Graphics & Design Books

Knowledge Management or Quantum Computing

2009-12-06T05:19:00.000-08:00

Knowledge Management

Author: Carl Frappaolo

Fast track route to leveraging the intellectual capital in your organziation

Covers the key areas of knowledge management, from identifying knowledge in an organization and knowledge-based incentive plans to promoting and facilitating knowledge sharing and innovation and knowledge-based strategies

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Shell Oil , British Aerospace (BAE), Dow Chemical and The World Bank, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Peter Drucker, Delphi Group, Michael Polanyi and Ikujiro Nonaka

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

1	Introduction to knowledge management	1
2	What is knowledge management?	7
3	The evolution of knowledge management	23
4	The e-dimension of knowledge management	31
5	The global dimension of knowledge management	43
6	The state of the art of knowledge management	53
7	Knowledge management in practice - success stories	71
8	Key concepts and thinkers in knowledge management	87
9	Resources for knowledge management	107
10	Ten steps to making knowledge management work	117

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Quantum Computing

Author: Mika Hirvensalo

This book is devoted to quantum computing, a new, multidisciplinary research area crossing quantum mechanics, theoretical computer science and mathematics. It contains an introduction to quantum computing as well as the most important recent results on the topic. Two famous algorithms, fast factorization and Grover search, are presented in separate chapters because these inventions are important structurally and developmentally.The presentation of the topic is uniform and computer science-oriented. Thus, the book differs from most of the previous ones which are mainly physics-oriented. The special style of presentation makes the theory of quantum computing accessible to a larger audience, including also the mathematics-oriented oriented readers. Many examples and exercises ease the understanding. In this edition new perspectives on quantum information have been added, and numerous corrections, amendments and extensions have been incorporated throughout the text.

The Brave New World of e HR or Programming Microsoft Ado Net 2 0 Applications

2009-12-05T01:08:00.000-08:00

The Brave New World of e-HR: Human Resources in the Digital Age (The Professional Practice Series)

Author: Dianna L Ston

The Brave New World of eHR is an important resource, filled with the most current information and practical advice on eHR for human resource professionals and industrial and organizational psychologists. Written by an expert group of scholars, practitioners, and subject matter experts, this book offers an overview of the major technological trends in eHR, and shows how to use technology to enhance organizational effectiveness. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes information on a wide variety of topics and

• Reviews the transformation of human resources from manual processes to sophisticated CRM and ERP systems

• Examines the effectiveness of online strategies for attracting talent

• Offers valuable guidelines that can help organizations design, deliver, implement, and sustain e-selection systems

• Includes a review of the recent research on the effectiveness of distance learning in educational and organizational settings

• Analyzes the potential advantages and disadvantages of using eHR to manage employee performance

• Shows how technology supports the administration of compensation systems

• Outlines recent trends in delivering HR products and services

• Considers the functional and dysfunctional consequences of using eHR to attract, select, and manage the performance of employees in organizations

• Presents a fascinating and futuristic look at HR and technology for decades to come

	Foreword
	Preface
1	From personnel administration to business-driven human capital management : the transformation of the role of HR in the digital age	1
2	E-recruiting : online strategies for attracting talent	22
3	E-selection	54
4	Research-based guidelines for designing distance learning : what we know so far	104
5	EHR and performance management : a consideration of positive potential and the dark side	138
6	E-compensation : the potential to transform practice?	166
7	EHR : trends in delivery methods	190
8	The effects of eHR system characteristics and culture on system acceptance and effectiveness	226
9	The next decade of HR : trends, technologies, and recommendations	255

Look this: Writing Testbenches Using Systemverilog or Succeeding in Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2003

Programming Microsoft ADO. NET 2. 0 Applications: Advanced Topics

Author: Glenn Johnson

Get in-depth coverage and expert insights on advanced ADO.NET programming topics such as optimization, DataView, and large objects (BLOBs and CLOBs). Targeting experienced, professional software developers who design and develop enterprise applications, this book assumes that the reader knows and understands the basic functionality and concepts of ADO.NET 2.0 and that he or she is ready to move to mastering data-manipulation skills in Microsoft Windows®. The book is structured so readers can jump in for reference on each topic as needed, complete with pragmatic and instructive code examples.

XPath and XPointer or Microsoft Office 2003

2009-12-03T20:56:00.000-08:00

XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents

Author: John E Simpson

Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you need from everything else? XPath and XPointer are two closely related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information. XPath describes a route for finding specific items by defining a path through the hierarchy of an XML document, abstracting only the information that's relevant for identifying the data. XPointer extends XPath to identify more complex parts of documents. The two technologies are critical for developers seeking needles in haystacks in various types of processing.

XPath and XPointer fills an essential need for XML developers by focusing directly on a critical topic that has been covered only briefly. Written by John Simpson, an author with considerable XML experience, the book offers practical knowledge of the two languages that underpin XML, XSLT and XLink. XPath and XPointer cuts through basic theory and provides real-world examples that you can use right away.

Written for XML and XSLT developers and anyone else who needs to address information in XML documents, the book assumes a working knowledge of XML and XSLT. It begins with an introduction to XPath basics. You'll learn about location steps and paths, XPath functions and numeric operators. Once you've covered XPath in depth, you'll move on to XPointer -- its background, syntax, and forms of addressing. By the time you've finished the book, you'll know how to construct a full XPointer (one that uses an XPath location path to address document content) and completely understand both the XPath and XPointer features it uses.

XPath and XPointer contains material on the forthcoming XPath 2.0 spec and EXSLT extensions, as well as versions 1.0 of both XPath and XPointer. A succinct but thorough hands-on guide, no other book on the market provides comprehensive information on these two key XML technologies in one place.

Microsoft Office 2003: Post-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.

Codes and Cheats Summer 2007 or Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2006

2009-12-02T16:45:00.000-08:00

Codes and Cheats Summer 2007

Author: Prima Games

First edition with Wii codes!
Special florescent cover treatment to catch the consumer's eye!
Over 15,000 codes for over 900 Xbox 360, PS2, XBOX, GC, GBA, and PSP games. All for only $6.99!!
A great, inexpensive, gift idea for the gamer who has everything.
Adds replayability to any game.
Activate invincibility, gain infinite ammunition, unlock hidden items, characters, and levels!

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Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2006

Author: Shrock

Totally updated for AutoCAD 2006 and 2006 LT including the new and enhanced Commands, Dimensioning, Hatching, Mtext, Dynamic Blocks, Dynamic Input and more. Ideal for classroom instruction or as a self-study tutorial, it provides only what you need without all of the jargon.

FEATURES

Includes 30 lessons with step by step instructions followed by exercises designed for practicing the commands learned within the lesson.
Each lesson starts very simple and progresses to more complex.
Familiarizes users with the drawing commands first, and then teach users to create their own setup drawings.
Explains each lesson clearly and in a non-intimidating manner.

Mozilla Firefox or Tablet PCs for Dummies

2009-12-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

Mozilla Firefox: Introductory Concepts and Techniques

Author: Gary B Shelly

Brand new to the Shelly Cashman Series, this book provides content on the popular open source Firefox browser. Firefox: Introductory Concepts and Techniques focuses on the unique features of Firefox that people have come to enjoy, including tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and integrated search, along with a more secure browser experience. This text may be bundled with any concepts or office textbook, adding excitement to your introductory course.

1. Introduction to Mozilla Firefox
2. Web Research Techniques and Search Engines
3. Communicating Over the Internet Using Mozilla Thunderbird Special Feature: Open Source Concepts and Firefox Customization
Appendices A: Installing Mozilla Firefox B: Installing Mozilla Thunderbird C: Mozilla Firefox Options

New interesting textbook: Flickr Mashups or Wild Arms 5

Tablet PCs for Dummies

Author: Nancy Stevenson

* Tablet PCs, similar in size and thickness to a yellow paper notepad, are essentially modified notebooks that allow a user to take notes using natural handwriting with a digital pen on a touch-sensitive screen instead of typing on a keyboard
* All models of Tablet PCs can be attached to standard keyboards, monitors, and mouse devices for easy computing
* Geared toward the general user of the Tablet PC, with information about configuration, working with pen computing, Ink, voice recognition, and using the onscreen interface
* Covers computing topics such as file management, browsing the Internet, and using Office applications
* Includes case study examples of how the Tablet PC can be used in vertical applications such as healthcare and for enhanced productivity throughout an organization

Next Generation Java Testing or Cisco Wireless LAN Security

2009-11-30T08:22:00.000-08:00

Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts

Author: Cedric Beust

Enterprise Java developers must achieve broader, deeper test coverage, going beyond unit testing to implement functional and integration testing with systematic acceptance. Next Generation Java^™ Testing introduces breakthrough Java testing techniques and TestNG, a powerful open source Java testing platform.

Cédric Beust, TestNG's creator, and leading Java developer Hani Suleiman, present powerful, flexible testing patterns that will work with virtually any testing tool, framework, or language. They show how to leverage key Java platform improvements designed to facilitate effective testing, such as dependency injection and mock objects. They also thoroughly introduce TestNG, demonstrating how it overcomes the limitations of older frameworks and enables new techniques, making it far easier to test today's complex software systems.

Pragmatic and results-focused, Next Generation Java^™ Testing will help Java developers build more robust code for today's mission-critical environments.

This book

Illuminates the tradeoffs associated with testing, so you can make better decisions about what and how to test
Introduces TestNG, explains its goals and features, and shows how to apply them in real-world environments
Shows how to integrate TestNG with your existing code, development frameworks, and software libraries
Demonstrates how to test crucial code features, such as encapsulation, state sharing, scopes, and thread safety
Shows how to test application elements, including JavaEE APIs, databases, Web pages, and XML files
Presents advanced techniques:testing partial failures, factories, dependent testing, remote invocation, cluster-based test farms, and more
Walks through installing and using TestNG plug-ins for Eclipse, and IDEA
Contains extensive code examples

Whether you use TestNG, JUnit, or another testing framework, the testing design patterns presented in this book will show you how to improve your tests by giving you concrete advice on how to make your code and your design more testable.

Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii

Chapter 1: Getting Started 1

Beyond JUnit 3 3
JUnit 4 7
Designing for Testability 8
TestNG 17
Conclusion 21

Chapter 2: Testing Design Patterns 23

Testing for Failures 23
Factories 34
Data-Driven Testing 39
Asynchronous Testing 67
Testing Multithreaded Code 71
Performance Testing 83
Mocks and Stubs 90
Dependent Testing 103
Inheritance and Annotation Scopes 113
Test Groups 119
Code Coverage 132
Conclusion 150

Chapter 3: Enterprise Testing 153

A Typical Enterprise Scenario 154
A Concrete Example 157
Test Implementation 160
Exploring the Competing Consumers Pattern 182
The Role of Refactoring 186
Conclusion 194

Chapter 4: Java EE Testing 197

In-Container versus Out-of-Container Testing 198
In-Container Testing 200
Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) 207
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 210
Java Transaction API (JTA) 215
Java Messaging Service (JMS) 219
Java Persistence API (JPA) 225
Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 (EJB3) 236
Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 246
Servlets 255
XML 262
Conclusion 266

Chapter 5: Integration 269

Guice 280
DbUnit 295
HtmlUnit 303
Selenium 310
Swing UI Testing 312
Tests for Painting Code 316
Continuous Integration 320
Conclusion 322

Chapter 6: Extending TestNG 325

The TestNG API 325
BeanShell 335
Method Selectors 341
Annotation Transformers 346
Reports 355
Writing Custom Annotations 366
Conclusion 375

Chapter 7: Digressions 377

Motivation 377
The TestNG Philosophy 378
The Care and Feeding of Exceptionsv378
Stateful Tests 382
The Pitfalls of Test-Driven Development 385
Testing Private Methods 388
Testing versus Encapsulation 391
The Power of Debuggers 392
Logging Best Practices 394vThe Value of Time 397
Conclusion 399

Appendix A: IDE Integration 401

Eclipse 401
IntelliJ IDEA 411

Appendix B: TestNG Javadocs 421

JDK 1.4 and JDK 5 421
Shortcut Syntax for JDK 5 Annotations 423
Annotation Javadocs 423
The org.testng.TestNG Class 428
The XML API 432

Appendix C: testng.xml 435

Overview 436
Scopes 437
XML Tags 437

Appendix D: Migrating from JUnit 449

JUnitConverter 449
Integrated Development Environments 453
Incremental Migration and JUnit Mode 455
Converting JUnit Code 456

Index 471

Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Author: Krishna Sankar

Expert guidance for securing your 802.11 networks

Learn best practices for securely managing, operating, and scaling WLANs
Comprehend the security-related technological underpinnings of WLANs
Explore new security protocols in 802.11i and WPA and learn how they prevent attacks
Review centralized deployment models for wired/wireless integration
Deepen your knowledge of defense by understanding the tools that attackers use to perform reconnaissance and to attack authentication and encryption mechanisms
Understand how to design secure WLANs to support enterprise applications with the new standards and practices detailed in this book
Reference the next generation authentication standards and protocols
Find out about mobility, hotspots, and campus wireless networks
Grasp Open Authentication, MAC-based authentication, shared key authentication, EAP authentication protocols, WEP, WPA, and 802.11i

Cisco Wireless LAN Security is an in-depth guide to wireless LAN technology and security, introducing the key aspects of 802.11 security by illustrating major wireless LAN (WLAN) standards that can protect the entire network. Because a WLAN is less effective as an isolated piece of the network, this book emphasizes how to effectively integrate WLAN devices into the wired network while maintaining maximum security.

Cisco Wireless LAN Security covers the spectrum of WLAN security, including protocols and specifications, vulnerabilities and threats, and, especially, deployment patterns and design guidelines. With a unique combination of theory and practice, this book addresses fundamentalwireless concepts, such as WEP, and innovations, such as EAP, switching, and management. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations, checklists, design templates, and other resources. You will also find generic wireless deployment patterns based on real-world customer installations and functional examples of architecture, design, and best practices.

Whether you currently design, configure, implement, and maintain WLANs or simply want to explore wireless security issues, Cisco Wireless LAN Security has everything you need to understand how to create a seamlessly secure, impenetrable 802.11 network.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

Screenos Cookbook or Digital Manga Workshop

2009-11-29T04:11:00.000-08:00

ScreenOs Cookbook

Author: Stefan Brunner

Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. Scores of recipes address a wide range of security issues, provide step-by-step solutions, and include discussions of why the recipes work, so you can easily set up and keep ScreenOS systems on track. ScreenOS Cookbook gives you real-world fixes, techniques, and configurations that save time -- not hypothetical situations out of a textbook. The book comes directly from the experience of engineers who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large core enterprise and government, to the heavy duty protocol driven service provider network. Its easy-to-follow format enables you to find the topic and specific recipe you need right away and match it to your network and security issue. Topics include: Configuring and managing ScreenOS firewalls NTP (Network Time Protocol) Interfaces, Zones, and Virtual Routers Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks DDNS, DNS, and DHCP IP Routing Policy-Based Routing Elements of Policies Authentication Application Layer Gateway (SIP, H323, RPC, RTSP, etc., ) Content Security Managing Firewall Policies IPSEC VPN RIP, OSPF, BGP, and NSRP Multicast -- IGPM, PIM, Static Mroutes Wireless Along with the usage and troubleshooting recipes, you will also find plenty of tricks, special considerations, ramifications, and general discussions of interesting tangents and network extrapolation. For the accurate, hard-nosed information you require to get your ScreenOS firewall network secure and operating smoothly, nobookmatches ScreenOS Cookbook.

Interesting book: Marijuana Medicine or Hwa Yu Tai Chi Chuan

Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist's Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer

Author: Jared Hodges

The unique Japanese cartoon style known as manga, with its exaggerated stylistic characters and vivid colors, has caught the attention of America. Now, with the advent of digital tools like Photoshop and Painter, manga artists have discovered new ways of bringing their artwork to life and onto the computer -- with astounding results!

This complete guide presents a wealth of information by exploring the digital possibilities of creating manga-style artwork. It details the entire process, from initial rough sketches, to the finished color image, with in-depth instructions and illustrations that demonstrate the intricacies of each technique. It also deals with a variety of inking and coloring styles.revealing the secrets of how to achieve smooth, highly detailed line art directly on screen, how to recreate the appearance of traditional animation with cel-art techniques, and how to achieve a soft, dreamy, or traditional look with airbrush, watercolor, and painting tools. It also explains how custom backgrounds, special effects, and the use of filters can add the finishing touches that exemplify professional results.

Foundation Flex for Developers or Mastering Dojo

2009-11-27T23:59:00.000-08:00

Foundation Flex for Developers: Data-Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and FDS

Author: Sas Jacobs

Flex is a very powerful and versatile technology for creating web application front-ends. But what every good web application needs is a robust data source, be it XML, or a database. Flex is very adaptable in terms of connecting to data sources, and that is the main focus of this book.
In Foundation Flex for Developers, Sas Jacobs assumes that you've got the basics of Flex down already, and explores in detail how to create professional data-centric Flex 2 and Flex 3 applications. In the first half of the book, she starts off with a brief exploration of Flex and ActionScript 3.0, before looking at application essentials in detailcreating custom components, user and web browser interactions, binding, formatting, and validating data, debugging, and more.
In the second half of the book, the focus is on connecting Flex to data sources, and covers XML, Flex Data Services, PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion in detail, via a series of step-by-step case studies.

Covers Flex application basics
Covers connecting Flex 2 and Flex 3 to a variety of Data Sources
Includes several complete case studies.

What youll learn

How to create custom components
How to handle user and web browser interactions
How to debug Flex 2 applications
How to bind, format, and validate data
How to load and write external content
The essentials of XML, and working with it in Flex 2, including E4X
The essentials of Flex Data Services
How to build up data-driven Flex 2 applications with PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion backends

Who is this book for?
This book is forany Flex developer who knows the basics of building Flex UIs, and wants to learn how to connect their applications to data sources.

Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences

Author: Rawld Gill

Imagine a true thin-client web application environment, with no browser incompatibilities, no plug-ins, and an interface that's close to a desktop app. You can have it all, today. Welcome to the Dojo Toolkit: a set of client-side JavaScript tools that help you build better web applications.

Mastering Dojo walks you through the whole range of modern web programming problems, from bringing simple web pages to life with widgets and animation to designing and building an enterprise-class, single-page Rich Internet Application.

Dojo blurs the line between local, native applications and browser-based applications; the browser becomes the user interface platform. "Modern" browsers provide an incomplete, inconvenient, and incompatible programming environment, but Dojo eliminates these problems.

You'll get the whole story: from basic usage to advanced idioms; from a fast-moving tutorial to all the details on Dojo Core. See how you can modularize your project for development and automatically package your release for optimal download performance. You'll also learn how Dojo: augments the core JavaScript library, fixes the JavaScript event system, simplifies DOM programming, has a complete class definition facility, includes a powerful remote scripting (XHR) framework, ...and much more.

You'll love using Dojo's HTML user interface control widget system, Dijit. See how to use more than forty widgets, including the powerful tree and grid controls. Turn the browser into a rich development environment with Dojo.

About the Author:
Craig Riecke is a Dojo committer and a writer and editor for the Book of Dojo, Dojo's online documentation. He is currently manager of applicationdevelopment for CXtec in Syracuse, New York

About the Author:
Rawld Gill has served as chief architect of five major lines of commercial, enterprise-class software targeted at the pharmaceutical industry over the past twenty-five years. He is currently president of Vista Information Technologies

About the Author:
Alex Russell is the project lead for the Dojo Toolkit and president of the Dojo Foundation

Libraries and Google or Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters

2009-11-26T19:45:00.000-08:00

Libraries and Google

Author: William Miller

Discover the benefits— and drawbacks— of GoogleSM
GoogleSM has become a nearly omnipresent tool of the Internet, with its potential only now beginning to be realized. How can librarians effectively integrate this powerful search engine to provide service to their patrons? Libraries and GoogleSM presents leading authorities discussing the many possibilities of using Google products as effective, user-friendly tools in libraries. Google Scholar and Print are extensively explored with an eye toward offering an expanded view of what is and may be possible for the future, with practical insights on how to make the most of the product's capabilities.
It seems certain that Google is here to stay. Libraries and GoogleSM comprehensively examines this "disruptive technology" that is seen as both a threat and an opportunity by both librarians and publishers. Both perspectives are explored in depth, along with practical applications of this and other Google technology that may be new to librarians. Google products and other more familiar research tools are compared for effectiveness and ease of use. The various unique needs of users and scholars are detailed and considered as a springboard for insightful discussion of the future role of librarians in today's world. Potential problems are closely examined, such as copyright issues of digitization, and privacy concerns sparked by its collection of personal information about its users. The book comprehensively explores the path libraries need to travel to benefit from the search tool, rather than being overwhelmed and destroyed by it.
Topics in Libraries and GoogleSM include:
the viewpoint that Google may make librariesobsolete
new opportunities for libraries through using Google products
technical aspects of purchasing and implementing Google search products with proprietary vendor databases
testing the performance of Google Scholar and Print
practical use of Google's products
personal privacy issues
making digitized library resources more accessible
digitization of copyrighted materials
much, much more!
Libraries and GoogleSM is horizon-expanding reading for all librarians, library science educators and students, library administrators, publishers, and university presses.

"As the first book-length treatment of this topic, THIS FASCINATING COLLECTION OF DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES about the usefulness of google and its potential menace to libraries and scholarly communication is A CALL TO ACTION FOR LIBRARIANS. We ignore Google, or rail against it, at our peril. Many of the contributions focus on specific Google products that have already had an impact on libraries— Google Print and Google Scholar. These fine, practical pieces for librarians and publishers are the heart of this collection." — Kathleen Hoeth, MLS, University Librarian and Director of Library Services, Florida Gulf Coast University

"I RECOMMEND THIS

Library Journal

Today GoogleR dominates the search engine market and is the first choice for finding information among Internet users. Many librarians, but certainly not all, feel threatened by its foray into services seen as competition for libraries, such as Google Scholar and Google Print. Miller and Pellen, director and associate director, respectively, of the Florida Atlantic University Libraries, have compiled a collection of articles on Google's effect on libraries, which run the gamut from outright alarm, to critical evaluations of its services, practices, and products to practical advice on how to incorporate Google products into your library services. The final chapter lists resources for staying current on Google offerings. All of the contributing authors are from academic settings, and they provide valuable guidance and keen insight into both the positive aspects and "dark side" of Google and how it will impact the future of libraries. This very timely and thought-provoking collection should be read by all librarians. Robert L. Battenfeld, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Lib., Brookville, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters: Findings and Insights from the US, EU and Japan

Author: Elias G Carayannis

This book focuses on profiling, analysing, benchmarking and modelling in socio-economic terms, the ways that creativity, invention and innovation flourish. The work is based on comparative, conceptual and empirical research of 15 American, European and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. It highlights critical success and failure factors, and the lessons learned about entrepreneurial initiatives, outcomes and impacts. It identifies and articulates insights that inform both public sector policies and private sector practices to render them more effective and efficient.

List of Tables     vii
List of Figures     x
List of Abbreviations     xii
Preface     xv
The Role of the Firm in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters   Elias G. Carayannis   Vivienne Wang     1
Measuring Firm Innovative Performance: A Review of the Literature and Empirical Exploration   Elias G. Carayannis   Mike Provance     21
Academic Entrepreneurship - Roles and Relations in the Venture Creation Process   Christer Olofsson   Borje Svensson   Richard Ferguson     54
Buyer Discourse Perspective on Market Entry: Co-Evolutionary Dynamics of Opinions and Entrepreneurial Action   Mike Provance   Dante Di Gregorio     77
Asymmetric Knowledge, Digital Knowledge Flow Platforms and Regional Innovation Systems   Philip Cooke     89
Big Science as a Catalyst of New Business Development   Olli Vuola     110
Knowledge-Based Geospatial Information System (KB-GIS) and the Informational Space Economy   Elias G. Carayannis   Vivienne Wang     133
From Regional Innovation Strategies to the Multi-Level Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation: the Case of the NorthEast of England   David Charles     166
Information Flow and GlobalCompetitiveness of Industrial Districts: Lessons Learned from Kastoria's Fur District in Greece   Nikos I. Dimitriadis     186
The Role of Clusters and Regional Networks in Economic Transformation - Empirical Evidence and Conclusions from the East German Innovation System   Knut Koschatzky     210
Weak Ties and Innovation among Indian and Chinese Engineers in Silicon Valley   Rafiq Dossani     230
K-Cores, Team Dynamics and Intra-Organizational Development in an Aerospace Firm   Dimitris Assimakopoulos   Kristie Ogilvie     284
Venturing Clusters: the Case of Sapporo Region to Create Biotech University Spin-Offs   Masayuki Kondo     299
The Role of the Government and the Academia-Industry Network in the Biopharmaceutical Industry of China   Xielin Liua   Jinhui An   Nannan Lundin     314
From Bureaucratic Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship to Clustering Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship: Daedeok Science Park, Korea   Jong-in Choi     330
Innovation Symbiosis among Geographical Knowledge Networks: the Case of the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, Taiwan (1991-2002)   Yuan-Chieh Chang   Bou-Wen Lin   Meng-Chu Liu   Shih-Chang Hung   Yi-Pe Ou     343
To Cluster or Not to Cluster? The Growth of High-Tech Firms in New Zealand   Sally Davenport     361
Biographies     384
Index     401

Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects or Marketing to the Social Web

2009-11-25T15:34:00.000-08:00

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, Vol. 2

Author:

Designing application and middleware software to run in concurrent and networked environments is a significant challenge to software developers. The patterns catalogued in this second volume of Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures (POSA) form the basis of a pattern language that addresses issues associated with concurrency and networking.

