windows programming knowledge are assumed.

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Pro Spring 2.5

2009-04-06T20:27:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 920 pages
•Publisher: Apress (August 15, 2008)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1590599217
•ISBN-13: 978-1590599211

book Description
The Spring Framework 2.5 release reflects the state of the art in both the Spring Framework and enterprise Java frameworks as a whole. A guidebook to this critical tool is necessary reading for any conscientious Java developer.

— Rob Harrop, author of Pro Spring

The move from so–called heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it’s picked up pace. The Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services.

Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new features of Spring 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the author team brings extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it.

Learn the approaches that really matter in a professional, enterprise–level environment, so you can apply them to your projects today, safe in the knowledge that they just work.

What You’ll Learn

•Discover how to use Spring’s Inversion of Control (IoC).
•Explore Spring’s excellent aspect–oriented programming (AOP) support, including Spring 2.5’s new @AspectJ feature.
•Find out how to use Spring’s dynamic scripting language features, Spring design patterns, and performance tuning in Spring applications.
•Learn what really works in real–world Spring development.
•Understand Spring’s support for the JDBC framework, Hibernate, the Quartz enterprise scheduler, declarative transaction management, and much more.
•Master Spring’s well–designed MVC framework and add AJAX to your Spring web applications to create flexible, efficient, and manageable applications using the best techniques available.
Who is this book for?
Enterprise Java, J2EE/Java EE developers looking to learn and use the Spring metaframework, the now growing, leading alternative to J2EE/Java EE

About the Apress Pro Series
The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

About the Author

Jan Machacek is a chief software architect at Cake Solutions Limited (www.cakesolutions.net), a UK-based software company. He has been an early adopter of Spring at Cake Solutions and has seen the dramatic change the Spring framework has brought to the Java world. As part of his job, Jan designs and oversees the development of majority of Cake’s projects. Where appropriate, Jan also applies his interest in declarative programming and artificial intelligence. Throughout his programming career, Jan has designed and implemented large J2EE and .NET systems for the UK government and large private sector bodies. When not programming, Jan enjoys foreign languages; he also enters races and time trials as a member of the Manchester Wheelers’ cycling club.

Jessica Ditt is a developer at Cake Solutions Limited. She joined the Cake team in 2005 and has worked on numerous enterprise-level projects, all of which were written using the Spring framework. Jessica has been an early adopter of Spring Webflow at Cake and has become an expert in efficient indexing using Lucene and monitoring deployed systems using JMX. Out of the office, Jessica is a keen volleyball player.

Aleksa Vukotic is senior developer of Cake Solutions Limited. He joined Cake Solutions in June 2004. Since joining Cake, Aleksa has worked on numerous Java projects using the Spring framework for variety of clients. His work includes sophisticated systems for the UK government agencies. As part of his role at Cake, Aleksa helps other members of the team with some of the most complex problems, especially related to data access and MVC. He graduated in computer science and engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade University, Serbia.
In his spare time, Aleksa enjoys nights out and computer games.

Anirvan Cakraborty is a developer at Cake Solutions Limited. Since becoming a member of the Cake team in 2006, Anirvan has worked on the more complex projects, including the UK government knowledge management system. Anirvan is a contributor to Lucene integration in the Spring Modules project. Prior to joining Cake, Anirvan completed his master’s degree in Internet software systems at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. When not programming, Anirvan enjoys following sports like Cricket and Formula One. He also enjoys reading detective novels and watching movies.

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Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects

2009-04-06T07:58:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 330 pages
•Publisher: Apress (September 24, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1590598814
•ISBN-13: 978-1590598818

book Description
Discover how JRuby on Rails can be used to create web applications faster and more efficiently while still taking advantage of the vast power of the Java platform.

Ruby on Rails is proving itself to be one of the most efficient and powerful agile web development application frameworks available and has had a profound influence on the Java community. The JRuby project offers Java developers the best of two worlds: the flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform.

JRuby core developer Ola Bini covers everything you need to know to take full advantage of what JRuby has to offer, including

•Full coverage on how to use JRuby to create web applications faster and more efficiently, while continuing to take advantage of the vast power of the Java platform
•Several real-world projects that illustrate the crucial specifics you need to know about the interaction of Java and Ruby
•Helpful, practical instruction and discussion on how web applications can be deployed using a variety of popular servers such as Apache and Mongrel
What youll learn
•Create a Rails application that uses JDBC to talk to legacy databases.
•Use Java Management Extensions (JMX) to more effectively manage your application.
•Deploy a Rails application within a Java Enterprise web container (Tomcat).
•Create interoperable applications involving EJBs and Rails-driven web services.
•Securely integrate XML processing into your Ruby applications.
•Build cutting-edge Web 2.0 web sites using Rails, Prototype, and script.aculo.us to provide a pleasing user experience.
•Build four important projects: Store, CMS, Admin tool, and a web library project.
Who is this book for?
Youll get the most from this book if you have medium-to-advanced skills in Java web development, with a little Ruby experience, and are interested in taking Web development to the next level, both in terms of speed and features and in interoperability with existing infrastructure.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project-motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real-world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles from Apress

•Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
•Beginning Ruby on Rails: From Novice to Professional
•The Definitive Guide to Grails

About the Author
Ola Bini is a longtime developer from Sweden who started at an age of 9 years with Basic, on an Apple IIc; from there on he learned C, C++, Assembler, Lisp, Java, Ruby, and various other languages. He has no formal education except for a few Sun Java certifications. He has worked with system development at Karolinska Institutet since 2001 and runs his own consulting company (OLogix Consulting) in his spare time. He has contributed to various open source projects and is one of the three core developers of the JRuby project.

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

2009-04-06T07:51:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 336 pages
•Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (August 12, 1995)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0201835959
•ISBN-13: 978-0201835953
The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon as possible — from Amazon.com Books, your library, or anyone else. You (and/or your colleagues) will be forever grateful. Very Highest Recommendation.

book Description
No book on software project management has been so influential and so timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (best known as the “father of the IBM System 360″) revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

From the Inside Flap

To my surprise and delight, The Mythical Man-Month continues to be popular after twenty years. Over 250,000 copies are in print. People often ask which of the opinions and recommendations set forth in 1975 I still hold, and which have changed, and how. Whereas I have from time to time addressed that question in lectures, I have long wanted to essay it in writing.

Peter Gordon, now a Publishing Partner at Addison-Wesley, has been working with me patiently and helpfully since 1980. He proposed that we prepare an Anniversary Edition. We decided not to revise the original, but to reprint it untouched (except for trivial corrections) and to augment it with more current thoughts.

Chapter 16 reprints “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering,” a 1986 IFIPS paper that grew out of my experience chairing a Defense Science Board study on military software. My co-authors of that study, and our executive secretary, Robert L. Patrick, were invaluable in bringing me back into touch with real-world large software projects. The paper was reprinted in 1987 in the IEEE Computer magazine, which gave it wide circulation.

“No Silver Bullet” proved provocative. It predicted that a decade would not see any programming technique which would by itself bring an order-of-magnitude improvement in software productivity. The decade has a year to run; my prediction seems safe. “NSB” has stimulated more and more spirited discussion in the literature than has The Mythical Man-Month. Chapter 17, therefore, comments on some of the published critique and updates the opinions set forth in 1986.

In preparing my retrospective and update of The Mythical Man-Month, I was struck by how few of the propositions asserted in it have been critiqued, proven, or disproven by ongoing software engineering research and experience. It proved useful to me now to catalog those propositions in raw form, stripped of supporting arguments and data. In hopes that these bald statements will invite arguments and facts to prove, disprove, update, or refine those propositions, I have included this outline as Chapter 18.

Chapter 19 is the updating essay itself. The reader should be warned that the new opinions are not nearly so well informed by experience in the trenches as the original book was. I have been at work in a university, not industry, and on small-scale projects, not large ones. Since 1986, I have only taught software engineering, not done research in it at all. My research has rather been on virtual reality and its applications.

In preparing this retrospective, I have sought the current views of friends who are indeed at work in software engineering. For a wonderful willingness to share views, to comment thoughtfully on drafts, and to re-educate me, I am indebted to Barry Boehm, Ken Brooks, Dick Case, James Coggins, Tom DeMarco, Jim McCarthy, David Parnas, Earl Wheeler, and Edward Yourdon. Fay Ward has superbly handled the technical production of the new chapters.

I thank Gordon Bell, Bruce Buchanan, Rick Hayes-Roth, my colleagues on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Software, and, most especially, David Parnas for their insights and stimulating ideas for, and Rebekah Bierly for technical production of, the paper printed here as Chapter 16. Analyzing the software problem into the categories of essence and accident was inspired by Nancy Greenwood Brooks, who used such analysis in a paper on Suzuki violin pedagogy.

Addison-Wesley’s house custom did not permit me to acknowledge in the 1975 Preface the key roles played by their staff. Two persons’ contributions should be especially cited: Norman Stanton, then Executive Editor, and Herbert Boes, then Art Director. Boes developed the elegant style, which one reviewer especially cited: “wide margins, and imaginative use of typeface and layout.” More important, he also made the crucial recommendation that every chapter have an opening picture. (I had only the Tar Pit and Rheims Cathedral at the time.) Finding the pictures occasioned an extra year’s work for me, but I am eternally grateful for the counsel.

Deo soli gloria or Soli Deo Gloria — To God alone be the glory.

Chapel Hill, N.C., F.

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Ajax Bible

2009-04-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 695 pages
•Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 2, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0470102632
•ISBN-13: 978-0470102633
Build interactive Web applications with Ajax

Create live searches and online spreadsheets

Discover programming mistakes to avoid!

Create blazing-fast Web applications with powerful Ajax

If you think that mastering Ajax is too difficult, guess again. You can create Web applications that look and feel like desktop apps in less time than you think with the comprehensive Ajax instruction in this in-depth book. You’ll find easy-to-follow tutorials, hundreds of tips and tricks, and so much practical information that even skilled developers will reach for this book first. Let this Bible be your guide as you jump into the hottest Web programming technology in years.

* Master the fundamentals–JavaScript(r), XML, dynamic HTML, and CSS
*

Tie Ajax into Google with the Google(r) API
*

Handle simultaneous XMLHttpRequest objects in Ajax
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Use Ajax frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, AjaxTags, and others
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Understand the Document Object Model (DOM)
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Create floating menus and effects with CSS
*

Encrypt data over plain HTTP using JavaScript
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Adapt real-world examples to your own programs

Companion Web site

Find all the code used throughout the book at www.wiley.com/go/ajaxbible

From the Back Cover
Build interactive Web applications with Ajax

Create live searches and online spreadsheets

Discover programming mistakes to avoid!

Create blazing-fast Web applications with powerful Ajax

If you think that mastering Ajax is too difficult, guess again. You can create Web applications that look and feel like desktop apps in less time than you think with the comprehensive Ajax instruction in this in-depth book. You’ll find easy-to-follow tutorials, hundreds of tips and tricks, and so much practical information that even skilled developers will reach for this book first. Let this Bible be your guide as you jump into the hottest Web programming technology in years.

•Master the fundamentals—JavaScript®, XML, dynamic HTML, and CSS
•Tie Ajax into Google with the Google® API

•Handle simultaneous XMLHttpRequest objects in Ajax

•Use Ajax frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, AjaxTags, and others

•Understand the Document Object Model (DOM)

•Create floating menus and effects with CSS

•Encrypt data over plain HTTP using JavaScript

•Adapt real-world examples to your own programs

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Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes

2009-04-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

book Details

•Paperback: 256 pages
•Publisher: Sams (November 17, 2005)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0672327457
•ISBN-13: 978-0672327452

book Description

The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.

About the Author
Russ Weakley has worked in the web design field for over 18 years. He is one of the principals for MaxDesign, a highly respected Australian design house. Russ currently is co-chairman of the Australian Web Standards Group, through which he assists web developers in understanding a variety of new technologies. He also is well-known in the CSS community for his CSS-based showcases and tutorials.

