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2009-12-28T02:25:00.000-08:00

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Software Engineering : a Practitioner's Approach

2009-12-23T03:40:00.000-08:00

Book Cover: [request_ebook] Software Engineering : a Practitioner's Approach: 6th edition
* Author: Roger S. Pressman
* Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
* Publish Date: 2005
* ISBN: 0072853182
* Pages: 880

For over 20 years, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been the best selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike.

The sixth edition continues to lead the way in software engineering. A new Part 4 on Web Engineering presents a complete engineering approach for the analysis, design, and testing of Web Applications, increasingly important for today's students. Additionally, the UML coverage has been enhanced and significantly increased in this new edition.

The pedagogy has also been improved in the new edition to include sidebars. They provide information on relevant software tools, specific work flow for specific kinds of projects, and additional information on various topics. Additionally, Pressman provides a running case study called "Safe Home" throughout the book, which provides the application of software engineering to an industry project.

New additions to the book also include chapters on the Agile Process Models, Requirements Engineering, and Design Engineering. The book has been completely updated and contains hundreds of new references to software tools that address all important topics in the book.

The ancillary material for the book includes an expansion of the case study, which illustrates it with UML diagrams. The On-Line Learning Center includes resources for both instructors and students such as checklists, 700 categorized web references, Powerpoints, a test bank, and a software engineering library, containing over 500 software engineering papers.

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: A PRACTITIONER’S APPROACH, 5TH EDITION

2009-12-23T03:35:00.000-08:00

Author: Roger S Pressman

Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationPublication

Date: 2000-12-01Number Of Pages: 871Average Amazon Rating: 2.5Book Id 29633

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Memory Hierarchy in Cache Based Systems (PDF)

2009-12-23T03:24:00.000-08:00

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Introduction to Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

2009-12-23T03:17:00.000-08:00

John Crisp (Author) "In 1971 two companies, both in USA, introduced world its future by producing microprocessors..."

Assuming only general science education this book introduces workings of microprocessor, its applications, programming assembler high level languages such C Java. Practical work knowledge-check questions contribute building thorough understanding with practical focus. The book concludes with step-by-step walk through project based on PIC microcontroller. The concise but clearly written text makes this an ideal book electronics IT students and wide range technicians engineers, including IT systems support staff, maintenance / service engineers.

*Crisp's conversational style introduces fundamentals of micro (microprocessors, microcontrollers, systems on chip) in way that utterly painless but technically spot-on: talent a true teacher.
*Microprocessors microcontrollers covered one book, reflecting importance embedded systems today's computerised world.
*Practical work knowledge-check questions support lively text build firm understanding of subject.

288 pages
Publisher: Newnes; 2 edition (January 29, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750659890
ISBN-13: 978-0750659895

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Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition:

2009-09-15T08:53:00.000-07:00

Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition:

The second edition of Sun's best-selling book, Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, is now available online.

Introduction
J2EE Platform Technologies
The Client Tier
The Web Tier
The Enterprise JavaBeans Tier
Integrating with the Enterprise Information Systems Tier
Packaging and Deployment
Transaction Management
Security
J2EE Internationalization and Localization
Architecture of the Sample Application
Sample Application Design and Implementation [PDF]

Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies:

2009-09-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies:

This is the free online version of the latest book on building Service Oriented Architectures using J2EE 1.4 technologies from the J2EE BluePrints Team. Learn Guidelines, Patterns, and code for end-to-end Java applications.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Standards and Technologies
Chapter 3 - Service Endpoint Design
Chapter 4 - Client Design
Chapter 5 - XML Processing
Chapter 6 - Enterprise Application Integration
Chapter 7 - Security
Chapter 8 - Application Architecture

Ant Developers Handbook

2009-09-05T11:23:00.000-07:00

Ant has emerged as the preferred building tool for Java developers, automating tedious compilation, test, and code management. Many Java developers are aware of Ant but there is little documentation to assist in getting started with the Ant tool. Even experienced developers who already use some of the features of the Ant tool, struggle with the more advanced aspects. This book will educate those devlopers in these more advanced topics, and help them get more out of the tool. The Ant Developer's Handbook begins with a rapid introduction to obtaining, installing, and configuring Ant and covers all major feature sets and use practices. Ant is a cross-platform build and configuration management tool. It is written in Java, and uses XML as its file format, thereby allowing entire development teams to share Ant build files, regardless of the operating system each developer is using. Ant can perform nearly any common configuration management function, including: * compiling application source code. * running test suites and building archive files. * moving/copying files to server machines. * interacting with source control systems.

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Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API

2009-09-05T11:19:00.000-07:00

EJB 3.0 sets a new precedent. It has made huge advances in ease of development, and its drastically simplified programming model has been widely acclaimed. This book is the definitive guide to EJB 3.0 persistence technology. The authors provide unparalleled insight and expertise on this topic, fully examining and explaining EJB 3.0 persistence specification. They describe how to use this sophisticated technology to its full potential, including:* The new EntityManager API * The new features of EJB Query Language (EJB QL) * Basic and advanced object-relational mapping * Advanced topics like concurrency, locking, inheritance, and polymorphism Assuming a basic knowledge of Java, SQL, JDBC, and some J2EE experience, this book teaches you EJB 3 persistence from the ground up. After reading it, you will have an in-depth understanding of the EJB 3.0 Persistence API and how to use it in your applications.

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Design and Implement Servlets, JSPs, and EJBs for IBM WebSphere Application Server

2009-08-23T23:29:00.000-07:00

This IBM redbook provides design guidelines for developing e-business applications based on servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technologies.

The guidelines are based on WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition. The redbook describes the concepts of workload balancing through the use of a network dispatcher and clones of the Application Server.

The redbook proposes a design of Web applications based on design patterns, such as the model-view-controller paradigm and the command framework. In this context, the usage of enterprise beans, including access beans, associations, and collections is explored in detail, and a set of EJB-based design patterns is described.

Part 1, "Choosing appropriate Web technologies" provides guidelines on how to design specific components of an application. It also explains why and when a designer should move business logic from JavaBeans to a more powerful technology like Enterprise JavaBeans.

Part 2, "Design patterns and guidelines" is a set of design patterns for building e-business applications. Readers can use the information directly from a chapter and apply it in their own designs.

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Servlet and JSP Programming with IBM WebSphere Studio and VisualAge for Java

2009-08-23T23:21:00.000-07:00

This IBM Redbook provides you with sufficient information to effectively use the WebSphere and VisualAge for Java environments to create, manage and deploy Web-based applications using methodologies centered around servlet, JavaServer Pages, and JavaBean architectures.

In Part 1 we describe the products used in our environment and provide instruction on product installation and configuration. Following this, we cover servlet and JSP programming, which provide you with both a theoretical and practical understanding of these components, together with working examples of the concepts described. For execution of the sample code, we provide information on configuring the WebSphere Application Server and deploying and running the sample Web applications in WebSphere. Using the knowledge developed in these chapters, we then provide detailed information on the development environments offered by VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio. These chapters assist you in using the features offered by these tools, such as integrated debugging, the WebSphere Test Environment, Studio Wizards, and publishing of Web site resources. We also describe how Rational's ClearCase product can be integrated with our environment for Software Configuration Management.

In Part 2 we describe the Pattern Development Kit sample application, including installation, configuration, and operation. We also discuss the application's use of Patterns for e-business, which presents information on some of the design decisions employed when creating the application.

This IBM Redbook is intended to be read by anyone who requires both introductory and detailed information on software development in the WebSphere environment using servlets and JavaServer Pages. We assume that you have a good understanding of Java and some knowledge of HTML.

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Apache Derby — Off to the Races: Includes Details of IBM Cloudscape

2009-08-23T23:16:00.000-07:00

IBM Press | ISBN: 0131855255 | 2005 | CHM | 600 pages | 5.05 MB

Apache Derby is the world’s only enterprise class open source, pure Java, fully transactional relational database. It’s small enough to be embedded directly into your Java applications, providing a local data store that requires no DBA support. Powerful enough to support a wide range of traditional applications, this database ships as the default database for WebSphere Application Server and more than fifty other IBM software products. Apache Derby is built on the mature IBM Cloudscape code base IBM recently contributed to the open source community. The IBM Cloudscape code was nominated and won Developer.com’s Product of the Year 2005 award.

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OpenGL Game Programming

2009-08-19T21:26:00.000-07:00

"OpenGL Game Programming"

OpenGLฎ Game Programming teaches you how to use OpenGL to create dynamic 3D environments and effects for use in game development.