The book presents 17 interrelated patterns ranging from idioms through architectural designs. They cover core elements of building concurrent and network systems: service access and configuration, event handling, synchronization,

and concurrency. All patterns present extensive examples and known uses in multiple programming languages, including C++, C, and Java.

The book can be used to tackle specific software development problems or read from cover to cover to provide a fundamental understanding of the best practices for constructing concurrent and networked applications and middleware.

About the Authors

This book has been written by the award winning team responsible for the first POSA volume "A System of Patterns", joined in this volume by Douglas C. Schmidt from University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA.

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This guide for software designers and advanced students presents 17 interrelated patterns ranging from idioms through architectural designs and covering core elements of building concurrent and network systems, including service access and configuration, event handling, synchronization, and concurrency. The focus here on concurrency and networking complements the general-purpose patterns from the previous volume, , though many can be applied outside the context of concurrency and networking. The patterns presented are general, domain-independent, rather than those specific to a particular application domain (such as telecommunications). All patterns are accompanied by examples and known uses in multiple programming languages, including C++, C, and Java. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About This Book.
About The Authors.
Guide To The Reader.
1 Concurrent and Distributed Objects
2 The Patterns.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Service Access Patterns.
Wrapper Facade.
Extension Interface.
Interceptor.
2.3 Event Handling Patterns.
Reactor.
Proactor.
Asynchronous Completion Token.
2.4 Initialization Patterns.
Acceptor-Connector.
Activator.
Component Configurator.
2.5 Synchronization Patterns.
Scoped Locking.
Strategized Locking.
Thread-Safe Interface.
Double Checked Locking Optimization.
2.6 Concurrency Patterns.
Active Object.
Monitor Object.
Leader/Followers.
Half Sync/Half-Async.
Thread-Specific Storage.
3 Tying the Patterns Together.
3.1 From Individual Patterns To Pattern Languages.
3.2 A Pattern Language for Distributed.
Object Computing.
3.3 Beyond Networking, Distribution, and Concurrency Notations.
Glossary.
References.
Index of Patterns.
Index.

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Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business

Author: Larry Weber

Praise for Marketing to the Social Web

"Weber understands that the world is going digital and that competitive advantage will accrue to those who understand the transformation. CEOs should heed this transformation and learn from Weber's insights how to navigate this new landscape to fully maximize their business opportunities."
-Mark Fuller, Chairman, Monitor Group

"Consumers are using technology to grab power from companies, the media, and the government. Marketing to the Social Web succinctly outlines how institutions can survive and win in this chaotic new world, and lays out the revised rules of engagement-ignore them at your peril."
-George F. Colony, CEO, Forrester Research, Inc.

"Larry has brought pragmatic and useful recommendations to help brand builders manage the complexity of social interaction in a digital age. I was pleased to read a book that actually suggests how to do something with social networks, instead of just ponder them."
-David Kenny, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Digitas Inc.

"Where's the allure of social 2.0? Brands can talk . . . customers talk louder! Digital influence has arrived."
-Jeff Taylor, CEO, Eons and Founder of Monster.com

"Larry Weber provides a simple and effective roadmap of the new customer information highway. Marketing to the Social Web is a valuable tool that will give everyone the confidence and know-how to compete in this fast-growing marketplace of ideas."
-Steve Harris, Vice President, Global Communications, General Motors Corporation

"As all lines and boundaries are washed away by the Web, Weber describes how to become part of the sea versus the sand."
-NicholasNegroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child

Pearson Educations Review for the AP Computer Science A and AB or AutoCAD

2009-02-22T16:26:00.000-08:00

Pearson Education's Review for the AP Computer Science A and AB

Author: Susan Horwitz

Key Message: Pearson Education’s Review for the AP Computer Science Exam in Java covers everything you need to know to get the score you want. It is written by a former AP Exam writer and is developed to help you take advantage of her experience. Key Topics: This test prep guide will help you: Understand how to approach the GridWorld case study, a required part of the AP Computer Science A and AB curricula; Review the most current AP Java topics (for both the A and AB exams) tested on the exam in a clear and concise manner; Practice with six sample exams - three for the A and three for the AB exam; Develop sound test-taking strategies with this book’s detailed review of Java, hundreds of practice questions, test taking tips, and AP-style grading guide. Key Market: Used in the classroom or as a self-study guide, this is an ideal resource for those taking the AP Computer Science exam in Java.

Interesting textbook: Interactive Distance Learning in PreK 12 Settings or Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO

AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know

Author: Dan Abbott

"I've been using AutoCAD for 22 years and have written a hundred books on the subject. I reviewed many CAD books back in the days when book reviews were common in CAD publications; some were innovative, others were just sad. But for nearly a decade, it's been mostly silence on the book review front. Then earlier in the summer, a book arrived in the mail from Sybex: AutoCAD Secrets Every User Should Know by Dan Abbott. Reading it, I got excited: here's a book for every AutoCAD user, even old-timers like me." - Ralph Grabowski, Editor, upFront.eZine.com: The Business of CAD

Learn the "why" behind the "how" in this one-of-a-kind reference packed with tips and techniques from award-winning AutoCAD expert Dan Abbott. This info-packed guide reveals some of the best kept AutoCAD secrets on technical standards, AutoLISP programming, DOS functions, scripts, 3D, and everything in between. Based on his popular "Things Every AutoCAD User Should Know" session at Autodesk University and other industry events, Dan gives you the answers to frequently asked AutoCAD questions in his direct and entertaining style while using real-world case studies to put your skills into practice. Read it cover to cover or dive right in to the sections you need most, then get ready to improve your productivity, save more time, and become an AutoCAD all-star.

Computer Graphics for Java Programmers or Systems Biology

2009-02-21T12:15:00.000-08:00

Computer Graphics for Java Programmers

Author: Kang Zhang

A great many varied and interesting visual effects can be achieved with computer graphics, for which a fundamental understanding of the underlying mathematical concepts – and a knowledge of how they can be implemented in a particular programming language – is essential.

Computer Graphics for Java Programmers, 2nd edition covers elementary concepts in creating and manipulating 2D and 3D graphical objects, covering topics from classic graphics algorithms to perspective drawings and hidden-line elimination.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this highly popular textbook contains a host of ready-to-run-programs and worked examples, illuminating general principles and geometric techniques. Ideal for classroom use or self-study, it provides a perfect foundation for programming computer graphics using Java.

	Preface
1	Elementary Concepts	1
2	Applied Geometry	25
3	Rotations and Other Transformations	53
4	Some Classic Algorithms	79
5	Perspective	113
6	Hidden-face Elimination	127
7	Hidden-line Elimination	163
8	Some Applications	183
App. A	Linear Interpolation of 1/z	223
App. B	A Note on Event Handling	227
App. C	File Obj3D.java	231
App. D	Program HLines.java	237
App. E	Hints and Solutions to Exercises	247
	Bibliography	267
	Index	269

Books about: Pilates or The Memory Advantage

Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed Networks

Author: Bernhard O Palsson

Genome sequences are now available that enable us to determine the biological components that make up a cell or an organism. The new discipline of systems biology examines how these components interact and form networks, and how the networks generate whole cell functions corresponding to observable phenotypes. This textbook describes how to model networks, determine their properties, and relate these to phenotypic functions. Some knowledge of linear algebra and biochemistry is required, since the book reflects the irreversible trend of increasing mathematical content in biology education.

Love and Sex with Robots or Creating Vista Gadgets

2009-02-20T08:03:00.000-08:00

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

Author: David Levy

Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner.From a leading expert in artificial intelligence comes an eye-opening, superbly argued book that explores a new level of human intimacy and relationships—with robots.

From Pygmalion falling for his chiseled Galatea to Dr. Frankenstein marveling at his "modern Prometheus" to the man-meets-machine fiction of Philip K. Dick and Michael Crichton, humans have been enthralled by the possibilities of emotional relationships with their technological creations. Synthesizing cutting-edge research in robotics with the cultural history and psychology of artificial intelligence, Love and Sex with Robots explores this fascination and its far-reaching implications.

Using examples drawn from around the world, David Levy shows how automata have evolved from the mechanical marvels of centuries past to the electronic androids of the modern age, and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Along the way, Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and to virtual pets such as the Tamagotchi, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. He also examines the needs we seek to fulfill through sexual relationships, tracking the development of life-sized dolls, machines, and other sexual devices, and demonstrating how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

Shocking but utterly convincing, Love and Sex withRobots provides insights that are surprisingly relevant to our everyday interactions with technology. This is science brought to life, and Levy makes a compelling and titillating case that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. Anyone reading the book with an open mind will find a wealth of fascinating material on this important new direction of intimate relationships, a direction that, before long, will be regarded as perfectly normal.

The Washington Post - Joel Achenbach

"Levy's book is entertaining in parts, such as the eye-opening (even climactic) section on the evolution of vibrators."..."But throughout Love and Sex with Robot's, there's a recurring sense of the writer trying a little too hard: Every brick must be carefully laid as he builds the great edifice of his thesis. Thus, we must labor through long sections on why people fall in love, why they love their pets, how they become attached to their computers, and so on, before we can get to the good stuff on sex toys. And it's not clear that Levy -- described on the book jacket as "an internationally recognized expert in artificial intelligence" -- is truly an expert on the subject of human love. He seems more like a partisan in a technological debate most of us didn't realize was going on."

Diana Hartle - Library Journal

Levy, a renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and author of Robots Unlimited, gives us an awe-inspiring and frightening peek into the future, to imagine a society where humans have deep psychological and physical relationships with robots. Rather than focusing on the current state of the art, Levy explores both the technological breakthroughs and the evolutionary changes in human behavior necessary to achieve his utopian dream. Our psychological knowledge of relationships is used as design specifications to develop animate creations that can play a major role in the advancement of humankind. Levy uses today's robots (e.g., ASIMO, AIBO, Repliee Qi, the RealDoll) and research into human behavior with technology to argue that love and sex with robots on a grand scale is inevitable. While Levy asks and answers a lot of intriguing questions, he does not acknowledge whether, just because we can, we should. Although reading the book in public would not raise eyebrows in Japan, here, be prepared to cause a major stir. Strongly recommended for academic and public libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

By mid-century, people will be marrying robots, asserts Levy, author of numerous books on chess, computers and artificial intelligence (Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age, 2005, etc.). To doubt that, he writes, is to be unaware of the rapid progress being made in artificial intelligence, materials science and other relevant technological areas. Levy explores the changing relationship between humans and robots, from industrial and service robots to children's toys and virtual pets-think Tamagotchi-to the caregiver robots being developed in Japan to help the elderly. Once a more human-like appearance can be achieved, says Levy, robots will move on to roles as companions and lovers. He analyzes the reasons people fall in love with each other and finds the same reasons applicable to human-robot relationships. He notes that social mores regarding marriage are changing, and he predicts that the combination of dynamic changes in social and cultural thinking with major advances in technology will move society toward acceptance of human-robot marriage. The advantages-a partner programmed to one's individual desires, one that can never truly die or fall out of love-are considerable. As for sex with a robot, Levy devotes an illustrated chapter to technological solutions to the problems facing the amorous human partner, ranging from old-fashioned mechanical devices to virtual-reality software systems. It's easy for the casual reader to be swept along by Levy's assumptions and arguments, so that statements such as, "If we can accept that a robot can think, then there is no good reason we should not also accept that it could have feelings of love and feelings of lust" may seem reasonable on firstreading, but highly questionable upon deeper reflection. Levy is willing to go far out on a limb with his predictions, and even the reader who remains unconvinced may well enjoy this thought-provoking and entertaining ride into the future. Agent: Molly Glick/Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency

Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and SilverLight

Author: Rajesh Lal

A one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create killer gadgets

Explores one of the super cool features new to Windows Vista -- the Sidebar
It is a one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create killer gadgets
Includes complete design instructions for four never-before-seen gadgets

Windows Vista Sidebar is a panel located on the desktop of a PC where gadgets can be placed for easy access and reference. These gadgets are small, single-purpose applications, such as clocks, calendars, games, RSS notifiers, search tools, stock tickers, etc, that reside on the Windows desktop and on the Windows Sidebar. The book will be a tutorial to design and develop a gadget. It will provide ready-to-use samples using .NET, XML, CSS and AJAX. After reading the book, a web developer/designer will be confident enough to start developing gadgets for Windows Vista Sidebar. The beginner portion of the book shows an overview of the subject with the design pattern, the architecture and implementation details. The later sections will have solid examples for instant results. In short, the book will tell how to do everything with Sidebar Gadgets using solid, unique examples. Brief outline: " Brief background on Gadgets " Define architecture, design consideration and implementation to give a clear view to the developer " Step by step, create a useful Gadget sample "My Blogs" " Elaborate the architecture design constraint and implementation details for the sample " Detail the standard practices " Recheck the gadget created forstandard practices " Improvise and Improve with compare and contrast " Add advanced samples with .NET, AJAX and XHTML.

Cisco or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

2009-02-19T03:51:00.000-08:00

Cisco: A Beginner's Guide

Author: Toby J Velt

Get started using Cisco technologies quickly and easily

Here is a fully updated edition of the bestselling introductory guide to Cisco products and technologies. Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition provides you with a practical hands-on resource for successfully designing and managing a Cisco network. Learn to work with Cisco routers and switches, wireless technologies, and storage tools. You'll also get full details on network security, including firewalls, as well as communications solutions such as VoIP. This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in internetworking and Cisco technologies.

Work with Cisco's Internet technologies
Configure Cisco routers and networks
Understand Cisco internetworking technologies including LAN switches, multilayered switching, and VLANs
Secure your network using CiscoSecure ACS, Cisco PIX firewall, IOS Firewall, and other methods
Enable wireless internetworking using the Cisco Aironet andAirespace products
Deploy VoIP via Cisco Unified Communications
Implement Cisco storage area network (SAN) and content delivery network (CDN) solutions
Use both open standard routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP) and Cisco-proprietary protocols (IGRP and EIGRP)
Design, manage, and troubleshoot a robust Cisco network

Toby J. Velte, Ph.D., MCSE+I, CCNA, CCDA, is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc., is an internationally bestselling author of business technology articles and books.

Anthony T. Velte, CISSP, CISA, is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc., and coauthor of several books on Cisco technologies.

Part I: Cisco Overview

Ch. 1: Cisco and the Internet

Ch. 2: Network Primer

Part II: Cisco Internetworking Tools

Ch. 3: Router Overview

Ch. 4: Configuring Routers

Ch. 5: Switches

Ch. 6: Security Overview

Ch. 7: Security Building Blocks

Ch. 8: Cisco Wireless Solutions

Part III: Cisco Business Solutions

Ch. 9: Cisco Unified Contact Center

Ch. 10: Storage Tools

Ch. 11: Cisco Content Networking and Video Solutions

Part IV: Designing Cisco Networks

Ch. 12: Routing Protocols

Ch. 13: Network Management

Ch. 14: Network Design Process

Ch. 15: Troubleshooting Cisco Networks

INDEX
Books about: Practices of an Agile Developer or Valley Boy

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

Author: Edward Melomed

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services is definitive guide to programming Analysis Services 2005. It will give you unparalleled insight into the ways in which Analysis Services functions straight from the members of the Analysis Services team at Microsoft . It not only explains ways to use Analysis Services 2005 to design and create multidimensional objects, databases, dimensions, cubes, but it also provides invaluable information about the reasons behind design decision taken by the development team.

Chapters include:

Introduction to Analysis Services
Creating Multidimensional Models using Analysis Services
Security
High availability
Localization and Globalization

Parallel Scientific Computing in C and MPI With CD or Joystick Nation

2009-02-17T23:40:00.000-08:00

Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI / With CD

Author: George Karniadakis

This book provides a seamless approach to numerical algorithms, modern programming techniques and parallel computing. These concepts and tools are usually taught serially across different courses and different textbooks, thus observing the connection between them. The necessity of integrating these subjects usually comes after such courses are concluded (e.g., during a first job or a thesis project), thus forcing the student to synthesize what is perceived to be three independent subfields into one in order to produce a solution. The book includes both basic and advanced topics and places equal emphasis on the discretization of partial differential equations and on solvers. Advanced topics include wavelets, high-order methods, non-symmetric systems and parallelization of sparse systems. A CD-ROM accompanies the text.

1. Scientific computing and simulation science;
2. Basic concepts;
3. Approximations;
4. Roots and integrals;
5. Explicit discretizations;
6. Implicit discretizations;
7. Relaxation: discretization and solvers;
8. Propagation: numerical diffusion and dispersion;
9. Fast linear solvers;
10. Fast eigensolvers; Appendix A: C++ basics; Appendix B: MPI basics; Bibliography.

Interesting textbook: JavaScript or Explanation Based Neural Network Learning

Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts and Rewired Our Minds

Author: J C Herz

J.C. Hertz brings us the first popular history and critique of electronic entertainment from its genesis as primitive blips in the labs of Cold War computer programmers to the studios where networked 3-D theme parks are created. Tracing this neon branch of the computer industry from a small cadre of inspired nerds to an entertainment behemoth that rivals Hollywood box office billings, she brings to life the history of Space Invaders, Pac Man, Super Mario, Myst, Doom, and other celebrated games. She explores the culture of virtual construction workers who "do code" wherever the next big game is being created - and the world of designers, writers, and musicians who make their living in this boomtown industry. At the same time, Herz investigates the games themselves and the role they have come to play in an increasingly virtual world.

Publishers Weekly

As much as Herz's (Surfing the Internet) new book is an enthusiastic and diligently researched history of, as she puts it, "the evolution of videogames from blips to behemoths," it is also an engaging exploration of "the human drive to play." Herz describes how that drive has persisted and developed in response to wave upon wave of technological refinement. She begins with a time line that plots the growth of the interactive entertainment from 1962, when an MIT electrical engineer created Spacewar, a videogame that scientists across the county copied and installed in university computer systems across the country, to today's $6-billion-a-year global industry. Especially intriguing are the interspersed profiles of the behind-the-scenes programmers who start out tinkering with code, become obsessed with a new game form and wind up millionaires. Only fellow gamers will share Herz's adulation for some of these programmers ("I've never been starstruck. Until now. I can't believe. I'm actually talking to the guy who wrote Defender," she writes), but most readers will be fascinatedand some concernedby the sense of generations being formed and changed by this latest collision of entertainment and a technology that, unlike TV, film and music, has been designed primarily for solitary consumption. (June)

Kirkus Reviews

Here is a look at an essential part of American youth that goes beyond a mere chronicle to engage all of the political, social, and cultural implications of video games.

Herz (Surfing the Internet, 1995) eschews a historical point of view for a free-associating meditation on the video game culture that, by her calculations, has engulfed one-fifth of our population. Of course, not being able to dispense with the historical aspects of her subject entirely, Herz offers up "A Natural History of Videogames" timeline: The first video game was actually created in 1962 by some MIT graduate students; thus, Herz notes, "If the history of videogames were a twenty-four-hour day, Pong would arise at 6:37 a.m." And in tracing the trajectory from Pong to Doom, she evokes such "classics" as Q*Bert, Space Invaders, and Pole Position. Equally clever is her sardonic suggestion to right-wing critics of video game violence that they turn it to their advantage with an "Operation Rescue level of Doom, where you gun down abortion doctors" or even a video game version of an all-out military operation. "But, then," she remarks, "been there, played that. Gulf War." (Anyway, she observes that in most video games, the violence is perpetrated by teenage boys and girls playing, not criminals, but law-enforcement officers.) Herz adroitly examines the gender gap in video game development, citing political feminists' scholarly critiques of Ms. Pac Man and Frogger, and her research shines in her strong study of characterization in video games, as she traces the connections between Japanese comic-book anime and the popularity of a certain Italian-American plumber named Mario.

This otherwise smart and entertaining read ends a bit too abruptly during a discussion of how computer simulation approximates reality. Nevertheless, Joystick Nation will please its citizenry.

Digital Multimedia Perception and Design or Java Cookbook

2009-02-16T19:28:00.000-08:00

Digital Multimedia Perception and Design

Author: Ghinea

Digital Multimedia Perception and Design provides a well-rounded synopsis of the state-of-the-art technologies in perceptual-based multimedia design. It is the only such book on the market, uniting cutting-edge research by some of the top people in the field and filling a gap in the existing multimedia design literature. Digital Multimedia Perception and Design highlights how perceptual requirements can be incorporated in the design, development and transmission of multimedia, providing readers with a rich body of research and work done in this exciting area. This book aids all those interested in building true end-to-end multimedia information systems, and is useful to researchers, multimedia designers, and content and infrastructure providers.

About the Author:
Gheorghita Ghinea is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University He holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, an MSc in Computer Science (with Distinction, 1996), both from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and a PhD in Computer Science (2000) from the University of Reading, U.K.. He has published over 60 research papers in leading international journals and peer-reviewed conferences and has consulted for both public and private organizations in his areas of research interest which are: distributed multimedia (especially perceptual aspects), web-based systems, ubiquitous computing, and telemedicine . Dr. Ghinea is a member of the IEEE and the British Computer Society.

bio 2 -Sherry Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University. Sheobtained her PhD degree from the University of Sheffield in 2000. Her current research interests include human-computer interaction, data mining, digital libraries, and educational technology. She has published widely in these areas. Dr. Chen was the co-editor of the books, Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia Systems and Advances in Web-based Education: Personalized Learning Environments. She is a member of the editorial boards of five computing journals. She has been invited to give several talks, including 9th International Conference on User Modelling and EPSRC Network of Women in Computer Science colloquium.

Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace

New interesting textbook: Diets in a Nutshell or Just Love Me

Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers

Author: Ian F Darwin

The Java Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Java. Developers will find hundreds of tried-and-true Java "recipes" covering all of the major APIs as well as some APIs that aren't as well documented in other Java books.

The Java Cookbook, like the bestselling Perl Cookbook, covers a lot of ground, and offers Java developers short, focused pieces of code that can be easily incorporated into other programs. The idea is to focus on things that are useful, tricky, or both. The book includes code segments covering many specialized APIs—like media and servlets—and should serve as a great "jumping-off place" for Java developers who want to get started in areas outside of their specialization.

The book provides quick solutions to particular problems that can be incorporated into other programs, but that aren't usually programs in and of themselves.

	Preface
1	Getting Started: Compiling, Running, and Debugging	1
2	Interacting with the Environment	38
3	Strings and Things	53
4	Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions	87
5	Numbers	112
6	Dates and Times	149
7	Structuring Data with Java	171
8	Object-Oriented Techniques	205
9	Input and Output	230
10	Directory and Filesystem Operations	288
11	Programming Serial and Parallel Ports	306
12	Graphics and Sound	338
13	Graphical User Interfaces	370
14	Internationalization and Localization	415
15	Network Clients	436
16	Server-Side Java: Sockets	464
17	Network Clients II: Applets and Web Clients	488
18	Web Server Java: Servlets and JSP	517
19	Java and Electronic Mail	564
20	Database Access	608
21	XML	649
22	Distributed Java: RMI	665
23	Packages and Packaging	685
24	Threaded Java	712
25	Introspection, or "A Class Named Class"	748
26	Using Java with Other Languages	777
	Afterword	801
	Index	803

Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 or Pdf Forms Using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Livecycle Designer

2009-02-15T15:17:00.000-08:00

Adobe Photoshop Elements 3: In A Snap (Sams Teach Yourself Series)

Author: Jennifer Fulton

These days, nobody really wants to learn everything there is about a software product like Photoshop Elements. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out?