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English Pronunciation in Use - Cambridge University Press

2009-04-04T23:51:00.000-07:00

book details

•Paperback: 200 pages
•Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Pap/Com edition (17 Jul 2003)
•Language English
•ISBN-10: 0521006570
•ISBN-13: 978-0521006576

book Description

The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD or cassette. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs. The CD-ROM provides a wide variety of additional interactive activities to reinforce the pronunciation covered in the book, as well as tests, progress checks, games and animated diagrams of the mouth showing learners how to produce individual sounds. Students can also record themselves and compare their pronunciation with one of the many models provided.

Book Description
The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work, and is now available with a unique, new CD-ROM for additional interactive practice.

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Data Analysis: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating and Analyzing Data, Charts, and PivotTables

2009-04-04T23:48:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 304 pages
•Publisher: Visual (July 23, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0470132299
•ISBN-13: 978-0470132296

Book Description

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you’ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:

* Identifying trends in your data
* Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists
* Creating, editing, and checking formulas
* Calculating interest rates and depreciation
* Performing simple sorts and filters
* Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable
* Adding and removing chart data
* Querying an Access database
* Assigning digital signatures
* Solving a formula with a data table

“I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss.”
-Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)

* High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
* Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
* “Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips

From the Back Cover

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you’ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:

•Identifying trends in your data
•Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists

•Creating, editing, and checking formulas

•Calculating interest rates and depreciation

•Performing simple sorts and filters

•Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable

•Adding and removing chart data

•Querying an Access database

•Assigning digital signatures

•Solving a formula with a data table

“I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss.”
—Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)

•High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
•Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

•Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

•“Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips

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Skype - The Definitive Guide

2009-04-04T23:44:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 224 pages
•Publisher: Que; 1 edition (May 15, 2006)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 032140940X
•ISBN-13: 978-0321409409

Book Description

Learn how to make free phone calls to more than 75 million people, and dirt-cheap phone calls to practically everyone else, anywhere on Earth! You can do it with Skype. This book will help you get started fast, with any computer: Windows, Mac, Linux, even Pocket PC. Then, take Skype to the limit, with SkypeIn, SkypeOut, instant messaging, secure file transfer, even video calling.

•Set up and customize Skype in just minutes
•Take Skype on the road–avoid expensive hotel phones and international calls
•Transform your PC into a state-of-the-art Skype videophone
•Troubleshoot Skype connections and audio quality
•Discover even more ways to save money, simplify life, even build your business!

Written by Skype insiders, this is the only official guide to Skype. It’s up-to-date, easy-to-use, quick, simple . . . and above all, FUN!

Bonus coverage for more experienced users: Skype architecture, security, and advanced configuration.

About the Author

Harry Max is the CIO for Debix, Inc., a start-up focused on solutions for identity theft. As an early Web pioneer, Harry designed the first secure online shopping cart (Virtual Vineyards/Wine.com) and founded Public Mind, a system for customer-driven innovation used by Pyra Labs (acquired by Google), Handspring, Foveon, Kontiki, the DMA, QuickArrow, and Skype. He has worked with Apple Computer, Silicon Graphics, HP, O’Reilly and Associates, SAP, and DreamWorks Animation.

Taylor Ray is an avid Skype user and former Deloitte & Touche consultant who now spends her time helping smart people become better understood. She has undergraduate degrees in linguistics and neuroscience and a graduate degree in adult education.

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Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript

2009-04-04T23:39:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 456 pages
•Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition (September 13, 2002)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0735711836
•ISBN-13: 978-0735711839

Book Description

Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript takes you beyond the level of “neat” code tricks and teaches you how to architect and implement true Macromedia Flash MX applications. You will also learn the programming theory needed to take full advantage of the object-oriented nature of ActionScript.

Nearly a third of the book is focused on teaching you everything there is to know about one of the most powerful new features of Flash MX:components. The topics range from understanding and using components, to constructing custom components. This book also recognizes the uniqueness of ActionScript and clarifies because the best practices when it comes to developing with it. The final third of this book teaches you the best methods for working with advanced-level ActionScript-from debugging data structures to server-side interaction.

From the Publisher
Two of the smarter young guns you’ll meet in the Flash development world, Branden Hall and Samuel Wan, go back a way with New Riders, having contributed to *Flash 4 Magic* under the mentorship of J. Scott Hamlin. Sam and Branden didn’t know each other at the time and followed their unique trajectories until they met at Flash Forward 2001 SF and clicked. Marathon coding sessions, creative problem-solving chains, and other such intellectual pursuits followed, culminating in a con call between Branden, Sam, and two New Riders editors.

Amazing to listen as Wan and Hall kept finishing each other’s sentences, waxing poetic about this new *thing* they were doing with ActionScript, creating objects, yeah doing OOP with ActionScript they’re widgets we call them widgets, components, and it’s quite remarkable once you understand the principles involved what can be done here you’re actually building entire applications yes it might make a pretty interesting book I think….

That was during the Flash 5 revision cycle, and these guys were ahead of their time. As Branden and Sam continued their careers, rumors began circulating about Branden and Samuel’s book; frankly, it’s become pretty highly anticipated among many in the Flash development community, due to two things: 1.) Applying OOP to ActionScripting is an exciting challenge to those who realize the powerful results that can come of it, and 2.) Most of these people realize no one is better qualified to write such book than Mr. Hall and Mr. Wan, who have been doing some extremely thought-provoking demonstrations of OOP ActionScripting over the last year or so.

So here we are: *Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript* started out as a brain-dump of Branden and Samuel’s presentations given at myriad conferences and seminars over 18 months, then took shape and found structure, covering the following topics:

–Applying OOP principles and design patterns to ActionScript

–Creating well-designed custom objects

–Leveraging both OOP and design patterns in architecting Flash MX applications

–Creating and OOP and design pattern-based application from scratch

–Mastering the new Flash MX components and learning to build your own

–Combining components via their events and APIs

–Customizing components’ look and feel with and without code

–Adding custom UIs and live previews to your components

–Connecting Flash MX to servers in a number of ways, including Flash Remoting

To all those who have waited patiently for this book… thanks for your patience and we hope you get as much out of it as the authors put into it. Let us know how it works for you and what you want to see in the next edition. Steve Weiss, executive editor, New Riders. steve.weiss@newriders.com.

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The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0

2009-04-04T23:35:00.000-07:00

Book Details

•Paperback: 520 pages
•Publisher: friends of ED (February 26, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 1590597338
•ISBN-13: 978-1590597330

Book Description

•Understand MXML containers
•Create transitions
•Create data-driven applications with XML
•Interface Flex with ColdFusion
•Understand the power of states
Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and development tool. with nearly 98% of all web browsers and cellular phones running the Flash player needed to use Flash and Flex applications, knowledge of Flex is indispensable for any serious web designer and developer. This book will show you how to create powerful, rich Internet applications using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 2 software, you will explore in depth how ActionScript 3.0 interacts with Flexs powerful XML-like design language: MXML. the text will take you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of strictly practical exercises. You will:

•Examine the power of designing layouts using Flex’s MXML containers.
•Discover many of the new features of ActionScript 3.0.
•Work your way through a professional case study, building up a complete Flex application.
•Connect Flex to Adobe’s powerful ColdFusion application server, and start to work with Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side code.
•Learn how states can smoothly transition your application interfaces between different data displays.
Put quite simply, this book is all youll need to master Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 application development. Welcome to the revolution! Summary of contents:

•Chapter 1: Introducing RIAs and Installing Flex Builder 2
•Chapter 2: Introducing Flex and Flex Builder 2
•Chapter 3: Introducing ActionScript 3.0
•Chapter 4: Containers and Components
•Chapter 5: Navigation Containers
•Chapter 6: Flex and XML
•Chapter 7: States
•Chapter 8: Case Study: Part 1
•Chapter 9: The Repeater Component
•Chapter 10: Case Study: Part 2
•Chapter 11: Drag and Drop
•Chapter 12: Flex and ColdFusion
•Chapter 13: Charting
•Chapter 14: Printing
•Chapter 15: Unfinished Symphony
About the Author
Charles is one of the most noted author, consultant, and trainers in the industry today. His books about Dreamweaver and Fireworks have received critical acclaim and used worldwide as teaching tools.

In addition to his work in the IT industry, Charles is also a noted concert pianist, organist, and guitarist appearing in major concert centers world-wide. He began his musical studies at age 4 and went on to study with famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At age 14 he made his debut with Leonard Bernstein and went on to study at the famed Juilliard School. Eventually he went to Paris to study with the 20th century legend, Igor Stravinsky. While working with Stravinsky, Charles developed a close friendship with one of the most powerful artistic forces of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. What he learned about creativity from Picasso he uses today in his writings and training work.

Charles is a certified Macromedia/Adobe trainer who is in heavy demand worldwide. He frequently speaks at major conferences such as MAX and NAB. You can see his blog at blog.charlesebrown.net and his website can be found at www.charlesebrown.net.

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ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University

2009-04-04T23:24:00.000-07:00

Book Details•Paperback: 456 pages
•Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 8, 2007)
•Language: English
•ISBN-10: 0789737027
•ISBN-13: 978-0789737021

Book Description

Gary Rosenzweig’s ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University shows you how to use ActionScript, the programming language behind Flash CS3 Professional. The lessons teach you all the basics of ActionScript programming through game examples, but the code can be easily adapted to non-game-oriented projects, such as web training and advertising. Written by a real-world Flash developer, this book presents you with the source code of 16 complete games and lays the foundation for you to create your own games. Gary also provides a companion website - flashgameu.com, which contains files, updates, new content, Gary’s blog and much more.
About the Author

As a youngster, Gary Rosenzweig was allowed to play video games whenever he wanted, as long as his homework was done first. His parents got him an Atari 2600 and an assortment of games. He loved to play Adventure, Asteroids, Pitfall, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and even that dreadful E.T. game.

At age 13, in 1983, his grandmother gave him a new TRS-80 Model III. The first thing he did with it was learn to program. And then, make games. He made some text adventure games, and then some RPG games, and then some arcade games. He was allowed to stay up all night making games, as long as his homework was done first.

In high school, Gary got to play with the Apple II computers pretty much whenever he wanted, as long as his schoolwork was done first. He made space shuttle simulators and spreadsheet programs. And some games.

Gary went on to study computer science in college, at Drexel University. There he was told that with his degree, he could go on to be a programmer at any high-tech firm making business applications. But he wanted to make games, even if it was on the side, after he got his work done first.

After a side trip to get a Master’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Gary ended up getting a job where he could make games for kids using Macromedia Director.

Then, they invented the Internet. It was soon followed by Shockwave, a way to play Director content in web pages. Gary started making his own games for his own website in the evening,

after his work was done first.

In 1996, Gary started hiw own company, CleverMedia, to produce games for the Web. He was soon creating both Shockwave and Flash games with some of the most creative people he ever met. CleverMedia and its sites grew over the years to become the single largest collection of web-based games by a single company. Gary has created more than 300 games in the past 12 years, most of which can be found at CleverMedia’s main game site, www.GameScene.com.

Gary also likes to share what he knows. His sites http://FlashGameU.com, www.Director-Online.com, and www.DeveloperDispatch.com contain information for other developers. He has also written many books, including Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript for Fun & Games, Special Edition Using Director MX, and Advanced Lingo for Games. Gary wrote this book mostly on evenings and weekends, after his other work was done first.

Gary lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Debby, and daughter, Luna. Debby and Gary also own The Attic Bookstore, an unusual used bookstore in Englewood, Colorado. Luna is only 5 years old, but is already playing games on her Macintosh computer, after her homework is done first, of course.

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Hack Proofing ColdFusion

2009-03-26T14:29:00.000-07:00

Book Details
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (April 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1928994776
ISBN-13: 978-1928994770

Book Description
Hack Proofing ColdFusion 5.0 is the seventh volume in the popular Hack Proofing series from Syngress Publishing and is the only book specifically written for developers devoted to protecting their ColdFusion Web applications. This book and CDROM set provide developers with step-by-step instructions for developing secure Web applications.