Beginning with the histories of OpenGL and Microsoftฎ DirectXฎ, programming essentials for Microsoft Windowsฎ, and 3D theory, you'll quickly move on to lessons on the functionality of OpenGL.

Most of the chapters include demo programs that will allow you to see OpenGL in action.

You'll then learn how to pull together OpenGL, Microsoft DirectSoundฎ, and Microsoft DirectInputฎ to create your own games!

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Game Programming Gems 3

2009-08-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

"Game Programming Gems 3 (Game Programming Gems Series)"

The journey continues with this ALL NEW volume in the Game Programming Gems series! As with the first two volumes, a dynamic group of some of the best game programmers in the industry have generously joined together to share their insights and techniques.

Their ready-to-use ideas, tips, and solutions, will help save hours of programming time, prevent redundancy, and leave you with more time to add cutting-edge features to your own games.

Covering all the key areas of game development, this invaluable resource delves deep into the problems often encountered by programmers, and provides practical, valid solutions.

Each section is edited by an expert in the field to ensure that the ideas are original, accurate, and useful for a variety of game development projects.

In addition to covering Mathematics, Graphics, General Programming, Audio, and Artificial Intelligence, Game Programming Gems 3 also includes an all new section on Network and Multiplayer games.

This is a must-have reference, and series, for every game developer.

If you are just getting started, this book offers a true cross-section of the challenges you'll face, and provides a variety of additional references to help you find all the resources you need to advance your skills and knowledge.

If you're an expert already, you'll find new ideas and techniques to help save plenty of valuable programming time.

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The Game Makers Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners

2009-08-19T21:23:00.000-07:00

The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool.

This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games--complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals.

It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.

Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to have any prior coding experience.

It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so.

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Game Design: Theory and Practice

2009-08-19T21:22:00.000-07:00

An intermediate to advanced level guide to computer game design and its many aspects.

Topics covered include game balancing, storytelling, non-linearity, artificial intelligence.

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Vector Games Math Processors

2009-08-19T21:19:00.000-07:00

Due to the advancement of video games and game console hardware, the super computer is now a home consumer appliance.

Vector Game Math Processors explains to programmers how to write parallel-based integer and floating point based math algorithms for use in video games as well as scientific applications.

Every manufacturer uses their own terms such as SIMD, Packed Data, Parallel Data, Semi-Vector, and Vector but they are all different labels for the methodology for programming multiple sets of data with the same computer instruction at the same time.

Programmers have been publicly declaring these newer processors more complex and harder to program.

The primary goal of this book is to explain the differences in these processors

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Smarty PHP Template Programming And Applications

2009-08-19T20:53:00.000-07:00

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Flash and PHP Bible

2009-08-19T20:52:00.000-07:00

Quickly develop dynamic Flash applications with PHP

demand for rich Internet applications (RIAs) such as complete storefronts and interactive surveys is skyrocketing, as is the pressure to create these dynamic apps overnight and at low cost.

This in-depth Bible provides the step-by-step instructions you need to quickly create RIAs in Flash using cost-effective, open-source PHP programming tools.

You'll learn how PHP works, when you should use it in Flash, and above all, vital security techniques for keeping your interactive sites secure.

* Install, configure, and explore the basics of PHP
* Connect Flash to PHP and PHP to MySQL
* Create contact forms and search capabilities
* Clean, store, and check your interactive data
* Apply advanced security techniques
* Develop an RSS reader or banner tracking with PHP
* Extend Flash and PHP with third-party libraries
* Learn best practices for backing up and updating your server

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PHP Object-Oriented Solutions

2009-08-19T20:51:00.000-07:00

With the surge of popularity of PHP 5, and with PHP 6 just around the corner, Object-Oriented Programming is now an important consideration for PHP developers.

This version-neutral book is a gentle introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) that wont overburden you with complex theory.

It teaches you the essential basics of OOP that youll need to know before moving onto a more advanced level, and includes a series of pre-packaged scripts that you can incorporate into your existing sites with the minimum of effort.

It shows how OOP can be used to create reusable and portable code by walking you through a series of simple projects.

The projects feature the sorts of things developers run up against every day, and include a validator for filtering user input, a simple Date class that avoids the need to remember all the esoteric format codes in PHP, and an XML generator.

* Teaches the fundamentals of OOP
* Simple projects show how OOP concepts work in the real world
* Pre-packaged scripts can easily be added to your own projects
What youll learn
* PHP features, such as the Standard PHP Library (SPL), that are poorly documented or ignored by existing books
* How to develop classes of their own
* OOP in easy-to-understand language without getting bogged down in dense theory
* Solid foundations for developers wishing to delve more deeply into OOP
* How to leverage the strengths of OOP as a means for creating reusable code that can be used successfully within a procedural context
* How to code for both PHP 5 and 6

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PHP: A BEGINNER GUIDE

2009-08-19T20:50:00.000-07:00

Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Learn how to build dynamic, data-driven Web applications using PHP.

Covering the latest release of this cross-platform, open-source scripting language, PHP: A Beginner's Guide teaches you how to write basic PHP programs and enhance them with more advanced features such as MySQL and SQLite database integration, XML input, and third-party extensions.

This fast-paced tutorial provides one-stop coverage of software installation, language syntax and data structures, flow control routines, built-in functions, and best practices.

Designed for Easy Learning:

* Key Skills & Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
* Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
* Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills
* Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
* Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
* Cautions--Errors and pitfalls to avoid
* Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
* Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

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Head First PHP and MySQL

2009-08-19T20:49:00.000-07:00

If you're ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals of PHP and MySQL coding to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries and joins, file I/O operations, content management, and more.

Head First PHP & MySQL offers the same visually rich format that's turned every title in the Head First series into a bestseller, with plenty of exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive features to help you retain what you've learned.

*Use PHP to transform static HTML pages into dynamic web sites
*Create and populate your own MySQL database tables, and work with data stored in files
*Perform sophisticated MySQL queries with joins, and refine your results with LIMIT and ORDER BY
*Use cookies and sessions to track visitors' login information and personalize the site for users
*Protect your data from SQL injection attacks
*Use regular expressions to validate information on forms
*Dynamically display text based on session info and create images on the fly
*Pull syndicated data from other sites using PHP and XML

Throughout the book, you'll build sophisticated examples -- including a mailing list, a job board, and an online dating site -- to help you learn how to harness the power of PHP and MySQL in a variety of contexts. If you're ready to build a truly dynamic website, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ideal way to get going.

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Swarm Intelligence in Data Mining

2009-08-19T20:48:00.000-07:00

Swarm Intelligence is an innovative distributed intelligent paradigm for solving optimization problems that originally took its inspiration from the biological examples by swarming, flocking and herding phenomena in vertebrates.

Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore large amounts of data in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data.

This book deals with the application of swarm intelligence in data mining. Addressing the various issues of swarm intelligence and data mining using different intelligent approaches is the novelty of this edited volume.

This volume comprises of 11 chapters including an introductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions and some important research challenges.

Important features include the detailed overview of the various swarm intelligence and data mining paradigms, excellent coverage of timely, advanced data mining topics, state-of-the-art theoretical research and application developments and chapters authored by pioneers in the field.

Academics, scientists as well as engineers engaged in research, development and application of optimization techniques and data mining will find the comprehensive coverage of this book invaluable.

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Web Mining: Applications and Techniques

2009-08-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need.
Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information.

This book provides a record of current research and practical applications in Web searching. It includes techniques that will improve the utilization of the Web by the design of Web sites, as well as the design and application of search agents.

This book presents research and related applications in a manner that encourages additional work toward improving the reduction of information overflow, which is so common today in Web search results.

Paperback: 427 pages
Data: August 1, 2004 Format: PDF

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Mining Graph Data

2009-08-19T20:46:00.000-07:00

Discover the latest data mining techniques for analyzing graph data

This text takes a focused and comprehensive look at an area of data mining that is quickly rising to the forefront of the field: mining data that is represented as a graph.

Each chapter is written by a leading researcher in the field;
collectively, the chapters represent the latest findings and applications in both theory and practice, including solutions to many of the algorithmic challenges that arise in mining graph data.

Following the authors' step-by-step guidance, even readers with minimal background in analyzing graph data will be able to represent data as graphs, extract patterns and concepts from the data, and apply the methodologies presented in the text to real datasets.

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Quality Measures in Data Mining

2009-08-19T20:45:00.000-07:00

Data mining analyzes large amounts of data to discover knowledge relevant to decision making.

