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Java Web Services: Up and Running by Martin Kalin

2010-09-03T03:06:00.001-07:00

Java Web Services: Up and Running

A quick, practical, and thorough introduction

By: Martin Kalin
Publisher:: O'Reilly Media
Released:: February 2009
Pages:: 320

This example-driven book offers a thorough introduction to Java's APIs for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).

Java Web Services: Up and Running takes a clear, pragmatic approach to these technologies by providing a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing an application. You'll learn how to write web services from scratch and integrate existing services into your Java applications. With Java Web Services: Up and Running, you will:

Understand the distinction between SOAP-based and REST-style services
Write, deploy, and consume SOAP-based services in core Java
Understand the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) service contract
Recognize the structure of a SOAP message
Learn how to deliver Java-based RESTful web services and consume commercial RESTful services
Know security requirements for SOAP- and REST-based web services
Learn how to implement JAX-WS in various application servers

Ideal for students as well as experienced programmers, Java Web Services: Up and Running is the concise guide you need to start working with these technologies right away.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Java Web Services Quickstart

What Are Web Services?
A First Example
A Perl and a Ruby Requester of the Web Service
The Hidden SOAP
A Java Requester of the Web Service
Wire-Level Tracking of HTTP and SOAP Messages
What's Clear So Far?

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Java Pocket Guide by Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori

2010-09-03T03:03:00.000-07:00

Java Pocket Guide

By: Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori
Publisher:: O'Reilly Media
Released:: March 2008
Pages:: 192

How many times have you reached an impasse while writing code because you couldn't remember how something in Java worked? This new pocket guide is designed to keep you moving. Concise, convenient and easy to use, the Java Pocket Guide gives you Java stripped down to its bare essentials -- in fact, it's the only book on Java that you can actually fit in your pocket.

Written by Robert and Patricia Liguori, senior software and lead information engineers for Java-based air traffic management and simulation environments, Java Pocket Guide contains everything you really need to know about Java, particularly everything you need to remember. The book pays special attention to the new areas in Java 5 and 6, such as generics and annotations.

Why do you need the Java Pocket Guide?

It's the only CliffsNotes-style guide to Java available
Lets you find important things quickly without consulting 1000-page tutorials
Includes many command-line options
Organized for quick and easy use on the job

If you're looking to learn some aspect of Java, this is not your book. Java Pocket Guide is for the experienced Java programmers among you who need quick reminders to jog your memory on how something in the language works. Simply put, this pocket guide offers practical help for practicing developers.

Table of Contents

Language

Chapter 1 Naming Conventions

Class Names
Interface Names
Method Names
Instance and Static Variable Names
Parameter and Local Variables Names
Generic Type Parameter Names

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Head First Java, Second Edition

2010-09-03T03:00:00.001-07:00

Head First Java, Second Edition

By Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Released:February 2005
Pages:720

Product Details

Title:

Head First Java, Second Edition

By:

Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media

Formats:

Print
Ebook
Safari Books Online

Print Release:

February 2005

Ebook Release:

June 2009

Pages:

720

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-00920-5

| ISBN 10:

0-596-00920-8

Ebook ISBN:

978-0-596-55682-2

| ISBN 10:

0-596-55682-9

Description

Head First Java delivers a highly interactive, multisensory learning experience that lets new programmers pick up the fundamentals of the Java language quickly. Through mind-stretching exercises, memorable analogies, humorous pictures, and casual language, Head First Java encourages readers to think like a Java programmer. This revised second edition focuses on Java 5.0, the latest version of the Java development platform.

Full Description

Learning a complex new language is no easy task especially when it s an object-oriented computer programming language like Java. You might think the problem is your brain. It seems to have a mind of its own, a mind that doesn't always want to take in the dry, technical stuff you're forced to study.

The fact is your brain craves novelty. It's constantly searching, scanning, waiting for something unusual to happen. After all, that's the way it was built to help you stay alive. It takes all the routine, ordinary, dull stuff and filters it to the background so it won't interfere with your brain's real work--recording things that matter. How does your brain know what matters? It's like the creators of the Head First approach say, suppose you're out for a hike and a tiger jumps in front of you, what happens in your brain? Neurons fire. Emotions crank up. Chemicals surge.

That's how your brain knows.

And that's how your brain will learn Java. Head First Java combines puzzles, strong visuals, mysteries, and soul-searching interviews with famous Java objects to engage you in many different ways. It's fast, it's fun, and it's effective. And, despite its playful appearance, Head First Java is serious stuff: a complete introduction to object-oriented programming and Java. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals to advanced topics, including threads, network sockets, and distributed programming with RMI. And the new. second edition focuses on Java 5.0, the latest version of the Java language and development platform. Because Java 5.0 is a major update to the platform, with deep, code-level changes, even more careful study and implementation is required. So learning the Head First way is more important than ever.

If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect--a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. You'll see why people say it's unlike any other Java book you've ever read.

By exploiting how your brain works, Head First Java compresses the time it takes to learn and retain--complex information. Its unique approach not only shows you what you need to know about Java syntax, it teaches you to think like a Java programmer. If you want to be bored, buy some other book. But if you want to understand Java, this book's for you.

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Popular Science Magazine

2009-11-06T03:14:00.001-08:00

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The 'What's New'" magazine of science and technology. Covering the latest developments in cars, electronics, communications, tools, energy, aviation, science, space exploration and much more.

Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the ASME awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 (for General Excellence) and 2004 (for Best Magazine Section). PopSci has been translated into over 30 languages and goes out to at least 45 countries[citation needed].

From 1935 to 1949, the magazine sponsored a series of short films, produced by Jerry Fairbanks and released by Paramount Pictures. On January 25, 2007, Time Warner sold this magazine, along with 17 other special interest magazines, to Bonnier Magazine Group.[1] On September 24, 2008, Australian publishing company Australian Media Properties (part of the WW Media Group) launched a local version of Popular Science. It is a monthly magazine, like its American counterpart, and uses content from the American version of the magazine as well as local material.[2] Australian Media Properties also launched http://www.popsci.com.au/ at the same time, a localised version of the Popular Science website.

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Sunset ( MAGAZINE )

2009-11-06T03:04:00.001-08:00

Who Reads Sunset?
Sunset celebrates the promise of the West. It covers travel, garden, home, and food, guiding readers to experiences and advantages only the West can offer. Sunset provides foolproof yet adventurous recipes, step-by-step gardening information, ingenious designs for homes and outdoor-living spaces, and travel discoveries for day trips and weekend escapes. It inspires its audience with new ideas and show them how they can easily make them their own. Sunset focus on serving homeowners in the 13 Western states, with content customized into five editions: Northern California, Southern California, Northwest, Mountain, and Southwest. Localized content for each edition includes a five-page Weekend Guide and garden advice tailored to the distinct growing conditions in each area.

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Weekend Guide for 5 different regions: What to do close to home right now: city day trips; new shopping and dining experiences; hiking and other outdoor activities; romantic getaways and quick vacations.
Taste Journey: The top food/travel destination each month, from a great seafood joint to a stellar sparkling winery.
Design That Works: What makes a great outdoor living space? We break it down.
Garden Checklist: How to keep your garden thriving each month.
Natural Home: Innovative, eco-friendly home decor and remodeling ideas.
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Wine in the West: Perfect pairing ideas and the best bottles to buy.
Features: An in-depth look at how to experience the best of the West, such as "The Last Great Ski Resort, "Secret Grand Canyon," "Lavender Fields of Dreams," or "Western Wine Awards."

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Sunset's photos and design elements work together to invite readers to get out and experience the West for themselves: to visit the destinations, grow the gardens, cook the food. Photographs are simultaneously inspirational and informative; "Design That Works" departments draw out specific takeaway lessons from the photos. Functional maps in each month's Weekend guide make it possible for readers to grab the issue and go. Step-by-step photos and captions spell out how to lay a gravel path or carve a turkey.

Contributors:
Sunset is written by people who live in the West for people who live in West. Our staff writers are recognized experts in Western travel, garden, home and remodeling, food and wine. Major voices in the West, such as Jane Smiley or Tobias Wolff, are sometimes invited to share their perspectives.

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Sunset is both honest and inspirational. Its ideas and recipes are tested and refined in the contributors' own travels, test kitchen, test garden, and Idea Houses. Unlike other lifestyle magazines, Sunset is not for "armchair readers." The stories are written for people who want to get out and do: go, garden, build, and entertain.

Advertisers:
Advertisers are a mix of major brands such as airlines, cruise lines, wine makers, and manufacturers of remodeling materials, looking to reach the active, engaged Westerner. Unique to Sunset is the regional "Travel Directory," which delivers information and special offers from local destinations.

Awards:

2007 Maggie Award (from Western Publications Association): Best regional or state magazine
2007 American Graphic Designer Award for Sunset Outdoor Living
2007 Horticultural Communication Award to Sunset Garden Editor Kathleen Brenzel

Product Description

Sunset, The Magazine of Western Living, will show you what, when, where and how to enhance your life in the West. Each one of Sunset's 5 regional editions contains tips on local gardening, low-fat cooking, regional travel and home decorating and remodeling.

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Good Housekeeping (1-year) [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

2009-11-06T02:59:00.001-08:00

Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval."

The magazine was founded May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by the Hearst Corporation. In 1966 it reached 5,500,000 readers.

Good Housekeeping is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

The Hearst Corporation created a British edition along the same lines in 1922.

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JAVA EBOOK-MANNING: STRUTS 2 IN ACTION MAY 2008(WITH SOURCE CODE)

2009-11-06T02:53:00.001-08:00

Chapter 1 gets us started gently. We begin with a hurried analyse of the surround in which Struts 2 occurs, including brief studies of scheme applications and frameworks. We then verify the mandatory architectural countenance from 30,000 feet. Unless you're old with WebWork, the genuine cipher humble antecedent of Struts 2, this high-level overview of the hold module be your prototypal countenance at a evenhandedly newborn and engrossing artefact of doing things.
Chapter 2 revisits the architectural generalisation of the prototypal chapter as demonstrated in a HelloWorld distribution application. We do digit versions of HelloWorld. First, we exhibit how to ingest XML to tell your Struts 2 architectural metadata; then we do it again using Java annotations for that aforementioned purpose.
Chapter 3 kicks soured the set assets of the aggregation by introducing and good concealment the Struts 2 state component. Actions are at the hunch of Struts 2, and it wouldn't attain significance to move anywhere else.
Chapter 4 continues the set topics by introducing digit of the most essential components of the framework, the interceptor. Struts 2 uses interceptors to compel nearly every of the essential functionality of the framework.
Chapter 5 finishes soured the communicating of hold principle by concealment the accumulation designate mechanisms of the system. One of the most original features of Struts 2 is its semiautomatic designate and transmutation of accumulation between the protocol and Java realms.
Chapter 6 starts news of the analyse place aspects of the framework. In particular, this chapter module inform the Struts 2 Tag API. This launching explains how to ingest the OGNL countenance module to intend your safekeeping on the accumulation in the ValueStack and ActionContext, which we met in the preceding chapter.
Chapter 7 introduces the ordinal earth accumulate of the Struts 2 tags, the Struts 2 UI components. The UI components are the tags that you ingest to physique the individual interfaces of your scheme application. As such, they allow modify components, book earth components, and the like. But don't nonachievement the Struts 2 UI components for your father's HTML tags, if you undergo what I mean.
Chapter 8 rounds discover communication of the analyse place of the hold by introducing the termination component. This set factor highlights the pliant nature of Struts 2.
Chapter 9 begins to exhibit you how to alter your base Struts 2 concealment up to business standards. In particular, we verify the possibleness to go soured matter by display you how to ingest Struts 2's Spring plug-in to alter dependency shot into your application.
Chapter 10 continues the way of making your concealment more civilised by display how to ingest Struts 2's determination hold to acquire metadata-driven determination of your data.
Chapter 11 introduces the Struts 2 internationalization and fix support, and carefully walks you finished every of the fine-grained details.
Chapter 12 introduces the Struts 2 plug-in architecture. Like some well-designed software, you should be healthy to modify the functionality without modifying existing code, and Struts 2 leverages the plug-in structure for this rattling purpose.
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Chapter 14 organizes a migration organisation to support you transformation from Struts 1.x to the elating Struts Web 2.0 world. This chapter also points discover similarities and differences between the digit Struts versions.
Chapter 15 reveals techniques that permit you investment the genuine fiber of the framework. This chapter contains modern concepts, and should be feature individual nowadays before play some large-scale Struts 2 project.
Download liberated pdf ebooks on java: Manning: Struts 2 in Action May 2008(with maker code)

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EFFECTIVE JAVA (2ND EDITION) EFFECTIVE JAVA (2ND EDITION)

2009-11-06T02:52:00.001-08:00

About the Author book composer is honcho Java creator at Google and a Jolt Award winner. He was previously a important organise at Sun Microsystems and a grownup systems specializer at Transarc. composer led the organisation and feat of numerous Java papers features, including JDK 5.0 module enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He coauthored Java™ Puzzlers (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Java™ Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley, 2006).
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BEGINNING JAVA OBJECTS FROM CONCEPTS TO CODE SECOND EDITION

2009-11-06T02:29:00.001-08:00

Beginning Java Objects From Concepts To Code Second Edition helps u to organisation objects effectively with Java planning module an qualifier still comprehendible pass to goal design, using UML and today's hottest planning language.
The info of Java, from base module features to a ultimate tutorial for antiquity drinkable programme in Swing, rise exclusive after a complete journeying of intellection in drinkable object.
Among Java's some captivating features as a drinkable planning language, its object-oriented nature is key to creating powerful, reusable code and applications that are cushy to reassert and extend. To verify plus of these capabilities, you're feat to requirement not exclusive to officer the scheme of the drinkable planning language, but also to acquire a applicatory discernment of what objects are every about, and more importantly, how to scheme a Java covering from the connector up to attain the most of objects. With Beginning drinkable goal From Concepts to Code, you module see every three!
Language: arts – 1000 pages -Format: PDF
Publisher: :Apress; 2nd edition (June 20, 2005)
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INJECTING ROLES IN JAVA AGENTS THROUGH RUNTIME BYTECODE MANIPULATION.: AN ARTICLE FROM: IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL [HTML] (DIGITAL)

2009-11-06T02:28:00.001-08:00

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This digital writing is an article from IBM Systems Journal, publicised by IBM Corp. on March 1, 2005. The size of the article is 12225 words. The tender size shown above is supported on a exemplary 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML info and is acquirable in your Amazon.com Digital Locker directly after purchase. You crapper analyse it with some scheme browser.