You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Photoshop Elements - things that aren't already covered in the docs, and things you can't just figure out on your own.

Adobe Photoshop Elements in a Snap is designed specifically for today's computer user.

Somebody who is new to Photoshop Elements, but not new to computers.
Somebody who doesn't have time for long-winded, mind-numbing explanations - and certainly no time or patience for bad jokes.

Comprised of a series of well-organized, bite-sized, quickly accomplished tasks, the book lets the reader zero right in on the one particular task he or she wants to accomplish, quickly figure out what to do, do it, and then get back to work.

Go to: Mexican Bar or Guide to Good Food

PDF Forms Using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Author: Ted Padova

This comprehensive guide to creating fillable forms with the latest release of Adobe Acrobat is packed with real-world insights and techniques gained from daily use of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle Designer under business deadline situations. You’ll get step-by-step instructions that show you how to easily create and implement interactive PDF forms using both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

Discrete Mathematics or Information Assurance for the Enterprise

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

Discrete Mathematics

Author: Richard Johnsonbaugh

Focused on helping readers understand and construct proofs – and, generally, expanding their mathematical maturity – this best-seller is an accessible introduction to discrete mathematics. Takes an algorithmic approach that emphasizes problem-solving techniques. Expands discussion on how to construct proofs and treatment of problem solving. Increases number of examples and exercises throughout.

Booknews

New edition of a time-tested text first published in 1984 in response to a need for a course that extended students' mathematical maturity and ability to deal with abstraction and included useful topics such as combinatorics, algorithms, and graphs. Intended for a one-or two- term introductory course, the text does not require knowledge of calculus, and there are no computer science prerequisites. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Look this: The Golden Text of AA or Pregnancy and Birth

Information Assurance for the Enterprise: A Roadmap to Information Security

Author: Corey Schou

Going beyond the technical coverage of computer and systems security measures, Information Assurance for the Enterprise provides readers an overarching model for information assurance for businesses, government agencies, and other enterprises needing to establish a comprehensive plan. All the components of security and how they relate are featured, and readers will also be shown how an effective security policy can be developed. Topics like asset identification, human factors, compliance with regulations, personnel security, risk assessment and ethical considerations are covered, as well as computer and network security tools and methods.

This is one of the only texts on the market that provides an up-to-date look at the whole range of security and IA topics. In post-9/11 times, managers and IT professionals need to address a wide range of security-related issues, and develop security systems that take all these diverse factors into account. As someone who has worked extensively with the U.S. State Department and other governmental agencies, Corey Schou is uniquely positioned to write the definitive book on the subject; and Daniel Shoemaker is a professor and consultant to the Department of Homeland Security in matters of Information Assurance policy.

Ch. 1	Knowing what to secure	1
Ch. 2	Assessing risks	25
Ch. 3	Security policy	57
Ch. 4	Building and documenting an information assurance framework	89
Ch. 5	Maintaining security of operations	113
Ch. 6	Ensuring controlled access	139
Ch. 7	Personnel security	175
Ch. 8	Physical security	205
Ch. 9	Assuring against software vulnerabilities	231
Ch. 10	Continuity planning and disaster recovery	257
Ch. 11	Laws, regulations, and crime	283
Ch. 12	Network security basics : malware and attacks	311
Ch. 13	Cryptology	339
Ch. 14	Ensuring the secure use of software	367
Ch. 15	Human factors : ensuring secure performance	393
Ch. 16	Information ethics and codes and conduct	419
App. A	Apache longbow AH-64D : target acquisition and display system (TADS) upgrade project	441

Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified or New Perspectives on JavaScript Comprehensive

2009-02-11T03:00:00.000-08:00

Macromedia Flash MX Game Design Demystified: The Official Guide to Creating Games with Flash

Author: Jobe Makar

So you wanna be a hotshot game designer? Well, if you have a basic grasp of Macromedia Flash MX, you can. Unafraid to tackle some of the more complicated aspects of game creation (including physics and trigonometry!), this comprehensive reference covers it all. Macromedia Flash Game Design Demystified starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. You'll tackle simple-logic and quiz games before moving on to multiplayer and complex-logic games (chess, for example)--learning about importing 3-D graphics, adding sound effects, and licensing your games in the process. The book's companion CD includes the source files for a number of games as well as the tutorials and lessons that go along with the book and XML server software to facilitate multiplayer games. If you're tired of the games that you have and want to make your own action, this book offers comprehensive coverage of sophisticated techniques--but put in easy-to-grasp, practical terms.

Booknews

Written for developers familiar with Flash, this guide explains techniques for automating, repeating, and governing the actions of games. The first half of the book describes collision detection and reactions, tile-based worlds, artificial intelligence algorithms, graphics and sound, while the second half walks through the ActionScript code and functions of six sample games. The CD-ROM contains example files and a trial version of Flash MX. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Getting Started
Ch. 1	First Steps	3
Ch. 2	The Plan: From Idea to Design	17
Pt. 2	Examining the Nuts and Bolts
Ch. 3	Trigonometry 101	33
Ch. 4	Basic Physics	57
Ch. 5	Collision Detection	83
Ch. 6	Collision Reactions	135
Ch. 7	Tile-Based Worlds	161
Ch. 8	The Isometric Worldview	189
Ch. 9	Artificial Intelligence	227
Ch. 10	Using a High Score List	261
Ch. 11	Graphics in Games	273
Ch. 12	The Sound of Games	321
Ch. 13	Dissecting a Chat	349
Pt. 3	The Games
Ch. 14	Word Search	375
Ch. 15	Ice World: A Platform Game	401
Ch. 16	Pinball	437
Ch. 17	Tic-Tac-Toe: Your First Multiplayer Game	459
Ch. 18	9-Ball	475
Ch. 19	Don't Fall!	503
	App. A: Protecting Your Games	525
	App. B: Multiuser Servers	535
App. C	The ElectroServerAS Object	553
	App. D: XML Basics in Flash	577
	App. E: Developer Resources	591
	App. F: Other Games	601
	Index	605

New Perspectives on JavaScript, Comprehensive

Author: Partrick Carey

This book uses a practical, step-by-step approach to provide comprehensive instruction on basic to advanced JavaScript concepts.

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom or Adobe After Effects 7 Hands On Training

2009-02-09T22:49:00.000-08:00

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom: Developer's Guide to Syndicating News and Blogs

Author: Ben Hammersley

Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the pasttwo years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's beenreported that the number of blogs during that time has grownfrom 100,000 to 4.8 million-with no end to this growth insight.

What's the technology that makes blogging tick? The answeris RSS—a format that allows bloggers to offer XML-basedfeeds of their content. It's also the same technologythat's incorporated into the websites of media outlets sothey can offer material (headlines, links, articles, etc.)syndicated by other sites.

As the main technology behind this rapidly growing field ofcontent syndication, RSS is constantly evolving to keep pacewith worldwide demand. That's where Developing Feeds withRSS and Atom, 2nd Edition steps in. It provides bloggers,web developers, and programmers with a thorough explanationof syndication in general and the most popular technologiesused to develop feeds.

This book not only highlights all the new features of RSS2.0-the most recent RSS specification-but also offerscomplete coverage of its close second in the XML-feed arena,Atom. The book has been exhaustively revised to explain:metadata interpretationthe different forms of content syndication the increasing use of web services how to use popular RSS news aggregators on the marketAfter an introduction that examines Internet contentsyndication in general (its purpose, limitations, andtraditions), this step-by-step guide tackles various RSS andAtom vocabularies, as well as techniques for applyingsyndication to problems beyond news feeds. Mostimportantly, it gives you a firm handle on how to createyour own feeds, and consume or combine other feeds.

If you'reinterested in producing your own content feed,Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom is the one book you'llwant in hand.

Book review: Como a universidade Trabalha:Ensino superior e a Nação Mal paga

Adobe After Effects 7 Hands-On Training

Author: Chad Fahs

Learn Adobe After Effects 7.0 with hands-on exercises and demo movies. Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this is the book for you. These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for creating motion graphics and special effects for film, video, and the Web. You'll learn to animate text and images, integrate sound, and publish the results to a variety of formats. You'll also learn to use the new project management enhancements, how to fine-tune animations, use animation blending and freeze frame options, convert alpha channels to masks with Auto-Trace, use the new Script Editor, and more.

1	Getting started	2
2	Understanding the workspace	10
3	Beginning a new project	26
4	Creating a composition	40
5	Creating keyframes and animation in the timeline	60
6	Playing with time	106
7	Previewing movies	126
8	Working with layers	148
9	Working with text layers	206
10	Applying effects	250
11	Parenting layers	274
12	Painting on layers	296
13	Creating masks	322
14	Creating track mattes	346
15	Working with color keys	364
16	Working with 3D layers	380
17	Using expressions	410
18	Tracking motion and stabilizing footage	426
19	Working with audio	438
20	Rendering final movies	450

Podcast Solutions or SQL Server 2005 T SQL Recipes

2009-02-08T18:38:00.000-08:00

Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting

Author: Michael Geoghegan

Are you the kind of person whos got a lot to say? Have you ever wanted to share your talents, thoughts, and opinions with others, but have lacked the broadcasting knowledge and contacts to achieve such a goal?
Well, today it's well within your grasp, thanks to Podcasting -- using only some simple recording equipment, a computer, and the Internet, you can record and distribute your own audio shows, including anything you want - comedy, debate, news, reviews, interviews, music -- the only limit is your imagination.
Of course, you'll need a guide to tell you what you need to know, which is where this indispensable book comes in. Written by two of the best and brightest podcasting pioneers, Podcast Solutions is a shrewd and comprehensive guide to podcasting. From downloading podcasts to producing your own for fun or profit, Podcast Solutions covers the entire world of podcasting with insight, humor, and the unmatched wisdom of experience. In its 200+ pages, youll learn:

How to receive podcasts - everything you need to know to find, subscribe to and receive quality shows on your iPod, computer or any other mp3 player.
How podcasting is being applied in many different industries - entertainment, education, sales and marketing, religious study, intra-corporate communications, and more.
How to plan and design your own top quality podcast, including expert advice on designing a show built for success.
How to Set up your "podcast studio," whether youre a casual hobbyist or a committed professional. Includes insights and buying advice on finding the right microphones, mixers, software, hardware, and more to meet your needs and fit yourbudget.
The secrets to achieving "broadcast quality" audio for your show.
How to include music, phone calls and audio feedback into your podcast inexpensively and legally.
The techniques needed to turn your podcasts into Internet-ready audio files and get them out there ready to be received by your anxiously-waiting listeners, using simple hardware and software tools.
The meaning of RSS, XML, mp3, LAME, and several other acronyms you thought youd never understand.
Insiders tips on creating a web presence that will enhance the popularity and professionalism of your show.
Secrets of attracting listeners through the creative use of directories, user groups, mailing lists and more.
How to make money with your podcast by attracting sponsors, advertisers, and other revenue sources.

The book contains all this and more. This is the guide to podcasting you've been looking for, and the only one you'll need.

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Author: Joseph Sack

If you are looking for a succinct, easy to use, and up-to-date reference guide for SQL Server 2005 and T-SQL, I highly recommend SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes.

— David Hayden, .NET Developer

Each chapter is completely autonomous, so you can just look up the syntax you need at the time without having to rely on knowledge from previous chapters. It's really an excellent reference that deserves a place on your desk.

— Sean McCown, ITBookworm

Need to brush up on specific SQL Server tasks, procedures, or Transact-SQL commands? Not finding what you need from SQL Server books online? Or perhaps you just want to familiarize yourself with the practical application of new T-SQL--related features. SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is an ideal book, whatever your level as a DBA or developer.

This "no-fluff" desk reference offers direct access to the information you need to get the job done. It covers basic T-SQL data manipulation, the use of stored procedures, triggers and UDFs, and advanced T-SQL techniques for database security and maintenance. It also provides hundreds of practical recipes that describe the utilities of features and functions, with a minimim of background theory.

Additionally, this book provides "how-to" answers to common SQL Server T-SQL questions, conceptual overviews, and highlights of new features introduced in SQL Server 2005. It also features concise T-SQL syntax examples, and you can use the book to prepare for a SQL Server-related job interview or certification test.

Manga Studio for Dummies or Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual C 2005 in 24 Hours

2009-02-07T14:26:00.000-08:00

Manga Studio for Dummies®

Author: Doug Hills

Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started.

Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. It’s a breeze once you know your way around the program. Manga may have begun in Japan, but Manga Studio For Dummies is written in plain English, and shows you how to:

• Build and use page templates

• Rough in your comic with penciling techniques

• Work 100 0igital, or use a combination of digital and traditional tools if you prefer

• Work with layers, rulers, and panels

• Add speech bubbles and sound effects text

• Ink your work and add tones

• Prepare your creations for print or distribution on the Web

Written by a working digital artist, Manga Studio For Dummies covers both Manga Studio Debut and EX versions. As an added bonus, it even gives you a peek into the world of manga and comics in general. With the help of Manga Studio For Dummies, you just might find yourself among the comic artists whose work populates the Web and gathers thousands of fans!

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual C# 2005 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit

Author: James Foxall

Looking to break into C# programming? Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit is a valuable resource. You will start by learning the basics of the Visual C# environment and begin to build working programs very quickly. As the programs become more complex, you will discover more of the advanced features of the C# programming language and the Visual C# tool.

Set with the practical goal of providing you with a solid foundation from which to grow and develop your C# programming skills, this book is perfect for use in a professional setting or for use with personal projects. The accompanying CD includes Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, a streamlined, easy-to-use development tool that makes Windows programming with C# fun. Jump in with both feet with the help of Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit.

Hour 1	Jumping in with both feet : a Visual C# 2005 programming tour	7
Hour 2	Navigating Visual C# 2005	33
Hour 3	Understanding objects and collections	61
Hour 4	Understanding events	83
Hour 5	Building forms - the basics	103
Hour 6	Building forms - advanced techniques	125
Hour 7	Working with traditional controls	153
Hour 8	Using advanced controls	181
Hour 9	Adding menus and toolbars to forms	201
Hour 10	Creating and calling methods	225
Hour 11	Using constants, data types, variables, and arrays	245
Hour 12	Performing arithmetic, string manipulation, and date/time adjustments	271
Hour 13	Making decisions in Visual C# code	289
Hour 14	Looping for efficiency	301
Hour 15	Debugging your code	313
Hour 16	Designing objects using classes	335
Hour 17	Interacting with users	353
Hour 18	Working with graphics	371
Hour 19	Performing file operations	395
Hour 20	Working with text files and the registry	413
Hour 21	Working with a database	437
Hour 22	Controlling other applications using automation	453
Hour 23	Deploying applications	469
Hour 24	The 10,000-foot view	479

Computer Vision or Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies

2009-02-06T10:15:00.000-08:00

Computer Vision

Author: George Stockman

Computer Vision presents the necessary theory and techniques for students and practitioners who will work in fields where significant information must be extracted automatically from images. It will be a useful resource automatically from images. It will be a useful resource book for professionals and a core text for both undergraduate and beginning graduate computer vision and imaging courses.

Features

• Topics include image databases an virtual and augmented reality in addition to classical topics.
• Offers a complete view of two real-world systems that use computer vision.
• Contains applications from industry, medicine, land use, multimedia, and computer graphics.
• Includes over 250 exercises and programming projects, 48 separately defined algorithms, and 360 figures.
• The companion website features include image archive, sample

Booknews

This well-illustrated guide presents the theory and techniques for students and practitioners. Using image databases and applications from many fields as supporting material the topics covered include: imaging and image representation, binary image analysis, pattern recognition, filtering and enhancing, color and shading, texture, content-based image retrieval, motion from 2D image sequences, image segmentation, matching in 2D, perceiving 3D from 2D, 3D sensing and object pose computation, 3D models and matching, virtual reality, and case studies. The authors both teach computer science and engineering, Shapiro at the U. of Washington, Stockman at Michigan State U. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book review: L'Ergothérapie Réussie

Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies

Author: Don Mason

• Shows digital photo enthusiasts how to ensure that the color in an image file is accurately represented and reproduced, from camera or scanner to monitor or printer

• Packed with color management solutions that will help novices create picture-perfect images

• Discusses the main components of color management including understanding light, matching digital images to displays and prints, working with color spaces, calibrating a printer, and using color management tools

• Familiarizes readers with the various color management tools that help calibrate consistent picture quality

Introduction     1
About This Book     1
Who This Book Is For     1
Conventions Used in This Book     2
How This Book Is Organized     2
The Basics of Color Editing     2
Image Brightness and Contrast Corrections     2
Color Corrections     3
Finishing Work     3
The Part of Tens     3
Icons Used in This Book     3
Where to Go from Here     4
The Basics of Color Editing     5
Understanding Color     7
Understanding Calibration Basics     7
Getting to Know the Language of Color     9
Hue     9
Saturation     11
Brightness     11
Color space     13
Color gamut     13
Clipping     13
Mixing Colors     14
Understanding grays     15
Understanding channels     16
Why are there 256 levels?     17
Understanding Color Modes     17
RGB     17
Index color     17
Grayscale     18
Bitmap     18
CMYK     19
ConvertingColor Modes     19
Controlling Lighting     21
Understanding Color Temperature     22
Using Balanced Lighting     23
Going for Neutral Gray     24
Building a viewing booth     25
Employing viewing booth alternatives     27
Calibrating Your Monitor     29
What Is Monitor Calibration?     29
Working with CRT versus LCD Monitors     30
Calibrating with Hardware Devices     32
Adjusting Hardware Controls on an LCD Display     33
Using Calibration Software     36
Using Adobe Gamma     37
Calibrating with just RGB controls on a Mac     42
Calibrating LCD monitors that have brightness and contrast controls     47
Calibrating monitors that have white-balance, brightness, and contrast controls in Windows     52
Calibrating monitors with just white-balance controls in Windows     53
Calibrating Mac monitors that have white-point adjustments     54
Color Profiles and File Formats     55
What's a Color Profile?     55
Understanding the Different Types of Profiles     57
Monitor profiles     57
Workspace profiles     57
Output profiles      58
Working with Workspace Profiles in Elements     58
Defining your color workspace     58
Embedding the workspace profile     60
Managing Print Colors with Output Profiles     61
Acquiring device profiles     62
Installing profiles on your computer     65
Using output profiles when printing     67
Choosing and Changing File Formats     69
Which formats support profiles?     69
When can you change a file format?     71
Understanding Bit Depth     73
Understanding dynamic range     74
Where you get 16-bit images     75
Intake Brightness and Contrust Carrectimis     77
Making Tonal and Brightness Corrections     79
Checking Out Your Images     80
Fixing Tone Problems     81
Using the Levels Dialog Box     84
Getting to Black and White     88
Adjusting Gamma levels     89
Correcting a low-contrast file     92
Correcting an underexposed file     93
Correcting an overexposed file     94
Correcting a high contrast file     95
Finding the first real black and white pixels     95
The Levels black-and-white preview option     97
Breaking the Rules of Editing     100
Knowing when to break the rules     101
Breaking the rules for white-point adjustments     102
Breaking the rules for black-point adjustments     105
Correcting Contrast     111
Correcting Image Contrast     111
Fixing Contrast Problems with the Auto Contrast Command     114
Working with the Brightness/Contrast Command     117
Modifying Contrast with Adjust Color Curves     121
Using the Shadows/Highlights Tool to Adjust Contrast     124
Traveling Back in Time with the Undo Command     131
Using Adjustment Layers     133
Adding Adjustment Layers to Your Editing Arsenal     134
Creating Adjustment Layers     134
Working with Adjustment Layers     136
Changing the opacity of layers     137
Moving adjustment layers between files     137
Choosing a layer blending mode     139
Correcting Image Contrast with a Curves Adjustment     Layer 139
Increasing image contrast     140
Reducing image contrast     144
Color Carrections     149
Identifying Color Problems      151
Identifying a Colorcast     151
Discovering Memory Colors     153
Getting Familiar with Color Saturation     155
Color Correcting Skin Tones     157
Correcting Skin Tones     157
Using the Hue/Saturation Tool     164
Understanding the Hue/Saturation dialog box     164
Editing Hue/Saturation     165
Removing a Colorcast     173
Using Levels and Color Variations to Make Color Corrections     179
Using Levels for Color Correction     179
Correcting color by using Levels     181
Analyzing the Levels adjustments     184
Working with Color Variations     185
Correcting color with Color Variations     188
Darkening and lightening images     191
Saturating images with Color Variations     191
Advanced Color-Correction Methods     195
Cleaning Up the Whites     195
Examining color channels in Levels     198
Using Auto Levels     199
Setting White and Black Points with the Levels Eyedroppers     204
Fine-Tuning with the Hue/Saturation Command     212
Correcting Overexposed Saturated Files     216
Correcting Color by Using Levels      221
Understanding the effects of adjusting color in Levels     222
Color correcting a file with Levels     223
Camera Raw Color Correction     227
Understanding Camera Raw     228
Using the Raw Converter     228
Making Adjustments in Camera Raw     233
Working with Camera Raw Defaults     239
Finishing Work     241
Printing     243
Preparing Files for Printing     243
Printing and image resolution     244
Changing image resolution     246
Cropping images     248
Converting Color     250
Printing to Epson Inkjet Printers     251
Using automatic profile selection     252
Selecting a printer profile manually     259
Printing with a printer profile in Windows     259
Printing with a custom profile     261
Printing to HP Inkjet Printers     262
Printing to HP printers in Windows     263
Printing to HP printers on a Macintosh     264
Printing to Canon Printers     265
Printing to Canon printers in Windows     265
Printing to Canon Printers on a Mac     266
Renaming Color Profiles      268
Printing Contact Prints     268
Choosing Paper and Inks     271
Soft Proofing Color     273
Understanding Soft Proofing     273
Converting to an Output Profile     274
Converting color in Windows     274
Converting profiles by using operating system tools on a Macintosh     277
Viewing the Soft Proof     279
Part of Tens     283
Ten Tips for Better Tone and Color     285
Calibrating Your Monitor     285
Using a Gray Card     286
Or Using the GretagMacbeth ColorChecker     287
Shooting Pictures in Proper Lighting     287
Shooting Photos against a Background     288
Using Curves Adjustment Layers     288
Shooting in Camera Raw     289
Editing 16-Bit Images     289
Editing for Content     290
Using Filters     290
Tea Reasons to Upgrade to Photoshop     293
Using the Curves Dialog Box     293
Using the Channels Dialog Box     297
Changing Bit Depth     298
Improving Dynamic Range     300
Working with More Color Modes     300
Converting to a Profile      303
Proofing Color     304
Embedding Profiles     304
More Options for Using Camera Raw     305
More Selection Tools     306
Index     309

Game Programming Gem 5 or Comet and Reverse Ajax

2009-02-05T06:03:00.000-08:00

Game Programming Gem 5, Vol. 5

Author: Kim Pallister

With every new volume, the Game Programming Gems series continues to provide a road map through the vast array of development challenges facing today's game programmers. With the wisdom of many industry experts, Gems 5 includes 62 newly unearthed gems that were polished up for your reading pleasure. These gems are filled with practical insights and techniques that will solve your current problems and help inspire future games. You and your team need to develop for today's platforms, while preparing for the new technology looming on the horizon and with the tools provided here, you can! So dig into this new collection and put it to work.

Book about: Moderne Wertpapierbestand-Theorie und Investitionsanalyse

Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next Generation Ajax 2.0

Author: Dave Cran

One of the most basic laws of a web application is that the client, not the server, must initiate any communication between the two. There are a number of common–use cases where, ideally, the server would like to talk to the client—dashboards and monitoring apps, chat rooms and other collaborations, and progress reports on long–running processes. Comet (a.k.a. Reverse Ajax) provides a mechanism for enabling this. Comet is moderately complex to implement. But this practical, hands–on book gets you going.

In Part 1 of this book, we start by examining the use cases, and look at the simple alternatives to Comet and how far they can satisfy your needs. In some situations, though, only Comet will do.

In Part 2, we demonstrate how to set up and run a Comet–based application.

With this book, be a part of the next generation, Ajax 2.0.

What you’ll learn

Find out what Comet is and the trouble with HTTP.

See how to achieve push, polling, piggy–backing, raw sockets, and more.

Explore some common use cases and a worked example on “magnetic poetry.”

Understand what some issues and techniques are including the two–request limit, pub–sub and server architectures, and continuations vs. native Comet.

