10/15/2010

TOAD Handbook, 2nd Edition - pdf

TOAD Handbook, 2nd EditionBook Description
TOAD® Handbook, Second Edition, is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world's premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to maximize their productivity with TOAD in both administrative and development tasks.

TOAD product architect Bert Scalzo and leading TOAD trainer Dan Hotka thoroughly cover every area of TOAD's functionality, offering practical, proven solutions that can be applied immediately to leverage TOAD's dramatically improved feature set. Comprehensive coverage includes

  • TOAD setup and configuration
  • Browsing databases and schemas
  • Editing SQL and PL/SQL within TOAD
  • Creating new databases
  • Checking database health
  • Performing common DBA tasks
  • Reporting via standard and custom reports
  • Optimizing database performance

Throughout the text, the authors offer practical insights into each of TOAD's most useful tools, from App Designer to Doc Generator, ER Diagrammer to Code Road Map.

This book is the only current, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the latest version of TOAD–a must-have for any TOAD user.
From the Back Cover
TOAD Handbook is a guide for developing Oracle applications and administering Oracle databases with TOAD. Starting with installation and configuration, the book covers the TOAD SQL editors in depth, including dozens of helpful, undocumented features. Later chapters discuss reporting and exporting data and using several add-on tools designed to enhance TOAD development. Along the way, the authors provide critical insights into the workings of TOAD and how developers can use it to make the most of their applications. Includes a foreword by Jim McDaniel, the inventor of TOAD.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (September 24, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321649109
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321649102
  • File Size: 15.6 MiB
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Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100 - pdf

Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100Book Description
The key scientific discoveries of the 21st century are coming from the biosciences. These discoveries will impact our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Now, two leading experts will help you imagine those impacts–and prepare for them. Paul and Joyce Schoemaker preview the research innovations most likely to emerge in the coming years and reveal what they're likely to mean for everything from human longevity to the health of society, from bioterrorism to personalized medicine.

Writing for every interested citizen and consumer, the Schoemakers illuminate the hottest technologies and most controversial issues associated with contemporary biotechnology–including stem cells, cloning, pharmacogenetics, DNA chips, proteomics, gene therapy, and much more. Then, drawing on Paul Schoemaker's unsurpassed experience helping global organizations prepare for the future, the authors sketch multiple long-term scenarios for the biosciences…and reveal how they will impact your health, family, career, and the society you live in.

  • How long will you live? How long can you live? Beyond 100: breakthroughs made, breakthroughs yet to come
  • New business opportunities for the age of biosciences The future of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, disease management, and prevention
  • The economics, politics, and technology of the bioscience revolution What's driving the biosciences–and what could halt them dead in their tracks
  • To 2025 and beyond: powerful scenarios and what they mean Making sense of the age of biosciences–so you can make better decisions for you and your family

About the Author

Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D. is Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at The Wharton School, where he teaches strategy and decision making. Dr. Schoemaker is also the founder and chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic planning and executive development. He has written more than 100 academic and applied papers as well as coauthored numerous books, including Decision Traps, Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies, Winning Decisions, Profiting from Uncertainty, and Peripheral Vision. He serves on multiple boards.

Joyce A. Schoemaker, Ph.D. has conducted basic research in microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Chicago and taught microbiology at Villanova University. She has held positions in research and management at several biotechnology companies, including Celltech in London, and has published numerous scientific articles in biology. She is coauthor of Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids: Protecting Your Children From Everyday Environmental Hazards. Dr. Schoemaker has a long-standing interest in environmental issues as well as the emerging biosciences.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137153856
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137153855
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PRAXIS I Exam Cram, 2nd Edition - pdf

PRAXIS I Exam Cram, 2nd EditionBook Description
Succeed with topical reviews, practice exams, and preparation tools

CD Features More Than 150 Practice Questions!

  • Covers exactly what you need to know to score higher on your PRAXIS exam
  • Includes more than 200 sample test questions in the book to help you determine whether you're ready to take the actual exam
  • Our popular Cram Sheet tear card helps you remember key concepts
  • Exam Alerts provide important information covered on the exam, as well as possible pitfalls you may encounter

Score Higher on the PRAXIS I Exam!
This book includes a CD-ROM that features a powerful, full-featured testing software:

  • Features more than 150 sample test questions, giving you additional practice for the PRAXIS exam.
  • Helps identify your strengths and weaknesses, so you can correct any weaknesses before you take the exam.
  • Provides the feedback you need to determine whether you're ready to take the actual exam!

About the Author
Diana Huggins has spent several years working in the field of education. After completing her bachelor of education degree, with a major in English and a minor in history, she began her career as an elementary school teacher and then moved into adult education. As an adult educator, she was responsible for overseeing adult learning programs and developing training

material

Diana also spent some time as an independent contractor, providing technical writing and editing services. During her time as a contractor, she authored several technology-related study guides. Currently, Diana continues to work in the Information Technology industry, where she focuses on communication, technical writing, and adult learning and development.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson Education; 2 edition (October 23, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789742187
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789742186
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Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware Systems - pdf

Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware SystemsBook Description
The Practical, Example-Rich Guide to Building Better Systems, Software, and Hardware with DFSS

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) offers engineers powerful opportunities to develop more successful systems, software, hardware, and processes. In Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware Systems, two leading experts offer a realistic, step-by-step process for succeeding with DFSS. Their clear, start-to-finish roadmap is designed for successfully developing complex high-technology products and systems that require both software and hardware development.

Drawing on their unsurpassed experience leading Six Sigma at Motorola, the authors cover the entire project lifecycle, from business case through scheduling, customer-driven requirements gathering through execution. They provide real-world examples for applying their techniques to software alone, hardware alone, and systems composed of both. Product developers will find proven job aids and specific guidance about what teams and team members need to do at every stage.

Using this book's integrated, systems approach, marketers, software professionals, and hardware developers can converge all their efforts on what really matters: addressing the customer's true needs.