From the author: Agents are problem-solving entities that crapper be utilised to amend Byzantine and diffuse systems because they are autonomous, mobile, reactive, social, and proactive. Today's trends in businessperson profession allow the utilization of applications as multi-agent systems, where individual agents interact within the aforementioned application. In these systems, the interactions among agents staleness be carefully considered. Roles represent a coercive family for moulding interactions, allowing recursive issues and interaction-dependent issues to be handled independently. In this paper, we inform the RoleX interaction infrastructure, which enables Java[TM] agents to dynamically adopt and ingest roles at runtime. Our move is supported on using bytecode touching to add (or remove) Java members from agents, dynamical their capabilities. We discourse the important factor of RoleX, the Role Loader, which performs the bytecode touching that allows agents to dynamically adopt and promulgation roles.

Citation Details
Title: Injecting roles in Java agents finished runtime bytecode manipulation.
Author: G. Cabri
Publication: IBM Systems Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: IBM Corp.
Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Page: 185(24)

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JAVA ENTERPRISE DESIGN PATTERNS: PATTERNS IN JAVA (KINDLE EDITION)

2009-11-06T02:26:00.001-08:00

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A how-to pass for Java programmers who poverty to ingest organisation patterns when nonindustrial real-world project applications
This applicatory aggregation explores the person of organisation patterns, or patterns that become in the organisation form of a project's chronicle cycle. With an inflection on Java for the enterprise, Mark Grand guides Java programmers on how to administer tralatitious and newborn patterns when artful a super project application. The communicator understandably explains how existing patterns impact with the newborn project organisation patterns and demonstrates finished housing studies how to ingest organisation patterns in the actual world. Features allow over 50 organisation patterns, apiece mapped discover by UML, nonnegative an overview of UML 1.4 and how it fits in with the assorted phases of a project's chronicle cycle.

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Use organisation patterns to amend real-world Java™ diffuse and Enterprise applications

This ordinal intensity from Mark Grand features 38 organisation patterns for nonindustrial real-world Java diffuse and project applications. Some of the key concepts awninged are sure dealings processing, diffuse objects, sure communication passing, concurrency management, goal persistence, and brick with time. The popularity of technologies for handling with these issues waxes and wanes. However, by explaining some of the problems that technologies much as J2EE are fashioned to solve, this aggregation documents the skills needed for artful cipher that module rest multipurpose with both underway and forthcoming technologies.

Along with a excess of applicatory examples, this inventiveness includes:

4 Transaction Patterns, 9 Distributed Architecture Patterns, 9 Distributed Computing Patterns, 7 Concurrency Patterns, 3 Temporal Patterns, and 6 Database Patterns
Guidance for thinking and artful large-scale e-commerce systems
A enduringness support to care and digest the info of how an goal is persisted

The CD-ROM contains every the cipher examples institute in the book.

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EBOOK XML, XSLT, JAVA, AND JSP: A CASE STUDY IN DEVELOPING A WEB APPLICATION

2009-11-06T02:24:00.001-08:00

XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study in Developing a Web Application
Publisher:New Riders Press (2001-07-19) | ISBN-10: 0735710899 | PDF | 4.3 Mb | 768 pages
As a Web Developer, you undergo the contest of antiquity burly applications on binary platforms. Creating genuinely takeout applications becomes doable by using Java for cipher and XML for organizing and managing data. "XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP:A Case Study" module support you tap the capabilities of XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP in your Web applications.
The author, Westy Rockwell, uses the hands-on move of a housing think to exhibit you how to ingest these technologies in realistically Byzantine situations. All the tools utilised in the housing think are free, so you crapper obtain them and tie the communicator in a actual unstoppered maker scheme chitchat application, acquirable online and with the aggregation CD-ROM. This aggregation provides you with the aggregation you requirement to full apply XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP in your scheme applications, and presents it in a applicatory and unequalled artefact finished the housing study.
With "XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study," you module see how to:
-Build scheme applications supported on XML, XSLT, Java Applets, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages
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-Use XML as a module to impart the structure and organisation of the covering itself, not meet its accumulation content
-Create a browseable individual programme for your scheme covering with JSP
-Use an Http Servlet, beans, and JSP bespoken tags to compel and curb Web applications
-Make and deploy a Java Applet to curb and change your Web covering individual interface
-Utilize Xerces and Xalan for XML and XSLT, to wage impulsive noesis to a Web application.
-Experiment with newborn techniques for XML hardware using Java objects

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Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous: National Post, Canada

2009-10-13T03:01:00.001-07:00

I am still trying to figure out why the Nobel Committee gave Barack Obama its annual peace prize. As far as it appears, the award was based on the fact that the U.S. President is a good-natured fellow who people seem to like — and who isn't George W. Bush.

In fact, committee chairman Thorbjoen Jagland didn't really try to pretend otherwise. Consider the committee's stated reasons, along with Mr. Jagland's comments when reporters pressed him to justify Mr. Obama's selection:

"He has created a new international climate."

"One of the first things he did was to go to Cairo to try to reach out to the Muslim world, then to restart the Mideast negotiations, and then he reached out to the rest of the world through international institutions."

"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play."

"Obama [has] captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future."

What seems clear from all this bafflegab is that Mr. Obama is being given his award for mere words — for striking fashionable poses in favour of multilateralism, for making a nice speech in Cairo, for offering "hope." Months after Americans learned to dismiss Mr. Obama's 2008 presidential campaign slogans as the bromides they were, Scandinavians apparently are still drinking his Kool-aid.

So who should have gotten the Nobel peace prize?

Instead of droning on about "hope" and "a new international climate," a group of people charged with awarding an annual peace prize might find it useful to focus on a more mundane and obvious inquiry. To wit: What part of the planet was beset by bloody war in 2008, but is now entirely at peace?

The only nation that fits the bill is Sri Lanka. And the reason for that is a ruthless military campaign waged by President Mahinda Rajapaksa against a militarized Tamil death cult known as the Tamil Tigers. This conflict has taken nearly 100,000 lives since it began three decades ago. But Rajapaksa ended it definitively at one stroke, killing or capturing virtually the entire Tiger leadership. It is one of the only times in the history of modern warfare that a guerrilla/terrorist movement has been utterly destroyed in such a fashion. Overnight, war became a stranger to Sri Lanka.

Sounds like a pretty good candidate for a "peace" prize, don't you think?

But of course, actually making peace is not what this nominal peace prize is about. It's about going through the motions of pursuing peace in a touchy-feely UN-approved way.
Mr. Rajapaksa has done some fairly nasty things en route to destroying the Tigers — including imprisoning and perhaps even killing pesky journalists and human-rights activists. More importantly (from a Scandinavian point of view), Mr. Rajapaksa committed an unpardonable foreign-policy sin en route to his victory: flouting "multilateralism." Which is to say that he ignored the bien pensant voices from abroad urging him to let the Tigers go just as the Sri Lankan military was about to administer the coup de grace. Had he listened, the war would continue to this day.

It's so much more fashionable to honour a man such as Mr. Obama, whose foreign-policy record hasn't been sullied by the moral trade-offs that inevitably accompany actually doing something to create peace on the battlefield.

Since the entire body of work for which Mr. Obama is being honoured consists of idealistic pronouncements, the Nobel prize committee was able to pick him without worrying that the choice could stir up controversy among umbraged minority groups, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or the UN's various institutional cheerleaders.

With this pick, the Nobel committee has declared itself to be a debating society — and it has given its shiny prize to the nice man who gave the best speech. It's like those beauty pageants wherein the MC asks contestants what they would do to promote world peace. The best answer earns applause, flowers and a trophy. But no one expects the winner to actually go out in her tiara and ballroom gown and stop people from fighting.

That task is left to head-knockers such as Mahinda Rajapaksa, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan. Their job is difficult and bloody. But every once in a while, as in Sri Lanka this year, they actually defeat the bad guys.

Then they go home, and turn on their televisions, and watch men such as Mr. Obama get showered with praise for their pretty words.

jkay@nationalpost.com

Photo: Barack Obama waves after his speech in front of the Siegessaeule on July 24, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

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Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition

2009-10-12T23:19:00.001-07:00

By Alessandro Rubini & Jonathan Corbet
2nd Edition June 2001
0-59600-008-1, Order Number: 0081
586 pages, $39.95

Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition

Full License

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DocBook format (If you don't have an XML reader or an XML-compliant browser, download this file and separate the chapters.)

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers
Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules
Chapter 3: Char Drivers
Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques
Chapter 5: Enhanced Char Driver Operations
Chapter 6: Flow of Time
Chapter 7: Getting Hold of Memory
Chapter 8: Hardware Management
Chapter 9: Interrupt Handling
Chapter 10: Judicious Use of Data Types
Chapter 11: kmod and Advanced Modularization
Chapter 12: Loading Block Drivers
Chapter 13: mmap and DMA
Chapter 14: Network Drivers
Chapter 15: Overview of Peripheral Buses
Chapter 16: Physical Layout of the Kernel Source
Bibliography
Index

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The Art of Unix Programming

2009-10-12T23:18:00.001-07:00

Eric Steven Raymond

Thyrsus Enterprises

This book and its on-line version are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 license, with the additional proviso that the right to publish it on paper for sale or other for-profit use is reserved to Pearson Education, Inc. A reference copy of this license may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/1.0/legalcode.

AIX, AS/400, DB/2, OS/2, System/360, MVS, VM/CMS, and IBM PC are trademarks of IBM. Alpha, DEC, VAX, HP-UX, PDP, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, VMS, and VT-100 are trademarks of Compaq. Amiga and AmigaOS are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. Apple, Macintosh, MacOS, Newton, OpenDoc, and OpenStep are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. ClearCase is a trademark of Rational Software, Inc. Ethernet is a trademark of 3COM, Inc. Excel, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and PowerPoint are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. Java. J2EE, JavaScript, NeWS, and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. SPARC is a trademark of SPARC international. Informix is a trademark of Informix software. Itanium is a trademark of Intel. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Netscape is a trademark of AOL. PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe, Inc. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group.

The photograph of Ken and Dennis in Chapter�2 appears courtesy of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.

The epigraph on the Portability chapter is from the Bell System Technical Journal, v57 #6 part 2 (July-Aug. 1978) pp. 2021-2048 and is reproduced with the permission of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.

Revision History
Revision 1.0	19 September 2003	esr
This is the content that went to Addison-Wesley's printers.
Revision 0.4	5 February 2003	esr
Release for public review.
Revision 0.3	22 January 2003	esr
First eighteen-chapter draft. Manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 12. Limited release for early reviewers.
Revision 0.2	2 January 2003	esr
First manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 7. Released to Dmitry Kirsanov at AW production.
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First DocBook draft, fifteen chapters. Languages rewritten to incorporate lots of feedback. Transparency, Modularity, Multiprogramming, Configuration, Interfaces, Documentation, and Open Source chapters released. Shipped to Mark Taub at AW.
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GTK+/Gnome Application Development

2009-10-12T23:16:00.001-07:00

This is the official GNOME programming manual, and is also a printed book available in stores (New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0-7357-0078-8). The book is under a free license. It's in CVS under the GGAD module. The HTML version is here

More information on the book, including errata and an outline, can be found here.

There are some translations of the book; I know several are in progress, but here are the completed translations I know about:

Italian

A tarball of the HTML version is here, suitable for browsing offline.

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KDE 2.0 Development

2009-10-12T23:09:00.001-07:00

David Sweet, et al.

This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).

Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder.

No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-067972

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing: October 2000

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Warning and Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information provided is on an "as is" basis. The authors and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book.

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Knowing Knoppix

2009-10-12T23:08:00.001-07:00

The first guide to Knoppix for the complete beginner

Knoppix is an astoundingly clever product. It runs Linux completely from CD. There is no need to install. It bypasses all the software already installed on your PC or laptop. It automatically detects the hardware in your computer, such as video card, sound card, networking, the lot (subject to suitable hardware). When you've finished using Knoppix, simply restart. Your computer will return to your regular system, and it will behave as if nothing has happened. Knoppix is Free Software and open source under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

Knowing Knoppix is a beginner-friendly book designed to help with these situations:

You can't start Windows! Disaster? Possibly not. It is often possible to rescue files from crashed Windows computers, even when Windows cannot be started. This guide takes you step by step through the process.
You are curious about Linux, and you want to discover what all the fuss is about.
You want a useful guide to help you get started.

This is not a "dummies" book. Instead, it is for smart people who want - or need - to run Knoppix for the very first time.

Reviews

Some of the comments we have received (slightly edited):

"Amazingly useful, well written and concise" -- Sam Posten, Adjunct Professor, Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA
"Easy and educational" -- Mark Repp, Technology Trainer, Port Huron Area School District, USA
"Rocks. For the beginner, well written... flows" -- Knoppix Forums
"Hats off... an excellent book" -- Knoppix Forums
"Top Pick... a great introduction" -- Tech Support Alert

What's new

8 June 05: Added what to do if a printer is not listed in the Add Printer Wizard, or if it fails to respond to a test page.
8 May 05: Important corrections regarding 1) USB drive compatibility and 2) USB 2.0 support.

Requirements

To run Knoppix in full and follow the instructions in Knowing Knoppix, you need:

Intel Pentium compatible PC (350 Mhz or faster is the practical minimum).
At least 128 Mb RAM.
Bootable CD-ROM drive, or any CD-ROM drive plus 1.44 Mb floppy drive.
SVGA compatible graphics card.
Serial, PS/2 or USB mouse.

Download

Just as Knoppix is free, so is Knowing Knoppix. It is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. You are welcome to copy and redistribute it (subject to certain conditions). You will probably want to download the PDF version. The source archive contains the original documents in OpenOffice.org version 1.1.1 (SXW) format.

Main content (3.8 Mb PDF)
Front cover (91 Kb PDF)
Back cover (271 Kb PDF)
Source (7.2 Mb tar/gzip archive)

Knowing Knoppix is designed for off-line reading, preferably printed. It is meant to be read as a companion to your PC or laptop, not as part of it. That is why it is offered in PDF format. Please note that the version of Knoppix covered is 3.3, which is a bit dated now. Version 3.3 was the current version when we started writing the book.