Use implementations of Comet, including Cometd/Bayeaux, Reverse Ajax in DWR, and more.

Work through the final example using DWR Framework.

Who is this book for?

This firstPress title is for Ajax developers who are intrigued by Comet/Reverse Ajax, key to the next generation Ajax 2.0.

How to Do Systems Analysis or VHDL

2009-02-04T01:51:00.000-08:00

How to Do Systems Analysis

Author: John E Gibson

This book focuses on systems analysis, broadly defined to also include problem formulation and interpretation of proposed alternatives in terms of the value systems of stakeholders. Therefore, the book is a complement, not a substitute to other books when teaching systems engineering and systems analysis. The nature of problem solving discussed in this book is appropriate to a wide range of systems analyses. Thus the book can be used as a stand-alone book for teaching the analysis of systems. Also unique is the inclusion of broad case studies to stress problem solving issues, making How to Do Systems Analysis a complement to the many fine works in systems engineering available today.

Preface.

A Personal Note from William T. Scherer.

A Personal Note from William F. Gibson.

A Personal Note from Scott F. Ferber.

Original Preface from Jack Gibson.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

1.1 What is a System?

1.2 Terminology Confusion.

1.3 Systems Analysis Equals Operations Research Plus Policy Analysis.

1.4 Attributes of Large-Scale Systems.

1.5 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): An Example of a Large-Scale System.

1.6 Systems Integration.

1.7 What Makes a “Systems Analysis” Different?

1.8 Distant Roots of Systems Analysis.

1.9 Immediate Precursors to Systems Analysis.

1.10 Development of Systems Analysis As a Distinct Discipline: The Influence of RAND.

Historical Case Study: IIASA (A).

Exercises.

Case Study: Fun at Six Flags?

Historical Case Study: IIASA (B).

2. Six Major Phases of Systems Analysis.

2.1 The System Analysis Method: Six Major Phases.

2.2 The Goal-Centered or Top-Down Approach.

2.3 The Index of Performance Concept.

2.4 Developing Alternative Scenarios.

2.5 Ranking Alternatives.

2.6 Iteration and the “Error-Embracing” Approach.

2.7 The Action Phase: The Life-Cycle of a System.

Exercises.

Case Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part A.

Case Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part B.

CaseStudy: Wal-Mart Crisis!

3. Goal Development.

3.1 Seven Steps in Goal Development.

3.2 On Generalizing the Question.

3.3 The Descriptive Scenario.

3.4 The Normative Scenario.

3.5 The Axiological Component.

3.6 Developing an Objectives Tree.

3.7 Fitch’s Goals for Urbanizing America: An Example of Objectives Tree Construction.

3.8 Content Analysis of Fitch’s Goals.

3.9 Validate.

3.10 Iterate.

Case Study: Distance Learning in the Future?

Historical Case Study: Goals of 4C, Inc.

4. The Index of Performance.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Desirable Characteristics for an Index of Performance.

4.3 Economic Criteria.

4.4 Compound Interest.

4.5 Four Common Criteria for Economic Efficiency.

4.6 Is there a Problem with Multiple Criteria?

4.7 What is Wrong with the B-C Ratio?

4.8 Can IRR be Fixed?

4.9 Expected Monetary Value.

4.10 Nonmonetary Performance Indices.

Exercises.

Case Study: Sky High Airlines

Case Study: Bridges—Where to Spend the Security Dollars?

Case Study: Measuring the Process and Outcomes of Regional Transportation Collaboration.

Case Study: Baseball Free Agent Draft.

5. Develop Alternative Candidate Solutions.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 The Classical Approach to Creativity.

5.3 Concepts in Creativity.

5.4 Brainstorming.

5.5 Brainwriting.

5.6 Dynamic Confrontation.

5.7 Zwicky’s Morphological Box.

5.8 The Options Field/Options Profile Approach.

5.9 Computer Creativity.

5.10 Computer Simulation: a Tool in Option Development.

5.11 Why a Dynamic Simulation for Creating Options?

5.12 Context-Free Simulation Models?

5.13 Bottom-Up Simulation or Top-Down?

5.14 Lessons from the Susquehanna River Basin Model.

5.15 The Forrester Urban Model (FUM) and Societal Values.

5.16 Extensions and Variations.

5.17 Where to go from Here?

Exercises.

Case Study: Winnebago.

Case Study: Distance Learning in the Future?

Historical Case Study: Real-Time Television Link with Mars Orbiter.

Historical Case Study: A Highway Vehicle Simulator.

RFP from DOT.

6. Rank Alternative Candidates.

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Rating and Ranking Methods.

6.3 Condorcet and Arrow Voting Paradoxes.

6.4 A MultiStage Rating Process.

6.5 Decision Analysis.

6.6 Basic Axioms of Decision Theory.

6.7 Properties of Utility Functions.

6.8 Constructing a Utility Curve.

6.9 Some Decision Analysis Classic Examples.

6.10 Estimation Theory in Decision Analysis.

6.11 Some Practical Problems with Decision Analysis.

6.12 Practical Trade Studies.

Exercises.

Case Study: Training Center Location.

Case Study: Corporate Headquarters Location.

Case Study: Business School Selection.

7. Iteration and Transition.

7.1 Iteration.

7.2 Segment and Focus.

7.3 The Transition Scenario.

7.4 The Gantt Chart.

7.5 Interaction Matrices.

7.6 The Delta Chart.

7.7 The Audit Trail.

7.8 Cost of Failure to Stay on Schedule.

7.9 Responsibilities of Major Actors.

7.10 Sign-Offs by Cooperating Groups.

Exercises.

8. Management of the Systems Team.

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Personal Style in an Interdisciplinary Team.

8.3.”Out-Scoping” and “In-Scoping” in a System Study.

8.4 Building the Systems Team.

8.5 Tips on Managing the Team.

8.6 Functional or Project Management?

8.7 How to Make an Effective Oral Presentation.

8.8 How to Write a Report.

9. Project Management.

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Project Management Versus Process Management.

9.3 The Hersey-Blanchard Four-Mode Theory.

9.4 Relation of Management Style to Project Management.

9.5 Preliminary Project Planning.

9.6 Dealing with Conflict in Project Management.

9.7 Life-Cycle Planning and Design.

9.8 PERT/CPM Program Planning Method: An Example.

9.9 Quality Control in Systems Projects.

Case Study: Project Management.

10. The 10 Golden Rules of Systems Analysis.

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 Rule 1: There Always Is a Client.

10.3 Rule 2: Your Client Does Not Understand His Own Problem.

10.4 Rule 3: The Original Problem Statement is too Specific: You Must Generalize the Problem to Give it Contextual Integrity.

10.5 Rule 4: The Client Does Not Understand the Concept of the Index of Performance.

10.6 Rule 5: You are the Analyst, Not the Decision-Maker.

10.7 Rule 6: Meet the Time Deadline and the Cost Budget.

10.8 Rule 7: Take a Goal-Centered Approach to the Problem, Not a Technology-Centered or Chronological Approach .

10.9 Rule 8: Nonusers Must be Considered in the Analysis and in the Final Recommendations.

10.10 Rule 9: The Universal Computer Model is a Fantasy.

10.11 Rule 10: The Role of Decision-Maker in Public Systems is Often a Confused One.

References.

Index.

Go to: Southern Recipes and Legends or Crab Lovers Book

VHDL: Programming by Example

Author: Douglas L Perry

THE HANDS-DOWN FAVORITE USER’S GUIDE TO VHDLCOMPLETELY UPDATED TO REFLECT THE VERY LATEST DESIGN METHODS

CD-ROM WITH WORKING CODE EXAMPLES, VERIFICATION TOOLS AND MORE

No matter what your current level of expertise, nothing will have you writing and verifying concise, efficient VHDL descriptions of hardware designs as fast – or as painlessly – as this classic tutorial from master teacher Doug Perry. Beginners will find it an invaluable learning tool and experienced pros will keep it on their desk as a trusted reference.

Perry teaches VHDL through a series of hundreds of practical, detailed examples, gradually increasing in complexity until you’re capable of designing a fully functional CPU. The new Fourth Edition has been completely updated with all of the VDHL codes used in the examples changed to reflect today’s faster and more efficient design methods. You’ll also find:
* A CD-ROM containing working code of all of the VDHL examples, with their matching designs along with VITAL verification tools and a working copy of ModelSIM
* All the tools you need for simulation and synthesis
* A listing of the IEEE 1164 STD-LOGIC package used throughout the book
* Useful tables and figures
* Instructions for reading the Bachus-Naur format (BNF) descriptions found in the VHDL Language Reference Manual

There truly is no faster or smarter way to master VHDL than Doug Perry’s “learn by example” approach. It works!

Booknews

A guide to writing concise, efficient descriptions of hardware using VHDL. The author uses real-world examples, sample designs, and extensive graphics. This second edition features a description of VHDL with Synthesis, reflects the IEEE 1164 standard modeling package, contains all new tables and figures, includes quick reference language tables, and addresses many issues concerning VHDL design and the available options and alternatives. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Access 2007 for Starters or Adobe PageMaker 70 Classroom in a Book

2009-02-02T21:38:00.000-08:00

Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual

Author: Matthew MacDonald

This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can start using the program right away. Rather than include every detail, Access for Starters: The Missing Manual shows you how to work with Access's most-used features and Microsoft's new context-sensitive user interface. Ideal for small businesses and households, Access runs on PCs and manages large stores of information, including data, pages of text, and pictures -- everything from a list of family phone numbers to an enormous product catalog. However, each new version of the program crammed in yet another set of features; so many that even the pros don't know where to find them all. Access 2007 breaks the mold: Microsoft completely redesigned the user interface with a tabbed toolbar and context-sensitive menus that makes features easy to locate. One thing that hasn't improved is Microsoft's documentation. Even if you find the features you need, you still may not know what to do with them. This concise For Starters Manual sticks with the basics -- just enough to get you going on your own Access database.

Interesting book: American Exceptionalism American Anxiety or Why and How Audits Must Change

Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book

Author: Adobe Creative Team

Untitled

You've added Adobe PageMaker7.0 to your digital studio (or plan to). Now pick up the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to master the award-winning page-layout program—Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book. This bestselling, hands-on workbook and CD package delivers something no other guide can: Adobe's official training series, developed by the company's own experts and tested in its classrooms and labs.

Each chapter is a self-paced lesson, based on real-world design projects. And each project builds on the skills you learn in previous lessons. For example, you may start by creating a single-page, black-and-white flyer, then quickly progress to more challenging projects, such as designing professional-quality letterhead, an eight-page CD booklet, a sports catalog, a Web-based newsletter, and more. Along the way, you'll learn to take advantage of version 7.0's new features, including its seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, its ability to merge text and images from database and spreadsheet programs, and the way it now allows you to view and create PDFs, as well as open and edit QuarkXPress documents.

Library Journal

Desktop publishing packages like PageMaker allow even small businesses to produce professional-looking materials. This beginner's guide walks users step by step through common projects, such as creating a brochure, a flyer, and a newsletter, and also includes lessons on starting a web newsletter and online PDF (Adobe Acrobat format) newsletter. The accompanying CD contains lesson material, which can be used in conjunction with the review questions at the end of each chapter. A good supplementary resource for public libraries. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Organized around specific projects, ten lessons provide step-by-step instruction for using Pagemaker 7.0. The book outlines the creation of flyers, letterheads, newsletters, catalogs and the like, using text, graphics, typography, layout, type, and color. It also describes the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, databases, spreadsheets, PDFs, and Quark, as they coordinate with Pagemaker. Basics are covered before advanced projects are introduced. An accompanying CD- ROM contains lesson files. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Blogwars or Advanced NXT

2009-02-01T17:26:00.000-08:00

Blogwars

Author: David D Perlmutter

Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have?
In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be uncertain, it will not be unblogged.
For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new andcontroversial force on America's political landscape.

Preface     xi
Beyond the Blog "Revolution"     3
From Cybercommunity to Blogland     49
The Ascent of Blogs     61
Mercuries and Wisebots: External Political Roles of Bloggers     109
"My Fellow Blogging Americans": Internal Political Roles of Bloggers     149
Afterpost: Continue the Conversation     205
Notes     213
Index     237

Books about: Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming or Print Like a Pro

Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book

Author: Matthias Paul Scholz

The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da Vinci Code are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions are covered in detail. This book is written for serious NXT programmers and covers the most popular programming environments available today. It is abundantly illustrated and includes sample code and countless "best practices" strategies.

Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR or Foundation ActionScript

2009-01-31T13:14:00.000-08:00

Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR

Author: Chris Korhonen

The Web has changed -- pages are no longer static and data flows freely. Rich internet applications are transforming the landscape of the Internet, and at their core are services that make the sharing of data and functionality simple. Developers leverage these to create unique and innovative 'mashups. In this book, you will learn how to mashup the Web using Adobe Flash and Flex 3.0, and how to take your applications to the desktop with the ground-breaking Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

Create unique mashups from technologies such as Flickr and Google Maps
Style your applications using Flex 3
Create desktop applications that leverage data from the Internet

What you'll learn

This book teaches how to create mashup applications and widgets using primarily Flex and AIR, along with HTML, JavaScript and Ajax.
Provides an insight into application development using Flex 3.0
Filled with practical examples and projects rather than technical theory.
Offers Flash developers an insight into Flex development.
Provides examples of how to leverage popular APIs to create mashups.
Compares and contrasts Flash/Flex development with HTML based development.
Reveals how to integrate mashup applications with the users system

Who is this book for?
Developers with some level of experience with Web technologies (Ajax or Flash) who want to develop their existing skills by consuming APIs to create mash-ups using Flash or Flex.
Flash/Flex developers interested in deploying their applications on the desktop using AIR.

Book review: Best Food in Town or Easy Appetizers

Foundation ActionScript: Animation: Making Things Move

Author: Keith Peters

Sure you can animate using motion tweens, in fact we'll help you do that with our Flash Cartoon Animation book, but isn't there something extra special in making things move with just a few lines of code?
In this book Keith Peters guides us through some basic animation theory and then demystifies the math and physics behind creating realistic animation, looking at trigonometry, velocity and acceleration, and bouncing & friction.
This book will teach you how to use Flash ActionScript to move the objects in your movies, rather than letting Flashs tween engine do it for you. The benefit of this is smaller, more realistic, more dynamic interactive movies that seem to come alive on your screen. Almost all of the code featured in this book will work fine in either Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8, and with a few minor adjustments, most of it can even be applied to Flash MX.
Although the text covers many advanced math and physics concepts, making for very realistic motion, theres no need to worry, even if youre a relative newcomer to programming and the last math class you took was in high school (and even if you barely remember that!).
This book first covers everything you need to know to get started: the principles of animation, and the basics of ActionScript, trigonometry, and Flash rendering methods. Youll work your way slowly from using code to move a single object across the screen to creating complex systems that really push Flashs capabilities with topics covered including collision detection, particle attraction, and kinematics. The book concludes with looking at 3D animation techniques, including building a basic 3D engine, 3D lines, fills and solids, and matrixmath.
Once you come to grips with the ideas presented here, youll find yourself creating all manner of exciting animations and games!
Summary of Contents

Part I ActionScripted Animation Basics
- Ch. 1 Basic Animation Concepts
- Ch. 2 ActionScript Basics for Animation
- Ch. 3 Trigonometry
- Ch. 4 Rendering Techniques
Part II Basic Motion
- Ch. 5 Velocity and Acceleration
- Ch. 6 Bouncing and Friction
- Ch. 7 User Interaction: Dragging and Throwing
Part III Advanced Motion
- Ch. 8 Easing and Springs
- Ch. 9 Collision Detection
- Ch. 10 Bouncing off Angles
- Ch. 11 Billiard Ball Physics
- Ch. 12 Particle Attraction
- Ch. 13 Forward Kinematics
- Ch. 14 Inverse Kinematics
Part IV Three D
- Ch. 15 A Basic 3D Engine
- Ch. 16 3D Lines, Fills, Solids
- Ch. 17 Advanced 3D: Backface Culling and Lighting
- Ch. 18 Matrix Math
Part V Tips and Tricks
- Ch. 19 Tips and Tricks

Ch. 1	Basic animation concepts	3
Ch. 2	Basics of ActionScript for animation	13
Ch. 3	Trigonometry for animation	41
Ch. 4	Rendering techniques	69
Ch. 5	Velocity and acceleration	101
Ch. 6	Boundaries and friction	123
Ch. 7	User interaction : moving objects around	147
Ch. 8	Easing and springing	163
Ch. 9	Collision detection	189
Ch. 10	Coordinate rotation and bouncing off angles	211
Ch. 11	Billiard ball physics	235
Ch. 12	Particle attraction and gravity	263
Ch. 13	Forward kinematics : making things walk	281
Ch. 14	Inverse kinematics : dragging and reaching	305
Ch. 15	3D basics	325
Ch. 16	3D lines and fills	359
Ch. 17	Backface culling and 3D lighting	387
Ch. 18	Matrix math	413
Ch. 19	Tips and tricks	427

AutoCAD2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 or PCs For Dummies Quick Reference

2009-01-30T09:02:00.000-08:00

AutoCAD2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008: No Experience Required

Author: David Frey

Presenting you with the perfect step-by-step introduction to the world’s leading CAD software, this this perennial bestseller is completely revised and features comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the latest AutoCAD features, such as dynamic blocks, external references, and 3D design. You’ll get concise explanations and practical tutorials that you can follow sequentially or jump in at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the Sybex Web site, sybex.com/go/acadner2008. Either way, you’ll master AutoCAD features, get a thorough grounding in its essentials, and see quick results.

Books about: Web Design or iPhoto 08 for Mac OS X

PCs For Dummies Quick Reference

Author: Dan Gookin

All the PC essentials at your fingertips!

If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. This concise, superbly organized reference walks you through setting up a PC, the new interface and features of Windows Vista, using basic applications, organizing your stuff, getting on the Internet, networking (wired and wireless), burning CDs, upgrading your hardware, revving up your PC for high-speed game playing, and much more!

PC Overview     1
What You See: Basic Hardware     2
What You See: Console - the Front     4
What You See: Console - the Back     6
What You See: Console - the I/O Panel     7
I/O Symbol Table     9
The Basics: What Is a PC?     11
Hardware     12
Software     12
You     13
The Basics: Types and Models of PCs     13
The Basics: Inside the Console     14
The Basics: Adding Hardware     17
Internal expansion     17
External expansion     17
The Basics: Windows     18
The Basics: The Internet     19
The Basics: Your Stuff     20
Knowing about files     21
Working with files in Windows     21
Organizing files in Windows     22
Connectinq Stuff     23
About Computer Cables     24
Audio     24
Digital Camera     25
Digital Media Player     26
IEEE     26
Joystick     27
Keyboard     27
Microphone     27
Modem     28
Monitor     28
Mouse     28
Network     29
Optical Audio     29
Power     29
Printer     30
S-Video     30
Scanner     31
Serial     31
Speakers     31
USB Port     31
Wireless Gizmos     32
Installing Hardware and Software     33
The Add Hardware Icon     34
Adding New Hardware     35
Adding an external dialup modem     36
Adding a non-USB joystick     36
Inserting an Expansion Card     36
Installing Memory     40
Removing Memory     43
Removing USB Storage Devices     44
Software Installation     44
Installing software from a CD or DVD     45
Installing software you downloaded from the Internet     45
Uninstalling Software     46
The On-Off Thing     49
Changing the Power Button's Function     50
Changing the Start Menu's Power Button Function     51
Forcing the Computer Off     51
Hibernation     52
Logging On and Off     52
Logging in      53
Logging off     53
Locking the Computer     54
Quitting Windows     54
Restarting Windows     55
Sleep (Stand By) Mode     55
Putting your PC to sleep     56
Automatically going into sleep mode     56
Waking the computer     57
Switching Users     57
Turning the Computer System Off     58
Turning the Computer System On     59
The Uninterruptible Power Supply     59
Popular Places in Windows     61
Account Folder     62
All Programs Menu     64
Starting a program     65
Popular menus on the All Programs menu     65
The Startup submenu     66
Creating a desktop shortcut to a program     66
Putting a program on the Quick Launch bar     67
Pinning a program to the Start menu     67
Organizing the All Programs menu     68
Computer     68
Control Panel     69
Desktop     71
Network     72
Notification Area     73
Controlling the notification area     74
Controlling the visibility of the notification area icons      74
Recycle Bin     75
Start Menu     76
Changing the Start menu's look     78
Configuring the Start button's menu     78
Taskbar     79
Locking and unlocking the taskbar     80
Moving the taskbar     81
Resizing the taskbar     81
Setting taskbar options     82
Other toolbars     83
Quick Launch bar     83
Moving a toolbar     84
Removing a toolbar     84
Disk Storage     85
About Disk Storage     86
Long-term and short-term storage     86
Disks and media     86
Saving and loading     87
AutoPlay     87
Bits and Bytes     88
CD-ROM and DVD Drives     89
Types of shiny discs     90
Playing a music CD or movie DVD     91
Drive Icons     91
Drive Letters     92
Disk drives A-B-C     92
Drive D and beyond     93
Drive Z     93
Changing drive letters     93
Ejecting a Removable Disk     94
Ejecting a floppy disk     94
Ejecting a CD or DVD     95
Ejecting other media     95
The Floppy Drive     95
Formatting floppies     96
Copying a file to Drive A     97
Floppy do's and don'ts     97
Hard Disks and Drives     98
Inserting a Removable Disk     99
Inserting a floppy disk     99
Inserting a CD or DVD     100
Inserting media into a card reader     100
Putting a Drive's Shortcut Icon on the Desktop     100
Types of Storage     101
Working with Removable USB Drives     102
The Stuff You Create     103
About a File     104
Describing a file     104
Common file icons     105
Viewing file details in Windows Explorer     106
A file's Properties dialog box     107
Creating Files     109
Finding Lost Files     109
Searching from the Start menu     109
Summoning the Search window     110
Finding a file when you know its name     111
Finding a file when you just created it recently     112
Finding a file when you know what type of file it is     112
Finding a file when you know that it contains a specific word     112
Managing Files     112
Copying files     112
Duplicating files     113
Moving files     113
Making file shortcuts     114
Deleting files     114
Permanently deleting files     115
Undeleting files     115
Recovering the previous version of a file     115
Naming and Renaming Files     117
The filename extension     117
Renaming a file     118
Filename wildcards     118
Opening Files     119
Pathnames     119
Saving Files     121
Saving for the first time     121
Saving after the first time     121
Closing a document     121
Selecting Icons     122
Selecting a single icon     122
Selecting all icons in a window     122
Selecting more than one icon     122
Lassoing a group of icons     123
Selecting all but a few icons     123
Grabbing a range of icons     123
Selecting two ranges of icons     123
Deselecting an icon from a group     123
Organizing Your Stuff     125
About Folders     126
About Windows Explorer     126
Around the Windows Explorer window     126
The Address bar     128
Managing your favorite folders     129
The tree structure     130
The toolbar     130
Compressed (Zip) Folders     131
Making an empty compressed folder     132
Adding files to a compressed folder     132
Making a compressed folder from one or more files     132
Extracting files     133
Directories     133
Folder Options     134
Choosing a folder template     134
Adding a picture to a folder's icon     135
Changing a folder icon     136
Folders for Your Stuff     136
Managing Folders     137
Making a new folder     138
Renaming, copying, moving folders     138
The Root Folder     138
Subfolders     139
Printing     141
Adding a Printer     142
Finding a home for the printer     142
Connecting the printer     142
Printer software setup     143
On and selected?      143
Setting up a USB printer     143
Forcing Windows to recognize the printer     144
Adding a network printer     145
Adding more than one printer to a single PC     146
The Default (Favorite) Printer     146
Envelopes     147
Configuring your document as an envelope     147
Printing on an envelope     148
Ink and Toner     150
Ink cartridges     150
Toner     150
Ink and toner tips     151
Paper     151
Buying paper     151
Adding paper to the printer     152
Paper tips     152
The Printer's Control Panel     154
Print Preview     154
Printing     155
The Print command     155
Choosing a printer     156
Printing multiple copies     156
Printing a single page or range of pages     156
Printing the Screen     157
Printing a Test Page     157
Stopping the Printer     158
Turning the Printer On and Off     159
Types of Printers     159
Inkjet printers     160
Laser printers     160
Uninstalling a Printer     160
Networking     161
About Networking     162
Accessing a Shared Folder     162
Accessing a Wireless Network     163
Adding a Shared Folder to Your Disk System     164
Mapping a folder to a disk drive     164
Unmapping a folder     165
Checking the Network Connection     165
Checking the Network window     166
Checking the Network and Sharing Center window     166
Using the little networking guys     166
Connecting to a Network     166
The NIC     166
The network cable     167
Configuring the network     167
The Network and Sharing Center     167
The Network Connections Window     169
The Network Window     169
The PC's IP Address     170
The PC's MAC Address     171
The PC's Network Name     172
The Public Folder     173
Sharing the Public folder on the network     173
Unsharing the Public folder     174
Repairing a Network Connection     174
Sharing a Folder     175
Making a folder on your PC available to the network     175
Unsharing a folder     176
Sharing a Printer     176
Using a Network Printer     177
Which Folders Are You Sharing?     177
Workgroups     177
Creating Your Own CDs and DVDs     179
Checking to See Whether You Have a Recordable Drive     180
Creating a Musical CD     180
Destroying a Disc     182
Disc Formats     182
Disc Types     183
The CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R     184
The CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM     184
Erasing an RW Disc     185
Writing to a Disc in Windows     185
Initializing a recordable or rewritable disc     185
Working with a Live File System disc     187
Working with a Mastered disc     187
The Keyboard     189
Accessing Menus with the Keyboard     190
The Any Key     190
Controlling a Window with the Keyboard     191
Dead Keys     192
The Help Key     192
Keyboard Basics     192
Keyboard layout     192
Shift keys     193
Lock keys     194
Keyboard Shortcuts      195
Keyboard Types     197
Keys for Editing Text     198
Names for Funky Keys     199
Setting the Repeat Delay and Repeat Rate     199
Special Keys     200
The Mouse     201
Basic Mouse Activities     202
Changing the Double-Click Rate     203
Connecting a Mouse     203
Extra Mouse Buttons     204
Increasing the Mouse Pointer Visibility     204
Left-Handed Mouse     205
The Mouse Pad     206
Mouse Pointers     206
Making the pointer go faster or slower     206
Choosing a new pointer     207
Using an animated pointer     207
Loading a set of pointers     207
Saving your own set of pointers     208
Mouse Types     208
Air mouse     208
Mechanical, or ball, mouse     208
Optical mouse     208
Trackball mouse     208
Wireless mouse     209
Glossay: Tech Talk     211
Index     221

Exploring Microsoft Office Word 2007 Comprehensive or Machine Learning

2009-01-29T04:51:00.000-08:00

Exploring Microsoft Office Word 2007, Comprehensive

Author: Robert Grauer

The Exploring series helps students master the How and Why of performing tasks in Office to gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems. Exploring titles feature Perfect pages where every step of every hands-on exercise as well as every end-of-chapter problem begins on a new page and has its own screen shot to make it easier to follow. Each chapter contains Hands-on Exercises, Capstone Exercises, and Mini-Cases for practicing and reviewing skills acquired. Exploring Microsoft Office Word 2007, Comprehensive, 1/e covers the following topics: getting started with Word; editing, formatting, and enhancing documents with tables and graphics; share, compare, and document; advanced features such as wizards, templates, and mail merges; desktop publishing; expert user features such as forms, document protection, and macros;introduction to xHTML by creating a home page and a web site. Ideal for students and individuals seeking a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft Word 2007.

