The Book of Postfix or AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies

The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport

Author: Ralf Hildebrandt

New guide examines state-of-the-art message transport

January 18, 2004, San Francisco - Email is, without a doubt, the lifeline of many companies. To manage it, one option is Postfix, the highly regarded open source mail transfer agent (MTA) authored by Wietse Venema, which is known for its enhanced security, relatively simple configuration and excellent performance. "The Book of Postfix" (No Starch Press, February '05) offers a practical approach that will satisfy experts and novices alike, allowing them to administer and manage Postfix for a variety of purposes.

Authors Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter are both recognized authorities on Postfix who maintain high-volume university mail servers and have seen it all when it comes to email administration. They consulted regularly with the developers of Postfix, including Venema, during the development of "The Book of Postfix," as well as other contributing programmers and virtually every noted expert active in the Postfix Users mailing list.

In writing their book, Hildebrandt and Koetter made no assumptions about their readers' technical expertise or purposes for using Postfix. Instead, they pooled their vast Postfix expertise and research in one volume that contains a wealth of technical information, documentation and answers to frequently asked questions. "The Book of Postfix" covers the most common uses for the MTA - as a mail relay or virus-scanning gateway, as a company mail server or for home email use - as well as less common functions. "The Book of Postfix" also features practical examples that show how to deal with daily challenges, such as protecting users from spam and viruses, managing multiple domains and allowing roaming access.

Too many technology books take either a highly technical approach or a no-frills, step-by-step approach, but "The Book of Postfix" bridges the gap between the two. The basics won't be boring or overdone for experts, and advanced topics are properly explained and understandable to novices.  Information is presented in a logical format that will make sense to any Postfix administrator, and the book's clear, straightforward writing is appropriate for all levels of UNIX/Linux administrators.

"In an age of bloated computer books, Ralf and Patrick bring clarity to a complex topic and examine all the angles without giving readers more than they'd need or want," said No Starch Press publisher Bill Pollock. "We saw a gap in the market for a better Postfix book, and these authors have been intimate with the program for years."

Also described in "The Book of Postfix":
· Content control and understanding restrictions
· Understanding SMTP authentication and Transport Layer Security
· Performance tuning and troubleshooting

New interesting textbook: Comportamenti di comprensione per efficace Leaderhsip

AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies

Author: David Byrnes

AutoCAD 2007 is a premiere computer-aided designing program that lets you organize the objects you draw, their properties, and their files. It also helps you create great-looking models. But it’s not always easy to figure out how to perform these functions, and many users end up missing out on AutoCAD’s full potential.

AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies will show you how to perform these tasks and more! This hands-on guide lets you discover how to navigate around all the complications and start creating cool drawings in no time. Soon you’ll have the tools you need to use DWG, set up drawings, add text, and work with lines, as well as:

• Draw a base plate with rectangles and circles

• Organize a successful template

• Zoom and pan with glass and hand

• Use the AutoCAD design center

• Navigate through your 3-D drawing projects

• Plot layout, lineweights, and colors

• Design block definitions

• Slice and dice your drawings to create new designs

• Create a Web format using AutoCAD

This book also features suggestions and tips on how to touch up your creations as well as ways to swap drawing data with other people and programs. Written in a friendly, straightforward tone that doesn’t try to overwhelm you, AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to draw precise 2-D and 3-D drawings!

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT	11
Ch. 2	Le Tour de AutoCAD 2007	19
Ch. 3	A lap around the CAD track	47
Ch. 4	Setup for success	71
Ch. 5	Get ready to draw	105
Ch. 6	Where to draw the line	133
Ch. 7	Edit for credit	159
Ch. 8	A zoom with a view	199
Ch. 9	On a 3D spree	211
Ch. 10	Text with character	229
Ch. 11	Entering new dimensions	255
Ch. 12	Down the hatch	281
Ch. 13	The plot thickens	291
Ch. 14	Playing blocks and rasteroids	321
Ch. 15	Drawing on the Internet	355
Ch. 16	Ten ways to do no harm	375
Ch. 17	Ten ways to swap drawing data with other people and programs	379

Advanced Painter Techniques or Junkbots Bugbots and Bots on Wheels

Advanced Painter Techniques

Author: Don Seegmiller

Traditional art instruction books often start with a blank canvas and, through a series of images, show how to construct a painting or drawing. Advanced Painter Techniques takes a similar approach, but with a somewhat backward twist.

Each chapter starts with a compelling, detailed digital painting. Painter Master and expert Don Seegmiller then deconstructs individual sections showing how he created and painted the effect or object. The focus is not on how to duplicate or imitate the original image, but on the method, reasons, technique, and thinking that goes into such an image, and how that can be adapted to individual artistic needs.

This process, by necessity, involves featuring Painter’s tools and how to use them, but a lot of time is devoted to why something is done and how it may be adapted for personal use.
Painter users of all stripes will be drawn to Seegmiller’s insight -- from web, film, and video game artists to traditional print artists, furniture designers, and those in medical visualization. Photoshop, 2D and 3D artists alike rely on the power of Painter to create textures and material maps for their models, and will find the advanced knowledge in this book a key component they have been missing.

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Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots with Beam Technology

Author: David Hrynkiw

From the publishers of BattleBots: The Official Guide comes this do-it-yourself guide to BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, Mechanics) robots. They're cheap, simple, and can be built by beginners in just a few hours, with help from this expert guide complete with full-color photos. Get ready for some dumpster-diving!

Table of Contents:

1: Welcome to the World of Simple Robotics!

2: BEAM Safety: Read This Before Building a Robot

3: Identifying Electronic Bits

4: Electronics Assembly Techniques

5: Tools and Mechanical Assembly Techniques

6: Dumpster Diving 101: How to Scavenge Robot Parts

7: Project 1: The Symet: An Introduction to Solar Powered Robotics

8: Project 2: The Solaroller: BEAM-Style Drag Racer

9: Project 3: The Herbie Photovore

10: Project 4: The Bicore Headbot

11: Project 5: The BEAM Magbot Pendulum

12: Project 6: The BEAM Mini-Sumo Wrestling Edgebot

13: Project 7: The BEAM Walking Robot

14: Biomech Motor Bridges and the Adaptive Bicore

A: Resources for More BEAM Information

B: Materials and Techniques of BEAM Robotics

C: Technical SchematicsIndex

MFC Internals or Get Rich Click

MFC Internals: Inside the Microsoft Foundation Class Architecture

Author: George Shepherd

"This book is definitely not a rehash of existing documents. It is not a 'how-to' book--it is a 'how does it work' book."

--Dean McCrory, MFC Development Lead Finally, a book on MFC that fills the gap between "Using the Wizards" Visual C++ books, product documentation and MFC source code. MFC Internals is a guide to what goes on inside the Microsoft Foundation Classes, giving you unique and in-depth information on undocumented MFC classes, utility functions and data members, useful coding techniques, and critical analysis of the way various MFC classes work and how they all fit together.

The first half of the book covers core Windows graphical user interface classses and their supporting classes; the second half covers subjects like OLE that are extensions to the basic Windows support. You'll become an expert at understanding MFC implementation details by:

• exploring under the hood of MFC's document/view architecture to learn about view synchronization, printing and even print preview
  
• diving deep into undocumented aspects of MFC serialization and undocumented classes like CPreview, CPreviewDC, CMirrorFile, CDockBar, etc.
  
• finally learning how MFC and OLE work together under the hood, and how OLE controls are implemented
  
• building the skills that help you investigate and understand MFC source code on your own

MFC Internals focuses on MFC 4.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Most key "internal" concepts also apply to previous versions, but where they don't, the authors warn you with a version note. The book's disk contains example code and the MFC FAQ file, and be sure to check outAppendix A, a handy MFC source code field guide.

MFC Internals is an essential guide to tapping MFC's rich and robust application framework and applying advanced MFC knowledge in world-class Windows applications.



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Emily Berk

Telling It Like It Is, Not How It Should Be

What we've lost now that "user-friendly" days are here and structured programming is passé is the concept of right and wrong in programming. Everyone strives to encapsulate reality, but, perhaps because everyone's reality differs, every developer's concept of the right way to implement an application differs as well. What was science has become art. But don't let Microsoft or any other tool vendor fool you -- software engineering still isn't easy to do. Developers may have fewer lines of code to write, but they have to think more about each line of code.

