Stop Staring or Professional BizTalk Server 2006

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right -- Second Edition

Author: Jason Osipa

Breathe life into your creations

With detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation. You'll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, and animation-while mastering exciting new techniques for stretch-and-squash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and the latest software tools. Walk through the author's detailed analysis of sample animations and discover how to add nuance and sophistication to your designs.

Full of insights drawn from years of professional experience, this book provides the focused and practical information you need to create believable facial animations.

• Learn visimes and lip sync techniques

• Construct a mouth and mouth keys

• Explore the process of facial landmarking

• Master the cartoon techniques of squash and stretch

• Harness the latest advanced blend extraction tools

• Create interfaces for your faces

• Understand skeletal setup, weighting, and rigging

Control faces with the book's powerful rig and learn how skin moves to make various shapes and expressions

Master powerful stretch-and-squash (and squoosh!) techniques

Featured on the CD
Fine-tune your facial animations with the techniques demonstrated on the companion CD. Content includes tutorial files, lip sync samples, models, textures, and more.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. I	Getting to Know the Face	1
Ch. 1	Learning the Basics of Lip Sync	3
Ch. 2	What the Eyes and Brows Tell Us	21
Ch. 3	Facial Landmarking	31
Pt. II	Animating and Modeling the Mouth	45
Ch. 4	Visimes and Lip Sync Technique	47
Ch. 5	Constructing a Mouth	75
Ch. 6	Mouth Keys	107
Pt. III	Animating and Modeling the Eyes and Brows	139
Ch. 7	Building Emotion: The Basics of the Eyes	141
Ch. 8	Constructing Eyes and Brows	169
Ch. 9	Eye and Brow Keys	193
Pt. IV	Bringing It Together	221
Ch. 10	Connecting the Features	223
Ch. 11	Skeletal Setup, Weighing, and Rigging	237
Ch. 12	Interfaces for Your Faces	259
Ch. 13	A Shot in Production	291
	Index	325

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Professional BizTalk Server 2006

Author: Darren Jefford

Professional BizTalk® Server 2006

This book provides insight into how industry experts have successfully architected, developed, and maintained Microsoft BizTalk Server in mission-critical environments. Authored by highly-regarded consultants with a wealth of knowledge on designing, building, and operating enterprise applications using BizTalk, this comprehensive guide gives you the techniques and best practices you'll need to develop effective projects.

Darren Jefford is a Principal Consultant with the Microsoft UK Application Development Consulting (ADC) team who has extensive real-world experience with BizTalk Server and the broader Microsoft platform. Kevin B. Smith formerly worked as a Technical Lead Software Design Engineer for the BizTalk Server Product Team and helped ship three versions of BizTalk Server. Ewan Fairweather works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, providing onsite support to enterprise customers, including maintaining and optimizing their BizTalk Server solutions.

Achitects, developers, testers, and administrators will achieve instant success when they apply the deep technical information covered in this book. They will better appreciate the internal workings of BizTalk Server and will understand detailed solutions for challenges often experienced with BizTalk-based systems.

What you will learn from this book

• How the BizTalk Engine works and how to develop effective pipeline components
• How to develop BizTalk orchestrations that achieve maximum performance
• Methods for using Business Activity Monitoring within your solution for enterprise-wide instrumentation
• How to utilize the rules engine within your solutions to produce quality and reliability
• Techniques for conducting performance and scalability tests to identify bottlenecks
• Ways to minimize the latency of your solution to meet challenging low latency requirements
• How system administrators can proactively manage and maintain mission-critical BizTalk solutions
• Features for BizTalk Server 2006 R2, such as the BAM Interceptor for Windows® Workflow

Who this book is for: Architects, developers, testers, and administrators involved in the development of a BizTalk Server 2004 or 2006 solution.

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.

Voip for Dummies or iPhone Fully Loaded

Voip for Dummies

Author: Timothy V Kelly

Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could spell "saving big bucks" for your business! Here's where to get the scoop in plain English. Find out how VoIP can save you money, how voice communication travels online, and how to choose the best way to integrate your phone system with your network at home or at the office.

Discover how to:

• Use VoIP for your business or home phone service

• Choose the best network type

• Set up VoIP on a wireless network

• Understand transports and services

• Demonstrate VoIP's advantages to management

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iPhone Fully Loaded

Author: Andy Ihnatko

iPhone Fully Loaded is a one-of-a-kind reference that teaches you how to fully exploit the power of your Phone or iPod touch. Clear step-by-step instructions teach you how to convert any form of home, office, or online media -- dusty LPs, movies on DVD, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, downloadable books, comic books, as well as music and video to an iPhone or iPod Touch compatible format. Written by wildly popular technology expert and Chicago Sun Times columnist Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded is a full-color guide designed to work for both Mac OS X and Windows users. From uploading Web pages to downloading television shows and a variety of documents, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, the iPhone does much more than make phone calls, play music, and send e-mail.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments.

Credits.

About the Author.

INTRODUCTION.

PART 1: THE BASICS OF CONTENT.

Chapter 1: Remedial iTunes.

Chapter 2: How To Make 8 Gigabytes Seem Like 80.

PART II: THE REAL WORLD.

Chapter 3: Ripping CDs.

Chapter 4: Ripping DVDs.

Chapter 5: Old Home Video.

Chapter 6: Glorious Television.

Chapter 7: Radio.

Chapter 8: Comics.

PART III: THE INTERNET.

Chapter 9: News, Blogs, and Bookmarks.

Chapter 10: What a Friend We Have in RSS.

Chapter 11: Software, Kind Of (and No, Really).

Chapter 12: Sticking Web Pages in Your Ear.

Chapter 13: Podcasts.

Chapter 14: Audio Streams.

Chapter 15: Internet Videos.

Chapter 16: How to Download Free Music and Get Away with It.

PART IV: THE OFFICE.

Chapter 17: Calendars and Contacts.

Chapter 18: Clippings and Trivial Ephemera.

Chapter 19: Any Damned Information You Want.

Chapter 20: Picture That.

Chapter 21: E-Mail.

Chapter 22: Spreadsheets and Databases.

Chapter 23: Presentations.

INDEX.

Podcasting Pocket Guide or Linux Samba Server Administration

Podcasting Pocket Guide

Author: Kirk McElhearn

With more than three thousand feeds in the iPodder directory and at least ten more being added every day, podcasting is undeniably hot. Podcasting Pocket Guide is a non-technical guide for the non-geek who wants in on this revolutionary new online medium--for those interested in enjoying the best podcasts or producing them.

While podcasts seem like Internet "radio programs," they are definitely not radio. And that's a very good thing for people like you with something to say. Radio waves, after all, are heavily regulated, which means you can't say whatever you want on them (in fact, most of you can't say anything on them, assuming you don't happen to be DJs). But anyone who can make an MP3 recording, host it on a web site, and publish a "feed" for it can be a podcaster. And anyone who wants access to opinions and ideas that you won't get on the radio can find them on a podcast.

Small enough to fit in your pocket, the portable and affordable Podcasting Pocket Guide shows you how to tune into the best podcasts and download them to your favorite portable device so you can listen to them wherever and whenever you want. This handy reference even includes a listener's guide with reviews of some of the most interesting and unusual podcasts available today. From unique views on current events to music you'd never hear otherwise to sound seeing tours that take you all over the world, there's something for everyone on virtually every conceivable topic.

For aspiring podcasters, Podcasting Pocket Guide introduces you to the tools and techniques you'll need to make and publish podcasts with the most basic of equipment: a computer, a microphone, and some free software. It includespractical tips and how-tos for creating, recording, editing, and uploading your own, professional-quality podcast. Once you've made that first recording, you can publish it online, get it listed, and start obsessing over the size of your audience!

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Finding, subscribing to, and listening to podcasts	1
Ch. 2	Starting out in podcasting	31
Ch. 3	Formats for your podcast	37
Ch. 4	Editing your podcast	50
Ch. 5	30 great podcasts	64

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Linux Samba Server Administration (Craig Hunt Linux Library Series)

Author: Roderick W Smith

Linux Samba Server Administration is the most complete, most advanced guide to Samba you'll find anywhere. Written by a leading Linux expert, this book teaches you, step-by-step, all the standard and advanced Samba techniques you'll need to make Linux and UNIX machines operate seamlessly as part of your Windows network. Throughout, scores of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail—so you stay on track and accomplish all your goals. Coverage includes:

• Installing Samba
• Setting up file sharing
• Setting up printer sharing
• Using Samba as a client
• Setting up a working user authentication system
• Using automation to expand Samba's capabilities
• Setting up Samba as a domain controller
• Configuring NetBIOS name server functions
• Configuring Samba for optimal interoperation with other servers
• Managing user accounts
• Optimizing Samba for maximum speed
• Securing Samba against intrusion
• Using Samba as a backup server
• Troubleshooting Samba
• Configuring Samba to work with a variety of client Oss

About the Library

The Craig Hunt Linux Library is an eight-book set that provides in-depth, advanced coverage of the key topics for Linux administrators. Topics include Samba, System Administration, Sendmail, Apache, NFS and Automounter, and Linux Security. Each book in the library is either written by or meticulously reviewed by Craig Hunt to ensure the highest quality and most complete coverage of networking professionals working specifically in Linux environments.

Discovering Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics Second Edition or Rexx Programmers Reference

Discovering Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Second Edition

Author: A Campbell

KEY BENEFIT: Discovering Genomics is the first genomics text that combines web activities and case studies with a problem-solving approach to teach upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students the fundamentals of genomic analysis. More of a workbook than a traditional text, Discovering Genomics, Second Edition allows students to work with real genomic data in solving problems and provides the user with an active learning experience. KEY TOPICS: Genomic Medicine Case Study: What’s wrong with my child? Genome Sequence Acquisition and Analysis, Comparative Genomics in Evolution and Medicine, Genome Variations, Genomic Medicine Case Study: Why Can’t I Just Take a Pill to Lose Weight? Basic Research with DNA Microarrays, Applied Research with DNA Microarrays, Proteomics, Genomic Medicine Case Study: Why Can’t We Cure More Diseases? Genomic Circuits in Single Genes, Integrated Genomic Circuits, Modeling Whole-Genome Circuits. MARKET: For all readers interested in genomics.

Table of Contents:

1	What's wrong with my child?	2
2	Genome sequence acquisition	33
3	Comparative genomics in evolution and medicine	113
4	Genomic variations	177
5	Why can't I just take a pill to lose weight?	218
6	Basic research with DNA microarrays	233
7	Applied research with DNA microarrays	263
8	Proteomics	285
9	Why can't we cure more diseases?	330
10	Genomic circuits in single genes	341
11	Integrated genomic circuits	369
12	Modeling whole-genome circuits	409

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Rexx Programmer's Reference

Author: Howard Fosdick

• Originally developed for mainframes but highly portable across platforms-from servers to desktops to handhelds-Rexx is an easy yet powerful scripting language that's widely used for rapid application development.

• Covers Rexx interpreters for specialized functions-object-oriented, mainframe, and handheld.

• There are 8 different free Rexx interpreters optimized for different platforms and uses. This book shows how to use them all.

• Shows how to script for GUIs, databases, web servers, XML, and other interfaces.

• Details how to make the best use of Rexx tools and interfaces, with examples for both Linux and Windows.

• Includes a tutorial with lots of examples to help people get up and running.

In the Minds Eye or Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio

In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity

Author: Thomas G West

In this updated edition to his fascinating exploration of the "ironies of creativity," Thomas West furthers his ground-breaking research on how some innovations in computer visualization are making work and education more favorable to visual thinkers. In the Mind's Eye exposes many popular myths about conventional intelligence by examining the role of visual-spatial strengths and verbal weaknesses in the lives of eleven gifted individuals, including Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, and others. West cites research in neuroscience that shows a link between visual talents and verbal difficulties, and he believes that new developments in computer technology herald a significant shift toward the increased use of visual approaches throughout the economy. These changes may be as revolutionary as the technology of the book, which translated ideas into written words. The use of visualization and virtual reality computer displays has already begun to move out of the world of science into that business, representing marketing trends through moving pictures rather than tiresome charts and tables of numbers. According to West, creative visual thinkers (many of whom have had difficulty with verbal skills), aided by computers, will be at the forefront of innovation in a dramatically changing society.

Booknews

Exposes myths about conventional intelligence by examining the role of visual-spatial strengths and verbal weaknesses in the lives of 11 gifted individuals, including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. Examines research in neuroscience that shows a link between visual talents and verbal difficulties, and discusses developments in computer technology that herald a shift toward the increased use of visual approaches in business and science. This revised edition offers an expanded list of national and international organizations, and an updated bibliography. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio: Using Design, Web, Blend, and Media to Create Professional Digital Content

Author: Greg Holden

The World WideWeb is continually becoming more complex in sophistication. To get attention and be credible, your site has to have professional-quality graphics. It needs to be usable and give your visitors an interactive and compelling experience. For professional graphic designers and Web site architects, it's a golden age, because there's so much work to do and the standards are so high.Those who aren't artists, programmers, or designers are left wondering how to achieveall of those cool effects: how to make their Web sites user-friendly and eye-catching while maintaining Web standards. Microsoft's suite of graphics and design tools, collectively called Expression Studio, provides a terrific option for anyone who wants to create high-quality graphics,Web presentations, or user interfaces.This book serves as an introduction to using Expression Studio to create Web sites, graphics, and presentations, and to organize and edit media files. You'll learn how to use the Expression Studio programs individually, and you'll also learn how easy it is to export files and projects from one application to another. Each section of the book covers a specific program, so you can read the book from cover to cover to get a complete idea of how the entire suite works together, or just jump to specific topics of interest on the program you want to learn more about. By the end of the book, you'll be creating interactive sites that utilize Cascading Style Sheets and databases with Expression Web, creating and manipulating images with Expression Design, cataloging and keeping track of your content and creations with Expression Media, and putting it all together with Expression Blend.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Drawing Paths
Chapter 3: Changing Path Attributes
Chapter 4: Painting Pixels
Chapter 5: Retouching Images
Chapter 6: Working with Text
Chapter 7: Transforming and Warping
Chapter 8: Applying Effects and Filters
Chapter 9: Putting It All Together

Chapter 10: Exporting Image Files
Chapter 11: Preparing your Work for Print
Chapter 12: Preparing your Work for the Web

CSS Cookbook or SQL All in One Desk Reference for Dummies

CSS Cookbook: Quick Solutions to Common CSS Problems

Author: Christopher Schmitt

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to enrichthe presentation of HTML-based web pages, allowing web authors to give their pages a more sophisticated look and more structure. CSS's compact file size helps web pages load quickly, and by allowing changes made in one place to be applied across the entire document, CSS can save hours of tedious changing and updating.

But to leverage the full power of CSS, web authors first have to sift through CSS theory to find practical solutions that resolve real-world problems. Web authors can waste hours and earn ulcers trying to find answers to those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project. The CSS Cookbook cuts straight through the theory to provide hundreds of useful examples and CSS code recipes that web authors can use immediately to format their web pages.

The time saved by a single one of these recipes will make its cover price money well-spent. But the CSS Cookbook provides more than quick code solutions to pressing problems. The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables readers to customize the formatting for their specific purposes, and shows why the solution works, so you can adapt these techniques to other situations. Recipes range from the basics that every web author needs to code concoctions that will take your web pages to new levels.

Reflecting CSS2, the latest specification, and including topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, it is easy to see why the CSS Cookbook is regarded as an excellent companion to Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide and a must-have resource for any web author who has even considered using CSS.

Table of Contents:

1	General	1
2	Web typography	65
3	Images	115
4	Page elements	186
5	Lists	208
6	Links and navigation	228
7	Forms	270
8	Tables	322
9	Page layouts	347
10	Print	396
11	Hacks, workarounds, and troubleshooting	415
12	Designing with CSS	435
A	Resources	451
B	CSS 2.1 properties and proprietary extensions	458
C	CSS 2.1 selectors, pseudo-classes, and pseudo-elements	474
D	Styling of form elements	477

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SQL All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies

Author: Allen G Taylor

SQL is the international standard language for creating and maintaining relational databases. This book is a compendium of information about SQL and relational database design, development, and maintenance. The nine mini-books cover the full spectrum of issues that arise in building, using, and maintaining relational database systems.

Book I: SQL Concepts

Book II: Relational Database Development

Book III: SQL Queries

Book IV: Data Security

Book V: SQL and Programming

Book VI: SQL and XML

Book VII: Database Tuning Overview

Book VIII: Appendixes

Six Sigma Quality Improvement with MINITAB or Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5

The Exercise Training Diary: For Dummies

Author: G Robin Henderson

The Exercise Training Diary For Dummies will get fitness enthusiasts to gear up even more. It includes a 52-week, fill-in calendar you can use to schedule workouts and record progress, plus helpful advice on a full range of health topics.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.
PART I: The Training Basics.
Chapter 1: Creating Your Workout Plan.
Chapter 2: Just Warming Up.
Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Workout.
Chapter 4: Cooling Down and Fueling Up.
PART II: The Exercise Training Diary.
Your Training Diary.
PART III: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 5: Ten Top Exercise Etiquette Tips.
Chapter 6: Ten Top Exercise Songs.
Index.
Book Registration Information.

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Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5

Author: B L Render

Learn from a Poser master how to make the best use of this versatile and exciting figure creation package, whether you are using version 3, 4, the Pro Pack or the new version 5 upgrade.

BL Render provides an in-depth guide that explains each aspect of the process of creating a figure in Curious Labs' Poser. It begins with simple projects, such as creating morphs for existing figures, and takes you through to the more advanced options such as geometry swapping, joint parameters, the design of the mesh and how that will affect the working of your figure.

Each section begins with the theory behind each step, giving an abstracted base knowledge of the task at hand. Practical sections for each chapter are included on the free CD in which the concepts are put to use in examples, code snippets and tutorials, with all the files you need to follow along yourself. The CD is also packed with numerous utility programs for you to use when creating your figures.

Finally, there is a trouble-shooting guide for any problems and/or bugs that may occur in each stage, so you are fully equipped to use this package professionally.

If you want to know not only what steps to follow, but how to design the figure for optimal performance and why things work the way they do, then this is the book for you.

* Learn from a professional how to make Poser work best for you
* Color illustrations throughout show you what you can achieve
* The free CD-Rom includes all the files you need to try each tutorial for yourself, surely the quickest way to learn

Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel or Media in the Digital Age

Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel

Author: Conrad Carlberg

Whether you own a small business or work for a large corporation; whether you are looking for help making financial and business decisions-this book is for you. Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel, Second Edition provides in-depth information that will maximize your use of the tools within Excel. Professional advice and guidance from an experienced author provide the answers to your most pressing questions:

• What's the relationship between my cost of goods sold and my inventory?
• How do I get Excel to keep these values up-to-date on my income statement and my balance sheet?
• I have to track service quality over time. How can I automate that using Excel charts?
• How can I forecast future demand for my products, based on prior sales results?
• What's the difference between financial leverage and operating leverage? How do I calculate them using my financial records?
• I need to project my financials for next year. Does Excel have a tool for that? What do I need to know to use it effectively?

More great stuff... is just a click away!

• Sample journals and ledgers, examples of trial balances, income statements, and balance sheets
• Custom functions, such as FIFO, for inventory management
• Several VBA files that automate the creation of forecasts, quality control charts, and sales and marketing analysis
• Statistical process control charts: X-and-S, X-and-MR
• Forecasting tools: ARIMA model identification

Booknews

Carlberg (Ph.D., statistics), the president of a software and consulting firm that specializes in developing quality control and forecasting tools, distinguishes his book from others on Excel by its bottom line orientation. In coverage of financial statements and analysis, financial planning and control, investment decisions, and sales and marketing, he stresses making worksheets self- documenting for interpretation by others. Includes case studies, tips, a glossary, and auxiliary website. No date is given for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

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Media in the Digital Age

Author: John V Pavlik

Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. Some critics believe these technologies keep the public involved in an informed discourse on matters of public importance, but it isn't clear this is happening on a large scale. Propaganda disguised as news is flourishing, and though interaction with the digital domain teaches children valuable skills, it can also expose them to grave risks.