Typically, numerous pieces of knowledge are extracted by a data mining system and presented to a human user, who may be a decision-maker or a data-analyst.

The user is confronted with the task of selecting the pieces of knowledge that are of the highest quality or interest according to his or her preferences.

Since this selection is sometimes a daunting task, designing quality and interestingness measures has become an important challenge for data mining researchers in the last decade.

This volume presents the state of the art concerning quality and interestingness measures for data mining.

The book summarizes recent developments and presents original research on this topic.

The chapters include surveys, comparative studies of existing measures, proposals of new measures, simulations, and case studies.

Both theoretical and applied chapters are included.

Papers for this book were selected and reviewed for correctness and completeness by an international review committee.

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Data Mining In Time Series Databases

2009-08-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

Adding the time dimension to real-world databases produces Time Series Databases (TSDB) and introduces new aspects and difficulties to data mining and knowledge discovery.

This book covers the state-of-the-art methodology for mining time series databases.

The novel data mining methods presented in the book include techniques for efficient segmentation, indexing, and classification of noisy and dynamic time series.

A graph-based method for anomaly detection in time series is described and the book also studies the implications of a novel and potentially useful representation of time series as strings.

The problem of detecting changes in data mining models that are induced from temporal databases is additionally discussed.

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Real World Adobe illustrator CS3

2009-08-19T20:43:00.001-07:00

Peachpit Press; 2nd edition (August 5, 2007)
PDF | 584 pages | English | 37mb(rar)

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3/by Mordy Golding (Author)

Description
Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the definitive reference to Adobe's industry-standard vector graphics software.

With an easy, engaging style, author Mordy Golding takes readers through all of the features of the program, explaining not only how to use the multitude of features but also why and when to use them.

This edition has been thoroughly updated for Illustrator CS3, including insightful techniques on using the new Live Color environment and its tools, a new Isolation mode for working on complex artwork, and new tools for drawing, erasing, modifying, and cropping graphic.

New integration features with Flash CS3 are also covered in depth; for example, readers learn how symbols can be defined as movie clips for use in Flash.

Now that Illustrator and Flash are both part of several bundled offerings of the Creative Suite, this coverage is a key part of the entire uninterrupted workflow from initial concept to final execution.

Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous illustrations and screen shots included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application.

Designers from all fields--illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more--will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

2009-08-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool.

That's where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images.

This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind.

Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer's perspective.

As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow.

He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the productกฏs development and providing feedback on the public beta.

As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of Lightroom.

In this book you'll learn how to:

* Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
* Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
* Create and manage a personal image library
* Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
* Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
* Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios

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Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

2009-08-19T20:40:00.000-07:00

InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe’s new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts.

This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features you’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, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you.

Before you know it, you’ll be using the Bridge to manage your files, object styles to format your images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse and much, much more!

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Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2

2009-08-19T20:39:00.001-07:00

Everyone uses Photoshop; however, not everyone uses it efficiently! With this guide, the folks at Adobe Press are hoping to remedy that situation.

Realizing that if you're a veteran Photoshop user, you may still be using methods more suitable to long-ago versions and that if you're new to Photoshop, you may be missing out on some of the long-honed shortcuts and automated tools, Adobe Press has come up with a guide that shows you how to tap into Photoshop's productivity features to streamline your work whatever your level.

You'll be amazed at how much time you can save by taking advantage of Preferences, presets, Actions, scripting, batch processing, keyboard shortcuts, Workspaces, file browsing, the Bridge and more.

You'll also learn about new CS2 features that push the creative envelope even further: Image Warping, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, and more.

Simple instructions and images galore make learning easy with this smart, focused guide.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Only

2009-08-19T20:38:00.001-07:00

Learn to breathe life into your images with Lightroom 2

Technology should complement talent. Veteran photographer Rob Sheppard finds that Lightroom 2 is perfectly designed for the photographer's needs, giving you back the control over color images that photographers once enjoyed in the traditional darkroom. From editing and organizing your images to processing and displaying photos, this book shares secrets Rob has discovered and developed. His insight will make Lightroom the most valuable tool at your disposal.

*Learn how Lightroom processes RAW and JPEG files non-destructively
*Discover the way Lightroom is designed for photographers and their workflow needs
*Improve your efficiency with the organizational features in the Library module
*Navigate quickly through your photos in any module with Filmstrip
*Learn how you can optimize your photos quickly with the adjustment brush and graduated filter tools
*Discover the keyboard shortcuts that will really save you time
*Process multiple images quickly and easily using Sync, Copy, and Paste
*Prepare images for the unique requirements of print or online display

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Free EBooks: JavaServer Pages Fast & Easy Web Development w/CD

2009-08-18T21:42:00.000-07:00

Free EBooks: JavaServer Pages Fast & Easy Web Development w/CD

Software Testing Techniques 2E

2009-08-18T20:51:00.000-07:00

Every professional and commercial software development organization spends a great deal of time in the testing and validation of their software.

The testing process, driven either by legal or financial requirements, can be expensive and may thwart the planned deployment of the application.

Many studies indicate that the testing process can even take three times as long as the actual coding itself.

Indeed, software development done under the ISO 9000 or FDA auspices can be extremely time intensive.

This book gives a lengthy and fairly comprehensive overview of software testing that emphasizes formal models for testing.

In the introduction, the author gives a general overview of the testing process and the reasons and goals for testing. He carefully distinguishes between testing and debugging, and advocates these as separate activities.

Testing according to the author is done to find bugs; whereas debugging is done to find the origin of the bugs and fix them.

The author characterizes testing as either functional or structural.

Functional testing treats the program from the user's point of view, with inputs given to the program, and then the outputs are checked for conformance to a specified reference.

Structural testing examines how the program is implemented, in terms of programming style, design, etc. The notion of an oracle is defined as any program or process that specifies the expected outcome of a collection of tests.

The author clearly identifies and characterizes the different types of tests that arise in development organizations, such as unit testing, regression testing, stress testing, and integration testing.

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TestGoal: Result-Driven Testing

2009-08-18T20:49:00.000-07:00

Software testing is traditionally seen as a difficult and time consuming activity that is hard to embed in the software development process.

This book provides a different view.

It explains to stakeholders how testing can add value to software development and doing business, and provides the tester with practical information.

TestGoal is not just another methodology.

Several good testing methodologies exist. But, like any other profession, also testing encompasses more than the simple application of a methodology.

After all, strict adherence to a specific methodology is no guarantee for success.

Success stems from the mindset, enthusiasm, knowledge and skill of the tester.

These factors determine whether a methodology is applied successfully and whether testing takes on a result-driven character. And that's what TestGoal is about: a result-driven attitude, testing principles and expertise as fundament, and a hands-on six step plan to enable result driven testing.

Derk-Jan de Grood and his colleagues from Collis, an international software testing company, know about the main pitfalls in test projects from their extensive professional experience.

TestGoal has emerged from the office floor and captures over a decade of best practice. TestGoal is made by professionals for professionals, and it combines the mindset, knowledge, and skills required to add value with testing and make software development more successful.

This book explains in a clear language how you can make testing result-driven. It explains why testing is important and describes all of the activities involved in testing.

It is enriched with recognizable examples, practical tips and useful checklists.

This makes it a "GO kit" that enables testers to immediately get started and add value to their organization.

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The Complete Book of Intelligence Tests

2009-08-18T20:48:00.000-07:00

This engaging book offers readers the ultimate in calisthenics for the brain.

Using the same fun, informative, and accessible style that have made his previous books so popular, Philip Carter helps people identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and provides methods for improving memory, boosting creativity, and tuning in to emotional intelligence.

Featuring never-before-published tests designed specifically for this book, plus answers for all questions, this latest treasure trove from a MENSA puzzle editor outlines a fun, challenging program for significantly enhancing performance in all areas of intelligence.

The Complete Book of Intelligence Tests: 500 Exercises to Improve, Upgrade and Enhance Your Mind Strength (The IQ Workout Series)
Enjoyable mental exercises to help boost performance on IQ tests.

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Penetration Tester Open Source Toolkit

2009-08-18T20:45:00.000-07:00

This is the first fully integrated Penetration Testing book and bootable Linux CD containing the ?

Auditor Security Collection?

which includes over 300 of the most effective and commonly used open source attack and penetration testing tools.

This powerful tool kit and authoritative reference is written by the security industry?s foremost penetration testers including HD Moore, Jay Beale, and SensePost.