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The GNU Bash Reference Manual (revised for version 3.2)

2009-10-12T23:00:00.001-07:00

by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox

Paperback (6"x9"), 204 pages. Revised October 2006.
Retail Price: $29.95 (£19.95 in UK)
ISBN: 0-9541617-7-7

Reviews

This book has received a top-rated review in Linux User and Developer Magazine:

"An essential resource .... the most detailed coverage available for all aspects of Bash" --- Linux User and Developer Magazine (Issue 37, Mar 2004)

About the Book

This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. It covers the current major release of Bash (v3.2, revised printing November 2006).

GNU Bash is a complete implementation of the POSIX.2 Bourne shell specification (/bin/sh), with additional features from the C-shell (csh) and Korn shell (ksh).

The authors of this manual, Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, are the original developers of GNU Bash.

You can examine the contents of the printed book here,

View sample pages (individual pages in image format)
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For each copy of this manual sold, $1 is donated to the Free Software Foundation.

As of September 2009 the total amount donated to FSF is $2,785 from the sale of this and other books.

This book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition

2009-10-12T22:58:00.001-07:00

This is the web site for the Third Edition of Linux Device Drivers, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. For the moment, only the finished PDF files are available; we do intend to make an HTML version and the DocBook source available as well.

This book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. That means that you are free to download and redistribute it. The development of the book was made possible, however, by those who purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere.

LDD3 is current as of the 2.6.10 kernel. See the LWN 2.6 API changes page for information on subsequent changes.

LDD3 chapter files

Title page PDF

Copyright and credits PDF

Table of Contents PDF

Preface PDF

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers PDF

Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules PDF

Chapter 3: Char Drivers PDF

Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques PDF

Chapter 5: Concurrency and Race Conditions PDF

Chapter 6: Advanced Char Driver Operations PDF

Chapter 7: Time, Delays, and Deferred Work PDF

Chapter 8: Allocating Memory PDF

Chapter 9: Communicating with Hardware PDF

Chapter 10: Interrupt Handling PDF

Chapter 11: Data Types in the Kernel PDF

Chapter 12: PCI Drivers PDF
Chapter 13: USB Drivers PDF
Chapter 14: The Linux Device Model PDF
Chapter 15: Memory Mapping and DMA PDF

Chapter 16: Block Drivers PDF

Chapter 17: Network Drivers PDF

Chapter 18: TTY Drivers PDF

Index PDF

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Securing Java

2009-10-12T22:55:00.001-07:00

Java has grown by leaps and bounds since its introduction in 1996, and is now among the most popular computing platforms on the planet. Java has evolved and changed so much that at a mere two-years old, our original work, Java Security: Hostile Applets, Holes, and Antidotes, found itself in serious need of revision and expansion. This book is the result of several years of thinking about mobile code and security, and includes many things we have discovered while working on real-world systems with businesses and government agencies. Our goal is to present enough information to help you separate fact from fiction when it comes to mobile code security.

Java has become much more complicated and multifaceted than it was when it was introduced. No longer simply a client-side language for applets, Java can now be found on everything from enterprise application servers to embedded devices like smart cards. We have tried to address security factors from throughout the entire Java range in this book.

We hope this book appeals to geeks and grandmothers alike (not that some grandmothers aren't geeks). Although it gets technical in places, we hope the messages are clear enough that even the casual Web user comes away with a broader understanding of the security issues surrounding mobile code. We kept four groups in mind as we wrote this book: Web users, developers, system administrators, and business decision-makers. Many of the issues of mobile code security cut across these groups. As Java integrates itself into the foundations of electronic commerce, Java security issues take on more urgency.

Java is only one kind of mobile code among many. Other systems immersed in the same security dilemma include ActiveX, JavaScript, and Word Macros. It is essential not to get the wrong message from this book. Our focus on Java is no accident. We believe Java is the most viable mobile code system created to date. Don't believe that through our work we imply that other systems are any more secure than Java. Just the opposite is true.

With the introduction of code signing to Java (in JDK 1.1) and its enhancement with access control (in Java 2), securing Java became much harder. Java's position along the security/functionality tradeoff has moved significantly toward functionality, to the detriment of security. This is good if you want more functionality, which most businesses and developers seem to need, but it is bad if you are charged with managing security risks. Forming an intelligent Java use policy is more important than ever, but doing so is more complicated than it used to be.

The computer field moves so fast that people have begun to refer to Internet time to grapple with its constantly accelerating speed. Three months is a year in Internet time. Java is directly involved in the speed of the field, and has done its share to make things move even more quickly. One tricky aspect of writing a topical book relating to the Web is figuring out when to stop the action. This process can be likened to freeze-framing a picture of a movie. In that sense, this book is a snapshot of Java security. We hope we have succeeded in making it a useful way to learn about Java security. For up-to-date information, see the book's companion Web site at www.rstcorp.com/java-security.html.

As we went to press, Sun Microsystems renamed JDK 1.2 and called it Java 2. We have attempted to use correct version numbers throughout and apologize for any confusion.

Chapter 1, "Mobile Code and Security: Why Java Security Is Important,"," sets the stage with a discussion of the four intended audiences. As Java matures, it is making important inroads into the enterprise world. That means Java security is now as important to business people and system administrators as it is to Web users and Java developers. For the uninitiated, Chapter 1 provides a quick and cursory introduction to Java. Pointers are provided to more through Java texts that cover the ins and outs of the entire Java language in more detail. This is, after all, not a book on Java per se, but is instead a book on Java security. We also spend some time discussing why the once-important distinction between applets and applications has been superceded by concerns about trust. It turns out that under the Java 2 architecture, applets can be completely trusted and applications can be completely untrusted. In fact, every kind of Java code can be doled out different amounts of trust, depending on what the user's policy says. Finally, we cover some other popular forms of mobile code and discuss how their security stacks up against Java. The main purpose of this chapter is to provide some context for the later discussion of Java's critical security implications and to introduce the central idea of the book: weighing the benefits of Java use against the risks.

Chapter 2, "The Base Java Security Model: The Original Applet Sandbox," examines the base Java security model in some detail. As a prelude to our discussion, we introduce four categories of attacks, ranging from the very serious to the merely annoying: system modification, invasion of privacy, denial of service, and antagonism. We then discuss Java's programming-languages approach to security and introduce the three parts of the original applet sandbox. These include the Verifier, the Class Loader Architecture, and the Security Manager. We also introduce the idea that Java security fundamentally relies on ensuring type safety. The base sandbox provides the foundation of Java's new trust-based security model. Starting with a restrictive sandbox for untrusted code, restrictions can be lifted little by little until code takes on complete trust and is awarded full run of the entire system.

Chapter 3, "Beyond the Sandbox: Signed Code and Java 2," examines Java's new trust-based security model. With the addition of code signing in JDK 1.1, Java's security architecture underwent a large shift. Java 2 completed the transformation with the addition of access control. It is now possible to create complex security policy for mobile code written in Java and have the Java system itself enforce the policy. The change certainly affords more power to mobile code than ever before, but it also introduces a major new risk to Java: a human-centered policy management risk. Setting up and managing a mobile code policy will be a complex and error-prone undertaking requiring security experience. JDK 1.1 and Java 2 rest on the notion of trust, which leverages the technological power of code signing. Understanding the new model requires understanding the way code signing and trust interact, and discounting some of the common myths associated with it. Chapter 3 ends with a discussion of stack inspection and the Java 2 code-signing API. (Appendix C, "How to Sign Java Code," is a code-signing tutorial covering Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun's three different code signing schemes.)

Chapter 4, "Malicious Applets: Avoiding a Common Nuisance," begins to discuss what happens when the Java security model is abused by hostile applets. Hostile applets come in two forms: very dangerous attack applets that involve security breaches, and merely annoying malicious applets that are more of a nuisance than anything else. Chapter 4 is all about malicious applets. Malicious applets are quite easy to create, and they are equally easy to find on the Web. Unfortunately, there are just as many unscrupulous individuals on the Net as there are in the rest of the world. Bad guys are more than happy to include Java in their list of offensive weapons. Our mission is to make Java users aware of common classes of attacks.

Chapter 5, "Attack Applets: Exploiting Holes in the Security Model," delves more deeply into the Java security model by focusing attention on some of the well-publicized security holes that have been discovered. This is where our discussion of hostile applets turns more serious. Securing Java is a difficult job, especially when it comes to implementing complicated models. Attack applets have been created in the lab that exploit the holes we discuss. Some of the holes are simple implementation bugs, while others indicate more serious design flaws. The good news is that Sun and other licensees take Java security very seriously and they respond quickly to fix any holes once they are discovered. We think discussing these holes is important since it emphasizes the true nature of computer security.

Chapter 6, "Securing Java: Improvements, Solutions, and Snake Oil," has two overall goals, both of which are meant to impact the Java security situation positively. The first is to suggest some high-level antidotes for Java security concerns that are not tied to particular attacks. Experts in computer security have pointed out several global deficiencies in the Java approach to security. Fixing some of these would certainly improve the model. High-level concerns addressed in Chapter 6 include programming language issues, formal analysis of Java, applet logging, trust, decompilation, applet monitoring, and policy management. Hopefully, some of the high-level concerns we raise will eventually be addressed in the Java platform itself. In the meantime, a number of third-party vendors are eager to help. The second goal of Chapter 6 is to introduce the players briefly and to discuss what risks third-party vendors can and cannot address. The computer security field has its share of snake oil, and complex issues such as mobile code security tend to be easy to exploit. One of our goals is to bring some realism to the table and arm you with the right questions to ask.

If you only read one chapter of this book, read Chapter 7, "Java Security Guidelines: Developing and Using Java More Securely." This chapter presents two sets of guidelines: one for Java developers and one for Java users. Writing security-critical code is not easy, and developers need all the help they can get. We offer 12 rules for writing safer Java. Although the rules get a bit technical, it is worth spending some time to figure them out. By contrast, our guidelines for Java users are simple to understand and follow; in fact, most of them are simply common sense.

Chapter 8, "Java Card Security: How Smart Cards and Java Mix," is devoted to Java on smart cards. We decided to include this chapter since Java Cards are likely to show up in millions of consumer wallets in the next few years. Smart card security is really too big an issue to cover in a single chapter, so we focus primarily on the security impact of putting a Java Virtual Machine on a card. Chapter 8 covers six key questions, including: What is a smart card?, Why put Java on a smart card?, and How does the use of Java impact smart card security?

We conclude by covering some of the challenges to mobile code that remain to be conquered. Chapter 9, "The Future of Java Security: Challenges Facing Mobile Code," presents a concise set of six central lessons we have learned during our time in the Java security trenches. We go on to discuss several open research issues that you're likely to hear about again. Finally, we discuss the notion of security assurance, an important strategy in securing Java.

We hope that this book is both informative and useful. Making intelligent decisions regarding the use of Java (especially in business and other mission-critical systems) requires some knowledge of the current risks. Our goal is to disclose those risks-and countermeasures to curtail them-as clearly and objectively as possible. Armed with the knowledge that we present in this book, Java users, site managers, and business decision-makers can make better Java use policies.

Acknowledgments

This book is a collaborative effort in more ways than one. Not only did the authors work together closely, but we also sought input from many other people. We are grateful for the help we received.

Reliable Software Technologies (www.rstcorp.com) remains a great place to work. The intellectually stimulating environment makes going to work interesting and fun. Many people at RST read drafts of the book or helped in other ways. They include John Viega (intrepid proofreader and co-author of the code-signing tutorial in Appendix C), Tom O'Connor (who also read the entire manuscript more than once and co-wrote the code-signing tutorial), Anup Ghosh (fellow security researcher), Peggy Wallace (travel, anyone?), Lora Kassab (one-time RST intern whose code from the first edition lives on), Jeff Payne (RST's forward-thinking CEO), Jon Beskin, Matt Schmidt, Brad Arkin, Andi Bruno (who herds the marketing cats and makes us be nice), and Jeff Voas (who continues to lead RST's excellent research group by example).

The members of Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming Team (www.cs.princeton.edu/sip) also provided valuable input. Besides wading through several drafts, the Princeton team was responsible for raising many of the key issues in Java security. Special thanks to Drew Dean and Dan Wallach (cofounders of the Princeton team) and Dirk Balfanz. Dan is now a professor at Rice University. Drew is a research scientist at Xerox PARC. Princeton's Computer Science department provides a wonderful environment for discovering and exploring new research topics.

We would also like to thank Tom Cargill, independent consultant and discoverer of two security flaws; David Hopwood, discoverer of several attack applets; Mark LaDue, creator of the Hostile Applets Home Page (keep 'em honest, Mark); Dennis Volpano of the Naval Postgraduate School; Tom Longstaff, research director at the CERT Coordination Center; Roland Schemers, JavaSoft security implementation wizard (who helped with code-signing tool questions); Marianne Mueller, Java developer, security expert, and long-suffering target of press inquiries at JavaSoft; Jim Roskind, Netscape's Java security expert; Andrew Herbert, APM's Chief Scientist in the real Cambridge; Ken Ayer, chip card security manager at Visa; Don Byrd, UMass research associate and careful proofreader of the first edition; Hideyuki Hayashi, who translated the first edition into Japanese (and did an excellent job according to friends at Sumitomo in New York); Kieran Murphy, editor at developer.com; Chuck Howell, now at Mitretek; and Mike Shoffner, Java developer at Prominence Dot Com. Li Gong, security architect at JavaSoft, has been a particularly valuable help, both as a research colleague and as a sane point-of-view at JavaSoft. More power to you, Li.

Wiley's staff did an excellent job shepherding this book through the editing and production process. Special thanks to Marjorie Spencer and Frank Grazioli, who went out of their way to make this project go smoothly. Thanks to Margaret Hendrey for playing fast and loose with extensions (don't tell anybody). Also thanks to the rest of the team at Wiley. Finally, and most importantly, we're grateful to our families for putting up with us while we worked on the book, again. Amy Barley, Jack, and Eli seem to have adjusted to Gary's persistent book-writing. Laura Felten and Claire suspect that Ed's book-writing has become an addiction. Without the support of our families, this book would not have been possible.

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EJB Design Patterns

2009-10-12T22:50:00.001-07:00

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The job of the EJB developer is constantly challenging, making the task of designing maintainable and scalable systems difficult without a clear set of best practices to follow. It is with this and other concerns in mind that Floyd Marinescu (Director of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community) worked with thousands of J2EE professionals on TheServerSide to put their collective knowledge together in order to build a library of design patterns, strategies, and best practices for EJB design and development.