John V. Pavlik critically examines our current digital innovations—blogs, podcasting, peer-to-peer file sharing, on-demand entertainment, and the digitization of television, radio, and satellites—and their positive and negative implications. He focuses on present developments, but he also peers into the future, foreseeing a media landscape dominated by a highly fragmented, though active audience, intense media competition, and scarce advertising dollars. By embracing new technologies, however, Pavlik shows how professional journalism and media can hold on to their role as a vital information lifeline and continue to operate as the tool of a successful democracy.

Game Design or Practical Poser 7

Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light

Author: Deborah Todd

This book takes a real-world, in-depth journey through the game-design process, from the initial blue sky sessions to pitching for a green light. The author discusses the decision and brainstorming phase, character development and story wrap, creation of content and context outlines, flowcharting game play, and creating design documents. Special features include examples of both classic and contemporary games, and interviews with many of the game industry's brightest professionals who share their insights on key elements in game design, and their analysis on what makes a game a blockbuster hit. This book is a perfect guide for the novice, student, and game enthusiast interested in learning the nuts and bolts of the computer-game industry.

About the Author
Deborah Todd is a veteran award-winning designer, writer, producer, and director in the interactive arena, with 14 published games and 20 published titles to her credit since 1991. She has worked with some of the industry's top publishers and Hollywood studios, including Disney Interactive, Disneyland, Fox, DreamWorks, Discovery Channel, MGM/UA, Columbia, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, The Learning Company, Humongous Entertainment, Broderbund, Mindscape, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Random House, and Steven Spielberg's Starlight Foundation.

What People Are Saying

Matt Costello
". . . a remarkable insiders' look into the exploding, often chaotic world of video games, from blue sky to green light to the final boxed game on the shelf. Game Design is an invaluable resource for beginners and established pros alike!"--(Matt Costello, GXB Interactive)

Corey Bridges
"Deb's pulled off a remarkable feat: she's produced a book that's both inspirational and practical. Listen to her and the other video game industry experts she interviews, and save yourself years of forehead-slapping."--(Corey Bridges, co-founder and Executive Producer, Multiverse)

Christofer Sundberg
"Read this first! If you want to break into the business, this book will help you shorten the long, hard road many of us have traveled."--(Christofer Sundberg, President, Avalanche Studios, Just Cause)

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

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Practical Poser 7

Author: Denise Tyler

Do you want to take your Poser skills beyond the basics and put the new features of Poser 7 into practice right away? If so, you?ve come to the right place. Practical Poser 7 is an updated edition of this best-selling reference for intermediate to advanced Poser users. It teaches the tasks you want and need to know to get the most out of Poser 7 for achieving professional, commercial-quality work. This edition covers new Poser features, including new animation functionality, morphing tools, and more. Learn texturing and material techniques from a master texture artist, and explore the work of Poser pros in the beautiful color section!

Networking or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Video Training Book Series

Networking: A Beginner's Guide

Author: Bruce Hallberg

Here is an unparalleled introduction to networking, offering easy-to-follow details on design and configuration, hardware, networking protocols, remote access, and security. This updated guide contains expanded coverage of wireless networking, the latest Windows and Linux releases, and security measures. New networking professionals will first learn what they need to know about network technology, and then how to apply that knowledge to set up, manage, and secure networks.

Bruce Hallberg (Cupertino, CA) has been involved in the computer industry for over 20 years. He has consulted nationally for Fortune 1000 firms on the implementation of management information systems and networking systems. He has designed and set up hundreds of networks over the years, including using all versions of NetWare and Windows NT/2000/2003 Server. For the past 10 years, he has been director of Information Systems for a biotechnology company in the SF Bay Area. While no longer a professional programmer, he is competent in a variety of computer languages, including both low- and high-level languages.

He has over 20 book credits, including titles on Windows NT, Netware, Exchange Server, Windows 9x, OS/2, and Microsoft Office.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 [Video Training Book Series]

Author: Garrick Chow

Benefit from the best of both mediums — video-based training and a printed guide! Each Lynda.com Video Training Book offers hours of instructor-led video instruction, complete with a step-by-step, printed book to guide readers through each tutorial. The video tutorials let readers learn at their own pace, while the book offers a complete reference, helping readers identify the video tutorials they want to watch (timecodes are printed in the book), giving them the exercise files they need, and highlighting important keyboard shortcuts, tips, notes, and practical advice.

In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Video Training Book, readers learn how to use all the tools to get them started with creating great Web sites, including working with text and images, adding links, modifying page properties, and managing Web sites. From there they'll move on to more advanced topics like using the new CSS layouts, techniques for working with new Photoshop integration features, and embedding audio and video files into pages. The tutorials show you everything you need to know to go from creating your first page to publishing an entire site on the Web.

This new series offers creative professionals the tools they need to get up to speed quickly and affordably—a Video Training Book is a great alternative to a weekend crash course! The Video Training Book series features the proven teaching methods of lynda.com and of authors and industry experts, such as Deke McClelland, Chris Orwig, Garrick Chow, and David Blatner, who make learning an engaging experience, bringing clarity to new or difficult concepts and software programs.

Data Quality or ARM System Developers Guide

Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension

Author: Jack E Olson

Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension is about assessing the quality of corporate data and improving its accuracy using the data profiling method. Corporate data is increasingly important as companies continue to find new ways to use it. Likewise, improving the accuracy of data in information systems is fast becoming a major goal as companies realize how much it affects their bottom line. Data profiling is a new technology that supports and enhances the accuracy of databases throughout major IT shops. Jack Olson explains data profiling and shows how it fits into the larger picture of data quality.

* Provides an accessible, enjoyable introduction to the subject of data accuracy, peppered with real-world anecdotes.

* Provides a framework for data profiling with a discussion of analytical tools appropriate for assessing data accuracy.

* Is written by one of the original developers of data profiling technology.

* Is a must-read for any data management staff, IT management staff, and CIOs of companies with data assets.

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ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software

Author: Andrew Sloss

Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date no book has directly addressed their need to develop the system and software for an ARM-based system. This text fills that gap.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the operation of the ARM core from a developer's perspective with a clear emphasis on software. It demonstrates not only how to write efficient ARM software in C and assembly but also how to optimize code. Example code throughout the book can be integrated into commercial products or used as templates to enable quick creation of productive software.

The book covers both the ARM and Thumb instruction sets, covers Intel's XScale Processors, outlines distinctions among the versions of the ARM architecture, demonstrates how to implement DSP algorithms, explains exception and interrupt handling, describes the cache technologies that surround the ARM cores as well as the most efficient memory management techniques. A final chapter looks forward to the future of the ARM architecture considering ARMv6, the latest change to the instruction set, which has been designed to improve the DSP and media processing capabilities of the architecture.

* No other book describes the ARM core from a system and software perspective.
* Author team combines extensive ARM software engineering experience with an in-depthknowledge of ARM developer needs.
* Practical, executable code is fully explained in the book and available on the publisher's Website.
* Includes a simple embedded operating system.

What People Are Saying

"Colored with practical examples, and thorough treatment of topics such as ISRs, code optimization, DSP on ARM and the like, this book is essential for every embedded software engineer and hardware engineer alike."
—J. Scott Runner, Senior Staff Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm CMDA Technologies, Qualcomm Inc.

"I have been using this book since reviewing the first draft, and can recommend it to anyone who wants the get the best out of their ARM Powered products."
—Peter Maloy, CodeSprite Inc.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents:

1. ARM Embedded Systems
1.1 The RISC Design Philosophy
1.2 The ARM Design Philosophy
1.3 Embedded System Hardware
1.4 Embedded System Software
1.5 Summary

2 ARM Processor Fundamentals
2.1 Registers
2.2 Current Program Status Register
2.3 Pipeline
2.4 Exceptions, Interrupts, and the Vector Table
2.5 Core Extensions
2.6 Architecture Revisions
2.7 ARM Processor Families
2.8 Summary

3 Introduction to the ARM Instruction Set
3.1 Data Processing Instructions
3.2 Branch Instructions
3.3 Load-Store Instructions
3.4 Software Interrupt Instruction
3.5 Program Status Register Instructions
3.6 Loading Constants
3.7 ARMv5E Extensions
3.8 Conditional Execution
3.9 Summary

4 Introduction to the Thumb Instruction Set
4.1 Thumb Register Usage
4.2 ARM-Thumb Interworking
4.3 Other Branch Instructions
4.4 Data Processing Instructions
4.5 Single-Register Load-Store Instructions
4.6 Multiple-Register Load-Store Instructions
4.7 Stack Instructions
4.8 Software Interrupt Instruction
4.9 Summary

5 Efficient C Programming
5.1 Overview of C Compilers and Optimization
5.2 Basic C Data Types
5.3 C Looping Structures
5.4 Register Allocation
5.5 Function Calls
5.6 Pointer Aliasing
5.7 Structure Arrangement
5.8 Bit-fields
5.9 Unaligned Data and Endianness
5.10 Division
5.11 Floating Point
5.12 Inline Functions and Inline Assembly
5.13 Portability Issues
5.14 Summary

6 Writing and Optimizing ARM Assembly Code
6.1 Writing Assembly Code
6.2 Profiling and Cycle Counting
6.3 Instruction Scheduling
6.4 Register Allocation
6.5 Conditional Execution
6.6 Looping Constructs
6.7 Bit Manipulation
6.8 Efficient Switches
6.9 Handling Unaligned Data
6.10 Summary

7 Optimized Primitives
7.1 Double-Precision Integer Multiplication
7.2 Integer Normalization and Count Leading Zeros
7.3 Division
7.4 Square Roots
7.5 Transcendental Functions: log, exp, sin, cos
7.6 Endian Reversal and Bit Operations
7.7 Saturated and Rounded Arithmetic
7.8 Random Number Generation
7.9 Summary
8 Digital Signal Processing
8.1 Representing a Digital Signal
8.2 Introduction to DSP on the ARM
8.3 FIR filters
8.4 IIR Filters
8.5 The Discrete Fourier Transform
8.6 Summary

9 Exception and Interruput Handling
9.1 Exception Handling
9.2 Interrupts
9.3 Interrupt Handling Schemes
9.4 Summary

10 Firmware
10.1 Firmware and Bootloader
10.2 Example: Sandstone
10.3 Summary

11 Embedded Operating Systems
11.1 Fundamental Components
11.2 Example: Simple Little Operating System
11.3 Summary

12 Caches
12.1 The Memory Hierarchy and Cache Memory
12.2 Cache Architecture
12.3 Cache Policy
12.4 Coprocessor 15 and Caches
12.5 Flushing and Cleaning Cache Memory
12.6 Cache Lockdown
12.7 Caches and Software Performance
12.8 Summary

13 Memory Protection Units
13.1 Protected Regions
13.2 Initializing the MPU, Caches, and Write Buffer
13.3 Demonstration of an MPU system
13.4 Summary

14 Memory Management Units
14.1 Moving from an MPU to an MMU
14.2 How Virtual Memory Works
14.3 Details of the ARM MMU
14.4 Page Tables
14.5 The Translation Lookaside Buffer
14.6 Domains and Memory Access Permission
14.7 The Caches and Write Buffer
14.8 Coprocessor 15 and MMU Configuration
14.9 The Fast Context Switch Extension
14.10 Demonstration: A Small Virtual Memory System
14.11 The Demonstration as mmuSLOS
14.12 Summary

15 The Future of the Architecture
by John Rayfield
15.1 Advanced DSP and SIMD Support in ARMv6
15.2 System and Multiprocessor Support Additions to ARMv6
15.3 ARMv6 Implementations
15.4 Future Technologies beyond ARMv6
15.5 Conclusions
Appendix A: ARM and Thumb Assembler Instructions

Appendix: B ARM and Thumb Instruction Encodings
Appendix C: Processors and Architecture
Appendix D: Instruction Cycle Timings
Appendix E: Suggested Reading

Index

Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4 or Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows

Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4: The Essential Techniques for Imaging Professionals

Author: Richard Harrington

If you're considering a career in digital imaging or design or already working in the field, Adobe Photoshop is a tool you need to master. This book covers the core image editing techniques in Photoshop CS4 that a professional truly needs to know to succeed.

Learn the basics of acquiring and editing images; making selections and image enhancements; and using more advanced features such as layer styles and layer masking. Rich Harrington covers the essential skills needed to launch or advance your career with a focus not just on digital imaging, but also the Web, graphic design, multimedia, and video.

This full-color guide includes an interactive disc with more than 200 hands-on exercises and practice images, access to more than 20 hours of video podcast tutorials, and bonus materials from a companion Web site (www.peachpit.com/understandingphotoshop) to provide a rich multimedia experience for beginning and intermediate Photoshop users.

You will also learn about:

• Compositing with layers and Photomerge
• Repairing and retouching digital images
• Color corrections and enhancements
• Blending modes and maximizing filters
• Smart Objects and Smart Filters
• Photoshop actions and automations to speed up your workflow

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Maria Langer

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is the biggest revision this industry standard software has undergone in years. It has a brand new interface, tons of new tools and even a suite of services called Excel Services to allow you to share your valuable data on the web. For the first time in years there is a lot to learn to make the most of this powerful new update. To take advantage of all of the new features in this powerful program (and to do so quickly), users need this Visual QuickStart Guide. In these pages, veteran author and trusted Excel teacher Maria Langer provides step-by-step instructions for the full gamut of Excel tasks: from worksheet basics like editing, using functions, formatting cells, and adding graphics objects, to more advanced topics like creating charts, working with databases, and Web publishing. She also shows readers how to use Excel Services to dynamically render a spreadsheet as HTML so others can access a spreadsheet stored on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 within any Web browser. As with all Visual QuickStart Guide books, clear, concise instructions and lots of visual aids make learning easy and painless.

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web or Ruby Cookbook

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Elizabeth Castro

Perl is one of the most popular scripting languages for adding powerful interactive features to Web pages. Perl lets you place forms on your site that collect and process user input such as comments and product orders; enables visitors to search for information; and can integrate a database into your site, among its many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide fully revised and updated since its original 1998 release, gets users to the core of CGI scripting with Perl. Even first-time programmers will be able to create useful, workable scripts from scratch, or adapt and customize existing scripts to their own needs. Hundreds of screen shots and clear, easy-to-understand directions make this the perfect Perl book for beginners, as well as a handy reference for those with previous programming experience.

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New edition of a resource that shows how to create useful new scripts or adapt existing ones to individual needs. Castro (author of several books about the Web) tells how to set up and install a local server in order to learn Perl and test scripts without signing up with a commercial Web host; place forms on Web sites that collect and process user input such as product orders and comments; use CGI.pm, the standard Perl module for analyzing incoming form data; and how to debug and use security techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	13
Ch. 2	Perl Building Blocks	23
Ch. 3	About Servers, Perl, and CGI.pm	41
Ch. 4	Running Perl CGI on a Unix Server	49
Ch. 5	Testing Scripts Locally on Windows	59
Ch. 6	Testing Scripts Locally on the Mac	71
Ch. 7	Getting Data from Visitors	83
Ch. 8	Environment Variables	99
Ch. 9	Getting Data into the Script	103
Ch. 10	Simple Operations with Scalars	109
Ch. 11	Conditionals and Loops	121
Ch. 12	Working with Arrays	139
Ch. 13	Subroutines	157
Ch. 14	Working with Hashes	167
Ch. 15	Analyzing Data	181
Ch. 16	Remembering What Visitors Tell You	205
Ch. 17	Formatting, Printing, and HTML	221
Ch. 18	Security	237
Ch. 19	Files and Directories	247
Ch. 20	Uploading Files	269
	App. A: Debugging	277
	App. B: Using Other Folks' Scripts	285
	App. C: Permissions on Unix	291
	App. D: Unix Essentials	295
	App. E: Perl and CGI Resources	309
	Index	315

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Ruby Cookbook

Author: Lucas Carlson

With the introduction of Ruby on Rails, the hot new web development framework, the Ruby scripting language has been a rising star among programmers over the past year. This new book -- written in the tradition of our highly successful Perl, Python, and Java cookbook titles -- covers all aspects of the language, from the basics to more advanced issues, so that programmers of any level can learn by example and improve their Ruby development skills.
Not only does a large section of the "Ruby Cookbook" deal with Ruby on Rails, there are also plenty of hands-on recipes for a variety of other projects using the language, including system administration, building applications with the Rake build tool, working with databases and persistence, and writing extensions to Ruby. This problem-solving cookbook sets the standard for Ruby in a variety of programming environments.

Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers Using Excel or The Elements of Computing Systems

Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers using Excel

Author: Byron S Gottfried

Through previous editions, this practical text has found a permanent spot in many introductory engineering courses by successfully combining an introduction to Excel fundamentals with a clear presentation on how Excel can be used to solve common engineering problems. Updated to ensure compatability with all recent versions of Excel, this third edition of Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers provides beginning engineering students with a strong foundation in problem solving using Excel as the modern day equivalent of the slide rule.

As part of McGraw-Hill's BEST series for freshman engineering curricula, this text is particularly geared toward introductory students. The author provides plenty of background information on technical terms, and numerous examples illustrating both traditional and spreadsheet solutions for a variety of engineering problems. The first three chapters introduce the basics of problem solving and Excel fundamentals. Beyond that, the chapters are largely independent of one another. Topics covered include graphing data, converting units, analyzing data, interpolation and curve fitting, solving equations, evaluating integrals, writing macros, and comparing economic alternatives.

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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

Author: Noam Nisan

In the early days of computer science, the interactions of hardware, software, compilers, and operating system were simple enough to allow students to see an overall picture of how computers worked. With the increasing complexity of computer technology and the resulting specialization of knowledge, such clarity is often lost. Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an integrated and rigorous picture of applied computer science, as its comes to play in the construction of a simple yet powerful computer system.

Indeed, the best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads students through twelve chapters and projects that gradually build a basic hardware platform and a modern software hierarchy from the ground up. In the process, the students gain hands-on knowledge of hardware architecture, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering. Using this constructive approach, the book exposes a significant body of computer science knowledge and demonstrates how theoretical and applied techniques taught in other courses fit into the overall picture.

Designed to support one- or two-semester courses, the book is based on an abstraction-implementation paradigm; each chapter presents a key hardware or software abstraction, a proposed implementation that makes it concrete, and an actual project. The emerging computer system can be built by following the chapters, although this is only one option, since the projects are self-contained and can be done or skipped in any order. All the computer scienceknowledge necessary for completing the projects is embedded in the book, the only pre-requisite being a programming experience.

The book's web site provides all tools and materials necessary to build all the hardware and software systems described in the text, including two hundred test programs for the twelve projects. The projects and systems can be modified to meet various teaching needs, and all the supplied software is open-source.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : hello, world below	1
1	Boolean logic	7
2	Boolean arithmetic	29
3	Sequential logic	41
4	Machine language	57
5	Computer architecture	79
6	Assembler	103
7	Virtual machine I : stack arithmetic	121
8	Virtual machine II : program control	153
9	High-level language	173
10	Compiler I : syntax analysis	199
11	Compiler II : code generation	223
12	Operating system	247
13	Postscript : more fun to go	277

Pro SharePoint Solution Development or HTML Dog

Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007

Author: Ed Hild

Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2007 takes a practical problem/solution approach to common business challenges. You'll not only encounter interesting code samples, but also see how to combine these examples with the Microsoft collaboration platform's services. The book's solutions focus on using Visual Studio Tools for Office to build the user interface layer. And solutions can interact with SharePoint as a service provider, taking advantage of SharePoint's many collaboration features like document repositories, collaboration sites, and search functions.

This book is unique because it starts with challenges that end users deal with every day when using the Microsoft collaboration platform to support business processes. The solutions are presented as the hypothetical business challenges of a fictional company. By presenting the examples in this context, authors Ed Hild and Susie Adams make it easier to relate to the challenges and solution value. And the goal of these examples is to build applications that apply the benefits of the Office desktop interface with the richness of SharePoint's collaboration features.