The tool a developer uses to create applications influences the reality that gets encapsulated. These days, Windows developers' reality is often constrained by Microsoft's Visual C++. That means Windows developers must know the SDK, C, and C++ and the peculiar assortment of building blocks and C++ extensions called the Microsoft Foundation Classes. (Did someone tell you that we didn't need to know the SDK anymore now that we have Visual C++? Sorry to disappoint you I have, actually, written programs using Borland C++ where I never needed my SDK docs, but that was in an alternate universe, one where I didn't need to call Create() after every new.)

MFC is a work in progress. It's nigh on impossible for the ordinary person to determine all its features and pitfalls using the documentation that Microsoft provides, let alone to follow its evolution; it changes quarterly. In fact, because MFC's documentation is usually shipped on-line only, it's hard to find out about something unless you know its name and how to spell it. Knowing a good deal about the history of VC++ itself helps as well. (My favorites are the functions that begin with "Afx"... Try finding out about these if you forget the "Afx"!)

That's why many MFC developers learn MFC by trial and error. You write something, it compiles fine, you run it and it blows up, and, once you fix the problem, you've learned something. Or, you read about an interesting class, spend time designing an object that seems appropriate, but then it turns out, you really can't use that class to construct that object, at least not in the way you conceived of it.

In addition, much information of vital importance to developers is simply not documented in any of the materials that accompany this compiler. And, few books about Visual C++ convey much of this vital information either. In fact, most books about MFC do little more than restate the documentation provided by Microsoft. What we need is a book that tells it the way it is, not the way it is supposed to be.

That's why, if you program in MFC, you need MFC Internals. Shepherd and Wingo don't dazzle us with science. MFC Internals has few pretty pictures and it comes with a plain old floppy disk, not a CD. The text of the book is not on the disk, nor is there code for every chapter. But there are a number of un-assuming but interesting little programs, alluded to in the book, that relate to particular topics of interest. The authors don't tell us everything we might want to know about them, but they give us enough to get started.

MFC Internals has little flow, either, which is actually an advantage in a book of this type. It's advisable to read whole chapters in order, but you don't necessarily have to read the first five chapters to understand the sixth. The authors provide helpful suggestions about which chapters to read together early on in the book.

MFC Internals is not a book for those just learning Visual C++. It doesn't tell newbies how to use an App Wizard, or how to use the IDE. You need to use VC++ for a while, notice its good features, get frustrated by its idiosyncrasies, before you can appreciate a work like this one.

MFC Internals gets specific where other reference sources about Visual C++ stop. Take, for example, MFC's much-hyped Document-View architecture. Even in the bad old days of linear programming, we knew that separating data from the display of data was a good idea. Doc-View plays a prominent part in every MFC program, but, in my experience, is so poorly explained and implemented in MFC that the average MFC programmer doesn't take advantage of it.

MFC programmers talk the Document-View talk, but never venture past the document templates the App Wizards generate. The learning curve spirals abruptly upwards every time you try to do anything interesting with MFC's CDocument or CView classes, not to mention the CDocTemplate classes, which I haven't found documented usefully anywhere until MFC Internals.

Discussion of the Document-View architecture and, especially, the distinctions between the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and Single Document Interface (SDI) proves treacherous for most authors. Document-View should mean that I can display a single document (or, data source) in a variety of formats. But, actually, MFC's SDI precludes displaying multiple views of a single document, except in its brain-dead splitter windows. Most authors are, perhaps understandably, reluctant to come out and say that Microsoft has made it almost impossible to create a useful SDI application using the tools MFC makes public.

Which is probably why most authors cave. They define terms exactly as they are defined in the MFC docs. They throw in one brain-dead SDI example with a splitter window. Then, they spend pages and pages explaining how MDI is the way Microsoft implements important applications like Word and Excel. So, all these books imply, isn't MDI the way we all really want to go, because we want all our applications to look like just Microsoft's Word and Excel don't we?

Contrast this with the exposition of Document-View in MFC Internals. Politically skirting the issue of why SDI allows only a splitter window, Shepherd and Wingo thoroughly define all the terms and tell us what Microsoft's rules for them are. Fairly often, they throw in something like: "You don't need to use a CView here, but you lose some of the functionality of the CView." I believe that this is where they are recommending that we go around Doc-View, and then they tell us how. Later, in discussing document templates, they say "You can use frames/views/documents without relying on CDocTemplate or any of its derivatives. CDocTemplate really doesn't do anything special other than encapsulate a few common uses of the document/view framework." In other words, CDocTemplates have straight-jacketed us for years, but there is a way around them too.

In the chapters having to do with Doc-View, as in other chapters, MFC Internals shows us the ways around the MFC ties that bind most uncomfortably. In addition, it describes many undocumented classes. Although the authors are careful to say these are subject to change in the future, they also point out which ones are used extensively within MFC itself, which makes it unlikely they will change.

Shepherd and Wingo use quite a few adjectives, admiring ones, natch, in the first chapter or two, but they soon run out of them, which is good. They are quite careful about how they state things that might, in other hands, seem to be accusing Microsoft of not having a clear plan for MFC. Often a historical context is used to show how something evolved to be the perverse mess it is today. In other cases, they'll reproduce a conversation with a Microsoft insider who isn't exactly sure why suddenly something changed. And yet, the authors don't waste time bashing Microsoft or Visual C++. Usually, if they use an adjective like "wacky" to describe something, it's hyperbole. They then proceed to baldly state the pros and cons of Microsoft's decisions.

The choice of topics is good as well. Particularly interesting to me was "Chapter 5: All Roads Lead to CObject", which really does prove that we should be deriving almost everything in our realities from CObject if we want to take advantage of what MFC gives us. The chapters on COM and OLE were obviously written before ActiveX and its associated buzzwords invaded our reality. The concepts may be the same, but the jargon is, unfortunately, not in the index. By the time you've digested the rest of the book, an update to the book will, hopefully, remedy this shortcoming.

Not convinced that this book is for you? Go to your local bookstore and read page 100 of MFC Internals. Observe how Wingo and Shepherd walk that fine line between admiration, skepticism and, is that -- wonder -- when they note how much is not documented. Their wry observations make otherwise dry topics memorable; I learned something new about pretty much every topic covered. But don't read this book until you've developed your first real application in MFC. You need to learn how much you need to learn before you can appreciate MFC Internals.

If only MFC Internals explained why Microsoft forces us to do a Create() after every new, I'd stand on street corners asking developers if they'd been saved and giving away copies of this book....--Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books

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Get Rich Click: 350+ Ways to Make a Fortune Online

Author: Marc Ostrofsky

Marc Ostrofsky knows how to “Get Rich Click.” In his first major deal, at age 29, he created and sold technology magazines and trade shows for $7 million. He made headlines selling the domain name Business.com for $7.5 million, landing him in the Guinness Book of World Records. At age 45, he personally owns over 350 web sites such as SummerCamps.com, CuffLinks.com and Blinds.com, which alone does over $50 million annually selling window coverings online-with absolute NO stock or inventory. His recent get rich click venture, Internet REIT, includes investors such as Starbucks founder Howard Schultz and former presidential candidate Ross Perot. The firm owns over 350,000 domain names and sells the traffic from those sites to Google on a monthly revenue share basis. He is a serial entrepreneur and professional speaker on the topics of making a fortune on the internet and entrepreneurship.

Each of Ostrofsky's wildly successful ventures started from a simple, low-cost idea based on making money on the internet. What sets them apart is his revolutionary way of viewing the internet. Now, this “technology wildcatter” and entrepreneur offers the definitive guide for anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps.

Get Rich Click outlines a clear-cut path to using the internet to make money-lots of it. Hundreds of examples and case studies for new income opportunities, plus profiles of actual entrepreneurs, offer unlimited opportunity for getting rich online.

AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006 or Learning Web Page Design w Adobe CS3 Student Edition

AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006: No Experience Required

Author: David Frey

With AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006, Autodesk has added enhancements to drafting functions, the interface, tables, and more. AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006: No Experience Required is the perfect step-by-step introduction to the world's leading CAD software. Inside this clear-cut guide are concise explanations and practical tutorials that explain how to plan and develop a complete AutoCAD project.

Follow the tutorials, which have been fully updated for AutoCAD 2006, sequentially or begin at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the Sybex website. Either way, you'll develop a solid grounding in the essentials and learn how to use AutoCAD's productivity tools to get your work done efficiently.

