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Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple - pdf

Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple Book Description
Get the guide that makes learning Windows Phone 7 plain and simple! This full-color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to set up and use your new phone — with easy-to-follow steps, screenshots and concise, straightforward language.

Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:

Set up your phone straight out of the box
Make and answer calls, and enter your contacts
Read and send e-mail and text messages
Work with the calendar
Search and browse the Web
Play music and video, and take pictures
Find cool apps and synch with your PC

Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:

Jump in wherever you need answers
Easy-to-follow STEPS and SCREENSHOTS show exactly what to do
Handy TIPS teach new techniques and shortcuts
Quick TRY THIS! exercises help apply what you learn right away

About the Author
Michael Stroh is a technology writer at Microsoft® and has spent the last year working alongside the designers and engineers that created Windows Phone 7.

Before joining Microsoft in 2007, Michael spent more than a decade as a print journalist, most recently covering technology and science for the Baltimore Sun. His work has appeared in Popular Science, ESPN Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

Book Details

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735643423
ISBN-13: 978-0735643420

File Size: 30.9 MiB
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out - pdf

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out Book Description
Dive into Exchange Server 2010 and SP1—and discover how to really put your messaging solutions to work! This well-organized and in-depth reference packs all the details you need to deploy and manage Exchange 2010, including hundreds of timesaving solutions, expert tips, and workarounds. Topics include preparing for the deployment of Exchange 2010; new features of Service Pack 1; using Remote PowerShell and the Exchange Management Shell; understanding how the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions model works and how to customize it to your requirements; the new high availability model for the Exchange Store and how to approach designs for Database Availability Groups; using compliance features such as archive mailboxes, retention policies, and multi-mailbox discovery searches; the new role of the Client Access Server as the MAPI endpoint for Microsoft Outlook clients; the redesign of Outlook Web App (OWA) and the introduction of the Exchange Control Panel; and many more topics to ease the roll-out of Microsoft's latest messaging server.

About the Author
Tony Redmond is a Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine, and a former chief technology officer.

Book Details

Paperback: 1248 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735640610
ISBN-13: 978-0735640610

File Size: 27.2 MiB
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SOA Governance - pdf

Book Description
SOA Governance is the key to a successful adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture. It is the process of establishing a desired outcome for your efforts, and then leveraging people, policies, and processes to make that outcome a reality. This includes technical policies and standards that guide your design-time activities, policies and processes that impact your project selection and funding decisions, and finally run-time policies that impact your operational management activities. The adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture is intended to improve the efficiency and productivity of your company, and your SOA governance efforts are critical in achieving your goals in quality, consistency, predictability, change management, and interdependencies of services.

This book will help you to understand what requirements you will need to introduce SOA Governance into your company. Running through the people, policies, and processes needed for such an effort, this book will help you to realize the steps that you need to take in order to improve your company’s business process quickly and efficiently.

By following a fictional company’s implementation of SOA Governance from the beginning to its successful end, this book will show you the ups and downs of the process. You will learn how to plan SOA governance according to your company’s needs, so that you can avoid the possible pitfalls that are highlighted through the narrative. Learn about SOA Governance to work your way towards SOA success.

The key to successful SOA adoption in your organization

What you will learn from this book :
Understand the difference between run-time and design-time SOA governance.
Leverage SOA management and SOA Registry/Repository tools in your governance efforts.
Define governance processes that will work in the culture of your organization.
Determine the people in your organization that must be involved in the governance efforts.
Define the policies that will help your organization achieve its SOA goals.

Approach
Follow the IT management of Advasco, a fictitious financial corporation, through their journey of implementing SOA Governance into their company. Each chapter will provide a narrative of how their efforts towards SOA adoption are faring and the obstacles that they face. The second half of each chapter explains the situations that arose for Advasco, along with the role that SOA Governance played in the scenario, either through the lack of it, or through the successful application of people, policies, and processes.

By seeing the journey made in the realistic example, you will be able to understand exactly what is involved in the process of SOA governance and be able to avoid the pitfalls that Advasco encountered along the way. With an in-depth analysis of the progress made and the tools that were used to get there, you will learn how to improve your company’s efficiency and productivity using service-oriented architecture governance.

Who this book is written for
This book is for enterprise architects, technical leaders, and senior IT managers who wish to implement SOA Governance into their companies. This book assumes that the reader has a basic familiarity with service-oriented architecture and software development lifecycle methodologies. The reader does not need detailed knowledge of web services technologies.