Table of Contents:

About the Authors     xv
About the Technical Reviewer     xvii
Introduction     xix
Introduction
Office Business Applications     3
Microsoft Excel Solutions     7
Microsoft Word Solutions     8
Microsoft PowerPoint Solutions     8
Microsoft Outlook Solutions     9
Microsoft InfoPath Solutions     9
Conclusion     10
Development-Environment Requirements     10
SharePoint Products and Technologies: Overview and New Features     13
History of SharePoint Technologies     13
Windows SharePoint Services v3     15
ASP.NET 2.0 Foundation     15
Repository Enhancements     19
Deployment Model Based on "Features"     22
Site Enhancements     23
User Interface     25
Workflow     26
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007     27
Portal Enhancements     28
Search     29
Content Management     31
Business Process     33
Business Intelligence     34
Further Reading     36
Microsoft Office 2007 Overview for Developers     37
History of Microsoft Office Development     37
Why Developers Should Care About Office     38
Development Opportunities with Office 2007     38
The Open XML File Format     39
Using Managed Code     47
Further Reading     50
Visual Studio Tools for Office Overview     51
History of Visual Studio Tools for Office     51
Versions and Compatibility     54
Developing with VSTO     56
Add-Ins     56
Ribbon Customization     58
Task Panes     60
Outlook Form Regions     62
Document-Level Projects     65
Further Reading     66
Microsoft Excel Solutions
Maintaining Offline List Content from Multiple Sites     69
Real-World Examples     69
Solution Overview     70
Solution Walkthrough     71
Creating the Projects List Definition     72
Creating the Excel Smart Document Project     77
Designing the DataSet     78
Detecting Internet Connectivity     80
Constructing the Actions Pane     80
Maintaining the List of Site Connections     83
Constructing the Synchronization Interface      86
Architecting the Synchronization Process     87
Getting the Data on the Spreadsheet     94
Using the Tool     95
Building Visualizations in Excel     96
Running in Excel 2007     96
Considering Deployment Options     97
Important Lessons     98
Extension Points     99
Further Reading     100
Integrating Spreadsheets into the Enterprise     101
Real-World Examples     101
Solution Overview     102
Solution Walkthrough     102
Introducing the Spreadsheet     103
Setting Up an External Source: Products Database     105
Setting Up an External Source: Shipping Web Service     107
Constructing the UDF Class     108
Deploying the UDF Class and Registering It for Use in Excel     114
Enhancing the Spreadsheet     115
Preparing Excel Services for the Spreadsheet     118
Publishing to Excel Services     119
Integrating the Spreadsheet into a Custom Application     122
Important Lessons     125
Extension Points     126
Further Reading     126
Microsoft Word Solutions
Merging SharePoint List Data into Word Documents     129
Real-World Examples     129
Solution Overview     129
Solution Walkthrough     130
Creating Content Types     130
Building the CustomerDocuments Feature Project     133
Defining the Feature     135
Deploying the Feature     140
Building a Custom Application Page     143
Using a Custom XML Part in a Document Template     146
Performing the Merge     151
Important Lessons     154
Extension Points     154
Further Reading     155
Working Collaboratively with Document Fragments     157
Real-World Examples     157
Solution Overview     158
Solution Walkthrough     100
Creating the XML Schema     159
Applying the Schema to a Document     160
Examining the Document's XML     163
Building the Document Section Feature Project     165
Defining the Feature     167
Deploying the Feature     172
Building a Custom Application Page for Splitting     174
Examining the Splitter Class     178
Building a Custom Application Page for Merging      180
Examining the SectionMerge class     181
Important Lessons     182
Extension Points     183
Further Reading     184
Microsoft PowerPoint Solutions
Extending PowerPoint to Build a Presentation Based on Site Content     189
Real-World Examples     189
Solution Overview     190
Solution Walkthrough     190
Creating the Project     191
Ribbon Customization     191
Architecture of the Task Pane and Wizard Step User Controls     195
Important Lessons     208
Extension Points     208
Further Reading     209
Building a Presentation Server-Side within a Web Part     211
Real-World Examples     211
Solution Overview     211
Solution Walkthrough     213
Setting Up the Team Site and Content     213
Creating the Presentation Template     214
Creating the Web-Part Project     215
Basics of the DynamicPowerPoint Web Part     217
Deploying the Web Part     220
Debugging the Web Part     222
Overview of Office XML Formats and PresentationML     223
Iterating through the Template      225
Building the Title Slide     228
Building the Slide for Hardware Issues     229
Building the Slide for Software Issues     232
Important Lessons     234
Extension Point     235
Further Reading     235
Microsoft Outlook Solutions
Working with Email Messages and SharePoint     239
Real-World Examples     239
Solution Overview     239
Solution Walkthrough     240
Creating the Outlook Add-in Project     241
Building the Custom Task Pane     241
Customizing the Ribbon Interface     243
Managing the Task-Pane Instances     249
Retrieving the Document Libraries     251
Saving the Email Message     254
Important Lessons     259
Extension Points     259
Further Reading     260
Surfacing Data from Line-of-Business Applications     261
Real-World Examples     261
Solution Overview     262
Solution Walkthrough     263
The Sample LOB Database     263
Constructing the BDC Application Definition     266
Configuring the Profile Pages     273
Testing in a Team Site      274
Building the Custom Web Service     275
Deploying and Testing the Web Service     278
Building the Outlook Form Region     279
Deploying the Form Region     284
Important Lessons     286
Extension Point     287
Further Reading     287
Microsoft InfoPath Solutions
Taking InfoPath Forms to the Web     291
Real-World Examples     292
Solution Overview     292
Solution Walkthrough     293
Understanding the Cross-Domain and Multi-Hop Problems     293
Creating the InfoPath Solution     296
Setting Up the Database-LoanData     300
Creating the Web Service     302
Connecting the Form to the Web Service     307
Deploying the Template to Office Forms Server     310
Debugging and Testing Managed Code in Visual Studio     313
Integrating Security and SSO     314
Hosting the Form in ASP. NET     316
Web-Part Hosting     319
Extension Points     322
Further Reading     322
Incorporating Workflow into Forms Processing     323
Real-World Examples     324
Solution Overview      324
Solution Walkthrough     326
Understanding Workflow in SharePoint     326
Understanding How WSS 3.0 Processes Workflow Activities     328
Creating the LoanWF Test Environment     329
Creating the Workflow Template     331
Adding Error Handling     342
Creating the Custom Task Form     344
Deploying the Workflow     348
Attaching the Workflow to a Forms Library     351
Testing and Debugging the Workflow     352
Extension Points     353
Further Reading     353
Conclusion
Realizing the Vision     357
Viewing SharePoint as a Set of Services     358
A Real-World Example     360
Tools to Support the Development Environment     360
SharePoint Solution Generator     360
Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit     361
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio Extensions     362
Business Data Catalog Application Definition Generators     363
Looking Ahead     363
A Thank-You     364
Index     365

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HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS

Author: Patrick Griffiths

For readers who want to design Web pages that load quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on all browsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, this comprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By focusing on the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement each other, Web design pro Patrick Griffiths provides the fastest, most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web design tasks. With Web standards best practices at its heart, it outlines how to do things the right way from the outset, resulting in highly optimized web pages, in a quicker, easier, less painful way than users could hope for! Split into 10 easy-to-follow chapters such as Text, Images, Layout, Lists, and Forms, and coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSS property appendixes, HTML Dog is the perfect guide and companion for anyone wanting to master these languages. Readers can also see the lessons in action with more than 70 online examples constructed especially for the book.

Genetic Programming or Knowledge and Communities

Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection

Author: John R Koza

Genetic programming may be more powerful than neural networks and other machine learning techniques, able to solve problems in a wider range of disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs. Genetic Programming contains a great many worked examples and includes a sample computer code that will allow readers to run their own programs.

In getting computers to solve problems without being explicitly programmed, Koza stresses two points: that seemingly different problems from a variety of fields can be reformulated as problems of program induction, and that the recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a way to search the space of possible computer programs for a highly fit individual computer program to solve the problems of program induction. Good programs are found by evolving them in a computer against a fitness measure instead of by sitting down and writing them.

John R. Koza is Consulting Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

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Knowledge and Communities

Author: Eric Lesser

Knowledge and Communities is the first book dedicated to a major new knowledge management topic. "Communities of Practice" are cross-organizational groups of people sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and exchanging insights and frustrations. Knowledge and Communities, a collection of authoritative articles, describes the dynamics of these groups and explains how they enable organizational knowledge to be creating, shared, and applied.

The book teaches how organizations can empower both traditional and on-line communities and make them a cornerstone of a general knowledge management strategy. Readers will learn how communities can help unify an organization and its external stakeholders, such as customers and suppliers, and how they can critically support an e-commerce strategy. Knowledge and Communities will help readers understand a primary vehicle for building an organization's social capital and competitive advantage.

Hot-topic - addresses how virtual/on-line communities drive an organization's e-commerce and knowledge strategies
Establishes best practices for building and maintaining traditional and virtual communities

Table of Contents:

PART 1- Practical Applications; 1: Wenger, Etienne, "Communties of Practice: The Key to Knowledge Strategy,"; 2: McDermott, Richard, "How Information Technology Inspired But Cannot Deliver Knowledge Management,"; 3: Judge, Fryxell and R. Dooley, "The New Task of R&D Management,"; 4: Stamps, David, "Communities of Practice,"; 5: Storck, John and P. Hill, "Knowledge Diffusion through Strategic Communities,"; 6: Armstrong, A, and J. Hagel, "The Real Value of On-line Communities,"; PART 2- Theory Development; 7: Brown, John and Paul Duguid, "Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice," 8: Prusak, L. and E. Lesser, "Communities of Practice, Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge,"; 9: Liedtka, Jeanne, "Linkingf Competitive Advantage with Communities of Practice,"; 10: Teigland, Robin, "Communities of Practice at an Internet Firm,"; 11: Wellman, Salaff, et al., "Computer Networks as Social Networks,"; 12: Franco, Piirto, et al., "Conflict and Community Building on the Internet,"; 13: Marshall, Catherine, F. Shipman III and R.J. McCall, "Making Large Scale Information Resources Serve Communities of Practice."

MCTS Windows Vista Client Configuration Passport or Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration

MCTS Windows Vista Client Configuration Passport (Exam 70-620)

Author: Brian Culp

Your ticket to success on exam day

This concise, affordable, and portable study tool helps you prepare for the new Technology Specialist certification exam for Windows Vista. MCTS Windows Vista Client Configuration Passport focuses on only what you need to know to pass the tests, and the unique travel theme helps you remember key concepts.The CD-ROM includes a free practice exam.

Brian Culp, MCT, MCSE, A+  is president and CEO of LANscape, Inc., a computer training and network administration service provider. He is the author of Mike Meyers' MCSE Windows XP Professional Certification Passport.

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Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration

Author: Kurt Wall

This book is the book you need to run your business with Red Hat. It provides comprehensive coverage on how to manage and network the Red Hat Linux OS and step-by-step instructions needed to maintain and/or add to the Red Hat Linux system.

This book features an entire part on security and problem solving that covers detecting intrusions/hacking, implementing local security, firewalls, and Internet security. Other topics include: RAID; TCP/IP networking; connecting to Microsoft networks; connecting to Apple networks; the Red Hat network; upgrading and customizing the kernel; using scripts; backing up and restoring the file system.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	System and network administration defined	1
Ch. 1	Duties of the system administrator	3
Ch. 2	Planning the network	13
Ch. 3	Standard installation	29
Ch. 4	Kickstart installation	71
Ch. 5	Exploring the desktops	97
Ch. 6	System startup and shutdown	127
Ch. 7	The file system explained	141
Ch. 8	Examining the system configuration files	163
Pt. 2	Network services	203
Ch. 9	Managing the X Window system	205
Ch. 10	Configuring printers	217
Ch. 11	TCP/IP networking	229
Ch. 12	The network file system	265
Ch. 13	The network information system	309
Ch. 14	Connecting to Microsoft and Novell networks	339
Ch. 15	Configuring a database server	351
Ch. 16	Creating a VNC server	381
Ch. 17	Providing additional network services	393
Ch. 18	Optimizing network services	415
Pt. 3	Internet services	427
Ch. 19	What are Internet services?	429
Ch. 20	Configuring BIND : the domain name system	443
Ch. 21	Configuring mail services	467
Ch. 22	Configuring FTP services	491
Ch. 23	Configuring a Web server	511
Ch. 24	Providing Web services	555
Ch. 25	Optimizing Internet services	581
Pt. 4	System administration	595
Ch. 26	Keeping your system updated with up2date and the Red Hat network	597
Ch. 27	Upgrading and customizing the kernel	615
Ch. 28	Configuring the system at the command line	673
Ch. 29	Administering users and groups	707
Ch. 30	Installing and upgrading software packages	745
Ch. 31	Backing up and restoring the file system	779
Ch. 32	Performance monitoring	805
Pt. 5	System security and problem solving	833
Ch. 33	Exploring SELinux security	835
Ch. 34	Implementing network security	847
Ch. 35	Troubleshooting and problem solving	875
App. A	Bash shell scripting	905

Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out or The Cult of the Amateur

Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out

Author: John L Viescas

Hey, you know your way around Microsoft Access—so now dig into Access 2003 and really put your databases to work! This supremely organized reference packs all the information you need to master every major tool, task, and enhancement in Access 2003—without the fluff. Quickly advance your expertise constructing a database, importing and exporting data, building queries, linking data, using forms, creating reports and applications, publishing data on the Web, implementing security features, and other critical functions. You'll gain hundreds of timesaving solutions and troubleshooting tips in concise, fast-answer format. You also get the entire book on CD-ROM, along with the Access Productivity Kit, featuring author extras such as sample files; two complete database applications from inside the book; the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and dozens of other resources, including several direct from the Office product group. With INSIDE OUT, you'll discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks—and challenge yourself to new levels of Access mastery!

Interesting textbook: Misunderestimated or In Churchills Shadow

The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

Author: Andrew Keen

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show

In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.

Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our “cut-and-paste” online culture—in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated—threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors.

In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debateand manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented.

The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite—Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself—he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions.

Offering concrete solutions on how we can rein in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     ix
Introduction     1
The great seduction     11
The noble amateur     35
Truth and lies     64
The day the music died [side a]     97
The day the music died [side b]     114
Moral disorder     141
1984 (version 2.0)     164
Solutions     184
Web 2.0 and politics     206
Notes     215
Acknowledgments     223
Index     227

Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days or Programming in Visual Basic 2008

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

Author: Bradley Jones

Join the leagues of thousands of programmers and learn C++ from some of the best. The fifth edition of the best seller Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, written by Jesse Liberty, a well-known C++ and C# programming manual author and Bradley L. Jones, manager for a number of high profiler developer websites, has been updated to the new ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. This is an excellent hands-on guide for the beginning programmer. Packed with examples of syntax and detailed analysis of code, fundamentals such as managing I/O, loops, arrays and creating C++ applications are all covered in the 21 easy-to-follow lessons. You will also be given access to a website that will provide you will all the source code examples developed in the book as a practice tool. C++ is the preferred language for millions of developers-make Sams Teach Yourself the preferred way to learn it!

Table of Contents:

1	Getting started	5
2	The anatomy of a C++ program	25
3	Working with variables and constants	41
4	Creating expressions and statements	67
5	Organizing into functions	99
6	Understanding object-oriented programming	137
7	More on program flow	175
8	Understanding pointers	221
9	Exploiting references	255
10	Working with advanced functions	289
11	Object-oriented analysis and design	329
12	Implementing inheritance	371
13	Managing arrays and strings	407
14	Polymorphism	449
15	Special classes and functions	505
16	Advanced inheritance	537
17	Working with streams	593
18	Creating and using namespaces	637
19	Templates	659
20	Handling errors and exceptions	715
21	What's next	751
A	Working with numbers : binary and hexadecimal	807
B	C++ keywords	817
C	Operator precedence	819

See also: Excelência em Negócio

Programming in Visual Basic 2008

Author: Julia Case Bradley

The author team of Julia Bradley and Anita Millspaugh remain the guiding light in Programming with Visual Basic 2008 for countless students around the world. How better to master the most popular object-oriented programming language than to use the bestselling textbook? Be at the cutting edge of technology with examples, feedback questions, and a full Hands On Programming Example. Apply the concepts yourself with Case Studies and Exercises. Screen captures, step-by-step exercises, and thorough appendices ensure that Programming Excellence Begins Here.

Windows Communication Foundation 35 Unleashed or Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration

Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed (Unleashed Series)

Author: Craig McMurtry

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's dynamic technology for allowing autonomous software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a single solution that is designed to always be the best way to exchange data among software entities. It also provides the infrastructure for developing the next generation of Web Services, with support for the WS-* family of specifications, and a new serialization system for enhanced performance. In the 3.5 release, WCF has been expanded to include support for REST, JSON, and Syndication (RSS and Atom) services, further broadening the possibilities for what can be done. For information technology professionals, WCF supplies an impressive array of administration tools that enterprises and software vendors can use to reduce the cost of ownership of their solutions without writing a single line of code. Most important, WCF delivers on the promise of model-driven software development with the new software factory approach, by which one can iteratively design solutions in a modeling language and generate executables from lower-level class libraries.

Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed is designed to be the essential resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers through a conceptual understanding of all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the technology to practical problems.

As evangelists at Microsoft for WCF, WF, and CardSpace, Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri, Nigel Watling, and Matt Winkler are uniquely positioned to write this book. They had access to the development team and to the product as it was being built. Their work with enterprises and outside software vendors has given them unique insight into how others see the software, how they want to apply it, and the challenges they face in doing so.

• Gives you nearly 100 best practices for programming with WCF
• Provides detailed coverage of how to version services that you will not find anywhere else
• Delves into using WCF together with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows CardSpace
• Provides detailed coverage of the new high-performance data contract serializer for .NET
• Walks you through creating secure, reliable, transacted messaging, and how to understand the available options
• Introduces you to federated, claims-based security and shows you how to incorporate SAML and WS-Trust security token services into your architecture
• Provides step-by-step instructions for how to customize every aspect of WCF
• Shows you how to add behaviors, communication channels, message encoders, and transports
• Presents options for implementing publish/subscribe solutions
• Gives clear guidance on peer-to-peer communications with WCF

New interesting textbook: Cooked or Eating up the Santa Fe Trail

Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional

Author: Sander Van Vugt

You love it as the world’s most popular desktop Linux distribution, and now Ubuntu is available at a server near you. Embracing the very same features desktop users have grown to love, system administrators are rapidly adopting Ubuntu due to their ability to configure, deploy, and manage network services more effectively than ever.

Practical Ubuntu Server Administration guides you through all of the key configuration and administration tasks you’ll need to know. Whether you’re interested in adopting Ubuntu within a Fortune 500 environment or just want to use Ubuntu to manage your home network, this book is your go-to guide to using the distribution securely for a wide variety of network services. Topics include file, print, web, and FTP management, command-line tips and tricks, automated installation, configuration and deployment processes, and kernel management.
What you’ll learn

• Effectively and securely install, update, and deploy your Ubuntu server.
• Configure your server to operate most effectively for a wide variety of purposes, including as a web server, FTP server, and a file and printer manager.
• Rev up your command-line knowledge by taking advantage of little-known shell-related features, tips, and tricks.
• Remotely manage your server through a wide-variety of services.

Who is this book for?

System administrators and application developers seeking to use Ubuntu as a Linux server
About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry-level job. These books will teach you a standard andimportant technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You'll start your journey by seeing what you need to know--but without needless theory and filler. You'll build your skill set by learning how to put together real-world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there--it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
Related Titles

• Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Second Edition
• From Bash to Z-Shell: Conquering the Command Line
• Hardening Linux

Absolute C or Microsoft Office 2003

Absolute C++

Author: Walter Savitch

   Organized around the structure of the C++ programming language, Absolute C++, Third Edition, benefits C++ readers of all levels with its comprehensive coverage and accessible style. Best-selling author Walt Savitch presents concepts and techniques in a clear, concise manner using understandable language and code enhanced by a suite of pedagogical tools.