Learn how to

  • Ensure that your entire team shares a solid understanding of customer needs
  • Define measurable critical parameters that reflect customer requirements
  • Thoroughly assess business case risk and opportunity in the context of product roadmaps and portfolios
  • Prioritize development decisions and scheduling in the face of resource constraints
  • Flow critical parameters down to quantifiable, verifiable requirements for every sub-process, subsystem, and component
  • Use predictive engineering and advanced optimization to build products that robustly handle variations in manufacturing and usage
  • Verify system capabilities and reliability based on pilots or early production samples
  • Master new statistical techniques for ensuring that supply chains deliver on time, with minimal inventory
  • Choose the right DFSS tools, using the authors' step-by-step flowchart

If you're an engineer involved in developing any new technology solution, this book will help you reflect the real Voice of the Customer, achieve better results faster, and eliminate fingerpointing.

About the Web Site The accompanying Web site, sigmaexperts.com/dfss, provides an interactive DFSS flowchart, templates, exercises, examples, and tools.

About the Author
Eric Maass has thirty years of experience with Motorola, ranging from research and development through manufacturing, to director of operations for a $160 million business and director of design and systems engineering for Motorola's RF Products Division. Dr.Maass was a cofounder of the Six Sigma methods at Motorola, and was a key advocate for the focus on variance reduction; his article on a "Strategy to Reduce Variance" was published in 1987, the year that Motorola announced Six Sigma. He codeveloped a patented method for multiple response optimization that has resulted in over 60 first-pass successful new products, and most recently has been the lead Master Black Belt for Design for Six Sigma at Motorola. He coauthored the Handbook of Fiber Optic Data Communication and a variety of chapters in books and articles ranging from concept selection to augmentation of design of experiments to multiple response optimization to advanced decision-making methods. Dr. Maass's other accomplishments include driving the turnaround of the Logic Division from "virtual chapter 11" to second-most profitable division (of 22 divisions) in two years, and he also won the contract for Freescale Semiconductor's largest customer, Qualcomm. Dr. Maass has a rather diverse educational background, with a B.A. in biological sciences, an M.S. in chemical and biomedical engineering, a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, and nearly thirty years' experience in electrical engineering. Dr. Maass is currently consulting with and advising several companies and institutions including Motorola, Arizona State University, Oracle, and Eaton.

Patricia McNair is the director of Motorola's software Design for Six Sigma program and a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She served as cochair of the Software Development Consortium and program director of the Motorola Six Sigma Software Academy. She travels internationally to various countries including France, England, China, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Brazil, and many others for consulting and training of Motorola engineers.
She spent more than twenty-five years in software and systems engineering roles including systems engineering manager, design engineer manager, architect and requirements lead, senior process manager, certified SEI instructor for the introduction to CMMI, certified Six Sigma black belt, and authorized SEI CBA IPI lead assessor for various companies such as Motorola, GE Healthcare, and IBM Federal Systems, where she worked through and managed all phases of a software development life cycle, from requirement gathering, design, development, and implementation, to production and support.
She has served as an adjunct professor at De Paul University in Chicago, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and at the University of Phoenix.
She holds an M.S. in computer science from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (August 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 013714430X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137144303
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Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization - pdf

Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database OptimizationBook Description
Oracle Performance Survival Guide offers a structured, systematic, start-to-finish methodology for optimizing Oracle performance as efficiently as possible. Leading Oracle expert Guy Harrison shows how to maximize your tuning investment by focusing on causes rather than symptoms, and by quickly identifying the areas that deliver the greatest "bang for the buck."

Writing for DBAs and developers with all levels of experience, Harrison covers every area of Oracle performance management, from application design through SQL tuning, contention management through memory and physical IO management. He also presents up-to-the-minute guidance for optimizing the performance of the Oracle 11g Release 2.

You'll start by mastering Oracle structured performance tuning principles and tools, including techniques for tracing and monitoring Oracle execution. Harrison illuminates the interaction between applications and databases, guides you through choosing tuning tools, and introduces upfront design techniques that lead to higher-performance applications. He also presents a collection of downloadable scripts for reporting on all aspects of database performance.

Coverage includes

  • "Tuning by layers," the most effective, highest-value approach to Oracle performance optimization
  • Making the most of Oracle's core tools for tracing, monitoring, and diagnosing performance
  • Highly efficient database logical and physical design, indexing, transaction design, and API use
  • SQL and PL/SQL tuning, including the use of parallel SQL techniques
  • Minimizing contention for locks, latches, shared memory, and other database resources
  • Optimizing memory and physical disk IO
  • Tuning Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases

About the Author
Guy Harrisonhas worked with Oracle databases as a developer, administrator, and performance expert for more than two decades. He is the author of many articles and several books on database technology, including Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning(Prentice Hall) and MySql Stored Procedure Programming(with Steven Feuerstein, O'Reilly). Guy is currently a director of development at Quest Software and is the chief architect of Quest's popular Spotlight product family. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Jenni and children Chris, Kate, Mike, and William. You can find Guy on the Web at http://www.guyharrison.net

Book Details

  • Paperback: 768 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (October 24, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137011954
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137011957
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Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches - pdf

Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the TrenchesBook Description
If you're involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you'll need. Packed with examples and case studies, Practical Virtualization Solutions is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle.

Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules, and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You'll learn what really works and what doesn't and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization.

Coverage includes

  • Quantifying the time, hardware, labor, and downtime needed to implement virtualization
  • Streamlining the transition from physical to virtual
  • Comparing VMware ESXi, VMware Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and other virtualization technologies
  • Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve flexibility with open source virtualization technologies
  • Explaining advanced techniques for simplifying virtual machine management
  • Defining the right role for virtualization in networking and storage
  • Automating virtual infrastructure management tasks

About the Author
Kenneth Hess is the virtualization columnist at Linux Magazine. His column covers all aspects and types of virtualization from desktop to server to cloud. Kenneth has used just about every type of virtualization product available since 1999 and was a beta tester of the original VMware product line. He also writes the Linux blog on DaniWeb and the Cover Your Assets column on Internet.com's ServerWatch. You'll also find Kenneth on the air weekly at The Frugal Tech Show's Frugal Friday. His day job with HP involves virtualization and web hosting at an enterprise level.

