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PHP 6/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner
- ISBN:
- 1598637983
- Authors:
- Andrew B. Harris
If you are new to programming with PHP 6 and MySQL and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner™ series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical programming applications and will learn how these skills can be put to use in real-world scenarios. Everything...
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Study Guide (Exam 310-051)
- ISBN:
- 0072226870
- Authors:
- Paul Allen, Joseph Bambara
The only classroom-based training and self-assessment system! This study guide provides 100% complete coverage of all objectives for the Sun Certified Architect for J2EE exam. Based on 300,000+ hours of IT training experience, the book contains hundreds of practice exam questions and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full practice exam software with interactive tutorials and lab simulations, plus an adaptive test engine.
Microprocessors: From Assembly Language to C Using the PICI8FXX2 (Electrical and Computer Engineering Series)
- ISBN:
- 1584503785
- Authors:
- Robert B. Reese
This book is designed for a first course in microprocessors or it may be used as a reference for practicing engineers. The book is unique in presenting a balanced, integrated topic coverage of assembly language programming, microcontroller programming via the C language, and hardware interfacing. Programming topics are discussed using both assembly language and C, while hardware interfacing examples use C to keep code complexity low and improve...
Network programming in .NET: C# & Visual Basic .NET
- ISBN:
- 1555583156
- Authors:
- Fiach Reid
The purpose of this book is to provide tools to design and implement network-orientated applications in .NET. It is also a guide for software designers to choose the best and most efficient way to implement mission critical solutions. The book addresses real-world issues facing professional developers, such as using third-party components as opposed in-house development. It differentiates itself from existing .NET publications because it is...
C# Network Programming
- ISBN:
- 0782141765
- Authors:
- Richard Blum
C# is Microsoft's hot new language for the .NET platform. This book covers everything C# programmers need to know to create network applications, a task traditionally done in C++. It explores the basics of network programming, including IP and TCP protocols, and moves on to targeted C# instruction, including using the C# network programming classes in the .NET framework. Topics covered include low-level network programming (such as sockets and...
Building a Cisco Wireless LAN
- ISBN:
- 192899458X
- Authors:
- Syngress
Enable enterprise-wide information access using Cisco wireless networks Wireless networks are rapidly becoming a viable alternative to traditional wired LANs (Local Area Networks), mainly because of the convenience they provide. By implementing a wireless network, companies eliminate the need and expense of installing fixed cables, outlet ports or patch panels. Building a Cisco Wireless LAN is for individuals designing and supporting a Cisco...
Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8
- ISBN:
- 1590595696
- Authors:
- David Powers
In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use!) This latest version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for PHP and MySQL. David Powers first takes you through the latest...
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
- ISBN:
- 0131240722
- Authors:
- Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield
Many companies are facing problems with Windows development using traditional Windows tools such as Visual Studio. When they write applications, even just "single platform" applications for Windows, they often have to account for differences between different Windows versions, which adds hassle to development and maintenance. Qt works no matter the Windows versions. This book provides all the information needed to become a professional Qt...
SSL VPN : Understanding, evaluating and planning secure, web-based remote access: A comprehensive overview of SSL VPN technologies and design strategies
- ISBN:
- 1904811078
- Authors:
- Joseph Steinberg, Tim Speed, J. Steinberg, T. Speed
A comprehensive overview of SSL VPN technologies and design strategies Understand how SSL VPN technology works Evaluate how SSL VPN could fit into your organisation?s security strategy Practical advice on educating users, integrating legacy systems, and eliminating security loopholes Written by experienced SSL VPN and data security professionals In Detail Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide remote workers with secure access to their company...
From FrontPage to Dreamweaver (With CD-ROM)
- ISBN:
- 0789726882
- Authors:
- Joseph Lowery
From FrontPage to Dreamweaver is specifically written for those FrontPage users who want to make the transition to Dreamweaver as quickly and painlessly as possible. The book includes powerful extensions that will facilitate migration of sites from FrontPage to Dreamweaver. Author Joseph Lowery is one of the most highly regarded members of the Dreamweaver community, and the CD includes a segment from the Macromedia-authorized video training on...
