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OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, 5th Edition - pdf

OpenGL SuperBible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, 5th Edition Book Description
OpenGL® SuperBible, Fifth Edition is the definitive programmer's guide, tutorial, and reference for the world's leading 3D API for real-time computer graphics, OpenGL 3.3. The best all-around introduction to OpenGL for developers at all levels of experience, it clearly explains both the API and essential associated programming concepts. Readers will find up-to-date, hands-on guidance on all facets of modern OpenGL development, including transformations, texture mapping, shaders, advanced buffers, geometry management, and much more. Fully revised to reflect ARB's latest official specification (3.3), this edition also contains a new start-to-finish tutorial on OpenGL for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Coverage includes:
• A practical introduction to the essentials of real-time 3D graphics
• Core OpenGL 3.3 techniques for rendering, transformations, and texturing
• Writing your own shaders, with examples to get you started
• Cross-platform OpenGL: Windows (including Windows 7), Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, UNIX, and embedded systems
• OpenGL programming for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: step-by-step guidance and complete example programs
• Advanced buffer techniques, including full-definition rendering with floating point buffers and textures
• Fragment operations: controlling the end of the graphics pipeline
• Advanced shader usage and geometry management
• A fully updated API reference, now based on the official ARB (Core) OpenGL 3.3 manual pages
• New bonus materials and sample code on a companion Web site, www.starstonesoftware.com/OpenGL

Part of the OpenGL Technical Library–The official knowledge resource for OpenGL developers

The OpenGL Technical Library provides tutorial and reference books for OpenGL. The Library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL and shows them how to unlock its full potential. Originally developed by SGI, the Library continues to evolve under the auspices of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) Steering Group (now part of the Khronos Group), an industry consortium responsible for guiding the evolution of OpenGL and related technologies.

About the Author
Richard S. Wright, Jr., is a Senior Software Engineer for Software Bisque, where he develops multimedia astronomy and planetarium software using OpenGL. A former Real 3D representative to the OpenGL ARB, he has written many OpenGL-based games, scientific and medical applications, database visualization tools, and educational programs.

Nicholas Haemel has led 3D graphics hardware/software architecture design and development for eight years at ATI and AMD, and contributed to OpenGL standards 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

Graham Sellers is a manager in the OpenGL group at AMD and leads a team of OpenGL software developers working on AMD's OpenGL drivers. He represents AMD at the ARB, has authored many OpenGL extensions, and contributed to the OpenGL 3.2, 3.3, and 4.0 specifications.

Benjamin Lipchak, Software Engineering Manager at Apple, leads a team working on graphics developer technologies and benchmarks, and is responsible for OpenGL ES conformance of iPhone and iPod touch. He formerly managed an OpenGL ES driver team at AMD and led the Khronos OpenGL ecosystem group, where he established the OpenGL SDK and OpenGL Pipeline newsletter.

Book Details

Paperback: 1008 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 5 edition (July, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321712617
ISBN-13: 978-0321712615

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CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming - pdf

CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General Purpose GPU Programming Book Description
CUDA is a computing architecture designed to facilitate the development of parallel programs. In conjunction with a comprehensive software platform, the CUDA Architecture enables programmers to draw on the immense power of graphics processing units (GPUs) when building high-performance applications. GPUs, of course, have long been available for demanding graphics and game applications. CUDA now brings this valuable resource to programmers working on applications in other domains, including science, engineering, and finance. No knowledge of graphics programming is required–just the ability to program in a modestly extended version of C.

CUDA by Example, written by two senior members of the CUDA software platform team, shows programmers how to employ this new technology. The authors introduce each area of CUDA development through working examples. After a concise introduction to the CUDA platform and architecture, as well as a quick-start guide to CUDA C, the book details the techniques and trade-offs associated with each key CUDA feature. You'll discover when to use each CUDA C extension and how to write CUDA software that delivers truly outstanding performance.

Major topics covered include

Parallel programming
Thread cooperation
Constant memory and events
Texture memory
Graphics interoperability
Atomics
Streams
CUDA C on multiple GPUs
Advanced atomics
Additional CUDA resources

All the CUDA software tools you'll need are freely available for download from NVIDIA.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda-by-example.html

About the Author
Jason Sanders is a senior software engineer in the CUDA Platform group at NVIDIA. While at NVIDIA, he helped develop early releases of CUDA system software and contributed to the OpenCL 1.0 Specification, an industry standard for heterogeneous computing. Jason received his master's degree in computer science from the University of California Berkeley where he published research in GPU computing, and he holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he previously held positions at ATI Technologies, Apple, and Novell. When he's not writing books, Jason is typically working out, playing soccer, or shooting photos.

Edward Kandrot is a senior software engineer on the CUDA Algorithms team at NVIDIA. He has more than twenty years of industry experience focused on optimizing code and improving performance, including for Photoshop and Mozilla. Kandrot has worked for Adobe, Microsoft, and Google, and he has been a consultant at many companies, including Apple and Autodesk. When not coding, he can be found playing World of Warcraft or visiting Las Vegas for the amazing food.

Book Details

Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (July, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131387685
ISBN-13: 978-0131387683

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Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading - pdf

Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading Book Description
Have you realized yet that when you trade you are not just trading stocks? You're trading against expert traders who care about only one thing: taking your money. Most traders fail miserably because they never grasp this #1 reality of trading. Successful trading takes much more than just opening an online account and learning a few basic technical analysis patterns.