This unique package provides you with a completely portable and bootable Linux attack distribution and authoritative reference to the toolset included and the required methodology.

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Syngress|8 MB|ISBN-10: 1597490210|750 pages | 2005 | PDF | English|rar

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xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

2009-08-18T20:43:00.000-07:00

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality.

However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge.

xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most popular unit testing framework in use today.

Agile coach and test automation expert Gerard Meszaros describes 68 proven patterns for making tests easier to write, understand, and maintain.

He then shows you how to make them more robust and repeatable--and far more cost-effective.

Loaded with information, this book feels like three books in one.

The first part is a detailed tutorial on test automation that covers everything from test strategy to in-depth test coding.

The second part, a catalog of 18 frequently encountered "test smells," provides trouble-shooting guidelines to help you determine the root cause of problems and the most applicable patterns.

The third part contains detailed descriptions of each pattern, including refactoring instructions illustrated by extensive code samples in multiple programming languages.

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Testing Commercial-off-the-Shelf Components and Systems

2009-08-18T20:42:00.000-07:00

Industrial development of software systems needs to be guided by recognized engineering principles.

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components enable the systematic and cost-effective reuse of prefabricated tested parts, a characteristic approach of mature engineering disciplines. This reuse necessitates a thorough test of these components to make sure that each works as specified in a real context.

Beydeda and Gruhn invited leading researchers in the area of component testing to contribute to this monograph, which covers all related aspects from testing components in a context-independent manner through testing components in the context of a specific system to testing complete systems built from different components.

The authors take the viewpoints of both component developers and component users, and their contributions encompass functional requirements such as correctness and functionality compliance as well as non-functional requirements like performance and robustness.

Overall this monograph offers researchers, graduate students and advanced professionals a unique and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in testing COTS components and COTS-based systems.

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Software Testing: Testing Across the Entire Software Development Life Cycle

2009-08-18T20:41:00.002-07:00

Businesses lose billions of dollars every year due to poorly tested software, and the body of professional software testers is grossly underpopulated.

Now, Software Testing delivers a thorough treatment of everything a technology professional needs to become a proficient software tester.

The presentation sequence builds from simple to complex examples, giving novice readers a foundation for grasping the material.

The use of real-world case studies further enhances understanding, while diagrams, tables, and sample printouts help the reader to visualize the processes being discussed.

Divided into four parts, this book provides:

* An overview of software testing
* A review of software development life cycles
* Structured testing strategies and approaches
* A complete life cycle software testing project

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The art of software testing

2009-08-18T20:41:00.001-07:00

This long-awaited revision of a bestseller provides a practical discussion of the nature and aims of software testing.

You'll find the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases, including information on psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects, test tools, high-order testing, code inspections, and debugging.

Accessible, comprehensive, and always practical, this edition provides the key information you need to test successfully, whether a novice or a working programmer.

Buy your copy today and end up with fewer bugs tomorrow.

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Find the Bug A Book of Incorrect Programs

2009-08-18T20:40:00.001-07:00

50 exercises to help you find bugs faster -- with less aggravation!

Bug hunting is an art, and you need to be a master. Get Find the Bug, and you'll become one. Long-time Microsoft programmer Adam Barr presents 50 programs, each with exactly one bug. Your assignment: find it.

As you do, Barr will teach you how to "think like your processor"... anticipating exactly how code will behave, even without running it.

You'll learn better ways to read code, understand it -- and above all, improve it. Whether you're building new systems or maintaining someone else's, you'll find bugs earlier, faster, with less frustration... and write cleaner code to begin with.

* Presents "bugged" programs in C, Java, Python, Perl, and x86 assembly language, with carefully explained solutions

* Includes language overviews to help you debug all 50 examples, even if you don't know the language

* Shows how to look past the "surface" of code to uncover its hidden internal logic

* Offers practical guidance on analyzing programs, including specific inputs to test

* Presents a wide range of realistic bugs, with no phony "gotchas"

* Draws on the types of coding and debugging challenges Microsoft uses to interview new programmers

* An indispensable resource for working programmers, maintainers, testers, quality specialists, and everyone involved in code reviews

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Software Testing Fundamentals Methods and Metrics

2009-08-18T20:39:00.001-07:00

Recommended book for software test engineers. Since the author also discusses political aspects of testing in today's real business world, where the CFO rather than the CEO rules, this is an interesting book for other test engineers, too.

One of the main topics of the book are what the author calls MITs, the "most important tests". The MITs are determined using various methods, including path analysis, boundary value analysis, expert interviews, and test ranking.

While there are nice explanations of the other methods, my first impression was that the author's explanation of her ranking method was lacking technical details. Actually, that ranking method is rather simple.

Use of consistent terminology and some detracting errors in examples just make it more difficult than necessary for the reader to understand.

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Manage Software Testing

2009-08-18T20:35:00.000-07:00

Hardcover: 600 pages
Publisher: AUERBACH; 1 edition (March 7, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849393833

Manage Software Testing is a must-have resource that covers all aspects of test management. It guides you through the business and organizational issues that you are confronted with on a daily basis, explaining what you need to focus on strategically, tactically, and operationally.

Using a risk-based approach, the author addresses a range of questions about software product development. The book covers unit, system, and non-functional tests and includes examples on how to estimate the number of bugs expected to be found, the time required for testing, and the date when a release is ready. It weighs the cost of finding bugs against the risks of missing release dates or letting bugs appear in the final released product.

It is imperative to determine if bugs do exist and then be able to metric how quickly they can be identified, the cost they incur, and how many remain in the product when it is released. With this book,test managers can effectively and accurately establish these parameters.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

2009-08-18T20:33:00.000-07:00

If youกฏre in charge of database administration, developing database software, or looking for database solutions for your company, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies can help you get a handle on this extremely popular relational database management system. Here youกฏll find whatกฏs new in the latest version; how to choose and install the right variation for your needs; how to monitor, maintain, and protect your data; and what it takes to keep your database healthy. Youกฏll discover how to:

*Build and maintain tables
*Design a database and communicate with it
*Retrieve, analyze, and report data
*Build solid, robust database applications
*Use the SQL Server Optimizer and Query Designer
*Navigate SQL Server with Visual Studio
*Develop useful reports with the Report Builder and Report Designer
*Create Business Intelligence solutions with Business Intelligence Development Studio
*Configure your server and perform major administrative tasks
To help you quickly find what you need, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies is divided into nine minibooks:
*Essential Concepts
*Designing and Using Databases
*Interacting With Your Data
*Database Programming
*Reporting Services
*Analysis Services
*Performance Tips and Tricks
*Database Administration
*Appendixes
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies gets you started, helps you solve problems, and will even answer your questions down the road!

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Writing Stored Procedures with Microsoft SQL Server

2009-08-18T20:32:00.000-07:00

Writing Stored Procedures with Microsoft SQL Server: The Authoritative Solution

Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server focuses on teaching you not only how to build effective stored procedures, but also how to optimize and streamline them for long term use.

Get an understanding of how SQL Server interprets stored procedures verses direct access via SQL queries.

This is followed by detailed instructions on creating and maintaining a repository of stored procedures.

Once you know how stored procedures are created and built, you are taught how to determine which logic within an application makes sense to be put into this scheme.

Additionally, you're provided with guidance on making stored procedures that are portable across applications.

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Professional SQL Server 2000 Data Warehousing with Analysis Services

2009-08-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

Data warehouses have evolved to cope with the huge volumes of data flowing through the workplace by separating the data used for reporting and decision making from the operational systems.

The purpose of the data warehouse is simply to store the raw data, and in combination with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, this data can be transformed into accessible information that reflects the real factors affecting the enterprise.

In this book, we introduce the key concepts of data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining.

In addition to coverage of Data Transformation Services (DTS) and MDX, this book also demonstrates how to develop an Analysis Services client application, and how to secure and optimize your data warehouse.

There is also an in-depth discussion of the exciting new topic of Web Housing.

By reading this book, you will learn how best to employ data warehousing and OLAP in your business, and how to leverage it to provide your organization with improved revenue and profitability.

This book covers: Understanding Analysis Services Architecture Designing Data Warehouses and Data Marts Using Data Transformation Services (DTS) in Data Warehousing Techniques for Data Mining and Analysis Building OLAP cubes with Analysis Manager, and programmatically through DSO Securing, Administrating and Optimizing a Data Warehouse and OLAP system Using Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) to query OLAP cubes Building OLAP client pplications withVisual Basic and ASP English Query, PivotTable Service

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Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration

2009-08-18T20:29:00.000-07:00

For the first time, SQL Server 2005 provides features that can support large-scale enterprise databases.