Gain the Imperative AutoCAD Skills
Find your way around AutoCAD and LT
Understand the basic commands and how to set up a drawing
Apply AutoCAD's coordinate systems
Master drawing strategies
Employ Polar and Object Snap Tracking
Set up and manage layers, colors, and linetypes
Use blocks and Wblocks
Drag AutoCAD objects from one drawing to another
Generate elevations and orthographic views
Work with hatches and fills
Control text in a drawing
Manage external references
Set up layouts and print an AutoCAD drawing
Use AutoCAD's enhanced tool palettes
Create and render a 3D model.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Interesting book: Healing by Design or Fitness Ball Drills

Learning Web Page Design w/Adobe CS3 Student Edition

Author: Katherine Murphy

Hands-on exercises and applications provide students with a practical method to learning software skills as well as web design concepts.  Exercises introduce basic skills then build to integrate Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks together. The full color illustrations visually support the concepts taught.  The text is spiral bound for extra ease-of-use.

The Adsense Code or ACT 6 for Dummies

The Adsense Code: What Google Never Told You about Making Money with Adsense

Author: Joel Comm

Hidden on the Internet, scattered among billions of Web pages, are the clues to an incredible secret. For those who know the secret, the result is untold wealth. Each month, a small group of people - an elite club who have uncovered the mysteries of The AdSense Code- put their knowledge to use and receive checks for tens of thousands of dollars from Google. And untold numbers of additional site owners are regularly generating supplemental income via AdSense while they play, sleep and eat. The AdSense Code is concise and very focused on the objective of revealing the proven online strategies to creating passive income with Google AdSense. The AdSense Code reveals hands-on solutions to many of the concerns and challenges faced by content publishers in their quest to attract targeted traffic, improve content relevance and increase responsiveness to AdSense ads - using easy and legitimate techniques that have worked for those who know the secrets. Google AdSense expert, Joel Comm, provides you with the keys you need to "crack" The AdSense Code and unlock the secrets to making money online.

New interesting book: 1968 in Europe or Bakunin

ACT! 6 for Dummies

Author: Karen S Fredricks

• ACT! organizes customer information in one place, providing instant access to names, phone numbers, addresses, appointments, call histories, follow-up activities, and more
• Explores ACT!'s features, including a ready-to-use contact database with search capabilities; Internet links; mail, fax, and e-mail merge; synchronization with Palm OS handhelds; integration with Outlook and other popular products; report generation; and a customizable database
• Latest edition of this successful title shows business professionals how to use ACT!'s new e-mail features, new active libraries, and improved Internet services and Outlook integration

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Opening ACT!	7
Ch. 1	An Overview of ACT!	9
Ch. 2	The Various Faces of ACT!	15
Ch. 3	Getting Your ACT! Together	29
Pt. II	Putting the ACT! Database to Work	47
Ch. 4	Making Contact(s)	49
Ch. 5	The Contact List	61
Ch. 6	The ACT! Lookup: Searching for Your Contacts	73
Ch. 7	Make a Note of That	91
Ch. 8	Organizing Your Daily Tasks	105
Pt. III	Sharing Your Information with Others	121
Ch. 9	Printing Non-Reports	123
Ch. 10	Using the Basic ACT! Reports	133
Ch. 11	Designing Your Own Reports	143
Ch. 12	Merging Your Information into a Document	153
Ch. 13	ACT! E-Mail	169
Pt. IV	Advanced ACT!ing	181
Ch. 14	Creating Contact Fields	183
Ch. 15	Customizing Layouts	191
Ch. 16	Zen and the Art of Database Maintenance	201
Ch. 17	Calling in the Reinforcements	219
Pt. V	Commonly Overlooked ACT! Features	229
Ch. 18	ACT!ing on the Internet	231
Ch. 19	ACT!ing on Your Sales Opportunities	241
Ch. 20	Grouping Your Contacts	255
Ch. 21	I'm Going to the Library Tab	271
Pt. VI	The Part of Tens	281
Ch. 22	Ten Cool New Features in ACT! 6	283
Ch. 23	Ten Cool Ways to Customize Your ACT! Layout	291
Ch. 24	Ten Cool Tools to Make ACT! Work Better	299
	Index	311

DotNetNuke For Dummies or Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

DotNetNuke For Dummies

Author: Chris Paterra

Do you want to develop Web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you there’s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic Web sites just by using a Web browser.

DotNetNuke For Dummies helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly Web site. You’ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time. This plain-English guide lets you discover how to:

• Install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNuke

• Change and customize portal settings

• Add and manage pages on your site

• Make your site look professional

• Deliver contents with Text/HTML

• Add news feeds, online surveys, and banners

• Interact with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forums

• Create an e-business

• Customize the look of your site with exciting components

This book features cool new modules that will meet every Web site’s need, both commercial and personal. With DotNetNuke For Dummies, you’ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the World Wide Web!

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Part I: Drawing from the DotNetNuke Power Source.

Chapter 1: Maximize Your Web Potential.

Chapter 2: Installing DotNetNuke.

Chapter 3: Set It and Forget It: Default Portal Settings.

Part II: Putting the Power of DotNetNuke to Work.

Chapter 4: Getting Your Site Started on the Right Foot.

Chapter 5: Delivering Content Right Out of the Box.

Chapter 6: Adding Bells and Whistles to Your Site.

Part III: Jumping to Light Speed with DotNetNuke.

Chapter 7: Getting Interactive with DotNetNuke.

Chapter 8: Collaborating and Selling with DNN.

Part IV: Getting Under the Hood.

Chapter 9: Standard Stuff You Can Customize.

Chapter 10: Keeping Tabs with the Site Log and Log Viewer.

Chapter 11: Customizing the Look of Your Site with Components.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 12: Ten Commercial Modules Worth a Look.

Chapter 13: Ten Free (Or Really Cheap) Modules You Shouldn’t Pass Up.

Chapter 14: Ten Fun Things for Your Forum Users.

Index.

Interesting textbook: Foods That Combat Heart Disease or Low Fat No Fat Vegetarian

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and UNIX Systems

Author: Dave Taylor

Fun and functional Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX shell scripts

The UNIX shell is the main scripting environment of every Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX system, whether a rescued laptop or a million-dollar mainframe. This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment. Among the more than 100 scripts included are an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk backup utility, a weather tracker, and a web logfile analysis tool. The book also teaches you how to write your own sophisticated shell scripts by explaining the syntax and techniques used to build each example scripts. Examples are written in Bourne Shell (sh) syntax.

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This incredibly fun book (really!), written by Dave Taylor, a veteran UNIX, Solaris and Mac OS X author, is chock full of 101 scripts to customize the UNIX (Bourne) shell. ... Sysadmins and webmasters will find this book fundamentally critical to day-to-day operations; there are dozens of invaluable, customizable scripts highlighted in this book to enable professionals to save time and add simple, elegant solutions to annoying issues in their work environment. User account management, rotating log files, cron scripts, web page tweaks, apache passwords, synchronizing via ftp, etc. are all eminently useful and tweakable.

How to Write a com Business Plan or Make a Million from Online Poker

How to Write a .com Business Plan: The Internet Entrepreneur's Guide to Everything You Need to Know about Business Plans and Financing Options

Author: Joanne Eglash

Online business is booming,and you're ready for a piece of the e-biz pie. Maybe you've developed a brilliant idea for a ".com" business that is sure to reap big bucks,or perhaps you run an established small business,and plan to take your concept online.

How can you convince an investment "angel" to fund your dreams of expansion? What you need is a business plan—your path to success,the best way to win investment dollars from venture capitalists or from individual investors.

This guide tells you how to do just that,detailing not just the steps but offering advice from successful entrepreneurs,leading venture capital executives,and noted e-biz experts.

In addition,the second-half of the book comprises a

"Dotcom" directory. Author Joanne Eglash has sleuthed out the top resources for e-biz entrepreneurs,and she reveals where to find what you need to get your dotcom off and running — and to make it a success. You'll find detailed information on "virtual" government agencies and free publications,resources for young entrepreneurs,management and recruitment Web sites,incubators,marketing and advertising,and even more.