Book Details

Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847195865
ISBN-13: 978-1847195869

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Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 - pdf

Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Book Description
Changes to design are an everyday task for many people involved in a software project. Refactoring recognizes this reality and systematizes the distinct process of modifying design and structure without affecting the external behavior of the system. As you consider the benefits of refactoring, you will need this complete guide to steer you through the process of refactoring your code for optimum results.

This book will show you how to make your code base more maintainable by detailing various refactorings. Visual Studio includes some basic refactorings that can be used independently or in conjunction to make complex refactorings easier and more approachable. This book will discuss large-scale code management, which typically calls for refactoring. To do this, we will use enterprise editions of Visual Studio, which incorporate features like Application Performance Explorer and Visual Studio Analyzer. These features make it simple to handle code and prove helpful for refactoring quickly.

This book introduces you to improving a software system’s design through refactoring. It begins with simple refactoring and works its way through complex refactoring. You will learn how to change the design of your software system and how to prioritize refactorings–including how to use various Visual Studio features to focus and prioritize design changes. The book also covers how to ensure quality in the light of seemingly drastic changes to a software system. You will also be able to apply standard established principles and patterns as part of the refactoring effort with the help of this book. You will be able to support your evolving code base by refactoring architectural behavior. As an end result, you will have an adaptable system with improved code readability, maintainability, and navigability.

Refactor Visual Studio solutions to make them more maintainable. Evolve your software system to support new and ever-changing requirements by updating your C# code base with patterns and principles

Overview of Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Make your code base maintainable with refactoring
Support new features more easily by making your system adaptable
Enhance your system with an improved object-oriented design and increased encapsulation and componentization
Concepts are presented in a comfortable one-on-one, pair-programming style
A practical approach that’s packed with examples to enrich understanding

What you will learn from this book

Improve code readability by applying effective concepts and techniques
Spot discrepancies in code with code smells
Catch and eliminate dead code and learn several such smart methods
Make changes to your code without introducing adverse side-effects with code maintainability
Learn smart ways to improve code navigability
Improve your design by applying design principles and methodologies
Enhance the maintainability of your code base by refactoring it to be more cohesive and less coupled
Obtain an optimal level of flexibility by refactoring your code to a loosely-coupled design
Minimize the side effects and support changes to your code by refactoring to a layered architecture
Support your evolving code base by refactoring architectural behavior
Back up the refactoring effort by ensuring quality with Unit Testing

Approach
This book focuses on real-world, easy-to-understand examples of code in a one-on-one style. Refactoring examples are performed and reasons why this refactoring should be applied are detailed. The book is structured from less advanced topics to more advanced topics; but is designed so that reading from beginning to end is not necessary.

Who this book is written for
This book is primarily for developers who want to refactor their code in Visual Studio. However, the book can be used by anyone using Visual Studio. Developers, designers, and architects who are eager to improve the performance of their craft will find this book useful because it details refactoring existing code to use recognized and established patterns and principles to improve code structure and architectural behavior.

The book assumes that the reader knows both Visual Studio and C#, but no previous knowledge of refactoring is required.

Book Details

Paperback: 372 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (July, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849680108
ISBN-13: 978-1849680103

File Size: 16.3 MiB
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IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher - pdf

IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and Data Event Publisher Book Description
Business planning is no longer just about defining goals, analyzing critical issues, and then creating strategies. You must aid business integration by linking changed-data events in DB2 databases on Linux, UNIX, and Windows with EAI solutions , message brokers, data transformation tools, and more. Investing in this book will save you many hours of work (and heartache) as it guides you around the many potential pitfalls to a successful conclusion.

This book will accompany you throughout your Q replication journey. Compiled from many of author’s successful projects, the book will bring you some of the best practices to implement your project smoothly and within time scales. The book has in-depth coverage of Event Publisher, which publishes changed-data events that can run updated data into crucial applications, assisting your business integration processes. Event Publisher also eliminates the hand coding typically required to detect DB2 data changes that are made by operational applications.

We start with a brief discussion on what replication is and the Q replication release currently available in the market. We then go on to explore the world of Q replication in more depth. The latter chapters cover all the Q replication components and then talk about the different layers that need to be implemented-the DB2 database layer, the WebSphere MQ layer, and the Q replication layer. We conclude with a chapter on how to troubleshoot a problem. The Appendix (available online) demonstrates the implementation of 13 real-time Q replication scenarios with step-by-step instructions.