In Trade the Trader, top trader and hedge fund manager Quint Tatro shows you how to build a solid strategy to win consistently in the extremely competitive world of trading, where sometimes you can't just trade the stocks before you, but you must trade the trader who's trading against you. You'll master the real psychology and gamesmanship of trading and learn how to outsmart your competition at every step–from choosing target investments to knowing when to move.

Know your adversaries: "smart" money and "dumb"
Beating the fools, surviving the geniuses
Get beyond the basics with charts and patterns
What amateur chart readers know–and how to play several moves ahead of them
Plan your trade; trade your plan
Optimize your entire trade, from entry point through exit strategy
Be ready if you're wrong
Implement the disciplined stop system that's crucial to consistent success
Master the fine art of taking profits
Expect gains, realize them, and keep them

About the Author
Quint Tatro is President and owner of Tatro Capital, LLC, a premier fee-based investment advisory firm located in Central Kentucky. Although the firm may be located hundreds of miles from Wall Street, Quint is regarded as one of the 'Street's' best technicians and has frequented such shows as CNBC's Fast Money and Fox Business's Happy Hour, to relay his thoughts and ideas. In addition, Quint writes columns for financial websites such as Forbes.com, Minyanville.com, StockTwits.com, FinancialSense.com, and Tickerville.com

Financial management runs in the genes for Quint, as he comes from a family that has been involved in the financial world for more than 100 years. Long before he could ever officially be employed, he assisted his father, a 38-year veteran money manager, with various projects including research and economic forecasting. Gaining his official start in the business in 1999, Quint began as a retail broker in the family firm located in Rochester, New York. Rapidly growing his business, in 2000 he relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, and in 2003 he separated from the family firm, spreading his wings and launching Tatro Capital.

Furthering his experience and education, in 2005 Quint was given the incredible opportunity to serve as a general partner in a hedge fund located in Bradenton, Florida. During this time period, Quint assisted in the management of a $60 million fund and daily operations of the entire business. In 2007, Quint once again found himself heading back to the Blue Grass to reestablish Tatro Capital and make his now distinguished services available to the general public.

Quint hails from upstate New York but left in 1996 to attend the University of Kentucky where he graduated cum laude with a degree in finance. In 2004 he married his college sweetheart Brandie, who has left the field of physical therapy to enroll as a full-time mom raising their children.

Quint and Brandie are active members of Southland Christian Church and each posses a unique heart for missions, particularly the region of northwest Haiti.

Book Details

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137067089
ISBN-13: 978-0137067084

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Shopper Intimacy: A Practical Guide to Leveraging Marketing Intelligence to Drive Retail Success - pdf

Shopper Intimacy: A Practical Guide to Leveraging Marketing Intelligence to Drive Retail Success Book Description
In Shopper Intimacy, two world-renowned retail experts draw on unprecedented in-store research to illuminate how shoppers actually think, feel, and act in retail environments. Then, they introduce the Retail Ecosystem Analytics Program (REAP), a rigorous, complete methodology for transforming this knowledge into winning campaigns, products, and formats.

Retail marketing is undergoing cataclysmic change, driven by upheavals in media, consumer attitudes, and the retail industry itself. To build brands and drive sales, retailers must invest more heavily in marketing. But how? With Shopper Intimacy, you will understand the customer more deeply than ever before–and be able to act on that knowledge.

Drawing on years of industry research, Rick DeHerder and Dick Blatt introduce a start-to-finish system for achieving true shopper intimacy. You'll master powerful new tools for influencing shopper behavior–supported by extensive case studies, charts, and real-world examples. You'll also find indispensable performance metrics–including new ways to measure return on investment (ROI) from the standpoint of key stakeholders.

Shopper Intimacy brings together breakthrough insights for all retail segments, detailed data to support them, and practical techniques for applying and profiting from them.

Outstanding Retail Results in Five Steps
1. Understand shopper behavior more deeply.
2. Unlock the psychology driving shopper behavior.
3. Integrate this data to achieve shopper intimacy.
4. Identify and implement intimacy-driven strategies.
5. Measure and track your success.

About the Author
The authors have a deep involvement in the industry with complementary backgrounds. They collaborated to lead a great deal of the primary industry research and together have worked with the leaders of every industry segment. They are uniquely positioned to use their familiarity with the industry and the research to apply their personal experience to create a comprehensive review of marketing at retail with a guide for driving retail success.

Rick DeHerder was the founder of Array, a leading designer and manufacturer of fixtures and displays, with operations in North America and China and a network of strategic partners around the world. Prior to founding Array in 1999, Rick spent 24 years in both brand marketing as Executive Vice President at Mattel, and in the retail industry at Sears, working in the stores, regional offices, and headquarters. This broadbased experience gives him unique insight into the challenges of retail marketing at all levels.

Dick Blatt is the president of Planar World Consulting. He served as the CEO of POPAI–The Global Association for Marketing at Retail, for 17 years. In this role, he was called upon to author articles and deliver presentations around the world on the subject of marketing at retail, its future, and its trends. He was also selected to provide The Center for Association Leadership with two case studies of excellence for going global and reinventing the association. During his tenure, one of the association's primary strategic goals was to integrate the marketing at retail medium in the strategic marketing mix. The association also expanded to include 20 country chapters, with an organizational presence on every populated continent.