Succeed in the Wired World Whether you're an entrepreneur with a great e-biz idea,a business owner who wants to enter the dot-com domain,or the owner of a popular but currently unprofitable Web site,you need a business plan to get your concept online,attract investors,and reap the benefits of the growing online business boom. How to Write a . Com Business Plan is the only "how-to" book that focuses on the unique needs and requirements of the online arena. Here you'll discover how to address the Internet-related subjects that distinguish onlinebusinesses from more conventional entrepreneurial pursuits,from search engines to site security. Using two fictional sites as case studies throughout the book,Silicon Valley journalist Joanne Eglash demystifies the creation and implementation of the business plan,complete with step-by-step checklists and interviews with successful Internet entrepreneurs,venture capitalists,and other e-commerce experts.

Learn how a well-developed dot-com business plan can help you:

* Secure financing,wow prospective investors,and lure top employees

* Lay out a roadmap for your future,both for you and your colleagues,for tomorrow—and the next five years

* Evaluate how you can most effectively manage your business and market your product or service—and create a blueprint for implementation

* Develop descriptions of your company,your financial projections,and ways you can beat the competition

. . . and much more,including an invaluable Dot-Com Directory to help you locate information about a range of relevant topics. From mission statements and financial management to choosing and registering that all-important make-or-break domain name to the reality of the long hours your newbiz-dot-com will require,this much-needed,easy-to-use guide will set you on a solid path to e-success today.

What People Are Saying

Netsurfer Digest
K, so you look around and you think that the dotcom boom is over. Not for a minute. Despite media hype of dying Net companies, quite a lot of venture capital is still going to Net-related startups. Only these days, the money is a bit smarter and more interested in business plans which actually make sense. Which is where a book like this comes in. While you may be able to find advice, checklists, and examples in other business plan books, what sets this one apart is a large collection of online and other resources designed to give e-biz entrepreneurs a leg up on the daunting startup tree.--Netsurfer Digest

Christine Harmel
Highly concentrated ... if you are an entrepreneur seeking to build an online business, let this serve as your guidebook. Joanne's advice is right-on. Concise, yet thorough and witty - this book is a timely resource for those who are looking to build an online business. Packed with useful tips on writing your business plan, getting financed, marketing and launching an online business, Joanne Eglash has tapped some of the best in the business. She includes useful examples and gives solid advice. Much of it is advice I give my own clients who are writing business plans and launching Internet ventures - I'll definitely direct them to this book/hand them a copy of this book. (Christine Harmel, CEO, The Interactive Resource)

Douglas H. Kass
Any entrepreneur dreaming of on-line success will benefit from Eglash's step-by-step guidelines, informative do's and don'ts, and useful checklists. (Douglas H. Kass, CEO, Viewpoint Group, Inc.)

Rozella Kennedy
A useful, honest guide to helping you develop your .com business plan for the daunting world of Internet entrepreneurship. (Rozella Kennedy, Producer of Job Wise - Moms Online at Oxygen.com)

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Make a Million from Online Poker: The Surefire Way to Profit from the Internet's Coolest Game

Author: Nigel Goldman

The world is playing poker online--learn how to play with the best and win a fortune.

Every year, billions of dollars are up for grabs in online poker rooms, and the number of people playing on the internet is growing at an astonishing rate. But for many, it's a struggle to keep up with more experienced players; all too often, the money ends up going the wrong way. Whether you're a complete novice or an old hand, this book will show you how to succeed at the game that has swept the nation. From understanding poker terminology, probability, odds, raising, and bluffing, to developing strategic skills, the author guides you through every stage of the game, equipping you with the know-how to confidently "boss" a table anywhere.

Transition Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 or Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics

Transition Guide to Microsoft Office 2007

Author: Hall Prentic

Explore the new features of Microsoft Office 2007!

 

Microsoft Office 2007 introduces many new features to help you get your work done more efficiently and effectively.  By far the biggest change in Office 2007 is the new user interface.  A user interface, which is what you see on the screen when you are using software, provides a way for you to interact with software and tell it what tasks you want to perform.  With Office 2007, Microsoft has streamlined the user interface, so that you can more quickly and easily locate program features and complete tasks.

 

The most noticeable user interface change in Office 2007 is the replacement of the traditional menus and toolbars with the Ribbon, which groups commands in a way that corresponds directly to the way people work.  The Ribbon works along with galleries and the Live Preview feature to present you with graphical examples of formatting results, to help eliminate the time wasted on trial and error.  The KeyTips feature allows users to invoke commands with just a few simple steps.

 

This Transition Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 is designed to:

• Introduce you to the new Office 2007 user interface components.
• Demonstrate--using a side-by-side comparision with Office 2003--how to perform basic tasks and use the new features that are shared across the Office 2007 programs.

Learning how toperform these basic tasks right up front will put you on your way to producing professional-looking documents, effective spreadsheets, compelling presentations, and powerful databases using Microsoft Office 2007.

Books about: Turismo:o Negócio de Viagem

Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics

Author: Stan Gibilisco

Written by an award-winning electronics author, the Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics delivers 400 up-to-date, easy-to-read definitions that make even complex concepts understandable. Over 150 illustrations make the information accessible at a glance and extensive cross-referencing and a comprehensive bibliography facilitate further research.

Covering the very latest trends and developments and written with an eye toward future applications, this reference belongs on the desktop of every robotics, artificial intelligence, and electronics hobbyist.

Table of Contents:

Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics and AI Suggested Additional Reference Index

The Rational Unified Process or The New CIO Leader

The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction

Author: Philippe Kruchten

Philippe Kruchten is the lead architect of the Rational Unified Process. Mr. Kruchten has more than twenty-seven years of experience in the development of large, software-intensive systems for telecommunications, defense, aerospace, transportation, and software development tools. He is also the author of The Rational Unified Process, An Introduction (Addison-Wesley), which has been translated into seven languages and has sold more than 150,000 copies in its two editions.

Booknews

Offers a quick introduction to the concepts, structure, content, and motivation of the Rational Unified Process, a Web-enabled software engineering process that enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members. This second edition is updated to match the contents of the latest version of the Rational Unified Process, with more guidance on e-development, applying the process, testing, and designing systems using patterns and frameworks. The author has 25 years of experience in the development of large, software-intensive systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jack Woehr

Rational Is As Rational Does

The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction is a good overview of Rational's prescription for whole-project health. The process is unified as in "Unified Field Theory." Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis, (or Booch, Jacobson, and Rumbaugh, as they are known today) twine in a celestial dance to the Spheres, Rectangles, Clouds, and stray pointers that make up UML and its increasingly ambitious extensions, additions, and heroic leaps of faith.

Rational visualizes the elements and modalities of code and projects in a fashion found compelling by increasing numbers of corporate customers. It's a vision embodied in several software suites, including the eponymous Rational Unified Process, for which this book is designed to serve as the introduction. Face it, you are going to run into Rational on the job. This volume is a good place to get know about it.

The book is not an independent assessment of Rational. Editor Philippe Kruchten is lead architect of the Rational Unified Process product. The thrust is the process of processes, specifically process in software projects, as viewed by Rational and supported by its project-management toolsets.

The tone is set for the book in Chapter One, which is Grady Booch's "Software Development Best Practices." Booch lists 19 "Symptoms and Root Causes of Software Development Problems." Booch clearly hasn't worked anywhere I've worked, because missing from his list are "Moron from acquired business unit appointed director," "Manager owns nice suit but can't follow logical proof," and "Inept team member keeps job by threatening suicide."

All of us have our own notations, albeit hastily scribbled, for the steps and players of a project or computational process. Believing, as nerds tend to do, that the methods used to describe program objects and execution steps are suitable for managing human social units, Rational's scientists, to their credit, have elevated napkin scratching and whiteboard scrawls to an art form, and given our industry a certain shared vocabulary of icons for these familiar entities. They've also made a few not entirely obvious comments about software testing that can't do any harm by their addition to the literature.

However, I found nothing new in this volume that was helpful, and nothing helpful that was new. I summarize here at random from The Rational Unified Process:

One should cope with risk by a policy of risk avoidance, risk transfer, risk acceptance, risk mitigation and contingency planning.

A metric is a measurable attribute of an entity.

If you must hit the market early, you can shorten the construction phase and lengthen the transition phase.

In other words, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with ISO-9001. The first two of the above are self-referential and the third is a tautology. We don't need more planning gurus -- we need more software engineers with liberal arts educations and a minor in Formal Logic.

