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Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition

Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 09-MAR-2012

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Already know Python but want to learn more? A lot more? Dive into a variety of topics used in practice for real-world applications. Covers regular expressions, Internet/network programming, GUIs, SQL/databases/ORMs, threading, and Web development. Learn about contemporary development trends such as Google+, Twitter, MongoDB, OAuth, Python 3 migration, and Java/Jython. Presents brand new material on Django, Google App Engine, CSV/JSON/XML, and Microsoft Office. Includes Python 2 and 3 code samples to get you started right away! Provides code snippets, interactive examples, and...

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Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 06-MAY-2011

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Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Fourth Edition, is the guide to the Inkscape program, with coverage of versions 0.47 and 0.48. This authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations. With Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format.  SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer 9. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the...

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Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition

Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 20-MAY-2011

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A new edition of the best-selling guide to chemical process safety - with important new content on reactivity, safe design, and much more Extensive updates throughout, including an all-new chapter on chemical reactivity, responding to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's new undergraduate chemical engineering education recommendations Adds new coverage of safe design, including hot work permits, vessel entry, and more An important new resource for today's growing number of chemical engineering students and practitioners ...

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Video enhanced, it contains 19 minutes of video conversations & tips from leading authority on software intellectual property, Bob Zeidman. “IP, software plagiarism, patents, and copyrights are complicated subjects. This book explains the key elements better than anything else I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone who develops software or needs to protect proprietary software algorithms, and to all attorneys involved with IP litigation.” —Capers Jones, President, Capers Jones & Associates LLC “Bob has done a fantastic job making computer science forensics understandable to...

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C# 2010 for Programmers, Fourth Edition, Video Enhanced Edition

C# 2010 for Programmers, Fourth Edition, Video Enhanced Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 29-OCT-2010

Insert Date: 08-JAN-2011

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The professional programmer’s Deitel® guide to C# 2010 and the powerful Microsoft® .NET 4 Framework Written for programmers with a background in C++, Java or other high-level, object-oriented languages, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft’s C# 2010 language and .NET 4 in depth. The book is updated for Visual Studio® 2010 and C# 4, and presents C# concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, detailed line-by-line code descriptions and program outputs. The book features 200+ C# applications...

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Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition

Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2010

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Amazon.com’s Top-Selling DSP Book for Seven Straight Years—Now Fully Updated! Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition, is quite simply the best resource for engineers and other technical professionals who want to master and apply today’s latest DSP techniques. Richard G. Lyons has updated and expanded his best-selling second edition to reflect the newest technologies, building on the exceptionally readable coverage that made it the favorite of DSP professionals worldwide. He has also added hands-on problems to every chapter, giving students even more of the practical...

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Learn Chemical Reaction Engineering through Reasoning, Not Memorization Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering is the complete, modern introduction to chemical reaction engineering for today’s undergraduate students. Starting from the strengths of his classic Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fourth Edition, in this volume H. Scott Fogler added new material and distilled the essentials for undergraduate students. Fogler’s unique way of presenting the material helps students gain a deep, intuitive understanding of the field’s essentials through reasoning, using a CRE...

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Foreword by Joungho Kim The Hands-On Guide to Power Integrity in Advanced Applications, from Three Industry Experts In this book, three industry experts introduce state-of-the-art power integrity design techniques for today’s most advanced digital systems, with real-life, system-level examples. They introduce a powerful approach to unifying power and signal integrity design that can identify signal impediments earlier, reducing cost and improving reliability. After introducing high-speed, single-ended and differential I/O interfaces, the authors describe on-chip, package, and PCB power...

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Joomla!™ 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, Third Edition

Joomla!™ 1.6: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, Third Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 11-FEB-2011

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The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!TM--The World's #1 Open Source Content Management System If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there's an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You'll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case...

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Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation

Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 19-NOV-2010

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The Most Complete, Modern, and Useful Collection of DSP Recipes: More Than 50 Practical Solutions and More than 30 Summaries of Pertinent Mathematical Concepts for Working Engineers Notes on Digital Signal Processing is a comprehensive, easy-to-use collection of step-by-step procedures for designing and implementing modern DSP solutions. Leading DSP expert and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine associate editor C. Britton Rorabaugh goes far beyond the basic procedures found in other books while providing the supporting explanations and mathematical materials needed for a deeper...

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A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux®, Third Edition

A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux®, Third Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 12-AUG-2010

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The Most Complete, Easy-to-Follow Guide to Ubuntu Linux  The #1 Ubuntu server resource, fully updated for Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx)–the Long Term Support (LTS) release many companies will rely on for years! Updated JumpStarts help you set up Samba, Apache, Mail, FTP, NIS, OpenSSH, DNS, and other complex servers in minutes Hundreds of up-to-date examples, plus comprehensive indexes that deliver instant access to answers you can trust  Mark Sobell’s A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux®, Third Edition, is the most thorough and up-to-date reference to...