C++ Basics; Flow of Control; Function Basics; Parameters and Overloading; Arrays; Structures and Classes; Constructors and Other Tools; Operator Overloading, Friends, and References; Strings; Pointers and Dynamic Arrays; Separate Compilation and Namespaces; Streams and File I/O; Recursion; Inheritance; Polymorphism and Virtual Functions; Templates; Linked Data Structures; Exception Handling; Standard Template Library; Patterns and UML.

For all readers interested in the C++ programming language.

New interesting textbook: Hollywood Dish or Italian Vegetarian Cooking

Microsoft Office 2003: Advanced Concepts and Techniques

Author: Gary B Shelly

For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series® has effectively introduced computers to millions of students, consistently providing the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our series of Microsoft Office 4.3, Microsoft Office 95, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Office XP textbooks have been the most widely used books in computer education. With each new edition of our Office books, we have made significant improvements based on software changes and comments made by both instructors and students. Our Microsoft Office 2003 books continue with the innovation, quality, and reliability that you have come to expect from the Shelly Cashman Series.

Table of Contents:

Word 2003
4. Creating a Document with a Table, Chart, and Watermark
5. Generating Form Letters, Mailing Labels, and Directories
6. Creating a Professional Newsletter Collaboration Feature: Using Word's Collaboration Tools Excel 2003
4. Financial Functions, Data Tables, Amortization Schedules, and Hyperlinks
5. Creating, Sorting, and Querying a List
6. Creating Templates and Working with Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks Integration Feature: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Web Discussions Access 2003
4. Reports, Forms, and Combo Boxes
5. Enhancing Forms with OLE Fields, Hyperlinks, and Subforms
6. Switchboards, PivotTables, and PivotCharts Web Feature: Data Access Pages PowerPoint 2003
3. Using Visuals to Enhance a Slide Show
4. Modifying Visual Elements and Presentation Formats Collaboration Feature: Delivering Presentations to and Collaborating with Workgroups Outlook 2003
2. Schedule Management Using Outlook Office 2003 Integration Microsoft Office 2003 Integration Case Studies
Appendices A: Microsoft Office Help System B: Speech and Handwriting Recognition and Speech Playback C: Publishing Office Web Pages to a Web Server D: Changing Screen Resolution and Resetting the Toolbars and Menus E: Microsoft Office Specialist Certification

Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 Study Guide or Perl Best Practices

Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 Study Guide (Exams 310-XXX & 310-XXX)

Author: Paul Sanghera

Primarily Written for those who want to earn the Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) certification for Solaris 10, this guide presents full coverage of the official objectives for both the required exams: CX-310-200 and CX-310-202. In spite of the laser sharp focus on the exam objectives, this is not a cram style book. Written in a classroom-based teaching style, this book presents material in a sequential fashion: topics and chapters build upon the previously covered topics and chapters. There is no hopping from topic to topic. An introductory chapter for beginners and a cohesive, concise, yet comprehensive presentation of the material makes it a self contained book that requires no prior experience in Solaris or UNIX. Even after passing the exam, you will find yourself coming back to use this book as an on-the-job reference.

Full coverage of exam topics includes:

• Basic and advanced Solaris 10 installation
• Managing file systems and core dumps
• Performing user and security administration
• Managing network printers and system processes
• Performing system backups and restores and managing storage volumes
• Managing naming services
• Managing role based access control and system messaging
• Understanding fundamentals of TCP/IP networking and managing network services

The book features complete details on all exam objectives, 250+ practice questions, step-by-step exercises, on-the-job elements, a two-minute drill at the end of each chapter that reviews the key points in the chapter, and chapter self-tests. The CD contains MasterExam practice exam software with all new questions, a Searchable electronic book, and a second practice exam (withfree online registration).

Dr. Paul Sanghera (San Jose, CA) Linux+, Network+, CAN, SCP, SCSA, is a technologist, educator, and entrepreneur based in the Silicon Valley, California. With a Ph.D. in Physics, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Cornell University, Dr. Sanghera is an expert in Computer Networking, TCP/IP protocols, Java Technologies, and peer to peer distributed communication systems. He has more than 15 years experience working with the UNIX system environment, including work at research laboratories such as CERN and the Wilson Nuclear Synchrotron Laboratory at Cornell University, and in the computer industry. He has taught technology courses in the Bay Area at CSU Hayward, San Jose State University, Golden Gate University, and Brooks College.

Paul was a founding member and Director of Engineering at an e-commerce company, weborder, that was sold to Netopia. He has also been at the ground floor of several other technology startups such as Dream Logic, and MP3.com. DR. Sanghera has also worked as Senior Software Engineer at Novell, and Netscape, and have contributed to technologies such as Netscape Communicator, NDS, and sellerXpert. Author and co-author of more than 150 research papers published in American and European research journals, Dr. Sanghera has made professional presentations by invitation at several International conferences.

Book about: Cooking Vegetarian or Kitchen

Perl Best Practices

Author: Damian Conway

Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.

But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. "Perl Best Practices" author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects.

With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.

They're designed to work together to produce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise, but Dr. Conway doesn't pretend that this is the one true universal and unequivocal set of best practices. Instead, "Perl Best Practices"offerscoherent and widely applicable suggestions based on real-world experience of how code is actually written, rather than on someone's ivory-tower theories on how

software ought to be created.

Most of all, "Perl Best Practices" offers guidelines that actually work, and that many developers around the world are already using. Much like Perl itself, these guidelines are about helping you to get your job done, without getting in the way.

Praise for "Perl Best Practices" from Perl community members:

"As a manager of a large Perl project, I'd ensure that every member of my team has a copy of "Perl Best Practices" on their desk, and use it as the basis for an in-house style guide."

-- Randal Schwartz

"There are no more excuses for writing bad Perl programs. All levels of Perl programmer will be more productive after reading this book."

-- Peter Scott

"Perl Best Practices" will be the next big important book in the evolution of Perl. The ideas and practices Damian lays down will help bring Perl out from under the embarrassing heading of "scripting languages." Many of us have known Perl is a real programming language, worthy of all the tasks normally delegated to Java and C++. With Perl Best Practices, Damian shows specifically how and why, so everyone else can see, too."

-- Andy Lester

"Damian's done what many thought impossible: show how to build large, maintainable Perl applications, while still letting Perl be the powerful, expressive language that programmers have loved for years."

-- Bill Odom

"Finally, a means to bring lasting order to the process and product of real Perl development teams."

-- Andrew Sundstrom

"Perl Best Practices" provides a valuable education in how to write robust, maintainable Perl, and is a definitive citation source when coaching other programmers."

-- Bennett Todd

"I've been teaching Perl for years, and find the same question keeps being asked: Where can I find a reference for writing reusable, maintainable Perl code? Finally I have a decent answer."

-- Paul Fenwick

"At last a well researched, well thought-out, comprehensive guide to Perl style. Instead of each of us developing our own, we can learn good practices from one of Perl's most prolific and experienced authors. I recommend this book to anyone who prefers getting on with the job rather than going back and fixing errors caused by syntax and poor style issues."

-- Jacinta Richardson

"If you care about programming in any language read this book. Even if you don't intend to follow all of the practices, thinking through your style will improve it."

-- Steven Lembark

"The Perl community's best author is back with another outstanding book. There has never been a comprehensive reference on high quality Perl coding and style until "Perl Best Practices," This book fills a large gap in every Perl bookshelf."

-- Uri Guttman

Table of Contents:

1	Best practices	1
2	Code layout	8
3	Naming conventions	36
4	Values and expressions	51
5	Variables	73
6	Control structures	93
7	Documentation	132
8	Built-in functions	149
9	Subroutines	175
10	I/O	202
11	References	227
12	Regular expressions	235
13	Error handling	273
14	Command-line processing	299
15	Objects	318
16	Class hierarchies	359
17	Modules	397
18	Testing and debugging	420
19	Miscellanea	441

Classic Lego Mindstorms Project and Software Tools or Complete Digital Photography

Classic Lego Mindstorms Project and Software Tools: Award-Winning Designs from Master Builders

Author: Mario Ferrari

This Book/DVD kit meets the growing demand from Lego Mindstorms fans for additional projects that can be built from their existing Lego Mindstorms kits. Over 40 new projects will appeal to that dedicated segment of the Lego audience that are committed to the RIS 1.x and 2.x standards.

The book contains seven complete "Master" projects that illustrate how great design, planning, mechanical engineering skills, and programming can create stunning and award winning projects.

The DVD contains instruction for over 40 projects in Adobe PDF form, a full suite of Lego software tools, and RCX/NQC code files.

The projects range from the simple to the sophisticate, and are perfect for self-learning.

* Complete new set of projects for the RIS 1.x and 2.x

* This Book and DVD package delivers a complete kit, perfect for team projects as well as those individual building

* packed full with award winning designs that will inspire any Mindstorms fan

Read also American Black Chamber or Designing Web Usability

Complete Digital Photography

Author: Ben Long

Digital photography has arrived once and for all. No longer do photographers have to be defensive because they prefer digital. Thanks to new technologies, digital cameras at all ends of the price spectrum can rival their film counterparts. If you have shifted from traditional to digital photography, and need to know what's different about shooting digital, this is the book for you. Now in its third edition, this bestseller has been fine-tuned and updated to provide you with the most current information on today's cameras that you'll find anywhere. Whether you're new to photography, or new to digital photography, you'll learn how to take the best possible shots. Even though your camera may pack an image sensor instead of film, taking good pictures still involves understanding apertures, shutter speeds, and metering techniques, as well as a few other issues that film shooters don't face. Fortunately, digital cameras also provide some unique tools to help you get the shot right the first time.

Covering everything from the inner workings of your camera to the subtle intricacies of your image editing software, the book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a basic technical foundation that will prepare you for the rest of the book. It details the basics of how digital cameras work and gives you a quick photography primer. The second part explores everything you need to know to make an informed decision about which camera, computer, and software is right for you. In section three, you'll progress to the nitty gritty of shooting, including metering, choosing the right exposure, using histograms, flash photography, and much more. In the final section, you'll learn about digital editing and correction techniques, along with the various methods for outputting your images (print and electronic). If you're new to photography, you'll learn the basic theory that photographers have studied for decades, as well as the latest tools and techniques made possible by the shift to digital. If you're an experienced film photographer, you'll see how to translate the knowledge you already have into the digital realm.
 
Features:
* Includes completely revised and updated coverage
* Provides new, detailed coverage of camera evaluation, including the latest technologies and affordable SLR cameras
* Includes completely re-written explanations and examples of metering and exposure, including hands-on tutorials
* Covers Photoshop CS and of Photoshop Elements 2.0
* Includes many new tutorials on improved methods for correcting and enhancing photos, and addresses the most common types of corrections users want to make
* Provides new and expanded coverage of the basic questions camera purchasers have, including how many pixels are needed, how to reduce red eye, shooting inside versus outside, etc.

 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To work through the tutorials in the book, you will need Photoshop CS (a demo is included on the CD). WINDOWS: Intel® Pentium® II or better; Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3, or Windows XP; 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended); 300MB of available drive space; Color monitor with 16- bit color card or better; CD-ROM drive. MACINTOSH: PowerPC® G3 or better; Mac OS X v. 10.2.4 or better; 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended); 350MB of available drive space; color monitor with 16- bit color support, or better; CD-ROM drive. Please check the individual demos for specifics

Booknews

Intended both for amateur photographers and for traditional film photographers who wish to understand the new technology, this manual explains how to produce high quality digital photographs. Covers basic technological concepts, basic photography, choosing equipment, building a work station, shooting, exposure, preparing images for editing, color and tone correction, special effects, and other topics. CD-ROM includes images used in tutorials, built around Adobe Photoshop, along with Mac and Windows demo Photoshop versions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 How a Digital

Configuring CallManager and Unity or Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Configuring CallManager and Unity: A Step-by-Step Guide

Author: David Bateman

An indispensable step-by-step configuration guide for IP Telephony professionals 

• Includes step-by-step configuration instructions for CallManager features and Unity administration tasks
  
• Demonstrates how to deploy devices and implement your dial plan
  
• Covers Call Admission Control features and class of service
  
• Examines different subscriber types and how subscribers are added, imported, and managed
  
• Includes step-by-step instructions for call handling and auto attendant configuration
  
• Describes how to use Unity and CallManager together to deliver unique features

To properly deploy any type of technology, networking professionals must understand not only the technology but also how to configure and integrate it with other solutions. That’s the key to Configuring CallManager and Unity–it focuses on the configuration issues associated with CallManager and Unity® deployments while ensuring that you understand the technologies behind your deployment.

 

Configuring CallManager and Unity includes step-by-step guides that system administrators and other networking professionals can use in the field. These step-by-step instructions have been worked out by an author who has both taught and implemented Cisco® solutions in real-world situations, so coverage is comprehensive for both basic and complex implementations. You will find information that will assist in the configuration of CallManager-related tasks, suchas device configuration, gateway implementation, and dial-plan creation to name a few. You will also find Unity-related configuration tasks, ranging from the basics, such as holiday and schedule configuration, to more involved tasks, such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) networking implementation. In addition to covering Unity and CallManager tasks, this book includes a chapter on leveraging the capabilities of both systems to create integrated solutions, such as a MeetMe conference manager.

 

Tasks in Configuring CallManager and Unity are organized in the same order you would naturally perform them, and some tasks are cross-referenced with other required tasks for easy reference. You learn not only how to configure CallManager and Unity but also how to create a more feature-rich environment by leveraging CallManager and Unity features. Regardless of your specific needs, you’ll find Configuring CallManager and Unity to be a timesaving tool when performing common or complicated configuration tasks.

  

This IP communications book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. IP communications titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals understand voice and IP telephony technologies, plan and design converged networks, and implement network solutions for increased productivity.

 

 

Book review: Contabilidad Financiera en un Contexto Económico, Guía de Estudio

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine

Author: Kalen Delaney

Understanding the internals of storage in SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, maintain, and mine information from enterprise data. This practical, hands-on book focuses on the SQL Server 2005 Storage Engine and delves deep into the structures used for storing data, including files, tables, indexes, and data types. Topics also include security details, with coverage of the new SQL Server 2005 security model, and data protection through the backup and restore algorithms. With pragmatic advice, best practices, extensive code samples, and table examples, developers and database administrators will find the guidance they need to better understand how to build powerful, efficient databases.

Managing Active Directory With Windows Powershell or Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008

Managing Active Directory With Windows Powershell

Author: Jeffery Hicks

So you're got Active Directory and PowerShell. how do you make them work together? Find out in Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM. You'll not only learn about managing Active Directory users and groups with PowerShell, but also computer accounts, group policy, Active Directory infrastructure and more. Coverage includes how to use "out of the box" PowerShell features like the [ADSI] type adapter, as well as 3rd party solutions such as the Quest Software Active Roles Management Shell for Active Directory. Inside you'll find plenty of real-world and practical examples, including complete scripts you can use right now to get your job done faster and more efficiently! This book is not only the definitive guide to Managing Active Directory, but also local directory services. Need to manage the local administrator account on 1000 servers? Need to find out who belongs to the local Administrators group on those 1000 servers? You can easily accomplish these tasks and more with PowerShell right from your desktop. If you are just getting started with PowerShell or need a quick refresher, jump in with the PowerShell Crash Course in Chapter 1 and hit the ground running. Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM can be used as a reference guide or read cover to cover as a thorough tutorial led by a Windows PowerShell MVP. PowerShell will be The Windows management tool, so why wait?

New interesting book: Compassion as a Subversive Activity or The Science of Hair Care

Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008

Author: Matthew MacDonald

Silverlight 2 is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X).

Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008 is the perfect reference—you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial written for the professional developer. You’ll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you’re most productive in—no matter what the target platform.

What you’ll learn

Develop rich media applications using Silverlight and Visual Basic across browsers and platforms.

Create a project, set up a layout, and use controls.

Handle 2D drawing, animation, and media playback through Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Integrate web services support.

Use Silverlight in conjunction with ASP.NET and its interactions withHTML.

Who is this book for?

Visual Basic 2005 and 2008 developers encountering Silverlight for the first time. No prior knowledge of WPF or ASP.NET is assumed.

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.

The Sims 2 or Persuasive Games

The Sims 2: Seasons Expansion Pack

Author: Greg Kramer

Everything You Need to Enjoy All Four Seasons with Your Sims!

• Detailed lists and stats for all-new objects and socials.
• Master the art of making the best love potions, energy drinks, health boosters, and more.
• Tips and tricks to grow the perfect garden and catch fresh fish to grill on the barbeque.
• Navigate the 6 new career paths and learn to master every job to become a success in any field.
• Get all the info on the changing seasons to make the greatest impact on your lot.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: What’s New
Chapter 2: Seasons
Chapter 3: Weather
Chapter 4: The Sim’s Guide to Gardening and Fishing
Chapter 5: New Careers
Chapter 6: New Objects
Chapter 7: New Socials
Chapter 8: New NPCs and PlantSims
Chapter 9: Build Mode Additions
Chapter 10: A Tour of Riverblossom Hills
Chapter 11: Jobs by Career Level
Chapter 12: Objects
Chapter 13: Socials

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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames

Author: Ian Bogost

Videogames are both an expressive medium and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric.

Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change those positions, leading to potentially significant long-term social change. Bogost looks at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and education. Bogost is both an academic researcher and a videogame designer, and Persuasive Games reflects both theoretical and game-design goals.

The Internet or Excel 2003 All in One Desk Reference For Dummies

The Internet (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

You won’t remember how you lived without it.

The internet has revolutionized everything from communication, shopping, and research to travel, job hunting, and even dating. Get up to speed with the basics on:

• What the internet is, where it came from, and how to connect to it

• Web browsers, search engines, and tools to make your surfing safe and secure
• The best websites for shopping, news, reviews, social networking, and more

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Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Author: Greg Harvey PhD

When you think of number-crunching and spreadsheets, you think of Excel, right? After Word, it’s the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite. But if technical jargon isn’t your first language, you may have found Excel just a teeny bit frustrating. It can be really hard to pick your way through the many features and make Excel do what you need for it to do.

Once you know how, you can use Excel to

• Create fill-in-the-blank forms

• Prepare expense reports and invoices

• Manage all sorts of data

• Keep sales and inventory records

• Analyze financial data and create forecasts

• Present information in charts and graphs

Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies tames the Excel monster. Nine minibooks break things down into manageable, logical sections covering the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, working on the Web, and tweaking Excel with a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. In the friendly, plain-English For Dummies style, this book makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and get instructions for doing what you need to do. You’ll be able to

• Find your way around Excel’s menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes, and access online help

• Format a professional-looking spreadsheet that presents data the way you choose

• Edit an existing spreadsheet without disturbing its design or contents

• Build Excel formulas and use built-in functions toproduce the calculations you want

• Share spreadsheet data with other people and programs, and collect comments

• Create great-looking charts and find out how to choose the right format to display your data effectively

• Use Excel to maintain large amounts of data, then filter the data to extract the information you need

• Publish spreadsheets and charts on the Web in HTML format

• Explore ways to customize Excel with VBA

Best of all, it’s easy to find what you need in Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Before you know it, you’ll discover you’ve developed a friendship with Excel that will make your life easier, boost your business, and impress your friends!

Microsoft Visual C 2005 Step by Step or Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step

Author: John Sharp

Visual C#, a feature of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005, is a modern programming language designed to deliver a productive environment for creating business frameworks and reusable object-oriented components. Now you can teach yourself essential techniques with Visual C#-and start building components and Microsoft Windows®-based applications-one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you're a beginning programmer or new to this particular language, you'll learn how, when, and why to use specific features of Visual C# 2005. Each chapter puts you to work, building your knowledge of core capabilities and guiding you as create your first C#-based applications for Windows, data management, and the Web.