Book Details

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 013707543X
ISBN-13: 978-0137075430

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Market Upside Down: How to Invest Profitably in a Shrinking Economy - pdf

Market Upside Down: How to Invest Profitably in a Shrinking Economy Book Description
The Market Crisis Has Just Begun… Protect Your Wealth Through the Longest, Deepest Down Market in History

"Vinh Tran's deep knowledge of global economic events and his skill as a market participant shine through in Market Upside Down, wherein he illuminates the structural problems that exist in the U.S. economy and the ongoing risks these problems pose to investors. The book gives investors practical strategies for thriving in turbulent times and is important for anyone who wants to understand the new normal of the investing landscape."

–Tony Crescenzi, Strategist and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO and Author of Investing from the Top Down and The Strategic Bond Investor

"The fall in real estate values, credit market crises, and the stock market crash of 2008 and their effects worldwide put into question all that we have learned about investing. Vinh Tran provides the first best guide to making investment decisions for the future."
–Ronald W. Sellers, Chairman, CEO, Atlantic Asset Management

"Market Upside Down is a cautionary tale of the evils of debt. Our economic woes won't end with the resolution of the mortgage-backed securities crisis. Investors are facing a new crisis caused by massive government debt. But, fear not, Vinh Tran doesn't leave his readers unprotected. In his insightful book, he shares his strategies for profiting in down markets by investing in assets that promote liquidity, are diverse, help preserve capital, and manage unforeseen risks."
–Thong M. Nguyen, Group Executive, Fiduciary Solutions, Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management

"…This is a provocative and well-documented book, full of interesting ideas. It deserves your attention."
–Annette Thau, Ph.D., Author of the bestselling The Bond Book

About the Author
Dr. Vinh Q. Tran has spent more than 20 years as a money manager for global financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Aetna Life & Casualty, where he managed global investments, hedged equities and alternative investments, and advised wealthy individual and institutional investors. Throughout his career, Dr. Tran has earned high acclaim for his investment performance from Fortune, The New York Times, Morningstar, and others.

Dr. Tran has taught advanced investment as adjunct professor of Finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. and MBA in Finance from George Washington University, and graduated magna cum laude in both Accounting and Political Science from the University of Dalat, Vietnam.

Dr. Tran is the author of Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance and Foreign Exchange Management in Multinational Firms. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Book Details

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (January, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137044860
ISBN-13: 978-0137044863

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How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider’s Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business - pdf

How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insiders Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business Book Description
"Return on investment in social media is like the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody is doing anything about it. With this book, Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah set you up for success with some key fundamentals, and then give you some very specific and illustrative examples on how to calculate the ROI of your social media efforts."
–Scott Monty, Global Digital Communications, Ford Motor Company

"If you simply slap a few tools like Twitter and Facebook onto your existing marketing, you are not engaging. Social media are more than tools. But if you change your mindset, you can make money. This book is packed with information to show you how."
–David Meerman Scott, bestselling author, The New Rules of Marketing, and coauthor, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

Want to earn big profits from social media?

Now, there's an authoritative, up-to-the-minute resource you can trust–and use.

This in-the-trenches guide is written by experts who've developed money-making marketing campaigns for many of the world's largest companies. Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., combine practical strategies and proven execution techniques to show how to avoid crucial pitfalls that other companies have encountered, how to make the most of limited resources, and how to strengthen your brand instead of placing it at risk.

Turner and Shah present realistic guidance for setting objectives, assessing competitors, crafting strategies, selecting platforms, integrating social media into broader marketing programs, and effectively measuring results. Whether you're a marketer, executive, or entrepreneur, this book will help you drive maximum business value from social media–starting right now.

Big ideas and immediate action steps:
How to set up a social media campaign for success
…and how to get a positive return on your investment

How to profit from YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter
…and go way beyond them

Why your first social media campaign failed
…and what to do differently next time

What to measure, how to measure it
…and how to act on what you learn

About the Author
Jamie Turner is Chief Content Officer for The 60 Second Marketer, an online magazine that provides tools, tips, and tutorials for marketers around the globe. For more than 20 years, he has helped firms like AT&T, Cartoon Network, CNN, Motorola, and The Coca-Cola Company grow sales and revenue through high-impact marketing. He is a regular guest on TV and radio on the subject of marketing and is an in-demand keynote speaker for global corporations, events, and trade shows.

Reshma Shah, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Goizueta Business School of Emory University. She is also a founder and partner at Inflexion Point Marketing Group. Shah's marketing insights and strategies have helped companies like Ciba Vision, GE, IBM, Turner, The Coca-Cola Company, and UPS, among many others, improve their marketing ROI. Her articles have appeared in several academic journals in the areas of marketing alliances and brand extensions. Shah is also the recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award at Emory University.

Book Details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132100568
ISBN-13: 978-0132100564

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Emerging Business Online: Global Markets and the Power of B2B Internet Marketing - pdf

Emerging Business Online: Global Markets and the Power of B2B Internet Marketing Book Description
This book introduces ebocube ("Emerging Business Online"), a comprehensive, proven framework for Internet B2B marketing in emerging markets. Step by step, discover how to use ebocube to integrate all stages of marketing and sales, reduce risks, focus on better opportunities, and create significant new value in today's fastest-growing markets.