With this powerful new release, you may find yourself being called upon to perform duties that are no longer strictly "administrative," duties that have become much more complicated and difficult.

With that in mind, a team of experienced Microsoft Certified Professionals provides you with the necessary information to be a more competent and successful database developer or administrator.

Beginning with a foundation that features detailed coverage of typical administrative duties, the authors proceed to explain how to build complex data transformations for data import, build distributed data solutions, and maintain the security and integrity of the database.

You will be able to apply what you learn to real-world scenarios, and smoothly navigate the vastly changed landscape of SQL Server 2005 administration.

What you will learn from this book

* How to install, maintain, and manage an SQL Server 2005 installation, including high availability and security considerations

* Various features such as the Common Language Runtime, SQL Server Integration Services, Notification Service, and the Service Broker

* How to use the tools that are necessary to manage configuration, backups, restores, security, availability, performance, and monitoring

* A sampling of some of the more advanced areas and complex jobs of the broadening role of a database administrator in the enterprise

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Professional SQL Server 2000 Data Warehousing with Analysis Services

2009-08-17T21:18:00.001-07:00

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

2009-08-17T21:16:00.000-07:00

When SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) was released to the market in SQL Server 2005, it took the Extract Transform Load (ETL) market by storm.

Three years later, SQL Server 2008 has introduced an even more mature rendition of SSIS that is focused on improving the scalability and performance of SQL Server and also serves as a very powerful tool for performing ETL operations, which are central to data warehousing.

With this book, an assembled team of professionals has combined their years of experience and tried-and-true best practices to present you with the tools to take your SSIS skill set to a new level.

After a basic review of the fundamental concepts of SSIS, you'll move on to more in-depth topics such as extending the engine, synchronizing systems incrementally, managing the SSIS platform, and more.

Plus, helpful examples and real-world case studies demonstrate advanced concepts and techniques. Once you get past the initial learning curve of the 2008 version of SSIS, you'll be amazed by the power, effectiveness, and timesaving ability of SSISกชall of which are aimed at making your life easier.

What you will learn from this book
* Ways that you can use the Script task in SSIS
* How to load a data warehouse from the ground up
* Techniques for scaling SSIS to make it more reliable
* Ways to incrementally load and join data
* Instructions for using containers to do looping in SSIS
* How to expose the SSIS data flow to other programs, such as InfoPath and your own .NET applications

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MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000

2009-08-17T21:15:00.000-07:00

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This newly updated, official guide to the core architecture and internals of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 helps readers unlock the full power of Microsoft's premier relational database management system.

Written by a renowned SQL Server guru, in conjunction with the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 product development team, INSIDE MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2000 is a must-read for developers and IT professionals who need to understand Microsoft SQL Server from the inside out.

This comprehensive guide provides updated, authoritative advice for installing, administering, and programming with SQL Server 2000.

It also includes information about significant product enhancements, and new chapters about SQL Server Indexes and Query Optimization. The CD contains product evaluation documentation, sample code and scripts, white papers, and a benchmarking kit.

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XML Security

2009-08-17T21:14:00.000-07:00

Use this book as both an XML primer and to get up to speed on XML-related security issues.

Written by the experts at RSA Security, Inc., you’ll get inside tips on how to prevent denial of service attacks, and how to implement security measures to keep your XML programs protected.

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Get up to speed on XML and applied security technologies using this authoritative guide.

Covering the fundamentals of XML structures and related security technologies--including XML signatures, XML encryption, and the XML key management specification--this resource contains both the conceptual information and the practical techniques you need to successfully work with this data-structuring language

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XSLT 2.0 Web Development

2009-08-17T21:13:00.000-07:00

Leverage the incredible power of XSLT 2.0 to create sites that are easy to build, maintain, and extend!

This book teaches you exactly how to build state-of-the-art web sites with XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. XML developer and web designer Dmitry Kirsanov drills down to real development challenges and specific tools and techniques for solving them.

You'll learn from a hands-on project that gives you insights you just won't find anywhere else.

Kirsanov covers the entire project lifecycle: schema creation, validation, transformation, testing, and maintenance offering outstanding code and markup examples every step of the way.

* Explore new XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 standards from a web developerกฏs point of view
* Develop rock-solid, high-performance domain-specific schemas
* Create and convert source documents for effective XML processing
* Set up XSLT transformations to automatically generate HTML, graphics, and other site components
* Build your dynamic web site on the solid foundation of the Cocoon framework
* Use Schematron to validate XML and streamline processing
* Study complete printed and downloadable page sources, stylesheets, and schemas
XSLT 2.0 Web Development is an indispensable resource forกญ
* Professional web developers
* Project managers who want to streamline site development and maintenance
* Graphic designers who need more flexible ways to present structured information
* Content management specialists using XML documentation/publishing systems

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Beginning XML

2009-08-17T21:12:00.001-07:00

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display, and organization of data.

Together with its many related technologies it is an essential technology for anyone using markup languages on the web or internally.

This book teaches you all you need to know about XML what it is, how it works, what technologies surround it, and how it can best be used in a variety of situations, from simple data transfer to using XML in your web pages.

It builds on the strengths of the first edition, and provides new material to reflect the changes in the XML landscape notably SOAP and Web Services, and the publication of the XML Schemas Recommendation by the W3C.

What does this book cover?
* Here are just a few of the things this book covers:
* XML syntax and writing well-formed XML
* Using XML Namespaces
* Transforming XML into other formats with XSLT
* XPath and XPointer for locating specific XML data
* XML Validation using DTDs and XML Schemas
* Manipulating XML documents with the DOM and SAX 2.0
* SOAP and Web Services
* Displaying XML using CSS and XSL
* Incorporating XML into tradition databases and n-tier architectures
* XLink and XPointer for linking XML and non-XML resources

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XSLT 2nd Edition

2009-08-17T21:10:00.000-07:00

the years of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007.

The revised edition of this classic book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0 standard.

XSLT is a critical language for converting XML documents into other formats, such as HTML code or a PDF file.

With XSLT, you get a thorough understanding of XSLT and XPath and their relationship to other web standards, along with recommendations for a honed toolkit in an open platform-neutral, standards-based environment.

This book: Covers the XSLT basics, including simple stylesheets and methods for setting up transformation engines Walks you through the many parts of XSLT, particularly XSLT's template-based approach to transformations Applies both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 solutions to the same problems, helping you decide which version of XSLT is more appropriate for your project Includes profuse examples that complement both the tutorial and the reference material

new edition of XSLT has been updated thoroughly to explain XSLT 2.0's many dependencies, notably XML Schema and XPath 2.0.

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Understanding Web services XML WSDL SOAP and UDDI

2009-08-17T21:09:00.000-07:00

Web services, the new way of stitching data and processing resources together to form elaborate, distributed applications, aren't like other software systems.

They differ even from other architectures for distributed applications.

In his fantastic Understanding Web Services, Eric Newcomer helps his readers figure out what Web services are all about.

This book is better than any other book out there in helping readers come to grips with the terms, technologies, behaviors, and design requirements that define the Web services universe.

It's remarkably light on code--Newcomer's logic appears to be that you should dig into the details of implementation only after you thoroughly understand the design concepts--and emphasizes definition and exposition of SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and ebXML.

Newcomer's work looks and reads almost like a notebook, with succinct statements in the margin (for instance, "SOAP processors first have to check the mustUnderstand attribute, if any"), adjacent to paragraphs that go into greater depth.

He's careful to call attention to differences among the relevant standards documents, and points out differences among implementations.

Graphical learners may wish for more conceptual diagrams, as there aren't a lot of them here. Newcomer's prose is brilliant, though, and it's pretty easy to determine what he means.

Perhaps best of all, Newcomer isn't cheap with his opinions and forecasts.

It's helpful to read his informed feelings and predictions. --David Wall Topics covered: The specifications, implementations, and popular trends that define the Web services movement.

Conceptual coverage of Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol fills these pages.

Emphasis is on how it all works rather than on how to program for it.

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XML Web Services and the Data Revolution: Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series

2009-08-17T21:08:00.000-07:00

XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution presents a revealing view of XML that places this emerging technology in the context of the ongoing Web revolution.

Written for business and technical professionals, this book reveals the true value of XML for distributed information systems, explaining how it is transforming the way organizations manage data and build software systems, and the opportunities it offers for those organizations that understand its significance and impact.