About the Author
Greg Meyer (Macromedia Certified Advanced Cold Fusion 5.0 Developer) is a Senior Systems Engineer with Netegrity. Rob Rusher (Certified ColdFusion Instructor + Developer) is a Principal Consultant with AYC Ltd. Rob’s background includes positions as a Senior Consultant at Macromedia (Allaire), and as a Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin. Steven Casco is the Founder and Chairman of the Boston Cold Fusion Users Group. Sarge (MCSE, MMCP, Certified ColdFusion Developer) is the former ColdFusion Practice Manager for Macromedia Consulting Services. He currently provides a consummate source for security, session-management, and LDAP information as a Senior Product Support Engineer, handling incident escalations as a member of Macromedia's Product Support - Server Division. David Vaccaro is Senior Web Application Developer and President of X-treme Net Development, Inc.

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Linux for Programmers and Users

2009-03-26T14:27:00.000-07:00

book Details
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; illustrated edition edition (February 18, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131857487
ISBN-13: 978-0131857483

Book Description
Offering full coverage of Linux in one source, this book documents the most commonly needed topics for new and experienced Linux users and programmers - including over 100 utilities and their common options. Provides a good foundation of understanding for the most often-used Linux utilities. Devotes a chapter to helpful installation information for those who must install their own systems. Includes hundreds of command and code examples throughout. Provides approximately 50 diagrams throughout. Features FTP-able files; code used in the book will be made available on a website hosted by the publisher. A useful reference for anyone using a Linux platform, including programmers, system administrators, and any user who must understand the operating system outside of a specific application.

About the Author

Graham Glass is Chief Technology Officer of WebMethods. He has taught UNIX, C, assembly language, C++, Smalltalk, and other computer science topics at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he earned his M.S. in computer science. Glass co-founded ObjectSpace to deliver object-oriented training, consulting and products. He also founded The Mind Electric, which created the Glue web services platform and the Fabric shared SOA infrastructure platform. King Ables has developed UNIX/Linux product software and systems tools, delivered support and training services, and written product documentation. Now an independent consultant specializing in IT services and network security, he has worked with Unix technologies since 1979 as a user, developer, system administrator, and consultant. Glass and Ables co-authored UNIX for Programmers and Users.

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Enterprise Integration Patterns

2009-03-26T14:24:00.000-07:00

Book Details
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (October 20, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321200683
ISBN-13: 978-0321200686

Book Description
Text provides a catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable power of messaging and help you design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise. DLC: Telecommunication--Message processing.

From the Back Cover

Would you like to use a consistent visual notation for drawing integration solutions? Look inside the front cover.
Do you want to harness the power of asynchronous systems without getting caught in the pitfalls? See "Thinking Asynchronously" in the Introduction.
Do you want to know which style of application integration is best for your purposes? See Chapter 2, Integration Styles.
Do you want to learn techniques for processing messages concurrently? See Chapter 10, Competing Consumers and Message Dispatcher.
Do you want to learn how you can track asynchronous messages as they flow across distributed systems? See Chapter 11, Message History and Message Store.
Do you want to understand how a system designed using integration patterns can be implemented using Java Web services, .NET message queuing, and a TIBCO-based publish-subscribe architecture? See Chapter 9, Interlude: Composed Messaging.
Utilizing years of practical experience, seasoned experts Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf show how asynchronous messaging has proven to be the best strategy for enterprise integration success. However, building and deploying messaging solutions presents a number of problems for developers. Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an invaluable catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help you to design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise.

The authors also include examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, such as JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, Microsoft BizTalk, SOAP, and XSL. A case study describing a bond trading system illustrates the patterns in practice, and the book offers a look at emerging standards, as well as insights into what the future of enterprise integration might hold.

This book provides a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration solutions across many technologies. It also explores in detail the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures. The authors present practical advice on designing code that connects an application to a messaging system, and provide extensive information to help you determine when to send a message, how to route it to the proper destination, and how to monitor the health of a messaging system. If you want to know how to manage, monitor, and maintain a messaging system once it is in use, get this book.

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Java for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications

2009-03-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Hardcover: 342 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387372350
ISBN-13: 978-0387372358

Book Description

The science and practice of medicine has undergone a fundamental change as a result of large-scale genome projects that led to the sequencing of a number of important microbial, plant and animal genomes in the last 5 years. This book aims to combine industry standard software engineering and design principles, genomics and bioinformatics and cancer research. It focuses on creating and integrating practical, useful tools for the scientific community in the context of real-life, real-value biomedical problems that researchers face on a routine basis, rather than being just a didactic exercise in learning a programming platform. The book leverages technologies for molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics and cancer research developed by the NIH, NCI-Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB), the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the NIH) and Stanford University.

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Practical VoIP Security

2009-03-26T14:14:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 500 pages
Publisher: Syngress (June 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597490601
ISBN-13: 978-1597490603

Book Description

Your Hands-On Guide to Voice over IP (VoIP)
This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals-from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers-who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. The book explains the impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers. Throughout the book, the authors rely on their extensive real-world experience to provide readers with practical applications and solutions.

VoIP Isn't Just Another Data Protocol
IP telephony uses the Internet architecture, similar to any other data application. However, from a security administrator's point of view, VoIP is different. Understand why.
What Functionality Is Gained, Degraded, or Enhanced on a VoIP Network?
Find out the issues associated with quality of service, emergency 911 service, and the major benefits of VoIP.
The Security Considerations of Voice Messaging
Learn about the types of security attacks you need to protect against within your voice messaging system.
VoIP and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
Understand PSTN: what is it, and how does it work?
VoIP Communication Architectures
See how products like Skype, H.248, IAX, and Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005
The Support Protocols of VoIP Environments
Learn the services, features, and security implications of DNS, TFTP, HTTP, SNMP, DHCP, RSVP, SDP, and SKINNY.
Securing the Whole VoIP Infrastructure
Your guide to Denial-of-Service attacks, VoIP service disruption, call hijacking and interception, H.323-specific attacks, and SIP-specific attacks.
Authorized Access Begins with Authentication
Learn the methods of verifying both the user identity and the device identity in order to secure a VoIP network.
Secure Internet Mail
See how S/MIME provides cryptographic security services for electronic messaging applications.

From the Back Cover
This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals-from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers-who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. The book explains the impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers. Throughout the book, the authors rely on their extensive real-world experience to provide readers with practical applications and solutions.

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Virtualization With Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

2009-03-25T10:34:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Syngress (December 9, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597491063
ISBN-13: 978-1597491068

Book Description

A virtual evolution in IT organizations throughout the world has begun. It is estimated that currently 3% of all servers run virtually and that number is expected to grow rapidly over the next 5 years. Server Sprawl and escalating IT costs have managers and system administrators scrambling to find ways to cut costs and reduce Total Cost of Ownership of their physical infrastructure. Combining software applications onto a single server, even if those applications are from the same software vendor, can be dangerous and problems hard to troubleshoot. Virtual Server allows you to consolidate 15 to 20 or even more servers onto a single physical server reducing hardware, electrical, cooling, and administrative costs. These virtual servers run completely independent of each other so if one crashes the other are not affected. Planning and implementing a server consolidation is a complex process.
This book details the requirements for such a project, includes sample forms and templates, and delivers several physical to virtual migration strategies which will save both time and costs.

From the Back Cover
A virtual evolution in IT shops large and small has begun. Microsoft's Virtal Server is the enterprise tool to free an infrastructure from its physical limitations providing the transformation into a virtual environment--this book shows you how.

This book will detail the default and custom installation of Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005, as well as basic and advanced virtual machine configurations. It will also discuss the requirements for a server virtualization and consolidation project and the cost savings surrounding such an effort. Furthermore, the book will provide a thorough understanding of the benefits of a virtual infrastructure and a comprehensive examination of how Virtual Server can ease administration and lower overall IT costs. Lastly, the book delivers a thorough understanding of the virtual evolution which is underway in many IT organizations and how the reader will benefit from shifting from the physical to a virtual world.

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Pro PayPal E-Commerce

2009-03-25T10:31:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Apress (May 23, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590597508
ISBN-13: 978-1590597507

Book Description

Pro PayPal E-Commerce contains the most comprehensive collection of information on the latest PayPal technologies available. It takes the approach of PayPal as a digital money platform, and shows how its a dynamic service that offers far more than just payment processing.

With its breadth of technologies and APIs, the PayPal platform is a basis for development and innovation for an unlimited number of possibilities. It offers a wide range of payment technologies, but its not always easy to decipher which technology is the best choice for a web site. This book gets under the hood to show you how the different technologies work, how to choose the right solution, and how to implement the solutioncomplete with real-world PayPal success stories.

Youll learn how to integrate PayPal directly into web sites to make use of its payment technologies. This allows you, no matter what language you program in, to build shopping carts or similar channel products with PayPal as a payment option. You can also use this book to learn about the basics of e-commerce, where PayPal fits in, and how you can meet your own e-commerce needs. This book covers

How PayPal works
Using the PayPal API
Website Payments Standard
Website Payments Pro
Instant Payment Notification
Payment Data Transfer
Encrypted Website Payments
Administration
Reporting
Fraud protection
Payflow Gateway

About the Author
Damon Williams has worked at PayPal since 2004, where he has
specialized in making life easier for people trying to integrate PayPal
into web sites and applications. His background is in software
engineering, community building, and content publishing. He is a
certified Java developer with over seven years of experience, and he
also spent five years as the publisher of Feedback Magazine in Austin,
Texas. His current position is managing the PayPal Developer Network,
where he is building an online community for innovation and support on
the PayPal commerce platform.

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Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby

2009-03-25T10:24:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (August 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934356182
ISBN-13: 978-1934356180

Book Description

Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby is a practical, quick-moving tutorial based on real life, and real-world GUI applications.

Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" team will run on Continuous Integration servers.
Next, we'll explore a variety of different testing tips and tricks. You'll employ a series of increasingly random and punishing test monkeys to try to crash programs. Table-driven techniques will show you how to check dozens of different input combinations. See how to use longer acceptance tests (in the form of stories) to represent the way a typical customer would use your program.
The book uses examples from Windows, OS X, and cross-platform Java desktop programs as well as Web applications. You'll develop test scripts in Ruby; you don't need to be a Ruby expert, but basic comfort with the language will be helpful.

About the Author
Ian Dees was first bitten by the programming bug in 1986 on a Timex Sinclair 1000, and has been having a blast in his software apprenticeship ever since.

Since escaping Rice University in 1996 with engineering and German degrees, he has debugged assembler with an oscilloscope, written web applications nestled comfortably in high-level frameworks, and seen everything in between. He currently hacks C++ application code, automates laboratory hardware, and yes, writes user interface test scripts for a test equipment manufacturer near Portland, Oregon.

When he's not coding for work or for friends, you're most likely to find Ian chasing his family around on bicycles, plinking away at his guitar, or puzzling at the knobs on the espresso machine while some impromptu meal simmers on the stove nearby.

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Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3

2009-03-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Sybex; illustrated edition edition (May 19, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470183136
ISBN-13: 978-0470183137

Book Description

Cut hardware costs, expand your capacity, and manage an entire fleet of virtual machines in your enterprise with the leading virtualization solution, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3), by applying the step-by-step instructions in Mastering VMware® Infrastructure 3. Packed with the technical details, best practices, and how-tos you need to install, configure, and run a virtual infrastructure at maximum efficiency, this guide is comprehensive and essential. Learn how to create and manage virtual networks and machines, configure every product in the VI3 suite, monitor resources and performance, maintain security, and much more.

From the Back Cover
Transform your IT infrastructure without extra hardware
Cut hardware costs, expand your capacity, and manage an entire fleet of virtual machines in your enterprise with the leading virtualization solution, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3), and the step-by-step instruction in this must-have guide. This essential book is packed with the technical details, best practices, and how-tos you need to install, configure, and run a virtual infrastructure at maximum efficiency. You'll learn how to create and manage virtual networks and machines, configure every product in the VI3 suite, monitor resources and performance, maintain security, and much more.