A Practical, Start-to-Finish Blueprint for Internet-Based B2B Marketing in Emerging Markets

Discover ebocube: the low-risk, high-reward business model for reaching and penetrating fast-growing B2B markets
Integrate planning, strategy, metrics, branding,online/offline media, distribution, budgeting, marketing operations, and more
Learn from the experiences of Cisco and other global leaders

B2B marketers increasingly recognize the crucial importance of emerging markets and the potential of the Internet and information technologies in exploiting these opportunities. Now for the first time, there's a comprehensive, robust, well-defined business model for successfully marketing B2B products and services and generating value in high-growth emerging markets.

Emerging Business Online brings together powerful lessons and techniques that are being applied successfully by Cisco and other global leaders. Lara Fawzy and Lucas Dworski reveal how to get ahead of competitors in emerging markets…mitigate risks in high-risk environments…measure emerging market sales and marketing performance accurately…set priorities and budgets…run effective campaigns and marketing operations…get results!

This book introduces ebocube ("emerging business online") a comprehensive, proven business model. The ebocube model demonstrates how to implement a low-risk Internet B2B marketing strategy in emerging markets. Learn how to apply ebocube to integrate all stages of the marketing process, penetrate today's fastest growing markets, and create significant new value.

The authors begin with an up-to-the minute introduction to emerging markets: their economic potential, politics, languages, cultures, Internet/mobile penetration, and more. Next, they identify emerging market best practices for segmentation, distribution, branding, and collaboration.

Building on this foundation, they introduce all three phases of the ebocube business model. You'll learn how to establish metrics and a dashboard to stay on track through the entire commercial cycle; organize and budget; manage localized campaigns, contact data, and marketing operations; create the optimal offline/online media mix; and much more.

Don't struggle with trial-and-error approaches to B2B marketing in emerging markets. Begin with a blueprint that works: ebocube.

B2B marketing by the dashboard light
Track and measure the right data the right way, transform it into intelligence, and then use it to improve
Managing customer relationships throughout the commercial cycle
Plan your contact strategy and localized campaigns and acquire and retain high-value, loyal customers
Integrating the elements of marketing communication
Optimize your marketing investment by integrating powerful media channels to reach new markets
Implementing marketing operations best practices for emerging markets
Optimize what matters: structure, budgeting, campaigns, reporting, tools, infrastructure, and more

About the Author
Lara Fawzy is currently an Online Campaign Marketing Manager, for Cisco's African region (based in Cairo, Egypt). Lara is also Director and founder of her own firm, ebocube, and conducts online marketing training in the African region. She has worked for Cisco Systems in various roles, including online customer relationship marketing for emerging markets (based in the UK). In this role, she worked closely with local marketing teams, sales teams, and agencies across emerging markets. She also created and executed online marketing campaigns using complex data segmentation and tracked and reported on campaigns through advanced customer relationship management tools.

As a Marketing Operations Manager with Cisco in Cairo, she worked closely with the African and Gulf marketing teams, strengthening her experience and knowledge of emerging markets. Previously, Lara worked for O2, Telefonica, as a Campaign Manager, launching the high-profile Apple iPhone 3G in the UK business market and helping to redesign the company website.

Lara is a qualified Chartered Marketer. She graduated from University of London, Royal Holloway, School of Management, with a Management BSc, specializing in marketing. Her degree was largely based on Harvard research; she studied management models and theories by leading management and marketing gurus such as Michael Porter, Philip Kotler, and Peter Drucker.

Lucas Dworski is originally from Poland, Central Eastern Europe. He has more than a decade's experience in marketing, including international marketing. Lucas has worked and lived in Germany, the UK, Netherlands, and Poland. He's passionate about global marketing, particularly in emerging markets. Lucas's experience is specialized in customer relationship management and complex online localized international campaigns.

Lucas has worked and consulted for global international American corporations such as Cisco and Computer Associates CA, as well as many smaller companies. Lucas has experience in campaign management and campaign execution for a wide number of countries (more than 130) in emerging markets. He has executed campaigns that have been fully measurable, trackable, and localized for local market needs. Lucas also has in-depth experience in database management, having worked in customer relationship management for several years.

Book Details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137064411
ISBN-13: 978-0137064410

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SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 - pdf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Book Description
With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What's more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them.

The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises.

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You'll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

Following a practical, developer-focused introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, you'll learn about

Visual Studio 2010 templates and tools that simplify the creation of SharePoint solutions
The SharePoint object model and its most frequently used methods, properties, and events
Using lists to store, manage, and share data
Responding to events related to lists, features, items, or workflows
Integrating external data with Business Data Connectivity Services
Using content types that ship with SharePoint 2010—and creating new ones
Building multi-step workflows and custom forms that work with them
Utilizing Web Parts to present different data and applications on the same page
Customizing SharePoint pages or navigation with ASP.NET
Packaging and deploying solutions, and customizing deployment to your unique requirements

Whether you're just starting out with SharePoint development, upgrading from earlier versions, or building on experience with ASP.NET, this book will help you solve real problems and get real results—fast!

About the Author
Eric Carter is a development manager in the Bing team at Microsoft. Previously, he worked as a development manager in the Visual Studio team, helping to invent, design, and implement many of today's key features. He has also worked on Visual Studio Tools for Office, Visual Studio Tools for Applications, the Visual Studio Macros IDE, and Visual Basic for Applications for Office 2000 and Office 2003. His other Addison-Wesley books include Visual Studio Tools for Office (2006) and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 (2009).

Boris Scholl, program manager on Microsoft's Visual Studio team, works on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer tools. Previously, as senior technical product manager in Microsoft's Office Server group, he focused on developer readiness and SharePoint integration with Project Server.