Here are more hastily excerpted gems, with my comments in parentheses:

The following are examples of iteration goals [in the Transition Phase]:

1. Fix all severity 1 problems discovered at beta customer sites.... This may be related to credibility in the market.

(Fix the major problems your beta sites report? What a concept! This could revolutionize software development.)

In building a base plan, you must assess trade-offs between staff, schedule and project scope.

(You mean, I have to carefully marshal my resources? Didn't Sun Tzu say this umpteen years ago? Doesn't anyone read classics anymore?)

The scary thing is that statements like these may come as news to some folks working for your company. Apparently, they are the intended audience, those people who know nada about software development yet are managing projects (and who also, one assumes, have purchase authority for project management software).

A good idea, well-positioned within the technology of the time and in accordance with the genuine needs of an informed user group, designed and executed by a team sharing a vision and managed by an inscrutable, diplomatic, restrained, and benevolent management team... In such a case development, delivery, installation, training, and maintenance are simplicity itself and demand no special tools at all.

It's the worst-designed programs that you spend the most time debugging, and it's the worst thought-out projects that are laden with fashionable project-management tools. In my worm's-eye view, you will always find management using these tools on the screwed-up projects.

Assuming I'm correct in my assessment, we can probably expect the Rational Unified Process to be mandated by law in the near future. With that in mind, The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction is a mercifully short introduction.--Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books

See also: The Differentiated Network Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation or Financial Management

The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results

Author: Marianne Broadbent

An Actionable Framework for Elevating the CIO's Strategic Role

Two converging factors-the ubiquitous presence of technology in organizations and the recent technology downturn-have brought Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to a critical breaking point. They can seize the moment to leverage their expertise into a larger and more strategic role than ever before, or they can allow themselves to be relegated to the sideline function of "chief technology mechanic."

Drawing from exclusive research conducted by Gartner, Inc., with thousands of companies and CIOs, Marianne Broadbent and Ellen Kitzis reveal exactly what CIOs must do now to solidify their credibility with the executive team and bridge the chasm that currently separates business and IT strategy. The New CIO Leader outlines the agenda CIOs need to integrate business and IT assets in a way that moves corporate strategy forward- whether a firm is floundering, successfully competing, or leading its industry.

Mandatory reading for CIOs in every firm, The New CIO Leader spells out how information systems can deliver results that matter-and how CIOs can become the enterprise leaders they should be.

Author Biography:

Marianne Broadbent is a Gartner Fellow at Gartner, Inc., Associate Dean at Melbourne Business School and coauthor of Leveraging the New Infrastructure (HBS Press, 1998). Ellen Kitzis is Group Vice President of Gartner's Executive Programs, a membership-only program for over 2000 CIOs.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Setting The Agenda And Delivering Results
According to corporate advisers Marianne Broadbent and Ellen Kitzis, chief information officers (CIOs) today are at a crossroads in the business environment. In one direction lies a lingering dissatisfaction with information technology (IT) that is left over from the bust of the Internet bubble, the belief that IT is irrelevant to competitive advantage, and concern over IT jobs being outsourced to faraway countries. In the other direction lies the view of IT as a source of business innovation; a foundation for products and services; and a way for companies to comply with the timeliness, completeness and accuracy of corporate information that are required by the current regulatory environment. In The New CIO Leader, the authors describe how CIOs can most effectively follow this second path, win credibility and earn a higher role in their organizations.

According to the authors, the role of the new CIO leader requires changes to the traditional CIO skills, approach and priorities. Although these changes might not appear to be revolutionary, they point out that CIOs who do not make them will have difficulty in their executive experience.

To determine how CIOs can consistently deliver results that matter to the executive team, the authors have performed years of research and surveys that have taught them much about the changing demands on CIOs. In The New CIO Leader, they explain the results of their studies and describe how CIOs can face the challenge of becoming an irreplaceable part of a company's success and what new skills, priorities and actions they need to take to reach the next level.

Three Categories of Enterprises
The authors write that all enterprises tend to fall into one of three categories at any given time. They call the three categories of enterprises fighting for survival, maintaining competitiveness, and breaking away.

In the first category, companies struggle to find ways to cut costs while going through layoffs and scaling back capital investments and long-term projects, including IT development. Maintaining-competitiveness companies tend to mirror the economy: In tough times they are cautious about new business projects; in better times, new projects gradually increase. Breaking-away enterprises tend to aggressively increase their business investments — and IT budgets — each year, and seek IT-enabled business innovation to gain competitive advantage. The authors write, "Enterprises that are fighting for survival need CIO leadership every bit as much as enterprises that are breaking away."

Ten Critical Points of Focus
Throughout The New CIO Leader, the authors present 10 critical points of focus that differentiate the new, more effective CIO leaders from their struggling counterparts. They explain that the first and second points in their list provide the firm foundation that is required for the rest to be effective. These are:

1. New CIO leaders must lead, not just manage. Leadership and management are not the same; they are complementary. To lead, a CIO needs a personal vision and a point of view about how information and IT can make his or her enterprise more effective.
2. New CIO leaders must know their enterprise inside and out, as thoroughly as, if not better than, their executive colleagues do. A CIO needs to know his or her industry and competitive environment and be able to engage key decision makers and stakeholders on their terms.


Based on these points, the rest of the principles described in detail throughout The New CIO Leader develop the role of the CIO in any organization by laying down the clear actions a CIO must take while becoming more proactive. These critical points of focus are:


3. Create a vision for how IT will build your organization's success.
4. Shape and inform expectations for an IT-enabled enterprise.
5. Create clear and appropriate IT governance.
6. Weave business and IT strategy together.
7. Build a new information services (IS) organization — one that is leaner and more focused than its more traditional predecessor.
8. Develop and nurture a high-performing team in your IS organization.
9. Manage the new enterprise and IT risks.
10. Communicate IS performance in business-relevant language.

The authors write that, although these 10 points of focus are not the only issues with which a CIO must cope, they are the most critical issues facing CIOs today. New CIOs must be ready to build credibility by working on each of them.

Why We Like This Book
While providing the theoretical basis and practical application sides of the CIO equation, The New CIO Leader remains readable because it captures real-world IT stories and turns them into a path for CIOs to follow. By remaining down-to-earth in their presentation of facts and concepts, the authors offer winning guidance to all CIOs. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Beginning CSS Web Development or Sony Alpha DSLR A100 Digital Field Guide

Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional

Author: Simon Collison

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most important technologies on the web today. They give web developers the power to style their web sites so those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired.

There are many books out there on CSS, but Beginning CSS Web Development is different—it doesn't waste time discussing theory, and it delves straight into the practical matter. It provides you with what you need to know, faster. It is also completely up to date, covering the most modern CSS standards and design techniques.

In addition to the essential CSS basics, this book covers advanced techniques like accessibility, hacks, and filters. The book concludes with a case study, and features a CSS reference section that allows you to look up required syntax as quickly as possible.

Summary of Contents

• PART 1 - Get to Know CSS
  
  • Getting Started
  • Core Concepts of CSS
  • CSS Building Blocks
  • Text
  • Color, Backgrounds, and Images
  • Lists
  • Links
  • Tables and Definition Lists
  • Forms
• PART 2 - Logical Layouts
  
  • Layout Basics
  • Classic Layouts
  • Layout Manipulation
  • The Journey from Layout to Template
  • Usability and Accessibility Enhancements
  • Tips, Tricks, and Troubles
  • Case Study: The Dead Goods
  • CSS Reference

Look this: Change Leader or Stat Medical Office Emergency Manual

Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 Digital Field Guide

Author: David D Busch

Start taking the best photos of your life--today

Your Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 has dozens of amazing features. Would you rather spend hours studying the manual or snapping pictures? This guide gets you on the fast track, with full-color illustrations that help you identify and understand every button and dial and the effects you can shoot for. Learn to use every control, what pitfalls to dodge, and the secrets of capturing spectacular images in more than 20 shooting situations. Wherever your A100 goes, this book should go too.

* Follow an illustrated road map that makes it easy to locate the controls on your camera and learn what each does
* Review photographic essentials including exposure, lighting, and lens choices
* Learn to capture great images of tricky subjects like flowers, pets, sporting events, sunsets, and fireworks
* Explore such techniques as fill flash, infrared, panoramic, macro, and filter effect photography
* Troubleshoot potential problems with your A100

Visit our Web site at wiley.com/compbooks

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Quick Tour.