Coverage includes:

Installing and configuring the VI3 product suite, including ESX Server 3.5and ESXi, Virtual Center 2.0, VMotion, and VMware Consolidated Backup

Creating and managing virtual networks and setting virtual switch security

Configuring and managing storage devices, including iSCSI, NAS/NFS, and fiber channel storage

Setting up and deploying virtual machines, including guest operating systems

Migrating machines, from virtual to virtual and from physical to virtual

Allocating CPU and memory and monitoring resource usage

Backing up, restoring, and securing virtual machines and infrastructures

Managing resource utilization with VMotion and DRS

Managing host and virtual machine updates with VMware Update Manager

Setting up and deploying virtual machines and guest operating systems

Performing physical to virtual and virtual to virtual migrations using VMware Converter

Implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans with VMware HA and VCB

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Kama Sutra photo book

2009-03-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

Book Description
The Bedside Kama Sutra is a fresh and easy-to-use guide based on the most renowned ancient text on sexual pleasures and techniques. Combining stunning erotic photography with classic erotic art from the East, this sensual compendium covers 23 sexual positions designed to educate, excite, and entertain. Included in this voluptuous volume are:
•Over 180 full-color erotic photographs
•Over 30 reproductions of classic erotic art from the East
•Step-by-step instructions for 23 erotic positions
•Commentary on, and extracts from, the original Kama Sutra
•Exciting suggestions for heightening and prolonging sexual pleasure the tantric way
•Secret foreplay techniques that stimulate the erogenous zones

The Bedside Kama Sutra is the ultimate guide to life's most sublime experience; a guide that will be treasured by couples everywhere.

About the Author
Linda Sonntag is an experienced writer on the subject of sex and relationships. Her previous books include Making Love Great Sex for Life, and Sensational Sex. She lives in England.

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Hacking RSS and Atom

2009-03-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 602 pages
Publisher: Wiley (September 9, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764597582
ISBN-13: 978-0764597589

Book Description
Now you can satisfy your appetite for information
This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It's about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds-making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It's about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn't thought up yet. Because if you can't have fun with the technology, what's the point?

A sampler platter of things you'll learn to do

Build a simple feed aggregator
Add feeds to your buddy list
Tune into rich media feeds with BitTorrent
Monitor system logs and events with feeds
Scrape feeds from old-fashioned Web sites
Reroute mailing lists into your aggregator
Distill popular links from blogs
Republish feed headlines on your Web site
Extend feeds using calendar events and microformats

From the Back Cover
Now you can satisfy your appetite for information
This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It's about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds—making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It's about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn't thought up yet. Because if you can't have fun with the technology, what's the point?

A sampler platter of things you'll learn to do

Build a simple feed aggregator
Add feeds to your buddy list
Tune into rich media feeds with BitTorrent
Monitor system logs and events with feeds
Scrape feeds from old-fashioned Web sites
Reroute mailing lists into your aggregator
Distill popular links from blogs
Republish feed headlines on your Web site
Extend feeds using calendar events and microformats

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Hacking The Cable Modem

2009-03-24T10:12:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press (September 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593271018
ISBN-13: 978-1593271015

Book Description

Take control of your cable modem

From the Back Cover
What people are saying about Hacking the Cable Modem
"No Starch Press is a publisher with a penchant for finding geeky niches that other publishers won't touch, and DerEngel's Hacking the Cable Modem is a fine case in point." --Linux Journal, October 2006

In the beginning there was dial-up, and it was slow; then ame broadband in the form of cable, which redefined how we access the internet, share information, and communicate with each other online. Hacking the Cable Modem goes inside the device that makes Internet via cable possible and, along the way, reveals secrets of many popular cable modems, including products from Motorola, RCA, WebSTAR, D-Link and more.

Inside Hacking The Cable Modem, you'll learn:
* the history of cable modem hacking
* how a cable modem works
* the importance of firmware (including multiple ways to install new firmware)
* how to unblock network ports and unlock hidden features
* how to hack and modify your cable modem
* what uncapping is and how it makes cable modems upload and download faster

Written for people at all skill levels, the book features step-by-step tutorials with easy to follow diagrams, source code examples, hardware schematics, links to software (exclusive to this book!), and previously unreleased cable modem hacks.

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Professional Joomla (Programmer to Programmer)

2009-03-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Wrox (October 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470133945
ISBN-13: 978-0470133941

Book Description

As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field--development and deployment--with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.

Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You'll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you'll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You'll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.

What you will learn from this book

* How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance
*

The process of creating a module from scratch
*

Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!
*

Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems
*

How to create and retain a virtual community
*

Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

From the Back Cover
As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field—development and deployment—with a focus on the new Joomla! version 1.5 and all the features it provides.
Seasoned author Dan Rahmel walks you through the process of creating all three types of Joomla! extensions (modules, components, and plug-ins), explains how best to use Ajax technology, and shows you how to adopt design patterns and incorporate source code control. You'll examine the underlying technologies (PHP, Apache, etc.) that can be tuned to offer the best system performance, and you'll explore interfacing with outside content, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) setup, and much more. You'll even delve into the internal structure of the Joomla! framework, and obtain a unique behind-the-scenes education so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers.

What you will learn from this book

How each server of a Joomla! system can be installed and configured for maximum performance
The process of creating a module from scratch

Ways to use Ajax to add dynamic data retrieval to Joomla!

Techniques for using design patterns to solve common programming problems

How to create and retain a virtual community

Procedures for tuning a Joomla! site for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Management (SEM)

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers, hobbyists, web designers, bloggers, corporate content creators, and support specialists who are looking to build a more robust web site. Basic skills in the area of PHP programming are necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Building Websites with Joomla

2009-03-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184719530X
ISBN-13: 978-1847195302

Book Description
This book takes a practical step-by-step approach of teaching the installation and configuration of Joomla! 1.5, customizing it, creating your templates and extensions, and finally, building your own website. This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to develop a website in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive website.

About the Author
Hagen Graf was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his first contact with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a salesperson, he organized his customers' data by programming suitable applications. This gave him a big advantage over other salesmen. With the intention of honing his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and became a programmer. Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant, and programmer (http://www.cocoate.com). Hagen Graf has published other books in German, about the Apache web server, about security problems in Windows XP, about Mambo, and about Drupal. Since 2001, he has been engaged in a nonprofit e-learning community called "machm-it.org e.V.", as well as in several national and international projects. All the projects are related to content management, community building, and harnessing the power of social software like wikis and weblogs. He chose Joomla! CMS because of its simplicity and easy-to-use administration. You can access and comment on his blog

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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

2009-03-24T10:03:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 4, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847192971
ISBN-13: 978-1847192974

Book Description

Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.

Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!

This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.

Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.

About the Author

David Mercer was born in August 1976 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Having always had a strong interest in science, David came into regular contact with computers at university where he graduated cum laude with majors in applied math and math (although he minored in computer science).

As a programmer and professional writer who has been writing both code and books for about nine years, he has worked on a number of well known titles, in various capacities, on a wide variety of topics. His books have sold tens of thousands of copies and have been translated into over 6 different languages to date.

David finds that the challenges arising from the dichotomous relationship between the science (and art) of software programming and the art (and science) of writing is what keeps his interest in producing books piqued. He will no doubt continue to write professionally in the future.

David balances his time between programming, reviewing, writing, and contributing to interesting web-based projects such as RankTracer and LinkDoozer. When he isn't working (which isn't that often) he enjoys playing guitar (generally on stage and unrehearsed) and getting involved in outdoor activities ranging from touch rugby and golf to water skiing and snowboarding.

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Dreamweaver MX Weekend Crash Course

2009-03-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

Boook Details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Wiley (June 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764549308
ISBN-13: 978-0764549304

"A...strength is it's rigid structureA..." (MacFormat, December 2002)

"strength is it's rigid structure" (MacFormat, December 2002)

Book Description
* Updated coverage of the new version: Enhanced and detailed coverage of all the newest features in Dreamweaver over the span of a weekend.
* Series features: Easy to follow 30-minute sessions make learning Dreamweaver simple and fast! Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period beginning on Friday evening and ending on Sunday afternoon.
ABOUT THE CD-ROM:
CD includes self-assessment software so readers can test their knowledge of ActionScript, plus author source code and examples.

From the Back Cover
Get Up to Speed on Dreamweaver MX - in a Weekend!

The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Dreamweaver MX. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe it's been a while since you worked with Dreamweaver. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we've got a solution for you - Dreamweaver MX Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to dive right in and start building a Dreamweaver Web site. It's as simple as that.

The Curriculum

Friday Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Introducing Dreamweaver MX
* Getting Started
* Understanding Dreamweaver Site Structure
* Creating a Document

Saturday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Defining a Dreamweaver Site
* Building a Dreamweaver Site
* Using Tables for Liquid Design
* Enhancing Tables with Background Color and Images
* Adding Backgrounds, Meta Tags and Links
* Transferring Files

Saturday, continued
Afternoon: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Editing HTML
* Creating and Checking Links
* Generating JavaScript Rollovers
* Creating Forms
* Creating Library Items
* Building Templates

Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Planning Site Navigation
* Continuing to Build Site Navigation
* Creating a Template for a New Site
* Preparing Library Items for the New Site

Sunday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Exploring Dreamweaver's Production Tools
* Understanding Web Graphics
* Controlling Text with CSS
* Pulling Your Site Together
* Creating a Finished Page
* Placing and Creating the Extras

Afternoon: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Using Layers for Layout
* Creating Motion with DHTML
* Working with Frames
* Increasing Productivity

About the Author
Wendy lives in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. In addition to authoring the previous edition of the Dreamweaver Weekend Crash Course, Wendy recently wrote Web Menus with Beauty and Brains.Wendy is a professional Web designer and columnist for webreference.com. She has been in the commercial graphic design business since 1989, moving from print to the Web in 1998. In addition to her design business, she is currently a professional trainer for business and marketing, graphics, desktop publishing and communication.

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Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days

2009-03-24T09:56:00.000-07:00

Book Details

Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Sams (October 26, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672324237
ISBN-13: 978-0672324239

Book Description

Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days introduces the development and deployment aspects of EJB, the fastest growing standards in developing Java applications in and enterprise environment. EJBs are, functionally, distributed network aware components for developing secure, scalable, transactional, and multi-user components in a J2EE environment. Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days covers the new features of EJB 2.0, such as local interface, CMP, and CMR. It provides hands-on examples based on practical solutions found in the industry. Tips and best practices give beginners an edge to avoid repeated mistakes. The review questions provide the reader with a study guide. Source code for a complete credit approval process in a transactional e-Commerce environment is provided.

About the Author

Ragae Ghaly has more than 25 years of experience in both academic research and industrial fields. He is an independent consultant, and he has worked in different capacities for large enterprises such as SHL Systemhouse, General Motors, Proxicom, and WellPoint Health Network. He has been working with Java and J2EE since their inception. His areas of interest include distributed systems, object-oriented modeling, middleware, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and EAI. He gained a masters degree in computer science from Florida International University. He has published a handful of papers about real-time object-oriented databases and J2EE application servers. Ragae lives in California, and in his free time he likes to study human languages. He also likes to travel and spend precious time with his family.

Krishna Kothapalli has 10 years of experience in the software industry in different roles as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has worked in small, medium, and large companies such as SHL Systemhouse, Sapient Corporation, Xerox Corporation, General Motors, and CacheEdge. His areas of interest include distributed object-oriented systems, Internet systems, and biotechnology. He gained a masters degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has published articles in the areas of distributed algorithms and Enterprise JavaBeans. In his free time, he plays with his children, helps organize research for autoimmune diseases, and develops Web sites for non-profit organizations. He believes that anything under the sun can be mastered in 21 days, with the exception of the GNU Emacs editor with its unlimited capabilities. Ever since he dreamed of retiring rich at the age of 30, he has started to feel younger with every passing year.

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Home Networking for Dummies 3rd Edition

2009-03-22T03:26:00.000-07:00

Book Details
Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (April 22, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764588494
ISBN-13: 978-0764588495

Book Description

Sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it—your own home network. Should you have one? Are they hard to set up? How would it help? Are home networks more vulnerable to security risks? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, this updated Third Edition of Home Networking For Dummies is exactly what you need.
Home networks aren't just for people with home-based businesses. With a home network, you can

Begin a project on one computer and finish it on another
Connect desktop and laptop computers so you can take your work with you
Share printers and Internet connections
Control access to files
Set up security to protect all the computers on the network
And on top of all that, you get to be the network administrator!