Peter Jausovec helped test and design the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer tools, focusing especially on SharePoint workflows.

Book Details

Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321718313
ISBN-13: 978-0321718310

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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails - pdf

Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails Book Description
The Complete Guide to Building Highly Scalable, Services-Based Rails Applications

Ruby on Rails deployments are growing, and Rails is increasingly being adopted in larger environments. Today, Rails developers and architects need better ways to interface with legacy systems, move into the cloud, and scale to handle higher volumes and greater complexity. In Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails Paul Dix introduces a powerful, services-based design approach geared toward overcoming all these challenges. Using Dix's techniques, readers can leverage the full benefits of both Ruby and Rails, while overcoming the difficulties of working with larger codebases and teams.

Dix demonstrates how to integrate multiple components within an enterprise application stack; create services that can easily grow and connect; and design systems that are easier to maintain and upgrade. Key concepts are explained with detailed Ruby code built using open source libraries such as ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Nokogiri, and Typhoeus. The book concludes with coverage of security, scaling, messaging, and interfacing with third-party services.

Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails will help you

Build highly scalable, Ruby-based service architectures that operate smoothly in the cloud or with legacy systems
Scale Rails systems to handle more requests, larger development teams, and more complex code bases
Master new best practices for designing and creating services in Ruby
Use Ruby to glue together services written in any language
Use Ruby libraries to build and consume RESTful Web services
Use Ruby JSON parsers to quickly represent resources from HTTP services
Write lightweight, well-designed API wrappers around internal or external services
Discover powerful non-Rails frameworks that simplify Ruby service implementation
Implement standards-based enterprise messaging with Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Optimize performance with load balancing and caching
Provide for security and authentication

About the Author
Paul Dix is co-founder and CTO at Market.io. In the past, he has worked at Google, Microsoft, McAfee, Air Force Space Command, and multiple startups, filling positions as a programmer, software tester, and network engineer. He has been a speaker at multiple conferences, including RubyConf, Goruco, and Web 2.0 Expo, on the subjects of service-oriented design, event-driven architectures, machine learning, and collaborative filtering. Paul is the author of multiple open source Ruby libraries. He has a degree in computer science from Columbia University.

Book Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321659368
ISBN-13: 978-0321659361

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Integrating CMMI and Agile Development: Case Studies and Proven Techniques for Faster Performance Improvement - pdf

Integrating CMMI and Agile Development: Case Studies and Proven Techniques for Faster Performance Improvement Book Description
Many organizations that have improved process maturity through Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) now also want greater agility. Conversely, many organizations that are succeeding with Agile methods now want the benefits of more mature processes. The solution is to integrate CMMI and Agile. Integrating CMMI® and Agile Development offers broad guidance for melding these process improvement methodologies. It presents six detailed case studies, along with essential real-world lessons, big-picture insights, and mistakes to avoid.

Drawing on decades of process improvement experience, author Paul McMahon explains how combining an Agile approach with the CMMI process improvement framework is the fastest, most effective way to achieve your business objectives. He offers practical, proven techniques for CMMI and Agile integration, including new ways to extend Agile into system engineering and project management and to optimize performance by focusing on your organization's unique, culture-related weaknesses.

"This book will be a great help to a variety of organizations figuring out how best to implement CMMI, including large and small enterprises, even if their starting point is not 'Agile.' All-in-all, this contains 'pearls of wisdom' that will make a much-appreciated contribution to the software engineering community."
– Mike Konrad, Chief Architect, CMMI, Software Engineering Institute; coauthor, CMMI®: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, Second Edition

"This book will challenge many of your (mis)understandings about both Agile delivery and CMMI. Paul thoughtfully applies his years of practical experience to help bridge two disparate communities who are working towards the same goal–improving an organization's IT productivity. It's about time someone wrote a book like this."
– Scott W. Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile and Lean, IBM Rational; author, Agile Modeling; and coauthor, Enterprise Unified Process

About the Author
Paul E. McMahon, Principal, PEM Systems, has been an independent consultant since 1997, helping companies increase agility and process maturity. He has taught software engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York; has conducted workshops on engineering processes and management; and has published more than 35 articles, including several on Agile development. His insights reflect 24 years of engineering and management experience working for companies such as Link Simulation and Lockheed Martin.

Book Details

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321714105
ISBN-13: 978-0321714107

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Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning - pdf

Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning Book Description
The Only Book That's Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Essential SharePoint® 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results.

The authors are leading enterprise SharePoint consultants and draw on their unsurpassed experience to focus on the SharePoint features that offer the most real-world value. You'll find practical advice about how to succeed with knowledge management, business intelligence, and process improvement, and how to derive value from new innovations such as social tagging and mashups.

The book includes comprehensive, "in the trenches" guidance on planning, architecture, governance, training, and other key issues most SharePoint books ignore. The authors identify success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas," helping you systematically reduce project risk and time-to-value ratio. Learn how to

Customize your best portal or collaboration strategy
Sustain a portal for continual, measurable value
Leverage the new community and social features in SharePoint 2010
Succeed with enterprise content management
Streamline business processes with Workflow and Forms
Choose the right roles for Web collaboration, search, and Microsoft Office
Plan for secure external collaboration
Migrate smoothly from SharePoint 2007
Train and communicate for a successful launch

Whether you're a business leader, IT manager, architect, analyst, developer, or consultant, this book will help you tightly align SharePoint projects with business strategy to deliver outstanding results.

