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561. |  By: Michael Welschenbach Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAY-2005 Insert Date: 03-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cryptography in C and C++
This book covers everything you need to know to write professional-level cryptographic code. This expanded, improved second edition includes about 100 pages of new material as well as numerous improvements to the original text.
The chapter about random number generation has been completely rewritten, and the latest cryptographic techniques are covered in detail. Furthermore, this book covers the recent improvements in primality testing.
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562. |  Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code By: Grant Palmer; Jacquie Barker Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code
Updated with the latest changes to C#, Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concepts to Code introduces complete beginners to C# coding practice with a solid methodological foundation written by two critically-acclaimed experts in the field, already authors of the best-selling Beginning C# Objects.
By building from first principles in object-oriented terminology, then advancing through application design with UML into practical examples, Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concepts to Code provides a completely up-to-date foundational guide written from the perspective of two experienced, working...
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563. |  Practical Ruby for System Administration By: André Ben Hamou Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-JUN-2007 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Ruby for System Administration
Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are discovering that Rubys flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment.
Within the pages of Practical Ruby for System Administration, youll learn the Ruby way to construct files, tap into clouds of data, build domain-specific languages, perform network traffic analysis, and more.
Based on author André Ben Hamous own...
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564. |  The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design By: Craig Grannell Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design
The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book-it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details.
It is designed to be invaluable to you, whatever stage you are at in your career, with a mixture of practical tutorials and reference material-beginners will quickly pick up the basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep returning to the book again and again to recap on techniques they maybe haven't used for a while,...
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565. |  Beginning DB2: From Novice to Professional By: Grant Allen Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning DB2: From Novice to Professional
IBM's DB2 Express Edition is one of the most capable of the free database platforms available in today's marketplace. In Beginning DB2, author Grant Allen gets you started using DB2 Express Edition for web sites, desktop applications, and more. The author covers the basics of DB2 for developers and database administrators, shows you how to manage data in both XML and relational form, and includes numerous code examples so that you are never in doubt as to how things work. In this book, you'll find
A friendly introduction to DB2 Express Edition, an industrial-strength, relational...
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566. |  By: Michael Antonovich Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 |
Web sites. Collaboration. Document management. Paperless offices. We want it all in business today, but how do you achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small to medium-sized businesses, how do you find the time and build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform small to medium-sized businesses can use to reach these goals.
Office and SharePoint 2007...
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567. |  XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: Riemer Grootjans Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Join the game development revolution today! XNA 3.0 greatly simplifies the development of your own games, lowering the barrier for programmers to get into game development. In XNA, you can start coding your games from the very start, a true revelation compared to other game programming environments. XNA doesn't sacrifice power for this ease of use-it is built entirely on DirectX technology.
Completely updated for XNA 3.0, expert Riemer Grootjans brings together a selection of the hottest recipes in XNA programming for the Xbox 360, PC, and Zune. Advanced XNA programmers, experienced...
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568. |  Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional By: Andy Channelle Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional
If you want to fly with OpenOffice 3.0, publish to your local wiki, create web presentations, or add maps to your documents, Beginning OpenOffice 3 is the book for you. You will arm yourself with new OpenOffice.org 3.0 tools, from creating wiki docs to automating complex design steps. OpenOffice has been downloaded almost 100 million times, and this is the book that explains why.
You learn how to adopt OpenOffice 3.0 innovations.
You see how to work across Windows, OS X, Google, and the Web, no matter what the format.
Mail merges and wiki docs will never seem so simple.
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569. |  Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition By: Nate Campi; Kirk Bauer Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition
Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or a data center with a few thousand UNIX nodes, you need to know how to automate much of the installation, configuration, and standard system administration.
Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user intervention, on any hardware you prefer. Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition is unique in its focus on how to make the system administrator's job easier and more efficient: instead of just managing the system administrator's time, the book explains the technology...
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570. |  The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP By: David Powers Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.
To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it-The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know...
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571. |  Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration: From Novice to Professional By: Iggy Fernandez Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 18-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration: From Novice to Professional
This book, written by veteran Oracle database administrator Iggy Fernandez, a regular on the Oracle conference circuit and the editor of NoCOUG Journal, is a manageable introduction to key Oracle database administration topics including planning, installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and backups, to name just a few. As is clear from the table of contents, this book is not simply a recitation of Oracle Database features such as what you find in the reference guides available for free download on the Oracle web site. For example, the chapter on database monitoring explains...