Publish changed data events in order to operate updated data into critical applications, thus helping your business integration processes with this professional guide

Design, implement, and monitor a successful Q replication and Event Publishing project

Covers the toolsets needed to implement a successful Q replication project
Aimed at the Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems, with many concepts common to z/OS as well
A chapter dedicated exclusively to WebSphere MQ for the DB2 DBA
Detailed step-by-step instructions for 13 Q replication scenarios with troubleshooting and monitoring tips
Written in a conversational and easy to follow manner

What you will learn from this book

Use Q replication to feed a data warehouse and explore the way it interacts with the DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) function
Master the main phases of the DB2 database layer, the WebSphere layer, and the Q replication layer, which make up a Q replication solution
Create and configure the control tables required by Q replication, and quickly examine how the Q replication components communicate from a DB2 perspective
Set up a Q replication and Event Publishing environment
Administer a Q replication and Event Publishing environment
Troubleshoot an existing Q replication and Event Publishing environment
Implement 13 Q replication scenarios, ranging from the unidirectional replication to peer-to-peer, with step-by-step instructions

Approach
This is a developer’s guide and is written in a style suitable to professionals. The initial chapters cover the basic theory and principles of Q replication and WebSphere MQ. As the book advances, numerous real-world scenarios and examples are covered with easy-to-understand code. The knowledge gained in these chapters culminate in the Appendix, which contains step-by-step instructions to set up various Q replication scenarios.

Who this book is written for
If you are a professional who needs to set up and administer a Q replication or Event Publishing environment, then this is the book you need. The book will give you a clear idea of how to implement Q replication on z/OS whether you work on Linux, Unix, or Windows operating system.

Book Details

Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (August, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849681546
ISBN-13: 978-1849681544

File Size: 7.4 MiB
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Protecting Your Mobile App IP: The Mini Missing Manual - pdf

Protecting Your Mobile App IP: The Mini Missing Manual Book Description
Learn four cost-effective ways to protect the applications you develop for mobile devices. The methods described in this Mini Missing Manual won’t stop people from misappropriating your secrets, stealing your name, and copying your code. But if any of those things do happen, you’ll have the legal ammunition you need to recover your losses and, in some cases, get money to pay attorney fees. Taking these steps will also reinforce your legal rights in the event that another company wants to acquire your apps.

The four methods include:

Trade secret protection. Want to show your app to others — investors, beta testers, or contractors — before it’s available to the public? Learn what trade secrets are and how you can protect them.
Copyright protection. Protect your whole app as well as its individual parts, such as the underlying code, appearance, and the collection of data within it.
Trademark protection. Protect your app’s name, slogan, or logo. And learn how to file an application for trademark registration.
Permissions. Learn how and when to get permission to reuse material from other sources, like photos, data, video, or audio clips.

Book Details

Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press; 1 edition (December, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449393675
ISBN-13: 978-1449393670

File Size: 5.7 MiB
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PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook - pdf

PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook Book Description
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. An enterprise database, PostgreSQL includes features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point-in-time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write-ahead logging for fault tolerance. PostgreSQL 9 Administration cookbook covers everything a database administrator needs to protect, manage and run a healthy and efficient PostgreSQL 9.0 database.

PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook describes key aspects of the PostgreSQL open source database system. The book covers everything a sysadmin or DBA needs to protect, manage, and run a healthy and efficient PostgreSQL 9 database. This hands-on guide will assist developers working on live databases, supporting web or enterprise software applications using Java, Python, Ruby, or .Net from any development framework. It’s easy to manage your database when you’ve got PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook to hand.

PostgreSQL is fast becoming one of the world’s most popular server databases with an enviable reputation for performance, stability, and an enormous range of advanced features. PostgreSQL is one of the oldest open source projects, completely free to use and developed by a very diverse worldwide community. Most of all, It Just Works!

PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook offers the information you need to manage your live production databases on PostgreSQL. The book contains insights direct from the main author of the PostgreSQL replication and recovery features, and the database architect of the most successful startup using PostgreSQL, Skype.

This practical guide gives quick answers to common questions and problems, building on the authors’ experience as trainers, users, and core developers of the PostgreSQL database server.

Each technical aspect is broken down into short recipes that demonstrate solutions with working code then explain why and how that works. The book is intended to be a desk reference for both new users and technical experts.

The book covers all the latest features in PostgreSQL 9. Soon you will be running a smooth database with ease!