Chapter 1 - What Will Word Processing Do for Me?

Section 1 Introduction to Word Processing
Understanding Word Basics
Using AutoText
Viewing a Document
Using the Mini Toolbar
Hands-On Exercise #1: Introduction to Microsoft Word

Section 2 Document Formatting
Setting Margins and Specifying Page Orientation
Inserting Page Breaks
Adding Page Numbers
Inserting Headers and Footers
Creating Sections
Inserting a Cover Page
Using Find and Replace Commands
Hands-On Exercise #2: Document Organization

Section 3 The Final Touches
Checking Spelling and Grammar
Using Save and Backup Options
Selecting Printing Options
Customizing Word
Hands-On Exercise #3: The Final Touches

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 2 - Gaining Proficiency: Editing and Formatting

Section 1 Text Formatting
Applying Font Attributes Through the Font Dialog Box
Highlighting Text
Controlling Word Wrapping with Nonbreaking Hyphens and Nonbreaking Spaces
Copying Formats with the Format Painter
Hands-on exercise #1: Character Formatting

Section 2 Paragraph Formats
Setting Off Paragraphs with Tabs, Borders, Lists, and Columns
Applying Paragraph Formats
Hands-on exercise #2: Paragraph formatting

Section 3 Styles and Document References
Creating and Modifying Styles
Hands-on exercise #3: Styles
Table of Contents and Indexes
Hands-on exercise #4: Reference Pages

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 3 - Enhancing a Document: Tables and Graphics

Section 1 Tables
Inserting a Table
Hands-On Exercise #1: Insert a Table

Section 2 Advanced Table Features
Formatting a Table
Sort and Apply Formulas to Table Data
Converting Text to a table
Hands-On Exercise #2: Advanced Table Features

Section 3 Graphic Tools
Inserting Clipart and Images into a Document
Formatting a Graphic Element
Inserting WordArt into a Document
Inserting Symbols into a Document
Hands-On Exercise #3: Clip Art, WordArt, and Symbols

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 4 - Share, Compare, and Document

Section 1 Workgroups and Collaboration
Inserting Comments in a Document
Tracking Changes in a Document
Hands-On Exercise #1: Document Collaboration

Section 2 Multiple Documents
Viewing Documents Side by Side
Comparing and Combining Documents
Creating Master Documents and Subdocuments
Using Navigation Tools
Hands-On Exercise #2: Document Comparison, Mergers, and Navigation

Section 3 Reference Resources
Acknowledging a Source
Creating a Bibliography
Selecting the Writing Style
Creating and Modifying Footnotes and Endnotes
Hands-On Exercise #3: Reference Resources

Section 4 Additional Reference Resources
Adding Figure References
Inserting a Table of Figures
Adding Legal References
Creating a Cross-Reference
Modifying Document Properties
Hands-On Exercise #4: Additional Reference Resources

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 5 — Productivity Tools: Templates, Themes, and Mail Merge

Section 1: Document Templates
Selecting a Template from the New Document Window
Using a Resume Template
Creating a Word Template
Hands-On Exercise #1: Design a Document using Templates

Section 2: Document Themes
Customizing Theme Colors
Customizing Theme Fonts and Effects
Hands-On Exercise #2: Use Office 2007 Themes

Section 3: Mail Merge
Selecting a Main Document
Sorting Records in a Data Source
Inserting Merge Fields
Merging a Main Document with a Data Source
Hands-On Exercise #3: Use Mail Merge

Section 4: External Data Sources
Using Excel Worksheets as a Data Source
Using Access Databases as a Data Source
Hands-On Exercise #4: Use Excel and Access Data Sources

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 6 - Desktop Publishing: Creating a Newsletter, Using Graphic Design, and Linking Objects

Section 1 Desktop Publishing
Constructing a Newsletter
Developing a Document Design
Hands-On Exercise #1: Design a Newsletter

Section 2 Drawing Tools and Special Effects
Inserting Drawing Shapes
Inserting SmartArt
Inserting a Text Box
Formatting Graphical Objects
Grouping and Layering Objects
Flipping and Rotating Objects
Hands-On Exercise #2: Work with Objects

Section 3 Object Linking and Embedding
Using OLE to Insert an Object
Updating a Linked Object
Hands-On Exercise #3: Object Linking and Embedding

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 7 - The Advanced User: Forms, Document Security, and Macros

Section 1 Forms
Creating an Electronic form
Inserting Form Controls
Protecting a Form
Hands-On Exercise #1: Create a Form

Section 2 Document Protection and Authentication
Marking a Document as Final
Setting Formatting Restrictions
Setting Editing Restrictions
Setting Passwords to Open a Document
Using Digital Signatures to Authenticate Documents
Hands-On Exercise #2: Protecting Documents

Section 3 Introduction to Macros
Recording a Macro
Running a Macro
Hands-On Exercise #3: Using Macros

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Chapter 8 — Word and the Internet: Web Pages, XML, and Blogs

Section 1 Web Pages
Building a Web Page
Apply Themes and Background Color to a Web Page
Inserting Hyperlinks in a Web Page
Inserting Bookmarks in a Web Page
Previewing a Web Page
Publishing a Web Page
Hands-On Exercise #1: Creating a Web Page

Section 2 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Understanding XML
Attaching an XML Schema
Hands-On Exercise #2: Working with XML

Section 3 Blogs
Create a Blog Post
Using the Research Task Pane
Hands-On Exercise #3: Creating a Blog Post

Summary
Key Terms
Practice Exercises
Mid-Level Exercises
Capstone Exercise
Mini Cases

Machine Learning

Author: Tom M Mitchell

This book covers the field of machine learning,which is the study of algorithms that allow computer programs to automatically improve through experience. The book is intended to support upper level undergraduate and introductory level graduate courses in machine learning.

Booknews

An introductory text on primary approaches to machine learning and the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience. Introduce basics concepts from statistics, artificial intelligence, information theory, and other disciplines as need arises, with balanced coverage of theory and practice, and presents major algorithms with illustrations of their use. Includes chapter exercises. Online data sets and implementations of several algorithms are available on a Web site. No prior background in artificial intelligence or statistics is assumed. For advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, as well as software professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Quick Python Book or Code Generation in Action

2009-01-28T00:39:00.000-08:00

The Quick Python Book

Author: Kenneth McDonald

This clear and concise introduction to the Python language is aimed at readers who are already familiar with programming in at least one other language.

Booknews

This book first introduces the core features of the Python programming language: syntax, control flow, and basic data structures. Then, it discusses Python features useful in larger applications, such as managing large collections of code, object- oriented programming, and advanced string handling. The concluding chapters on special topics were contributed by Python experts including the inventor of the language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Phil Hughes

Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal, Issue #73

A lot of time was put into not just teaching a language but also showing how it interacts with the operating system and what one can do with it...I highly recommend it for the beginning and intermediate Python audience. It is the best book I have seen for getting beginners up to speed.

SciTech Book News

This book first introduces the core features of the Python programming language: syntax, control flow, and basic data structures. It then discusses Python features useful in larger applications, such as managing large collections of code, object- oriented programming, and advanced string handling. The concluding chapters on special topics were contributed by Python experts including the inventor of the language.

Francis Glassborough

Francis Glassborough, Editor, C Vu, the Journal of the Association of C and C++ Users

If you have made the decision to try Python, your next problem will be to find a book that will answer your needs. There are already several books on the market. This latest edition is very welcome.

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Code Generation in Action

Author: Jack Herrington

Covering techniques and implementation for building code for complex applications frameworks, this book demonstrates how to build high quality output that is consistent and maintainable. Within this framework lessons on abstracting the design of the code so that multiple outputs can be created from a single abstract model of the application functionality is provided. Techniques that range from simple code processors that handle common coding problems to more elaborate and complex generators that maintain entire application tiers are covered. Topics such as building database access, user interface, remote procedure, test cases, and business logic code, as well as code for other system functions are also addressed. Although code generation is an engineering technique it also has an impact at the engineering team and managerial levels. As such, this book covers this non-technical aspect of code generation in depth.

Developers using code generation are producing higher quality code faster than their hand-coding counterparts. And, they enjoy other advantages like maintainability, consistency and abstraction. Using the new CG methods they can make a change in one place, avoiding multiple synchronized changes you must make by hand.

Code Generation in Action shows you the techniques of building and using programs to write other programs. It shows how to avoid repetition and error to produce consistent, high quality code, and how to maintain it more easily. It demonstrates code generators for user interfaces, database access, remote procedure access, and much more.

Code Generation in Action is an A-to-Z guide covering building, buying, deploying and using code generators. If you are a software engineer-whether beginner or advanced-eager to become the "ideas person," the mover-and-shaker on your development team, you should learn CG techniques. This book will help you master them.

What's Inside

Code generation basics
CG techniques and best practices
Patterns of CG design
How to deploy generators
Many example generators

Includes generators for

Database access
RPC
Unit tests
Documentation
Business logic
Data translation

About the Author:
Jack Herrington is a software engineer who has shipped applications as diverse as scientific real-time applications and web applications for business. He is an expert in the use of code generation techniques from very simple code maintenance to code generators, which build entire tiers of functionality. He lives in Union City, California.

What People Are Saying

John Lam
Will open your eyes to the potential of code generation . . . insightful and practical. (co-author of Essential XML)

Microsoft Excel 2007 or Eric Meyer on CSS

2009-01-26T20:27:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Excel 2007: A Professional Approach

Author: Kathleen Stewart

The Professional Approach Series is designed for students unfamiliar with the Microsoft Office Suite, or even students who are nervous about trying to learn computer skills. It is ideal for students who are new to the world of computers, yet in-depth enough to teach and challenge more savvy users. Each lesson contains up to 25 skill-applications and 5 end-of-unit skill-applications that take students from simple to complex situations. The Office 2007 texts complete instruction in all skill sets and activities for the appropriate MCAS Exams.

Book review: Dirección de Seguridad de Información, 2/E

Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design

Author: Eric A Meyer

There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted.

	Foreword
	Introduction
Project 1	Converting an Existing Page	1
Project 2	Styling a Press Release	33
Project 3	Styling an Events Calendar	55
Project 4	Bringing Hyperlinks to Life	79
Project 5	How to Skin a Menu	95
Project 6	Styling for Print	117
Project 7	Making an Input Form Look Good	143
Project 8	Creating an Online Greeting Card	165
Project 9	Multicolumn Layout	185
Project 10	Sneaking Out of the Box	211
Project 11	Positioning a Better Design	235
Project 12	Fixing Your Backgrounds	263
Project 13	Eric Meyer on CSS in CSS	283
	Index	311

Ubuntu Hacks or CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack

2009-01-25T16:16:00.000-08:00

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips and Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux

Author: Jonathan Oxer

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine confirmed this by voting Ubuntu as the best Linux distribution in each publication's 2005 Readers Choice Awards. None of that simplification, however, makes Ubuntu any less fun if you're a hacker or a power user.

Like all books in the "Hacks" series, Ubuntu Hacks includes 100 quick tips and tricks for all users of all technical levels. Beginners will appreciate the installation advice and tips on getting the most out of the free applications packaged with Ubuntu, while intermediate and advanced readers will learn the ins-and-outs of power management, wireless roaming, 3D video acceleration, server configuration, and much more.

Slashdot.org

The one hack which takes the prize is that which explains how to buy songs at the iTunes music store and download the music on Linux....In writing this book, it is clear that the authors have put in a lot of hard work in covering all facets of configuring this popular Linux distribution which makes this book a worth while buy.

CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack

Author: Eric Rivard

CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack

Third Edition

More than 1400 flash cards, practice questions, and quick reference sheets for CCENT and CCNA Exams 640-822, 640-816, and 640-802

Comprehensive CCENT preparation

Eric Rivard

Jim Doherty

Are you ready to take the ICND1, ICND2, or full CCNA® exam for the CCENT™ or CCNA certification? You’ve learned the concepts, you have the experience to put them to real-world use, and now you want to practice, practice, practice until exam time. CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack, Third Edition, gives you three methods of proven, late-stage exam preparation in one package.

Test Engine

The CCNA practice exam engine includes new testlet question types and updated simulation questions for a more realistic practice exam experience.

Flash Cards

More than 700 flash cards in print and PC as well as Palm and PocketPC handheld device formats are available in customizable sets that you can tailor to your study needs.

QuickReference Sheets

All exam topics are covered for a quick review and refresh in the nearly 200 graphical quick reference sheets.

CCNA Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack, Third Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco® that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

Eric Rivard, CCNP®, CCDA®, CCNA, is the IT manager at Valley Center Municipal Water District.

Jim Doherty is the VP of marketing at CipherOptics. Jim has 17 years of engineering and marketing experience across a broad range of networking and communication technologies.

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains more than 700 flash cards and more than 500 practice test questions. Flash cards are downloadable to PC, Palm OS, and most PocketPC handheld devices.

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Windows 2000, XP, or Vista

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This volume is in the Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack Series from Cisco Press®. Products in this series arm Cisco Career Certification candidates with a set of exam practice tools, formats, and environments to help them in the final stages of their self-study regimen and increase recall of key exam topics.

Category: Cisco Press–Cisco Certification

Covers: CCENT and CCNA Exams 640-822, 640-816, and 640-802

Foreword     xii
Introduction     xiii
ICND1
Summarizing Network Technology     3
Building a Simple Network     4
Understanding TCP/IP     38
Understanding Ethernet     70
Growing the Network (LANs)     87
LAN Network Topologies     88
Operating Cisco IOS     114
Configuring a Cisco Switch     128
Extending the LAN     174
Connecting LANs     191
Exploring the Functions of Routing     192
Configuring a Cisco Router     218
Connecting Networks     252
Understanding WAN Technologies     254
RIP Routing     294
Managing Your Network Environment     314
ICND2
LAN Switching     345
Implementing VLANs and Trunks     346
Redundant Switching and STP     380
Troubleshooting Switched Networks     410
Routing     425
Routing Operations and VLSM     426
Implementing OSPF in a Single Area     452
Implementing EIGRP     492
Access Lists and Managing Address Spaces     513
Managing Traffic with ACLs     514
Managing AddressSpace with NAT and IPv6     538
Extending the Network into the WAN     571
Establishing Serial Point-to-Point Connections     572
Establishing Frame Relay Connections     594
Introducing VPN Solutions     618
Quick Reference Sheets
ICND1     634
ICND2     752

Rick Steves Italys Cities DVD 2000 2007 or Security Assessment

2009-01-24T12:04:00.000-08:00

The 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult

Author: Rick Steves

This unique book gives health care professionals a quick reference to herbs, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, probiotics, enzymes, over-the-counter hormones and other dietary supplements commonly used by consumers. The text covers claims, indications, scientific evidence, possible benefits, adverse effects, contraindications, and drug interactions.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Robert E Burke, MSN, MPS, BSN (Pace University)
Description: This book provides healthcare professionals with easy access to a wealth of information on a wide range of commonly used herbs, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, probiotics, enzymes, over-the-counter hormones, and other dietary supplements.
Purpose: The author states that "this is a personal book" and it is intended to be both entertaining and educational. It is intended as a quick reference and covers claims, indications, scientific evidence, possible benefits, adverse effects, contraindications and drug interactions for each herb and supplement. The author's objectives are realistic and greatly needed. To date, there are very few books that integrate information about herbs and dietary supplements in the same book.
Audience: This book is a member of the 5-Minute Consult Series and is intended for clinicians in internal medicine and family practice. In my professional opinion, this is a valuable reference/guide for students and practitioners in any of the allied health professions with an interest in herbs and dietary supplements. The author is a well-known authority on herbs and dietary supplements in the United States. She consults on this subject for the Federal Trade Commission, the NIH, and other federal and state agencies, is author of Alternative Medicine: What Works (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1997) and serves on the editorial boards of Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, and HerbalGram.
Features: The book reviews 175 commonly used herbs and dietary supplements. Each section provides basic information, including a description of the herb and/or supplement, the parts used, known/active constituents, food sources, main functions and pharmacokinetics. Evidence incorporates selected clinical trials, animal and in-vitro studies, and other claimed benefits and actions. Potential and known risks are described and include adverse reactions and drug interactions. Information on dosage is provided, as well as a very interesting and entertaining section on common questions and answers relating to each herb and/or supplement. There is an extensive reference section at the back of the book. Reference tables are provided, and include a wonderful herb chart that provides the English, Latin, Pharmacopoeial, Spanish, French, and German names for each herb. This is extremely useful for finding the English equivalent for herbs that clients from different cultures use. There is also an excellent dietary intake reference for vitamins and elements that includes functions, dose/age, selected food sources, adverse effects of excessive consumption, and special considerations. As the reference guide that it is meant to be, there are very few shortcomings. Each herb and/or supplement is given two pages for the summary of all of the information described above. The book provides relevant information and offers easy access to a basic understanding of the herb and/or supplement.
Assessment: This book is an excellent guide to a majority of the commonly used herbs and dietary supplements. The information is efficiently organized, concise, and, in many instances, entertaining. The information in this book is consistent with that in Blumenthal et al.'s The Complete German Commission E Monographs (American Botanical Council, 1998), Brinker's Herb Contraindications and Drug Interactions, 2nd edition (Eclectic Medical Publications, 1998), Duke et al.'s Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2nd edition (CRC, 2002), Jellin et al.'s Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, 4th edition (Therapeutic Research Faculty, 2002), and Mills and Bone's Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy (Churchill Livingstone, 2000). However, the only one that is comparable to it in terms of overall content (e.g., integration of herbs and dietary supplements in the same book) is the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.

Library Journal

While there are many excellent print and electronic sources on herbs and dietary substances (e.g., Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database; The Review of Natural Products Online), the busy clinician still needs an easy-to-use compendium that provides the essentials. This book, written by one of the first physicians to address alternative medicine (Alternative Medicine: What Works), serves that purpose. Arranged alphabetically by botanical or dietary supplement, the two-page entries include Latin and biological names, descriptions, pharmacokinetics, evidence, risks, drug interactions, and dosages. The most helpful sections are the "10 second take," which sums up the most important information in one sentence, and "common questions and answers." If readers want more in-depth information, they can consult the numerous reliable, up-to-date references given with each entry. As the author explains in her introduction, she did not include studies from alternative medical journals or Chinese medical literature, "as their quality is not yet up to Western methodological studies." Because of the increased interest in herbs, this volume is highly recommended as a ready-reference source for both academic medical and public library consumer health collections.-Natalie Kupferberg, Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Lib., Ohio State Univ., Columbus Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

	About the Editor	ii
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Contents	ix
	Introduction	xiii
	Abbreviations	xiv
Section I	Herbs and Nutritional Supplements A to Z	1
	Aconite	2
	Alanine	4
	Alfalfa	6
	Aloe	8
	Angelica	10
	Anise, Aniseed	12
	Arginine	14
	Arnica	16
	Ashwagandha	18
	Aspartate/Aspartic Acid	20
	Astragalus	22
	Bearberry	24
	Betaine	26
	Betel	28
	Bilberry	30
	Biotin	32
	Black cohosh	34
	Black haw and Cramp bark	36
	Bloodroot	38
	Blue cohosh	40
	Blue-green algae	42
	Boldo	44
	Borage	46
	Boron	48
	Burdock	50
	Calcium	52
	Calendula	54
	Capsicum, Chili pepper, or Cayenne	56
	Caraway	58
	Carnitine	60
	Carotenoids	62
	Cartilage (shark and bovine)	64
	Cascara	66
	Cat's claw	68
	Catnip	70
	Chamomile	72
	Chamomile, Roman	74
	Chaparral	76
	Charcoal, Activated	78
	Chocolate/Cocoa/Cacao	80
	Chondroitin	82
	Chromium	84
	Cinnamon	86
	Coenzyme Q[subscript 10]	88
	Coltsfoot	90
	Comfrey	92
	Copper	94
	Cranberry	96
	Creatine	98
	Cysteine/Cystine	100
	Dandelion	102
	Danshen	104
	Devil's claw	106
	DHEA	108
	Echinacea	110
	Elderberry, Elder flower	112
	Eleuthero	114
	Ephedra	116
	Essiac	118
	Eucalyptus	120
	Evening primrose, Evening Primrose Oil (EPO)	122
	Eyebright	124
	Fennel	126
	Fenugreek	128
	Feverfew	130
	Fish oil	132
	Flaxseed	134
	Folic acid (Folate)	136
	Foxglove	138
	Garlic	140
	Germander	142
	Germanium (Ge)	144
	Ginger	146
	Ginkgo	148
	Ginseng	150
	Glucosamine	152
	Glutamine (Gln, Q)	154
	Glycine (Gly, G)	156
	Goldenseal	158
	Gotu kola	160
	Hawthorn	162
	Histidine (His, H)	164
	Hops	166
	Horse chestnut	168
	Hydrazine sulfate, Hydrazine sulphate	170
	Hypericum or St. John's Wort	172
	Inositol	174
	Iodine (I[subscript 2])	176
	Ipriflavone	178
	Iron (Fe)	180
	Isoleucine (Ile, I)	182
	Karela or Bitter melon	184
	Kava	186
	Kelp	188
	Khat	190
	Kombucha	192
	Lactobacilli	194
	Lecithin/Phosphatidylcholine	196
	Lemon balm	198
	Leucine (Leu, L)	200
	Licorice	202
	Linden	204
	Lobelia	206
	Lysine (Lys, K)	208
	Magnesium	210
	Manganese	212
	Marshmallow	214
	Mate	216
	Melatonin	218
	Methionine (Met, M) and SAMe	220
	Milk thistle	222
	Molybdenum	224
	Motherwort	226
	Mullein	228
	Neem	230
	Nettle	232
	Niacin	234
	Noni	236
	Osha	238
	Pantothenic acid	240
	Passionflower	242
	Pau d'arco	244
	Pennyroyal	246
	Peppermint	248
	Phenylalanine (Phe, F)	250
	Phosphatidylserine	252
	Phosphorus (Phosphate)	254
	Pollen/Bee pollen	256
	Propolis	258
	Psyllium (Plantain)	260
	Pygeum	262
	Raspberry	264
	Red clover	266
	Riboflavin (Vitamin B[subscript 2])	268
	Rosemary	270
	Royal jelly	272
	Sage	274
	Sarsaparilla	276
	Sassafras	278
	Saw palmetto	280
	Selenium	282
	Senna	284
	Serine	286
	Silicon	288
	Silver (Ag), Colloidal Silver	290
	Skullcap	292
	Slippery elm	294
	Spirulina	296
	Stevia	298
	Taurine	300
	Tea tree	302
	Thiamin, Thiamine (Vitamin B[subscript 1])	304
	Threonine (Thr, T)	306
	Thyme	308
	Tryptophan (Trp, W) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP)	310
	Turmeric	312
	Tyrosine (Tyr, Y)	314
	Valerian	316
	Valine (Val, V)	318
	Vanadium	320
	Vitamin A	322
	Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)	324
	Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)	326
	Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid, Ascorbate)	328
	Vitamin D (Calciferol, Cholecalciferol)	330
	Vitamin E	332
	Vitamin K	334
	Vitex	336
	Willow	338
	Wormwood	340
	Wormwood, sweet or Qinghaosu	342
	Yam, wild	344
	Yarrow	346
	Yohimbe	348
	Zinc	350
Section II	References	353
Section III	Reference Tables
	Herb Chart	428
	Conversion Factors Between Traditional and SI Units	433
	Dietary Reference Intakes: Vitamins	434
	Dietary Reference Intakes: Elements	441
	Reference Nutrient Intakes for Vitamins, United Kingdom	450
	Average Values for Triglycerides, Fatty Acids (FA) (Including Omega-3 Fatty Acids), and Cholesterol of Marine Foods and Oils	451
	Caffeine Content of Selected Common Foods per Serving Portion	452
	Carnitine Content of Selected Foods	452
	Choline Content of Some Common Foods	453
	Oxalate Content by Food Group	454
	Foods to Use and Avoid	456
	Oxalate Content of Foods per 100 Grams ([similar]1/2 cup) and per Portion	457
	Index	463

Interesting textbook: Post Colonial Transformation or Principles of Taxation for Business Investment Planning2002 Edition

Security Assessment: Case Studies for Implementing the NSA IAM

Author: Syngress

Define What Composes an Assessment
Learn about the NSA's three-phases: Assessment, Evaluation, and Red teaming
Understand Industry Concerns for the Assessment Site

Review the items that affect your client: Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Management and Accountability (FMA) Act, Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and others.