Amy Newman has been following the virtualization space since 2001. She has been blogging about it since 2006 in her weekly column, Virtually Speaking. Virtually Speaking provides analysis of news and trends on everything virtual from hypervisors to hardware. The column appears weekly on Internet.com's Server-Watch. Amy has been managing editor of ServerWatch since 1999 and Enterprise IT Planet since 2009. Prior to that, she was a research editor at Gartner, where she edited and managed the workflow of four monthly research deliverables related to software infrastructure.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (October 26, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137142978
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137142972
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Windows 7: The Definitive Guide - pdf

Windows 7: The Definitive GuideBook Description
This book provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You’ll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control. Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn’t just show you the steps you need to follow, he also tells you how features work, why they work, and how you can customize them to meet your needs. Learn how to squeeze every bit of power out of Windows 7 to take full advantage of its features and programs.

  • Set up, customize, and tune Windows 7-Optimize its appearance and performance, install and manage software, customize your hardware, and install printers, scanners, and faxes
  • Manage your files and data-Search your computer more efficiently, secure your data, share and collaborate, and get the most out of optional programs such as Windows Live Mail
  • Master your digital media-Create media libraries, manage digital pictures and videos, make DVDs, and create movies
  • Get connected and start networking-Set up a home or small-office network, conquer Internet Explorer, and master on-the-go networking
  • Protect your computer-Keep your family safe while on the Internet, navigate the computer security maze, and configure Windows 7′s protection features
  • Manage and support Windows 7 systems-Configure user accounts, disks and drives, troubleshoot and handle routine maintenance, and resolve advanced support and recovery issues
  • Learn advanced tips & techniques-Manage the Windows boot environment, explore Group Policy, and much more

About the Author
William R. Stanek has over 20 years of hands-on experience with advanced programming and development. He has written nearly 100 books including: Microsoft Windows Vista Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Windows Server 2008 Inside Out, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition, and Microsoft IIS 7.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (all from Microsoft Press). He also wrote MCSE Core Exams in a Nutshell and Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide for O’Reilly.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 990 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (October 22, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596800975
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596800970
  • File Size: 21.6 MiB
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Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now? - pdf

Homebuyers Beware: Whos Ripping You Off Now?Book Description
The entire world of mortgages and credit has turned upside down. Everything people think they know has changed and relying on a book published before 2009 could be a very expensive mistake. In Homebuyers Beware, Carolyn Warren reveals the new realities and shows how to take advantage of them, whether you’re buying your first home, refinancing, struggling with imperfect credit, or planning to invest in real estate. Warren reveals secrets home buyers can’t afford to miss, and exposes the newest scammers taking advantage of today’s desperate consumers. Unlike older guides, this book fully reflects today’s radically new and different mortgage requirements, as well as the latest federal legislation, including the Housing Bill of October 2008 and the brand-new FACT credit reporting rules. Discover:

  • Fast, effective ways to raise your credit score and lower your mortgage costs
  • How to get a wholesale interest rate
  • How to apply for new insured government loans, even if you’ve had a bankruptcy or foreclosure
  • How to avoid new loans that look good on paper, but are just as horrible as yesterday’s subprime mortgages
  • Who’s ripping you off now: high-tech “smoke and mirrors” that can trick you into overpaying
  • When to buy, when to wait, when to lock in, when to float
  • Negotiation tactics that can reduce your costs for years to come

About the Author

Carolyn Warren has been a mortgage industry insider for more than twelve years. She worked in both retail and wholesale lending for some of the largest national lenders including Full Spectrum Lending/Countrywide Home Loans, Ameriquest, Green Tree Financial/Conseco, and First Franklin wholesale lending.

Carolyn Warren is the author of the best-selling Mortgage Rip-Offs and Money Savers, a book that became The Washington Post's August 2008 Book Club pick-of-the-month and earned reviews in publications ranging from The Boston Globe to the Orange County Register, The Seattle Times to the Arizona Republic and San Diego Union-Tribune. She has appeared on many radio talk shows, including Bob Brinker's national Money Talk and The Gil Rose Show in San Francisco.

Currently, she is working as a broker/banker and is the owner of two Web sites, www.AskCarolynWarren.com and www.Mortgage-Helper.com. She lives in Seattle with her husband and Himalayan cat.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (October 24, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137020163
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137020164
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Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition - pdf

Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded EditionBook Description
From The One Minute Manager® to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard's books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people oriented, customer centered, and performance driven.

Now, in this fully updated edition of Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard and his colleagues bring together all they've learned about world-class leadership. You'll discover how to create targets and visions based on the "triple bottom line" and make sure people know who you are, where you're going, and the values that will guide your journey.

Leading at a Higher Level presents the definitive discussion about using Situational Leadership® II to lead yourself, individuals, teams, and entire organizations. More important, you'll learn how to dig deep within, discover the personal "leadership point of view" all great leaders possess, and apply it throughout your entire life.

For everyone who wants to become a better leader…
…in any company, any organization, any area of life

Build an organization that "walks the walk" on values
Eliminate the gap between your company's stated values and actual behavior

Serve your customers at a higher level
Deliver your ideal customer experience and create "raving fans"

Coach to bring out everyone's best, from top to bottom
Create a coaching culture that boosts performance at every level

About the Author
Ken Blanchard has had an extraordinary impact on the day-to-day management of millions of people and companies. His phenomenal bestseller The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold 13,000,000 copies worldwide in 27 languages. Blanchard's 17 business bestsellers also include Raving Fans, High Five!, and The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do.

Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leader in workplace learning, employee productivity, leadership, and team effectiveness.