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Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3

Author: Scott Citron

Adobe changed the landscape of design when it combined the tools that many creative professionals were using into one suite of applications—Adobe Creative Suite. And with this latest version—CS3—designers have even more reason to herald their favorite software as it not only gives them further tools, features, and performance, but offers additional interoperability across the various programs in the suite. As if answering the designer’s call for guidance, author and distinguished designer Scott Citron leads them through the ins-and-outs of the Creative Suite in his first book, Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3. With an easy, engaging style, Scott takes a designer’s approach to address the complexities of working in the suite and focuses on important design principles that can be applied to working in all the programs. How do designers determine what fonts to choose? Why do certain color choices never fail? How can designers use space more effectively? All of these questions and more are explored as readers are given real-world design projects that cement these principles.

Part inspiration and part how-to, each chapter contains a full project, complete with steps and full-color illustrations. Project files, plug-ins, and other goodies are included on the accompanying CD-ROM so that readers can follow along and recreate each project themselves. Designers will also appreciate the tips, sidebars, inspirations, and expert commentary throughout. Whether they are aspiring designers or practicing professionals, anyone who is interested in learning new design techniques will come away with a solid foundation in this extraordinarysuite of creativity tools.

Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows or Accounting Information Systems

Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Jan Ozer

Pinnacle Studio 10 is the latest version of the industry leading home video editing tool aimed at the Windows consumer market. In Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, veteran journalist and teacher Jan Ozer tackles Pinnacle Studio version 10 in classic and popular QuickStart style--with step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and straightforward language. Jan provides the skinny on all popular Studio 10 features like built-in DVD authoring with motion menus and custom navigation; Pan and Zoom, enabling users to quickly create engaging video slideshows from digital photos; SmartMovie II, a tool that let's you create home movies in minutes; dual monitor display; key framing special effects in real-time; and the Instant DVD Recorder. He also covers key Pinnacle Studio Plus 10 features including picture in picture (PIP); Chroma Key effects (green screen); and full HD editing, particularly creating HD slide shows from digital photos.

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Accounting Information Systems

Author: James A Hall

The sixth edition of ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS provides thorough and up-to-date coverage of accounting information systems and related technologies. It features an early presentation of transaction cycles, as well as an emphasis on ethics, fraud, and the modern manufacturing environment. The book focuses on the needs and responsibilities of accountants as end users of systems; systems designers; and auditors. This edition provides complete integrated coverage of Sarbanes-Oxley as it affects internal controls and other relevant topics affected by this legislation, as well as reorganized discussion of transaction cycles that make the balance between manual- and computer-based systems more apparent.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: OVERVIEW OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS. 1. The Information System: An Accountant's Perspective. 2. Introduction to Transaction Processing. 3. Ethics, Fraud, and Internal Control. PART 2: TRANSACTION CYCLES AND BUSINESS PROCESSES. 4. The Revenue Cycle. 5. The Expenditure Cycle Part I: Purchases and Cash Disbursements Procedures. 6. The Expenditure Cycle Part II: Payroll Processing and Fixed Asset Procedures. 7. The Conversion Cycle. 8. General Ledger, Financial Reporting, and Management Reporting Systems. PART 3: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS. 9. Database Management Systems. 10. The REA Approach to Business Process Modeling. 11. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. 12. Electronic Commerce Systems. PART 4: SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. 13. The Systems Development Process Part I: Introduction to the Systems Development Life Cycle. 14. The Systems Development Process Part II: System Selection, Detailed Design, and System Implementation. PART 5: COMPUTER CONTROLS AND AUDITING. 15. Controlling Computer-Based Information Systems, Part I. 16. Controlling Computer-Based Information Systems, Part II. 17. Information Systems Auditing and Assurance.

High Performance Web Sites or Web Copy That Sells

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers

Author: Steve Souders

Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines. The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you've already built into your site—adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process. Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book's companion web site. The rules include how to: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups Minify JavaScript Avoid Redirects Remove Duplicates Scripts Configure ETags Make Ajax Cacheable If you're building pages for high traffic destinations and want to optimize the experience of users visiting your site, this book is indispensable. "If everyone would implement just 20% of Steve's guidelines, the Web would be a dramaticallybetter place.Between this book and Steve's YSlow extension, there's really no excuse for having a sluggish web site anymore." -Joe Hewitt, Developer of Firebug debugger and Mozilla's DOM Inspector "Steve Souders has done a fantastic job of distilling a massive, semi-arcane art down to a set of concise, actionable, pragmatic engineering steps that will change the world of web performance." -Eric Lawrence, Developer of the Fiddler Web Debugger, Microsoft Corporation

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Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time

Author: Maria Veloso

In order for a Web site to sell effectively, it must appeal to the unique culture, mindset, and psychology of the Web. Simply put, what works in the brick-and-mortar world does not necessarily grab Web shoppers. Companies selling products and services online need to promote their wares with engaging copy that grabs attention and compels Web site visitors to buy.

Web Copy That Sells presents copy strategies that have been proven time and again in the e-commerce arena. Maria Veloso, perhaps the most widely acclaimed Web copywriter in the world, reveals her revolutionary approach based on five simple questions, which, when answered, make the copy practically write itself. Veloso crams all the information from her 12-hour, $997 live seminars into a comprehensive book that will help any Web copywriter:

• write sizzling and irresistible Web copy, e-mails, and marketing communications
• quickly turn lackluster sites into "perpetual money machines"
• use Neuro-Linguistic Programming and psychological tactics to compel Web surfers to buy
• avoid the top three blunders that can wipe out your sales
• convert up to 50% of online prospects into paying customers
• and more!

Author Biography: Maria Veloso (Los Angeles, CA) is Director of Web Copywriting University and the former Director of Creative Web Writing for Aesop.com, a major Internet marketing company.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	xv
	Acknowledgment	xxi
	Introduction	1
1	Getting Started: The Dynamics of Web Selling	9
	Three Fundamental Rules for Writing Web Copy that Sells	10
Rule 1	Don't Make Your Website Look Like an Ad	11
Rule 2	Stop Readers Dead in Their Tracks	13
Rule 3	Capture E-Mail Addresses	16
	The First Look	19
	Web Copy Dos and Don'ts	22
	Reading on the Web	26
	Words Tell, Emotion Sells	28
	How to Become a Great Web Copywriter in Five Hours or Less	31
2	A Simple Blueprint for Writing Killer Web Copy	33
	Creating the Blueprint: Five Simple Questions You Must Ask	36
Question 1	What Is the Problem?	36
Question 2	Why Hasn't the Problem Been Solved?	37
Question 3	What Is Possible?	38
Question 4	What Is Different Now?	38
Question 5	What Should You Do Now?	39
	The Anatomy of the Blueprint	39
	Putting the Blueprint to Work: Five Easy Steps to Making Your Web Copy Sell	46
Step 1	Inject Emotion	46
Step 2	Add Bullet Points, Bonuses, Guarantee, and Close	49
Step 3	Add Credibility-Building Elements	54
Step 4	Add Psychological Devices	56
Step 5	Replace Rational Words with Emotional Words	57
	Reinforcing the Framework: A Summary	60
3	From Prospects to Purchasers: The Psychological Motivators	63
	The "Reason Why" Device	64
	The Zeigarnik Effect	65
	The Cliffhanger	67
	Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)	67
	Embedded Commands	68
	Presuppositions	70
	Linguistic Binds	73
	Reframing	75
	The Commitment/Consistency Element of Influence	77
	Cognitive Dissonance	78
	Involvement Devices That Multiply Sales	81
	Involvement Devices and the Recovery Principle	86
4	Crafting Your Copy	91
	Constructing Your Web Copy	92
	The AIDA Principle	92
	The Unique Selling Proposition	94
	Making an Impression: The First Paragraph	96
	The Offer You Can't Refuse	97
	Testimonials: It Can Happen to You	99
	Talking About Money: How to Introduce the Price	100
	Minor-Purchase Technique	100
	Daily-Cost Technique	101
	Keep on Selling: Writing the Order Form	102
	The Money-Back Guarantee: A Deal Maker	103
	The Close: Signing on the Dotted Line	105
	Call to Action	106
	Get a Calling Card: The Opt-In Mechanism	106
	How to Construct a Riveting Headline	107
	What's in a Headline?	109
	The Building Blocks of Winning Web Headlines	110
	Choosing Your Words: Tips, Terms, and Concepts	114
	Words to Avoid in Your Web Copy	115
	Words to Use in Your Web Copy	117
	Dos and Don't of Web Copywriting	120
	The Long and Short of It: How Long Should Web Copy Be?	126
	How Well Does Your Website Sell?	128
	Formula for Mathematically Measuring the Selling Quotient of Web Copy	129
5	E-Mail Marketing: The Internet's Killer Application	135
	Traffic Conversion: Turning Visitors into Customers	136
	Wagging the Website	137
	Why Your E-Mail May Be More Important Than Your Website	139
	The Frame-of-Mind Marketing Method for Writing E-Mails	143
	Breaking the Sales Barrier	146
	The Future of E-Mail Marketing	147
	How to Make Sure Your E-Mail Is Delivered	149
	How to Avoid the Spam Blockers	150
	Does Your E-Mail Test Positive as Spam?	152
	How to Write E-Mail That's Read	152
	Seven Elements of E-Mails That Sell	153
	Put the Competitive Edge into Your E-Mail Marketing	164
	Adapt as Your Audience's Frame of Mind Changes	166
	Using E-Mail to Get Attention	167
	What Really Works on the Internet Sometimes Doesn't	170
6	Online Marketing Communications: It's What You do After People Visit Your Website that Counts	173
	The Opt-In Offer: Your Most Important Asset	174
	Five Keys to an Opt-In Offer That's Impossible to Refuse	176
	Presenting the Offer	179
	How to Write Irresistible Autoresponder E-Mails	179
	Quick Primer on Autoresponders	179
	Crafting Autoresponses to Your Opt-In Offer	180
	Crafting Autoresponses to Customers	182
	How to Format Your E-Mails for Optimum Readability	183
	How to Write Free Reports and Promotional Articles	184
	Guidelines for Writing Newsletters and E-Zines	186
	Guidelines for Writing Online Ads, Signature Files, and Banner Copy	188
	Three Tips for Writing Online Ads	190
7	Last But Not Least: Tying It All Together	193
	Track It, Fix It: What to Do When Web Copy Is Not Working	194
	Four Steps to Web Copywriting Success	198
	Track Your Results	200
	Traffic Generation: Getting the Word Out and the Visitors In	203
	Search Engine Positioning	203
	Pay-per-Click Search Engines	205
	Linking Strategies	206
	E-Zines and Newsletters	208
	Index	211

Modern C Design or Check Point NGX R65 Security Administration

Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied

Author: Andrei Alexandrescu

Modern C++ Designis an important book. Fundamentally, it demonstrates ‘generic patterns’ or ‘pattern templates’ as a powerful new way of creating extensible designs in C++–a new way to combine templates and patterns that you may never have dreamt was possible, but is. If your work involves C++ design and coding, you should read this book. Highly recommended.
–Herb Sutter

What’s left to say about C++ that hasn’t already been said? Plenty, it turns out.
–From the Foreword by John Vlissides

In Modern C++ Design, Andrei Alexandrescu opens new vistas for C++ programmers. Displaying extraordinary creativity and programming virtuosity, Alexandrescu offers a cutting-edge approach to design that unites design patterns, generic programming, and C++, enabling programmers to achieve expressive, flexible, and highly reusable code.

This book introduces the concept of generic components–reusable design templates that produce boilerplate code for compiler consumption–all within C++. Generic components enable an easier and more seamless transition from design to application code, generate code that better expresses the original design intention, and support the reuse of design structures with minimal recoding.

The author describes the specific C++ techniques and features that are used in building generic components and goes on to implement industrial strength generic components for real-world applications. Recurring issues that C++ developers face in their day-to-day activity are discussed in depth and implemented in a generic way. These include:

• Policy-based designfor flexibility
• Partial template specialization
• Typelists–powerful type manipulation structures
• Patterns such as Visitor, Singleton, Command, and Factories
• Multi-method engines

For each generic component, the book presents the fundamental problems and design options, and finally implements a generic solution.

In addition, an accompanying Web site, awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-70431-5, makes the code implementations available for the generic components in the book and provides a free, downloadable C++ library, called Loki, created by the author. Loki provides out-of-the-box functionality for virtually any C++ project.

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Presents a collection of reusable design artifacts, called generic components, together with the techniques that make them possible. The author describes techniques for policy-based design, partial template specialization, typelists, and local classes, then goes on to implement generic components for smart pointers, object factories, functor objects, the Visitor design pattern, and multimethod engines. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Scott Meyers.
Foreword by John Vlissides.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.

I. TECHNIQUES.

1. Policy-Based Class Design.
The Multiplicity of Software Design.
The Failure of the Do-It-All Interface.
Multiple Inheritance to the Rescue?
Templates Bring Hope.
Policies and Policy Classes.
Enriched Policies.
Destructors of Policy Classes.
Optional Functionality Through Incomplete Instantiation.
Combining Policy Classes.
Customizing Structure with Policy Classes.
Compatible and Noncompatible Policies.
Decomposing a Class in Policies.
Summary.

2. Techniques.
Compile-Time Assertions.
Partial Template Specialization.
Local Classes 28 2.4 Mapping Integral Constants to Types.
Type-to-Type Mapping.
Type Selection.
Detecting Convertibility and Inheritance at Compile Time.
A Wrapper Around type_info.
NullType and EmptyType.
Type Traits.
Summary.

3. Typelists.
The Need for Typelists.
Defining Typelists.
Linearizing Typelist Creation.
Calculating Length.
Intermezzo.
Indexed Access.
Searching Typelists.
Appending to Typelists.
Erasing a Type from a Typelist.
Erasing Duplicates.
Replacing an Element in a Typelist.
Partially Ordering Typelists.
Class Generation with Typelists.
Summary.
Typelist Quick Facts.

4. Small-Object Allocation.
The Default Free Store Allocator.
The Workings of a Memory Allocator.
A Small-Object Allocator.
Chunks.
The Fixed-Size Allocator.
The SmallObjAllocator Class.
A Hat Trick.
Simple, Complicated, Yet Simple in the End.
Administrivia.
Summary.
Small-Object Allocator Quick Facts.

II. COMPONENTS.

5. Generalized Functors.
The Command Design Pattern.
Command in the Real World.
C11 Callable Entities.
The Functor Class Template Skeleton.
Implementing the Forwarding Functor::operator().
Handling Functors.
Build One, Get One Free.
Argument and Return Type Conversions.
Handling Pointers to Member Functions.
Binding.
Chaining Requests.
Real-World Issues I: The Cost of Forwarding Functions.
Real-World Issues II: Heap Allocation.
Implementing Undo and Redo with Functor.
Summary.
Functor Quick Facts.

6. Implementing Singletons.
Static Data + Static Functions != Singleton.
The Basic C11 Idioms Supporting Singleton.
Enforcing the Singleton's Uniqueness.
Destroying the Singleton.
The Dead Reference Problem.
Addressing the Dead Reference Problem (I):.
Addressing the Dead Reference Problem (II):.
Implementing Singletons with Longevity.
Living in a Multithreaded World.
Putting It All Together.
Working With SingletonHolder.
Summary.
SingletonHolder Class Template Quick Facts.

7. Smart Pointers.
Smart Pointers 101.
The Deal.
Smart Pointers' Storage.
Smart Pointer Member Functions.
Ownership-Handling Strategies.
The Address-of Operator.
Implicit Conversion to Raw Pointer Type.
Equality and Inequality.
Ordering Comparisons.
Checking and Error Reporting.
Smart Pointers to const and const Smart Pointers.
Arrays.
Smart Pointers and Multithreading.
Putting It All Together.
Summary.
SmartPtr Quick Facts.

8. Object Factories.
The Need for Object Factories.
Object Factories in C11: Classes and Objects.
Implementing an Object Factory.
Type Identifiers.
Generalization.
Minutiae.
Clone Factories.
Using Object Factories with Other Generic Components.
Summary.
Factory Class Template Quick Facts.
CloneFactory Class Template Quick Facts.

9. Abstract Factory.
The Architectural Role of Abstract Factory.
A Generic Abstract Factory Interface.
Implementing AbstractFactory.
A Prototype-Based Abstract Factory Implementation.
Summary.
AbstractFactory and ConcreteFactory Quick Facts.

10. Visitor.
Visitor Basics.
Overloading: The Catch-All Function.
An Implementation Refinement: The Acyclic Visitor.
A Generic Implementation of Visitor.
Back to the “Cyclic” Visitor.
Hooking Variations.
Summary.
Visitor Generic Component Quick Facts.

11. Multimethods.
What Are Multimethods?
When Are Multimethods Needed?
Double Switch-on-Type: Brute Force.
The Brute-Force Approach Automated.
Symmetry with the Brute-Force Dispatcher.
The Logarithmic Double Dispatcher.
FnDispatcher and Symmetry.
Double Dispatch to Functors.
Converting Arguments: static_cast or dynamic_cast?
Constant-Time Multimethods: Raw Speed.
BasicDispatcher and BasicFastDispatcher as Policies.
Looking Forward.
Summary.
Double Dispatcher Quick Facts.

Appendix A. Minimalist Multithreading Library.
A Critique of Multithreading.
Loki's Approach.
Atomic Operations on Integral Types.
Mutexes.
Locking Semantics in Object-Oriented Programming.
Optional volatile Modifier.
Semaphores, Events, and Other Good Things.
Summary.

Bibliography.
Index. 0201704315T04062001

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Check Point NGX R65 Security Administration

Author: Ralph Bonnell

Check Point NGX R65 is the next major release of Check Point's flagship firewall software product, which has over 750,000 registered users. Check Point's NGX is the underlying security software platform for all of the company's enterprise firewall, VPN and management solutions. It enables enterprises of all sizes to reduce the cost and complexity of security management and ensure that their security systems can be easily extended to adapt to new and emerging threats. This title is a continuation of Syngress' best-selling references on Check Point's market leading Firewall and VPN products.

* First book to market covering Check Point's new, flagship NGX R65 Firewall/VPN.
* Provides bonus coverage for Check Point's upcoming NGX R65 Certification exams.
* Companion Web site offers customized scripts for managing log files.

Scene of the Cybercrime or Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide

Scene of the Cybercrime

Author: Debra Littlejohn Shinder

When it comes to computer crimes, the criminals got a big head start. But the law enforcement and IT security communities are now working diligently to develop the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully investigate and prosecute Cybercrime cases. When the first edition of "Scene of the Cybercrime" published in 2002, it was one of the first books that educated IT security professionals and law enforcement how to fight Cybercrime. Over the past 5 years a great deal has changed in how computer crimes are perpetrated and subsequently investigated. Also, the IT security and law enforcement communities have dramatically improved their ability to deal with Cybercrime, largely as a result of increased spending and training. According to the 2006 Computer Security Institute's and FBI's joint Cybercrime report: 52% of companies reported unauthorized use of computer systems in the prior 12 months. Each of these incidents is a Cybecrime requiring a certain level of investigation and remediation. And in many cases, an investigation is mandates by federal compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated book which covers all of the technological, legal, and regulatory changes, which have occurred since the first edition. The book is written for dual audience; IT security professionals and members of law enforcement. It gives the technical experts a little peek into the law enforcement world, a highly structured environment where the "letter of the law" is paramount and procedures must be followed closely lest an investigation be contaminatedand all the evidence collected rendered useless. It also provides law enforcement officers with an idea of some of the technical aspects of how cyber crimes are committed, and how technology can be used to track down and build a case against the criminals who commit them. Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Editions provides a roadmap that those on both sides of the table can use to navigate the legal and technical landscape to understand, prevent, detect, and successfully prosecute the criminal behavior that is as much a threat to the online community as "traditional" crime is to the neighborhoods in which we live. Also included is an all new chapter on Worldwide Forensics Acts and Laws.

* Companion Web site provides custom tools and scripts, which readers can download for conducting digital, forensic investigations.
* Special chapters outline how Cybercrime investigations must be reported and investigated by corporate IT staff to meet federal mandates from Sarbanes Oxley, and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard
* Details forensic investigative techniques for the most common operating systems (Windows, Linux and UNIX) as well as cutting edge devices including iPods, Blackberries, and cell phones.