This book places XML at the heart of a paradigm shift that is bridging the gap between traditional tightly coupled proprietary networks (DCOM, CORBA) and the dynamic, loosely-coupled, data-driven Web.

The author explains how XML's simple rules for defining data vocabularies and protocols have opened up new possibilities for server to server interaction in the form of Web services for dynamic discovery and interaction.

He goes on to discuss how frameworks such as .NET and J2EE(TM) provide important messaging, transaction, and security services for leveraging Web services in enterprise computing.

The book also discusses how XML and Web services reflect a fundamental shift in software construction from monolithic applications to software based on the composition of simple parts.

In addition, the book showcases XML at work in a wide array of applications, and explores how major software organizations have responded to the changes brought about by XML-based technology.

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Special Edition Using XSLT

2009-08-17T21:07:00.000-07:00

Special Edition Using XSLT starts with an overview explaining how XSLT fits into the bigger picture of the Extensible Stylesheet Language, and the differences between XSLT and XSL-FO.

It then demonstrates practical examples of XSL transformations from XML to a variety of other useful formats including HTML, PDF, SVG and others.

Later chapters discuss developer techniques for implementing XSLT within dynamic web environments including ASP and JSP.

The author also covers debugging techniques and how XSLT relates to .NET.

The book finishes with a useful reference section including detailed coverage of XSLT, XPath and XSL-FO.

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Special Edition Using XML Schema

2009-08-17T21:05:00.000-07:00

Special Edition Using XML Schema starts with an explanation of Schema basics: why they were created, the advantages they offer over DTDs, and an overview of the two major parts of the specification: Structure and Datatypes.

Next, the author explains the differences between DTDs and Schemas, and demonstrates a simple DTD-to-Schema conversion. The bulk of the book explains the many parts of Schemas, dissecting the structure of a Schema and then introducing Datatypes.

Each section includes practical examples, which the author creates and explains, building from the material discussed in the previous section.

At the end of the book, the author demonstrates a large, real-world example Schema, showing how all the parts of Schemas interact and how readers would build XML data from the example Schema.

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XPath Essentials

2009-08-17T21:04:00.000-07:00

The first complete hands-on guide to programming with XPath

XPath is an important new technology that allows XML data to be restructured and displayed in virtually any other format, such as HTML.

It is especially exciting for developers in the B2B arena in that it permits data to be exchanged between companies using different schemas (naming conventions).

Written for developers, programmers, Webmasters, and IT/networking professionals, XPath Essentials provides readers with the practical, hands-on instruction they need to accomplish mission-critical tasks.

Like all the books in the XML Essentials series, it takes an example-driven approach supplying source code to illustrate the practical application of XPath and its framework, syntax, semantics, and use.

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XPath 2.0 Programmers Reference

2009-08-17T21:03:00.000-07:00

XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference is the only authoritative reference on XPath, a sub-language within XSLT that determines which part of an XML document the XSLT transforms.

Written for professional programmers who use XML every day but find the W3C XPath specifications tough to slog through, this book explains in everyday language what every construct in the language does and how to use it.

It also offers background material on the design thinking behind the language, gentle criticism of the language specification when appropriate, and a diverse range of interesting examples in various application areas.

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Professional XML

2009-08-17T21:02:00.000-07:00

From document type definitions and XQuery to Web services and form development, this book takes you through all of the XML capabilities that companies want to implement today.

It not only covers the basics of XML and the XML specification, but also shows you the XML-based applications that are driving the tech industry forward, such as blogging and alerts.

Professional XML first guides you through the steps for utilizing XML and XML-based presentation technologies.

It next delves into the steps you can follow to transform and program your XML documents.

You'll then discover best practices for integrating XML with Ajax, the .NET Framework, Javaฎ, and more. Integrated throughout the chapters, you'll also find proven tips and techniques on how to apply the discussed technology so that you can continue to build the best possible applications.

What you will learn from this book

*All about the XML specification and its related technologies

*Ways to define the structure and data types of an XML document

*How to build and work with XML documents using a number of different developer tools

*Tips for using RELAX-NG, XSLT, XPath, XML-DOM, and more

*How to effectively use RSS and Atom to aggregate data

*Techniques for integrating advanced Web services into your applications

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XML Bible Gold Edition

2009-08-17T21:00:00.000-07:00

The emergence of XML is having an enormous impact on Web development, and scaling the learning curve of this new technology is a priority for many developers.

The XML Bible offers a superb introduction to the subject and the groundwork to understand XML's future developments.

Author Elliotte Rusty Harold uses a patient, step-by-step discussion that clearly points out the potential of XML without boring his readership with tons of SGML spec-speak.

Harold opens quickly with a "Hello World" example to get the reader coding early, and follows that with a simple but powerful example of XML's data management benefits--presenting baseball statistics.

Once you've coded your first XML documents, you'll be hooked on the technology and motivated to learn about the more sophisticated topics.

Style sheet languages are covered comprehensively to illustrate the presentation possibilities and pitfalls.

An unusually long list of real-life XML applications also shows how XML is already being used, and there is in-depth coverage of the Resource Description Framework, Channel Definition Format, and Vector Markup Language.

The book wraps up with a section that helps you design your own XML application from scratch.

Topics covered: XML background, example XML applications, type definitions (DTDs), style languages, Xlinks, Xpointers, Namespaces, application planning, and XML 1.0 specification

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XSLT Programmers Reference

2009-08-17T20:58:00.000-07:00

As XML begins to take hold, the eXtensible Stylesheet Language: Transformation (XSLT) standard will be playing a major role in making all those XML predictions a reality.

Author Michael Kay exudes enthusiasm in this guide, XSLT Programmer's Reference, by taking every opportunity to illustrate the power and flexibility of XSLT.

Kay calls XSLT the "SQL of the Web"--a phrase that is sure to perk up the ears of many readers expecting a simple documentation of just another Web-language standard.

Like other Wrox Programmer's Reference series titles, this book starts off with chapters that rapidly introduce the concepts and set the context for the core of the book, which is a complete documentation of the XSLT standard.

The book uses this space well to explore the transformation process and the tree structure that is used for both input and output of style sheet documents.

By the time the reader gets to the reference section of the book, he or she will be convinced of the power of XSLT.

Each element of XSLT is covered with concise examples that include both the source XML code and style sheet code.

XSLT style sheets can be used in a variety of ways and across a wide spectrum of complexity. The book helps the reader grasp this concept by presenting four style-sheet design patterns that comprise the vast majority of implementations.

The text looks at each, demonstrating how to identify the design pattern by its content and apply it to appropriate circumstances.

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Learning Perl 5th Edition

2009-08-17T20:47:00.000-07:00

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl.

The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10.

This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991.

Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text.

Topics include: Perl data & variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation Lists & sorting Process management Smart matching Using third party modules Perl is the language for people who want to get work done.

Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more.

Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

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Perl Programming for Biologists

2009-08-17T20:45:00.000-07:00

Working on the assumption that the reader has no formal training in programming, Perl Programming for Biologists demonstrates how Perl is used to solve biological problems.

Each chapter opens with a set of learning objectives, provides numerous review questions and self-study exercises, and concludes with a bulleted summary of key points.

The author incorporates numerous real-life examples throughout the text.

Upon completing the book, readers are able to quickly perform such tasks as correcting recurring errors in spreadsheets, scanning a Fasta sequence for every occurrence of an EcoRI site, adapting other writers' scripts to one's own purposes, and most important, writing reusable and maintainable scripts that spare the rote repetition of code.

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Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 for Windows NT in 21 Days

2009-08-17T20:44:00.000-07:00

Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 for Windows NT in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)
Sams | ISSN: 0672310473 | 1997-03-24 | PDF | 912 Pages | 3,6 Mb

Perl, a powerful programming language in the UNIX arena, can be used for manipulating text, generating reports, and performing system tasks.

Assuming no prior programming knowledge, this easy-to-use guide shows readers how to use this language to develop dynamic user interfaces into Windows NT databases-in no time.

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Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Second Edition

2009-08-17T20:42:00.001-07:00

Description ,review and table of contents of Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Second Edition : Professional CSS is one of the few books on the market today that addresses designing standards-based CSS on large, multi-page, well-designed, real-world sites using CSS in an integrated fashion.

Focusing on the best-practices aspect of Web development and using examples from real-world Web sites, this book uniquely offers applied, CSS-enabled solutions to design problems.