Part I: Using the Sony Alpha DSLR-A100.

Chapter 1: Exploring the Sony Alpha DSLR-A100.

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Sony Alpha DSLR-A100.

Part II: Creating Great Photos with the Sony Alpha DSLR-A100.

Chapter 3: Photography Essentials.

Chapter 4: All About Lenses.

Chapter 5: Working with Light.

Chapter 6: Photo Subjects.

Chapter 7: Downloading and Editing Pictures.

Part III: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Troubleshooting.

Glossary.

Index.

Youth Identity and Digital Media or Lean Six SIGMA Logistics

Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

Author: David Buckingham

As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, how does it affect their sense of self and others? As they define and redefine their identities through engagements with technology, what are the implications for their experiences as learners, citizens, consumers, and family and community members? This volume addresses the consequences of digital media use for young people’s individual and social identities.

The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as "girl power" online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the "digital publics" of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication.

Contributors:

Angela Booker, danah boyd, Kirsten Drotner, Shelley Goldman, Susan C. Herring, Meghan McDermott, Claudia Mitchell, Gitte Stald, Susannah Stern, Sandra Weber, Rebekah Willett.

Interesting book: My Fall From Grace or Surprise Security and the American Experience

Lean Six SIGMA Logistics: Strategic Development to Operational Success

Author: Thomas J Goldsby

Logistics, Lean, and Six Sigma form a natural union. Logistics is about managing inventory; Lean is about speed, flow, and the elimination of waste; and Six Sigma is about understanding and reducing variation. Lean Six Sigma Logistics features the Logistics Bridge Model to serve as your roadmap for continuous improvement, leveraging value, eliminating waste, and enhancing your abilities to view the supply chain with a critical eye. It provides a method for developing strategies as well as tactical steps that will help you achieve successful operational implementation of Lean Six Sigma Logistics. The primary focus is on logistics flow, capability, and discipline as the guiding principles for solving any logistics challenge. Whatever the status of your supply chain, this book provides the essence for developing and implementing a successful logistics strategy.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	What is lean Six Sigma logistics?	3
Ch. 2	The importance of logistics and supply chain management	9
Ch. 3	The waste of inventory	19
Ch. 4	The waste of transportation	27
Ch. 5	The waste of space and facilities	35
Ch. 6	The waste of time	39
Ch. 7	The waste of packaging	47
Ch. 8	The waste of administration	51
Ch. 9	The waste of knowledge	55
Ch. 10	A tour of the bridge	65
Ch. 11	Logistics flow : asset flow	71
Ch. 12	Flow : information flow	85
Ch. 13	Flow : financial flow	97
Ch. 14	Capability : predictability	115
Ch. 15	Capability : stability	129
Ch. 16	Capability : visibility	141
Ch. 17	Discipline : collaboration	153
Ch. 18	Discipline : systems optimization	173
Ch. 19	Discipline : waste elimination	185
Ch. 20	Strategy and planning tools	201
Ch. 21	Problem-solving tools	213
Ch. 22	Operational tools	227
Ch. 23	Measurement tools	237
Ch. 24	Case study : GoldSMART Products, Inc	249
Ch. 25	Summary and conclusion	267

Software Configuration Management Patterns or Expert SQL Server 2005 Development

Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration

Author: Stephen P Berczuk

Effective software configuration management (SCM) strategies promote a healthy, team-oriented culture that produces better software. Software Configuration Management Patterns alleviates software engineers' most common concerns about software configuration management—perceived rigidity and an overemphasis on process.

Through the use of patterns, the authors show that a properly managed workflow can avert delays, morale problems, and cost overruns. The patterns approach illustrates how SCM can be easily and successfully applied in small- to mid-size organizations. By learning how these patterns relate to each other, readers can avoid common mistakes that too often result in frustrated developers and reduced productivity.

Key coverage includes instruction on how to:

Develop the next version of a product while fixing problems with the current one.

Develop code in parallel with other developers and join up with the current state of codeline.

Identify what versions of code went into a particular component.

Analyze where a change happened in the history of a component's development.

Use current tools more effectively, and decide when to use a manual process.

Incrementally introduce good practices into individual workspaces and throughout the organization.

Identify crucial aspects of the software process so that team projects can run smoothly.

Build and foster a development environment focused on producing optimal teamwork and quality products.

Software Configuration Management Patterns also includes a detailed listof SCM tools and thorough explanations of how they can be used to implement the patterns discussed in the book. These proven techniques will assist readers to improve their processes and motivate their workforce to collaborate in the production of higher quality software.

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Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	Foreword
	Preface
	Contributor's Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	Background	1
Ch. 1	Putting a System Together	3
Ch. 2	The Software Environment	19
Ch. 3	Patterns	33
Pt. II	The Patterns	47
Ch. 4	Mainline	49
Ch. 5	Active Development Line	59
Ch. 6	Private Workspace	67
Ch. 7	Repository	79
Ch. 8	Private System Build	87
Ch. 9	Integration Build	97
Ch. 10	Third Party Codeline	103
Ch. 11	Task Level Commit	111
Ch. 12	Codeline Policy	117
Ch. 13	Smoke Test	123
Ch. 14	Unit Test	129
Ch. 15	Regression Test	135
Ch. 16	Private Versions	141
Ch. 17	Release Line	147
Ch. 18	Release-Prep Code Line	153
Ch. 19	Task Branch	157
Ch. 20	Referenced Patterns	163
App. A	SCM Resources Online	165
App. B	Tool Support for SCM Patterns	171
	Photo Credits	195
	About the Photos	197
	Bibliography	199
	Index	207

Interesting textbook: Martha Stewarts Quick Cook or Ohio Cook Book

Expert SQL Server 2005 Development

Author: Adam Machanic

While building on the skills you already have, Expert SQL Server 2005 Development will help you become an even better developer by focusing on best practices and demonstrating how to design high-performance, maintainable database applications.

This book starts by reintroducing the database as a integral part of the software development ecosystem. You'll learn how to think about SQL Server development as you would any other software development. For example, there's no reason you can't architect and test database routines just as you would architect and test application code. And nothing should stop you from implementing the types of exception handling and security rules that are considered so important in other tiers, even if they are usually ignored in the database.

You'll learn how to apply development methodologies like these to produce high-quality encryption and SQLCLR solutions. Furthermore, you'll discover how to exploit a variety of tools that SQL Server offers in order to properly use dynamic SQL and to improve concurrency in your applications. Finally, you'll become well versed in implementing spatial and temporal database designs, as well as approaching graph and hierarchy problems.

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Blackberry Pearl Pocket Guide

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming, Vol. 2

Author: Itzik Ben Gan

This thorough, hands-on reference for database developers and administrators delivers expert guidance on sophisticated uses of Transact-SQL (T-SQL)-one of the most familiar and powerful programming languages for SQL Server. Written by a T-SQL guru, this guide focuses on language features and how they are interpreted and processed by the SQL Server execution engine. You'll get in-depth coverage of the sophisticated uses of T-SQL, including triggers, user-defined functions, exception handling, and more. The book explains and compares solutions to database-development problems in both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, discussing the new T-SQL programming features added to SQL Server 2005 in detail. Includes extensive code samples, table examples, and logic puzzles to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of T-SQL.

Table of Contents:

1	Datatype-related problems, XML, and CLR UDTs	1
2	Temporary tables and table variables	85
3	Cursors	111
4	Dynamic SQL	139
5	Views	181
6	User-defined functions	213
7	Stored procedures	257
8	Triggers	315
9	Transactions	361
10	Exception handling	391
11	Service broker	411
App. A	Companion to CLR routines	465

Books about: Das Entwickeln des Potenzials Über eine Volle Reihe von Führungen: Fälle auf Transactional und Transformationsführung

Blackberry Pearl Pocket Guide

Author: Bart G Farkas

Here is your essential companion to the BlackBerry Pearl smartphone. The BlackBerry Pearl Pocket Guide steers you through how to: Send and receive personal and corporate email with your Pearl and synchronize it with your PC. Use the Address Book to make calls, and learn how to set unique caller IDs for individual phone numbers. Browse the Internet, instant-message with friends, and send text messages. Take pictures with the built-in camera, and play audio and video. Personalize your Pearl with themes, ringtones, games, and more. Use BlackBerry Maps to see driving directions for an errand or a vacation. Create calendars and to-do lists to make memos and set alarms and tasks.