This book contains indispensable contributions from The Ken Blanchard Companies' founding associates and current consulting partners, including Marjorie Blanchard, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Fred Finch, Laurie Hawkins, Drea Zigarmi, Pat Zigarmi, Alan Randolph, Jesse Stoner, Fay Kandarian, Susan Fowler, Lael Good, Judd Hoekstra, Chris Edmonds, Bob Glaser, Garry Demarest, Vicki Halsey, Kathy Cuff, Linda Miller, Scott Blanchard, and Madeleine Homan Blanchard.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 Updated edition (September 18, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137011709
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137011704
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Put Option Strategies for Smarter Trading: How to Protect and Build Capital in Turbulent Markets - pdf

Put Option Strategies for Smarter Trading: How to Protect and Build Capital in Turbulent MarketsBook Description
Options traders most commonly focus on calls: the right to purchase stock if prices rise. The 2008 stock market crash demonstrated just how misguided this singular emphasis can be: thousands of investors suffered massive losses they could have avoided through the careful, defensive use of strategies based on puts instead of calls. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, balanced guide to using puts to create profits, protect stock positions, and hedge against all types of risk. Renowned expert Michael C. Thomsett, author of the #1 options best-seller Getting Started in Options, introduces powerful “defensive” strategies that are typically ignored or deemphasized in most other options books: indispensable techniques for any investor anticipating a market decline, now or in the future. Thomsett shows how to use long puts to ensure paper profits in stock or to offset losses, even when stocks decline steeply and quickly; how to apply puts in straddles and spreads, in multi-part strategies that prevent losses and hedge risks; how to identify opportunities to create cash flow by selling limited-risk naked puts to create cash flow, and much more. These defensive strategies balance out the “you can’t lose” approach seen in all too many options books. What’s more, Thomsett’s clear writing style, complemented by dozens of easy-to-understand tables, graphics, and examples, makes it easy for any investor to apply these strategies successfully.

About the Author

Michael C. Thomsett is a widely published author with over 70 published books. He is especially known for his options publishing. His books include Options Trading for the Conservative Investor and The Options Trading Body of Knowledge (FT Press), Winning with Options (Amacom Books), The LEAPS Strategist (Marketplace Books) and the best-selling Getting Started in Options (John Wiley & Sons) which has sold over 250,000 copies and was released in 2009 in its 8th edition. Thomsett also writes on many stock market investment topics. His Investment and Securities Dictionary (hardcover McFarland & Company and paperback Macmillan General Reference) was named by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. He also wrote The Mathematics of Investing (John Wiley & Sons), The Stock Investor's Pocket Calculator (Amacom) and Stock Profits (FT Press). The author lives near Nashville and writes fulltime. His Web site is www.MichaelThomsett.com.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (December 21, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 013701290X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137012909
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Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, 3rd Edition - pdf

Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, 3rd EditionBook Description
Technical analysis offers powerful, objective tools for picking stocks and making money – and in today’s market environment, that makes it more indispensable than ever. Unfortunately, most explanations of the subject simply confuse investors instead of enlightening them. In this clear, practical, fully updated book, Barron’s technical analysis columnist Michael N. Kahn introduces state-of-the-art technical analysis techniques in simple language that any investor can understand and use. Kahn explains exactly how technical analysis works, then teaches you how to read charts and translate them into actual buy and sell decisions. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use technical analysis to complement your current approach to stock selection, discover what makes a stock look promising to technical analysts, and objectively assess both risk and reward. This updated and revised Third Edition contains many new examples reflecting today’s transformed market environment, including detailed coverage of recognizing bubbles, including real estate (2006), oil (2008), and bonds (2009). Kahn offers powerful new insights into the relationship between technical analysis and market psychology, as well as crucial, up-to-date guidance on sector rotation for changing markets. He also presents a full chapter on “when things stop working”: how to recognize when usually reliable technical tools are being overwhelmed by “once-in-a-thousand-year,” “black-swan”-type events.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 3 edition (2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-705705-9
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705705-4
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The Econosphere: What Makes the Economy Really Work, How to Protect It, and Maximize Your Opportunity for Financial Prosperity - pdf

The Econosphere: What Makes the Economy Really Work, How to Protect It, and Maximize Your Opportunity for Financial ProsperityBook Description
How the World Really Works–and How to Make It Start Working Again!

  • Discover the immutable laws of nature that govern all your financial decisions–and put them to work for you
  • Ten ways to maximize wealth and happiness for everyone
  • How not to fix a broken economy: stupid policy tricks and why they just make things worse

We all live inside the Econosphere: a living, breathing, global organism that choreographs billions of performers with breathtaking precision and can make life better for everyone. But the Econosphere works best if we understand what nurtures it–and what poisons it. In The Econosphere, leading economist Craig Thomas reveals the amazing economic organism we're all part of, explains how it really works, and shows how to make it start working again–for everyone. Thomas illuminates the laws that govern every economic decision you make–and shows how to use that information to make better decisions, achieve greater success, and maximize your happiness.

About the Author
Craig Thomas is a veteran private-sector economist, working today as Senior Economist at one of the largest financial services firms in the United States. Among his previous posts, he served as Director of Research for Citi Property Investors, Citigroup's private equity real estate arm, developing information that drives billions of dollars of investment decisions. Specializing in regional, macro, and real estate economics, he has modeled and analyzed myriad markets and asset classes, presenting his findings worldwide. Unlike most serious economists, he is also a gifted communicator. His economics columns quickly gathered an avid readership of more than 30,000 economists and noneconomists who appreciate his unique ability to explain complex theory in a simple and entertaining way.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (November, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 013701998X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137019984
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Innovation Passport: The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to Reality - pdf

Innovation Passport: The IBM First of a Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to RealityBook Description
"Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and customer standpoint. By following the guidelines in this book, those with aspirations of collaborative innovation can learn from the lessons of IBM and maximize their probability of success. A+!"
–Gregory S. Dawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and former Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Innovation Passport goes directly to the heart of how companies can speed up the transition from research to revenue. This book's combination of insight and actionable detail–derived over a dozen years–provides a roadmap for companies to accelerate the commercialization of ideas and technologies. Moreover, this best practice is based on collaboration with external partners, an approach that is even more critical given strained economic times."
–Keith O'Brien, VP, Best Practices Research, Frost & Sullivan

Get Inside IBM's Breakthrough FOAK Program for Delivering Profitable Innovation!

  • Learn from one of the world's most successful innovation initiatives
  • Align researchers, clients, and partners behind innovation that matters
  • Get the right innovations to market fast

How can you promote innovation that delivers real, profitable business value–again and again, year after year? For 14 years, IBM's FOAK program has done just that. In Innovation Passport, FOAK's leaders share the powerful lessons they've learned. Through actual project examples, you'll discover how to craft more effective processes for making innovation happen…encourage collaboration…manage innovation portfolios…protect intellectual property…and systematically improve the chances of marketplace adoption. Whatever your role in innovation, this book will help you do it better, faster, and more profitably.