ISBN: 0764588338 | edition: 2005 | PDF | 459 Pages | 9.25 Mb

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CSS: The Missing Manual

2009-08-17T20:41:00.001-07:00

You'll learn how to:

* Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS

* Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders

* Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages

* Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows

* Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML

* Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser

* Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables

* Style Web pages for printing

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Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

2009-08-17T20:40:00.001-07:00

This book is the perfect introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Web markup standard that allows Web designers and developers to easily make a style change to one CSS template and then change formatting across hundreds-or thousands-of pages

* Covers the current CSS standard versions (CSS 1 and CSS 2) with notes and comments where appropriate on the CSS 3 standard in development

* Includes quick reference on CSS at the end of the book as well as integrated reference coverage throughout

* Teaches by using an example-oriented approach and includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with sample solutions provided in the appendix

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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day

2009-08-17T20:39:00.001-07:00

Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day is a new edition of the best-selling book that started the whole HTML/web publishing phenomenon.

The entire book has been revised and refined to reflect current web publishing practices and technologies.

It includes extensive coverage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which have become a staple in web development.

You'll have no problem learning from expert author Laura Lemay's clear and approachable writing style.

Simple, step-by-step instructions with lots of practical, interesting examples of web pages will guide you as you master current web publishing technologies and practices.

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CSS Cookbook 2nd Edition

2009-08-17T20:37:00.000-07:00

As the industry standard method for enriching the presentation of HTML-based web pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to give web pages more structure and a more sophisticated look.

But first, you have to get past CSS theory and resolve real-world problems.

For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, CSS Cookbook provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web pages.

Arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy reference, the second edition has been updated to explain the unique behavior of the latest browsers: Microsoft's IE 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 1.5.

Also, the book has been expanded to cover the interaction of CSS and images and now includes more recipes for beginning CSS users.

The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables you to customize the formatting for your specific needs.

With topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, this book is a must-have companion, regardless of your experience with Cascading Style Sheets.

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Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design Second Edition

2009-08-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

Advances in UML- and XML-Based Software Evolution

2009-08-16T21:31:00.000-07:00

Advances in UML- and XML-Based Software Evolution by Hongji Yang (Editor)
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing (June 2005) | ISBN-10: 1591406226 | PDF | 5,5 Mb | 300 pages

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution reports recent advances in applications of two popularly used languages, UML and XML, in the field of software evolution.

This book covers topics such as: visualizing legacy systems with UML, augmenting UML to support the design and evolution of user interfaces, migration of persistent object models using XML and much more.

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution brings many specialists' views into one comprehensive text for all academic researchers and industrial practitioners to learn more about these languages.

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Use Case Maps for Object-Oriented Systems

2009-08-16T21:30:00.000-07:00

Use case maps provide a unique method of linking the high-level functional specification of system behavior to traditional object-oriented notations.

Traditional notations focus almost exclusively on the behavior of individual system components.

They are essential for definition of behavior specific components but offer little to no insight into how components interwork to meet overall system objectives.

System objectives that are essential to defining customer value are obscured in detailed considerations of specific component behavior.

Use case maps provide a unique way of viewing system behavior.

UML activity diagrams provide some of the same services but have difficulty with things that use case maps excel at. Use case maps by avoiding early commitments allow the evaluation of architectural alternatives.

They allow specifiers and designers to keep their minds open to new opportunities by avoiding an early transition to specific implementation issues.

Architectural alternatives may be specified and evaluated easily in the use case map notation.
The use case map ability to easily adapt to and handle uncertainties in requirements and operation will become even more important as time goes on. It is a commonplace observation now that no new systems are built.

Development is about evolving an existing system to meet new requirements.

This is something that use case maps can do very well.

They capture system operation above the technological details of implementation.

They focus on identifying and clarifying behavior and so can point out the issues that must be addressed in system evolution.

The maps can be coupled to various architectures and so can maintain and so maintain their meaning with and can be used to evaluate a variety of implementation architectures that are proposed for system evolution.

The ability of the maps to adapt allows them to be used to specify systems that must dynamically adapt to user and network behavior.

This is an important class of system now and will become even more important as more and more applications move to the network mode of operation.

Use case maps have found a following in the research community and tools are being built that allow performance predictions, function test cases, non-functional analysis and others to be carried out on use case map specifications.
The book is clear with good examples.

It covers both the notation itself and the means to best apply it. This is a very worthwhile book that will be of interest to anyone with interests in requirements engineering, software engineering or design methodologies in general.

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Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2.0 Models

2009-08-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

This book presents a practical checklist approach to enhancing the quality of software models created with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) Version 2.0.

The foundation for quality is set by the discussion on the nature and creation of UML models.

This is followed by a demonstration of how to apply verification and validation checks to these models with three foci: syntactical correctness, semantic meaningfulness, and aesthetic symmetry.

The quality work is carried out within three distinct yet related modeling spaces:

* Model of problem space (MOPS)
* Model of solution space (MOSS)
* Model of background space (MOBS)

Readers can then choose a specific quality approach according to their roles in their projects.

Verification and validation checks are also organized according to these three modeling spaces, making it easier for the reader to focus on the appropriate diagrams and quality checks corresponding to their modeling space.

In addition, a major element of this publication is the Strengths, Weaknesses, Objectives, and Traps (SWOT) analysis.

This analysis is performed on each UML diagram, enabling readers to fully comprehend these diagrams, their advantages and limitations, and the way in which they can be used in practical projects for modeling.

A consistent case study of the Lucky Insurance System is provided throughout the chapters to illustrate the creation of good quality UML diagrams, followed by application of quality checks to them.

With its emphasis on quality in UML-based projects, this book is an essential resource for all quality professionals, including quality analysts, process consultants, quality managers, test designers, and testers.

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Succeeding with Use Cases

2009-08-16T21:27:00.000-07:00

Succeeding with Use Cases : Working Smart to Deliver Quality

As a specialist in the field of software reliability engineering, I have always felt that there were many fruitful relationships between use cases and software reliability engineering.

Now Richard Denney focuses on these in his excellent new book Succeeding with Use Cases.

I was impressed by the user-driven approach and the bridge Denney provides over the language gap between the business orientation of management and the technical orientation of software developers.

The book is readable, practical, and filled with examples.

It should be required reading for anyone working with use cases.

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Use Cases: Requirements in Context

2009-08-16T21:26:00.000-07:00

Use Cases: Requirements in Context describes how to gather and define software requirements using a process based on use cases.

It shows systems analysts and designers how use cases can provide solutions to the most challenging requirements issues, resulting in effective, quality systems that meet the needs of users.

Specifically, with use cases, you can:

* Reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements;
* Communicate requirements that are understandable to both users and developers;
* Prototype the right system well before the design phase is underway;
* Document the entire requirements process clearly and efficiently.

Use Cases: Requirements in Context first examines the difficulties of requirements gathering and briefly introduces both use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Using detailed examples that run through the book, it then elaborates a four-step method for establishing requirements--an iterative process that produces increasingly refined requirement

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Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional

2009-08-16T21:24:00.000-07:00

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time.

This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers.

Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.

Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions.

The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit.

The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.

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Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice

2009-08-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML&emdash;Theory and Practice shows how to drive an object-oriented software design from use case all the way through coding and testing, based on the minimalist, UML-based ICONIX process.

In addition to a comprehensive explanation of the foundations of the approach, the book makes extensive use of examples and provides exercises at the back of each chapter.

This book leads by example.

It demonstrates common analysis and design errors, shows how to detect and fix them, and suggests how to avoid making the same errors in the future.

The book also encourages you to examine its UML examples and to search for specific errors.

You'll get clues, then later receive the answers during "review sessions" toward the end of the book.

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Learning UML

2009-08-16T21:22:00.000-07:00

Unified Modeling Language (UML) was born. UML has taken the software development industry by storm. Widely supported by development and documentation tools, UML can be used on the one hand by programmers to record such things as the detailed design of classes in an object-oriented system and on the other hand by business analysts to give the broad-brush picture of how a system interacts with users and other systems.

UML has become the lingua franca of software development, and no one in the software industry can afford to be without knowledge of this powerfully expressive visual language.

Learning UML introduces UML and places it in perspective, then leads you through an orderly progress towards mastery of the language.

You'll begin by learning how UML is used to model the structure of a system.

Many key UML concepts, especially that of the general (classes) versus the specific (objects), are illustrated in the chapter on class and object diagrams.