EJB Design Patterns goes beyond high-level design pattern descriptions into critical EJB-specific implementation issues, illustrated with source code implementations. The book contains a catalog of twenty advanced EJB patterns and provides strategies for mapping application requirements to patterns-driven design, J2EE development best practices, and a collection of EJB tips and strategies, and other topics such as Build-System best practices using Ant, JUnit testing strategies, using Java Data Objects (JDO) as an alternative to entity beans, and more.

EJB Design Patterns Topping Charts

EJB Design Patterns was the #2 book at this years Java One conference, and held the #1 book on amazon.com in the categories of Java, Web Development and Software Design for many weeks.

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Java Testing and Design

2009-10-12T22:48:00.001-07:00

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This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete advice about how to stay in tune with your project and ensure that your products are at least as good as your plans. - Phil Goodwin, Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Produce scalable, reliable, high-performance Web-enabled applications in Java.

Web infrastructure is everywhere. And yet until this book there was no guide to show how your choices in design, coding, and testing impact the scalability, performance, and functionality of your Web-enabled applications.

Java Testing and Design: From Unit Testing to Automated Web Tests teaches you a fast and efficient method to build production-worthy, scalable, and well performing Web-enabled applications. The techniques, methodology, and tools presented in this book will enable developers, QA technicians, and IT managers to work together to achieve unprecedented productivity in development and test automation.

With Java Testing and Design, you will be prepared for a laundry list of new APIs, protocols, and tools being packed into the next generation of J2EE, .NET, and open-source systems. While these new software libraries, tools, and techniques are a big move forward for all of us, they push us to learn even more technology to turn out complex, highly functional, and interoperable software applications.

Author Frank Cohen shares proven best practices based on his extensive experience at leading enterprises (General Motors, BEA, AMP, 2Wire, Elsevier, U.S. Navy, Sun) and delivers an immediately useful set of open-source tools, techniques, and code that will automate the testing of your Web-enabled applications.

Coverage includes:

Software development and test automation methodologies

Exposes the scalability problems in SOAP-based Web Services

Building, testing, and monitoring integrated multiple-protocol Web-enabled applications

Performance kits for developers using BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Sun Java System (formerly Sun ONE)

Architecture, code, and test agents for J2EE, Web Services, P2P, and .NET

Secure Internet services using current and next-generation technologies and much more!

Book Review of Java Testing and Design

Bart Thompson walks you through some of the key topics covered in Java Testing and Design.

"This book is an excellent guide to testing Web applications and Web services. I expect it will benefit all readers, from software developers or QA techs just getting started, through to the experienced coders and testers. The book took me past the basic stuff you learn in books on Java development and gives you the practical experience, tips and knowledge I needed to deliver software that scales and is reliable."
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The J2EE Architect's Handbook

2009-10-12T22:35:00.001-07:00

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"The J2EE Architect's Handbook can justifiably be considered to be the "bible" for J2EE based application designers and project managers." -- The Midwest Book Review (7/2/2004).

"Derek Ashmore has assembled a 'must have' book for anyone working with Java and/or J2EE applications." -- Dan Hotka, Author/Instructor

"The J2EE Architect's Handbook is a must have for experienced architects and budding designers alike. It is concise, to the point, and packed with real world code examples that reinforce each concept. Today's J2EE teams would do well to keep a copy at each designer's fingertips" -- Ross MacCharles, Lead Technical Architect.

This book is written for technical architects and senior developers tasked with designing and leading the development of J2EE java applications. This book will guide the architect through the entire process of delivering a project from analysis through application deployment providing numerous tips, tricks, and "best practices" along the way.

Readers will discover how to:

Design J2EE applications so that they are robust, extensible, and easy to maintain.

Apply commonly used design patterns effectively

Identify and address application architectural issues before they hinder the development team

Document and communicate the application design so that the development team's work is targeted

Avoid common mistakes that derail project budgets and timelines.

Guide the development team through the design and construction process.

Setup effective procedures and guidelines that increase stability and decrease bug reports

Effectively estimate needed resources and timelines

Author Bio:

Derek Ashmore is the managing consultant and CTO for Delta Vortex Technologies (dvt.com). He routinely provides consulting services for companies designing and developing commercial web applications. Derek has over 15 years experience and is currently focusing on Java, J2EE, and other internet-related technologies.

Derek is widely published with most recent publications including articles in JavaPro and the Java Developers Journal. Derek can be reached at dashmore@dvt.com. More information about Derek can be found at his web site: DerekAshmore.com

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Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans Third Edition

2009-10-12T22:20:00.001-07:00

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Published in January 2005, the best-selling book Mastering EJB is now in its third edition and has been updated for EJB2.1 and also features new chapters on security and Web services integration. The book is about EJB concepts, methodology and development. This book also contains a number of advanced EJB topics, giving you a practical and real�world understanding of the subject. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB.

What you will find here

This is the official homepage for Mastering EJB Third Edition. Here you can download the entire book in PDF format for free, and you will also find the source code for the book. Errata will also be posted here.

Important Links

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Mastering EJB Third Edition & source code
Mastering EJB Second Edition & source code

What's new with Mastering EJB Third Edition:

Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions

The book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience

Demonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimization

Offers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB

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Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0

2009-10-12T22:19:00.001-07:00

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Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated for EJB 3.0. This edition features chapters on session beans and message-driven beans, EJB-Java EE integration and advanced persistence concepts. In-depth coverage of the Java Persistence API and using POJO entities with EJB is also included. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB 3.0.

What you will find here

This is the official homepage for Mastering EJB 3.0. Here you can download the entire book in PDF format for free, along with the source code for the book.

Important Links

Purchase the book on Amazon.com
Mastering EJB 3.0 & source code
Mastering EJB Third Edition & source code

What's new with Mastering EJB 3.0:

More than 50% new and revised material

Four new chapters and one new appendix covering the latest features of the new release

Basic and advanced concepts (such as inheritance, relationships, and so on) of Java Persistence API defined entities

Information on integrating EJB applications with the outside world via the Java EE Connector technology

Tips and techniques for designing and deploying EJB for better performance

Best practices for EJB 3.0 application design, development and testing

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Jakarta Struts Live

2009-10-12T22:16:00.001-07:00

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Jakarta Struts Live contains thorough coverage of both the Struts MVC architecture and building each of the Struts components of this architecture. You'll learn to use vital features like Tiles, the Validator, DynaActionForms, plug-ins, and internationalization. You also look at how you can leverage other open-source technologies to improve your Struts development process and experiences.

Some of the topics covered by Jakarta Struts Live include:

Getting Started with Struts

Testing Struts Applications

ActionForms and DynaActionForms

The Validator Framework

The Model-View-Controller Architecture

The Struts Tag Library

Using Tiles

The JSTL and Struts

Internationalization (I18N)

Extending Struts

What you will find here

For those of you not familiar with the SourceBeat model, our titles are available as one year subscriptions. Our expert authors update their titles each month, ensuring you are receiving the most up to date information on the open source topic. In addition, you can interact with the author via our blogs and help shape the future chapters of the titles.

Rick Hightower is the owner of the Struts Live title for SourceBeat. Rick is a best-selling author of books such as Java Tools for Extreme Programming and Python Programming With the Java Class Libraries. Rick has also written tutorials and articles for IBM DeveloperWorks and Java Developer's Journal. In his spare time, Rick is CTO for ArcMind, Inc.

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Advanced Programming for the Java 2 Platform

2009-10-12T05:47:00.001-07:00

By Calvin Austin and Monica Pawlan

November 1999

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As an experienced developer on the Java platform, you undoubtedly know how fast moving and comprehensive the platform is. Its many application programming interfaces (APIs) provide a wealth of functionality for all aspects of application and system-level programming. Real-world developers never use one or two APIs to solve a problem, but bring together key functionality spanning a number of APIs. Knowing which APIs you need, which parts of which APIs you need, and how the APIs work together to create the best solution can be a daunting task.

To help you navigate the Java APIs and fast-track your project development time, this book includes the design, development, test, and deployment phases for an enterprise-worthy auction application. While the example application does not cover every possible programming scenario, it explores many common situations and the discussions leave you with a solid methodology for designing and building your own solutions.

This book is for developers with more than a beginning level of understanding of writing programs in the Java programming language. The example application is written with the Java® 2 platform APIs and explained in terms of functional hows and whys, so if you need help installing the Java platform, setting up your environment, or getting your first application to work, you should first read a more introductory book such as Essentials of the Java Programming Language: A Hands-On Guide or The Java Tutorial.

Note: This tutorial is available as a book from online book sellers

Contents

Chapter 1: Matching Project Requirements with Technology

Chapter 2: Auction House Application

Chapter 3: Data and Transaction Management

Chapter 4: Distributed Computing

Chapter 5: Java Native Interface (JNI) Technology

Chapter 6. Project Swing: Building a User Interface

Chapter 7: Debugging Applets, Applications, and Servlets

Chapter 8: Performance Techniques

Chapter 9: Deploying the Auction Application

Chapter 10: More Security Topics

Appendix A: Security and Permissions
Appendix B: Classes, Methods, and Permissions
Appendix C: SecurityManager Methods

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TIME Magazine Cover: Hillary Clinton: In Her Own Words

2009-10-08T06:07:00.001-07:00

Hillary Clinton: In Her Own Words

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God and Hillary Clinton by Paul Kengor

2009-10-08T06:04:00.001-07:00

Hillary Clinton: committed Christian? What she really believes about God

God and Hillary Clinton

by Paul Kengor

She was raised a Methodist. She led Bible studies and prayer groups throughout her years in the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Yet she has clearly strayed from her spiritual roots, and has even dabbled in New Age mysticism. So is the woman who wants to be our next President really a committed Christian, as she claims? In God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life, historian Paul Kengor (author of the New York Times Bestseller God and Ronald Reagan) offers the first-ever "spiritual history" of the First Lady, Senator, and presidential candidate. Talking with people who witnessed her faith firsthand, he decisively answers the elusive question: what does Hillary Clinton really believe?

Kengor's exhaustive research intertwines Hillary's spiritual evolution with her personal history. He discusses how her strong Methodist upbringing laid a foundation that led to those Bible studies while she was Arkansas's First Lady. Then he lays bare some of the stranger episodes in her spiritual past -- including the erosion of her faith during the 60s and 70s and her experimentation with New Age psychobabble while in the White House. Exploring how her faith has influenced her secular policies, Kengor determines which of her religious beliefs appear genuine and which seem inspired by a base lust for votes. Kengor scrutinizes in particular her unwavering pro-abortion stance, examining how she reconciles this with her self-proclaimed Christian faith.

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Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

2009-10-08T06:01:00.001-07:00

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BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:

This is Hillary's autobiography, published in 2003 in preparation for her presidential run. It is the book which is dissected and analyzed by all of her critics and supporters, in most detail in A Woman in Charge (by Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate story) and in Her Way (by the reporters who broke the Whitewater story). If you want to form your own opinions, rather than trust those of the pundits and/or Hillary's critics, this book is a must-read. Our excerpts, of course, will do.

This book traces Hillary's life from her girlhood in a Chicago suburb through her election to the Senate. She says in the introduction that it was originally intended to be only a portrait of her 8 years in the White House, but, she writes, "I quickly realized that I couldn't exlpain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning." The book chronicles, in traditional chronological sequence, Hillary's years in college; meeting Bill Clinton; as Arkansas' First Lady; the road to the White House; and finally her election in new York.

The book has chapters that will provide fodder for Hillary's supporters:

"Class of '69", about her Wellesley graduation speech, her first claim to public fame;
"East Wing, West Wing", about Hillary's expansion of the First Lady's role;
"Women's Rights Are Human Rights", about Hillary's trip to China and her most famous speech there;
"Conversations With Eleanor", about her identifying with Eleanor Roosevelt.

And the book has chapters that will provide fodder for Hillary's detractors:

"Health Care", about her failed healthcare task force;
"Independent Counsel", about the Whitewater investigation;
"Soldiering On", the gently-named chapter about Monica Lewinsky;
"Impeachment", about Bill's worst episode as President, and her reaction.

There's not much in the way of issues here -- it's mostly personal history and personal impressions of historic events. But when you're running for President, those personal things are important too. So read on.

-- Jesse Gordon, jesse@OnTheIssues.org, Dec. 2007

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Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans Third Edition

2009-10-01T07:05:00.001-07:00

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What you will find here

What's new with Mastering EJB Third Edition:

Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions

The book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience

Offers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB

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Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier

2009-10-01T07:03:00.001-07:00

Addison-Wesley and Developmentor have provided TheServerSide.com with the entire book of Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier

for free download. Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier is a book authored by Jayson Falkner and Kevin Jones about the latest in Servlets and JSP. The current version of the book covers Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, and the JSTL 1.0. Both Kevin and Jayson helped directly make the specifications and are proud to publish one of the first books covering the technologies. Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier is comprehensive and covers everything you need to know about building Java web applications.

Who is This Book For?

Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier is designed for developers of all levels. The book assumes a reader is familiar with HTML and the basics of Java. The book starts by covering how to installing a Servlet/JSP environment and what is in the JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4, and JSTL 1.0 specifications. After discussion of the raw technologies the book focuses on practial use of them. The later chapters of the book cover topics such as state management, design patterns, internationalization support, multi-client design, Java database connectivity. At all possible places Jayson and Kevin try to share the millions of little things, both in the specs and not, that they have learned from being long-time Servlet and JSP developers.

If you are a new user this book is for you. It starts from the basics and covers everything up to the most advanced topics. If you are an experienced developer this book provides a reference for the Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0, and JSTL 1.0 specifications and a good discussion of advanced design paterns and problem solving techniques. If you are management you are advised to buy multiple copies, this is a book which will be permanetly borrowed by employees.

About the Authors

Jayson Falkner is a J2EE developer from the US. He started developing with J2EE just before JSP 1.1 and Servlets 2.2 was released and has been focusing on the technologies since. Jayson is best known as the Webmaster of JSP Insider, http:// www.jspinsider.com, and for asking far too many questions in the popular Servlet and JSP forums. Jayson has worked on numerous JSP titles and is constantly present at the popular Java conferences. Jayson participated on the JSR 152 expert group, JSP 2.0, and helped with the Tomcat 5 reference implementation.