"This book will become a mainstay in your SharePoint library. You will find yourself reaching for it whenever you run into a difficult situation or need extra guidance on how to use the new SharePoint product set."
– From the Foreword by Thomas Rizzo, Senior Director, SharePoint Product Management, Microsoft

About the Author
Scott Jamison is managing partner and CEO of Jornata, a leading SharePoint and Microsoft Online Services consulting and training firm. He was previously director of enterprise architecture at Microsoft and led Microsoft-focused consulting teams at Dell.

Susan Hanley, president of Susan Hanley LLC, is an expert in designing, developing, and implementing successful portal solutions, specializing in information architecture, user adoption, governance, and metrics. Her clients include many of the world's largest global SharePoint deployments.

Mauro Cardarelli is a SharePoint evangelist who has been active in the SharePoint community since 2001. He has twenty years' experience designing and building technology solutions.

Book Details

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd Revised edition edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321700759
ISBN-13: 978-0321700759

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Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World - pdf

Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World Book Description
Successfully Implement High-Value Configuration Management Processes in Any Development Environment

As IT systems have grown increasingly complex and mission-critical, effective configuration management (CM) has become critical to an organization's success. Using CM best practices, IT professionals can systematically manage change, avoiding unexpected problems introduced by changes to hardware, software, or networks. Now, today's best CM practices have been gathered in one indispensable resource showing you how to implement them throughout any agile or traditional development organization.

Configuration Management Best Practices is practical, easy to understand and apply, and fully reflects the day-to-day realities faced by practitioners. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs thoroughly address all six "pillars" of CM: source code management, build engineering, environment configuration, change control, release engineering, and deployment. They demonstrate how to implement CM in ways that support software and systems development, meet compliance rules such as SOX and SAS-70, anticipate emerging standards such as IEEE/ISO 12207, and integrate with modern frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, and CMMI. Coverage includes

Using CM to meet business objectives, contractual requirements, and compliance rules
Enhancing quality and productivity through lean processes and "just-in-time" process improvement
Getting off to a good start in organizations without effective CM
Implementing a Core CM Best Practices Framework that supports the entire development lifecycle
Mastering the "people" side of CM: rightsizing processes, overcoming resistance, and understanding
workplace psychology
Architecting applications to take full advantage of CM best practices
Establishing effective IT controls and compliance
Managing tradeoffs and costs and avoiding expensive pitfalls

Configuration Management Best Practices is the essential resource for everyone concerned with CM: from CTOs and CIOs to development, QA, and project managers and software engineers to analysts, testers, and compliance professionals.

Praise for Configuration Management Best Practices

"Understanding change is critical to any attempt to manage change. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs's Configuration Management Best Practices presents fundamental definitions and explanations to help practitioners understand change and its potential impact."
–Mary Lou A. Hines Fritts, CIO and Vice Provost Academic Programs, University of Missouri-Kansas City

"Few books on software configuration management emphasize the role of people and organizational context in defining and executing an effective SCM process. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs's book will give you the information you need not only to manage change effectively but also to manage the transition to a better SCM process."
–Steve Berczuk, Agile Software Developer, and author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration

"Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs succeed handsomely in producing an important book, at a practical and balanced level of detail, for this topic that often 'goes without saying' (and hence gets many projects into deep trouble). Their passion for the topic shows as they cover a wonderful range of topics–even culture, personality, and dealing with resistance to change–in an accessible form that can be applied to any project. The software industry has needed a book like this for a long time!"
–Jim Brosseau, Clarrus Consulting Group, and author of Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success

"A must read for anyone developing or managing software or hardware projects. Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs are able to bridge the language gap between the myriad of communities involved with successful Configuration Management implementations. They describe practical, real world practices that can be implemented by developers, managers, standard makers, and even Classical CM Folk."
–Bob Ventimiglia, Bobev Consulting

"A fresh and smart review of today's key concepts of SCM, build management, and related key practices on day-to-day software engineering. From the voice of an expert, Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs offer an invaluable resource to success in SCM."
–Pablo Santos Luaces, CEO of Codice Software

"Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs have a gift for stimulating the types of conversation and thought that necessarily precede needed organizational change. What they have to say is always interesting and often important."
–Marianne Bays, Business Consultant, Manager and Educator

About the Author
Bob Aiello is the editor-in-chief for CM Crossroads and a consultant specializing in software process improvement, including software configuration and release management. Mr. Aiello has more than 25 years of experience as a technical manager in several top NYC financial services firms where he had companywide responsibility for CM, often providing hands-on technical support for enterprise source code management tools, SOX/Cobit compliance, build engineering, continuous integration, and automated application deployment. Mr. Aiello is the vice chair of the IEEE 828 Standards working group (CM Planning) and is a member of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board. He is a longstanding member of the steering committee of the NYC Software Process Improvement Network (CitySPIN), where he has served as the chair of the CM SIG. Mr. Aiello holds a master's degree in industrial psychology from NYU and a bachelor's degree in computer science and math from Hofstra University.

Leslie Sachs is the COO of Yellow Spider, Inc., which specializes in providing CM-related consulting services that are aligned with the practices described in this book. Ms. Sachs also writes about applying personality to technology endeavors in her column titled Personality Matters. A New York State Certified School Psychologist with more than 20 years of experience, Ms. Sachs has worked in a variety of clinical and business settings where she has provided many effective interventions designed to improve the social and educational functioning of both individuals and groups. Ms. Sachs has a Masters of Science degree in school and community psychology from Pace University and interned in Bellevue Hospital's famed Psychiatric Center in NYC. A firm believer in the uniqueness of every individual, she has recently done advanced training with Mel Levine's All Kinds of Minds Institute.