Next, you'll learn how to use use-case diagrams to model the functionality of a system.

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UML for Mere Mortals

2009-08-16T21:21:00.000-07:00

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the standard notation forarchitecting software and systems.

Even though the UML has existed for years,no book has offered the fresh perspective on the industry standard that UMLfor Mere Mortals does.

The book introduces the UML to those technical andnon-technical readers who are stakeholders in software development projects,but are not hard-core modelers.

It does so in a manner that is easy tounderstand, addressing the core concepts of the UML that all readers need toknow to address the UML in terms of the specific concerns of thestakeholders.

But above all, the book most important feature is that it ispragmatic.

The authors share real world experiences and focus on what thesereaders will run into on real world projects.

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UML Demystified

2009-08-16T21:18:00.000-07:00

The fast and easy way to learn UML

Get started using UML in no time using this easy-to-follow guide. UML Demystified shows you how to visually plan, develop, and analyze software projects with this powerful modeling language. Step-by-step instructions with lots of examples help you learn quickly.

Youกฏll begin by learning the basics of UML. Then you'll get details on use cases, activity diagrams, interaction diagrams, class diagrams, statecharts, components, and deployment diagrams. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will have you programming in UML right away.

Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, UML Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this powerful software modeling language.

This one-of-a-kind, self-teaching text offers:

* An easy way to understand UML
* A quiz at the end of each chapter
* A final exam at the end of the book
* No unnecessary technical jargon
* A time-saving approach

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Java Swing 2nd Edition (2003)

2009-08-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

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Java Persistence with Hibernate

2009-08-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

Persistence-the ability of data to outlive an instance of a program-is central to modern applications.

Hibernate, the most popular Java persistence tool, provides automatic and transparent object/relational mapping making it a snap to work with SQL databases in Java applications.

Hibernate applications are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change.

Because it conforms to the new EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence 1.0 standard, Hibernate allows the developer to seamlessly create efficient, scalable Java EE applications.

Java Persistence with Hibernate explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples.

You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate 3.2 and Java Persistence, working through queries, fetching strategies, caching, transactions, conversations, and more.

You'll also appreciate the well-illustrated discussion of best practices in database design, object/relational mapping, and optimization techniques.

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Software Evolution With UML and XML

2009-08-16T21:13:00.000-07:00

Software Evolution with UML and XML provides a forum where expert insights are presented on the subject of linking three current phenomena: software evolution, UML and XML.

Software evolution and reengineering are a real problem in the software industry; various attempts have been made in these areas and there is still room for improvement.

Tackling evolution with the help of UML and XML can be very beneficial to the software community, especially as the cost of software evolution makes up a considerable proportion, sometimes even 70-80%, of the total budget of a software system.

Software Evolution with UML and XML not only investigates the potential powerful applications of two popularly used languages, UML and XML, in the field of software evolution, but also discovers what will happen when these three are linked to work together.

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Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET

2009-08-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

If you want to use Visio for Enterprise Architects to quickly design and create enterprise software, this is the book for you.

The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects is a formidable combination.

Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out and generating databases, and aiding the development of distributed systems.

Visio's integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic .NET code can be generated from UML diagrams, thus giving your projects a significant kick-start, and Visual Studio .NET projects can also be reverse engineered to UML models.

This book will finally help you make the most of Visio's time- and labor-saving features, and unleash Visio's power for your enterprise development.

To use this book you must be comfortable with the basic concepts of UML.

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Enterprise Modeling And Computing With UML

2009-08-16T21:10:00.000-07:00

Enterprise Modeling and Computing with UML bridges two fields that are closely related, but are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling.

The principal idea is to use a standard language for modeling information systems, UML, as a catalyst, and investigate its potential for modeling enterprises.

Enterprise Modeling and Computing with UML shows both the potential and the limit of using UML in an enterprise modeling context and a broad spectrum of ideas for aligning the development of information systems with the management of an enterprise.

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Domain Architectures: Models and Architectures for UML Applications

2009-08-16T21:09:00.000-07:00

Domain Architectures is a comprehensive catalog of the domain architectures essential to software developers using object-oriented technology and UML to solve real-life problems.

Providing a unique top-down view of systems, the book also provides quick access to landmarks and references to domain architectures.

The ability to describe applications, in terms of the properties they share, offers software designers a vast new landscape for implementing software reuse.

The ideal professional's handbook.

* Helps readers reduce trial and error and increase productivity by reusing tried and trusted ideas

* Models are described and documented using UML (incorporating UML 2.0) models and meta models

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The Java Virtual Machine Specification, Second Edition

2009-08-16T21:08:00.001-07:00

Sun's designers of the Java virtual machine provide comprehensive coverage of the Java virtual machine class file format and instruction set in this free java book.

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The Java Web Services Tutorial

2009-08-16T21:05:00.000-07:00

This tutorial is a beginner's guide to developing Web services and Web applications using the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The Java WSDP is an all-in-one download containing key technologies to simplify building of Web services using the Java 2 Platform. This tutorial requires a full installation (Typical, not Custom) of the Java WSDP.

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Introduction To Linux: A Hands On Guide For Beginners

2009-08-16T21:04:00.000-07:00

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Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform : JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies

2009-08-16T21:00:00.000-07:00

This book describes designing Web services using the current technologies available with the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

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J2EE 1.4 Application Server Developer's Guide

2009-08-14T02:56:00.000-07:00

This guide describes how to create and run Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) applications that follow the new open Java standards model for Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), and other J2EE components on the J2EE 1.4 Application Server.

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Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition

2009-08-14T02:51:00.000-07:00

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Beginning Ajax with ASP.NET

2009-08-12T21:23:00.000-07:00

Ajax has the power to revolutionize the way web-based applications are designed. This book provides you with a thorough working knowledge of what Ajax has to offer and how to take full advantage of it in your application development.

Following an exploration of how Ajax works with .NET, you’ll get acquainted with DHTML, the role of JavaScript and the Document Object Model, and the XMLHttpRequest Object, which is the foundation of Ajax. Then you will examine the Ajax-type features built into ASP.NET and explore the Ajax.NET Professional Library in detail. Finally, you will explore client scripting as well as building and using controls with Microsoft’s Atlas. With an entire chapter devoted to debugging, you will have all you need to use this cutting-edge technology.

What you will learn from this book
* What you can do with the open source Ajax.NET Professional Library
* How to use the corresponding functionality, Asynchronous Client Script Callbacks, that comes with ASP.NET 2.0
* Techniques for using the XMLHttpRequest Object to communicate between the client web browser and the server
* An overview of XML, XSLT, and other ways to send data between client and server
* How to integrate Microsoft’s Atlas with many of the services available in ASP.NET 2.0

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers who use ASP.NET and are just starting to use Ajax technologies to create more responsive, modern applications.

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

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 The Complete Reference Complete Reference Series

2009-08-12T21:15:00.000-07:00

Windows Server 2003 The Complete Reference Osborne Complete Reference Series

2009-08-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

Windows Server 2003: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
ISBN: 9780072194845 | McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | English | 1008 pages | PDF | Mon May 12 2003 | 12Mb
By Kathy Ivens Understand the architecture of operating systems including Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Configure computers, manage users, and design your Active Directory. Implement group policies, enterprise services, and disaster planning and recovery processes.
By Kathy Ivens
Understand the architecture of operating systems including Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Configure computers, manage users, and design your Active Directory. Implement group policies, enterprise services, and disaster planning and recovery processes. Master new features for a more secure, easier to manage, network The Most Comprehensive Windows Server 2003 Resource Available! Examine the architecture and understand the features of Windows Server 2003 with help from this thorough resource. Written by respected author Kathy Ivens, Windows Server 2003: The Complete Reference is full of real-world solutions and clearly presented coverage of installation, migration, system maintenance, user management, and more. Configure networking services. Manage server features. Use security and authentication systems. Roll out an effective Active Directory. Whatever your experience level, this expertly written guidebook is your essential one-stop resource for understanding and utilizing Windows Server 2003.
* Configure DNS, DHCP, and WINS properly
* Deploy software automatically
* Apply, analyze, and troubleshoot group policies
* Gain increased reliability and scalability
* Maintain and troubleshoot performance
* Understand and manage server roles throughout the enterprise
* Configure and troubleshoot printing, TCP/IP, file encryption, and more
* Manage users, groups, and organizational units
* Use new security tools

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C Complete Reference 4th Edition

2009-08-12T21:06:00.000-07:00

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 The Complete Reference

2009-08-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

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