A practical guide, this cookbook will ensure you run a smooth PostgreSQL database

The book gave me the opportunity to look over the shoulder of experienced PostgreSQL users and administrators to see how they go about doing things, and compare to how I’ve done them. I’m glad to have had the opportunity.Over 80 recipes to help you run an efficient PostgreSQL 9.0 database

Administer and maintain a healthy database.
Monitor your database ensuring that it performs as quickly as possible.
Tips for backup and recovery of your database.

What you will learn from this book

How to implement PostgreSQL features for reliability and performance
How to use the latest PostgreSQL 9.0 features
Summaries to help DBAs with experience of other database systems
Advanced technical tips and scripts for experienced users
Best practice for planning and designing live databases.
How and when to VACUUM your databases.
Selecting and implementing robust backup techniques.
Concise and clear guidance on replication and high availability.

Approach
Written in the cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for administrators and developers to manage databases on PostgreSQL. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular order.

Who this book is written for
This book is for Sysadmins, Database Administrators, Architects, Developers, and anyone with an interest in planning for or running live production databases. This book is most suited to those who have some technical experience.

Book Details

Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849510288
ISBN-13: 978-1849510288

File Size: 9.3 MiB
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Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials - pdf

Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials Book Description
Multiplayer web-based games are more popular than any others, and developing your own is an exciting challenge. But developing multiplayer games is a complex task. There are few resources that explain how to build multiplayer games from the ground up.

This comprehensive guide is packed with practical examples and insights into basic and fundamental knowledge for developing real-time multiplayer games in Flash.

This book starts with the essential ingredients to develop Flash games using Flash Builder 4 and AS3, followed by the basic Flash programming that you need to know in order to write any Flash game. You will learn the basic features that a developer must implement for any multiplayer game. The chapters discuss the challenges you will face when developing a multiplayer game. You will learn to leverage the PulseUI framework to quickly develop a multiplayer game along with all the required screen management. The simple, but powerful, Pulse API model required for multiplayer game development is thoroughly explained as well. As you go through these concepts, you will learn to implement them using code examples.

The last section takes you through four multiplayer game implementations of increasing complexity: first a simple turn-based TicTacToe, followed by a multi-player Jigsaw, a card-based racing game, and finally a complex space racing game.

A development guide for all your multiplayer games

Create exciting real-time multiplayer games using Flash

A complete end-to-end guide for creating fully featured multiplayer games
The author’s experience in the gaming industry enables him to share insights on multiplayer game development
Walk-though several real-time multiplayer game implementations
Packed with illustrations and code snippets with supporting explanations for ease of understanding

What you will learn from this book

Explore the essential functionalities of a Game Server
Exchange information between the players using game state actions
Customize parts of the game screens–login, new game screen, players, friends display, and more
Prototype your multiplayer games rapidly using PulseUI
Walk through the code that manages the graphics of a game
Model complex game environments using XML game schema
Design the schema needed to implement a game using game states
Delve into the basics of screen management and the Pulse game state APIs
Deploy the game design schema required for multiplayer games

Approach
The book provides all the essentials needed to implement a fully featured multiplayer game in Flash. It begins by dissecting a basic hello-world example providing its code and an insight into each feature that is required. Following the book is easy because of the excellent illustrations and working code samples. Four complete game implementations with increasing complexity are discussed; each example is presented with detailed design, implementation code, and screenshots.

Who this book is written for
This book discusses essentials for beginner to intermediate Flash Developers who have perhaps created a game or two in Flash and want to take the next step, and create something that can be played by two or more players over the internet. This book will appeal to professional and amateur developers with an inclination to build synchronous multiplayer games with Flash. No prior knowledge of networking or server-side programming is required.

Book Details

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (July, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847196608
ISBN-13: 978-1847196606

File Size: 20.0 MiB
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Learning the iOS 4 SDK for JavaScript Programmers: Create Native Apps with Objective-C and Xcode - pdf

Learning the iOS 4 SDK for JavaScript Programmers: Create Native Apps with Objective C and Xcode Book Description
Is it possible for JavaScript programmers to learn Apple’s iOS 4 SDK and live to tell the tale? Technology guru Danny Goodman did, and with this book he leaves a well-marked trail for you to follow. An authority on JavaScript since its inception, Goodman understands the challenges you might face in creating native iOS apps with this SDK, and introduces Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch in a context you’ll readily understand.