Jayson prefers to think of himself as a tax-dodging student, who is currently working on a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan; however, he also works professionally as a J2EE consult with Amberjack Software LLC. Open-source software and free Java development are Jayson s specialties. You can thank (or complain) to Jayson for dictating the use of Mozilla and Tomcat with this book.

Kevin Jones is a long time Java developer and Educator, having been involved in the training industry for the last twelve years. For the last eight years Kevin has been involved in writing and delivering Java training and in consultancy on various Java projects, and for the last four years has concentrated on J2EE and specifically Web technologies.

Kevin spoke at JavaOne in 2000 and was invited to become a member of JSR 53, the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications and also JSR 52 A Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages . Since then Kevin has successfully spoken at two JavaOne in 2001 and 2002 as well as participating in JSR 154 (Servlets 2.4) and, like Jayson, in JSR 152.

Kevin is responsible for the Java curriculum at DevelopMentor where he teaches the Essential Java Web Development class, which covers much of the material in this book, alongside many other Java classes.

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The J2EE Architect's Handbook

2009-10-01T07:02:00.001-07:00

Description:

"The J2EE Architect's Handbook can justifiably be considered to be the "bible" for J2EE based application designers and project managers." -- The Midwest Book Review (7/2/2004).

"Derek Ashmore has assembled a 'must have' book for anyone working with Java and/or J2EE applications." -- Dan Hotka, Author/Instructor

Readers will discover how to:

Design J2EE applications so that they are robust, extensible, and easy to maintain.

Apply commonly used design patterns effectively

Identify and address application architectural issues before they hinder the development team

Document and communicate the application design so that the development team's work is targeted

Avoid common mistakes that derail project budgets and timelines.

Guide the development team through the design and construction process.

Setup effective procedures and guidelines that increase stability and decrease bug reports

Effectively estimate needed resources and timelines

Author Bio:

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Put Struts to work with a FREE book on Struts Best Practices

2009-10-01T07:00:00.001-07:00

Pages: 224 pages Publisher: ObjectSource LLC ISBN: 0-9748488-0-8 (paperback) LCCN: 2004100026 In this book, you will learn The basics and strengths of Struts How to fill the gaps in Struts Which features are important for J2EE projects. Develop professional Struts code by adopting proven strategies How to handle exceptions in production Struts applications in the BEST way Real practical benefits of customizing Struts Best Practices and Strategies in Struts Download the book (PDF)

Download Companion workbook and example source code for the book illustrating important concepts in Struts (2.7 MB zip file) with step by step instructions included. MS Access tables provided.

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Starting Struts 2

2009-10-01T06:59:00.001-07:00

Struts2 is the latest manifestation of the popular Struts Java web application framework. Like its predecessor, its goals are to make web application development faster, easier and more productive than ever before.

Despite new languages and new techniques, the action-base MVC framework is still a viable and effective option for modern web application development. Within this book you will find everything you need to get up and running using Struts2 – from the architecture and configuration, to implementing actions and the supporting infrastructure such as validation and internationalization. Above all else, it focuses on the practical – with plenty of code and productivity tips to get you started using Struts2 today.

This book covers:

The Struts2 architecture
Configuration details
Productivity tips for your current project
Coverage of popular plug-ins
Integration with third party technologies

111 pages, 6" x 9", ISBN: 978-1-4303-2033-3

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Introduction

1. Where Struts 2 Fits Into The Web Paradigm

2. Core Components

3. Architectural Goals

4. Productivity Tips

5. Integrating With Other Technologies

About the Author

End Notes

About the Author

Ian Roughley is a speaker, writer and independent consultant based out of Boston, MA. For over 10 years he has been providing architecture, development, process improvement and mentoring services to clients ranging in size from fortune 10 companies to start-ups. Focused on a pragmatic and results-based approach, he is a proponent for open source, as well as process and quality improvements through agile development techniques. He is a committer and PMC member for the Apache Struts2 project, and speaker at No Fluff Just Stuff symposiums.

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Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming

2009-09-30T05:43:00.001-07:00

by Prabhakar Chaganti

Aimed at programmers who want to use GWT to create interfaces for their professional Web applications, this helpful guide concentrates on the serious side of AJAX: creating powerful, productive applications for browser platforms. Learn how to create reliable user interfaces that enhance the user experience.

GWT is an open source, Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks like a second language. Writing dynamic Web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process—you spend 90 percent of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

GWT eliminates many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. Write your front-end in Java and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Plan your ECM installation, implement it, and customize it. Among other things, you'll learn how to:

Set up an elegant GWT development environment in Eclipse
Create, test, debug, and deploy GWT applications
Develop custom widgets—examples include a calendar and weather forecast widget
Internationalize your GWT applications
Create complex interfaces using grids, moveable elements, and more
Integrate GWT with Rico, Moo.fx, and Script.aculo.us to create even more attractive UIs using JSNI

Download this excerpt from Chapter 2: "Creating a New GWT Application"

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Ajax in Practice

2009-09-30T05:42:00.001-07:00

Ajax in Practice Dave Crane, Jord Sonneveld and Bear Bibeault with Ted Goddard, Chris Gray, Ram Venkataraman and Joe Walker June, 2007 \| 536 pages ISBN: 1-932394-99-0
	$49.99	Softbound print book + PDF ebook
	$44.99	Softbound print book
	$27.50	PDF ebook

DESCRIPTION

Ajax gives web developers the potential to create rich user-centered Internet applications. But Ajax also adds a new level of complexity and sophistication to those applications. Ajax in Practice tackles Ajax head-on, providing countless hands-on techniques and tons of reusable code to address the specific issues developers face when building Ajax-driven solutions.

After a brief overview of Ajax, this book takes the reader through dozens of working examples, presented in an easy-to-use cookbook format. Readers will learn how to implement drag-and-drop interfaces and discover how to create effective navigation strategies for their applications. Unlike a traditional cookbook, Ajax in Practice provides a thorough discussion of each technique presented and shows how the individual components can be connected to create powerful solutions. A fun "mash-up" chapter concludes the book. Throughout the book, the examples chosen are interesting, entertaining, and practical.

With this book you will:

Go beyond what Ajax is and learn how to put Ajax to work.
Master numerous techniques for user interface design and site navigation.
Work hands-on with professional-grade reusable Ajax code designed to solve real problems.

About the Authors

Ajax in Practice boasts a team of authors including Dave Crane, leading Ajax authority and best-selling author of Manning's Ajax in Action, Bear Bibeault of Java Ranch, Jord Sonneveld of Google, Chris Gray of ClearNova, Ram Venkataraman of JBoss, Joe Walker, creator of DWR and Ted Goddard of IceFaces. Collectively, this group has thousands of hours putting Ajax to work in real-world products and solutions.

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Ajax in Action

2009-09-30T05:34:00.001-07:00

Ajax in Action Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James October, 2005 \| 680 pages ISBN: 1932394613
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DESCRIPTION

Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as "Ajax," you can give them a better experience. Once users have experienced an Ajax interface, they hate to go back. Ajax is new way of thinking that can result in a flowing and intuitive interaction with the user.

Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you.

"What is Ajax?"
Get a taste of what Ajax is all about by viewing one of our original screencasts. Choose to watch the entertaining and informative four minute overview or view the more detailed demonstration in our twenty-two minute screencast. It defines Ajax and builds a working example with rich features you can learn to create for your users.

What's Inside

Ajax principles
Why Ajax design patterns matter
How to avoid Ajax pitfalls
Examples of Ajax in action: type-ahead suggest, live searching using XSL, and many more.
Examples using Ajax frameworks: Prototype, Scriptaculous, x and Rico
Ajax usability, security, and performance

ABOUT THE AUTHORS...

Dave Crane has pushed the boundaries of DHTML, and latterly Ajax, on digital TV set-top boxes, in home automation and banking and financial systems. He lives in Gloucestershire, UK. Eric Pascarello is an ASP.NET developer and a moderator of the HTML and JavaScript forum at JavaRanch. He lives in Laurel, MD. Darren James is the architect of the opensource Rico project. He lives in Sunnyvale, CA.

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WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING

"Best Computer and Internet Book of 2006."
-- Amazon.com

"Ajax in Action is an excellent book and provides a very comprehensive overview of all the Ajax technologies. If you like to build powerful websites after seeing Google Maps and GMail, this is the book you require to develop those powerful web applications with a rich client feel. This four-part book provides the reader with a complete and detailed guide to all aspects of Ajax.

The first part of the book would be suitable for any person who is interested to know about Ajax. The rest of the book is for programmers engaged in the web development. In all, this book provides an excellent introduction to this exciting new web development methodology. Last but not the least don't skip reading the appendices."
-- Javalobby.org

"There is much to like about this book, but top of the fold for me is the clear and concise explanation of just what exactly Ajax is and why it has the power to make a difference in the web application arena. At a time when more people speak of Ajax than actually understand it, this book has the power to bring forth understanding.

This is a magnificent book. Not because it's well written and has good example code in it, although it is and it does. Rather, it is magnificent because of the high speed target that they have accurately hit and described in a clear and hype-free fashion; for this the authors are to be commended. If you want to create dynamic web applications, get this book."
-- Slashdot.org

"If your question is, 'I'm planning to build an Ajax application-what issues should I consider?' then the breadth and depth of Ajax in Action makes it a more suitable book for your purposes."
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal

"[Ajax in Action] has one of the best appendices ever included in a programming book – '_JavaScript for Object-Oriented Programmers'."
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 2006

"Succeeds in allowing developers to jump productively onto the Ajax bandwagon."
-- Computing Reviews

"The first technical book that I've read cover to cover TWICE prior to posting a review - Manning's very excellent "Ajax in Action" is really deep. Best practices are encouraged throughout the chapters and enforced in all code snippets...

Crane and Pascarello take a platform-agnostic look at incorporating Ajax-style programming into web applications, citing examples in PHP, Java and .NET, and accordingly the examples are all partial and abstracted, to be implemented in whatever platform the developer/reader is familiar with...

This book is really a tome of good reading. Appendix B is an outstanding discussion on JavaScript OOP, providing an introduction to and examples in JSON... This book is critical in your understanding of how to make the next big thing in web development to work for you. A must-have."
-- Guam-ASP.NET

"This four-part book provides the reader with a complete and thorough guide to all aspects of Ajax, from setting the scene and providing some historical context to an introduction to JavaScript for object oriented programmers to a whole section on live examples. Additionally there's coverage of Ajax frameworks, developers toolsets and more. On sheer coverage alone this is book scores highly."
-- The Register

"The explanation of the Ajax concepts is provided with crystal clear examples. ...another jewel in the 'In Action' series..."
-- AjaxGuru.Blogspot.com

"Ajax In Action is destined to be added to the standard reading list for anyone interested in serious AJAX development."
-- PDX PHP, Portland's PHP User Group

"Provides an excellent introduction to Ajax. It does more than just give the reader a menu of technologies. It shows how the different strands fit together in a cohesive way that opens the door to web apps that are more responsive and provide richer functionality without sacrificing performance. If you want to understand what the Ajax fuss is about then this is an excellent starting point. Recommended."
-- TechBookReport.com

"The authors treat Ajax as a programming discipline...you'll end up being a much better programmer on all fronts by the time you finish."
-- LotusUserGroup.org

"A tremendously useful field guide specifically written for developers down in the trenches...waiting for the killer solution..."
-- Val's Blog

"Renaissance men David Crane and Eric Pascarello show you how to weave together the pieces that make up an Ajax application: JavaScript, server scripts, HTML, CSS, and XML. ... If you're serious about helping to revolutionize the Web, you need this book."
-- JavaRanch.com, by Sheriff Friedman-Hill

"They cover a gigantic amount of information (680 pages, to be exact), everything from what Ajax is and some of the key elements involved all the way out to working with MVC frameworks and XSLT. The writing style makes it a good, easy read, and there are plenty of illustrations to guide you along. "
-- AjaxDeveloper.com

"The authors have been involved in using Ajax since its beginning. They are very familiar with the concepts and are also good writers that have an ability to explain these concepts in a clear and concise manner."
-- Books-On-Line

"The most comprehensive guide to using Ajax and associated patterns that I have yet seen."
-- C# Online.NET

"This is one of the best programming books I've read. It is easy to read whilst retaining a reasonable density of technical information and plentiful examples. It doesn't require anything greater than a passing familiarity with Javascript to be able to understand the examples, but a general understanding of programming is required."
-- The Voidspace Techie Blog

"If you are creating Ajax web applications on a large or small scale and need to consider such aspects as design and refactoring, security, speed and system resources, then this book will help answer some of these questions."
-- BellaOnline.com

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Java Testing and Design

2009-09-28T06:02:00.001-07:00

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Produce scalable, reliable, high-performance Web-enabled applications in Java.

Coverage includes:

Software development and test automation methodologies

Exposes the scalability problems in SOAP-based Web Services

Building, testing, and monitoring integrated multiple-protocol Web-enabled applications

Performance kits for developers using BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Sun Java System (formerly Sun ONE)

Architecture, code, and test agents for J2EE, Web Services, P2P, and .NET

Secure Internet services using current and next-generation technologies and much more!

Book Review of Java Testing and Design

Bart Thompson walks you through some of the key topics covered in Java Testing and Design.

"This book is an excellent guide to testing Web applications and Web services. I expect it will benefit all readers, from software developers or QA techs just getting started, through to the experienced coders and testers. The book took me past the basic stuff you learn in books on Java development and gives you the practical experience, tips and knowledge I needed to deliver software that scales and is reliable."

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Better Builds with Maven. The How-to Guide for Maven

2009-09-28T06:01:00.001-07:00

Title Better Builds with Maven. The How-to Guide for Maven 2.x
Authors John Casey, Vincent Massol, Brett Porter, Carlos Sanchez, Jason van Zyl
Publisher: Mergere, Inc. (2006)
Paperback: 281 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: N/A
ISBN-13: N/A

Book Description

Welcome to Better Builds with Maven, an indispensable guide to understand and use Maven 2.0.

Maven 2 is a product that offers immediate value to many users and organizations. As you will soon find, it does not take long to realize those benefits. Perhaps, reading this book will take you longer. Maven works equally well for small and large projects, but Maven shines in helping teams operate more effectively by allowing team members to focus on what the stakeholders of a project require -- leaving the build infrastructure to Maven!