If you have more than one computer in your household, Kathy Ivens, author of Home Networking For Dummies, Third Edition, believes it only makes sense for you to have a home network. It's efficient and it makes files easier to organize and manage. But as impressive as "home network" sounds, installing and maintaining one doesn’t have to be complicated— this book makes it easy. In the For Dummies straightforward style, Kathy shows you step by step how to

Plan your network, buy the right hardware at the right price, install it, and configure computer sharing
Decide on the best places to put the different computers in your home
Piggyback on existing home wiring like telephone and electric lines
Install and troubleshoot wireless connections
Set up each computer to share some things and keep others private
Manage users and user profiles
Install firewalls, work with the Windows XP SP2 Security Center, keep virus protection updated, and develop a disaster recovery plan
Maintain your network for optimum performance
Kathy Ivens is Senior Contributing Editor for Windows & .NET Magazine and a consultant who has installed plenty of networks. She knows what to look for and how to help you put together exactly what you need. This edition of Home Networking For Dummies includes the most up-to-date information to help you become the administrator of your very own home network without acquiring one more gray hair.

From the Back Cover
Become the administrator of your own home network!

Get 'em together, share files and printers, and set up necessary security tools

There are dozens of reasons to team up all the PCs in your house, and one easy way to do it—use this book to help! Get advice on selecting hardware, finding a location for each computer, and choosing between wired and wireless. You find out how to use network setup wizards and lock out snoops, and more.

Discover how to

Plan your network
Piggyback on existing home wiring
Troubleshoot wireless connections
Configure computer sharing
Manage users and profiles
Connect other devices to your network

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Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5

2009-03-22T03:07:00.000-07:00

Book Details
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847192564
ISBN-13: 978-1847192561

Book Description

This book will help you to understand the core object-oriented programming concepts with PHP. php is one of the most popular languages for web application development, and PHP5 supports OOP very well. This book will help you to master core OOP features in php as well as advanced Topics like Design Patterns including Model-View-Controller (MVC), and Unit Testing. It includes suggestions to help you to write good code. Moreover this book provides comprehensive documentation and working examples on the Standard php Library (SPL), which are hard to find elsewhere. It will really help you to leverage php's OOP features to write manageable applications with ease.

Some basic objected-oriented features were added to PHP3; with PHP5 full support for object-oriented programming was added to PHP. Object-oriented programming was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the amount of code needed. OOP can greatly improve the performance of a properly planned and designed program.

This book covers all the general concepts of OOP then shows you how to make use of OOP in PHP5, with the aid of an ample number of examples.

General OOP concepts explained
Implement Design Patterns in your applications and solve common OOP Problems
Take full advantage of native built-in objects
Test your code by writing unit tests with PHPUnit
This book explains how to take full advantage of PHP's OOP features in simple language. It contains plentiful examples to help you to understand OOP.

From Beginners to Intermediate Users of PHP5

About the Author

Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at http://hasin.wordpress.com, writes article in different websites and maintains his open source framework Orchid at http://orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.

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Applied Software Engineering Using Apache Jakarta Commons

2009-02-18T10:08:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (November 18, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1584502460
ISBN-13: 978-1584502463

Book Description
Applied Software Engineering with Apache Jakarta Commons is a software engineering based guide to the Apache Jakarta Commons components (e.g., Betwixt, Digester, Discovery, Collections), other Apache projects such as Ant, the Axis Web Service toolkit, and the popular JUnit framework. The book emphasis focuses on solutions to complex problems using a simple task-driven approach. In this task-driven approach, the idea is to define a generic problem, for example Java class instantiation, and then provide solutions in multiple contexts, such as Collections-based factories, the Discovery package, or even the Launcher package. The book includes a companion CD-ROM with samples and source code.

Book Info
Text shows how to utilize Apache Jakarta and Open Source technologies to create commercial-quality business applications. CD-ROM contains source code and projects. Softcover. DLC: Software engineering.

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Java Persistence with Hibernate

2009-02-18T10:03:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 904 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications; Revised ed. edition (November 24, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932394885
ISBN-13: 978-1932394887

Book Description

Persistence-the ability of data to outlive an instance of a program-is central to modern applications. Hibernate, the most popular Java persistence tool, provides automatic and transparent object/relational mapping making it a snap to work with SQL databases in Java applications. Hibernate applications are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change. Because it conforms to the new EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence 1.0 standard, Hibernate allows the developer to seamlessly create efficient, scalable Java EE applications.
Java Persistence with Hibernate explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate 3.2 and Java Persistence, working through queries, fetching strategies, caching, transactions, conversations, and more. You'll also appreciate the well-illustrated discussion of best practices in database design, object/relational mapping, and optimization techniques.

In this revised edition of the bestselling Hibernate in Action, authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King-the founder of the Hibernate project-cover Hibernate 3.2 in detail along with the EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence standard.

From the Publisher
Java Persistence with Hibernate is divided into three major parts.

In Part 1, the book introduces the object/relational paradigm mismatch and explains the fundamentals behind object/relational mapping. Then, readers are walked through a hands-on tutorial to get you started with your first Hibernate, Java Persistence, or EJB 3.0 project. You look at Java application design for domain models and at the options for creating object/relational mapping metadata.

Mapping Java classes and properties to SQL tables and columns is the focus of Part 2. You explore all basic and advanced mapping options in Hibernate and Java Persistence, with XML mapping files and Java annotations. It shows you how to deal with inheritance, collections, and complex class associations. Finally, the book discusses integration with legacy database schemas and some mapping strategies that are especially tricky.

Part 3 is all about the processing of objects and how you can load and store data with Hibernate and Java Persistence. The book introduces the programming interfaces, how to write transactional and conversation-aware applications, and how to write queries. It later focuses on the correct design and implementation of layered Java applications, and the most common design patterns that are used with Hibernate, such as the Data Access Object (DAO) and EJB Command patterns. You'll see how you can test your Hibernate application easily and what other best practices are relevant if you work an object/relational mapping software.

Finally, you are introduced to the JBoss Seam framework, which takes many Hibernate concepts to the next level and enables you to create conversational web applications with ease.

Visit the Manning site for sample chapters, the Author Online Forum, errata and source code for Java Persistence with Hibernate.

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Just Java 2 free book download

2009-02-18T09:59:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: SunSoft Press; 4th Bk&Cdr edition (December 28, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130105341
ISBN-13: 978-0130105349
Amazon.com
So, you're starting from zero in an effort to learn the Java programming language. What book will help you most? Just Java 2 should be on your desktop. It's one of a select group of introductory Java books that honestly earns its cover price.
Shying away from complicated aspects of the language that are seldom used in most practical situations, Peter van der Linden focuses his considerable teaching skills upon the parts of the language you really need to understand in order to be a good Java programmer. He covers basic structure and syntax very well, and gives similarly excellent attention to object orientation and the means by which Java implements it. Applets, Beans, input/output streams, basic graphics, Swing, and security all get superb coverage.

In short, this book explains everything you really need to know in order to write useful Java programs. With sharp text and very good example programs, the author shows you how to get things done. In the process, van der Linden--a funny guy--pauses often to show you how to make an origami water-bomber or comment upon software error messages like "runt packet."

The CD-ROM that comes with this book deserves much praise, as well. Packed with honestly useful tools and all of the author's examples, it employs a fine HTML-based interface that other books ought to imitate. --David Wall

Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books
Read the full review for this book.

Just Java 2 is the fourth edition of Peter van der Linden's introduction to object-oriented programming and to the art of Java. It's aimed at intermediate programmers for whom Java shall serve as their baptism in object programming. In its category, Just Java is noteworthy, and is marred for this reviewer only by the author's injection of himself into his book.

I'll explain my criticism later in this review. First, let's talk about what's right with van der Linden's book.

Just Java is more than an author's striving for publication; it's semiofficial Sun pedagogy. This is part of Sun's attempt to make learning Java easy and grab more geek mindshare and heartshare. The lessons reflect pretty accurately what a Sun engineer feels is that portion of the truth about the Java language, the Java VM, the AWT, and Swing that the entry programmer must know at a minimum to begin to actually deliver some code. --Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books

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Java 6 Platform Revealed

2009-02-18T09:54:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (July 20, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596609
ISBN-13: 978-1590596609

Book Description

It's aim is to provide a fast overview of what's new and this it clearly does.

— Pan Pantziarka, The Resgister

Be among the first to capture an early look at the libraries of Java SE 6, aka Mustang. While J2SE 5.0 is just now starting to become regularly adopted, Java 6 Platform Revealed takes a look at the next release of the Standard Edition platform to come from Sun.

New editions of the platform dont happen that frequently, but when they do, there is a lot to learn about quickly. If you want to come up to speed on the new feature set as quickly as possible, Java 6 Platform Revealed will place you well ahead of the pack. Youll find ten chapters of how to use the latest JSR implementations and library improvements that are now a part of Mustang. Youll learn about the new scripting features of AWT and Swing &emdash; like splash screens, system tray access, and table sorting and filtering &emdash; and lots more. What you wont find in Java 6 Platform Revealed is a "getting started with Java" tutorial. Come prepared with a good working knowledge of Java 5 platform for best results.

Not only will you see whats in Javas future, but youll learn how to actually use many of the new features of the platform quickly. Before the platform has even become finalized youll find yourself productive with the many new capabilities of Mustang.

About the Author
John Zukowski has been involved with the Java platform since it was just called Java, 11 years and running, since 1995. He is actively working with SavaJe Technologies to finish up the JavaOne 2006 device of show: the Jasper S20 mobile phone. He currently writes a monthly column for Sun's Core Java Technologies Tech Tips and Technology Fundamentals Newsletter. He has contributed content to numerous other sites, including jGuru, DevX, Intel, and JavaWorld. He has written many other popular titles on Java, including Java AWT Reference (O'Reilly), Mastering Java 2 (Sybex), Borlands' JBuilder: No Experience Required (Sybex), Learn Java with JBuilder 6 (Apress), Java Collections (Apress), and The Definitive Guide to Swing (Apress).

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Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, JDK 5 Edition

2009-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 1512 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 5 edition (December 31, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764568744
ISBN-13: 978-0764568749

Book Description

What is this book about?
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the Java programming language, updated thoroughly (more than 35ew and updated) for the latest SDK 1.5 release. This book shows readers how to build real-world Java applications using the Java SDK. No previous programming experience is required. The author uses numerous step-by-step programming examples to guide readers through the ins and outs of Java development. In addition to fully covering new features of SDK 1.5, such as generic types, the author has also added new chapters on Java database programming with JDBC and Java programming with XML.

From the Back Cover
Combining simplicity with power, Java has become the object-oriented language of choice for Internet programming and cross-platform applications. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide provides you with the essential information you'll need to know in order to develop dynamic programs using the Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 or later.

You'll be introduced to the fundamental ideas about the structure of Java programs and how they work. You'll gain a clear understanding of all the latest features of the Java language as well as the key packages in the Java class library. And with the help of numerous working examples, you'll find out how to apply the material so you can write your own full-featured applications and applets.

This book teaches you how to start programming in Java, covering everything from putting together statements and performing calculations to applying the capabilities provided by the Java class libraries, and much more.

What you will learn from this book

The basics of how the Java language works
Ways to apply key language elements
Methods for storing data in a program
How to define and utilize classes
How to create applets for use in interactive Web pages
Techniques for implementing an application with a graphical user interface
How to use the JDBC capability to work with relational databases
All the skills to become a knowledgeable Java programmer
Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to explore how Java works and discover how to write fully featured and effective Java programs. No previous Java experience is necessary.

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பொன்னியின் செல்வன kalki ponniyin selvan - Tamil Novel

2009-02-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

Ponniyin Selvan (Tamil: பொன்னியின் செல்வன், "The Son of Ponni") is a famous 2400 page 20th-century Tamil historical novel written by Kalki Krishnamurthy. Written in 5 volumes, this narrates the story of Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Rajaraja Chola).