Table of Contents:

1: Facing the Cybercrime Problem Head-on; 2: Emerging Cybercrime Techniques; 3: Understanding the People on the Scene; 4: The Computer Investigation Process; 5: Acquiring Data, Duplicating Data, and Recovering Deleted Files; 6: Understanding Network Intrusions and Attacks; 7: Understanding Cybercrime Prevention; 8: Implementing Cybercrime Detection Techniques; 9: Collecting and Preserving Digital Evidence; 10: Analyzing Windows Systems. 11: Analyzing Linux Systems. 12: Investigating UNIX Systems. 13: Achieving Compliance with Federal Regulations 14: Building the Cybercrime Case; 15: Worldwide Forensics Acts and Laws

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Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide

Author: Brian P Lawler

The key to successful print production is an understanding of the entire workflow, from scanning and file creation through prepress and print production. Fully updated by author and publishing consultant Brian Lawlwer, The Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide, Second Edition, brings together the collective knowledge and wisdom of the experts at Adobe Systems in a simple, elegant presentation of the fundamental concepts and issues related to producing high-quality printed output. The book includes succinct, expertly illustrated explanations of the basic concepts and terminology of print production, along with Adobe's tried and true guidelines, tips, and checklists for ensuring a successful print job.

Cool Mac Apps or iPhone for Dummies

Cool Mac Apps: Twelve Apps for Enhanced Creativity and Productivity, Third Edition

Author: John Tollett

This popular book shows readers how to take advantage of the iLife '08 applications that to many are the coolest parts of using a Mac. Through tutorials, tips, and techniques readers will learn how to use each of the powerful applications -- individually and as part of an integrated, interactive suite. Robin and John also cover the features of the immensely popular .Mac Web Gallery, which enables you to share your iPhoto library with family and friends with just a few clicks. Friendly, practical instructions will have new and veteran Mac owners using all that's new in the suite in no time. They'll find everything about getting on the Internet and using email; using the way-cool iChat AV, which adds audio and video to instant messaging; using iTunes, including access to the iTunes Music Store; the new video libary in iMovie; new organization and editing tools in iPhoto; new animated themes in iDVD; and much more!

Table of Contents:

1 iPhoto 3

2 iMovie '08 101

3 iDVD 165

4 iTunes 199

5 Mail 277

6 Address Book 349

7 iChat AV and Bonjour 373

8 Safari 421

9 iCal 445

10 Dashboard 475

11 Photo Booth 485

12 Time Machine 489

Index 496

Book about: Vegetarian Times Low Fat Fast or Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus

iPhone for Dummies

Author: Bob LeVitus

Congratulations! The iPhone you just bought is one heck of a wireless telephone, complete with a capable 2-megapixel digital camera. But it’s way more than that: it's also a gorgeous widescreen video iPod and the smallest, most powerful Internet communications device yet. So now that you've got it, what do you do with it? That's where iPhone For Dummies comes in.

Apple’s iPhone, puts the world virtually in your pocket. But because it does so much, there’s a lot to know about using it! This full-color guide shows you how to find and play music and videos; use the full-featured keyboard; get driving directions and stock quotes; send e-mail; take, browse, and organize photos; work with contacts and appointments — and even talk on the phone. You'll find out how to:

• Activate your own service

• Master the multitouch interface

• Turn on the speaker phone

• Use Visual Voicemail

• Get video, podcasts, and RSS feeds

• Surf the Web with your iPhone

• Browse your iTunes library and create playlists

• Send and receive text messages and notes

• Choose wallpaper and ringtones

• Troubleshoot problems

• Lock your iPhone and secure your stuff

iPhone For Dummies comes complete with tantalizing lists of awesome accessories, wonderful widgets, and fantastic things to wish for—once you finally stop gushing and drooling and playing with your sparkly, new iPhone long enough to wish for anything else!

Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services or Mastering Windows Sharepoint Services 3 0

Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Author: Rodney Landrum

Take full advantage of everything SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services has to offer and deliver customizable, web–enabled reports across your business at a reasonable cost. Learn best–practices from professionals who use SQL Server Reporting Services daily to deliver solutions to paying clients and gain the competitive edge on using Microsoft’s enterprise–level reporting platform.

Provides best–practices for using Reporting Services

Written by practicing professionals with paying clients

Your key to delivering business intelligence across the enterprise

What you’ll learn

Write efficient queries on which to base a report.

Build and lay out a report using Report Designer.

Enable end users to create ad hoc reports on demand.

Combine Reporting Services with Analysis Services, SharePoint Portal Server, and other technologies to deliver business intelligence across the enterprise.

Secure and audit your reports as part of your regulatory compliance efforts.

Customize your reports using C# assemblies and embedded Visual Basic .NET code.

Who is this book for?

Data analysts, developers, database administrators, and others who develop and deploy reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.

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.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Getting started with Microsoft OCS 2007 Speech Server 1

Ch. 2 Building grammar 19

Ch. 3 Building prompts 55

Ch. 4 Creating SALT applications 81

Ch. 5 Creating VoiceXML applications 155

Ch. 6 Creating voice response workflow applications 155

Ch. 7 Creating unified communications and messaging applications 207

Ch. 8 Speech application analysis and tuning 227

Ch. 9 Creating speech applications for Windows Vista 243

Go to: Management or Valuing Technology

Mastering Windows Sharepoint Services 3. 0

Author: C A Callahan

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 is the latest version of the collaboration tool found in Windows Server 2003 R2 and also the underlying technology of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. In this comprehensive book you’ll go under the hood of WSS 3.0 and discover how to make it easy to share documents, track tasks, create common workspaces where teams can work collectively, set up discussion groups, and more. Includes essential techniques for site creation, administration, customization, security, and disaster recovery, and practical steps for migrating from 2.0 to 3.0.

Pro JavaScript Techniques or The New Language of Business

Pro JavaScript Techniques

Author: John Resig

Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn't waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topics--what modern JavaScripting is (and isn't), the current state of browser support, and pitfalls to be wary of. The book is organized into four sections:

• Modern JavaScript development--using JavaScript the object-oriented way, creating reusable code, plus testing and debugging
• DOM scripting--updating content and styles, plus events, and effect and event libraries
• Ajax--how Ajax works, overcoming problems, and using libraries to speed up development of Ajax applications
• The future of JavaScript--looking at cutting edge topics like JSON, HTML 5, and more

All concepts are backed up by real-world examples and case studies, and John provides numerous reusable functions and classes to save you time in your development. There are also up-to-date reference appendixes for the DOM, events, browser support (including IE7), and frameworks--so you can look up specific details quickly and easily.

Interesting book: While Theyre at War or Counselor

The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0

Author: Sandra Carter

There is now a direct, provable link between an organization's flexibility and business performance. To optimize flexibility, companies must achieve unprecedented levels of integration and automation of key processes and infrastructure, both internally and externally. At the same time, they must learn to manage their processes far more dynamically and responsively.

They must become flex-pon-sive*.

Until recently, technology stood in the way of achieving these goals. Thanks to the emergence of service oriented architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, and open standards, technology now enables companies to achieve those goals. In The New Language of Business, one of IBM's top SOA strategist demonstrates how business leaders can use innovations in technology to drive dramatic process improvements and support accelerating change.

Sandy Carter shows how to deconstruct your business into a "componentized" business model, then support that model with linked, repeatable IT services that can adapt quickly, easily, and economically. These techniques will help both IT professionals and business leaders reach new levels of operational excellence to deliver the market-focused innovations that matter most.

* Flex-pon-sive* companies respond with lightning speed and agility to rapidly changing business needs. Flex-pon-sive* companies are focused on processes that are enabled for change through IT.

About the Author
Sandra Carter, Vice President, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing. During Sandy's tenure, the WebSphere portfolio has grown 18% in 2005 over the prior year and is in its 26th consecutive quarter of growth. Most recently, Sandy has been appointed owner for cross IBM Channels, Strategy and Marketing for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Sandy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Sandy has delivered numerous keynotes at industry events, and in the past year has spoken at IDC, InfoWorld and Gartner conferences and is the author of one of the top 10 Blogs from IBM.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     xiii
Acknowledgments     xvi
About the Author     xix
Start at the Beginning-The Business
The Innovation Imperative     3
Focus on Growth     4
Focus on Process Is Key     8
Summary     11
What Is Flex-pon-sive*?     13
What Does Flex-pon-sive* Mean?     13
Business Response: What Does It Take to Be a Winner?     19
Summary     21
Deconstructing Your Business: Component Business Model     23
Competing in an Era of Specialization     24
Patterns of Success     36
Leveraging CBM to Deliver Value     37
Summary     39
A Flexible Business Requires Flexible IT
SOA as the DNA of a Flex-pon-sive* and Innovative Company     43
What Is Service Oriented Architecture?     44
Competing on Flexibility     51
SOA Connectivity for Flexibility     60
Reuse Through SOA for Flexibility     61
The SOA Reference Architecture     65
Why SOA Projects Succeed and How to Leverage Their Lessons     69
Summary     73
SOA Key Concepts     75
Interoperability Standard: Web Services     76
Business Service Registry and Repository     81
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)     84
Tying It All Together: Services, Connectivity Through Your ESB, and the BSRR     101
The SOA Lifecycle Drives IT Flexibility     102
Summary     103
SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle     105
What Is Governance?     106
The Alignment Challenge Made Real     110
Alignment Vision for the Future     111
The SOA Governance Challenge     114
The SOA Governance Link to Service Lifecycle Management     123
Governance and Lifecycle Management Linked Through the Service Registry and Repository     130
How to Get Started     132
Summary     133
Three Business-Centric SOA Entry Points     135
Business Process Management as an Entry Point     136
Final Insight into IBM     152
Information as an Entry Point     157
Collaboration as an Entry Point     167
The Bottom Line: The New Language of Business     173
Summary     177
What about Web 2.0 and SOA? Are They Related?     179
What Is Web 2.0?     180
Web 2.0 and SOA: Advantage for Flexibility     185
The Web as the Next Platform     190
Business Models Enabled     191
Summary     198
How to Implement Flex-pon-sive* in Your Business
The Top 10 Don'ts!     201
Don't Expect Maximum Business Flexibility Without SOA     202
Don't Just Do Technology-It Is a Transformation of the Way You Do Business     203
Don't Throw Everything Out!     205
Don't Bite Off Too-Big Projects     206
Don't Forget to Set Expectations     207
Don't Expect to Do This Without a Culture Modification Through Governance     212
Don't Forget the Right Skills     214
Don't Expect the Flexibility Without Open Standards     216
Don't Do This Alone-Leverage Partners Who Have Experience     217
Don't Forget the Importance of the First Project-Plan Ahead     220
Summary     220
Case study: IBM     223
The Background     224
The Governance Model     227
The Journey     230
The First Project     231
SOA and Reuse Are Alive     232
Set Expectations     234
Business Impact Metrics     236
The Cultural Change     238
The Right Skills     240
Summary      242
Putting It All Together     243
Growth, Business Flexibility, and Innovation Are the Results of a Flex-pon-sive* Company     244
Now, How Do You Convince the Business     246
SOA and Web 2.0 Become the Enablers     248
Learning from Other Companies Is Critical Around the Entry Points     250
Unlock the Business Value Multiplier     267
Governance Is Critical     274
Infrastructure and Management Complete the Picture     277
Summary     279
Glossary     283
Index     291

Google Apps For Dummies or C Primer Fourth Edition

Google Apps For Dummies

Author: Karl Barksdal

Google Apps are Web-based, low-cost (or free!) office productivity tools that do everything those expensive applications do — and you can access them from any computer with an Internet connection. Google Apps For Dummies boosts your "app-titude" by giving you the low-down on choosing, setting up, and using these nifty and powerful gadgets for work or play.

Whether you're an individual who wants to take advantage of iGoogle or an organization looking for an enterprise-wide training solution for users at all levels, this comprehensive, practical guide brings you up to speed with all of the basic information and advanced tips and tricks you need to make good use of every Google Apps's tool and capability. Discover how to:

• Get productive fast with free or inexpensive Web-based apps

• Design your perfect Start Page layout

• Choose among the different editions

• Use Gmail and Google Talk

• Work with Google Docs and spreadsheet documents

• Create and collaborate on documents

• Import events into your calendar

• Build dazzling presentations

• Use Dashboard to create and manage user accounts

• Create a Web page with a unique domain setting

Google Apps are poised to shatter the primacy of the current way of working with PCs, saving businesses, schools, government agencies, and individuals big bucks on software, network infrastructure, and administration. Google Apps For Dummies is your key to making this revolutionary new approach work for you and your organization.

Book review: My Book Full of Feelings or Toxic Childhood

C++ Primer, Fourth Edition

Author: Stanley B Lippman

"C++ Primer is well known as one of the best books for learning C++ and is useful for C++ programmers of all skill levels. This Fourth Edition not only keeps this tradition alive, it actually improves on it."
--Steve Vinoski, Chief Engineer, Product Innovation, IONA Technologies

"The Primer really brings this large and complex language down to size."
--Justin Shaw, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Electronic Programs Division, The Aerospace Corporation

"It not only gets novices up and running early, but gets them to do so using good programming practices."
--Nevin ":-)" Liber, Senior Principal Engineer (C++ developer since 1988)

This popular tutorial introduction to standard C++ has been completely updated, reorganized, and rewritten to help programmers learn the language faster and use it in a more modern, effective way.
Just as C++ has evolved since the last edition, so has the authors' approach to teaching it. They now introduce the C++ standard library from the beginning, giving readers the means to write useful programs without first having to master every language detail. Highlighting today's best practices, they show how to write programs that are safe, can be built quickly, and yet offer outstanding performance. Examples that take advantage of the library, and explain the features of C++, also show how to make the best use of the language. As in its previous editions, the book's authoritative discussion of fundamental C++ concepts and techniques makes it a valuable resource even for more experienced programmers.

Program Faster and More Effectively with This Rewritten Classic

• Restructured for quicker learning, using the C++ standard library
• Updated to teach the most current programming styles and program design techniques
• Filled with new learning aids that emphasize important points, warn about common pitfalls, suggest good programming practices, and provide general usage tips
• Complete with exercises that reinforce skills learned
• Authoritative and comprehensive in its coverage

The source code for the book's extended examples is available on the Web at www.awprofessional.com/cpp_primer.

Booknews

The most important new addition to the C++ language is templates, a feature that facilitates the development of extensive class and algorithmic libraries. This second edition provides coverage of this and the other features of Release 3.0. Assumes only an understanding of the basic constructs of a programming language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Getting started	1
Ch. 2	Variables and basic types	33
Ch. 3	Library types	77
Ch. 4	Arrays and points	109
Ch. 5	Expressions	147
Ch. 6	Statements	191
Ch. 7	Functions	225
Ch. 8	The IO library	283
Ch. 9	Sequential containers	305
Ch. 10	Associative containers	355
Ch. 11	Generic algorithms	391
Ch. 12	Classes	429
Ch. 13	Copy control	475
Ch. 14	Overload operations and conversions	505
Ch. 15	Object-oriented programming	557
Ch. 16	Templates and generic programming	623
Ch. 17	Tools for large programs	687
Ch. 18	Specialized tools and techniques	753

Beginning C 2008 Databases or Expression Blend 2

Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional

Author: Vidya Vrat Agarwal

Assuming only basic knowledge of C# 2008, Beginning C# 2008 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.

A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 3.0, Beginning C# 2008 Databases explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T-SQL and C#. Full of practical, detailed examples, it’s been fully revised and updated for C# 2008 and offers the most complete, detailed, and gentle introduction to database technology for all C# programmers at any level of experience.

• Comprehensively and concisely explains fundamental database concepts and programming techniques
• Rich in working examples of both T-SQL and C# programs
• Covers all the features most database programming ever requires

What you’ll learn

• How relational databases work and how to use them
• How C# uses ADO.NET to access databases
• How to write stored procedures in T-SQL and call them from C# programs
• How to use XML in database applications
• How to use LINQ to simplify C# database programming
• How to install SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual C# 3.0
• Express and use them to teach yourself database programming by doing it

Who is this book for?

Beginning C# 2008 Databases is for every C# programmer. Database programming requires relatively little knowledge of C# but a lot of knowledge about relational database concepts and the database language SQL. This book assumes no prior databaseexperience and teaches you, always through hands-on examples, how to create and use relational databases with SQL and how to access them with C#. Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book teaches all the fundamentals you need--and may ever need--to develop professional database applications.
About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry-level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know--but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real-world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there--it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
Related Titles from Apress

• Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer's Guide
• Expert C# 2005 Business Objects
• Foundations of LINQ in C#

Interesting textbook: The Caged Virgin or Mellon

Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight

Author: Victor Gaudioso

This book will show you how to set up a WPF/Blend environment and teach you the basics of WPF. It covers everything from the first install of Blend and Silverlight up to creating your first designs and showing you how to start developing in WPF/Blend with real world examples. It also covers advanced topics such as XAML and 3D.

• Learn Microsoft Expression Blend 2 from scratch
• Create dynamic and interactive web interface designs
• Learn how to program in XAML for advanced effects

What you'll learn

• How to get Microsoft Expression Blend 2 up and running on your computer
• How to use the Blend interface
• How to create basic UI elements in Blend
• How to add audio and video to your Blend files
• How to use XAML to add interactivity
• How to publish the Blend application and display it on a web page

Who is this book for?

Web designers and developers wanting to learn Expression Blend 2 from the ground up.

The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook or Go Technology in Action Complete

The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments

Author: Craig S Wright

This book provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both business and technical needs. This "roadmap" provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the larger scope of an organization's overall needs.

Key Features:

* The ulitmate guide to making an effective security policy and controls that enable monitoring and testing against them
* The most comprehensive IT compliance template available, giving detailed information on testing all your IT security, policy and governance requirements
* A guide to meeting the minimum standard, whether you are planning to meet ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FISCAM, COBIT or any other IT compliance requirement
* Both technical staff responsible for securing and auditing information systems and auditors who desire to demonstrate their technical expertise will gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to apply basic risk analysis techniques and to conduct a technical audit of essential information systems from this book
* This technically based, practical guide to information systems audit and assessment will show how the process can be used to meet myriad compliance issues

See also: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Only or Making Things Talk

Go! Technology in Action, Complete

Author: Alan Evans

A Computer Concepts Text Focused on Today’s Student! Technology in Action engages students by combining a unique teaching approach with rich companion media.

History of the personal computer, virtual computer tour, blogging, file compression and management, installing RAM, installing a computer network and firewall, PDA’s, computer architecture, creating and improving an Access database, and constructing a simple Web page.

For professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge of computer concepts and literacy.

Table of Contents:

 

Chapter 1 

Why Computers Matter to You: Becoming Computer Literate

 

Technology in Focus: The History of the PC

 

Chapter 2

Looking at Computers: Understanding the Parts

 

Chapter 3

Using the Internet: Making the Most of the Web’s Resources

 

Technology in Focus: Information Technology Ethics

 

Chapter 4

Application Software: Programs that Let You Work and Play

 

Chapter 5

Using System Software: The Operating System, Utility Programs, and File Management

 

Technology in Focus: Computing Alternatives

 

Chapter 6

Understanding and Assessing Hardware: Evaluating Your System

 

Chapter 7

Networking and Security: Connecting Computers and Keeping Them Safe From Hackers and Viruses

 

Technology in Focus: Protecting Your Computer and Backing Up Your Data

 

Chapter 8

Mobile Computing: Keeping Your Data on Hand

 

Technology in Focus: Digital Entertainment

 

Chapter 9

Behind the Scenes: A Closer Look at System Hardware

 

Technology in Focus: Careers in IT

 

Chapter 10

Behind the Scenes: Software Programming

 

Chapter 11

Behind the Scenes: Databases and Information Systems

 

Chapter 12

Behind theScenes: Networking and Security

 

Chapter 13

Behind the Scenes: The Internet: How It Works

 

 

Avid Handbook or Digital Photography for Teens

Avid Handbook: Advanced Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems

Author: Greg Staten

Brimming with workflow efficiencies for the experienced editor, The Avid Handbook teaches you the hows and whys of operating the system in order to reach streamlined, creative end solutions. The book emphasizes time-saving techniques, shortcuts, and workflow procedures- the true keys to getting a job done.