Book Details

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321685865
ISBN-13: 978-0321685865

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Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice - pdf

Book Description
The Complete, Up-to-Date, Practical Guide to Modern Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

This is a complete, up-to-date guide to the practice of petroleum reservoir engineering, written by one of the world's most experienced professionals. Dr. Nnaemeka Ezekwe covers topics ranging from basic to advanced, focuses on currently acceptable practices and modern techniques, and illuminates key concepts with realistic case histories drawn from decades of working on petroleum reservoirs worldwide.

Dr. Ezekwe begins by discussing the sources and applications of basic rock and fluid properties data. Next, he shows how to predict PVT properties of reservoir fluids from correlations and equations of state, and presents core concepts and techniques of reservoir engineering. Using case histories, he illustrates practical diagnostic analysis of reservoir performance, covers essentials of transient well test analysis, and presents leading secondary and enhanced oil recovery methods.

Readers will find practical coverage of experience-based procedures for geologic modeling, reservoir characterization, and reservoir simulation. Dr. Ezekwe concludes by presenting a set of simple, practical principles for more effective management of petroleum reservoirs.

With Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice readers will learn to
• Use the general material balance equation for basic reservoir analysis
• Perform volumetric and graphical calculations of gas or oil reserves
• Analyze pressure transients tests of normal wells, hydraulically fractured wells, and naturally fractured reservoirs
• Apply waterflooding, gasflooding, and other secondary recovery methods
• Screen reservoirs for EOR processes, and implement pilot and field-wide EOR projects.
• Use practical procedures to build and characterize geologic models, and conduct reservoir simulation
• Develop reservoir management strategies based on practical principles

Throughout, Dr. Ezekwe combines thorough coverage of analytical calculations and reservoir modeling as powerful tools that can be applied together on most reservoir analyses. Each topic is presented concisely and is supported with copious examples and references. The result is an ideal handbook for practicing engineers, scientists, and managers—and a complete textbook for petroleum engineering students.

About the Author
Nnaemeka Ezekwe holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in chemical and petroleum engineering, and an MBA, all from the University of Kansas. For many years, he worked in several supervisory roles including manager of reservoir evaluation and development for Bechtel Petroleum Operations. As a senior petroleum engineer advisor for Pennzoil and later Devon Energy, he performed reservoir engineering analyses on many domestic and worldwide projects. Nnaemeka was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2004–2005, during which he spoke on reservoir management strategies and practices to audiences in 33 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North and South America. He has published numerous technical papers on chemical and petroleum engineering topics. Nnaemeka is a registered professional engineer in California and Texas.

Book Details

Hardcover: 816 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137152833
ISBN-13: 978-0137152834

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Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software - pdf

Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software Book Description
Don't Let Software Failures Destroy Your Business

The growing impact of software failures on brands, customers, and business performance
How to govern software more effectively, prepare for glitches, and mitigate their impact
By Jeff Papows, Ph.D., one of the world's most experienced software executives

Your software systems are the heart of your business–and they may be vulnerable. In Glitch, industry leader Jeff Papows, Ph.D., outlines the three converging forces that are leading to the proliferation of glitches. Papows explains why and how these glitches are affecting businesses, government agencies, and consumers and provides recommendations as to what we can do about them.

Written for senior decision makers, Papows explains why the risks of software failure are growing worse, not better–and shows how software glitches can destroy both your profitability and your reputation. He also introduces proven governance techniques that can help you systematically find and fix weaknesses in the way you build, buy, and manage software.

Don't fall victim to the next business software disaster. Read Glitch–and learn about the cultural, technical, and business issues behind software glitches, so you can proactively prevent them.

About the Author
Jeff Papows, Ph.D., President and CEO of WebLayers, has more than 30 years of industry experience and a proven history of success in both emerging companies and large global organizations. Most notably, he was President and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation. There he was widely credited with taking Lotus Notes from its initial release to sales of more than 80 million copies worldwide, making it the leading collaboration platform. After Lotus was acquired, Papows helped steer the company's successful integration into IBM. He also was President of Cognos Corporation, taking the business intelligence software provider from its early stages to sustained profitability, a public offering, and continued growth that met or exceeded Wall Street expectations.

Most recently, Papows was President and CEO of Maptuit, a provider of real-time commercial navigation software. Having led Maptuit to profitability and a market leadership position, he continues to play an active role in the company as Chairman of the Board.

Papows has been a frequent guest on CNN and Fox News and is a successful author. His book Enterprise.com: Information Leadership in the Digital Age has been reprinted in several languages. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration as well as a master of arts degree and a bachelor of science degree.

Book Details

Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132160633
ISBN-13: 978-0132160636

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Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials - pdf

Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials Book Description
Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial.

Oracle^® Solaris Cluster Essentials is a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the industry's most stable, robust clustering platform: Oracle Solaris Cluster. This book covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in thorough detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.

Written by Oracle Solaris Cluster expert Tim Read, this book covers both high availability and disaster recovery features, and offers in-depth guidance for both Oracle and non-Oracle database environments. It also presents several example implementations that can be used to quickly construct effective proofs-of-concept.