Ponniyin Selvan (Ponni's Son) dealt with the fortunes of the Chola empire during the 10th century. It was serialised in the Tamil periodical Kalki. The serialisation went on for three and a half years and every week its publication was awaited with great interest.

It is an absolutely nerve cracking novel(epic?) of
espionage with a plot that a few writers were able to acheive in this entire world. Guys, I really mean it.

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Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies

2009-02-17T10:03:00.000-08:00

Product Details

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (June 26, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130648841
ISBN-13: 978-0130648846
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.4 inches
Patterns are basically design solutions for recurring problems, so Core J2EE Patterns contains recurring design solutions for persons using J2EE. The authors break these solutions down into presentation, business, and integration patterns.
As is usual with pattern books, you won't find much code here. The book majors on problem discussions, analysis of the factors you should consider in your design, and strategies for the solution implementation. The authors constantly encourage abstraction, code modularity, non-duplication of code, network efficiency, code maintainability, and solution reusability.

While these are the aims we've been encouraged to pursue for years, too many pattern books operate at such a high theoretical level they fail to appeal to working programmers. In practice, you could use the patterns discussed with any language, but by concentrating on using Java, Core J2EE Patterns is able to take a more hands-on approach.

Okay, so you won't find detail at the level of APIs, but you will find discussion of where to implement functionality to best leverage Java's architecture and which Java mechanisms to use: for example, implementing entity beans as coarse-grained--rather than fine-grained--objects to reduce the transaction overhead. Not the sort of implementation advice you'll find in language-agnostic pattern books.

Core J2EE Patterns enables you to dramatically cut the design time on enterprise-level Java-based projects while increasing the likelihood that the project will reach a timely fruition. Recommended. --Steve Patient, Amazon.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Over the last few years, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology has emerged and matured as a standard platform for building enterprise applications. While the platform has matured into a solid offering for developing and deploying enterprise applications, it does offer its challenges. As developers, often we confuse learning the technology with learning to design with the technology. In this book, senior architects from the Sun Java Center, Sun's Java consulting organization share with the reader their cumulative design experience with and expertise on J2EE technology.

The primary focus of the book is on patterns, best practices, design strategies, and proven solutions using the key J2EE technologies including JavaServer Pages (JSP), Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and Java Message Service (J.M.S) API. Other ancillary technologies like JDBC and JNDI are also discussed as relevant to their usage in these patterns. The J2EE Patterns catalog with 16 patterns and numerous strategies is presented to document and promote best practices for these technologies.

In addition to the patterns and strategies, the book offers the following:

Presents various design strategies for the presentation tier and business tier design.
Identifies bad practices in presentation, business, and integration tiers, and offers directions to remedy them by using certain patterns, strategies, and refactorings.
Refactorings for various tiers and mechanics to move away from a bad implementation to a better solution.
Sample code and examples for patterns, strategies, and refactorings.
Core J2EE Patterns delivers:

Proven solutions for enterprise applications
J2EE Patterns Catalog with patterns for JSP technology, EJB technology, and J.M.S.
Identifies bad practices and recommends solutions
Refactorings to improve existing designs using patterns, strategies, and best practices
UML Diagrams illustrate structure and behavior of each pattern

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XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web

2009-02-17T09:59:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (July 26, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201749602
ISBN-13: 978-0201749601

Book Info
This developer's overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, the powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web. Softcover.

From the Back Cover

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web is fueling the need for a new generation of technologies for managing information flow, data, and knowledge. This developer's overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, a powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web's vast sea of information.

With contributed chapters written by today's leading topic map experts, XML Topic Maps is designed to be a "living document" for managing information across the Web's interconnected resources. The book begins with a broad introduction and a tutorial on topic maps and XTM technology. The focus then shifts to strategies for creating and deploying the technology. Throughout, the latest theoretical perspectives are offered, alongside discussions of the challenges developers will face as the Web continues to evolve. Looking forward, the book's concluding chapters provide a road map to the future of topic map technology and the Semantic Web in general.

Specific subjects explored in detail include:

Topic mapping and the XTM specification
Using XML Topic Maps to build knowledge repositories
Knowledge Representation, ontological engineering, and topic maps
Transforming an XTM document into a Web page
Creating enterprise Web sites with topic maps and XSLT
Open source topic map software
XTM, RDF, and topic maps
Semantic networks and knowledge organization
Using topic maps in education
Topic maps, pedagogy, and future perspectives
Featuring the latest perspectives from today's leading topic map experts, XML Topic Maps provides the tools, techniques, and resources necessary to plot the changing course of information management across the World Wide Web.

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Learn Java In a Weekend

2009-02-16T11:45:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (May 2, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1931841608
ISBN-13: 978-1931841603

Book Description

Even with no programming experience, you can master the basics of Java programming in just one weekend! On Friday evening, you'll begin with an introduction to Java as you install the SDK. Pick up the pace on Saturday as you learn the basics of Java by beginning a calculator application that you will build on throughout the book. Program your calculator's appearance as you conquer graphical user interfaces. On Sunday, incorporate interfaces, applets, and threads. Wrap things up with coverage of advanced Java programming and utilities.

Book Info
Quick reference guide to learning the basics of the Java programming language. Begins with an introduction to Java and moves on to advanced Java programming and utilities. Softcover.

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JavaScript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to JavaScript Bible

2009-02-15T09:46:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 552 pages
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition (August 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764548557
ISBN-13: 978-0764548550

Book Description
JavaScript Examples Bible is the example companion to the best-selling JavaScript Bible by Danny Goodman. This book is for anyone who is looking for complete examples of JavaScripts. Many of the examples reveal detailed descriptions of HTML listings that illustrate a particular object model or language feature. Even more Example sections invite you to try out an object model or language feature with the help of an interactive workbench, called The Evaluator -- a JavaScript Bible exclusive!

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The essential companion to your JavaScript Bible … Even the giant 4th Edition and massive Gold Edition of the JavaScript Bible couldn't hold all of the superior knowledge and experience of scripting guru Danny Goodman. Examples sections from reference Parts III and IV appeared only on the CD-ROMs of those two books. Now, in this JavaScript Examples Bible, we bring you the Document Object Model (DOM) and core JavaScript language examples sections in their entirety in convenient form — plus new introductory sections by Danny to guide you to the most important concepts and examples in each chapter. Inside, you'll find ready-to-run examples and step-by-step guides
Interact with DOM and JavaScript core language terminology in real time with Danny's exclusive workbench: The Evaluator
Experiment with proprietary and industry-standard DOM features in Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape Navigator 6
See the latest object-detection coding techniques to accommodate a wide range of browsers today and tomorrow
Learn how to apply language specifics to real application challenges
Gain insight from extensive code listings and Danny's analysis of coding strategy and design decisions
CD-ROM includes:
A searchable e-version of this book
Over 300 ready-to-run scripts from the JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition

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Practical Ruby Gems

2009-02-15T09:43:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 271 pages
Publisher: Apress (April 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590598113
ISBN-13: 978-1590598115

Book Description

Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gemsready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects.

Youll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book. Each of these also comes complete with actual use cases and code examples that you can use immediately in your own projects. Youll learn how Ruby Gems can be used to

Validate credit cards.
Create graphical interfaces on multiple platforms.
Speed up Rails applications.
Develop lightweight web applications.
Use ActiveRecord to make databases easy.
Process RSS feeds.
Prevent spam using CAPTCHA.
Crop and scale images.
Tap into the same caching system that runs LiveJournal.com.
And much, much more!

Youll also learn how to package and distribute your own Ruby Gems. This lets you tap into powerful mechanisms for resolving dependencies. And the book takes a detailed look at how Gems differ between operating systems, so youll be prepared whether your desktop runs OS X, Windows, or Linux. Youll also learn how you can share code more easily between projects, optionally sharing your contributions with the world!

About the Author
Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal. Prior to this he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.

His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com (http://coolruby.com), a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot (http://www.thoughtbot.com.) on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow's BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby.

David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He's also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as "MySQL and You" and "Making Money with Open Source Software."

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Best of Ruby Quiz

2009-02-15T09:40:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (March 13, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0976694077
ISBN-13: 978-0976694076

Book Description

Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions.

You'll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including:
800 Numbers
Crosswords
Cryptograms
Knight's Tour
Paper, Rock, Scissors
Tic-Tac-Toe
Texas Hold-Em

...and more.

Learning to program can be quite a challenge. Classes and books can get you so far, but at some point you have to sit down and start playing with some code. Only by reading and writing real code, with real problems, can you learn.

The Ruby Quiz was built to fill exactly this need for Ruby programmers. Challenges, solutions, and discussions combine to make Ruby Quiz a powerful way to learn Ruby tricks. See how algorithms translate to Ruby code, get exposure to Ruby's libraries, and learn how other programmers use Ruby to solve problems quickly and efficiently.

About the Author

James Edward Gray II is a contract programmer based in Edmond, Oklahoma. He has done extensive work with web sites, Perl scripting and Java applets, for everyone from programming shops to food companies, but his true passion lies with Ruby. He's been an active part of the online Ruby community writing documentation, presenting the language to computer groups, and, of course, running the Ruby Quiz

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The Ruby Way

2009-02-15T09:36:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 888 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (November 4, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672328844
ISBN-13: 978-0672328848Product Description

Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.
The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby programming with the bulk of the material consisting of more than 400 examples arranged by topic. Each example answers the question “How do I do this in Ruby?” Working along with the author, you are presented with the task description and a discussion of the technical constraints. This is followed by a step-by-step presentation of one good solution. Along the way, the author provides detailed commentary and explanations to aid your understanding.

Coverage includes
• An overview of Ruby, explaining terminology and basic principles
• Operations on low-level data types (numbers, strings, regular expressions, dates)
• The new regular expression engine (Oniguruma)
• Internationalization (I18N) and message catalogs in Ruby
• Operations on hashes, arrays, and other data structures such as stacks, trees, and graphs
• Working with general I/O, files, and persistent objects
• Database coverage including MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, DBI, and more
• Ruby-specific techniques in OOP and dynamic programming
• Graphical interfaces in Ruby (Tk, GTK+, Fox, and Qt)
• Working with Ruby threads for lightweight multitasking
• Everyday scripting and system administration in Ruby
• Working with image files, PDFs, YAML, XML, RSS, and Atom
• Testing, debugging, profiling, and packaging Ruby code
• Low-level network programming and client-server interaction
• Web development tools including Rails, Nitro, Wee, IOWA, and more
• Working with distributed Ruby, Rinda, and Ring
• Ruby development tools such as IDEs, documentation tools, and more

The source code for the book can be downloaded from www.rubyhacker.com
Hal Fulton has worked for over 15 years with variousforms of Unix, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book–the second Ruby book published in the English language. He has attendednumerous Ruby conferences and has given presentations at several of those, including the first European Ruby Conference.

He has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi and taught computer science for four years before moving to Austin, Texas to work as a contractor for variouscompanies, including IBM Austin. Hal currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, maintaining a large data warehouse and related telecom applications, working daily with C++, Oracle, and, of course, Ruby.

About the Author

Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi. He taught computer science for four years at the community college level before moving to Austin, Texas, for a series of contracts (mainly at IBM Austin). He has worked for more than 15 years with various forms of UNIX, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book, which was the second Ruby book in the English language. He has attended six Ruby conferences and has given presentations at four of those, including the first European Ruby Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, working on a large data warehouse and related telecom applications. He works daily with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby.
Hal is still active daily on the Ruby mailing list and IRC channel, and has several Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In his personal life, he enjoys music, reading, writing, art, and photography. He is a member of the Mars Society and is a space enthusiast who would love to go into space before he dies. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Applying UML and Patterns

2009-02-15T09:29:00.000-08:00

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Hardcover: 507 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (October 30, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137488807
ISBN-13: 978-0137488803

Written for the developer with previous programming and design experience, Applying UML and Patterns combines UML, software patterns, and Java to illustrate the author's own design strategy. Though author Craig Larman sometimes relies heavily on the jargon of software engineering, there's no doubt that his book contains some immediately useful ideas on software design, using the latest and greatest in software-engineering research.
This book begins by outlining a basic process of software design using iterative, object-oriented techniques. The case study used for this text is a point-of-sale (POS) system, a helpful real-world example. The book constructs use case diagrams and basic conceptual and class models for this system. The author then adds sequence diagrams to show how the POS system will do its processing and collaboration diagrams to show how objects will interact with one another. The author uses standard UML diagrams to document the design.