My BlackBerry Curve
- ISBN:
- 0789742853
- Authors:
- Craig James Johnston
Step-by-step instructions with callouts to BlackBerry Curve photos that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into BlackBerry Curve problems or limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your BlackBerry Curve. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your BlackBerry Curve working just the way you want. The tasks include: • How to get started fast with any BlackBerry Curve: 8300...
Nortel Guide to VPN Routing for Security and VoIP
- ISBN:
- 0471781274
- Authors:
- James Edwards, Richard Bramante, Al Martin
Here's your handbook to Nortel VPN Router If you're a beginning-to-intermediate-level networking professional, this guide lays the groundwork you need to establish and manage your network with VPN Router. Everything is here-hardware, software, laboratory set-ups, real-world examples, and, most importantly, advice gleaned from the authors' first-hand experiences. From understanding the equipment to deployment strategies, management and...
Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (Java 5,Version 1.5)
- ISBN:
- 0596007388
- Authors:
- David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin
Java 1.5, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available. But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait...
Practical WPF Charts and Graphics (Expert's Voice in .Net)
- ISBN:
- 1430224819
- Authors:
- Jack Xu
Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics. Such charts can have wide applications in representing mathematical, physical, and economic functions in your daily life. Whether you are an engineer, a quantitative analyst, a teacher, or a student, you will end up dealing with charting applications to some degree. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation graphics platform that enables you to build...
Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm
- ISBN:
- 0387229906
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an integrating technology for supporting a pervasive and transparent infrastructure for implementing smart environments. Such technology is used to enable environments for detecting events and behaviors of people and for responding in a contextually relevant fashion. AmI proposes a multi-disciplinary approach for enhancing human machine interaction. Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm is a compilation of edited...
XML for Bioinformatics
- ISBN:
- 0387230289
- Authors:
- Ethan Cerami
XML for Bioinformatics aims to provide biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals with a comprehensive introduction to XML and current XML applications in bioinformatics. The book will assume no background in XML, and take readers from basic to intermediate XML concepts. Core topics will include: fundamentals of XML, creating XML grammars, web services via SOAP, and parsing XML documents in Perl and Java.
Dualisability: Unary Algebras and Beyond (Advances in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 038727569X
- Authors:
- Jane Pitkethly, Brian Davey
Natural duality theory is one of the major growth areas within general algebra. This text provides a short path to the forefront of research in duality theory. It presents a coherent approach to new results in the area, as well as exposing open problems. Unary algebras play a special role throughout the text. Individual unary algebras are relatively simple and easy to work with. But as a class they have a rich and complex entanglement with...
Methods and Procedures for the Verification and Validation of Artificial Neural Networks
- ISBN:
- 0387282882
Neural networks are members of a class of software that have the potential to enable intelligent computational systems capable of simulating characteristics of biological thinking and learning. Currently no standards exist to verify and validate neural network-based systems. NASA Independent Verification and Validation Facility has contracted the Institute for Scientific Research, Inc. to perform research on this topic and develop a...
Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing
- ISBN:
- 0387698574
Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing is an edited volume based on DAPSYS 2006, the 6th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems, which is dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 2nd Austrian Grid Symposium in Innsbruck, Austria in September 2006. Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing is designed...
Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 94)
- ISBN:
- 0387908943
- Authors:
- Frank W. Warner
Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups gives a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. It includes differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provides a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develops the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof...
Algebraic K-Theory and Its Applications (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 147)
- ISBN:
- 0387942483
- Authors:
- Jonathan Rosenberg
Algebraic K-Theory plays an important role in many areas of modern mathematics: most notably algebraic topology, number theory, and algebraic geometry, but even including operator theory. The broad range of these topics has tended to give the subject an aura of inapproachability. This book, based on a course at the University of Maryland in the fall of 1990, is intended to enable graduate students or mathematicians working in other areas not...