About the Author
Mary Jo Frederich is the director of the IBM Industry Solutions Labs and First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) program. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, gained while holding positions such as principal of a Northeast networking and systems management consulting practice, portfolio manager for Global Industry Solutions, and systems engineering manager for telecommunications. Throughout her years at IBM, she has gained extensive business and technical management experience working with clients in the consumer packaged goods, communications, utilities, and financial services industries. She is credited with transforming the FOAK program over the last eight years to drive greater value for IBM and its clients.
Peter Andrews, currently an independent executive consultant and writer, coauthored this book when he was the innovation strategist for IBM's Executive Business Institute. While at IBM, he participated in corporationwide studies into ad hoc innovation, innovation partnering, and the use of collaboration tools for virtual teaming. He has trained hundreds of IBM researchers in techniques for realizing the value of their inventions. He was honored by IBM as one of its "Pioneers of the Web." He is a popular speaker at conferences and has authored dozens of Executive Tech Reports, which explore innovation and emerging technologies.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132390760
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132390767
  • File Size: 1.8 MiB
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Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the Enterprise - pdf

Web 2.0 and Social Networking for the EnterpriseBook Description
The Hands-On Guide to Thriving with Web 2.0 and Social Networking

  • Deepen employee and coworker relationships, improve productivity, strengthen collaboration, and boost creativity
  • Embrace, support, and manage social networking so it works for you, not against you
  • Best practices and new case studies from IBM® and many of its most innovative portal and social networking sites

This book provides hands-on, start-to-finish guidance for business and IT decision-makers who want to drive value from Web 2.0 and social networking technologies. IBM expert Joey Bernal systematically identifies business functions and innovations these technologies can enhance and presents best-practice patterns for using them in both internal- and external-facing applications. Drawing on the immense experience of IBM and its customers, Bernal addresses both the business and technical issues enterprises must manage to succeed. He offers insights and case studies covering multiple technologies, including AJAX, REST, Atom/RSS, enterprise taxonomies, tagging, folksonomies, portals, mashups, blogs, wikis, and more. He also presents practical guidance for building robust, secure, collaborative applications by using applications and services from multiple sources with powerful tools such as WebSphere® Portal, Lotus® Connections, and IBM Mashup Center.

About the Author
Anthony (Joey) Bernal, Executive IT Specialist with IBM Software Services for Lotus, helps to lead the IBM Software Services for Lotus WebSphere Portal Team and has assisted dozens of clients in addressing complex portal and web application challenges. A frequent speaker on WebSphere, Portal, and Social Networking topics, Bernal is the coauthor of Programming Portlets, Second Edition and the author of Application Architecture for WebSphere. He also hosts a popular blog, Portal in Action, available at www.ibm.com/developerworks/ blogs/page/Joey_Bernal. You can view the author's website at www.bernal.net.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (October 30, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137004893
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137004898
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard In Depth - pdf

Mac OS X Snow Leopard In DepthBook Description
Advice and techniques that you need to get the job done.

Looking for ways to streamline your work so that you can focus on maximizing your
time? In Depth provides specific, tested, and proven solutions to the problems you run
into every day–things other books ignore or oversimplify. This is the one book that you
can rely on to answer all the questions you have now and will have in the future.

In Depth offers:

  • Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions
  • Breakthrough techniques and shortcuts that are unavailable elsewhere
  • Practical, real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out
  • Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can't fix on your own
  • Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style
  • Quick information via sidebars, tips, reminders, notes, and warnings
  • In Depth is the only tool you need to get more done in less time!

CATEGORY: Macintosh Operating System
COVERS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

About the Author
Paul McFedries is a Mac expert with more than 20 years experience with all flavors of Macs. Paul is a full-time technical writer and has been authoring computer books since 1991. He has more than 60 books to his credit, including a number of titles covering Macs, Mac OS X, and the iPhone. Paul has written many books for Que, including Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way; Build It. Fix It. Own It: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC; Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus; Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007; VBA for the 2007 Microsoft Office System; and Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries. Paul's Mac titles include Macs Portable Genius, Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, iPhone 3G S Portable Genius, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Paul's books have sold more than three million copies worldwide.

However, all geek and no play makes Jack (and Paul) a dull boy. Paul's other interests include solving and writing cryptic crosswords, word play of all forms, reading, running, baking bread, and taking naps. Paul lives in Toronto with Karen, the love of his life, and Gypsy the kissing dog. They have no cats.

Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy, a website devoted to recently coined words and phrases. Word Spy generates over a million page views each month, has won numerous awards, and has been mentioned or featured in such august publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 1 edition (October 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789742292
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789742292
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WebSphere Application Server Administration Using Jython - pdf

WebSphere Application Server Administration Using JythonBook Description
Save Time and Money: Streamline WebSphere Application Server Management with Jython Scripting!

Utilizing Jython scripting, you can dramatically reduce the effort, resources, and expense associated with managing WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server Administration Using Jython will show you how. The first start-to-finish guide to Jython scripting for WebSphere administration, this book's practical techniques and downloadable scripts can help you improve efficiency, repeatability, and automation in any WebSphere environment.

This book's expert authors begin with practical introductions to both WebSphere Application Server administration and Jython, today's powerful, Java implementation of Python. Next, they cover a broad spectrum of WebSphere management tasks and techniques, presenting real, easy-to-adapt solutions for everything from server configuration and security to database management. These are powerful solutions you can begin using immediately–whether you're running WebSphere in production, development, or test environments.