Data Mining and Predictive Analysis or Crisp

Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis

Author: Colleen McCu

It is now possible to predict the future when it comes to crime. In Data Mining and Predictive Analysis, Dr. Colleen McCue describes not only the possibilities for data mining to assist law enforcement professionals, but also provides real-world examples showing how data mining has identified crime trends, anticipated community hot-spots, and refined resource deployment decisions. In this book Dr. McCue describes her use of "off the shelf" software to graphically depict crime trends and to predict where future crimes are likely to occur. Armed with this data, law enforcement executives can develop "risk-based deployment strategies," that allow them to make informed and cost-efficient staffing decisions based on the likelihood of specific criminal activity.

Knowledge of advanced statistics is not a prerequisite for using Data Mining and Predictive Analysis. The book is a starting point for those thinking about using data mining in a law enforcement setting. It provides terminology, concepts, practical application of these concepts, and examples to highlight specific techniques and approaches in crime and intelligence analysis, which law enforcement and intelligence professionals can tailor to their own unique situation and responsibilities.

* Serves as a valuable reference tool for both the student and the law enforcement professional
* Contains practical information used in real-life law enforcement situations
* Approach is very user-friendly, conveying sophisticated analyses in practical terms

Table of Contents:

1	Basics	3
2	Domain expertise	19
3	Data mining	25
4	Process models for data mining and analysis	45
5	Data	67
6	Operationally relevant preprocessing	93
7	Predictive analytics	117
8	Public safety - specific evaluation	143
9	Operationally actionable output	165
10	Normal crime	177
11	Behavioral analysis of violent crime	187
12	Risk and threat assessment	215
13	Deployment	239
14	Surveillance detection	267
15	Advanced topics	301
16	Future trends	315

Book about: Healthcare Fraud or Information Security Risk Analysis

Crisp: Writing Effective E-Mail, Revised Edition: Improving Your Electronic

Author: Nancy Flynn

E-mail is more prevalent today than ever before. Its instantaneous nature makes it a convenient, time-saving tool for businesses. However, it is also more important than ever to take the time to write messages that are secure as well as clear and error-free. The revised edition of Writing Effective E-Mail includes an added emphasis on how to avoid workplace disasters such as lost sales, customer-service nightmares—and in the worst cases, lawsuits and financial losses—triggered by careless or poorly written e-mail. This book will also guide you in writing a comprehensive and effective e-mail policy for your organization.

After Effects Expressions or Hands on Digital Photography

After Effects Expressions

Author: Marcus Geduld

Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques.
No programming skills are required. Foundation concepts and skills orient the new designer and serve as a handy reference to the experienced one. Basics of creating Expressions, variables, commands, and Expression helpers precede the leap into JavaScript and math essentials for more advanced Expressions that include randomness and physical simulations.
Full color illustrations display the scripts and the resulting effects, Pick Whip techniques, and sequential animations. Downloadable companion files include QuickTime movies of the demo animations, and AE project files that permit you to examine the Expressions.

* No programming experience required.
* Full-color presentation of Pick Whip techniques and sequential animations.
* Downloadable project files and QuickTime videos.

Book review: Six Great Ideas or Arts Inc

Hands-on Digital Photography: A Step-by-Step Course in Camera Controls, Software Techniques, and Successful Imaging

Author: George Schaub

George Schaub has taught digital photography to hundreds of people in workshops and courses across the country. All of his students have had one thing in common: They wanted to get the best images from their digital cameras. Now, in Hands-On Digital Photography, Schaub presents everything he teaches and everything he has learned in his fifteen years of teaching. Image processing software is great...but Schaub's practical, project-based approach focuses on the camera and getting the best shot possible every time, so beginning to intermediate photographers can spend more time capturing the shot and less time manipulating it. In easy-to-follow projects, the author discusses how digital photography allows greater creativity; file formats and how they affect post-exposure processing; how to choose resolution and compression ratios; exposures for the best digital images; camera menus; RAW file format; in-camera exposure adjustments; in-camera contrast adjustments; and much more. Now it's easy for photographers to get the most from their digital cameras and to make every shot a great shot!

Daniel Lombardo - Library Journal

Editorial director of Shutterbugand eDigitalPhotomagazines, Schaub focuses on knowing the camera so well that one gets the best possible photo every time. Though aimed at the beginning to intermediate student, this book is most useful for advanced photographers. The projects and exercises are not subject based but function based, with the text divided into sections titled "Understanding the Digital Image," "In-Camera Controls," and "Software Controls." Beginning photographers will be better served by Tom Ang's How To Photograph Absolutely Everything(reviewed on p. 90).

Table of Contents:

Introduction     8
Understanding the Digital Image
Pixels: Picture Elements     12
File Formats     14
Resolution, Resizing, and Resampling     20
RGB Channels     26
Color     29
Color Options     32
Contrast     40
Getting into Raw     42
In-Camera Controls
A Quick Camera Tour     54
ISO: Light Sensitivity     62
Noise Reduction     66
White Balance     70
Aperture and Depth of Field     76
Shutter Speed     80
Metering     84
Exposure Compensation     90
Bracketing     94
Fill Flash     96
Color Saturation     100
Contrast     102
Sharpening     104
Combining Settings     106
Color Matching vs. Color Mood     108
Color Bias     112
Black-and-White Mode     114
Panorama Mode     118
Digital Filter Effects     124
Special Effects     126
Playback Diagnostics     130
Software Controls
Memory Cards and Image Downloading     138
Exposure     144
Cropping     152
Adding Color     156
Contrast     158
Saturation     162
Transforming     166
Interpretations     168
Unlocking the Beauty     172
Index     176

Sams Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days or Fedora 9 Linux Desktop Handbook

Sams Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days

Author: Laura Lemay

Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days covers the basics of Perl in the first few chapters, and then moves on to practical issues of Perl and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Later chapters also delve into software engineering topics, with discussions of modular code and object-oriented programming. CGI is covered in one chapter, but it is not the focus on the book. The book relies heavily on longer working examples and code, as opposed to small snippets and code fragments, and each chapter includes two to three smaller complete examples and one major one that illustrates most of the concepts for that chapter and builds on the chapters before it. Written by Laura Lemay, this is her third major book after Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days.

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Fedora 9 Linux Desktop Handbook

Author: Richard Petersen

This book examines Fedora for the user. Though administrative tools are covered, the emphasis is on what a user would need to know to perform tasks. The emphasis here is on what users face when using Fedora, covering topics like installation, applications, software management, the GNOME and KDE desktops, shell commands, and both the Fedora administration and network tools. Desktops are examined in detail, including configuration options. Applications are reviewed. This book is very much an handbook for Fedora 9, with all the latest features of interest to users.

Schaums Outline of Feedback and Control Systems Second Edition or Advanced Server Virtualization

Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems, Second Edition

Author: Allen J Stubberud

If you want top grades and thorough understanding of feedback and control systems—both analog and digital—in less study time, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying problems with fully worked solutions—plus hundreds of additional problems with answers at the end of chapters, so you can measure your progress. You also get the benefit of clear, detailed illustrations. Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples—and lack of tedious detail—Schaum’s Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Control Systems Terminology

Differential Equations, Difference Equations, and Linear Systems

The LaPlace Transform and The Z-Transform

Stability

Transfer Functions

Block Diagram Algebra and Transfer Functions of Systems

Signal Flow Graphs

System Sensitivity Measures and Classification of Feedback Systems

Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems: Objectives and Methods

Nyquist Analysis

Nyquist Design

Root-Locus Design

Bode Analysis

Bode Design

Nichols Chart Analysis

Nichols Chart Design

Introduction to Nonlinear Control Systems

Introduction to Advanced Topics in Control Systems Analysis and Design

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Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center

Author: David Marshall

Executives of IT organizations are compelled to quickly implement server virtualization solutions because of significant cost savings. However, most IT professionals tasked with deploying virtualization solutions have little or no experience with the technology. This creates a high demand for information on virtualization and how to properly implement it in a datacenter. Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware® and Microsoft® Platforms in the Virtual Data Center focuses on the core knowledge needed to evaluate, implement, and maintain an environment that is using server virtualization. This book emphasizes the design, implementation and management of server virtualization from both a technical and a consultative point of view. It provides practical guides and examples, demonstrating how to properly size and evaluate virtualization technologies. This volume is not based upon theory, but instead on real world experience in the implementation and management of large scale projects and environments. Currently, there are few experts in this relatively new field, making this book a valuable resource The book is divided into major sections making it both a step-by-step guide for learning and implementing server virtualization as well as a quick reference. The chapter organization focuses first on introducing concepts and background, and then provides real-world scenarios.