This guide is not meant to be an in-depth and comprehensive resource but rather an introduction, which provides a wide range of topics from understanding Maven's build platform to programming nuances.

This guide is intended for Java developers who wish to implement the project management and comprehension capabilities of Maven 2 and use it to make their day-to-day work easier and generally help with the comprehension of any Java-based project. We hope that this book will be useful for Java project managers as well.

For first time users, it is recommended that you step through the material in a sequential fashion. For users more familiar with Maven (including Maven 1.x), this guide endeavors to provide a quick solution for the need at hand.

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics (5th Edition)

2009-09-25T05:10:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Que

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9780789742537

Pages: 456

Everything casual users need to know to get the most out of their new Windows 7 PCs, software, and the Internet

The best-selling beginner's guide, now completely updated for Windows 7 and today's most popular Internet tools - including Facebook, craigslist, Twitter, and Wikipedia

Easy step-by-step instructions cover setting up a new PC, getting online, working with digital media, using productivity tools, and much more

By the world's #1 author of beginning technology books, Michael Miller

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Java How to Program, 7th Edition

2009-09-25T05:07:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication: 2007, English

ISBN: 9780132222204

Pages: 1500

The Deitels' groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of object-oriented programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. The Seventh Edition has been extensively fine-tuned and is completely up-to-date with Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s latest Java release — Java Standard Edition 6 ("Mustang") and several Java Enterprise Edition 5 topics. Contains an extensive OOD/UML 2 case study on developing an automated teller machine. Takes a new tools-based approach to Web application development that uses Netbeans 5.5 and Java Studio Creator 2 to create and consume Web Services. Features new AJAX-enabled, Web applications built with JavaServer Faces (JSF), Java Studio Creator 2 and the Java Blueprints AJAX Components. Includes new topics throughout, such as JDBC 4, SwingWorker for multithreaded GUIs, GroupLayout, Java Desktop Integration Components (JDIC), and much more. A valuable reference for programmers and anyone interested in learning the Java programming language.

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About the Author

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels' texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.

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Open Source Leadership

2009-09-25T05:06:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan	Publication: 2009, English	ISBN: 9780230201910	Pages: 256
'Why do we have so many theories of leadership? Because none of them work very well all of the time. For 70 years we have spewed out content leadership theories. In the new digital world of the twenty-first century we need a new leadership theory. This is it! Open Source Leadership is a process theory ruled by attention, awareness, intention!and, yes, structure. Open Source Leadership is by invitation, not by imposition. This important book invites each of us into the leadership process, drawing on the gifts, talents, and resources within us. The book poses the important questions without offering the final answers. YOU are the answer.' - Professor James Campbell Quick, John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor, Goolsby Leadership Academy, The University of Texas at Arlington 'This book contains a big idea. The leadership model is changing. Leadership can come from anywhere, not just the top. Intriguingly the best leadership comes from the user of the product -- the customer. They can shape the future direction of the enterprise.' - Sir Terry Leahy, Chief Executive, Tesco 'Gadman and Cooper have done an excellent job in empowering the reader to reflectively challenge their own perceptions and understandings of what it takes to be a successful contemporary leader. They provide easily readable chapters that spell out the skills required to take advantage of the open source revolution. Today, leaders cannot allow themselves to be prisoners of out of date or inadequate ways of thinking, or even see problems in isolation. Open Source Leadership explains how individuals can seize the advantage by better understanding how the power and collective energy and focus of people can overcome intractable problems. Finally, Open Source Leadership provides a guide for leaders on how inspiration and creativity can have a positive impact on their people and organisations.' - Professor Iain Densten, Professor of Leadership and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre, Lancaster University The authors offer an approach to leadership practice which is more appropriate for the challenges of todays digitally networked economy. They conclude that, contrary to popular opinion, the practices proposed are not provoked by leadership education as they are evoked from a deep emotional feel for leading and leadership. Click on the below links for more Open Source Books:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

2009-09-24T04:10:00.001-07:00

by J.K. Rowling

book data

published

September 1st 2002 (first published 2000) by Scholastic Paperbacks

binding

Mass Market Paperback, 734 pages

characters

Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, ...more

setting

United Kingdom

literary awards

Hugo Award for Best Novel (2001)

isbn

0439139600 (isbn13: 9780439139601)

description
"Harry Potter is midway through both his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for hundreds of years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards.

And in his case, different can be deadly."

-from the back cover-

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

2009-09-24T04:08:00.001-07:00

by J.K. Rowling

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5		52%
4		32%
3		13%
2		1%
1		0%

published

May 1st 2004 (first published 1999) by Scholastic

binding

Mass Market Paperback, 435 pages

characters

Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, ...more

setting

United Kingdom
United Kingdom

literary awards

Costa Book Awards (1999), Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers (1999), Whitbread Award for Children's Literature, Gold Medal Smarties Prize (1999),

isbn

043965548X (isbn13: 9780439655484)

description
For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Petunia to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.

As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

2009-09-24T04:06:00.001-07:00

by J.K. Rowling

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4		32%
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published

June 2nd 1999 (first published 1998) by Scholastic

binding

Hardcover, 341 pages

url

http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/bo...

characters

Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, ...more
[close] Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley

setting

United Kingdom

literary awards

Gold Medal Smarties Prize (1999), British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year (1999)

isbn

0439064864 (isbn13: 9780439064866)

description
"The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone — or something — starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!"

-from inside front cover-

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

2009-09-24T04:04:00.001-07:00

by J.K. Rowling

book data

November 1st 2003 (first published 1997) by Arthur A. Levine Books

binding

Hardcover, 309 pages

characters

Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley
[close] Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Quirinus Quirrell, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley

setting

United Kingdom

literary awards

UK National Book Award (1997), Gold Medal Smarties Prize (1997), British Children's Book of the Year (1998)

isbn

0439554934 (isbn13: 9780439554930)

description

Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he's quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley.

A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that's where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children's Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2009-08-06T01:09:00.001-07:00

published - September 30th 1999 (first published 1925) by Scribner

binding - Paperback, 180 pages

characters - Jay Gatsby, Daisy & Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway

setting - The United States

isbn - 0743273567 (isbn13: 9780743273565)

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown

2009-08-06T01:06:00.001-07:00

published - March 28th 2006 (first published 2003) by Anchor

binding - Paperback, 464 pages

url - http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_c...

characters - Robert Langdon, Sophie Neveu

setting - France

isbn - 0307277674 (isbn13: 9780307277671)

An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.

While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

2009-08-06T01:01:00.001-07:00

published - January 1st 2004 (first published 1595) by Washington Square Press

binding - Paperback, 336 pages

characters - Romeo Montague, Juliet Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, ...more

isbn - 0743477111 (isbn13: 9780743477116)

Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play <LI>Scene-by-scene plot summaries, A key to famous lines and phrases, an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, an essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play, illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

2009-08-06T00:58:00.001-07:00

published - November 2002 (first published 1974) by Harpercollins Childrens Books

binding - Hardcover, 176 pages

isbn - 0060513039 (isbn13: 9780060513030)

Silly, silly Shel Silverstein. For more than 25 years, he has taken children exactly where they want to go with poetry: into the world of nonsense and wordplay. Take "Instructions," for example:

If you should ever choose
To bathe an armadillo,
Use one bar of soap
And a whole lot of hope
And seventy-two pads of Brillo.

Is there a moral? A higher meaning? A lesson? Most certainly not--except perhaps in bathing armadillos. The late poet's collection of verse and pen-and-ink drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, is the bestselling children's poetry book of all time. Now, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this literary marvel, a special new edition is available, complete with a CD featuring 10 of his nuttiest poems. The compilation, "recited, sung, and shouted" by Silverstein himself, features highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album, including "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too," "With His Mouth Full of Food," "Crocodile's Toothache," and "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out." No child--or grownup, for that matter--should be without this collection, or its companion, A Light in the Attic. (Ages 5 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

2009-08-06T00:55:00.001-07:00

published

November 1st 2003 (first published 1997) by Arthur A. Levine Books

binding

Hardcover, 309 pages

characters

Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, ...more

setting

The United Kingdom

literary awards

UK National Book Award (1997), Gold Medal Smarties Prize (1997), British Children's Book of the Year (1998)

isbn

0439554934 (isbn13: 9780439554930)

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Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer

2009-08-06T00:51:00.001-07:00

The Story Behind Twilight

I get a ton of questions about how I came up with the story of Twilight and how I got it published. I may be killing my FAQ page by doing this, but here is the whole story:

(Warning: there are Twilight spoilers contained in the following; if you don't want to ruin the suspense, stop reading.....now. Warning #2: As you might have guessed from the length of my book, I can't tell a short story—this is going to take a while. You have been warned.)

The Writing: I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Up to this point, I had not written anything besides a few chapters (of other stories) that I never got very far on, and nothing at all since the birth of my first son, six years earlier.

I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book.

Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place, etc.), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. I was so intrigued by the nameless couple's story that I hated the idea of forgetting it; it was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description. (Also, the vampire was just so darned good-looking, that I didn't want to lose the mental image.) Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering. But I didn't want to lose the dream, so I typed out as much as I could remember, calling the characters "he" and "she."

From that point on, not one day passed that I did not write something. On bad days, I would only type out a page or two; on good days, I would finish a chapter and then some. I mostly wrote at night, after the kids were asleep so that I could concentrate for longer than five minutes without being interrupted. I started from the scene in the meadow and wrote through to the end. Then I went back to the beginning and wrote until the pieces matched up. I drove the "golden spike" that connected them in late August, three months later.

It took me a while to find names for my anonymous duo. For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades. Charlotte Bronte's Mr. Rochester and Jane Austen's Mr. Ferrars were the characters that led me to the name Edward. I tried it on for size, and found that it fit well. My female lead was harder. Nothing I named her seemed just right. After spending so much time with her, I loved her like a daughter, and no name was good enough. Finally, inspired by that love, I gave her the name I was saving for my daughter, who had never shown up and was unlikely to put in an appearance at this point: Isabella. Huzzah! Edward and Bella were named. For the rest of the characters, I did a lot of searching in old census records, looking for popular names in the times that they'd been born. Some trivia: Rosalie was originally "Carol" and Jasper was first "Ronald." I like the new names much better, but every now and then I will slip up and type Carol or Ron by accident. It really confuses the people who read my rough drafts.

For my setting, I knew I needed someplace ridiculously rainy. I turned to Google, as I do for all my research needs, and looked for the place with the most rainfall in the U.S. This turned out to be the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I pulled up maps of the area and studied them, looking for something small, out of the way, surrounded by forest... And there, right where I wanted it to be, was a tiny town called "Forks." It couldn't have been more perfect if I had named it myself. I did a Google image search on the area, and if the name hadn't sold me, the gorgeous photographs would have done the trick. (Images like these of the Hoh Rainforest (a short drive from Forks). Also see forks-web.com ). In researching Forks, I discovered the La Push Reservation, home to the Quileute Tribe. The Quileute story is fascinating, and a few fictional members of the tribe quickly became intrinsic to my story.

All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head. They simply wouldn't shut up. I'd stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out, and then crawl, exhausted, into bed (my baby still wasn't sleeping through the night, yet) only to have another conversation start in my head. I hated to lose anything by forgetting, so I'd get up and head back down to the computer. Eventually, I got a pen and notebook for beside my bed to jot notes down so I could get some freakin' sleep. It was always an exciting challenge in the morning to try to decipher the stuff I'd scrawled across the page in the dark.

During the day, I couldn't stay away from the computer, either. When I was stuck at swim lessons, out in 115 degrees of Phoenix sunshine, I would plot and scheme and come home with so much new stuff that I couldn't type fast enough. It was your typical Arizona summer, hot, sunny, hot, and hot, but when I think back to those three months, I remember rain and cool green things, like I really spent the summer in the Olympic Rainforest.

When I'd finished the body of the novel, I started writing epilogues...lots of epilogues. This eventually clued me in to the fact that I wasn't ready to let go of my characters, and I started working on the sequel. Meanwhile, I continued to edit Twilight in a very obsessive-compulsive way.

My older sister, Emily, was the only one who really knew what I was up to. In June, I'd started sending her chapters as I finished them, and she soon became my cheerleading section. She was always checking in to see if I had something new for her. It was Emily who first suggested, after I'd finished, that I should try to get Twilight published. I was so stunned by the fact that I'd actually finished a whole, entire book, that I decided to look into it.

Getting Published: To put it mildly, I was naive about publishing. I thought it worked like this: you printed a copy of your novel, wrapped it up in brown paper, and sent it off to a publishing house. Ho ho ho, that's a good one. I started googling (naturally) and began to discover that this was not the way it is done. (Movies lie to us! Why?! A side note: you will not be able to enjoy the new Steve Martin version of Cheaper by the Dozen when you know how insanely impossible the publishing scenario it contains is.) The whole set up with query letters, literary agents, simultaneous submissions vs. exclusive submissions, synopsizes, etc., was extremely intimidating, and I almost quit there. It certainly wasn't belief in my fabulous talent that made me push forward; I think it was just that I loved my characters so much, and they were so real to me, that I wanted other people to know them, too.

I subscribed to WritersMarket.com and compiled a list of small publishers that accepted unsolicited submissions and a few literary agencies. It was around this time that my little sister, Heidi, mentioned Janet Evanovich's website to me. In her Q and A for writers section, Janet E. mentioned Writers House, among a few others, as "the real thing" in the world of literary agencies. Writers House went on my wish list as the most desirable and also least likely.

I sent out around fifteen queries (and I still get residual butterflies in my stomach when I drive by the mailbox I sent the letters from—mailing them was terrifying.). I will state, for the record, that my queries truly sucked, and I don't blame anyone who sent me a rejection (I did get seven or eight of those. I still have them all, too). The only rejection that really hurt was from a small agent who actually read the first chapter before she dropped the axe on me. The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal, so it didn't bother me at all. I'll admit that I considered sending back a copy of that rejection stapled to the write-up my deal got in Publisher's Weekly, but I took the higher road.