Coverage includes

  • Mastering the Jython rules, characteristics, and properties that are most valuable in WebSphere scripting
  • Viewing and manipulating WebSphere configuration and run-time details
  • Making the most of the wsadmin scripting engine and objects–including rarely-used wsadmin parameters that can simplify administration
  • Adjusting wsadmin properties to reflect your needs and environment
  • Using the AdminApp scripting object to list, view, install, uninstall, and modify AppServer applications
  • Using the AdminTask object to manipulate WebSphere Application Server at a high level
  • Configuring the WebSphere Application Server with AdminConfig
  • Manipulating active AppServer objects (MBeans) with AdminControl
  • Controlling security, including aliases, roles, administrative and application security, and multiple security domains

About the Author
Robert A. Gibson is an Advisory Software Engineer with 30+ years' experience in software roles at IBM, including architect, developer, tester, instructor, and technical support professional. He is currently team leader for IBM's WebSphere Distributed Application Server technical support group.
Arthur Kevin McGrath has worked for Contract Engineers in multiple positions since 1983. He has lectured internationally on programming languages, management, and quality assurance, and authored multiple courses on these topics.
Noel J. Bergman, cofounder of DevTech, has 25+ years' experience with advanced technology. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he is Vice President of the Apache Incubator.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 504 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (November 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137009526
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137009527
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CNA Certified Nursing Assistant Exam Cram - pdf

CNA Certified Nursing Assistant Exam CramBook Description
Succeed with topical reviews, practice exams, and preparation tools

  • Covers exactly what you need to know to score higher on your CNA exam
  • More than 150 sample test questions help you gain confidence and decide when you're ready to take the actual exam
  • Simplifies key nursing assistant concepts and techniques for easy learning
  • Includes popular Cram Sheet tearcard to help you remember key concepts and do extra last-minute studying
  • Exam Alerts identify important information found on the exam

Written by Leading Experts!

Score Higher on the CNA Exam!
The CD features an adaptive test engine, giving you an effective tool to assess your readiness for the CNA exam. Key features include

  • Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers
  • Multiple test modes
  • Random questions and order of answers
  • Coverage of all CNA topic categories

About the Author
Marty Walker has practiced nursing for the past 30 years at the vocational nursing level as a registered nurse, and at the master's level. Marty began her nursing career as a licensed practical nurse, receiving her vocational education certificate from Atlantic Vocational School in Pompano Beach, Florida in 1979. In 1982, she earned the associate degree in nursing from Broward Community College in Davie, Florida. She worked for more than 10 years as a staff nurse in telemetry, critical care, and emergency nursing before completing a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. In 1995, she began teaching medical-surgical nursing at Ivy Tech State College in Sellersburg, Indiana.

Linda Whitenton began a 38-year nursing career in 1967 as a nursing assistant in Paducah, Kentucky. Following her graduation from Murray State University's BSN program in 1970, she practiced in mental health, pediatrics, and medical-surgical nursing. Teaching nursing assistants, emergency medical technicians, and unit secretaries in a Mississippi hospital cemented her love for teaching in her role as a hospital in-service education director in the early 1970s. She accepted her first teaching position at Northeast Mississippi Community College in 1975. While at NEMC, she taught fundamentals, medical-surgical nursing, management, and psychiatric nursing and served as assistant director and director of the program for seven years. In 1977, Linda earned her master's of science degree in nursing at the Mississippi University for Women, which also afforded her the family nurse clinician credential. In 1987, she relocated to Florida and accepted a position as associate director of nursing for the associate degree nursing program at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg. While at SPC, she designed curriculum for more than 1,000 employees of the Pinellas County EMS, taught LPN transitional students at night, and practiced part time at the Bayfront Medical Center Trauma Center.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson Education; 1 edition (October 30, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789739348
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789739346
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CompTIA A+ 220-701 and 220-702 Cert Guide - pdf

CompTIA A+ 220 701 and 220 702 Cert GuideBook Description
Learn, prepare, and practice for exam success

  • Master every topic on both new 2009 A+ exams.
  • Assess your knowledge and focus your learning.
  • Get the practical workplace knowledge you need!

DVD Features 2 Complete Sample Exams

Start-to-finish A+ preparation from the world's #1 PC hardware expert, Scott Mueller!

Master every A+ topic!

  • Essential concepts and troubleshooting principles
  • BIOS and CMOS
  • Memory types and characteristics
  • I/O ports and multimedia devices
  • Video cards and displays
  • Motherboards, CPUs, and adapter cards
  • Laptop components
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Windows Vista, XP, and 2000
  • Power supplies and system cooling
  • Printers
  • Safety and environmental concerns

Test your knowledge, build your confidence, and succeed!

  • Packed with visuals to help you learn fast
  • Dozens of troubleshooting scenarios
  • Real-world A+ prep advice from experts
  • Easy-to-use exam preparation task lists
  • Do I Know This Already? quizzes help you gauge your knowledge, focus your study, and review the material

DVD Features 2 Complete Sample Exams

  • Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers
  • Multiple test modes
  • Random questions and order of answers
  • Sample videos from CompTIA A+ Cert Kit

www.pearsoncertification.com

About the Author
Mark Edward Soper has been working with PCs since the days of the IBM PC/XT and AT as a sales person, technology advisor, consultant, experimenter, and technology writer. Since 1992, he's taught thousands of students across the country how to repair, manage and troubleshoot the hardware, software, operating systems, and firmware inside their PCs. He's created many versions of his experimental computer known as "FrankenPC" for this and previous books. Mark earned his CompTIA A+ Certification in 1999 and has written two other A+ Certification books covering previous versions of the A+ Certification exams for Que Publishing.

Mark has contributed to many editions of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, working on the 11th through 18th editions, coauthored Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Fifth Edition, and written two books about digital photography, Easy Digital Cameras and

The Shot Doctor: The Amateur's Guide to Taking Great Digital Photos. In addition, Mark has contributed to Que's Special Edition Using series on Windows Me, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, Que's Windows 7 In Depth, contributed to Easy Windows Vista, has written two books about Windows Vista, including Maximum PC Microsoft Windows Vista Exposed and Unleashing Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center, and one book about Windows 7, Easy Microsoft Windows 7.

Mark also stays busy on the Web, posting many blog entries and articles at MaximumPC.com, as well as writing articles for Maximum PC magazine. He has taught A+ Certification and other technology-related subjects at Ivy Tech State
College's Evansville, Indiana, campus.