Why bother with the SDK when you can simply build web apps for Apple’s iOS devices? Web apps can’t access an iPhone’s music library, camera, or iOS system software for maps, audio, and more. Nor can you sell web apps in the App Store. If you want to take full advantage of the iPhone and iPad, iOS 4 SDK is your tool — and this is your book. Includes full coverage of iOS SDK 4.2.

Learn the distinction between web app and iOS native app programming
Create a workbench app to test code snippets throughout the learning process
Get a structural view of an iOS app, and compare the process of building objects in Objective-C versus JavaScipt
Discover how your code launches iOS apps and makes them user-ready
Learn about iOS memory management details that are different from JavaScript, including pointers and data types
Use Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to implement common JavaScript tasks

About the Author
Danny Goodman has been writing about personal computers and consumer electronics since the late 1970s. He has written hundreds of magazine articles, several commercial software products, and three dozen computer books. Most recently, Danny has been programming applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch platform, including iFeltThat Earthquake, PhotoSize, and BeaconAid-HF, all available on Apple’s App Store.

Book Details

Paperback: 318 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (December, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449388450
ISBN-13: 978-1449388454

File Size: 7.4 MiB
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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide - pdf

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide Book Description
What could you do with data if scalability wasn’t a problem? With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers — capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Cassandra: The Definitive Guide provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment.

Author Eben Hewitt demonstrates the advantages of Cassandra’s nonrelational design, and pays special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility.

Understand the tenets of Cassandra’s column-oriented structure
Learn how to write, update, and read Cassandra data
Discover how to add or remove nodes from the cluster as your application requires
Examine a working application that translates from a relational model to Cassandra’s data model
Use examples for writing clients in Java, Python, and C#
Use the JMX interface to monitor a cluster’s usage, memory patterns, and more
Tune memory settings, data storage, and caching for better performance

About the Author
Eben Hewitt is Director of Application Architecture at a publicly traded company where he is responsible for the design of their mission-critical, global-scale web, mobile and SOA integration projects. He has written several programming books, including Java SOA Cookbook (O’Reilly).

Book Details

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449390412
ISBN-13: 978-1449390419

File Size: 5.0 MiB
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Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform - pdf

Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Description
This book is the second volume in a planned series about Windows Azure technology platform. Volume 1, Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Windows Azure Platform, provides an introduction to Windows Azure, discusses the cost model and application life cycle management for cloud-based applications, and describes how to migrate an existing ASP.NET application to the cloud.

This book demonstrates how you can create from scratch a multi-tenant, Software as a Service (SaaS) application to run in the cloud by using the latest versions of the Windows Azure tools and the latest features of the Windows Azure platform. The book is intended for any architect, developer, or information technology (IT) professional who designs, builds, or operates applications and services that run on or interact with the cloud.

Although applications do not need to be based on the Microsoft Windows® operating system to work in Windows Azure, this book is written for people who work with Windows-based systems. You should be familiar with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio® development system, ASP.NET MVC, and Microsoft Visual C#® development tool.

Book Details

Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735656061
ISBN-13: 978-0735656062

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Deploying Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 - pdf

Deploying Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Book Description
Get the focused, scenario-based guidance you need to plan and deploy Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) as your network perimeter firewall. The evolution of Microsoft ISA Server, Forefront TMG provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections against the latest Web-based threats, including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, and intrusion prevention.

Led by two members of the Microsoft Forefront team, you’ll get pragmatic, inside insights into system components and capabilities; identify software, hardware, and business requirements; and step through essential planning and design considerations, including network topology, remote access, publishing rules, performance, administration, and more.

About the Author
Yuri Diogenes is a Microsoft senior support escalation engineer specializing in Forefront Edge Security. He is coauthor of the Forefront Community Site “Tales from the Edge”, writes Forefront security articles for Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and is a primary contributor to the Microsoft ISA Server Team Blog. Before joining Microsoft, Yuri was a network advisor for a Microsoft Gold Partner and taught Network and Operating System disciplines at the University in Brazil.

Dr. THOMAS W. SHINDER, MCSE, is a Microsoft MVP for Forefront Edge Security, the author of six highly regarded books on Microsoft ISA Server, and the administrator of the largest community of ISA and TMG firewall administrators on the Internet, with over 500 articles on the ISA and TMG firewalls and over 50,000 registered users. He has worked as a technology trainer, writer, and consultant since 1996, and has provided consultative security guidance to Fortune 500 companies.