When it comes to refining class design, the author's experience with patterns really shines. His General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (GRASP) suggest guidelines for designing classes that work together effectively. Larman believes that the ability to assign responsibilities to classes effectively is one of the most important aspects of good object-oriented design. His patterns allow this to happen and provide an interesting contribution to the design process. (The author also introduces more widely used software patterns to enhance the design process.)

When it comes to coding the design, Java is the programming language of choice for this text. Further chapters discuss how to refine an initial design using an iterative process of software engineering. While it's unlikely that readers will adopt Larman's approach to software design in its entirety, his guidelines--and application of patterns to class design, all documented using UML--make this a worthwhile text for the more experienced reader. --Richard Dragan

Book Info
Guides students through each step of requirements, analysis, design, and coding. Topics cover Expressing analysis and design models using the UML, a standard diagramming notation, Applying patterns to assign responsibilities and design collaborations and more. DLC: Object-oriented methods.

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Writing Effective Use Cases

2009-02-15T09:27:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (October 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201702258
ISBN-13: 978-0201702255

Alistair Cockburn's Writing Effective Use Cases is an approachable, informative, and very intelligent treatment of an essential topic of software design. "Use cases" describe how "actors" interact with computer systems and are essential to software-modeling requirements. For anyone who designs software, this title offers some real insight into writing use cases that are clear and correct and lead to better and less costly software.
The focus of this text is on use cases that are written, as opposed to modeled in UML. This book may change your mind about the advantages of writing step-by-step descriptions of the way users (or actors) interact with systems. Besides being an exceptionally clear writer, the author has plenty to say about what works and what doesn't when it comes to creating use cases. There are several standout bits of expertise on display here, including excellent techniques for finding the right "scope" for use cases. (The book uses a color scheme in which blue indicates a sea-level use case that's just right, while higher-level use cases are white, and overly detailed ones are indigo. Cockburn also provides notational symbols to document these levels of detail within a design.)

This book contains numerous tips on the writing style for use cases and plenty of practical advice for managing projects that require a large number of use cases. One particular strength lies in the numerous actual use cases (many with impressive detail) that are borrowed from real-world projects, and demonstrate both good and bad practices. Even though the author expresses a preference for the format of use cases, he presents a variety of styles, including UML graphical versions. The explanation of how use cases fit into the rest of the software engineering process is especially good. The book concludes with several dozen concrete tips for writing better use cases.

Software engineering books often get bogged down in theory. Not so in Writing Effective Use Cases, a slender volume with a practical focus, a concise presentation style, and something truly valuable to say. This book will benefit most anyone who designs software for a living. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

Introduction to use cases
Requirements
Usage narratives
Actors and goals
Stakeholders
Graphical models for use cases
Scope for use cases (enterprise-level through nuts-and-bolts use cases)
Primary and supporting actors
Goal levels: user goals, summary level, and subfunctions
Preconditions, triggers, and guarantees
Main success scenarios
Extensions for describing failures

Formats for use cases (including fully dressed one- and two-column formats)
Use case templates for five common project types
Managing use cases for large projects
CRUD use cases
Business-process modeling
Missing requirements
Moving from use cases to user-interface design
Test cases
eXtreme Programming (XP) and use cases
Sample problem use cases
Tips for writing use cases
Use cases and UML diagrams

Book Info
(Pearson Education) An up-to-date guide to writing use cases, expanding on the classic treatments into intermediate and advanced concepts, making this guide appropriate for all skill levels. Softcover. DLC: Application software--Development.

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Mastering UML with Rational Rose

2009-02-15T09:24:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 992 pages
Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Cdr edition (August 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0782124534
ISBN-13: 978-0782124538
Product Description
UML and Rational Rose--Your Key to Efficient, Effective Application Design

Mastering UML With Rational Rose offers expert instruction in the areas you need to master if you want to develop truly optimal application designs: the Unified Modeling Language, and Rational Rose, the world's leading visual modeling too. This book goes far beyond modeling: it teaches you how to use Rose to turn your UML diagrams into code--automatically, in the language of your choice. It also shows you how to reverse-engineer your existing applications, so you can learn more about how they're put together and how they can best be maintained and improved.

Coverage includes:
* Understanding UML
* Finding your way around Rational Rose
* Creating UML diagrams of all kinds
* Adding detail to existing UML diagrams
* Determining relationships and object behavior
* Working with sequences and state transitions
* Modeling according to use cases and actors
* Representing classes and packages
* Using Rose's component and deployment views
* Generating code automatically
* Handling language-specific code generation issues
* Generating Oracle8 database schemas
* Reverse-engineering existing applications
* Handling language-specific reverse-engineering issues

Card catalog description
"Mastering UML with Rational Rose offers expert instruction in the areas you need to master if you want to develop truly optimal application designs: the Unified Modeling Language, and Rational Rose, the world's leading visual modeling tool. This book goes far beyond modeling: it teaches you how to use Rose to turn your UML diagrams into code - automatically, in the language of your choice. It also shows you how to reverse-engineer your existing applications, so you can learn more about how they're put together and how they can best be maintained and improved."--BOOK JACKET.

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Spring FrameWork Tutorial

2009-02-15T09:23:00.000-08:00

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WebWork in Action

2009-02-15T09:16:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications (September 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932394532
ISBN-13: 978-1932394535

Book Description

WebWork helps developers build well-designed applications quickly by creating re-usable, modular, web-based applications. WebWork in Action is the first book to focus entirely on WebWork. Like a true "Action" book, it is both a tutorial on WebWork and a sourcebook for its use in demanding, real-world applications. The book goes into considerable depth on how to get desirable web features with WebWork. It uses the same basic (continuing) example as in Manning's Hibernate in Action to show how to integrate WebWork with the popular Hibernate persistance framework.

Although Java was (correctly) touted as the next big programming language, it wasn't until the introduction of J2EE and Servlets that its use really took off. Yet, in spite of the huge popularity of JSPs and Servlets, it was never easy for developers to quickly create re-usable, modular web-based applications. Not long after the introduction of JSPs, WebWork sought to solve those very problems and has been helping thousands of developers ever since. WebWork is a web-application framework used by people who understand that somewhere been "just get it done, no matter how ugly" and "make it perfect" lies their best choice. WebWork helps developers build applications quickly, but its unique design also lets developers build beautifully-designed applications.

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EJB 3 in Action

2009-02-14T07:12:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 712 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications (April 9, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933988347
ISBN-13: 978-1933988344

Book Description

EJB 3 in Action tackles EJB 3 and the Java Persistence API head-on, providing practical code samples, real-life scenarios, best practices, design patterns, and performance tuning tips. This book builds on the contributions and strengths of seminal technologies like Spring, Hibernate, and TopLink.
EJB 3 is the most important innovation introduced in Java EE 5.0. EJB 3 simplifies enterprise development, abandoning the complex EJB 2.x model in favor of a lightweight POJO framework. The new API represents a fresh perspective on EJB without sacrificing the mission of enabling business application developers to create robust, scalable, standards-based solutions.

EJB 3 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial, geared toward helping you learn EJB 3 and the Java Persistence API quickly and easily. For newcomers to EJB, this book provides a solid foundation in EJB. For the developer moving to EJB 3 from EJB 2, this book addresses the changes both in the EJB API and in the way the developer should approach EJB and persistence.

About the Author
Debu Panda is a Lead Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team, where he drives development of the Java EE container. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies in several magazines and has presented at many conferences. His J2EE-focused weblog can be found at debupanda.com.

Reza Rahman is an architect with Tripod Technologies, an IT solutions company focusing on Java EE in the Baltimore-NYC corridor. Reza has been working with Java as a language and Java EE as a platform since their inception in the mid-nineties. He has worked with both Enterprise Java Beans and open source tools like Spring and Hibernate, developing enterprise systems in the software, consulting, financial, Telecommunications, and manufacturing industries.

Derek Lane is the CTO of Semantra, Inc. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist, and resident open source zealot. Lane is a contributor to projects of various shape and size as author, presenter, and technical reviewer. Lane is the founder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG) and the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern U.S.

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Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans

2009-02-14T07:09:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 648 pages
ISBN-10: 0789725673
ASIN: B00008CM45
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches

Book Description

Special Edition Using EJB 2.0 starts with a description of how EJB fits into the big picture of J2EE development, then covers such topics as:

Locating EJB's using JNDI
Managing data with EJB Query Language
Building JMS applications using the new Message-driven Bean
Planning EJB applications using design patterns
Later chapters describe advanced development topics including interoperability, horizontal services and clustering. Throughout the book, the authors construct a component-based auction web site using the J2EE architecture as a practical example.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Special Edition Using EJB 2.0 starts with a description of how EJB fits into the big picture of J2EE development, then covers such topics as:

* Locating EJB's using JNDI
* Managing data with EJB Query Language
* Building JMS applications using the new Message-driven Bean
* Planning EJB applications using design patterns

Later chapters describe advanced development topics including interoperability, horizontal services and clustering. Throughout the book, the authors construct a component-based auction web site using the J2EE architecture as a practical example. --

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Java Script For Break Fast

2009-02-14T07:08:00.000-08:00

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Server-Side Programming Techniques Java(TM) Performance and Scalability

2009-02-14T07:05:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (June 2, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201704293
ISBN-13: 978-0201704297

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Written for the working programmer who wants to get more speed out of Java, Java Performance and Scalability, Volume 1 bundles several dozen tips for faster and smaller Java code. Backed up by benchmarks of what works and what doesn't, this book provides essential wisdom for eliminating some common bottlenecks to Java performance.
The 48 optimizations for various aspects of the Java API make up the heart of this text. Early sections look at a particularly tricky subject--string processing--giving you several techniques for increasing speed and reducing object creation. The in-depth examination of the costs and benefits of string concatenation and the immutability of Java String objects will help you uncover possible hot spots that cause lagging performance with strings.

Subsequent sections look at more general strategies for faster programs, like purging obsolete code, and the well-known 80-20 rule (optimizing the 20 percent of your code that consumes 80 percent of processing time, allowing you to create faster software; this book shows you how). Short tips on such APIs as Java collections and the Java Native Interface (JNI) come next.

The second half of the book zeros in on better server-side performance with tips on caching and file I/O. The guide to multithreading and synchronization is a standout here. You'll get several smart tips for speeding up servlets, such as precomputing your standard strings for headers and other boilerplate HTML. The book closes with a valuable custom class for JDBC database connection pooling and a custom HTTP server. Both samples make use of the techniques presented earlier in the text. Even if you don't adopt every suggestion, the ideas here can get you thinking about performance in new ways. (One of the main points of this book is that you can write faster custom code, instead of always relying on built-in Java classes and APIs.)

Clearly, Java performance is not something that happens by accident; it must be engineered into your code. This compilation of useful techniques and tips deserves a close look by anyone who wants to squeeze more performance out of Java. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

Introduction to Java performance
More efficient Java string handling (optimizing String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer objects)
Reducing Java overhead
Faster initialization
The 80-20 rule for optimization
Getting rid of obsolete code
Speeding up the JDK 1.1 Vector and Hashtable collection classes
Caching techniques
Optimizing file I/O and buffering
Object recycling and object pools
Techniques for multithreading and synchronization
Amdahl's law and scalability basics
Pros and cons of using the Java Native Interface (JNI)
Hints for optimizing Remote Invocation Method (RIM) calls
Performance hints for servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSPs)
Custom sample code for JDBC database connection pooling and a Java HTTP server

Book Description
This book was written with one goal in mind: to provide Java programmers with the expertise needed to build efficient, scalable Java code. The author shares his experience in server-side performance tuning through measured performance assessments, called optimizations. Each optimization discusses techniques to improve the performance and scalability of your code. Every claim is substantiated with hard numbers and an experience-based evaluation. Java(TM) Performance and Scalability, Volume 1, provides invaluable advice that you will, no doubt, find useful in your coding. Presented in 48 concise lessons that target the most common and critical performance pitfalls, this book offers a plethora of practical tips and solutions for boosting the performance of your programs. These lessons cover performance-critical areas such as memory management, garbage collection, caching, and multithreading. Specific lessons include:
Reserving StringBuffer capacity

Avoiding premature object creation

Creating an efficient vector class

Designing caching into your API

The cost of synchronization

Parallel subtasks

JNI efficiency

Varying the server workload and RMI network plumbing

Using ServletOutputStream

Caching JDBC connections In addition to providing hard numbers that quantify the optimizations, the author concludes the book with an application demonstrating the effectiveness of the performance optimizations. The exercise takes a typical program and increases its performance fourfold through a series of steps that tie together the lessons learned throughout the book. He offers both the means and the proof to better coding.