David L. Prowse is a computer network specialist, author, and technical trainer. As a consultant, he installs and secures the latest in computer and networking technology. Over the past several years, he has authored and co-authored a number of networking and computer titles for Pearson Education. In addition, over the past decade he has taught CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ certification courses to more than 2,000 students, both in the classroom and via the Internet.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 4 Pap/Cdr edition (October 12, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 078974242X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789742421
  • File Size: 25.3 MiB
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 on Demand - pdf

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 on DemandBook Description
What you need, when you need it!
Need answers quickly? Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
Inside the Book

  • Quickly import, organize, and tag your photos
  • Build and maintain a well-organized photo catalog
  • Make the most of metadata, keywords, and searchable attributes
  • Use Quick Develop's fast, handy image processing tools
  • Apply localized adjustments to parts of an image
  • Work effectively in black and white
  • Reduce unwanted image noise
  • Output your images to printers, slide shows, or online galleries
  • Integrate Lightroom 2 with Adobe Creative Suite 4
  • Customize Lightroom's preview, import, and backup preferences

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:
Workshops and related files

Category: Digital Photography
Covers: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
User Level: Beginning–Intermediate

About the Author
Ted LoCascio is a professional graphic designer, author, and educator. He served as senior designer at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts, graphics, and designs for many successful software training books, videos, websites, and magazines. Ted is the author of numerous graphics software training books and has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine, Creativepro.com, the Quark Xtra newsletter, PlanetQuark.com, indesignsecrets.com, and InDesign Magazine. He has also taught at the Adobe CS Conference, the InDesign Conference, the Pixel Conference, the Vector Conference, and PhotoshopWorld. He is also the author of numerous graphics software training videos, all of which are available at lynda.com. A graphic designer for more than ten years, Ted's designs and illustrations have been featured in several national newsstand and trade magazines, books, and various advertising and marketing materials. For more about Ted LoCascio, please visit tedlocascio.com.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 28, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789742152
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789742155
  • File Size: 26.2 MiB
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard On Demand - pdf

Mac OS X Snow Leopard On DemandBook Description
Need answers quickly? Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Inside the Book

  • Master the Mac OS X Snow Leopard user interface, file management, and applications
  • Find everything you need with Spotlight
  • Find and use keyboard shortcuts to save time
  • Explore the Internet with Safari and send e-mail with Mail
  • Manage and play digital music with iTunes and iPod
  • Chat online instantly with iChat
  • Manage and share your schedule with iCal
  • Get a Front Row seat to play DVDs and other media
  • Set up multiple users and maintain security
  • Keep your files up to date and backed up with Time Machine
  • Customize and fine-tune Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Use Microsoft Windows along with Snow Leopard

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:

  • Workshops and related files
  • Keyboard shortcuts

About the Author
Steve Johnson has written more than 50 books on a variety of computer software, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS3, Adobe Flash CS4 and CS3, Dreamweaver CS4 and CS3, Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Microsoft Expression 2, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Macintosh, and Apple Mac OS X Leopard. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., which writes and produces software training. When he is not staying up late writing, he enjoys playing golf, gardening, and spending time with his wife, Holly, and three children, JP, Brett, and Hannah. Steve and his family live in Pleasanton, California, but can also be found visiting family all over the western United States.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 21, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789739852
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789739858
  • File Size: 32.1 MiB
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Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth - pdf

Microsoft Windows 7 In DepthBook Description
Looking for ways to streamline your work so that you can focus on maximizing your
time? In Depth provides specific, tested, and proven solutions to the problems you run
into every day—things other books ignore or oversimplify. This is the one book that you
can rely on to answer all the questions you have now and will have in the future.

In Depth offers:
* Comprehensive coverage, with detailed solutions
* Breakthrough techniques and shortcuts that are unavailable elsewhere
* Practical, real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out
* Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can't fix on your own
* Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style
* Quick information via sidebars, tips, reminders, notes, and warnings
* In Depth is the only tool you need to get more done in less time!

About the Author
Robert Cowart has written more than 40 books that have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. He made his name writing for Sybex and Osborne, most notably the best-selling Mastering Windows series of books. As an author and media developer for Que, Bob has written numerous Windows titles, including multiple editions of Que's flagship Windows book, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows. Bob recently graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern (MFTI), starting his private practice as a psychotherapist in Northern California.

Brian Knittel is a software developer, consultant, and writer. He's authored or coauthored many of Que's best-selling Windows books, including Que's leading Windows book, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows. Brian also is the author of Windows XP Under the Hood and coauthored Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows with Scott Mueller.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1152 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 10, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789741997
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789741998
  • File Size: 40.4 MiB
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Microsoft Windows 7 On Demand - pdf

Microsoft Windows 7 On DemandBook Description
Need answers quickly? Microsoft Windows 7 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Inside the Book

  • Master the Windows 7 user experience, including Windows Aero
  • Perform Instant Searches to quickly find files and programs
  • Manage files and information using Windows 7 programs and desktop gadgets
  • Browse the Web, search for information, and get instant updates
  • Use Windows Live Essentials to work with mail, messages, photos, and movies
  • Protect your computer from Internet or network intruders
  • Create your own movies, slide shows, and DVDs
  • Rip, manage, and play digital music and videos
  • Share files and media on a HomeGroup or network
  • Set multiple users and parental controls
  • Customize, fine-tune, and administer Windows 7

Bonus Online Content
Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to:
Workshops and related files
Keyboard shortcuts

About the Author
Steve Johnson has written more than 45 books on a variety of computer software, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS3, Adobe Flash CS4 and CS3, Dreamweaver CS4 and CS3, Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Microsoft Expression Web 2, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Macintosh, and Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., which writes and produces software training. When he is not staying up late writing, he enjoys playing golf, gardening, and spending time with his wife, Holly, and three children, JP, Brett, and Hannah. Steve and his family live in Pleasanton, California, but can also be found visiting family all over the western United States.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 11, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789742012
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789742018
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The Art of Application Performance Testing - pdf

The Art of Application Performance TestingBook Description
This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they’re deployed — a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that.

Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, and the pressure to deploy them quickly, many professionals don’t take the time to ensure that they’ll perform well and scale effectively. The Art of Application Performance Testing explains the complete life cycle of the testing process, and demonstrates best practices to help you plan, gain approval for, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications. With this book, you’ll learn to:

  • Set realistic performance testing goals
  • Implement an effective application performance testing strategy
  • Interpret performance test results
  • Cope with different application technologies and architectures
  • Use automated performance testing tools
  • Test traditional local applications, web-based applications, and web services (SOAs)
  • Recognize and resolves issues that are often overlooked in performance tests

Written by a consultant with 30 years of experience in the IT industry and over 12 years experience with performance testing, this easy-to-read book is illustrated with real-world examples and packed with practical advice. The Art of Application Performance Testing thoroughly explains the pitfalls of an inadequate testing strategy and offers you a robust, structured approach for ensuring that your applications perform well and scale effectively when the need arises.

“Ian has maintained a vendor-agnostic methodology beautifully in this material. The metrics and graphs, along with background information provided in his case studies, eloquently convey to the reader, ‘Methodology above all, tools at your discretion…’ Ian’s expertise shines through throughout the entire reading experience.” — Matt St. Onge, Enterprise Solution Architect, HCL Technologies America / Teradyne

About the Author
Originally hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Ian Molyneaux ended up in IT purely by chance after applying for an interesting looking job advertised as “junior computer operator” in the mid ’70s. The rest is history, 30 years later I’ve held many roles in IT, although I’ve shied away from anything management related as I’m a techie at heart. His current role is EMEA SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Application Performance Assurance at Compuware. Presently residing in Buckinghamshire, U.K. with wife Sarah, daughter Sasha, and two cats, and trying to get used to the idea of turning 49!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 158 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (February 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596520662
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596520663
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The Art of Concurrency - pdf

The Art of ConcurrencyBook Description
If you’re looking to take full advantage of multi-core processors with concurrent programming, this practical book provides the knowledge and hands-on experience you need. The Art of Concurrency is one of the few resources to focus on implementing algorithms in the shared-memory model of multi-core processors, rather than just theoretical models or distributed-memory architectures. The book provides detailed explanations and usable samples to help you transform algorithms from serial to parallel code, along with advice and analysis for avoiding mistakes that programmers typically make when first attempting these computations. Written by an Intel engineer with over two decades of parallel and concurrent programming experience, this book will help you:Understand parallelism and concurrency Explore differences between programming for shared-memory and distributed-memory Learn guidelines for designing multithreaded applications, including testing and tuning Discover how to make best use of different threading libraries, including Windows threads, POSIX threads, OpenMP, and Intel Threading Building Blocks Explore how to implement concurrent algorithms that involve sorting, searching, graphs, and other practical computations

The Art of Concurrency shows you how to keep algorithms scalable to take advantage of new processors with even more cores. For developing parallel code algorithms for concurrent programming, this book is a must.

About the Author
Clay Breshears has been with Intel since September 2000. He started as a Senior Parallel Application Engineer at the Intel Parallel Applications Center in Champaign, IL, implementing multithreaded and distributed solutions in customer applications. Clay is currently a Course Architect for the Intel Software College, specializing in multi-core and multithreaded programming and training. Before joining Intel, Clay was a Research Scientist at Rice University helping Department of Defense researchers make best use of the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms and resources.

Clay received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1996, but has been involved with parallel computation and programming for over twenty years; six of those years were spent in academia at Eastern Washington University and The University of Southern Mississippi.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 302 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (May 19, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596521537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596521530
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The Art of Lean Software Development - pdf

The Art of Lean Software DevelopmentBook Description
This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With The Art of Lean Software Development, you’ll learn how to adopt Lean practices one at a time rather than taking on the entire methodology at once. As you master each practice, you’ll see significant, measurable results. With this book, you will:

  • Understand Lean’s origins from Japanese industries and how it applies to software development
  • Learn the Lean software development principles and the five most important practices in detail
  • Distinguish between the Lean and Agile methodologies and understand their similarities and differences
  • Determine which Lean principles you should adopt first, and how you can gradually incorporate more of the methodology into your process
  • Review hands-on practices, including descriptions, benefits, trade-offs, and roadblocks
  • Learn how to sell these principles to management

The Art of Lean Software Development is ideal for busy people who want to improve the development process but can’t afford the disruption of a sudden and complete transformation. The Lean approach has been yielding dramatic results for decades, and with this book, you can make incremental changes that will produce immediate benefits.

“This book presents Lean practices in a clear and concise manner so readers are motivated to make their software more reliable and less costly to maintain. I recommend it to anyone looking for an easy-to-follow guide to transform how the developer views the process of writing good software.” — Bryan Wells, Boeing Intelligence & Security Sytems Mission System

“If you’re new to Lean software development and you’re not quite sure where to start, this book will help get your development process going in the right direction, one step at a time.” — John McClenning, software development lead, Aclara

About the Author
Curt Hibbs has always been slightly obsessed with new technologies and tracking technology trends. But he will tell you that this is simply because he is lazy, always looking for new methods and technologies to make his work easier and more productive. This led to his discovery of Ruby in 2001 (when it was still relatively unknown outside of Japan) and to his founding several highly successful Ruby open source projects.

For most of his professional career, which started in the early 1970′s, Curt has been a consultant to well-known companies like Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Corel, WordStar, Charles Schwab, Vivendi Universal, and more. He has also been a principal in several startups. Curt now works as a Senior Software Engineer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis.

Steve Jewett is a software developer with The Boeing Company, where he is involved in the development of network-centric cognitive decision support systems. His software experience started with BASIC and FORTRAN on a DEC PDP 1170 back in high school. The trail from there to the present day includes a litany of languages, a broad spectrum of design strategies and development methodologies, and a bevy of software projects, some of which were actually successful. Over a 20+ year career, he has developed software for automated test equipment, weapon/aircraft integration, embedded systems, desktop applications and web applications. His primary areas of interest are software architecture design and software development methodologies, particularly agile software development and its relationship to lean processes.

Mike Sullivan has over 6 years of experience teaching at the university level, and has spent the last 4 years working with software teams in small companies and large corporations to drive valuable solutions and improve team dynamics. He is currently working in a small research team within a large corporation, implementing Lean techniques to improve the software his team delivers. Mike’s interests include golf, Cardinals baseball and teaching.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 142 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (February 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596517319
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596517311
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