One-Parameter Semigroups for Linear Evolution Equations (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 0387984631
- Authors:
- Klaus-Jochen Engel, Rainer Nagel
This book gives an up-to-date account of the theory of strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups of linear operators. It includes a systematic discussion of the spectral theory and the long-term behavior of such semigroups. A special feature of the text is an unusually wide range of applications, e.g., to ordinary and partial differential operators, delay and Volterra equations and to control theory, and an emphasis on philosophical...
Broadband Wireless Communications Business: An Introduction to the Costs and Benefits of New Technologies
- ISBN:
- 0470013117
- Authors:
- Riaz Esmailzadeh
With the emergence of broadband wireless communication systems, new business opportunities have appeared for operators, content provides, and manufacturers. Broadband wireless communications technologies promise the freedom of constant access to the Internet at high speeds, without the limitation of connection cables. Broadband Wireless Communications Business provides comprehensive coverage of the present status and future evolution of these...
Handbook of Granular Computing
- ISBN:
- 0470035544
Although the notion is a relatively recent one, the notions and principles of Granular Computing (GrC) have appeared in a different guise in many related fields including granularity in Artificial Intelligence, interval computing, cluster analysis, quotient space theory and many others. Recent years have witnessed a renewed and expanding interest in the topic as it begins to play a key role in bioinformatics, e-commerce, machine learning,...
The CEH Prep Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Certified Ethical Hacking
- ISBN:
- 0470135921
- Authors:
- Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines
The Certified Ethical Hacker program began in 2003 and ensures that IT professionals apply security principles in the context of their daily job scope Presents critical information on footprinting, scanning, enumeration, system hacking, trojans and backdoors, sniffers, denial of service, social engineering, session hijacking, hacking Web servers, and more Discusses key areas such as Web application vulnerabilities, Web-based password cracking...
Implementing Service Quality in IP Networks
- ISBN:
- 047084793X
- Authors:
- Vilho Räisänen
While more and more data is shifted from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks, the users of these networks expect a smooth, continuously unproblematic service (unrelated to the amount of data transported). Therefore, the reliability of a network as well as the satisfaction of its users relies largely on Quality of Service (QoS). Service quality through resource management in IP networks will ensure that sufficient resources are available...
Global IT Management: A Practical Approach
- ISBN:
- 0470854332
- Authors:
- Robert Barton
Global IT Management presents a practical approach for initiating and reinforcing global IT, focusing on the mechanisms that need to be put in place to effectively manage IT architecture, strategy, standards, and control across sites in a multinational firm. Key considerations are explained for each domain together with concrete recommendations for core organisation, processes and deliverables. The approach fits cleanly into established best...
Advanced Millimeter-wave Technologies: Antennas, Packaging and Circuits
- ISBN:
- 047099617X
This book explains one of the hottest topics in wireless and electronic devices community, namely the wireless communication at mmWave frequencies, especially at the 60 GHz ISM band. It provides the reader with knowledge and techniques for mmWave antenna design, evaluation, antenna and chip packaging. Addresses practical engineering issues such as RF material evaluation and selection, antenna and packaging requirements, manufacturing...
Building Service Provider Networks
- ISBN:
- 0471099228
- Authors:
- Howard C. Berkowitz
To be competitive, service providers cannot customize every installation but must simultaneously offer services that meet a wide range of perceived customer needs. This guide shows commercial service providers and equipment vendors how to build competitive service offerings for enterprise-specific needs. * Provides vital technical and business guidance to the service provider marketplace * Explains how to satisfy the customer's specific needs in...
Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials
- ISBN:
- 0471214191
- Authors:
- Martyn Mallick
* Describes mobile and wireless design techniques from the developer's perspective, offering in-depth analysis of the complete range of network technologies * Details development options for building Smart Client, Thin Client, and messaging applications as well as PIM (personal information management) and location-based services * The author is an experienced trainer who leads seminars and workshops worldwide for iAnywhere Solutions, a...
Juniper and Cisco Routing: Policy and Protocols for Multivendor IP Networks
- ISBN:
- 0471215929
- Authors:
- Walter J. Goralski
* Discusses how network traffic flow is complicated by the fact that each routing vendor has its own propietary implementation or extension to the routing protocols. * Covers both Juniper and Cisco routing, and touches on other vendor implementations. * Focuses on routing policy, covering Border Gateway Protocol in depth. * Includes real-world multivendor configuration examples.