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572. |  Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: Todd Herman; Allen Jones; Matthew MacDonald; Rakesh Rajan Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-APR-2007 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of code examples in this book. Important new .NET 3.5 technologies, such as Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Language Integrated Query (LINQ), are covered, and each chapter addresses a specific problem domain, including database access, multimedia, XML manipulation,...
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573. |  By: Jens Kühner Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-APR-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Expert .NET Micro Framework
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is a small and efficient .NET runtime environment used to run managed code on devices that are too small and resource constrained for Windows CE and the Compact Framework.
Expert .NET Micro Framework will teach you everything you need to know in order to use the .NET Micro Framework to create effective embedded applications. It begins with the basics of accessing hardware and networking before delving deep into the less well—known areas such as cryptography and globalization, and how to use technologies such as wireless communication that are not...
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574. |  By: Michael Coles Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro SQL Server 2008 XML
Knowledge and ability to apply XML are de rigueur in today's world, and SQL Server developers and administrators are no exception to that rule. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML is your key to unlocking the powerful XML feature set first introduced in SQL Server 2005 and since refined in SQL Server 2008. Author Michael Coles shows how to store XML using SQL Server's built-in XML data type. Learn to query and manipulate XML data using standard technologies such as XQuery and XSLT. No SQL Server database professional can afford to be without knowledge of the XML feature set. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML...
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575. |  Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security By: Charles S. Edge, Jr.; William Barker; Zack Smith Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-APR-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security
Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security is written in part as a companion to the SANS Institute course for Mac OS X. It contains detailed Mac OS X security information, but also walkthroughs on securing systems. By using the SANS Institute course as a sister to the book, the focus includes both the beginning home user and the seasoned security professional not accustomed to the Mac, and allows this title to establish the "best practices" for Mac OS X for a wide audience. Additionally, the authors of the book are seasoned Mac and security professionals, having built many of the largest...
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576. |  Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0 By: Dave Crane; Phil McCarthy Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0
One of the most basic laws of a web application is that the client, not the server, must initiate any communication between the two. There are a number of common-use cases where, ideally, the server would like to talk to the client-dashboards and monitoring apps, chat rooms and other collaborations, and progress reports on long-running processes. Comet (a.k.a. Reverse Ajax) provides a mechanism for enabling this. Comet is moderately complex to implement. But this practical, hands-on book gets you going.
In Part 1 of this book, we start by examining the use cases, and look at the...
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577. |  By: Joel Spolsky Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 |
Joel, Apress, Blogs, and Blooks
...I was learning the hard way about how to be a publisher and probably spending way too much time looking at web sites and programming than I should have in response to that. Anyway, one day I came across this web site called , which was run by a guy with strong opinions and an unusual, clever writing style, along with a willingness to take on the conventional wisdom. In particular, he was writing this ongoing series about how bad most user interfaces were—mostly because programmers by and large knew, as Joel and I would say, using the same...
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578. |  By: David Powers Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Object-Oriented Solutions
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 won't overburden you with complex theory. It teaches you the essential basics of OOP that you'll 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...
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579. |  Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional By: Bram Smeets; Uri Boness; Roald Bankras Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional
The open source, lightweight Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a framework that allows Java developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA), more recently called Ajax applications, in Java. Typically, writing these applications requires a lot of JavaScript development. However, Java and JavaScript are very distinctively different languages (although the name suggests otherwise), therefore requiring a different development process.
In Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional, you'll learn to build rich, user-friendly web applications using a popular Java-based Ajax web...
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580. |  By: Bashar Abdul-Jawad Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 09-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Groovy and Grails Recipes
Groovy and Grails Recipes is the busy developer's guide to developing applications in Groovy and Grails. Rather than boring you with theoretical knowledge of "yet another language/framework," this book delves straight into solving real-life problems in Groovy and Grails using easy-to-understand, well-explained code snippets. Through learning by example, you will be able to pick up on Groovy and Grails quickly and use the book as an essential reference when developing applications.
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