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Silver Clouds, Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing

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Silver Clouds, Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 15-SEP-2010

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The Executive’s Strategic Guide to Driving Maximum Business Value from Cloud Services Cloud services represent a fundamental shift in how individuals, enterprises, and governments conduct business, interact, and use technology. If used effectively, they can increase business agility and focus, simplify capacity planning, and strengthen cost control. Unsurprisingly, however, the cloud also presents risks. In this concise, executive level book, leading experts Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett share the insights and guidance decision-makers need to drive maximum value from...

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Oracle® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials

Oracle® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 01-SEP-2010

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Virtualization and related technologies like hypervisors, which create virtual machines on a single hardware machine, and containers (also known as zones), which create virtual operating systems running on a single operating system, are a totally new area for many system administrators. Oracle® Solaris™ 10 System Virtualization Essentials provides an accessible introduction to computer virtualization, specifically the system virtualization technologies that use the Oracle Solaris or OpenSolaris operating systems. This accessible guide covers the key concepts system administrators need to...

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Oracle® Solaris Cluster Essentials

Oracle® Solaris Cluster Essentials

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 13-SEP-2010

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Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial. Oracle® Solaris Cluster Essentials is a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the industry’s most stable, robust clustering platform: Oracle Solaris Cluster. This book covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in thorough detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and...

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VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, Second Edition

VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, Second Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 08-FEB-2011

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Edward Haletky’s Complete, Solutions-Focused Guide to Running ESX Server 3.5, vSphere, and VMware 4.X Extensively updated and revised, this is the definitive real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing VMware ESX Server 3.5, VMware ESXi, or VMware vSphere 4.x cloud computing in mission-critical environments. Drawing on extensive experience consulting on enterprise VMware implementations, Edward Haletky offers a “soup-to-nuts” collection of field-tested best practices and solutions. He illuminates the real issues, tradeoffs, and pitfalls associated with VMware’s newest...

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The Official Ubuntu Book, Fifth Edition

The Official Ubuntu Book, Fifth Edition

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 21-JUN-2010

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Ub>The Official Ubuntu Book, Fifth Edition, will get you up and running quickly. Written by expert, leading Ubuntu community members, this book covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu 10.04, whether you’re a home user, small business user, server administrator, or programmer. The authors explain Ubuntu 10.04 from start to finish: installation, configuration, desktop productivity, games, management, support, and much more. Among the many topics covered in this edition: Kubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and Ubuntu Server. This complete guide also covers standard desktop...

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Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice

Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 14-SEP-2010

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The Complete, Up-to-Date, Practical Guide to Modern Petroleum Reservoir Engineering This is a complete, up-to-date guide to the practice of petroleum reservoir engineering, written by one of the world’s most experienced professionals. Dr. Nnaemeka Ezekwe covers topics ranging from basic to advanced, focuses on currently acceptable practices and modern techniques, and illuminates key concepts with realistic case histories drawn from decades of working on petroleum reservoirs worldwide. Dr. Ezekwe begins by discussing the sources and applications of basic rock and fluid properties data....

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Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software

Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 25-AUG-2010

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Don’t Let Software Failures Destroy Your Business The growing impact of software failures on brands, customers, and business performance How to govern software more effectively, prepare for glitches, and mitigate their impact By Jeff Papows, Ph.D., one of the world’s most experienced software executives Your software systems are the heart of your business–and they may be vulnerable. In Glitch, industry leader Jeff Papows, Ph.D., outlines the three converging forces that are leading to the proliferation of glitches. Papows explains why and how these glitches are...

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Maximum vSphere™: Tips, How-Tos, and Best Practices for Working with VMware vSphere™ 4

Maximum vSphere™: Tips, How-Tos, and Best Practices for Working with VMware vSphere™ 4

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 17-AUG-2010

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Best Practices, How-Tos, and Technical Deep Dives for Working VMware VI4/VI3 Pros Maximum vSphere is the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, working reference for everyone who plans, implements, or administers VMware virtual infrastructure. Authored by top VMware consultants, it brings together proven best practices, tips, and solutions for achieving outstanding performance and reliability in your production environment. This book brings together crucial knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, including powerful new vSphere 4 techniques drawn from the experiences of dozens of...

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“Accenture sees this book as a milestone that will support the rationale behind selling and delivering SOA governance projects around the world.” --Dr. Matthias Ziegler, Accenture / Dr. Jure Zakotnik, Accenture / Thomas M. Michelbach, Accenture “We are using this book as our reference in both the SOA development and implementation work at the NCI CBIIT, as well as the enterprise architecture definition efforts within HL7.” --Charles N. Mead, MD, MSc., National Cancer Institute and Health Level 7 (HL7) Chair “This is a terrific book that will be heavily used...” --David S....