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The Design and Evolution of C++

2009-02-14T06:58:00.000-08:00

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (April 8, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201543303
ISBN-13: 978-0201543308

Book Info
Presents the definitive insider's guide to the design and development of the C++ programming language. Provides insights into the aims, principles, and real-world constraints which shaped C++. Paper. DLC: C++ (Computer program language)

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"He who does not plow, must write."
--Martin A. Hansen

The ACM HOPL-2 conference on the History of Programming Languages asked me to write a paper on the history of C++. This seemed a reasonable idea and a bit of an honor, so I started writing. To get a more comprehensive and balanced view of C++'s growth, I asked a few friends from the early days of C++ for their recollections. That caused news of this project to travel through the grapevine. There, the story mutated, and one day I received a message from a friend asking where he could buy my new book on the design of C++. That email message is the real origin of this book.

Traditional books about programming and programming languages explain what a language is and how to use it. However, many people are also curious about why a language is the way it is and how it came to be that way. This book answers these last two questions for C++. It explains how C++ evolved from its first design to the language in use today. It describes the key problems, design aims, language ideas, and constraints that shaped C++, and how they changed over time.

Naturally, C++ and the ideas about design and programming that shaped it didn't just mutate by themselves. What really evolved was the C++ users' understanding of their practical problems and of the tools needed to help solve them. Consequently, this book also traces the key problems tackled using C++ and the views of the people who tackled them in ways that influenced C++.

C++ is still a young language. Some of the issues discussed here are yet unknown to many users. Many implications of decisions described here will not become obvious for years to come. This book presents my view of how C++ came about, what it is, and what it ought to be. I hope this will be of help to people trying to understand how best to use C++ and in the continuing evolution of C++.

The emphasis is on the overall design goals, practical constraints, and people that shaped C++. The key design decisions relating to language features are discussed and put into their historical context. The evolution of C++ is traced from C with Classes through Release 1.0 and 2.0 to the current ANSI/ISO standards work and the explosion of use, interest, commercial activity, compilers, tools, environments, and libraries. C++'s relationship to C and Simula is discussed in detail. C++'s relationship to other languages is discussed briefly. The design of major language facilities such as classes, inheritance, abstract classes, overloading, memory management, templates, exception handling, run-time type information, and namespaces are discussed in some detail.

The primary aim of this book is to give C++ programmers a better idea of the background and fundamental concepts of their language and hopefully to inspire them to experiment with ways of using C++ that are new to them. This book can also be read by experienced programmers and students of programming languages and might help them decide whether using C++ might be worth their while. Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to Steve Clamage, Tony Hansen, Lorraine Juhl, Peter Juhl, Brian Kernighan, Lee Knight, Doug Lea, Doug McIlroy, Barbara Moo, Jens Palsberg, Steve Rumsby, and Christopher Skelly for reading complete drafts of this book. Their constructive comments caused major changes to the contents and organization of this book. Steve Buroff, Martin Carroll, Sean Corfield, Tom Hagelskjær, Rick Hollinbeck, Dennis Mancl, and Stan Lippman helped by commenting on selected chapters. Also, thanks to Archie Lachner for asking for this book before I had thought of writing it.

Naturally, I owe thanks to the many people who helped make C++. In a sense, this book is a tribute to them and some of their names can be found throughout the chapters and in the index. Should I single out individuals, it must be Brian Kernighan, Andrew Koenig, Doug McIlroy, and Jonathan Shopiro, each of whom has been a steady source of help, encouragement, and ideas for more than a decade. Also, thanks to Kristen Nygaard and Dennis Ritchie as the designers of Simula and C from which the key ingredients of C++ were borrowed. Over the years, I have come to appreciate them not only as brilliant and practical language designers, but also as gentlemen and thoroughly likable individuals.

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Verilog HDL

2009-02-14T06:57:00.000-08:00

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Hardcover: 396 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; Bk&CD-Rom edition (January 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0134516753
ISBN-13: 978-0134516752
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Book Info
Stresses the practical design perspective of Verilog rather than emphasizing only the language aspects. The information presented is fully compliant with the upcoming IEEE 1364 Verilog HDL standard. CD ROM included.

From the Inside Flap
During my earliest experience with Verilog HDL, I was looking for a book that could give me a "jump start" on using Verilog HDL. I wanted to learn basic digital design paradigms and the necessary Verilog HDL constructs that would help me build small digital circuits, using Verilog and run simulations. After I had gained some experience with building basic Verilog models, I wanted to learn to use Verilog HDL to build larger designs. At that time I was searching for a book that broadly discussed advanced Verilog-based digital design concepts and real digital design methodologies. Finally, when I had gained enough experience with digital design and verification of real IC chips, though manuals of Verilog-based products were available, from time to time, I felt the need for a Verilog HDL book that would act as a handy reference. This book emphasizes breadth rather than depth. The book imparts to the reader a working knowledge of a broad variety of Verilog-based topics, thus giving the reader a global understanding of Verilog HDL-based design. The book leaves the in-depth coverage of each topic to the Verilog HDL language reference manual and the reference manuals of the individual Verilog-based products. This book should be classified not only as a Verilog HDL book but, more generally, as a digital design book. It important to realize that Verilog HDL is only a tool used in digital design. It is the means to an end- the digital IC chip. Therefore, this book stresses the practical design perspective more than the mere language aspects of Verilog HDL. With HDL-based digital design becoming popular, no digital designer can afford to ignore HDLs.

Who Should Use This Book...
The book is intended primarily for beginners and intermediate-level Verilog users. However, for advanced Verilog users, the broad coverage of topics makes it an excellent reference book to be used in conjunction with the manuals and training materials of Verilog-based products. The book presents a logical progression of Verilog HDL-based topics. It starts with the basics, such as HDL-based design methodologies, and then gradually builds on the basics to eventually reach advanced topics, such as PLI or logic synthesis. Thus, the book is useful to Verilog users with varying levels of expertise as explained below.

Students in logic design courses at universities Part 1 of this book is ideal for a foundation semester course in Verilog HDL-based logic design. Students are exposed to hierarchical modeling concepts, basic Verilog constructs and modeling techniques, and the necessary knowledge to write small models and run simulations.

New Verilog users in the industry Companies are moving to Verilog HDL- based design. Part 1 of this book is a perfect jump start for designers who want to orient their skills toward HDL-based design.

Users with basic Verilog knowledge who need to understand advanced concepts Part 2 of this book discusses advanced concepts, such as UDPs, timing simulation, PLI, and logic synthesis, which are necessary for graduation from small Verilog models to larger designs.

Verilog experts

All Verilog topics are covered, from the basics modeling constructs to advanced topics like PLIs and logic synthesis. For Verilog experts, this book is a handy reference to be used along with the reference manuals. The material in the book sometimes leans toward an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design methodology. However, the concepts explained in the book are general enough to be applicable to the design of FPGAs, PALs, buses, boards, and systems. The book uses Medium Scale Integration (MSI) logic examples to simplify discussion. The same concepts apply to VLSI designs.

How This Book Is Organized:
This book is organized into three parts. Part 1, Basic Verilog Topics, covers all information that a new user needs to build small Verilog models and run simulations. Note that in Part 1, gate-level modeling is addressed before behavioral modeling. I have chosen to do so because I think that it is easier for a new user to see a 1-1 correspondence between gate- level circuits and equivalent Verilog descriptions. Once gate-level modeling is understood, a new user can move to higher levels of abstraction, like data flow modeling and behavioral modeling, without losing sight of the fact that Verilog HDL is a language for digital design and is not a programming language. Thus, a new user starts off with the idea that Verilog is a language for digital design. New users who start with behavioral modeling often tend to write Verilog the way they write their C programs. They sometimes lose sight of the fact that they are trying to represent hardware circuits by using Verilog. Part 1 contains nine chapters.

Part 2, Advanced Verilog Topics, contains the advanced concepts a Verilog user needs to know to graduate from small Verilog models to larger designs. Advanced topics such as timing simulation, switch-level modeling, UDPs, PLI, and logic synthesis are covered. Part 2 contains five chapters. Part 3, Appendices, contains information useful as a reference. Useful information, such as strength-level modeling, list of PLI routines, formal syntax definition, Verilog tidbits, and large Verilog examples is included. Part 3 contains six appendices.

Conventions Used in This Book. Table\x11PR-1 describes the type changes and symbols used in this book. Table\x11PR-1 Typographic Conventions Typeface or Symbol
Description
Examples: AaBbCc123 Keywords, system tasks and compiler directives that are a part of Verilog HDL and, nand, $display, `define AaBbCc123 Emphasis. cell characterization, instantiation AaBbCc123 Names of signals, modules, ports, etc. fulladd4, D_FF, out A few other conventions need to be clarified.

In the book, use of Verilog and Verilog HDL refers to the "Verilog Hardware Description Language." Any reference to a Verilog-based simulator is specifically mentioned, using words such as Verilog simulator or trademarks such as Verilog-XL or VCS.

The word designer is used frequently in the book to emphasize the digital design perspective. However, it is a general term used to refer to a Verilog HDL user.

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Jakarta Struts for Dummies

2009-02-14T06:47:00.000-08:00

Book Details

Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (April 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764559575
ISBN-13: 978-0764559570

Book Description
As a Web developer, you’ve probably heard a lot about Jakarta Struts, the popular open source framework for creating Web applications in Java. Struts is the de facto standard for Java-based Web applications; in fact, some people consider it the yardstick by which all other Web application frameworks are measured.
The Struts framework is based on a classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm that combines Java servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), custom tags, and message resources into a unified framework. Jakarta Struts For Dummies will get you up and running with Struts in a hurry, so you can

Control the business logic of your applications
Design the view for JavaServer Pages
Validate data
Use tiles to dynamically create pages
Secure and troubleshoot your applications, and more
Jakarta Struts saves you coding time and helps you create an extensible development environment. Jakarta Struts For Dummies provides the information you need when you need it, and even lets you get your feet wet right away by creating a special “jump start” application in Part I. Jakarta Struts For Dummies helps you

Understand and apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
Integrate Struts into a Web application environment
Use tag libraries to simplify your JSP pages
Maintain control with effective security features
Internationalize Web applications with a feature that creates easy-to-update text content, so international viewers can see pages in their own languages
Represent all types of data, from one or two items to a huge and complex database
Extend Jakarta’s functionality with plug-ins
Use logging to help you troubleshoot an application
Loaded with tips, examples, and explanatory sidebars, this plain-English guide to Jakarta Struts will have you creating Web applications with Struts before you can say “Java”.

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* Shows Java Web developers how to develop Java-based Web applications using the popular open source Jakarta Struts framework
* Sun Microsystems estimates that there are three million Java developers
* According to the Apache Software Foundation, Struts is rapidly growing in popularity among the Java community and is used by a number of high-profile companies, including Ford, McDonald's, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Federal Express
* Provides a quick "jump-start" application to get novices up and running in a hurry
* Examines the Model-View-Controller design paradigm, exception handling, plug-ins, tag libraries, and use of tiles to create Web pages
* After laying the groundwork, the authors apply the specifics of the Struts framework to a real-life, browser-based Web application that can be modified for other types of data collections
* Other topics include using Java Server Faces (JSF) with Struts, handling and validating application errors, securing Struts applications, and managing databases to store data for Struts applications

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