PHP Solutions or Excel 2003 VBA Programmers Reference

PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy

Author: David Powers

In this book you'll learn how to:

• Create dynamic websites with design and usability in mind, as well as functionality
• Understand how PHP scripts work, giving you confidence to adapt them to your own needs
• Bring online forms to life, check required fields, and ensure user input is safe to process
• Upload files and automatically create thumbnails from larger images
• Manage website content with a searchable database

You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you've dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can't get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you've just found the right book.
PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. They're free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages. Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design.
But this book doesn't just providea collection of ready-made scripts: each PHP Solution builds on what's gone before, teaching you the basics of PHP and database design quickly and painlessly. By the end of the book, you'll have the confidence to start writing your own scripts or—if you prefer to leave that task to othersto adapt existing scripts to your own requirements.
Right from the start, you're shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices. The book has been written with an eye on forward and backward compatibilityrecommending the latest PHP 5 techniques, but providing alternative solutions for servers still running PHP 4.3. All database examples demonstrate how to use the original MySQL extension, MySQL Improved, or the PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5.1, letting you choose the most suitable option for your setup.
Summary of Contents:

• Chapter 1: What Is PHPAnd Why Should I Care?
• Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Work with PHP
• Chapter 3: How to Write PHP Scripts
• Chapter 4: Lightening Your Workload with Includes
• Chapter 5: Bringing Forms to Life
• Chapter 6: Uploading Files
• Chapter 7: Using PHP to Manage Files
• Chapter 8: Generating Thumbnail Images
• Chapter 9: Pages That Remember: Simple Login and Multipage Forms
• Chapter 10: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
• Chapter 11: Getting Started with a Database
• Chapter 12: Creating a Dynamic Online Gallery
• Chapter 13: Managing Content
• Chapter 14: Solutions to Common PHP/MySQL Problems
• Chapter 15: Keeping Intruders at Bay

Table of Contents:

Summary of contents:

• Chapter 1: What Is PHPAnd Why Should I Care?
• Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Work with PHP
• Chapter 3: How to Write PHP Scripts
• Chapter 4: Lightening Your Workload with Includes
• Chapter 5: Bringing Forms to Life
• Chapter 6: Uploading Files
• Chapter 7: Using PHP to Manage Files
• Chapter 8: Generating Thumbnail Images
• Chapter 9: Pages That Remember: Simple Login and Multipage Forms
• Chapter 10: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
• Chapter 11: Getting Started with a Database
• Chapter 12: Creating a Dynamic Online Gallery
• Chapter 13: Managing Content
• Chapter 14: Solutions to Common PHP/MySQL Problems
• Chapter 15: Keeping Intruders at Bay

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Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference

Author: Brian Patterson

What is this book about?

Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference is an updated and expanded version of the two previous editions now with a reference section downloadable from the Web for easy perusal. The book is aimed at Excel users who want to gain more control over their spreadsheets using VBA or who want to develop Excel applications for other users. The book starts with a primer chapter focused on bringing the readers up to speed with Excel and VBA. From there, the book expands to focus on major issues faced by advanced Excel users and developers.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you'll discover how to do the following:

• Set up applications and convert them to add-ins

• Package and distribute Excel applications

• Set up interaction with other Office applications and databases

• Program the VB Editor and use the Windows API

• Use VB6 and VB.NET with Excel

• Set up internationalization

• Advanced debugging and error handling techniques

Scripting Recipes for Second Life or Call to Action

Scripting Recipes for Second Life

Author: Jeff Heaton

Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world where residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize and participate in individual and group activities. Another major activity is the ability to create and trade/sell items and services to other residents. However, to create advanced items you must program in the Linden Scripting Language.
This book presents many common objects in Second Life, with complete Linden Scripting Language examples. For each example, you are provided with copy/modifyable objects for all examples in the Second Life world. These examples are presented as a series of recipes, which are useful by themselves, or as a starting point for more complex objects.
The recipes span a wide array of uses. Useful recipes for buildings provide elevators, teleport pads, and locking doors. Vehicles are covered with example cars, boats and helicopters. The video game side of Second Life is demonstrated with an assortment of gun and bullet recipes. Recipes for wearable items such as glittering jewelry, jet packs, parachutes, and anti-push orbs are also presented. Recipes for slide shows, cannons, weather stations, and other miscellaneous items are also covered. Commerce is a huge part of Second Life. Two chapters are dedicated to commerce objects, such as tip jars, rental scripts and vendor kiosks.

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Call to Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results

Author: Bryan Eisenberg

Call to Action includes the information businesses need to know to achieve dramatic results from online efforts. Are you planning for top performance? Are you accurately evaluating that performance? Are you setting the best benchmarks for measuring success? How well are you communicating your value proposition? Are you structured for change? Can you achieve the momentum you need to get the results you want? If you have the desire and commitment to create phenomenal online results, then this book is your call to action.

Within these pages, New York Times best-selling authors Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg walk you through the five phases that comprise web site development, from the critical planning phase, through developing structure, momentum, and communication, to articulating value. Along the way, they offer advice and practical applications culled from their years of experience "in the trenches."

Table of Contents:

Contents

FOREWORD....................xi
INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF CONVERSION PRIMER Calculating Your Company's Conversion Rate....................xiii
Your Vertical Industry's Conversion Rate....................xiv
The Micro-Perspective on Conversion....................xv
Conversion versus Persuasion: A Bigger Picture....................xvii
Benefits of Increasing Your Conversion Rate....................xxiii
CHAPTER ONE: PLANNING An Incredibly Condensed History of Persuasion and Sales....................1
Value-Customer Defined....................3
A Solid Foundation....................7
Principle #1: Avoid Accidental Marketing....................10
Principle #2: Get the Winning Edge....................12
Principle #3: Understand Your Customers....................14
Principle #4: Don't Frustrate Your Customers....................15
Principle #5: Shun Assumptions That Kill Sales....................20
Principle #6: Put Customer Service Where It Counts....................23
Principle #7: Emphasize Conversion....................27
Principle #8: Recheck the Basics....................32
CHAPTER TWO: STRUCTURING From Traditional to Persuasion Architecture....................38
Architect Your Path to Success....................42
Uncovery-A Closer Look....................48
(Wire) Frame Yourself....................68
Storyboarding-Now the Plot Thickens....................69
Why Success Among the Failures....................107
KISS Your Customers If You Want Them Back....................109
CHAPTER THREE: COMMUNICATING 20,000 Leagues into theBrain....................112
Does Your Online Writing Have What It Takes?....................115
Case Study: MaxEffect Before and After....................119
Image and Web Site Images....................123
Can't Smell It on the Web?....................127
When Your Copy Must Leap Oceans....................129
In-Site Search Engines-Thumbs Down....................131
E-mail Strategy-Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time....................133
Advanced Wordsmithing: Three Stylistic Ways to Become Memorable....................139
Some Final Thoughts on Language....................140
CHAPTER FOUR: MOMENTUM The Foundation for Momentum....................143
Persuasive Scenarios....................146
Don't Slow 'Em Down....................150
Qualifying Your Visitors....................152
Overcoming Analysis Paralysis....................157
Map Scent Trails That Build Momentum....................159
The ABCs of GTC (and By the Way, POA)....................171
Twenty Tips for Lowering Shopping Cart Abandonment....................178
How CafePress.com Lowered Its Abandonment Rate....................185
What About Your Web Forms?....................195
The New Frontier: Complex Sales....................205
CHAPTER FIVE: OPTIMIZING "Good Enough" Conversion Rates?....................209
E-Commerce Metrics: Drowning in Your Own Data?....................213
Ending the Single Page Visit....................218
Is Your Home Page Helping or Hindering Sales?....................219
Beyond the Sacred Portal of the Home Page....................221
Increase Your Pay-Per-Click ROI....................222
Optimizing Your Scent Trails....................223
Making the Dial Move by Testing....................224
Web Analytics for Retailers....................229
GLOSSARY....................238
NOTES....................258