My big break came in the form of an assistant at Writers House named Genevieve. I didn't find out until much later just how lucky I was; it turns out that Gen didn't know that 130,000 words is a whole heck of a lot of words. If she'd known that 130K words would equal 500 pages, she probably wouldn't have asked to see it. But she didn't know (picture me wiping the sweat from my brow), and she did ask for the first three chapters. I was thrilled to get a positive response, but a little worried because I felt the beginning of the book wasn't the strongest part. I mailed off those three chapters and got a letter back a few weeks later (I could barely get it open, my hands were so weak with fear). It was a very nice letter. She'd gone back with a pen and twice underlined the part where she'd typed how much she enjoyed the first three chapters (I still have that letter, of course), and she asked for the whole manuscript. That was the exact moment when I realized that I might actually see Twilight in print, and really one of the happiest points in my whole life. I did a lot of screaming.

About a month after I sent in the manuscript, I got a call from Jodi Reamer, an honest to goodness literary agent, who wanted to represent my book. I tried really hard to sound like a professional and a grownup during that conversation, but I'm not sure if I fooled her. Again, my luck was tremendous (and I don't usually have good luck—I've never won anything in my life, and no one ever catches a fish when I'm in the boat) because Jodi is the uber-agent. I couldn't have ended up in better hands. She's part lawyer, part ninja (she's working on earning her black belt right now, no kidding), a pretty amazing editor in her own right, and a great friend.

Jodi and I worked for two weeks on getting Twilight into shape before sending it to editors. The first thing we worked on was the title, which started out as Forks (and I still have a teeny soft spot for that name). Then we polished up a few rough spots, and Jodi sent it out to nine different publishing houses. This really messed with my ability to sleep, but luckily I wasn't in suspense for long.

Megan Tingley, of Megan Tingley Books, of Little, Brown and Company, read Twilight on a cross-country flight and came back to Jodi the day after the Thanksgiving weekend with a preemptive deal so huge that I honestly thought Jodi was pulling my leg—especially the part where she turned the offer down and asked for more. The upshot was that, by the end of the day, I was trying to process the information that not only was my book going to be published by one of the biggest young adult publishers in the country, but that they were going to pay me for it. For a very long time, I was convinced it was a really cruel practical joke, but I couldn't imagine who would go to these wild extremes to play a hoax on such an insignificant little hausfrau.

And that's how, in the course of six months, Twilight was dreamed, written, and accepted for publication.

Things keep getting crazier, what with the movie deal and all the pre-publication attention that Twilight continues to receive. Though I've gotten impatient from time to time, I'm glad I've had the last two years to try to come to terms with the situation. I'm greatly looking forward to finally having Twilight on the shelves, and more than a little frightened, too. Overall, it's been a true labor of love, love for Edward and Bella and all the rest of my imaginary friends, and I'm thrilled that other people get to meet them now.

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To Kill a Mockingbird by by Harper Lee

2009-08-06T00:48:00.001-07:00

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."[1]

As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage and compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in English-speaking countries with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms. Often the book is challenged for its use of racial epithets, and writers have noticed that regardless of its popularity since its publication, some readers are displeased by the novel's treatment of black characters.

Lee's novel was initially reviewed by at least 30 newspapers and magazines, whose critics varied widely in their assessments. More recently, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die".[2] The book was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. To date, it is Lee's only published novel, and although she continues to respond to the book's impact, she has refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964.

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FLEX - The monthly Bodybuilding Magazine

2009-07-28T21:09:00.001-07:00

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The Internet/WWW has made it possible to easily access quantities of information never available before. However, both the amount of information and the variation in quality pose obstacles to the efficient use of the medium. Artificial intelligence techniques can be useful tools in this context. Intelligent systems can be applied to searching the Internet and data-mining, interpreting Internet-derived material, the human–Web interface, remote condition monitoring and many other areas. Click on the links below for more....

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Photographers' Guide

2009-07-13T04:13:00.003-07:00

Publisher: Course Technology PTR	Publication: 2007, English	ISBN: 9781598633399	Pages: 288
If you've been photographing digitally for any length of time, you have probably been seduced by the easy way you can continue pressing the shutter release and seeing your work pop up on your camera's view screen. All goes well as you download memory card after memory card into your computer. After a number of months or even years go by, your hard drive fills up, and it becomes harder and harder to find a particular image that you are looking for. You spend more and more time in front of the computer monitor first looking for your images, then selecting them, and finally processing them. Your workflow gets more and more complex with additional pieces of software that you have to add in. First you have to use one piece of software to choose your favorites and mark them somehow. Then you have to open each one in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to make small adjustments before you can show them to your clients (if you are a professional photographer) or your family and friends (if your photography is done simply for pleasure). Each time you go through this process, you generate more copies of your images in various sizes and formats. These copies are floating around all over your hard drive. Now you have to do the final adjustments on the images and create still more copies, either to have prints made or to make the prints yourself. Every step seems to take longer each time you do it. It is turning into a real mess. Don't be discouraged! Adobe comes to your rescue with Photoshop Lightroom. It is one of the first of a new generation of workflow applications designed to help you find and process your images quickly and efficiently. With Lightroom and this book, you will be able to spend much less time in front of your computer, protect your images by storing them in an organized manner, and produce the images you need for showing, for slideshows, for Web sites, and for easy printing. Click on the links below for more....

Inside Photoshop CS

2009-07-13T04:13:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Publication: 2004, English

ISBN: 9780672326448

Pages: 1128

Gary Bouton has made Inside Photoshop CS a perennial best-seller due to the loyalty of his audience. A lot of people simply love the way Gary explains what Photoshop is all about. In this revised edition, Gary truly puts the outsider "inside", demystifying such intangibles as pixels, color wheel, resolution, line screens, and more of vital information for the hobbyists and professional. He covers all the new features and adds expert tips and tricks for the digital photographer. Critics and readers alike have noted that Bouton's writing style makes difficult, technical topics easy to understand -- as if they were being guided by a close friend or mentor.

About the Author

Gary David Bouton is an illustrator/writer/all-around-nice guy who lives with his wife in a cozy hamlet in upstate New York. Mr. Bouton has authored 14 books on Photoshop; several other books on the Internet, CorelDRAW, and modeling applications; and some freelance columns relating to computer graphics for photography and digital art publications. Gary holds four international awards in DTP and graphics. He is also moderator of the 3D forum at TalkGraphics.com and a moderator of the (Photoshop) "Inside Track" at http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=13. Gary can usually be reached at Gary@TheBoutons.com.

Mara Zebest is a graphic artist who lives with her family in Folsom, California. Besides satisfying the needs of numerous commercial clients by designing brochures, newspaper and magazine ads, and a variety of other graphics, Mara also spends part of her schedule supplying people in her area with computer training and technical support for software and troubleshooting issues. Mara also occasionally donates her time to a local school by designing T-shirts and offering consultation on image-related areas. This is Mara's third time as a contributing author and technical editor for the Inside Photoshop series.

Gary Kubicek has been a contributing author for 8 books on Photoshop; he has also been a technical editor for 12 books. A professional photographer for more than 20 years, Gary was an early adopter of Photoshop and the "digital darkroom" as an extension of the self-expression he finds in his traditional photographic work. Gary is also a digital imaging consultant. And when he's not pushing pixels, he is playing his Strat and trying to learn how to play some of his favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan tunes.

Gary can be reached at gary@garykubicek.com. His Web site address is http://www.garykubicek.com.

Dave Huss has authored 15 books on all aspects of digital imagery that have been translated into six languages. A popular conference speaker, Dave has taught classes throughout the U.S. and Europe. His digital montages have won awards at national competitions, and he has been interviewed on both CNN and TechTV.

Christian Verhoeven is a Belgian freelance artist, photographer, and painter who is passionate about Photoshop, which opened for him new doors of creativity and new fields of experience in graphic arts. Christian is currently living in East Asia.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures

2009-07-13T04:12:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Course Technology PTR	Publication: 2008, English	ISBN: 9781598634617	Pages: 593
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures is a hands-on, tutorial-based guide filled with real-world examples that run the gamut from video restoration to visual and special effects, green screen and split screen composite work, and integration of 3D content from applications such as Luxology modo, 3D Studio Max, and Cinema 4D. New features are thoroughly documented, and the book is organized in a practical chronology, from importing digital video and other footage to your computer, to working with clips in Photoshop, to effects work, to rotoscoping and animation, to building complex composite work on layers, and finally to producing, exporting, and archiving your work. Written from a Photoshop user's point of view, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Retouching Motion Pictures makes retouching video footage a clear, forthright, and foolproof endeavor. Learn what you need to know about NTSC and file format standards, fps rates, pixel sizes for digital video, and more to make the next logical move in your content creation work, while working in a favorite and familiar application. About the Author Gary David Bouton is the author of more than 20 computer graphics books, including the Inside Adobe Photoshop series.He is a seasoned illustrator and former advertising agency art director. Gary's television commercial experience combined with his Photoshop knowledge has brought about this unique and accessible book for anyone who wants to make Photoshop retouching a moving art. The author's long-time involvement with 3D modeling, rendering, and animation software also provides insight, and opens doors, to the Photoshop user who wants to add today's CGI effects to video. In his spare time,Gary composes original music and is currently working with film editors to provide special effects for music videos.He and his wife also host TheBoutons.com, a forum for discussions on Photoshop, video, graphics, and audio software. Click on the links below for more....

How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2

2009-07-13T04:11:00.001-07:00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication: 2005, English

ISBN: 9780072261608

Pages: 432

In this full-color, easy-to-use book, award-winning designer and best-selling author Colin Smith teaches the fundamentals of Photoshop then covers the more advanced features the software has to offer. Learn to use traditional drawing and painting tools ranging from pencils to airbrushes, then discover how to add and manipulate text, retouch photos, create special effects, and more. The techniques professional artists apply to their work are revealed in a special "Behind the Scenes" section.

Maximize all the features Photoshop has to offer with help from this full-color guide. Award-winning designer Colin Smith shows you how to create, edit, and enhance sophisticated images and feature-rich web pages using this powerful graphics tool. You'll learn to use all of Photoshop's painting and drawing tools, fix and retouch photos, add special effects, print high-quality images, and much more. A bonus "Behind the Scenes" gallery demonstrates the Photoshop techniques used by professional artists.

Manage the interface, toolbar, palettes, options, and preferences
Import, place, organize, and size images and adjust resolution
Edit, repair, retouch, and organize digital photos
Draw and paint with the built-in tools
Create and manipulate text
Use and manage multiple layers
Create a variety of colors using channels
Automate tasks using tool presets, actions, droplets, and other methods
Create bevels, sheens, shadows, and other special effects
Use ImageReady to create Web graphics
Set up your Photoshop file for high quality printing

About the author: Colin Smith is an award-winning graphic designer and author or co-author of 11 graphic design books including Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration. He is also founder and publisher of the #1 resource site for Photoshop users, photoshopcafe.com.

About the Author

Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer who has caused a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He is founder of the world's most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts more than two million visitors.

With over ten years of experience in the design industry, Colin was formerly Senior Editor and Art Director for VOICE magazine. He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine, PlanetPhotoshop.com, and the official site of the National Association for Photoshop Professionals. He also contributes to a number of other graphic art publications, such as Mac Design magazine, Web Designer magazine and Computer Arts magazine.

Colin's graphic design work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Guru awards at Photoshop World 2001 and 2002, for his work in both illustration and web design. He's authored or co-authored more than ten books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003) and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips (A Press/Friends of Ed, 2002). Colin is also creator of the Photoshop Secrets Video training series (PhotoshopCD.com). He is in high demand across the United States as a lecturer, presenting his Photoshop techniques to Web designers and other graphics professionals across the nation.

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PC Magazine Fighting Spyware, Viruses, and Malware

2009-07-13T04:09:00.001-07:00

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication: 2004, English

ISBN: 9780764577697

Pages: 382

Think there's no malicious software on your computer? PC Magazine thinks you should think again.

Scans by ISPs have revealed as many as twenty-eight spyware programs running on the average home computer—like yours. That's a lot of people prying into what's on your PC, and a DSL or cable connection is a virtual welcome mat. But by following Ed Tittel's advice, you can learn how invasions occur, spot an infestation, repair damage that's already done, and slam the door on those who want to hijack your PC—along with your wallet.

Here's how you can

Learn to recognize when a Trojan horse, a virus, adware, or spyware has invaded your PC
Get the tools that can cure an infection
Dig into the Windows Registry to remove the nastiest of bugs
Prevent a recurrence with personal firewalls and protective software
Deal with the onslaught of spam
Keep your defenses up-to-date

Give it the boot

If you believe you've caught something and you're willing to kiss everything goodbye that you've added to or changed ... since the last time you booted up your computer ... try this. While Windows is first booting up, hit the F8 key .... Choose the Last Known Good Configuration option, and Windows should boot running the version of the Registry that existed the last time your system booted—that is, before you got infected.
— From Chapter 4

About the Author

Ed Tittel has been writing, researching, and teaching about Windows security topics since 1996. An inveterate tinkerer cursed with incurable curiosity, he's become a connoisseur of protection tools and techniques to battle spyware, adware, and malware.

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Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications

2009-07-13T04:08:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Information Science Publishing

Publication: 2008, English

ISBN: 9781605660660

Pages: 444

"This title provides real-life cases illustrating the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios." --Book News Inc. (February 2009)

The Semantic Web has been around for some years with recent advances in mature technologies and applications. Lately, its development has been demonstrated in its contribution to businesses through the enhancement of e-commerce.

Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications delivers real-life cases that illustrate the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios. Covering topics such as business integration, organizational knowledge management, and Semantic Web services, this book provides academic research libraries with a comprehensive reference to the commercial capabilities of Semantic Web technologies, as well as practical applications for the benefit of IT professionals, business executives, consultants, and students.

About the Author

Roberto GarcÃƒÂa got his MSc. in Computer Science from the Universitat PolitÃƒÂ¨cnica de Catalunya (UPC). His MSc. thesis, completed the year 2000, developed a distributed knowledge management system using Semantic Web technologies. Then, he completed a Master in E-Commerce and collaborated in the first steps of a web and interactive systems company before returning to the academic world. In 2001 he got a research assistant position at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and carried out his research in Semantic Web based multimedia and digital rights management. These research activities concluded with his PhD thesis in 2006 about a Semantic Web approach to DRM. He is now an assistant professor at the Universitat de Lleida (UdL). He is also member of the GRIHO Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration research group, where he is combining his previous research lines with trying to get the Semantic Web in touch with real-world end-users.

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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

2009-07-13T04:07:00.001-07:00

Publisher: For Dummies

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9780470432891

Pages: 408

Cocoa programming is not only the favored development environment for Mac OS X, it's also a primary tool for creating iPhone and iPod Touch software. That makes this a great time to learn Cocoa, and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies is the ideal place to start!