Book Details

Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735649766
ISBN-13: 978-0735649767

File Size: 5.6 MiB
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Deploying Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server - pdf

Deploying Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Book Description
Get focused, real-world guidance for planning and implementing Forefront Protection for Exchange Server–and help protect enterprise e-mail from viruses, spam, phishing, and policy violations. Guided by key members of the Microsoft Forefront team, you’ll delve into system components, features, and capabilities, and step through essential planning and design considerations.

Deployment scenarios for Forefront Protection for Exchange include the Edge server, to inspect e-mail moving into and out of the corporate network; Exchange Hub Transport Server, to inspect e-mail moving within the organization; and mailbox servers, to inspect the contents of the user e-mail boxes and provide real-time protection against malicious attachments.

Book Details

Paperback: 92 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735649758
ISBN-13: 978-0735649750

File Size: 5.9 MiB
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Statistical Analysis with R - pdf

Book Description
R is a data analysis tool, graphical environment, and programming language. Without any prior experience in programming or statistical software, this book will help you quickly become a knowledgeable user of R. Now is the time to take control of your data and start producing superior statistical analysis with R.

This book will take you on a journey as the strategist for an ancient Chinese kingdom. Along the way, you will learn how to use R to arrive at practical solutions and how to effectively communicate your results. Ultimately, the fate of the kingdom depends on your ability to make informed, data-driven decisions with R.

You have unexpectedly been thrust into the role of lead strategist for the kingdom. After you install your predecessor’s mysterious data analysis tool, you will begin to explore its fundamental elements. Next, you will use R to import and organize your data. Then, you will use functions and statistical analysis to arrive at potential courses of action. Subsequently, you will design your own functions to assess the practical impacts of your predictions. Lastly, you will focus on communicating your results through the use of charts, plots, graphs, and custom built visualizations. The fate of the kingdom is in your hands. Your rapid development as a master R strategist is the key to future success.

A step by step guide to organize, analyze, and visualize your data in R.

What you will learn from this book :

Conduct superior data analysis in R
Organize and communicate data analysis
Generate, customize, and export detailed charts, plots, and graphs
Build your own custom data visualizations
Program in the R language
Create your own custom functions
Extend the functionality of R via external packages
Manage the R workspace and console
Import external data into R
Manipulate data using variables
Execute a wide array of multi-argument and variable-argument functions
Develop and employ predictive regression models
Assess the practical and statistical significance of predictions
Understand R, its benefits, and how to use it to maximize the impact of your data analyses

Approach
This is a practical, step by step guide that will help you to quickly become proficient in the data analysis using R. The book is packed with clear examples, screenshots, and code to carry on your data analysis without any hurdle.

Who this book is written for
If you are a data analyst, business or information technology professional, student, educator, researcher, or anyone else who wants to learn to analyze the data effectively then this book is for you.

No prior experience with R is necessary. Knowledge of other programming languages, software packages, or statistics may be helpful, but is not required.

Book Details

Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849512086
ISBN-13: 978-1849512084

File Size: 10.2 MiB
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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials - pdf

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials Book Description
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today’s corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle’s remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.

This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.

The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.

By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.

The only book to teach you everything about the best diagramming software for the Macintosh

What you will learn from this book :

Get to grips with the basics and increase your OmniGraffle knowledge to create all the diagrams you will ever need.
Use tips and tricks to create some great visuals that stand out from the crowd
Learn everything about shapes: how to make your own and how to style shapes
Create diagrams based on shapes found in the built-in stencil library, create your own stencils, and import templates from Microsoft Visio
Communicate your information in an appealing manner by using OmniGraffle as a presentation tool
Use exciting functions like Mouseless Editing, Automatic Layout, and Outline to create your diagrams incredibly fast
Explore all the property inspectors that will help you in preparing the perfect diagram that you always dreamed of!
Improve your productivity with a bunch of time-saving keyboard shortcuts
Set up different workspace configurations depending on the task at hand to save time and effort

Approach
This is a very visual book with more than 750 illustrations and screenshots, never leaving any intermediate steps out from the tutorials. It contains precise tutorials that explain the various tools, how to use them, and the visual results. The examples used in the book are an excellent starting point for your own diagrams, both as ideas and as true diagrams – all the diagrams in the book can be downloaded for your own use.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for both beginners and seasoned users of OmniGraffle. If you are new to the software, then this book will teach you everything you need to know to make stunning diagrams. For seasoned OmniGraffle users, this book contains a lot of tricks and techniques that will save their work and time.

Book Details

Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849690766
ISBN-13: 978-1849690768

File Size: 28.2 MiB
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