Create the Organizational Information Criticality Matrix (OICM)
Create the OICM, which provides a basis for everything else in the methodology and clarifies the intentions and goals of the assessment process for the customer.

Handle Documentation Identification and Collection
Work with the client to gather and define documents such as policy, guidelines, plans, SOPs, user documentation and see what happens when no documentation exists.

Understand the Technical Assessment Plan (TAP)
Use the TAP to define all dates and scheduling, personnel involvement, understood boundaries, deliverables, priority concerns, and priority constraints.

Review the 18 NSA INFOSEC Baseline Classes and Categories
Use these 18 categories to address the customer's security posture and determine what questions should be asked during the interview process.

Create a Recommendation Road Map
Provide the customer with a road map to the best way to address or implement the corrective measures for negative findings.

Understand the Findings
Assess the overall risk to a customer by looking at the threats, vulnerabilities, and asset value and analyze both negative and positive findings to create a true picture of the customer's security posture.

Register for Your 1 Year Upgrade
The Syngress Solutions upgrade plan protects you from content obsolescence and provides monthly mailings, whitepapers, and more!

In 1998, the National Security Agency (NSA) Information Assurance Methodology (IAM) was developed to meet the demand for information security (INFOSEC) assessments-a demand that was increasing due to Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63) while at the same time NSA was downsizing. NSA sought a way to maximize its resources to assist as many customers as possible and so they created a list of organizations that could perform the same service as the NSA. NSA quickly realized that this system would not only provide valuable information to consumers-it would also provide a vehicle for standardization of INFOSEC assessments.

Define What Composes an Assessment
Learn about the NSA's three-phases: Assessment,
Evaluation, and Red teaming

Understand Industry Concerns for the Assessment Site
Review the items that affect your client: Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Management and Accountability (FMA) Act, Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and others.

Create the Organizational Information Criticality Matrix (OICM)
Create the OICM, which provides a basis for everything else in the methodology and clarifies the intentions and goals of the assessment process for the customer.

Handle Documentation Identification and Collection
Work with the client to gather and define documents such as policy, guidelines, plans, SOPs, user documentation and see what happens when no documentation exists.

Understand the Technical Assessment Plan (TAP)
Use the TAP to define all dates and scheduling, personnel involvement, understood boundaries, deliverables, priority concerns, andpriority constraints.

Review the 18 NSA INFOSEC Baseline Classes and Categories
Use these 18 categories to address the customer's security posture and determine what questions should be asked during the interview process.

Create a Recommendation Road Map
Provide the customer with a road map to the best way to address or implement the corrective measures for negative findings.

Understand the Findings
Assess the overall risk to a customer by looking at the threats, vulnerabilities, and asset value and analyze both negative and positive findings to create a true picture of the customer's security posture.

Register for Your 1 Year Upgrade
The Syngress Solutions upgrade plan protects you from content obsolescence and provides monthly mailings, whitepapers, and more!

PeopleSoft HRMS Reporting or The Security Risk Assessment Handbook

2009-01-23T07:50:00.000-08:00

PeopleSoft HRMS Reporting

Author: Adam T Bromwich

2161B-7

Make your company's PeopleSoft investment pay off! Create the accurate, insightful reports you need, first time, every time, with PeopleSoft HRMS Reporting-the only complete guide to PeopleSoft reporting.

The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Retrieving Data from PeopleSoft's Human Resource Management System

PeopleSoft specialist Adam Bromwich presents authoritative guidance on the successful design of PeopleSoft HRMS databases and reports for superior performance, ease of use, and value. Learn how the PeopleSoft database is organized-functionally and technically; review its key tables; and understand how PeopleSoft's online capabilities are linked to the relational database beneath them.

Discover how you can:

Access your data directly, using Structured Query Language (SQL) and via PeopleSoft's powerful Structured Query Reports (SQR) language
Design better tables and reports for HR, Payroll, and Benefits
Construct more comprehensive queries
Avoid expensive pitfalls in PeopleSoft table design

Bromwich reveals the hidden decisions PeopleSoft HR developers must make. How does calculating a payroll affect paycheck data? When does an effective dated table cause major headaches? Where is the accurate data stored and which tables should be left alone? You'll find common routines for retrieving functional data, techniques for slashing costly debugging and maintenance, and much more.

PeopleSoft HRMS Reporting is the only independent guide to real-world PeopleSoft reporting. And it's based on the unmatched experience of one of the world's leading PeopleSoftexperts.

The Security Risk Assessment Handbook

Author: Douglas J Landoll

The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments provides detailed insight into precisely how to conduct an information security risk assessment. Designed for security professionals and their customers who want a more in-depth understanding of the risk assessment process, this volume contains real-world advice that promotes professional development. It also enables security consumers to better negotiate the scope and rigor of a security assessment, effectively interface with a security assessment team, deliver insightful comments on a draft report, and have a greater understanding of final report recommendations. This book can save time and money by eliminating guesswork as to what assessment steps to perform, and how to perform them. In addition, the book offers charts, checklists, examples, and templates that speed up data gathering, analysis, and document development. By improving the efficiency of the assessment process, security consultants can deliver a higher-quality service with a larger profit margin. The text allows consumers to intelligently solicit and review proposals, positioning them to request affordable security risk assessments from quality vendors that meet the needs of their organizations.

1	Introduction	1
2	Information security risk assessment basics	27
3	Project definition	41
4	Security risk assessment preparation	77
5	Data gathering	115
6	Administrative data gathering	151
7	Technical data gathering	215
8	Physical data gathering	285
9	Security risk analysis	353
10	Security risk mitigation	367
11	Security risk assessment reporting	377
12	Security risk assessment project management	389
13	Security risk assessment approaches	415

Professional CSS or Hands on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

2009-01-22T03:38:00.000-08:00

Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

Author: Christopher Schmitt

Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

As the preferred technology for Web design, cascading style sheets (CSS) enable Web designers and developers to define consistent styles on multiple pages. Written by leading CSS authors who are also professional programmers and designers, this is the first book to showcase examples of high-profile, real-world Web sites created by world-famous designers using CSS.

Each chapter offers an exploratory look at each designer's process from start to finish and how he overcame each site's unique set of challenges. You'll learn what each designer would have done differently as well as various CSS tips and techniques that were used for each site. This is a resource to which you can turn regularly for more know-how and insights into designing large-scale, professional-level Web sites with CSS.

What you will learn from this book
* The preliminaries you need to iron out before you begin a site in order to avoid problems later
* How to tackle browser-compatibility issues
* Best practices for using XHTML with CSS
* How to successfully integrate Flash content into an XHTML and CSS site
* Using drop shadows, drop-down menus, bounding boxes, and rollovers
* Ways to develop a site that can reliably handle constant streams of up-to-date information

Who this book is for

This book is for designers who understand CSS at an intermediate to advanced level, but who are looking to learn how to effectively develop CSS-enabled designs at a professional level.

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

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Hands-on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

Author: Ashwani Nanda

In-depth coverage of Microsoft’s powerfulnew data integration tool

Learn to maximize the features ofSQL Server 2005 Integration Services from this essentialguide. Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2005 IntegrationServices makes learning SSIS easy through theuse of extensive real-world exercises structuredaround every component within the tool. You willlearn to collect corporate data from various sourcesand transform that data for analysis, mining, andreporting.

Ashwani Nanda develops and maintains marketing, analytical, and CRM-based database systems for medium- to large-sized enterprises. His current area of specialization is data modeling, database management, data analysis, and visualization. He started his career on the real-time mainframe systems back in the age when hard disks used to weigh a kilo per megabyte. Moving from system engineering for mainframes to networking and infrastructure support and currently to data practice, he has worked for several major hardware and software vendors. He has loved to network and integrate disparate technologies, with particular attention to productivity and security. These days he is using his integration skills with RDBMS databases and end-user tools. He can be reached at ananda@AffordingIT.co.uk.

Ch. 1	Introducing SQL server integration services	1
Ch. 2	SQL server import and export wizard	31
Ch. 3	Nuts and bolts of the SSIS workflow	59
Ch. 4	Integration services control flow containers	93
Ch. 5	Integration services control flow tasks	121
Ch. 6	Administrating integration services	211
Ch. 7	Securing integration services packages	249
Ch. 8	Advanced features of integration services	273
Ch. 9	Data flow components	311
Ch. 10	Data flow transformations	355
Ch. 11	Deploying integration services packages	455
Ch. 12	Migrating to integration services	483
Ch. 13	Troubleshooting and performance enhancements	517

Beginning ASPNET 35 in VB 2008 or Digital Photography All in One Desk Reference For Dummies

2009-01-20T23:26:00.000-08:00

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

Author: Matthew MacDonald

The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of VB 2008.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the beginning--rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

Look this: Tornar-se um Gerente de Mestre:uma Aproximação de Valores Competidora

Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Author: David D Busch

8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!

Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"

From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.

Discover how to

• Choose the right camera and software

• Compose and shoot great pictures

• Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

• Scan old prints and repair them

• Print your photos or share them online

Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences or Web Data Mining

2009-01-19T23:28:00.000-08:00

Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences: Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, and Bioinformatics

Author: Atanu Biswas

With the increasing use of biotechnology in medical research and the sophisticated advances in computing, it has become essential for practitioners in the biomedical sciences to be fully educated on the role statistics plays in ensuring the accurate analysis of research findings. Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences explores the growing value of statistical knowledge in the management and comprehension of medical research and, more specifically, provides an accessible introduction to the contemporary methodologies used to understand complex problems in the four major areas of modern-day biomedical science: clinical trials, epidemiology, survival analysis, and bioinformatics.
Composed of contributions from eminent researchers in the field, this volume discusses the application of statistical techniques to various aspects of modern medical research and illustrates how these methods ultimately prove to be an indispensable part of proper data collection and analysis. A structural uniformity is maintained across all chapters, each beginning with an introduction that discusses general concepts and the biomedical problem under focus and is followed by specific details on the associated methods, algorithms, and applications. In addition, each chapter provides a summary of the main ideas and offers a concluding remarks section that presents novel ideas, approaches, and challenges for future research.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:James C. Torner, MS, PhD(University of Iowa College of Public Health)
Description:This contemporary compilation of chapters on the main areas of biomedical research provides an overview of the state of analytical methods currently used and offers insights on future methods.
Purpose:This book is designed to highlight major contributions to methodology in topical areas, providing insight into methods and methodological issues. It does not provide mathematical details, which is not necessary given that the chapters are well referenced. It provides an excellent overview of contemporary statistical methods, meeting the authors' objectives of providing a compilation of key methods in biomedical science research.
Audience:This book is intended for advanced students or researchers. A basic understanding of common statistical methods is needed. The chapters are organized by subject matter so readers can find the methodology appropriate to their area. The authors for individual chapters are recognized contributors to the field.
Features:Areas covered include clinical trial design, epidemiology modeling, survival analysis, genetic analysis, bioinformatics, and other modeling topics. The book also focuses on contemporary methods. The outstanding organization and coverage is the best part of the book. The inconsistent use of examples is a shortcoming.
Assessment:This will be one of the landmark books that define the state of methods. It will provide an introduction and reference for advanced methods and will be a launching pad for future method development. It is challenging for the reader and may take severalattempts and literature searches to use the methods, but the book lays the foundation. This is an impressive collection of topical methods.

Books about: Partisan Politics Divided Government and the Economy or Personal Finance8th Edition

Web Data Mining

Author: Bing Liu

Web mining aims to discover useful information and knowledge from the Web hyperlink structure, page contents, and usage data. Although Web mining uses many conventional data mining techniques, it is not purely an application of traditional data mining due to the semistructured and unstructured nature of the Web data and its heterogeneity. It has also developed many of its own algorithms and techniques.

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web data mining. Key topics of structure mining, content mining, and usage mining are covered both in breadth and in depth. His book brings together all the essential concepts and algorithms from related areas such as data mining, machine learning, and text processing to form an authoritative and coherent text.

The book offers a rich blend of theory and practice, addressing seminal research ideas, as well as examining the technology from a practical point of view. It is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in Web mining both as a learning text and a reference book. Lecturers can readily use it for classes on data mining, Web mining, and Web search. Additional teaching materials such as lecture slides, datasets, and implemented algorithms are available online.

Introduction     1
What is the World Wide Web?     1
A Brief History of the Web and the Internet     2
Web Data Mining     4
What is Data Mining?     6
What is Web Mining?     6
Summary of Chapters     8
How to Read this Book     11
Bibliographic Notes     12
Data Mining Foundations
Association Rules and Sequential Patterns     13
Basic Concepts of Association Rules     13
Apriori Algorithm     16
Frequent Itemset Generation     16
Association Rule Generation     20
Data Formats for Association Rule Mining     22
Mining with Multiple Minimum Supports     22
Extended Model     24
Mining Algorithm     26
Rule Generation     31
Mining Class Association Rules     32
Problem Definition     32
Mining Algorithm     34
Mining with Multiple Minimum Supports     37
Basic Concepts of Sequential Patterns     37
Mining Sequential Patterns Based on GSP     39
GSP Algorithm     39
Mining with Multiple Minimum Supports     41
Mining Sequential Patterns Basedon PrefixSpan     45
PrefixSpan Algorithm     46
Mining with Multiple Minimum Supports     48
Generating Rules from Sequential Patterns     49
Sequential Rules     50
Label Sequential Rules     50
Class Sequential Rules     51
Bibliographic Notes     52
Supervised Learning     55
Basic Concepts     55
Decision Tree Induction     59
Learning Algorithm     62
Impurity Function     63
Handling of Continuous Attributes     67
Some Other Issues     68
Classifier Evaluation     71
Evaluation Methods     71
Precision, Recall, F-score and Breakeven Point     73
Rule Induction     75
Sequential Covering     75
Rule Learning: Learn-One-Rule Function     78
Discussion     81
Classification Based on Associations     81
Classification Using Class Association Rules     82
Class-Association Rules as Features     86
Classification Using Normal Association Rules     86
Naive Bayesian Classification     87
Naive Bayesian Text Classification      91
Probabilistic Framework     92
Naive Bayesian Model     93
Discussion     96
Support Vector Machines     97
Linear SVM: Separable Case     99
Linear SVM: Non-Separable Case     105
Nonlinear SVM: Kernel Functions     108
K-Nearest Neighbor Learning     112
Ensemble of Classifiers     113
Bagging     114
Boosting     114
Bibliographic Notes     115
Unsupervised Learning     117
Basic Concepts     117
K-means Clustering     120
K-means Algorithm     120
Disk Version of the K-means Algorithm     123
Strengths and Weaknesses     124
Representation of Clusters     128
Common Ways of Representing Clusters     129
Clusters of Arbitrary Shapes     130
Hierarchical Clustering     131
Single-Link Method     133
Complete-Link Method     133
Average-Link Method     134
Strengths and Weaknesses     134
Distance Functions     135
Numeric Attributes     135
Binary and Nominal Attributes     136
Text Documents     138
Data Standardization     139
Handling of Mixed Attributes     141
Which Clustering Algorithm to Use?     143
Cluster Evaluation     143
Discovering Holes and Data Regions     146
Bibliographic Notes     149
Partially Supervised Learning     151
Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Examples     151
EM Algorithm with Naive Bayesian Classification     153
Co-Training     156
Self-Training     158
Transductive Support Vector Machines     159
Graph-Based Methods     160
Discussion     164
Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples     165
Applications of PU Learning     165
Theoretical Foundation     168
Building Classifiers: Two-Step Approach     169
Building Classifiers: Direct Approach     175
Discussion     178
Derivation of EM for Naive Bayesian Classification     179
Bibliographic Notes     181
Web Mining
Information Retrieval and Web Search     183
Basic Concepts of Information Retrieval     184
Information Retrieval Models     187
Boolean Model      188
Vector Space Model     188
Statistical Language Model     191
Relevance Feedback     192
Evaluation Measures     195
Text and Web Page Pre-Processing     199
Stopword Removal     199
Stemming     200
Other Pre-Processing Tasks for Text     200
Web Page Pre-Processing     201
Duplicate Detection     203
Inverted Index and Its Compression     204
Inverted Index     204
Search Using an Inverted Index     206
Index Construction     207
Index Compression     209
Latent Semantic Indexing     215
Singular Value Decomposition     215
Query and Retrieval     218
An Example     219
Discussion     221
Web Search     222
Meta-Search: Combining Multiple Rankings     225
Combination Using Similarity Scores     226
Combination Using Rank Positions     227
Web Spamming     229
Content Spamming     230
Link Spamming     231
Hiding Techniques     233
Combating Spam     234
Bibliographic Notes     235
Link Analysis     237
Social Network Analysis     238
Centrality     238
Prestige     241
Co-Citation and Bibliographic Coupling     243
Co-Citation     244
Bibliographic Coupling     245
PageRank     245
PageRank Algorithm     246
Strengths and Weaknesses of PageRank     253
Timed PageRank     254
Hits     255
Hits Algorithm     256
Finding Other Eigenvectors     259
Relationships with Co-Citation and Bibliographic Coupling     259
Strengths and Weaknesses of Hits     260
Community Discovery     261
Problem Definition     262
Bipartite Core Communities     264
Maximum Flow Communities     265
Email Communities Based on Betweenness     268
Overlapping Communities of Named Entities     270
Bibliographic Notes     271
Web Crawling     273
A Basic Crawler Algorithm     274
Breadth-First Crawlers     275
Preferential Crawlers     276
Implementation Issues     277
Fetching      277
Parsing     278
Stopword Removal and Stemming     280
Link Extraction and Canonicalization     280
Spider Traps     282
Page Repository     283
Concurrency     284
Universal Crawlers     285
Scalability     286
Coverage vs Freshness vs Importance     288
Focused Crawlers     289
Topical Crawlers     292
Topical Locality and Cues     294
Best-First Variations     300
Adaptation     303
Evaluation     310
Crawler Ethics and Conflicts     315
Some New Developments     318
Bibliographic Notes     320
Structured Data Extraction: Wrapper Generation     323
Preliminaries     324
Two Types of Data Rich Pages     324
Data Model     326
HTML Mark-Up Encoding of Data Instances     328
Wrapper Induction     330
Extraction from a Page     330
Learning Extraction Rules     333
Identifying Informative Examples     337
Wrapper Maintenance     338
Instance-Based Wrapper Learning     338
Automatic Wrapper Generation: Problems     341
Two Extraction Problems     342
Patterns as Regular Expressions     343
String Matching and Tree Matching     344
String Edit Distance     344
Tree Matching     346
Multiple Alignment     350
Center Star Method     350
Partial Tree Alignment     351
Building DOM Trees     356
Extraction Based on a Single List Page: Flat Data Records     357
Two Observations about Data Records     358
Mining Data Regions     359
Identifying Data Records in Data Regions     364
Data Item Alignment and Extraction     365
Making Use of Visual Information     366
Some Other Techniques     366
Extraction Based on a Single List Page: Nested Data Records     367
Extraction Based on Multiple Pages     373
Using Techniques in Previous Sections     373
RoadRunner Algorithm     374
Some Other Issues     375
Extraction from Other Pages     375
Disjunction or Optional     376
A Set Type or a Tuple Type     377
Labeling and Integration     378
Domain Specific Extraction     378
Discussion     379
Bibliographic Notes     379
Information Integration     381
Introduction to Schema Matching     382
Pre-Processing for Schema Matching     384
Schema-Level Match     385
Linguistic Approaches     385
Constraint Based Approaches     386
Domain and Instance-Level Matching     387
Combining Similarities     390
1:m Match     391
Some Other Issues     392
Reuse of Previous Match Results     392
Matching a Large Number of Schemas     393
Schema Match Results     393
User Interactions     394
Integration of Web Query Interfaces     394
A Clustering Based Approach     397
A Correlation Based Approach     400
An Instance Based Approach     403
Constructing a Unified Global Query Interface     406
Structural Appropriateness and the Merge Algorithm     406
Lexical Appropriateness     408
Instance Appropriateness     409
Bibliographic Notes     410
Opinion Mining     411
Sentiment Classification     412
Classification Based on Sentiment Phrases     413
Classification Using Text Classification Methods     415
Classification Using a Score Function     416
Feature-Based Opinion Mining and Summarization     417
Problem Definition     418
Object Feature Extraction     424
Feature Extraction from Pros and Cons of Format 1     425
Feature Extraction from Reviews of of Formats 2 and 3     429
Opinion Orientation Classification     430
Comparative Sentence and Relation Mining     432
Problem Definition     433
Identification of Gradable Comparative Sentences     435
Extraction of Comparative Relations     437
Opinion Search     439
Opinion Spam     441
Objectives and Actions of Opinion Spamming     441
Types of Spam and Spammers     442
Hiding Techniques     443
Spam Detection     444
Bibliographic Notes     446
Web Usage Mining     449
Data Collection and Pre-Processing     450
Sources and Types of Data     452
Key Elements of Web Usage Data Pre-Processing     455
Data Modeling for Web Usage Mining     462
Discovery and Analysis of Web Usage Patterns     466
Session and Visitor Analysis     466
Cluster Analysis and Visitor Segmentation     467
Association and Correlation Analysis     471
Analysis of Sequential and Navigational Patterns     475
Classification and Prediction Based on Web User Transactions     479
Discussion and Outlook     482
Bibliographic Notes     482
References     485
Index     517

Digital Art or Websphere Application Server

2009-01-19T13:17:00.000-08:00

Digital Art (World of Art Series)

Author: Christiane Paul

"Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installation and virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices, collected by major museums, institutions and private collectors the world over." Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s up to the present day, and looks ahead to what the future may hold. Drawing a distinction between work that uses digital technology as a tool to produce traditional forms and work that uses it as a medium to create new types of art, she discusses the key artists and works. The book explores themes addressed and raised by the art, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art.