The book has also been updated to include new information on HD formats and workflows, color-correction and grading capability enhancements, MXF media standardization, and much more.

Also new to this edition are an 8 page 4-color insert, adding depth to the color-correction lessons, as well as running sidebars throughout the book, calling out time-saving tips and techniques.

* New information on High-Definition tools and production workflows, allowing you to complete your HD projects in the most efficient manner
* New details on product updates and innovations such as HD, color-grading and capabilities, file-based video formats, and file-based instead of tape-based output
* The new edition features sidebars throughout that call out time-saving tips and techniques, as well as a new 8 page 4-color insert for more effective display with the color correction lessons

Interesting textbook: Catering Handbook or Multiuser Detection

Digital Photography for Teens

Author: Mark Campbell

Don't be fooled by the title. Digital Photography for Teens doesn't make a half-hearted attempt at teaching the fundamentals of digital photography. It doesn't stop at the basics and it doesn't assume that as a teen, you aren't capable of tackling advanced topics. Instead, it focuses on the things that teens want to get out of digital photography. Photography is a technical field, and this book covers numerous aspects of shooting great photographs. Each chapter builds upon skills developed in the previous chapters, following the natural process of digital photography: setting up the shot, taking the picture, transferring it to your computer, editing it, and prepping it for the screen or print. If you're ready to progress beyond snapping simple pictures, then your journey starts here!

Table of Contents:

Getting Started     1
What You Need     3
Choosing a Digital Camera     5
How Many Pixels?     6
How Much Memory?     7
What Kind of Connection?     11
How Much Zoom?     12
What Other Features?     15
Preparing Your Computer for Liftoff     17
Checking Connections     17
Managing Memory     18
Handling Your Hard Drive     18
Scoping Out Software     19
Introducing Your Digital Camera     25
How a Digital Camera Takes Pictures     25
How the Image Goes In     28
How the Photo Comes Out     29
What Does This Button Do?     35
Checking Out the Controls     35
Getting into the Menus     39
Taking Care of Your Digital Camera     42
Different Shots, Different Settings     45
Considering Quality     45
About Compression, Memory, and Time     46
Shooting in the Raw     46
More Photos Now Equals Less Flexibility Later?     48
Capturing the Shot No Matter What     49
Keeping It Steady     50
Achieving Focus     51
Getting Enough Exposure     55
Correcting the Color     63
Expressing Yourself     69
Designing the Shot     69
Using Composition Techniques     70
Let There Be Lighting     80
Taking All Kinds of Pictures     84
Shooting People (with the Camera, Silly)     84
Framing the World around You     88
Capturing Still-Lifes     90
Living Like a Photographer     92
Practicing Like Crazy     92
Getting Involved Everywhere     93
Making Your Own Opportunities     94
Getting Your Pictures into the Computer     97
Setting Up Folders     97
Making That Connection     101
Backing Up Your Work     102
Keeping the Original Files Safe     105
Organizing Your Photo Library     109
Working with a Photo Manager     109
Devising a Process     114
Getting Photos into the Photo Manager     115
Making Stacks     120
Tagging Your Pics     124
Doing Searches for Specific Tags     131
Adjusting Light and Color     135
Working with an Image Editor      135
Getting the Hang of the Interface     136
Using Color Management     138
Editing a Photo     141
Correcting the Exposure     146
Adjusting Shadows and Highlights     149
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast     152
Correcting Color     153
Setting White Balance     153
Adjusting Saturation     155
Removing Red-Eye     157
Going Grayscale     159
Changing One Color into Another     162
Pushing at the Edges (of a Digital Photo)     165
Adjusting Resolution and Print Size     165
A Tale of Canvases and Images     169
Changing the Canvas     170
Cropping the Photo     171
Adding a Built-In Border     175
Rotating the Canvas     176
Flipping the Canvas     178
Changing the Image     179
Scaling the Photo     179
Applying Your Own Digital Zoom     182
Stretching or Squeezing the Photo     185
Rearranging Pixels     189
Making a Selection     189
Working with Layers     193
Moving Pixels from One Layer to Another      193
Bringing in Pixels from Other Photos     196
Managing Multiple Layers     197
Scaling and Rotating the Contents of a Layer     200
Adjusting Opacity     202
Saving a Layered Photo     203
Touching Up the Photo     204
Painting     206
Erasing     209
Cloning (or How to Remove Old Boyfriends)     211
Adding Finishing Touches and Special Effects     215
Adjusting Sharpness     215
Using the Adjust Sharpness Command     217
Using the Sharpen Tool     220
Designing Captions and Word Balloons     222
Adding the Text     222
Adding a Word Balloon     228
Applying Layer Styles     230
Applying Filters     232
Showing Your Photos Onscreen     237
Getting Your Photos Ready     237
Downsampling to Screen Resolution     238
Resizing the Width     240
Crushing the Image File     242
Displaying Your Work     245
E-Mailing Your Photos     246
Posting Your Photos Online     246
Making Movies from Your Photos     248
Making Prints      251
Determining the Optimum Resolution     251
Printing at Home     252
Printing Elsewhere     253
Resampling the Photo to the Optimum Resolution     254
Printing     255
Printing from Your Computer     256
Printing from Your Camera or Memory Card     259
Ordering Prints Online     259
Creating a Photo Book in Photoshop Elements     260
Building the Book     261
Working with Frame Layers     264
Changing the Theme of a Page     266
Adding New Pages to the Book     267
Saving and Printing the Book     268
Making Other Photo Creations     269
Index     273

C How to Program or MCSE Self Paced Training Kit

C++ How to Program

Author: P J Deitel

The complete, authoritative DEITEL¨ LIVE-CODE introduction to C++, object-oriented programming (OOP) and object-oriented design (OOD) with the UML™ 2

C++ is one of the most popular object-oriented programming languages. This new edition of the world’s most widely used C++ textbook introduces game programming with the Ogre libraries.

 

"An excellent ‘objects first’ coverage of C++ that remains accessible to beginners. The example-driven presentation is enriched by the optional UML case study that contextualizes the material in an ongoing software engineering project."–Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology

"Introducing the UML to students early on is a great idea."–Raymond Stephenson, Microsoft

 

"Good use of diagrams, especially of the activation call stack and recursive functions."–Amar Raheja, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

"Terrific discussion of pointers—probably the best I have seen."–Anne B. Horton, Lockheed Martin

 

"Great coverage of polymorphism and how the compiler implements polymorphism ‘under the hood.’ I wish I had such a clear presentation of data structures when I was a student."–Ed James-Beckham, Borland

 

"Includes a nice introduction to searching and sorting, and Big-O."–Robert Myers, Florida State University

 

"Ogre is a free world-class rendering engine that has been used in several commercial games. The Ogre chapter is
a great introduction, providingwell documented and easy to understand examples that will have you creating your own simple computer games in no time! "–Casey Borders (Creator of OgreAL), Sensis Corp.

 

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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and World Wide Web

2. Introduction to C++ Programming

3. Introduction to Classes and Objects

4. Control Statements: Part 1

5. Control Statements: Part 2

6. Functions and an Introduction to Recursion

7. Arrays and Vectors

8. Pointers and Pointer-Based Strings

9. Classes: A Deeper Look, Part I

10. Classes: A Deeper Look, Part II

11. Operator Overloading: String and Array Objects

12. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

13. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

14. Templates

15. Stream Input/Output

16. Exception Handling

17. File Processing

18. Class string and String Stream Processing

19.  Searching and Sorting

20.  Data Structures

21. Bits, Characters, Strings and Structures

22.  Standard Template Library (STL)

23.  Other Topics24. Game Programming with OGRE and Open AL

Appendices

A. Operator Precedence and Associativity Chart

B. ASCII Character Set

C. Fundamental Types

D. Number Systems

E. C Legacy Code Topics

F. Preprocessor

G. ATM Case Study Code

H. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types

I.  Using the Visual Studio® 2005 DebuggerJ.  Using the GNU C++ Debugger

K. Boost C++ Libraries:

L. What’s New in C++ Ox

Bibliography

Index

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Table of Contents:

Foreword xxx

Introduction xxxi

Part I Part I: LAN Switching 3

Chapter 1 Ethernet Basics 5

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 5

Foundation Topics 8

Ethernet Layer 1: Wiring, Speed, and Duplex 8

 RJ-45 Pinouts and Category 5 Wiring 8

 Auto-negotiation, Speed, and Duplex 9

 CSMA/CD 10

 Collision Domains and Switch Buffering 10

 Basic Switch Port Configuration 12

Ethernet Layer 2: Framing and Addressing 14

 Types of Ethernet Addresses 16

 Ethernet Address Formats 17

 Protocol Types and the 802.3 Length Field 18

 Switching and Bridging Logic 19

Foundation Summary 22

Memory Builders 25

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 25

 Definitions 25

 Further Reading 25

Chapter 2 Virtual LANs and VLAN Trunking 27

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 27

Foundation Topics 31

Virtual LANs 31

 VLAN Configuration 31

 Using VLAN Database Mode to Create VLANs 32

 Using Configuration Mode to Put Interfaces into VLANs 34

 Using Configuration Mode to Create VLANs 35

 Private VLANs 36

VLAN Trunking Protocol 38

 VTP Process and Revision Numbers 39

 VTP Configuration 40

 Normal-Range and Extended-Range VLANs 42

 Storing VLAN Configuration 43

VLAN Trunking: ISL and 802.1Q 44

 ISL and 802.1Q Concepts 44

I  SL and 802.1Q Configuration 45

 Allowed, Active, and Pruned VLANs 48

 Trunk Configuration Compatibility 48

 Configuring Trunking on Routers 49

 802.1Q-in-QTunneling 51

Foundation Summary 53

Memory Builders 54

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 54

 Definitions 54

 Further Reading 55

Chapter 3 Spanning Tree Protocol 57

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 57

Foundation Topics 61

802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol 61

 Choosing Which Ports Forward: Choosing Root

 Ports and Designated Ports 61

 Electing a Root Switch 61

 Determining the Root Port 63

 Determining the Designated Port 64

 Converging to a New STP Topology 65

 Topology Change Notification and Updating the CAM 66

 Transitioning from Blocking to Forwarding 67

 Per-VLAN Spanning Tree and STP over Trunks 68

 STP Configuration and Analysis 70

Optimizing Spanning Tree 73

 PortFast, UplinkFast, and BackboneFast 73

 PortFast 74

 UplinkFast 74

 BackboneFast 75

 PortFast, UplinkFast, and BackboneFast Configuration 75

 PortChannels 76

 Load Balancing Across PortChannels 76

 PortChannel Discovery and Configuration 77

 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol 78

 Rapid Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (RPVST+) 80

 Multiple Spanning Trees: IEEE 802.1s 81

Protecting STP 82

 Root Guard and BPDU Guard: Protecting Access Ports 83

 DLD and Loop Guard: Protecting Trunks 83

Foundation Summary 85

Memory Builders 87

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 87

 Definitions 87

 Further Reading 87

Part II IP 89

Chapter 4 IP Addressing 91

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 91

Foundation Topics 94

IP Addressing and Subnetting 94

 IP Addressing and Subnetting Review 94

 Subnetting a Classful Network Number 95

 Comments on Classless Addressing 97

 Subnetting Math 97

 Dissecting the Component Parts of an IP Address 97

 Finding Subnet Numbers and Valid Range of IP Addresses–Binary 98

 Decimal Shortcuts to Find the Subnet Number and Valid Range of IP Addresses 99

 Determining All Subnets of a Network–Binary 102

 Determining All Subnets of a Network–Decimal 104

 VLSM Subnet Allocation 105

 Route Summarization Concepts 107

 Finding Inclusive Summary Routes–Binary 108

 Finding Inclusive Summary Routes–Decimal 109

 Finding Exclusive Summary Routes–Binary 110

CIDR, Private Addresses, and NAT 111

 Classless Interdomain Routing 111

 Private Addressing 113

 Network Address Translation 113

 Static NAT 115

 Dynamic NAT Without PAT 116

 Overloading NAT with Port Address Translation 117

 Dynamic NAT and PAT Configuration 118

Foundation Summary 120

Memory Builders 123

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 123

 Definitions 124

 Further Reading 124

Chapter 5 IP Services 127

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 127

Foundation Topics 131

ARP, Proxy ARP, Reverse ARP, BOOTP, and DHCP 131

 ARP and Proxy ARP 131

 RARP, BOOTP, and DHCP 132

 DHCP 133

HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP 135

Network Time Protocol 139

SNMP 140

 SNMP Protocol Messages 142

 SNMP MIBs 143

 SNMP Security 144

Syslog 144

Web Cache Communication Protocol 145

Foundation Summary 148

Memory Builders 150

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 151

 Definitions 151

 Further Reading 151

Part III IP Routing 153

Chapter 6 IP Forwarding (Routing) 155

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 155

Foundation Topics 159

IP Forwarding 159

 Process Switching, Fast Switching, and Cisco Express Forwarding 160

 Building Adjacency Information: ARP and Inverse ARP 161

 Frame Relay Inverse ARP 162

 Static Configuration of Frame Relay Mapping Information 165

 Disabling InARP 166

 Classless and Classful Routing 167

Multilayer Switching 168

 MLS Logic 168

 Using Routed Ports and PortChannels with MLS 169

 MLS Configuration 170

Policy Routing 174

Foundation Summary 179

Memory Builders 180

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 180

 Definitions 181

 Further Reading 181

Chapter 7 RIP Version 2 183

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 183

Foundation Topics 186

RIP Version 2 Basics 186

RIP Convergence and Loop Prevention 187

 Converged Steady-State Operation 188

 Triggered (Flash) Updates and Poisoned Routes 190

 RIP Convergence When Routing Updates Cease 192

 Convergence Extras 194

RIP Configuration 195

 Enabling RIP and the Effects of Autosummarization 196

 RIP Authentication 198

 RIP Next-Hop Feature and Split Horizon 198

 RIP Offset Lists 199

 Route Filtering with Distribute Lists and Prefix Lists 199

Foundation Summary 200

Memory Builders 202

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 202

 Definitions 202

 Further Reading 202

Chapter 8 EIGRP 205

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 205

Foundation Topics 209

EIGRP Basics and Steady-State Operation 209

 Hellos, Neighbors, and Adjacencies 209

 EIGRP Updates 212

 The EIGRP Topology Table 214

EIGRP Convergence 216

 Input Events and Local Computation 217

 Going Active on a Route 219

 tuck-in-Active 221

 Limiting Query Scope 222

EIGRP Configuration 222

 EIGRP Configuration Example 222

 EIGRP Load Balancing 225

 EIGRP Authentication 226

 EIGRP Automatic Summarization 227

 EIGRP Split Horizon 228

 EIGRP Route Filtering 228

 EIGRP Offset Lists 230

 Clearing the IP Routing Table 231

Foundation Summary 232

Memory Builders 234

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 234

 Definitions 234

 Further Reading 235

Chapter 9 OSPF 237

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 237

Foundation Topics 242

OSPF Database Exchange 242

 OSPF Router IDs 242

 Becoming Neighbors, Exchanging Databases, and Becoming Adjacent 243

 Becoming Neighbors: The Hello Process 245

 Flooding LSA Headers to Neighbors 246

 Database Descriptor Exchange: Master/Slave Relationship 247

 Requesting, Getting, and Acknowledging LSAs 247

 Designated Routers on LANs 248

 Designated Router Optimization on LANs 248

 DR Election on LANs 250

 Designated Routers on WANs and OSPF Network Types 251

 Caveats Regarding OSPF Network Types over NBMA Networks 252

 Example of OSPF Network Types and NBMA 253

 SPF Calculation 256

 Steady-State Operation 257

OSPF Design and LSAs 257

 OSPF Design Terms 258

 OSPF Path Selection Process 259

 LSA Types and Network Types 259

 LSA Types 1 and 2 260

 LSA Type 3 and Inter-Area Costs 263

 Removing Routes Advertised by Type 3 LSAs 266

 LSA Types 4 and 5, and External Route Types 1 and 2 266

 OSPF Design in Light of LSA Types 268

 Stubby Areas 269

 Graceful Restart 272

 OSPF Path Choices That Do Not Use Cost 273

 Choosing the Best Type of Path 273

 Best-Path Side Effects of ABR Loop Prevention 274

OSPF Configuration 276

 OSPF Costs and Clearing the OSPF Process 278

 OSPF Filtering 281

 Filtering Routes Using the distribute-list Command 281

 OSPF ABR LSA Type 3 Filtering 283

 Filtering Type 3 LSAs with the area range Command 284

 Virtual Link Configuration 284

 Configuring OSPF Authentication 286

 OSPF Stub Router Configuration 289

Foundation Summary 290

Memory Builders 294

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 295

 Definitions 295

Further Reading 295

Chapter 10 IGP Route Redistribution, Route Summarization, and Default Routing 297