This book gives you a solid foundation in Cocoa and the unusual syntax of Objective-C. You'll learn what's new in Cocoa frameworks and create an application step by step. For example, you can:

See how Xcode underlies your applications as the main component of Apple's IDE
Examine the basics of the Objective-C language, the elements of a Cocoa interface, and object-oriented programming
Use Xcode and Interface Builder
Spruce up your apps with audio, video, Internet features, stylized text, and more
Create applications with the stunning graphics for which Macs are famous
See how to build apps with multiple documents and even executables that aren't traditional Mac apps
Use all the exciting new Cocoa features
Work with Cocoa numbers, arrays, Booleans, and dates
Build document-based applications
Simplify with key-value coding

The better you understand Cocoa programming, the better the applications you can create for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies makes it easy and fun!

About the Author

Erick Tejkowski was still in elementary school when he began helping to instruct teachers on Apple computers. As a professional developer, he has designed software for clients as varied as Chicken of the Sea, Energizer, Nextel, Edys-Dreyers, Rigid Medical, and Leap Pad.

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Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions

2009-07-10T05:40:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Information Science Publishing

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9781605663265

Pages: 458

The increasing societal dependence on information technology has pushed cyber-security to the forefront as one of the most urgent challenges facing the global community.

Cyber-Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective. This reference source takes a holistic approach to cyber security and information assurance by treating both the technical as well as managerial sides of the field.

About the Author

Kenneth J. Knapp is the Deputy Head of the Department of Management at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. He has over 20 years of experience working with information technology and security in the U. S. Air Force. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from DeSales University in Pennsylvania, an M. B. A. from Auburn University at Montgomery and a PhD in the Management of Information Technology from Auburn University, Alabama. Dr. Knapp has published in outlets such as the International Journal of Information Security & Privacy, Information Management & Computer Security, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Information Systems Security, and the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. His research has also appeared in numerous chapter books such as the Information Security Management Handbook, 2007 and 2008 editions, edited by Hal Tipton and Micki Krause. He has presented his research at numerous conferences to include annual RSA conferences. Dr. Knapp's research results have appeared in online media outlets such as CIO, CSO, Networkworld and Computerworld and he has won numerous research and teaching awards. He recently accepted a tenure-track position in the Information and Technology Management Department at The University of Tampa, Florida.

Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

2009-07-10T05:39:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Sybex

Publication: 2008, English

ISBN: 9780470127285

Pages: 1008

Master This Powerful Collaboration Tool for Windows Server Networks

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 is the latest version of the collaboration tool found in Windows Server 2003 R2—a feature-rich product that can be deployed to help you manage and improve information-sharing across your company's network. WSS 3.0 is also the underlying technology of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.

Now with this comprehensive book as your point-by-point guide, you'll go under the hood of WSS 3.0 and discover how to make it easy to share documents, track tasks, create common workspaces where teams can work collectively, set up surveys and discussion groups, and more.

The book provides step-by-step coverage of what system administrators need to know, including essential techniques for site creation, administration, customization, security, and disaster recovery—plus pages of detailed, real-world examples. You'll also find practical steps for migrating from version 2.0 to 3.0.

Coverage includes:

Understanding the basics of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Adding, moving, removing, and customizing web parts
Creating pre-built and new custom lists
Setting up libraries for documents, pictures, forms, and wikis
Checking documents in and out—and managing checked files
Using global breadcrumbs to get back to where you started
Managing security and permissions
Backing up and restoring SQL databases, lists, libraries, and more
Migrating from SharePoint Services 2.0 to 3.0
Create Information-Sharing Solutions across People and Documents
Set up and Use WSS 3.0 Basic, Stand-alone Server, or Server Farm
Perform Administrative Tasks with STSADM.EXE
Add, Extend, or Remove Virtual Web Servers
Manage Security and Permissions

Unix Unleashed (4th Edition)

2009-07-10T05:38:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Publication: 2001, English

ISBN: 9780672322518

Pages: 1200

Using Solaris 8 and Linux 7.1 as their reference flavors, Robin Anderson and Andy Johnston (as well as a slew of contributors) show how to be a system administrator--and get all sorts of other work done--in the fourth edition of Unix Unleashed. Significantly different from its predecessors, this book stays generally clear of very basic matters, as well as subjects of interest primarily to software developers. The middle ground that's left--and there is a lot of it, as this book spans more than 1,100 mostly unillustrated pages--is the knowledge that a system administrator needs. Since lots of the people who work with Unix are administrators (either of databases, Internet sites, or some other kind of back-end resource), the shift in focus makes sense.

The authors employ a style that's nicely suited to the personality of administrators, as well as their job. To satisfy the "job" side of the equation, there are "best practices" sections that recommend how to configure various pieces of the system. For the "personality" side, there's rather a lot of explanatory material to explain why the best practices are what they are, and why they're not without flaw. There's very little step-by-step guidance in these pages. The authors instead prefer to use prose to explain solid thought processes: "This is what we want to accomplish (say, harden a system before it's connected to the network), here are the issues associated with that goal (known openings in default configurations, known techniques that attackers use, and so on), and here are the tools and procedures recommended for combating those problems." It's an excellent approach for administrators who approach their jobs as engineering problems. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to be a Unix system administrator with deep knowledge of all of your machine's critical subsystems. Sections deal with configuring, defending, and performance-optimizing mail services, Web services, authentication, printing, and applications. There is, unfortunately, not enough information on firewalls.

About the Author

Robin Anderson began her involvement with computers innocently enough with an Amiga, WordPerfect, and Infocom games. In late 1993, she turned her hand to student consulting at the University of MD, Baltimore County (UMBC), working with PCs, Macs, VAXen, and, finally, UNIX machines.

After graduating with honors in Computer Science and History, Robin remained at UMBC and is now a UNIX SysAdmin Specialist in OIT (UMBC's Office of Information Technology). She also managed OIT's Operations Support Staff and is a member of the Security Work Group.

Robin developed and taught an undergraduate UNIX SysAdmin course for UMBC's CS/EE department in 2000. She has earned two security certifications from the SANS Institute: the GCUX (UNIX Administrator, with honors) and the GCIH (Incident Handling). She works with SANS to develop online exam materials and presentations, and she recently taught SANS LevelOne security courses for UMBC's Department of Professional Education and Training.

Andy Johnston was born in May of 1958. Most of the rest has been improvisation. After teaching high school math, he became a programmer. He worked for the State of Maryland making population projections and lots of maps, and later for Computer Sciences Corporation, where he worked on spacecraft-tracking software and environmental modeling. One day, the UNIX system in which his virtual fish swam suffered a drive crash, and he (quickly) became a UNIX systems administrator. Andy provided system support for several projects, including the International Ultraviolet Explorer. In 1999, he took his current position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)Office of Information Technology as a manager of UNIX support staff and IT security. Andy holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Princeton University and a Master's degree in Mathematics from UMBC. He has been involved at various times in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. SAGE groups and has spoken at SANS conferences.

Advanced Photoshop Elements 7 for Digital Photographers

2009-07-10T05:36:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Focal Press	Publication: 2008, English	ISBN: 9780240521589	Pages: 456
Invaluable Intermediate/Advanced guide to Photoshop Elements 7 for all photographers, writen by Elements guru and bestselling author Philip Andrews. This essential guide for intermediate/advanced photographers has now been fully updated for Elements 7. Bestselling author and Elements guru Philip Andrews turns his expansive knowledge to this powerful application, delivering, once again, a practical approach in a crystal-clear writing style. For the advanced Elements user, this book offers a standalone guide to advancing knowledge of the software. For those with a little less experience, it works seamlessly in conjunction with Philip's other Elements guide: "Adobe Photoshop Elements 7: A visual introduction to digital photography". Philip expands on the solid foundation delivered by that title to deliver a master-guide that shows you just how powerful this deceptively simple software package can be. Throughout the book, Philip takes a pro's approach, emphasising a streamlined, non-destructive workflow. Diverse chapters cover the entire spectrum of photographic potential offered by the software, including key areas such as: darkroom techniques, advanced selection techniques, professional retouching, photo restoration, panoramas, collages, RAW processing and printing. Additionally, the content is supplemented by extra great learning tools available on the website: WWW.XXXXXX.com. These include: downloadable resources, and Elements vodcasts. Essential reading for all photographers using Elements 7. * Advanced guide to Elements, the natural sequel to the bestselling 'Adobe Photoshop Elements 6' * Written by Philip Andrews, world-renowned Photoshop elements expert * Takes a professional approach to this industry-standard software, with a core focus on nondestructive editing throughout About the Author Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography and Better Photography, he is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera and Co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics: Delivering Sales and Marketing Dashboards

2009-07-10T05:35:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Apress

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9781430219286

Pages: 300

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics provides everything you need to know to develop sophisticated and visually appealing sales and marketing dashboards using SQL Server 2008 and to integrate those dashboards with SharePoint, PerformancePoint, and other key Microsoft technologies.

The book begins by addressing the many misconceptions that surround the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and giving a brief overview of the business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools that can be combined on the Microsoft platform to help you generate the results that you need.

The focus of the book is to help you implement a successful business intelligence project of your own. The text discusses many of the required project planning components, provides overviews and examples associated with Microsoft's BI tools, and gives detailed examples of successful dashboard implementations.

What you'll learn

The key functional and technical components of a successful report/dashboard implementation
What Microsoft tools are provided both within and without SQL Server 2008 to help you achieve an integrated solution
How to determine whether your performance indicators are correct for your business and how to roll them out to your organization in an effective way

About the Author

Brian Paulen cofounded Madrona Solutions Group in July 2005. He has overall responsibility for the firm's growing business and for managing client and partner relationships. Additionally, Brian works to ensure that Madrona can offer an exciting and challenging environment for its employees. He has extensive project and program management experience, and is an expert in delivering strategic sales and marketing solutions. Prior to founding Madrona Solutions, Brian was the director of the CRM practice at Two Degrees Consulting. There, he had overall responsibility for sales and client delivery of CRM solutions. Earlier, Brian was a member of the CRM team at Equarius (now Interlink Group), working primarily with clients in the Pacific Northwest. His career began at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), working out of their New York office. Brian holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and international business from Lehigh University.

Jeff Finken cofounded Madrona Solutions Group in July 2005 and brings years of experience to his role as director of Madrona's BI practice. He particularly focuses on working with sales, marketing, and IT leaders to define KPIs that drive improved organizational performance. Prior to joining Madrona, Jeff led and delivered BI projects while at Deloitte Consulting and Onyx Software. Specific clients have included Microsoft, Paccar, Pemco, Expedia, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (2nd Edition)

2009-07-10T05:33:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9781587055744

Pages: 672

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH), Second Edition, is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCDP® foundation learning. This book provides you with knowledge of the latest developments in network design and technologies, including network infrastructure, intelligent network services, and converged network solutions. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of issues and considerations for fundamental infrastructure services, including security, network management, QoS, high availability, bandwidth use optimization through IP multicasting, and design architectures for network solutions such as voice over WLAN and e-commerce.

Whether you are preparing for CCDP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of modular campus and edge network design and strategic solutions for enterprise networks such as storage area networking, virtual private networking, advanced addressing and routing, and data centers, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

About the Author

Keith Hutton is an information technology professional with close to 20 years of experience in the industry. Over the course of his career, Keith has worked as a professional services engineer, presales engineer, third-line operational support engineer, engineering team lead, instructor, and author. Keith currently works as a professional services engineer for Bell Canada, responsible for the design and configuration of network security infrastructures. Keith has a B.A. honors degree from Queen's University, and is a certified Cisco instructor, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), and Cisco Certified Internetworking Professional (CCIP).

Mark Schofield has been a network architect at Bell Canada for the past six years. Working for the largest service provider in Canada, he has designed Multiprotocol Layer Switching (MPLS) virtual private networks (VPNs) with IP quality of service (QoS) for large enterprise customers. During the past five years at Bell, he has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of large national networks for Bell Canada's federal government customers. As part of a cross-company team, he developed Bell Canada's premier MPLS VPN product. Mark has a MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Guelph. Industry certifications include the Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCIP), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Diane Teare is a professional in the networking, training, project management, and elearning fields. She has more than 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network hardware and software, and has been involved in teaching, course design, and project management. She has extensive knowledge of network design and routing technologies, and is an instructor with one of the largest authorized Cisco Learning Partners. She was recently the director of e-learning for the same company, where she was responsible for planning and supporting all the company's e-learning offerings in Canada, including Cisco courses.

Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (4th Edition)

2009-07-10T04:16:00.001-07:00

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9780768685763

Pages: 432

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to use today's key networking techniques and technologies to build, secure, and troubleshoot both wired and wireless networks. Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, you master every skill you need—from working with Ethernet and Bluetooth to spam prevention to network troubleshooting. Each lesson builds on what you've already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common networking tasks.

Q&A sections at the end of each hour help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

Choose the right network hardware and software and use it to build efficient, reliable networks
Implement secure, high-speed Internet connections
Provide reliable remote access to your users
Administer networks to support users of Microsoft, Linux, and UNIX environments
Use low-cost Linux servers to provide file and print services to Windows PCs
Protect your networks and data against today's most dangerous threats
Use virtualization to save money and improve business flexibility
Utilize RAID technologies to provide flexible storage at lower cost
Troubleshoot and fix network problems one step at a time
Preview and prepare for the future of networking

About the Author

Uyless Black has written 35 books on computer networks. He was one of the first writers to publish a book on Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and related Internet protocols. His book Voice over IP (VoIP) remains a best seller in the field of data communications texts. Uyless has many years of experience as a programmer and in creating and managing data communications networks.

His educational credentials include a B.S. from the University of New Mexico, an M.S. in computer systems from the American University, and a graduate degree from Rutgers' Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Title page	PDF
Copyright and credits	PDF
Table of Contents	PDF
Preface	PDF
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers	PDF
Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules	PDF
Chapter 3: Char Drivers	PDF
Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques	PDF
Chapter 5: Concurrency and Race Conditions	PDF
Chapter 6: Advanced Char Driver Operations	PDF
Chapter 7: Time, Delays, and Deferred Work	PDF
Chapter 8: Allocating Memory	PDF
Chapter 9: Communicating with Hardware	PDF
Chapter 10: Interrupt Handling	PDF
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