Publishers Weekly

Where many of her bigger-budgeted, theoretically enthralled predecessors have failed, Whitney Museum of Art curator Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line, into a readable pocket-sized book. She is especially deft at laying the groundwork for such diverse practices as "telepresence" (beaming an artist's activities or daily life via telephone to other parts of the world), "browser art" (the creation of alternative browsers to navigate and present Web data) and "hacktevism"-political art, often aimed at corporations, that can include viruses and less pointedly destructive forms of maverick programming. With its beginnings in video and sound art, digital art grew exponentially in the '90s, and all the major players are here: from the Barcelona-based Web art team jodi (Joan Hemskeerk and Dirk Paesmans) to New York's Asymptote architectural team (founded by Hani Rashid); and from Robert Lazzarini's 3D anamorphic skulls to Eduardo Kac's weird experiments with animal genetics (he once bred a glow-in-the-dark rabbit). In fact, so much art is covered that Paul is often forced to contain her discussion of an artist's (or team's) entire body of work to a few sentences; the most information is found in the capacious captions accompanying the many illustrations. Flaws include a flat prose style and recourse to abstract postmodernisms to explain the meanings of some works, but in general Paul doesn't get lost in this language (endemic to digital culture), and so her parroting of these phrases doubles as a sort of reportage of a burgeoning new art culture, one that is independent of the gallery system and infused with the spirit of innovation. (July) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

	Introduction	7
Ch. 1	Digital Technologies as a Tool	27
Ch. 2	Digital Technologies as a Medium	67
Ch. 3	Themes in Digital Art	139
	Glossary	216
	Artists' websites and online art projects	217
	Digital arts organizations and networks, museums, and galleries	218
	Digital art festivals	218
	Select new media art exhibitions	218
	Select bibliography	219
	List of illustrations	220
	Index	222

Go to: Jefferson or The Second Civil War

Websphere Application Server: Step by Step

Author: Rama Turaga

Learn how to install, configure, verify, and manage the various components of WebSphere Application Server
Understand the differences in implementing the Express, Base, and Network deployment packages
Learn about such advanced concepts as security, deployment issues, and managing the WebSphere Application Server environment

WebSphere Application Server is complex and multifaceted middleware that is used by huge enterprises as well as small businesses. The authors of this book have done an excellent job of covering the many facets of the software. Other books on this software cover installation and configuration, but this book goes beyond that to cover the critical verification and management process to ensure a successful installation and implementation. And it addresses all of the different packages from Express to Network packages so that no matter what size the company the reader will be able to successfully implement WebSphere Application Server V6. To demonstrate the steps involved in setting up a complete WebSphere Application Server installation, this book walks you through the configuration process for a highly available, workload-managed (HA/WLM), clustered environment built using the WebSphere V6 Network Deployment package. You'll learn how to assume all the responsibilities and roles required to implement this architecture, including setup of a standalone application server, IBM HTTP Server and the plug-in module, the Network Deployment package, node federation, the HTTP Server distributed plug-in, clustering, HTTP session persistence, the Service Integration Bus and messaging engine, and Edge Server Load Balancer.

Security Study Guide 2nd Edition or Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Hands On Training

2009-01-19T04:04:00.000-08:00

Security+ Study Guide, 2nd Edition

Author: Ido Dubrawsky

Over 700,000 IT Professionals Have Prepared for Exams with Syngress Authored Study Guides

The Security+ Study Guide & Practice Exam is a one-of-a-kind integration of text and and Web-based exam simulation and remediation. This system gives you 100% coverage of official CompTIA Security+ exam objectives plus test preparation software for the edge you need to achieve certification on your first try! This system is comprehensive, affordable, and effective!

* Completely Guaranteed Coverage of All Exam Objectives All five Security+ domains are covered in full: General Security Concepts, Communication Security, Infrastructure Security, Basics of Cryptography, and Operational / Organizational Security

* Fully Integrated Learning This package includes a Study Guide, one complete practice exam, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation.

* Each chapter starts by explaining the exam objectives covered in the chapter You will always know what is expected of you within each of the exam's domains.

* Exam-Specific Chapter Elements Notes, Tips, Alerts, Exercises, Exam's Eyeview, and Self Test with fully explained answers.

* Test What You Learned Hundreds of self-test review questions test your knowledge of specific exam objectives. A Self Test Appendix features answers to all questions with complete explanations of correct and incorrect answers.

* Training DVD-ROM A complete Adobe PDF format version of the print Study Guide, along with complete practice exam with detailed answer explanations. Fast Tracks for quick topic review are provided in both HTML and PowerPoint format.

*Only Security+ book that comes with aDVD
*Revision to market-leading first edition
*Realistic, Web-based practice exams included

New interesting textbook: White Dog Cafe Cookbook or Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Hands-On Training

Author: Daniel Short

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this book is for you.
These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with Dreamweaver 8. You’ll learn to define a Web site; layout pages effectively with Cascading Style sheets; use tables; create rollovers; work with templates, media objects, and forms; and design for mobile devices. You’ll also learn how to use the new features in Dreamweaver 8, including the new Unified CSS Panel, the Style Rendering Toolbar, the Code Toolbar, guides, CSS Layout visualization, Zoom, and Code Collapse. Accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, this book ensures you'll master the key features of Dreamweaver 8 in no time.

WAN Technologies CCNA 4 Companion Guide or Extrusion Detection

2009-01-18T15:53:00.000-08:00

WAN Technologies CCNA 4 Companion Guide

Author: Allan Reid

WAN Technologies CCNA 4 Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for version 3.1.1 of the CCNA® 4 course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® Program. The author has completely rewritten the Companion Guide to provide a fresh, complementary perspective on the online course content. The book covers all the topics in the course and then provides additional examples and alternative approaches to individual topics–all to aid the learning process and lock in your understanding of basic networking concepts and technologies.

New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:

Chapter objectives: Review core concepts by answering the questions at the beginning of each chapter.
Key terms: Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced in each chapter and turn to the highlighted terms in context.
Glossary: Consult the all-new glossary with more than 300 terms.
Check Your Understanding questions and answer key: Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions that you see in the online course assessments. The answer appendix explains each answer.
Challenge questions: Challenge yourself with review questions designed to be similar to the complex questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer appendix explains each answer.

New interesting textbook: La conception de la Société Globale

Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions

Author: Richard Bejtlich

Overcome Your Fastest-Growing Security Problem: Internal, Client-Based Attacks

Today's most devastating security attacks are launched from within the company, by intruders who have compromised your users' Web browsers, e-mail and chat clients, and other Internet-connected software. Hardening your network perimeter won't solve this problem. You must systematically protect client software and monitor the traffic it generates.

Extrusion Detection is a comprehensive guide to preventing, detecting, and mitigating security breaches from the inside out. Top security consultant Richard Bejtlich offers clear, easy-to-understand explanations of today's client-based threats and effective, step-by-step solutions, demonstrated against real traffic and data. You will learn how to assess threats from internal clients, instrument networks to detect anomalies in outgoing traffic, architect networks to resist internal attacks, and respond effectively when attacks occur.

Bejtlich's The Tao of Network Security Monitoring earned acclaim as the definitive guide to overcoming external threats. Now, in Extrusion Detection, he brings the same level of insight to defending against today's rapidly emerging internal threats. Whether you're an architect, analyst, engineer, administrator, or IT manager, you face a new generation of security risks. Get this book and protect yourself.

Coverage includes

Architecting defensible networks with pervasive awareness: theory, techniques, and tools
Defending against malicious sites, Internet Explorer exploitations, bots, Trojans, worms, and more
Dissecting session andfull-content data to reveal unauthorized activity
Implementing effective Layer 3 network access control
Responding to internal attacks, including step-by-step network forensics
Assessing your network's current ability to resist internal attacks
Setting reasonable corporate access policies
Detailed case studies, including the discovery of internal and IRC-based bot nets
Advanced extrusion detection: from data collection to host and vulnerability enumeration

About the Web Site

Get book updates and network security news at Richard Bejtlich's popular blog, taosecurity.blogspot.com, and his Web site, bejtlich.net.

Ch. 1	Network security monitoring revisited	3
Ch. 2	Defensible network architecture	25
Ch. 3	Extrusion detection illustrated	79
Ch. 4	Enterprise network instrumentation	105
Ch. 5	Layer 3 network access control	137
Ch. 6	Traffic threat assessment	175
Ch. 7	Network incident response	219
Ch. 8	Network forensics	245
Ch. 9	Traffic threat assessment case study	279
Ch. 10	Malicious bots	307
App. A	Collecting session data in an emergency
App. B	Minimal snort installation guide
App. C	Survey of enumeration methods
App. D	Open source host enumeration

Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Unleashed Unleashed Series

2009-01-17T13:11:00.000-08:00

Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Author: Craig Utley

An in-depth guide to creating world-class Business Intelligence solutions

This comprehensive volume covers every aspect of PerformancePoint 2007, the latest in Microsoft's line of Business Intelligence applications. You will learn to collect and warehouse corporate data, perform fiscal analysis, distribute dynamic reports across the enterprise, and forecast business trends.

Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint 2007 provides full details on creating scorecards, dashboards, and analytics and shows how to integrate PerformancePoint with Microsoft Office 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. You will get full coverage of the cutting-edge financial planning, reporting, security, and delivery tools available in PerformancePoint 2007.

Look this: Star Catchers or Sleep Away the Pounds

Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Unleashed [Unleashed Series]

Author: Michael Noel

ISA Server 2006 is a robust application layer firewall that provides organizations with the ability to secure critical business infrastructure from the exploits and threats of the modern computing world. ISA’s ability to act as an edge firewall, a Virtual Private Networking solution, a reverse proxy server, or a content caching device give it unprecedented flexibility and position it as a valuable security tool for many types of organizations.

ISA Server 2006 Unleashed provides insight into the inner workings of the product, as well as providing best-practice advice on design and implementation concepts for ISA. In addition to detailing commonly requested topics such as securing Outlook Web Access, deploying ISA in a firewall DMZ, and monitoring ISA traffic, this book provides up-to-date information about the new enhancements made to the 2006 version of the product. The author draws upon his experience deploying and managing enterprise ISA environments to present real-world scenarios, outline tips and tricks, and provide step-by-step guides to securing infrastructure using ISA.

Mapping the Total Value Stream or Tracing Genres through Organizations

2009-01-17T01:58:00.000-08:00

Mapping the Total Value Stream: A Comprehensive Guide for Production and Transactional Processes

Author: Mark A Nash

Mapping the Total Value Stream defines and elaborates on the concepts of value stream mapping (VSM) for both production and transactional processes. This book reshapes and extends the lessons originally put forward in a number of pioneering works including the popular ,Value Stream Management for the Lean Office. It reinforces fundamental concepts and theoretical models with real-world applications and complete examples of the value stream mapping technique. To educate VSM mappers on the specific mechanics of the technique, the text provides in-depth explanations for commonly encountered situations.

The authors also provide a more complete perspective on the concept of availability. While they discuss availability of equipment in
transactional processes, they extend the concept by elaborating on availability as it applies to employees. The calculation of process lead time for work queues is taken to an advanced level - not only is the calculation of this lead time explained, but the text also covers the very real possibility of having more work in the queue than available time.

While previous books have focused on only production process VSM or transactional process VSM, this work meets the real needs of both manufacturers and service sector organizations by dealing with both types. It goes beyond explaining each scenario, to teach readers what techniques are commonly applicable to both, and also explains areas of difference so that mappers will be able to readily adapt to whatever unique situations present themselves.

Books about: Java Concepts or Harvard Business Review on Organizational Learning

Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design

Author: Clay Spinuzzi

Winner of the 2004 Best Book in Technical of Scientific Communication Award presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

In Tracing Genres through Organizations, Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improve information design. He argues that the traditional user-centered approach to design does not take into consideration the unofficial genres that spring up as workers write notes, jot down ideas, and read aloud from an officially designed text. These often ephemeral innovations in information design are vital components in a genre ecology (the complex of artifacts mediating a given activity). When these innovations are recognized for what they are, they can be traced and their evolution as solutions to recurrent design problems can be studied. Spinuzzi proposes a sociocultural method for studying these improvised innovations that draws on genre theory (which provides the unit of analysis, the genre) and activity theory (which provides a theory of mediation and a way to study the different levels of activity in an organization).

After defining terms and describing the method of genre tracing, the book shows the methodology at work in four interrelated studies of traffic workers in Iowa and their use of a database of traffic accidents. These workers developed an ingenious array of ad hoc innovations to make the database better serve their needs. Spinuzzi argues that these inspired improvisations by workers can tell us a great deal about how designed information fails or succeeds in meeting workers' needs. He concludes byconsidering how the insights reached in studying genre innovation can guide information design itself.

	Series Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction: Tyrants, Heroes, and Victims in Information Design	1
	"Writers, Writers Everywhere": Positioning the User in Technical Communication	5
	Fieldwork-to-Formalization Methods: Observing Workers, Modeling Behavior	10
	Official and Unofficial Solutions	18
2	Integrating Research Scope	25
	The Problem of Unintegrated Scope	27
	From Artifacts to Genres	37
	From Genres to Genre Ecologies	47
	From Genre Ecologies to Genre Tracing	50
3	Tracing Genres across Developmental Eras: The ALAS Activity System	59
	Studying Genre Ecologies in Cultural-Historical Terms	63
	Overview of the ALAS Activity System	71
	Before 1974: Preautomation Accident Location and Analysis	74
	1974: Mainframe-ALAS (IBM 3090 Mainframe)	83
	1989: PC-ALAS (DOS)	92
	1996: GIS-ALAS (Windows)	104
4	Tracing Genres across Levels of Scope: A Study of PC-ALAS Use	113
	Genres and Destabilizations: Issues in Tracing Genres across Levels of Scope	114
	Tracing Genres in the ALAS Activity System	122
5	Embedded Contradictions: Two Studies of GIS-ALAS Genre Hybrids	159
	Importing Genres, Making Hybrids, Forming Contradictions	160
	GIS-ALAS at Work	171
	GIS-ALAS at School	186
6	Designing Open Systems: Possible Trajectories for ALAS Genres	201
	Open Systems: A Definition and Three Examples	203
	Redesigning ALAS as an Open System	211
	Notes	225
	References	229
	Index	241

RT Essentials or AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies

2009-01-16T16:47:00.000-08:00

RT Essentials

Author: Dave Rolsky

RT Essentials, cowritten by one of RT's original core developers, Jesse Vincent, starts off with a quick background lesson about ticketing systems and then shows you how to install and configure RT. This comprehensive guide explains how to perform day-to-day tasks to turn your RT server into a highly useful tracking tool. Among other topics, the book examines how a company could use RT to manage its internal processes. Advanced chapters focus on developing add-on tools and utilities using Perl and Mason. There's also a chapter filled with suggested uses for RT inside your organization.

1	What is ticketing?	1
2	Installation	12
3	Getting started	33
4	Command-line interface	50
5	Administrative tasks	63
6	Scrips	77
7	Example configurations	95
8	Architecture	115
9	API	140
10	Development environments	152
A	Glossary	163
B	Command-line action reference	171
C	Configuration	175
D	Required Perl module dependencies	178
E	Configuration file reference	181

Interesting textbook: Desafío de Colaboración:Como No ganancias y Negocios Tienen éxito Por Alianzas Estratégicas

AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies

Author: David Byrnes

AutoCAD "X" For Dummies is being updated to reflect the new features in the latest release of AutoCAD.

Windows Vista Just the Steps For Dummies or Microsoft ASP NET 3 5

2009-01-14T20:40:00.000-08:00

Windows Vista Just the Steps For Dummies

Author: Nancy C Muir

• Covering the new features and capabilities of Windows Vista, this book gets readers up to speed fast on interface changes, security options, and setup processes

• Simple, easy-to-follow instructions for common Windows Vista tasks show readers how to carry out essential activities and gain competence and confidence

• Bargain-priced at only $14.99, this book explains how to navigate the desktop, create files, copy and delete files and folders, connect to the Internet, search the Web, use e-mail, and much more

Book review: Cuidando de Liderança, Gestão e Prática Profissional do LPN/LVN:em Escola de Peito e Além

Microsoft ASP. NET 3. 5

Author: George Shepherd

Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning the latest enhancements in ASP.NET code name "Orcas." ASP.NET continues to be an important application platform that delivers a simplified, high-performance, and powerful Web development experience. Building on your familiarity with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual C#®, you can teach yourself the essentials of working with ASP.NET in the Microsoft Visual Studio® environment-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 version of the technology, you'll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for ASP.NET-and begin building practical Web applications and Web services. Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook.

Key Book Benefits:
•Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons to help you learn at your own pace
•Delivers a solid understanding of how to use Visual Studio "Orcas" with ASP.NET to create Web applications and Web services
•Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook

The New New Thing or The Complexity Crisis

2009-01-14T11:28:00.000-08:00

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Author: Michael Lewis

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Age - and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head.

Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat - not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup.

On the wings of Lewis' celebrated storytelling, the listener takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon IS the new Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century.

Fortune

Lewis is a gifted storyteller...[he] makes his case through a series of beautifully rendered set-pieces....While many writers will try to bring this fantasyland to life, few will do so as vividly as Michael Lewis.

Business Week

[Lewis's] incisive and entertaining volume largely succeeds in getting past the glitter of money to identify the real key to the Valley's vibrancy: new ideas....Lewis provides a look that is penetrating as anything written so far.

Industry Standard - Jim Evans

When it became clear that renowned nonfiction writer Michael Lewis was trolling Silicon Valley to gather material for the definitive Internet book, a lot of people took notice. After all, Lewis had written one of the seminal 1980s greedy Wall Street stories, Liar's Poker. While he's penned other books since then, how better to follow a book on the business story of the 1980s than with one about the business story of the 1990s (and maybe the century): the creation and explosion of the Internet?

With apologies to Michael Wolff, no one has written the big Web business book yet, including Lewis. Maybe it's just too early in the game.

But that's OK. The Web is just too damn big to encapsulate its creation in just one tome. Instead of chronicling the rise of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, America Online, Yahoo and others, Lewis focuses on the one man who is as close to the center as anyone, Jim Clark.

Clark started three companies - Silicon Graphics Inc., Netscape and Healtheon - each worth more than $1 billion. His own personal fortune after Healtheon went public rocketed to over $2 billion.

Clark is portrayed as a maverick who doesn't suffer fools gladly, a fanatic about making money and controlling his destiny. Most important, Clark as engineer is emphasized.

This is not a small point. Before the technology business became what it is, the financiers, bankers and managers controlled everything. But after he started Silicon Graphics, Clark learned a valuable lesson.

At SGI, Clark and his beloved engineers were effectively squeezed out of the equity they thought they deserved by venture capitalists. So when Clark started his next company, Netscape, he made sure that wouldn't happen again. The terms for investment in Netscape that he secured with Kleiner's John Doerr were revolutionary. Instead of being able to buy into Netscape at the same price at which Clark funded the company, Doerr paid three times that amount, and Clark retained 25 percent of Netscape for himself.

That's the big idea of Lewis' book. Since Netscape, giving out equity in a Net company has become central to attracting and retaining key engineering talent. Clark also did the unthinkable when, over CEO Jim Barksdale's initial objections, he took Netscape public in August 1995; the company was only 18 months old and had no profiits. But what was unthinkable then is now commonplace. In part, that's due to Jim Clark.

In the end, Clark seems to be an idea man only. He has little patience for running his businesses. Yet, that's where some of the Clark magic comes in: He attracts the best people to run his companies. Whether it's Mike Long, the CEO of Healtheon, or Jim Barksdale of Netscape, Clark gives the reins to an experienced executive and goes on to the next big thing.

He can also viciously turn on the chosen executive, as Lewis recounts in hilarious detail. Take Ed McCracken, the former CEO of Silicon Graphics. McCracken was brought in from Hewlett-Packard to run SGI when it became apparent that Clark was not born to be a manager. The problem with McCracken was that he was the Valley's version of an Organization Man, or a manager with a taste for conformity. In Clarkspeak, Ed McCracken became "Ed McMuffin" or "Fucking Ed McCracken."

Disdain for authority is a common thread throughout the book. Clark doesn't think much of venture capitalists and bankers, either. To him, they're parasites who take advantage of engineers. Lewis seems to adopt the same stance. In a passage in which Clark, Healtheon CEO Long and a banker from Morgan Stanley are flying to Europe for Healtheon's IPO road show, Lewis never names the banker. He writes: "Clark let the Wall Street people sell his companies to the public and make him billions of dollars, but only because he hadn't yet figured out a way to get rid of them."

Clark seems dedicated to getting rid of people who complicate his life. He started Healtheon to get rid of health-care professionals who only add to red tape in the medical world. With his latest startup, MyCFO.com, Clark hopes to get rid of a layer of accounting management with whom the ultra-rich deal every day.

Lewis, of course, understands Clark and as illustration tells of a boating trip he took with him across the Atlantic. Clark built the boat so it could be sailed by computer, with the help of 24 SGI workstations. The boat, or rather its computers, performed marginally. But Lewis, in the end, realizes that it wasn't so much the sailing of a computerized boat that was important - it was the idea that such a thing could be done.

Slate

Michael Lewis' The New New Thing is the best book ever written about Silicon Valley. There. I've said it. Said it to you (wondering, to be sure, whether you agree—do you?); said it to the readers of Slate ; but most of all, I've said it to myself. Michael Lewis' The New New Thing is the best book ever written about Silicon Valley. There. I've said it again.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Lewis brilliantly describes Clark's intensity and passion, his genius for technology and leadership and his impatience with convention. He also faithfully chronicles Clark's ruthlessness, willingness to exact revenge on opponents and ability to casually upset people's lives. The fact that these last qualities are described in almost complimentary terms reflects a Silicon Valley sensibility that they're laudable.

Industry Standard

The author got famous in the 1980s with his tale of Wall Street. Now he's turned his glance toward Silicon Valley.
By Michael Lewis
(W.W. Norton & Co.)

With apologies to Michael Wolff, no one has written the big Web business book yet, including Lewis. Maybe it's just too early in the game.

Clark started three companies - Silicon Graphics Inc., Netscape and Healtheon - each worth more than $1 billion. His own personal fortune after Healtheon went public rocketed to over $2 billion.

Clark is portrayed as a maverick who doesn't suffer fools gladly, a fanatic about making money and controlling his destiny. Most important, Clark as engineer is emphasized.

—Jim Evans

Newsweek, 25 October 1999 - Steven Levy

Lewis has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details.

Fred Moody

Remarkable....Clark proves to be a character as enthralling as any in American fiction or non-fiction....Lewis tells a great story in this book, with prose that ranges from the beautiful to the witty to the b, 22 October 1999

Jeffrey Klein

The New New Thing is bound to become the big big book of the fall season, and deservedly so.
San Jose Mercury News 10 October 1999

Time, 25 October 1999 - Joshua Quittner

A superb book....Lewis makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker.

The New York Times Book Review - Kurt Andersen

A splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical, brimming with fabulous scenes as well as sharp analysis....[R]eads, for most of us, like fiction in the best sense, providing character revelation and narrative surprises all along the way....Lewis conveys with a rare combination of wisdom and glee both the thrill and absurdity of late-20th century business.

Wired

...Michael Lewis takes readers inside the now-familiar world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal making, the absurdly hyped expectations, the phenomenal wealth. But the 39-year old best-selling author of Liar's Poker and The Money Culture brings something genuinely exotic to the mix: near-total access to one of the Valley's biggest and most enigmatic players.

Forbes, 18 October 1999 - Rich Karlgaard

A great book....The New New Thing is the best Silicon Valley book to come out yet.

The New York Times ,26 October 1999 - Michiko Kakutan

Lewis does for the late 1990s world of techno-geeks and software cowboys what he did in Liar's Poker for the 1980s Wall Street world of traders and arbitrageurs.