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 297

Foundation Topics 301

Route Maps, Prefix Lists, and Administrative Distance 301

 Configuring Route Maps with the route-map Command 301

 Route Map match Commands for Route Redistribution 303

 Route Map set Commands for Route Redistribution 304

 IP Prefix Lists 305

 Administrative Distance 307

 Route Redistribution 308

 Mechanics of the redistribute Command 308

 Redistribution Using Default Settings 309

 Setting Metrics, Metric Types, and Tags 312

 Redistributing a Subset of Routes Using a Route Map 313

 Mutual Redistribution at Multiple Routers 317

 Preventing Suboptimal Routes by Setting the Administrative Distance 319

 Preventing Suboptimal Routes by Using Route Tags 322

 Using Metrics and Metric Types to Influence Redistributed Routes 324

Route Summarization 326

 EIGRP Route Summarization 328

 OSPF Route Summarization 328

Default Routes 329

 Using Static Routes to 0.0.0.0, with redistribute static 331

 Using the default-information originate Command 332

 Using the ip default-network Command 333

 Using Route Summarization to Create Default Routes 334

Foundation Summary 336

Memory Builders 337

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 337

 Definitions 337

 Further Reading 337

Chapter 11 BGP 339

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 339

Foundation Topics 344

Building BGP Neighbor Relationships 345

 Internal BGP Neighbors 346

 External BGP Neighbors 349

 Checks Before Becoming BGP Neighbors 350

 BGP Messages and Neighbor States 352

 BGP Message Types 352

 Purposefully Resetting BGP Peer Connections 353

Building the BGP Table 354

 Injecting Routes/Prefixes into the BGP Table 354

 BGP network Command 354

 Redistributing from an IGP, Static, or Connected Route 357

 Impact of Auto-Summary on Redistributed Routes and the network Command 359

 Manual Summaries and the AS_PATH Path Attribute 362

 Adding Default Routes to BGP 365

 ORIGIN Path Attribute 366

 Advertising BGP Routes to Neighbors 367

 BGP Update Message 367

 Determining the Contents of Updates 368

 Example: Impact of the Decision Process and NEXT_HOP on BGP Updates 370

 Summary of Rules for Routes Advertised in BGP Updates 376

Building the IP Routing Table 376

 Adding eBGP Routes to the IP Routing Table 376

 Backdoor Routes 377

 Adding iBGP Routes to the IP Routing Table 378

 Using Sync and Redistributing Routes 380

 Disabling Sync and Using BGP on All Routers in an AS 382

 Confederations 383

 Configuring Confederations 385

 Route Reflectors 388

Foundation Summary 394

Memory Builders 398

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 398

 Definitions 398

Further Reading 399

Part IV QoS 401

Chapter 12 Classification and Marking 403

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 403

Foundation Topics 407

Fields That Can Be Marked for QoS Purposes 407

 IP Precedence and DSCP Compared 407

 DSCP Settings and Terminology 408

 Class Selector PHB and DSCP Values 409

 Assured Forwarding PHB and DSCP Values 409

 Expedited Forwarding PHB and DSCP Values 410

 Non-IP Header Marking Fields 411

 Ethernet LAN Class of Service 411

 WAN Marking Fields 411

 Locations for Marking and Matching 412

Cisco Modular QoS CLI 413

 Mechanics of MQC 414

 Classification Using Class Maps 415

 Using Multiple match Commands 416

 Classification Using NBAR 417

Classification and Marking Tools 418

 Class-Based Marking (CB Marking) Configuration 418

 CB Marking Example 419

 CB Marking of CoS and DSCP 423

 Network-Based Application Recognition 425

 CB Marking Design Choices 426

 Marking Using Policers 427

 QoS Pre-Classification 428

 Policy Routing for Marking 429

Foundation Summary 430

Memory Builders 432

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 432

 Definitions 432

 Further Reading 432

Chapter 13 Congestion Management and Avoidance 435

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 435

Cisco Router Queuing Concepts 438

 Software Queues and Hardware Queues 438

 Queuing on Interfaces Versus Subinterfaces and Virtual Circuits 439

 Comparing Queuing Tools 439

Queuing Tools: CBWFQ and LLQ 440

 CBWFQ Basic Features and Configuration 441

 Defining and Limiting CBWFQ Bandwidth 443

 Low-Latency Queuing 446

 Defining and Limiting LLQ Bandwidth 448

 LLQ with More Than One Priority Queue 449

 Miscellaneous CBWFQ/LLQ Topics 450

 Queuing Summary 451

Weighted Random Early Detection 451

 How WRED Weights Packets 453

 WRED Configuration 454

Modified Deficit Round-Robin 455

LAN Switch Congestion Management and Avoidance 457

 Cisco 3550 and 3560 Switch Ingress Queueing 458

 Cisco 3550 Switch Egress Queuing 459

 Cisco 3560 Switch Egress Queuing 461

 Cisco 3550 Congestion Avoidance 463

 Cisco 3560 Congestion Avoidance 465

 Comparisons Between Cisco 3550 and 3560 Switches 465

Foundation Summary 467

Memory Builders 467

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 467

 Definitions 467

 Further Reading 467

Chapter 14 Shaping and Policing 469

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 469

Foundation Topics 473

Traffic-Shaping Concepts 473

 Shaping Terminology 473

 Shaping with an Excess Burst 475

 Underlying Mechanics of Shaping 475

 Traffic-Shaping Adaptation on Frame Relay Networks 477

Class-Based Shaping Configuration 477

 Tuning Shaping for Voice Using LLQ and a Small Tc 479

 Configuring Shaping by Bandwidth Percent 482

 CB Shaping to a Peak Rate 483

 Adaptive Shaping 483

Frame Relay Traffic Shaping Configuration 483

 FRTS Configuration Using the traffic-rate Command 485

 Setting FRTS Parameters Explicitly 486

 FRTS Configuration Using LLQ 487

 FRTS Adaptive Shaping 488

 FRTS with MQC 489

Policing Concepts and Configuration 489

 CB Policing Concepts 489

 Single-Rate, Two-Color Policing (One Bucket) 490

 Single-Rate, Three-Color Policer (Two Buckets) 491

 Two-Rate, Three-Color Policer (Two Buckets) 492

 Class-Based Policing Configuration 493

 Single-Rate, Three-Color Policing of All Traffic 494

 Policing a Subset of the Traffic 495

 CB Policing Defaults for Bc and Be 495

 Configuring Dual-Rate Policing 496

 Multi-Action Policing 496

 Policing by Percentage 497

 Committed Access Rate 497

Foundation Summary 501

Memory Builders 503

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 503

 Definitions 503

 Further Reading 504

Part V Wide-Area Networks 507

Chapter 15 Frame Relay 509

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 509

Foundation Topics 512

Frame Relay Concepts 512

 Frame Relay Data Link Connection Identifiers 512

 Local Management Interface 513

 Frame Relay Headers and Encapsulation 514

 Frame Relay Congestion: DE, BECN, and FECN 515

 Adaptive Shaping, FECN, and BECN 516

The Discard Eligibility Bit 517

 Frame Relay Configuration 517

 Frame Relay Configuration Basics 517

 Frame Relay Payload Compression 521

 Frame Relay Fragmentation 522

Foundation Summary 525

Memory Builders 526

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 527

 Definitions 527

 Further Reading 527

Part VI IP Multicast 529

Chapter 16 Introduction to IP Multicasting 531

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 531

Foundation Topics 534

Why Do You Need Multicasting? 534

 Problems with Unicast and Broadcast Methods 535

 How Multicasting Provides a Scalable and Manageable Solution 537

Multicast IP Addresses 540

 Multicast Address Range and Structure 540

 Well-Known Multicast Addresses 540

 Multicast Addresses for Permanent Groups 541

 Multicast Addresses for Source-Specific Multicast Applications and Protocols 542

 Multicast Addresses for GLOP Addressing 542

 Multicast Addresses for Private Multicast Domains 543

 Multicast Addresses for Transient Groups 543

 Summary of Multicast Address Ranges 543

 Mapping IP Multicast Addresses to MAC Addresses 544

Managing Distribution of Multicast Traffic with IGMP 546

 Joining a Group 547

 Internet Group Management Protocol 548

 IGMP Version 2 548

 IGMPv2 Host Membership Query Functions 550

 IGMPv2 Host Membership Report Functions 552

 IGMPv2 Leave Group and Group-Specific Query Messages 556

 IGMPv2 Querier 558

 IGMPv1 and IGMPv2 Interoperability 559

 IGMPv2 Host and IGMPv1 Routers 559

 IGMPv1 Host and IGMPv2 Routers 559

 IGMPv2 Timers 560

 IGMP Version 3 561

 Comparison of IGMPv1, IGMPv2, and IGMPv3 562

LAN Multicast Optimizations 564

 Cisco Group Management Protocol 564

 IGMP Snooping 570

 Router-Port Group Management Protocol 575

Foundation Summary 578

Memory Builders 578

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 579

 Definitions 579

 Further Reading 579

References in This Chapter 579

Chapter 17 IP Multicast Routing 581

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 581

Foundation Topics 585

Multicast Routing Basics 585

 Overview of Multicast Routing Protocols 586

 Multicast Forwarding Using Dense Mode 586

 Reverse Path Forwarding Check 587

  Multicast Forwarding Using Sparse Mode 589

 Multicast Scoping 591

 TTL Scoping 591

 Administrative Scoping 592

Dense-Mode Routing Protocols 592

 Operation of Protocol Independent Multicast Dense Mode 593

 Forming PIM Adjacencies Using PIM Hello Messages 593

 Source-Based Distribution Trees 594

 Prune Message 595

 PIM-DM: Reacting to a Failed Link 597

 Rules for Pruning 599

 Steady-State Operation and the State Refresh Message 601

 Graft Message 602

 LAN-Specific Issues with PIM-DM and PIM-SM 604

 Prune Override 604

 Assert Message 605

 Designated Router 606

 Summary of PIM-DM Messages 607

 Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol 608

 Multicast Open Shortest Path First 608

Sparse-Mode Routing Protocols 609

 Operation of Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode 609

 Similarities Between PIM-DM and PIM-SM 609

Sources Sending Packets to the Rendezvous Point 610

 Joining the Shared Tree 612

 Completion of the Source Registration Process 614

 Shared Distribution Tree 616

 Steady-State Operation by Continuing to Send Joins 617

 Examining the RP’s Multicast Routing Table 618

 Shortest-Path Tree Switchover 619

 Pruning from the Shared Tree 621

 Dynamically Finding RPs and Using Redundant RPs 622

 Dynamically Finding the RP Using Auto-RP 623

 Dynamically Finding the RP Using BSR 626

 Anycast RP with MSDP 628

 Summary: Finding the RP 630

 Bidirectional PIM 631

  Comparison of PIM-DM and PIM-SM 632

Foundation Summary 634

Memory Builders 638

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 638

 Definitions 639

 Further Reading 639

Part VII Security 641

Chapter 18 Security 643

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 643

Foundation Topics 647

Router and Switch Device Security 647

 Simple Password Protection for the CLI 647

 Better Protection of Enable and Username Passwords 648

 User Mode and Privileged Mode AAA Authentication 649

 Using a Default Set of Authentication Methods 650

 Using Multiple Authentication Methods 651

 Groups of AAA Servers 652

 Overriding the Defaults for Login Security 653

 PPP Security 654

Layer 2 Security 654

 Switch Security Best Practices for Unused and User Ports 655

 Port Security 656

 Dynamic ARP Inspection 660

 DHCP Snooping 663

 IP Source Guard 665

802.1X Authentication Using EAP 666

 Storm Control 668

 General Layer 2 Security Recommendations 670

Layer 3 Security 671

 IP Access Control List Review 672

 ACL Rule Summary 674

 Wildcard Masks 675

 General Layer 3 Security Considerations 676

 Smurf Attacks, Directed Broadcasts, and RPF Checks 676

 nappropriate IP Addresses 678

 TCP SYN Flood, the Established Bit, and TCP Intercept 679

 Context-Based Access Control 681

 TCP Versus UDP with CBAC 682

 CBAC Protocol Support 682

 CBAC Caveats 683

 CBAC Configuration Steps 683

 Dynamic Multipoint VPN 684

Foundation Summary 686

Memory Builders 688

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 689

 Definitions 689

 Further Reading 689

Part VIII MPLS 691

Chapter 19 Multiprotocol Label Switching 693

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 693

Foundation Topics 696

MPLS Unicast IP Forwarding 696

 MPLS IP Forwarding: Data Plane 697

 CEF Review 697

 Overview of MPLS Unicast IP Forwarding 698

 MPLS Forwarding Using the FIB and LFIB 700

 The MPLS Header and Label 701

 The MPLS TTL Field and MPLS TTL Propagation 702

 MPLS IP Forwarding: Control Plane 704

 MPLS LDP Basics 704

 The MPLS Label Information Base Feeding the FIB and LFIB 707

 Examples of FIB and LFIB Entries 711

 Label Distribution Protocol Reference 713

MPLS VPNs 714

 The Problem: Duplicate Customer Address Ranges 715

 The Solution: MPLS VPNs 716

 The MPLS VPN Control Plane 719

 Virtual Routing and Forwarding Tables 719

 MP-BGP and Route Distinguishers 721

 Route Targets 723

 Overlapping VPNs 725

 The MPLS VPN Data Plane 726

 Building the (Inner) VPN Label 728

 Creating LFIB Entries to Forward Packets to the Egress PE 729

 Creating VRF FIB Entries for the Ingress PE 731

 Penultimate Hop Popping 733

Other MPLS Applications 734

Foundation Summary 736

Memory Builders 736

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 736

 Definitions 736

 Further Reading 736

Part IX IP Version 6 739

Chapter 20 IP Version 6 741

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz 741

Foundation Topics 745

IPv6 Addressing and Address Types 746

 IPv6 Address Notation 746

 Address Abbreviation Rules 747

 IPv6 Address Types 747

 Unicast 748

 Multicast 751

 Anycast 753

 The Unspecified Address 754

 IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration 754

 EUI-64 Address Format 754

Basic IPv6 Functionality Protocols 756

 Neighbor Discovery 756

 Neighbor Advertisements 758

 Neighbor Solicitation 758

 Router Advertisement and Router Solicitation 759

 Duplicate Address Detection 760

 Neighbor Unreachability Detection 761

 ICMPv6 761

 Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding 762

 DNS 763

 CDP 763

 DHCP 764

Access Lists and Traffic Filtering 765

IPv6 Static Routes 766

IPv6 Unicast Routing Protocols 767

OSPFv3 768

 Differences Between OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 768

 Virtual Links, Address Summarization, and Other OSPFv3 Features 769

 OSPFv3 LSA Types 770

 OSPFv3 in NBMA Networks 771

 Configuring OSPFv3 over Frame Relay 771

 Enabling and Configuring OSPFv3 772

 Authentication and Encryption 779

EIGRP for IPv6 780

 Differences Between EIGRP for IPv4 and for IPv6 780

 Unchanged Features 781

 Route Filtering 782

 Configuring EIGRP for IPv6 782

Quality of Service 789

 QoS Implementation Strategy 789

 Classification, Marking, and Queuing 790

 Congestion Avoidance 790

 Traffic Shaping and Policing 791

Tunneling Techniques 791

 Tunneling Overview 791

 Manually Configured Tunnels 793

 Automatic IPv4-Compatible Tunnels 794

 IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels 794

 Automatic 6to4 Tunnels 795

 ISATAP Tunnels 797

 NAT-PT 797

IPv6 Multicast 798

 Multicast Listener Discovery 798

 Explicit Tracking 798

 PIM 798

 PIM DR Election 799

 Source-Specific Multicast 799

 PIM BSR 799

 Additional PIM Concepts and Options 800

 IPv6 Multicast Static Routes 800

 Configuring Multicast Routing for IPv6 800

Foundation Summary 801

Memory Builders 803

 Fill in Key Tables from Memory 803

 Definitions 803

 Further Reading 803

Part X Appendixes 805

Appendix A Answers to the "Do I Know This Already?" Quizzes 807

Appendix B Decimal to Binary Conversion Table 837

Appendix C CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Updates: Version 1.0 841

Glossary 845

Index 906

CD-Only

Appendix D IP Addressing Practice

Appendix E Key Tables for CCIE Study

Appendix F Solutions for Key Tables for CCIE Study

Appendix G IEEE 802.11 Fundamentals

Appendix H Wireless LAN Solutions

Mac OS X 105 Leopard Peachpit Learning Series or FileMaker Pro 9

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard [Peachpit Learning Series]

Author: Robin Williams

Learn how to get the most out of Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard with legendary teacher and author Robin Williams.
The Peachpit Learning Series brings you the best-selling authors you know and love, on the topics that are near and dear to you, in a format that allows you to learn just what you need to know, and at your own pace. With this book, you can learn in your own way—whether it’s working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Macintosh. And with the gentle yet expert hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that Leopard has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you'll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you've been using Mac OS X already, you'll learn to use the new features in Leopard, like Spaces, Quick Look, and Time Machine, and explore all the enhancements to favorites like Mail and iChat.

Book about: Condoleezza Rice or Haunted by Combat

FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual

Author: Geoff Coffey

FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual is the clear, thorough and accessible guide to the latest version of this popular desktop database program. FileMaker Pro lets you do almost anything with the information you give it. You can print corporate reports, plan your retirement, or run a small country -- if you know what you're doing. This book helps non-technical folks like you get in, get your database built, and get the results you need. Pronto. The new edition gives novices and experienced users the scoop on versions 8.5 and 9. It offers complete coverage of timesaving new features such as the Quick Start screen that lets you open or a create a database in a snap, the handy "save to" buttons for making Excel documents or PDFs, the multiple level Undo and Redo commands let you step backwards through your typing tasks, and much more. With FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual, you can: Get your first database running in minutes and perform basic tasks right away. Catalog people, processes and things with streamlined data entry and sorting tools. Learn to use layout tools to organize the appearance of your database. Use your data to generate reports, correspondence and other documents with ease. Create, connect, and manage multiple tables and set up complex relationships that show you just the data you need. Crunch numbers, search text, or pin down dates and times with dozens of built-in formulas. Automate repetitive tasks with FileMaker Pro 9's easy-to-learn scripting language. Protect your database with passwords and set up privileges to determine what others can do once they gain entry. Outfit your database for the Web and import and export data to other formats. Each chapterin the bookcontains "living examples" -- downloadable tutorials that help you learn how to build a database by actually doing it. You also get plenty of sound, objective advice that lets you know which features are really useful, and which ones you'll barely touch. To make the most of FileMaker Pro 9, you need the book that should have been in the box.

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Making a Living from Your eBay Business

Author: Michael Miller

What might have started as an innocent hobby after cleaning out your closets one spring is now turning into a full-fledged day (or night) job. eBay can be a great place to sell your stuff and can be a profitable business, if you know what you're doing. Making a Living From Your eBay Business is a how-to guide that will show you how you can make money from your eBay sales. You'll learn how to set up and run different types of eBay business, including official retailer, second hand seller and trading assistant, while maximizing sales and profits. Find out everything that goes into creating a business plan, setting up a recordkeeping system, filing official business forms and more important business tasks. With Making a Living From Your eBay Business, you will become an experienced business-person in every aspect, from auction management to packing and shipping to customer relations. Turn your hobby into a profitable business today!

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Choosing your eBay business
1	So you want to start an eBay business	7
2	The second-hand reseller	23
3	The bulk reseller	37
4	The collector/trader	49
5	The arts and crafts seller	61
6	The official retailer	71
7	The consignment reseller	81
Pt. 2	Planning and launching your eBay business
8	Researching your business model	97
9	Creating a business plan	111
10	Evaluating your funding needs	123
11	Establishing a legal business presence	135
12	Setting up a recordkeeping system	145
13	Assembling your home office	155
Pt. 3	Managing your day-to-day business
14	Buying and managing your inventory	171
15	Automating item listing	187
16	Managing customer payments	197
17	Establishing a packing and shipping routine	207
18	Dealing with customers - and customer problems	225
19	Automating auction management	241
Pt. 4	Maximizing your eBay sales
20	Improving item sell-through and selling price	263
21	Choosing the most effective listing options	273
22	Creating more powerful auction listings	281
23	Displaying better photographs	297
24	Promoting your eBay auctions	311
Pt. 5	Growing your online business
25	Becoming an eBay PowerSeller	319
26	Opening an eBay store	325
27	Other ways to sell online	335
28	Managing growth	351
Pt. 6	Appendixes
A	Accounting basics	361

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Google Web Toolkit Applications

Author: Ryan Dewsbury

“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”
–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit
“This book distinguishes itself from other books on GWT in that it walks through the entire process of building several nontrivial GWT applications, not the toy applications that most books present.”
–R. Mark Volkmann, Object Computing, Inc.
“Google™ Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent resource for any GWT developer. Solutions to challenges commonly encountered in GWT are presented through the design and development of actual applications. The applications developed throughout the text demonstrate best practices from simple UI design all the way to custom code generation, and are presented with little pretext about the amount of Java knowledge a given developer may have. Advanced concepts are not withheld but are presented in a way that will be understood by both novice and seasoned developers alike. Good application development practices and proper Model View Controller design is reinforced throughout the book, nearly guaranteeing that the reader will come away a better programmer. “
–Jason Essington, Senior Web/Java Engineer, Green River Computing
“Dewsbury’s Google™ Web Toolkit Applications is a book for both experts and beginner programmers who want to discover this open source Java software development framework, as wellas write Ajax applications. A very detailed book!”
–Massimo Nardone, Advisory IT Security Architect

Accelerate and Simplify Ajax Development with Google Web Toolkit
Get the edge you need to deliver exceptional user experiences with Google™ Web Toolkit Applications, a guidebook that provides web developers with core information and instructions for creating rich web applications. Whether you’re a developer who needs to build a high-performance front end for Java, PHP, or Ruby applications, or to integrate with external web services, this resource from expert Google Web Toolkit (GWT) developer Ryan Dewsbury delivers the in-depth coverage you’ll need.
In this valuable book, insider Ryan Dewsbury provides instructions for using the robust tool set and gets you on your way to creating first-class web applications by providing a comprehensive overview of GWT technology. In addition, he shares his “in-the-trenches” insights on

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  Building elegant and responsive user interfaces with Cascading Style Sheets and GWT’s Widgets and Panels
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  Creating seamless user experiences through asynchronous communication with HTTP, REST, JSON/JSONP, and RPC Interoperating with web standards–such as XML, RSS, and Atom–and web services–such as Google Maps, Amazon Books, Yahoo! Search, Flickr, and Blogger
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  Overcoming browser security restrictions, such as HTTP’s two-connection limit and the Same-Origin policy
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  Accelerating development, using software engineering, code generation, internationalization, application patterns, and Java tools
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  Deploying for optimal performance with resource compression and caching
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  Building five non-trivial applications: a gadget application with a rich drag-and-drop interface, a multi-search application that makes requests to many search engines, a blog editor application for managing entries across multiple blogs, a web-based instant messenger, and a database manager for a traditional web page

This practical guide to GWT introduces you to the technology; provides techniques, tips, and examples; and puts you on the road to delivering top-notch user experiences for your web applications.