Visual Basic .NET Design Patterns
- ISBN:
- 0471268607
- Authors:
- Mark Grand, Brad Merrill
Documents fifty Visual Basic .NET design patterns, including twenty that have never before been published Packed with tips on how readers can write their own patterns in Visual Basic .NET Presents case studies that demonstrate how to effectively use the patterns in the real world Explains how to use UML to document the patterns Companion Web site includes all code and UML models from the book as well as links to appropriate software downloads
Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches
- ISBN:
- 0471415502
- Authors:
- Chandra Kopparapu
From an industry insider--a close look at high-performance, end-to-end switching solutions Load balancers are fast becoming an indispensable solution for handling the huge traffic demands of the Web. Their ability to solve a multitude of network and server bottlenecks in the Internet age ranges from dramatic improvements in server farm scalability to removing the firewall as a network bottleneck. This book provides a detailed, up-to-date,...
Probabilistic Analysis of Packing and Partitioning Algorithms (Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization)
- ISBN:
- 047153272X
- Authors:
- E. G. Coffman, George S. Lueker
This volume examines two important classes that are characteristic of combinatorial optimization problems: sequencing and scheduling (in which a set of objects has to be ordered subject to a number of conditions), and packing and partitioning (in which a set of objects has to be split into subsets in order to meet a certain objective). These classes of problems encompass a wide range of practical applications, from production planning and...
Stone Spaces (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 0521238935
- Authors:
- Peter T. Johnstone
Over the last 45 years, Boolean theorem has been generalized and extended in several different directions and its applications have reached into almost every area of modern mathematics; but since it lies on the frontiers of algebra, geometry, general topology and functional analysis, the corpus of mathematics which has arisen in this way is seldom seen as a whole. In order to give a unified treatment of this rather diverse body of material, Dr...
Basic Hypergeometric Series (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
- ISBN:
- 0521350492
- Authors:
- George Gasper, Mizan Rahman
Thorough and up-to-date, this book is an authoritative account of basic hypergeometric series and their applications. The authors provide explicit and detailed information about summation, transformation and expansion formulas and contour integrals. They relate the general results to other important mathematical functions and combinatorial questions.
Affine Lie Algebras and Quantum Groups: An Introduction, with Applications in Conformal Field Theory (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
- ISBN:
- 0521415934
- Authors:
- Jürgen A. Fuchs
This is an introduction to the theory of affine Lie algebras and to the theory of quantum groups. It is unique in discussing these two subjects in a unified manner, which is made possible by discussing their respective applications in conformal field theory. The description of affine algebras covers the classification problem, the connection with loop algebras, and representation theory including modular properties. The necessary background from...
Algebraic Number Theory (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
- ISBN:
- 0521438349
- Authors:
- A. Fröhlich, M. J. Taylor
This book provides a brisk, thorough treatment of the foundations of algebraic number theory on which it builds to introduce more advanced topics. Throughout, the authors emphasize the systematic development of techniques for the explicit calculation of the basic invariants such as rings of integers, class groups, and units, combining at each stage theory with explicit computations.
Double Affine Hecke Algebras (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)
- ISBN:
- 0521609186
- Authors:
- Ivan Cherednik
This is a unique, essentially self-contained, monograph in a new field of fundamental importance for representation theory, harmonic analysis, mathematical physics, and combinatorics. It is a major source of general information about the double affine Hecke algebra, also called Cherednik's algebra, and its impressive applications. Chapter 1 is devoted to the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations attached to root systems and their relations to affine...
Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
- ISBN:
- 0521884381
- Authors:
- Adnan Darwiche
This book provides a thorough introduction to the formal foundations and practical applications of Bayesian networks. It provides an extensive discussion of techniques for building Bayesian networks that model real-world situations, including techniques for synthesizing models from design, learning models from data, and debugging models using sensitivity analysis. It also treats exact and approximate inference algorithms at both theoretical and...