Salon , 22 October 1999 - Mark Gimein

Like all Lewis' writing, The New New Thing is funny. It is funny in a wry, carefully observed way -- "Gibagibagibagiba," babbles a baby unfortunately brought to a gathering of investment bankers. It is funny also in a slashing, profane way: "Clark's friends who did not know Ed McCracken," writes Lewis of Clark's early nemesis, "came to believe the man's name was Fucking Ed McCracken." Yet what makes The New New Thing an exceptional book is not how funny it is, but how closely it sticks to a mission of investigating the mythic properties of Clark's singularly mercurial character.

Publishers Weekly

While it purports to look at the business world of Silicon Valley through the lens of one man, that one man, Jim Clark, is so domineering that the book is essentially about Clark. No matter: Clark is as successful and interesting an example of Homo siliconus as any writer is likely to find. Lewis (Liar's Poker) has created an absorbing and extremely literate profile of one of America's most successful entrepreneurs. Clark has created three companies--Silicon Graphics, Netscape (now part of America Online) and Healtheon--each valued at more than $1 billion by Wall Street. Lewis was apparently given unlimited access to Clark, a man motivated in equal parts by a love of the technology he helps to create and a desire to prove something to a long list of people whom he believes have done him wrong throughout his life (especially his former colleagues at Silicon Graphics). As Lewis looks at the various roles of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and programmers and at how these very different mindsets fit together in the anatomy of big deals, he gives readers a sense of how the Valley works. But the heart of the book remains Clark, who simultaneously does everything from supervise the creation of what may be the world's largest sloop to creating his fourth company (currently in the works). Lewis does a good job of putting Clark's accomplishments in context, and if he is too respectful of Clark's privacy (several marriages and children are mentioned but not elaborated on), he provides a detailed look at the professional life of one of the men who have changed the world as we know it. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Listeners are due for a thrilling ride through the strange landscape of computer geeks and billionaires, with a focus on the unique story of after-tax multibillionaire Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), Netscape, and the newly emerging Healtheon. Lewis (Liar's Poker) focuses on Clark's story as the key to comprehending the newly emerging Internet wealth, emphasizing his battles between Netscape and Microsoft; his almost immediate success with SGI; his emotional investment in his computer-driven sailboat, the Hyperion; leading up to his next new, new thing, Healtheon, Clark's Internet health site envisioned literally to transform the $1 trillion healthcare industry. Clearly, Clark's nonpareil personae is an excellent example of how vastly different it is doing business in the age of the Internet, but this is not so much an analysis of Clark's business successes as it is a sort of technobiography. The numerous lengthy anecdotal tales and scenarios, narrated by Bruce Reizen, enrich the understanding of this exemplary personality, a high-tech rags-to-riches tale of a poor boy from Plainview, TX, but add little to a full appreciation for the strategies around these companies--a story yet to be told. Highly recommended for all public libraries.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

A character study of Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. The narrative discusses Clark's entrepreneurial ideas and sheds light on the history of the Internet, all in the midst of exploring the creation and travels of Clark's high-tech computer-controlled single-mast sailboat . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Newsweek

Just reading about this dynamo is exhausting — and inspiring.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

[Lewis] does for the late 1990s world of techno-geeks and software cowboys what he did in Liar's Poker for the 1980s Wall Street world of traders and arbitrageurs.

Wall Street Journal - Mood

[R]emarkable....Clark proves to be a character as enthralling as any in American fiction or non-fiction....Lewis tells a great story in this book, with prose that ranges from the beautiful to the witty to the breathtaking.

Wired

Michael Lewis takes readers inside the now-familiar world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal making, the absurdly hyped expectations, the phenomenal wealth. But the 39-year old best-selling author of Liar's Poker and The Money Culture brings something genuinely exotic to the mix: near-total access to one of the Valley's biggest and most enigmatic players.

Forbes - Rich Karlgaard

[A] great book....The New New Thing is the best Silicon Valley book to come out yet.

Time - Arnold Quittner

[A] superb book....[Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker.

Talk Magazine - Po Bronson

Lewis Pulls it off. He convinces the reader by using the same technique that Jim Clark employed to sell his visionary enterprises: He asserts his ideas boldly, and pretty soon people start to believe them.

New York - Walter Kirn

It's an adventure story, full of peril, full of miscalculations and reversals, both at sea and on the stock exchange, but one that stops short of catastrophe. Which makes it all the more suspenseful, finally.

Business 2.0

Michael Lewis's latest, The New New Thing is at once a rollicking, rip-roaring tale of an industry gone wild, and a pull-no-punches portrait of one of high tech's most willful, fascinating, and colorful characters, Jim Clark...While Lewis cuts deep, he never cuts off more than ge can handle. It's simply the best book about high tech to come along since Michael Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning.

Fortune - Andrew Ferguson

Slate - Joe Nocera

Michael Lewis' The New New Thing is the best book ever written about Silicon Valley. There. I've said it. Said it to you (wondering, to be sure, whether you agree--do you?); said it to the readers of Slate; but most of all, I've said it to myself. Michael Lewis' The New New Thing is the best book ever written about Silicon Valley. There. I've said it again.

Los Angeles Times Book Review - Alex Soojung Kim-Pang

Business Week - Robert D. Hof

Kirkus Reviews

A rip-roaring profile of the high-rolling technology entrepreneur Jim Clark, and the strange Silicon Valley subculture in which he thrives, from one of our best business journalists. Michael Lewis, the petulant sprite whose Liar's Poker (1989) hilariously exposed the venalities of Wall Street investment bankers, vies for Tom Wolfe's ice cream suit with an effortlessly glib account of how the last decade turned Jim Clark, a middle-aged, chronically depressed Texas-born physicist whose futuristic concepts earned him little more than ridicule, into a Promethean, globe-trotting billionaire vainly searching for the next new thing that might make him happy. Like Ken Kesey in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Clark is, for Lewis, a romantic American outlaw, as well as a trickster who avenges himself on starched-shirt capitalists by creating wildly risky, money-losing hi-tech businesses that may never become profitable—Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon—but that nevertheless make billions for Clark when they go public. What brings in the bucks is Clark's no-nonsense appeal to the brilliant engineers who do the real work, his insufferable egotism, and his pie-in-the-sky imagination, which is not always as prescient as he would like. (When Clark's concept of a $1 million computerized yacht that can sail itself around the world without human hands doesn't survive the transition to working prototype, it isn't clear whether the yacht's engine died in the middle of the Atlantic because the computer thought the boat was in the African Sahara, or simply because of a faulty sensor.) Lewis also notes in passing the famous Microsoft antitrust suit, which Clark originated when he leaked to theUS Justice Department a Microsoft executive's threat to put Netscape out of business if the company refused to let Microsoft in as a partner. The result? Clark got even richer when Netscape merged with America Online, and invited Microsoft to be a partner in his next, new new thing. Funny, feverishly romantic business reporting in which the American lust for wealth becomes a Bryonic quest for the next dream that will change the world. (Author tour)

See also: Jackie Style or Leadership

The Complexity Crisis

Author: John Mariotti

Many companies today are in crisis. In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, they have created dozens of new products and services while increasing their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits.

The Complexity Crisis shows you how to streamline your business for greatest efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. You'll learn how to:

Target complexity in your organization and reduce or eliminate it
Build a simple, effective corporate structure
Add value to your business by avoiding complexity traps

In The Complexity Crisis, management consultant John L. Mariotti shows you how to evaluate your cost and management systems so you can clear away complexity-and conquer your competition.

Magic Lantern Guides or Adobe Illustrator CS3 How Tos

2009-01-14T00:15:00.000-08:00

Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS 30D

Author: Rob Sheppard

Packed with diagrams, instructions, and tips, Magic Lantern has become the world’s most popular brand of camera guide. Sturdy and well-produced, with laminated covers for long life and sized for portability, they have a tradition of helping photographers make the most of their equipment. This newest entry is dedicated to the just-released Canon EOS 30D. Canon has added or improved the following features, all of which receive in-depth coverage in the superb Magic Lantern style: a new and larger 2.52, 230K pixel, 170º wide viewing angle LCD screen; an 8.2 megapixel APS-C size CMOS sensor; and picture style image processing parameters.

New interesting book: Healing Yourself or Dynamic Competition and Public Policy

Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Author: David Karlins

Adobe Illustrator CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.

Oracle Database 10g XML SQL or Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

2009-01-13T14:03:00.000-08:00

Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, and Manage XML Applications in Java, C, C++ & PL/SQL

Author: Mark Scardina

Written by members of the Oracle XML group, this is a must-have reference for all IT managers, DBAs, and developers who want to learn the best practices for using XML with Oracle’s XML-enabled products. Includes real-world case studies based on the authors’ experience managing Oracle’s XML Discussion Forum--a community of 20,000+ XML component users.

Book about: Fables Fashions and Facts About Advertising or Governing the Firm

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

Author: Peter Shirley

The second edition of this widely adopted text includes a wealth of new material, with new chapters on Signal Processing (Marschner), Using graphics hardware (Willemsen), Writing graphics applications (Sung), Perception (Thompson), Curves (Gleicher), Animation (Ashikhmin), and Tone reproduction (Reinhard).

Maintaining the strengths of the first edition, the authors present the mathematical foundations of computer graphics with a focus on geometric intuition, allowing the programmer to understand and apply those foundations to the development of efficient code.

1	Introduction	1
2	Miscellaneous math	15
3	Raster algorithms	51
4	Signal processing	71
5	Linear algebra	119
6	Transformation matrices	135
7	Viewing	159
8	Hidden surface elimination	177
9	Surface shading	191
10	Ray tracing	201
11	Texture mapping	239
12	A full graphics pipeline	259
13	Data structures for graphics	269
14	Sampling	279
15	Curves	301
16	Computer animation	347
17	Using graphics hardware	379
18	Building interactive graphics applications	401
19	Light	451
20	Color	465
21	Visual perception	477
22	Tone reproduction	521
23	Global illumination	547
24	Reflection models	561
25	Image-based rendering	577
26	Visualization	583

Infinite Undiscovery Signature Series Guide or GWT in Action

2009-01-13T04:52:00.000-08:00

Infinite Undiscovery Signature Series Guide

Author: Brady Games Staff

Break the Chains that Enslave the World!

The Order of Chains, led by the Dreadknight, has locked the moon in place with massive chains to leech its power. The ominous power of these chains has spawned deadly creatures that blight the land. Crops fail, trees wither, and humanity cries out for salvation. Who will heal the land?

Complete Walkthrough

Use our strategies to complete every mission. Detailed area maps illustrate important characters, mission objectives, and treasure chests.

Full Bestiary

Learn the strengths and weaknesses of every enemy type and discover tips and tactics to get the best loot drops.

Item List and Crafting Guide

Complete statistics and effects for every weapon, armor piece, accessory, and item in the game. Study our exhaustive lists to craft rare and powerful equipment.

Battle Skills, Side Quests, and More!

2-Sided Foldout Poster

Platform: Xbox 360

Genre: Role-Playing Game

GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

Author: Robert Hanson

The Web is experiencing a new growth with an emphasis on rich, web-based applications. These applications can be difficult to build because they rely on JavaScript, which lacks the sophisticated object-oriented structures and static typing of Java, they are tricky to debug, and they require you to manage numerous browser inconsistencies.

In May of 2006 Google released the Google Web Toolkit. GWT enables developers to create Ajax applications in Java. With GWT, you can build your applications using a real object-oriented language and take advantage of Java tools like Eclipse that are already available. Instead of trying to bring tool support to Ajax, Google brought Ajax to a place where the tools already existed.

GWT in Action shows you how to take advantage of these exciting new tools. This clearly-written book is packed with hands-on GWT examples. You'll absorb the GWT philosophy as you build your first working GWT application.

The book begins by exploring the main features of GWT, including
-Compiling Java to JavaScript, the magic that really defines GWT
-Building client-side components
-Convenient JUnit integration and testing
-Interacting with JavaScript and existing JavaScript libraries
-Internationalization

You'll also see how GWT compares to other toolkits.
GWT in Action shows you how to set up your development environment, use and create widgets, communicate with the server, and much more. Readers will follow an example running throughout the book and quickly master the basics of GWT: widgets, panels, and event handling. The book covers the full development cycle, from setting up your development environment, to building the application, then deploying it to the web server. The entire core GWT library is discussed, with details and examples on how it can be extended.

You'll cover:
-Testing, debugging, and deploying GWT Applications
-Communicating with GWT-RPC
-Examining client-side RPC architecture
-Alternative RPC tools: HTTPRequest, RequestBuilder, and FormPanel
-Achieving interoperability in GWT with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
-Making your GWT application flexible and supportable

GWT helps you make the most of Ajax in your web applications and GWT in Action helps you get more out of GWT.

Preface     xix
Acknowledgments     xxi
About this book     xxiii
About the title     xxx
About the cover illustration     xxxi
Getting started     1
Introducing GWT     3
A walk through GWT     5
Explaining GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler     6
Using JSNI to execute JavaScript from Java     8
Accessing the JRE emulation library     10
Understanding GWT's widget and panel library     12
Examining GWT's internationalization and configuration tools     14
Calling remote procedures with GWT     16
Investigating GWT's XML parser     20
Managing the browser history     21
Introducing GWT's JUnit integration     22
GWT vs. other solutions     23
GWT vs. Swing     25
GWT vs. Echo2     26
GWT vs. JavaServer Faces     27
GWT vs. Ruby on Rails     29
Building your first GWT application     30
Building and running an example application     30
Building Tic-Tac-Toe with GWT     32
Summary     37
Creating the default application     38
The GWT applicationdevelopment lifecycle     39
Stage 1: Creating a GWT application     44
Creating the project     47
Creating an application     50
Setting up internationalization     54
Implementing internationalization     56
Creating unit test cases     57
Importing into your IDE     59
Summary     63
Advancing to your own application     64
Describing the application example     65
Stage 2: Developing your application     67
Implementing internationalization     68
Constructing the application     72
Applying styling     83
Stage 3: Testing and debugging in hosted mode     86
Preparing for hosted mode     86
Running the Dashboard in hosted mode     90
Debugging the Dashboard in hosted mode through Eclipse     92
Stage 4: Compiling the code     94
Compiling the code/preparing for web mode     95
Viewing the compilation results     97
Stage 5: Deploying the code     98
Deploying to a web server     98
Deploying to a filesystem     99
Stage 6: Running in web mode     99
Implementing application logging     100
Logging information on the client-side     100
Logging information on the server-side     103
Summary     104
Building user interfaces     107
Working with widgets     109
What is a widget?     111
Using widgets as Java objects     112
Considering widgets as DOM elements     113
The standard GWT widgets     115
Interacting with the basic widgets     118
Displaying text on the application     131
Grabbing the user's interaction using focus widgets     133
Getting user input through text input     139
Creating new widgets     141
Creating new widgets by manipulating the DOM     142
Creating new widgets by extending existing widgets     146
Developing the Dashboard's ToggleMenuItem widget     150
Building the TwoComponentMenuItem     151
Building the ToggleMenuItem     154
Summary     155
Working with panels     157
What is a panel?     158
Using panels as Java Objects     159
Considering panels as DOM elements     160
The standard GWT panels     162
Interacting with simple panels     164
Considering more complex panels     170
Considering HTML table-based panels     178
Considering composite panels     181
Splitting panels     182
Creating new panels     182
Creating a new panel from scratch     183
Creating a new panel by extending an existing panel     186
Creating the Dashboard panel     187
Summary     191
Handling events     192
Exploring events     193
Identifying event model browser differences     195
Understanding the GWT event model     196
Listening to events     200
Sinking events     200
Managing sunk events with the onBrowserEvent() method     203
Linking sunk events to the onBrowserEvent() method     207
Previewing events     208
Handling events by extending the listener classes     211
Moving events further into your GWT code     212
Preventing default browser event handling     216
Handling standard browser events     216
Reacting to change     218
Clicking around     221
Gaining/Losing focus     222
Capturing keyboard inputs     223
Loading images     223
Managing mouse inputs     224
Scrolling     224
Window resize events     226
Window close events     227
Handling other event types     231
Handling forms     231
Reacting to closing pop-ups     231
Tab events     232
Tabling events     234
Tree events     235
Implementing drag-and-drop     236
Implementing the drag part     236
Implementing the drop part     241
Summary     244
Creating composite widgets     246
What is a composite widget?     247
Composite widget development steps     248
Building the editable label     250
Identifying the components     251
Choosing the panel layout and structure     253
Implementing the right GWT Java interfaces     255
Building the composite widget     258
Styling the composite widget     267
Creating a composite widget from other composite widgets     269
Creating a slider     270
Constructing the ColourPicker composite     273
Creating the Dashboard composite     274
Summary     276
Building JSNI components     277
Introducing JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)     279
Understanding JSNI     281
Communicating using JSNI     290
Chatting to the browser via GWT Java     291
Chatting to the browser via JavaScript     292
Talking to a GWT application via a JavaScript API     294
Talking between GWT applications     296
Loading a JavaScript library     299
Using HTML to load a JavaScript library     299
Using the module XML to load a JavaScript library     299
Wrapping a simple JavaScript library     300
Accessing the loaded JavaScript library     302
Using the widget in an application     307
Wrapping a complex JavaScript library     309
Generating the classes     309
Keeping JavaScript objects as Java objects     310
Calling user-defined code from a library     312
Using a complex wrapped widget in an application     314
Summary     315
Modularizing an application     317
Creating a modularization structure     318
Modularization in GWT     319
Including other modules in an application     321
Setting source and other resource paths     325
Defining an application's server resources     326
Managing an application's GWT properties     327
Replacing classes based on property values     332
Registering generators in the XML module file     333
Injecting resources into an application at runtime     334
Setting an application's entry point     337
The Dashboard's module XML file     337
Including third-party modules     339
Packaging your own modules     341
Creating the Java package structure     343
Summary     344
Advanced techniques     345
Communicating with GWT-RPC     347
Underlying RFC concepts     348
Understanding asynchronous communication     350
Restrictions for communicating with remote servers     351
Creating the Server Status project     353
Implementing GWT-RPC     356
Understanding serializable data objects     356
Defining the GWT-RPC service     360
Preparing the client side of a GWT-RPC call     366
Calling the remote server service     368
Project summary      370
Project overview     370
Server-side service implementation     371
Calling the service from the client     372
Summary     374
Examining client-side RPC architecture     375
Structuring the client code     376
Encapsulating the Server Status component     376
Encapsulating remote calls in a facade     382
Callback routine using the Command pattern     384
Examining different polling techniques     392
Understanding polling issues     392
Implementing a continuously updating component     393
Emulating server-push by blocking server threads     398
Writing custom field serializers     402
Creating a custom field serializer class     403
Implementing custom field serialization     404
Summary     407
Classic Ajax and HTML forms     409
Classic Ajax with RequestBuilder     410
Examining HTTP methods     411
Simple RPC with RequestBuilder     414
Using RequestBuilder to load XML data     417
Examining FormPanel basics     424
Introducing the FormPanel     425
Listening to FormPanel events      428
Altering the FormPanel target     429
Using the various form controls     432
Summary     439
Achieving interoperability with JSON     442
Introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)     443
Understanding the JSON data format     443
Using JSONParser to parse JSON messages     445
Examining GWT's JSON data objects     445
Introducing the JSONValue object     445
Examining basic JSON types     446
Storing JSONValue objects in a JSONArray     448
Collecting JSONValue objects in a JSONObject     449
Creating a search component using JSON     450
Examining the Yahoo Search API     451
Implementing the Yahoo search component     453
Sending JSON data to the server     455
Parsing and validating a JSON server response     457
Implementing a Yahoo Search proxy service     461
Using JSON with Java on the server     461
Using JSON with Perl on the server     465
Using JSON with Ruby on the server     467
Summary     469
Automatically generating new code     471
Generating new types     472
Investigating GWT generators      473
Basic generator code     476
Creating a generator for the Dashboard     477
Accessing the input class     478
Accessing properties of the context     479
Adding logging to a generator     480
Generating the new type structure     482
Creating the new class     484
Using the classes that have been generated     491
Summary     492
Changing applications based on GWT properties     494
Quick summary of properties     495
Managing browser differences     496
How GWT manages browser differences     497
Building the Flash widget     498
Setting up the property replacement     501
Supporting internationalization in full     502
Using static-string internationalization     503
Using dynamic string internationalization     516
Altering the application for the locale     518
Implementing the default component     518
Locale-specific classes     519
Implementing user-defined properties     520
Defining user-specified properties     521
Defining a user-specified property provider     521
Checking the provided property value     522
Building the code     522
Summary     523
Completing the understanding     525
Testing and deploying GWT applications     527
Testing GWT code using JUnit     528
Overview of JUnit for GWT developers     529
Creating a new test case     534
Testing asynchronous code     537
Deploying GWT applications     539
Organizing your project     540
Installing RPC servlets     548
Summary     554
Peeking into how GWT works     555
Examining the compilation process and output     556
Investigating compilation     556
Examining the output     559
The GWT application-loading mechanism     564
Legacy applications     565
Standard applications     566
Bootstrapping the standard application     567
Cross-script applications     572
Compiling Java to JavaScript     573
Exploring the produced JavaScript     573
Reviewing standard Java objects: the vector object     574
Exploring program code as JavaScript     576
Understanding the initialization code segment      578
Summary     579
Index     581

	Getting Started
Lesson 1	Flyer
Lesson 2	Architect's letterhead
Lesson 3	Project proposal
Lesson 4	Jewelcase booklet
Lesson 5	Cycling guidebook
Lesson 6	Adventure newsletter
Lesson 7	Recreational catalog
Lesson 8	Sailing publication
Lesson 9	Newletter on the Web
Lesson 10	PDF Web page
	Index

Ch. 1	Podcasting 101	1
Ch. 2	Listening to podcasts	13
Ch. 3	Podcasting how-to	27
Ch. 4	Planning your podcast	33
Ch. 5	Podcasting tools	57
Ch. 6	Recording your podcast	89
Ch. 7	Putting it all together	109
Ch. 8	Preparing your file	131
Ch. 9	Serving it up	147
Ch. 10	Getting heard	171
Ch. 11	Making money with podcasting	189

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Knowledge Management or Quantum Computing

Knowledge Management

Table of Contents:

Quantum Computing

The Brave New World of e HR or Programming Microsoft Ado Net 2 0 Applications

The Brave New World of e-HR: Human Resources in the Digital Age (The Professional Practice Series)

Table of Contents:

Programming Microsoft ADO. NET 2. 0 Applications: Advanced Topics

XPath and XPointer or Microsoft Office 2003

XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents

Table of Contents:

Microsoft Office 2003: Post-Advanced Concepts and Techniques

Codes and Cheats Summer 2007 or Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2006

Codes and Cheats Summer 2007

Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2006

Mozilla Firefox or Tablet PCs for Dummies

Mozilla Firefox: Introductory Concepts and Techniques

Table of Contents:

Tablet PCs for Dummies

Next Generation Java Testing or Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts

Table of Contents:

Foreword xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi About the Authors xxiii

Chapter 1: Getting Started 1

Chapter 2: Testing Design Patterns 23

Chapter 3: Enterprise Testing 153

Chapter 4: Java EE Testing 197

Chapter 5: Integration 269

Chapter 6: Extending TestNG 325

Chapter 7: Digressions 377

Appendix A: IDE Integration 401

Appendix B: TestNG Javadocs 421

Appendix C: testng.xml 435

Appendix D: Migrating from JUnit 449

Index 471

Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Screenos Cookbook or Digital Manga Workshop

ScreenOs Cookbook

Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist's Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer

Foundation Flex for Developers or Mastering Dojo

Foundation Flex for Developers: Data-Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and FDS

Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences

Table of Contents:

Libraries and Google or Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters

Libraries and Google

Library Journal

Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters: Findings and Insights from the US, EU and Japan

Table of Contents:

Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects or Marketing to the Social Web

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, Vol. 2

Booknews

Table of Contents:

Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business

Pearson Educations Review for the AP Computer Science A and AB or AutoCAD

Pearson Education's Review for the AP Computer Science A and AB

AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know

Computer Graphics for Java Programmers or Systems Biology

Computer Graphics for Java Programmers

Table of Contents:

Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed Networks

Love and Sex with Robots or Creating Vista Gadgets

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

The Washington Post - Joel Achenbach

Diana Hartle - Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and SilverLight

Table of Contents:

Cisco or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

Cisco: A Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents:

Part I: Cisco Overview

Ch. 1: Cisco and the Internet

Ch. 2: Network Primer

Part II: Cisco Internetworking Tools

Ch. 3: Router Overview

Ch. 4: Configuring Routers

Ch. 5: Switches

Ch. 6: Security Overview

Ch. 7: Security Building Blocks

Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii

INDEX
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