Whether you're new to clustering or upgrading from older solutions, this book brings together all the information you'll need to maximize the value, reliability, and performance of any Oracle Solaris Cluster environment. You'll learn how to

Understand Oracle Solaris Cluster's product features and architecture, and their implications for design and performance
Establish requirements and design clustered systems that meet them
Master best practices for integrating clustering with virtualization technologies
Implement proven disaster recovery planning techniques
Efficiently maintain Oracle Solaris Cluster environments

Part of the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series, Oracle^® Solaris Cluster Essentials combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide for every architect, administrator, and IT manager responsible for high availability and business continuity.

About the Author
Tim Read has worked in the UK computer industry since 1985. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1990 and now works as a software developer in Oracle's Solaris Availability Engineering group. He has written and coauthored many Sun BluePrints and white papers, including "Designing Enterprise Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0." He holds a joint honours degree in physics with astrophysics from the University of Birmingham. When not working, he enjoys running, tandem riding, and exploring the islands of the Outer Hebrides in northwest Scotland.

Book Details

Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132486229
ISBN-13: 978-0132486224

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Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials - pdf

Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials Book Description
Virtualization and related technologies like hypervisors, which create virtual machines on a single hardware machine, and containers (also known as zones), which create virtual operating systems running on a single operating system, are a totally new area for many system administrators.

Oracle^® Solaris™ 10 System Virtualization Essentials provides an accessible introduction to computer virtualization, specifically the system virtualization technologies that use the Oracle Solaris or OpenSolaris operating systems. This accessible guide covers the key concepts system administrators need to understand and explains how to

Use Dynamic Domains to maximize workload isolation on Sun SPARC systems
Use Oracle VM Server for SPARC to deploy different Oracle Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris environments on SPARC CMT (chip multithreading) systems
Use Oracle VM Server for x86 or xVM hypervisor to deploy a server with heterogeneous operating systems
Use Oracle VM VirtualBox to develop and test software in heterogeneous environments
Use Oracle Solaris Containers to maximize efficiency and scalability of workloads
Use Oracle Solaris Containers to migrate Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 workloads to new hardware systems
Mix virtualization technologies to maximize workload density

Starting with a discussion of system virtualization in general terms—the needs of consolidation, the benefits of virtualization, and a description of the most common types of computer virtualization—this book also covers many of the concepts, features, and methods shared by many implementations of system virtualization.

Oracle's computer virtualization technologies that are directly related to the Oracle Solaris OS are described in detail along with a discussion of the factors that should be considered when choosing a virtualization technology. Finally, several examples of these technologies and an overview of virtualization management software are provided, as well as a history of virtualization.

About the Author
Jeff Victor is the principal author of Oracle^® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials and a principal sales consultant at Oracle Corporation. Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff was a principal field technologist for Sun Microsystems. He is an OpenSolaris Zones Community Leader, the creator of the zonestat open-source program, and a regular author, contributor, and speaker at corporate and industry events. His blog can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV. Jeff received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In his spare time, he builds and launches high-power rockets. Jeff lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Jeff Savit has more than 25 years of experience in operating systems, virtualization, and performance on multiple platforms, and is a principal sales consultant at Oracle Corporation specializing in these areas. He was previously a principal field technologist at Sun Microsystems with a similar focus. Before joining Sun, Jeff was a vice president at Merrill Lynch, where he had roles in development, systems management, market data, and web applications. He also managed a department responsible for the firm's virtual machine systems, wrote market data portions of Merrill Lynch's Internet trading applications, and created one of the Internet's first stock quote websites. Jeff is the author of the Sun Blueprint Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology, and the virtualization chapter of the Datacenter Reference Guide Blueprint. Jeff has written or coauthored several books, including Enterprise Java, VM and CMS: Performance and Fine-Tuning, and VM/CMS Concepts and Facilities, and his work has been published in SIGPLAN Notices, a journal of the Association of Computing Machinery. He has a master's degree in computer science from Cornell University.

Gary Combs is a SPARC specialist at Oracle Corporation. He specializes in midrange and high-end SPARC servers, which include the popular M-Series. Gary also covers virtualization technologies that are implemented on these platforms: Dynamic Domains, Logical Domains, and Oracle Solaris Containers. Prior to joining Oracle, Gary was with Sun Microsystems. He has more than 15 years of direct sales support experience as a systems engineer. For the last 10 years, Gary has held marketing positions in product management, product definition, and technical marketing.

Simon Hayler is a principal sales consultant for Oracle Corporation. Previously, Simon was a principal field technologist for Sun Microsystems. Simon has a telecommunications engineering background, encompassing the design, configuration, and implementation of multitiered information systems. His role at Sun over the past 12 years has included pre- and post-sales consulting, architectural design and implementation for both high-end commercial and high-performance computing, and, more recently, specialization in virtualization solutions.

Bob Netherton is a principal sales consultant at Oracle Corporation specializing in Oracle Solaris, virtualization, open-source software, and Linux interoperability. Prior to joining Oracle, Bob was a principal field technologist for Sun Microsystems, and was one of the architects and content developers of the Solaris Boot Camp and Deep Dive seminar series. In addition, he has developed several best practices guides for Solaris as well as an advanced Solaris training curriculum. Bob is also involved in several OpenSolaris users groups in the American Midwest and Southwest. Bob received a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics from the University of Missouri, and he is a regular blogger on Solaris, virtualization, and open-source technologies.

Book Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 013708188X
ISBN-13: 978-0137081882

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