4/15/2011

The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development, Version 1.9.2 - free download ebook

Book Description
The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development picks up where its predecessor left off, covering yet more topics of interest to the professional Android application developer. If you need to use sensors, create home screen widgets, play back media, take pictures with the camera, or implement sophisticated services, this book will be a helpful guide. With all sample source code available for download from the CommonsWare Web site — as are the samples from all of CommonsWare's Android books — you can try out the book examples yourself and continue your education further. CommonsWare even has a support Google Group for readers, to help answer questions about the book materials and examples.

What's New Over Version 1.9.1

  • Tested on Android 2.3 and 3.0
  • New chapters on content providers
  • New chapters on scripting languages in Android
  • Revamped coverage of AlarmManager
  • Rewritten app widget material
  • Coverage of the new Honeycomb app widget and clipboard features

Table of Contents

  1. WebView, Inside and Out
  2. Crafting Your Own Views
  3. More Fun With ListViews
  4. Creating Drawables
  5. Home Screen App Widgets
  6. Interactive Maps
  7. Creating Custom Dialogs and Preferences
  8. Animating Widgets
  9. Using the Camera
  10. Playing Media
  11. Handling System Events
  12. Advanced Service Patterns
  13. Using System Settings and Services
  14. Content Provider Theory
  15. Content Provider Implementation Patterns
  16. The Contacts ContentProvider
  17. Searching with SearchManager
  18. Introspection and Integration
  19. Working with SMS
  20. More on the Manifest
  21. Device Configuration
  22. Push Notifications with C2DM
  23. The Role of Scripting Languages
  24. The Scripting Layer for Android
  25. JVM Scripting Languages
  26. Reusable Components
  27. Testing
  28. Production

Book Details

  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: CommonsWare, LLC (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780981678016
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981678016
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Introducing ZBrush 4 - Free DownLoad ebook

Book Description
Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top-selling book. Professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller combines his firsthand experience with detailed, step-by-step explanations to make you feel right at home with the interface and tools. The book reinforces the core concepts of ZBrush through fun, hands-on tutorials that will help you achieve amazing results.
  • Understand ZBrush's unique sculpting and painting technology
  • Take a tour of ZBrush 4′s innovative interface and powerful toolkit
  • Work with digital clay and effectively use the full array of sculpting brushes
  • Master ZSpheres for armature and ZSketching for creating meshes
  • Explore exciting new tools for creating hard surface objects
  • Learn how to set lighting, create materials, and render in ZBrush
  • Create animated turntables within ZBrush to show off your work

The book includes a DVD with example files and models to help guide you through each lesson, as well as movies to show you the sculpting techniques used to create many of the digital sculptures.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780470527641
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470527641
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Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties, 4th Edition: Advanced SQL Programming - Free DownLoad ebook

Book Description
SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness and performance. New to the fourth edition, Joe features new examples to reflect the ANSI/ISO Standards so anyone can use it. He also updates data element names to meet new ISO-11179 rules with the same experience-based teaching style that made the previous editions the classics they are today.

Key Features:

  • Expert advice from a noted SQL authority and award-winning columnist who has given ten years service to the ANSI SQL standards committee
  • Teaches scores of advanced techniques that can be used with any product, in any SQL environment, whether it is an SQL 92 or SQL 2008 environment
  • Offers tips for working around deficiencies and gives insight into real-world challenges

Book Details

  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 4th Edition (November, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780123820228
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123820228
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Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction

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Why do enterprise systems have complicated search pages, when Google has a single search box that works better? Why struggle with an expense reimbursement system that is not as easy as home accounting software? Although this seems like comparing apples to oranges, as information and communication technologies increasingly reach into every industry the demand for easy-to-use work tools continues to grow. An exploration of cutting-edge approaches for evaluating the usability of complex user interaction, Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction focuses on improving design and communicating content to the end user.

The book continues the conversation about the evolution of usability, asking how we can design and evaluate these complex systems and the complex work they support. It describes and analyzes approaches to teaching, testing, analyzing, or managing usability studies—approaches that involve technical communicators making novel contributions to how we think about and evaluate increasingly complex systems. The book contains case studies on different types of complexity, including:

  • A complex work environment, requiring collaboration among different people or a goal sustained over time, and often in the face of distractions, interruptions, and planned pauses
  • A complex information context, one with no single answer, where the data changes dynamically or where the best answer may rely on other aspects of a fluid environment
  • A complex technology, in which people use many different applications in their work and collaboration
  • A complex topic, requiring advanced technical or domain knowledge

Even systems that seem simple are, in fact, complex. The shopping interface for an e-commerce system may not be complex, but the databases, business processes, and logistics behind it certainly are. The examination of different aspects of designing and examining complexity presented in this book brings you a step further in developing a deeper understanding of what it takes to make complex systems work.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 399 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press (October, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781439828946
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439828946
  • File Size: 3.2 MiB
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Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators - Free DownLoad

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The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial performance challenges for developers, including scalability, software tuning, and programming issues.

Researchers at the Forefront Reveal Results from Their Own State-of-the-Art Work
Edited by some of the top researchers in the field and with contributions from a variety of international experts, Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators focuses on the architectural design and implementation of multicore and manycore processors and accelerators, including graphics processing units (GPUs) and the Sony Toshiba IBM (STI) Cell Broadband Engine (BE) currently used in the Sony PlayStation 3. The book explains how numerical libraries, such as LAPACK, help solve computational science problems; explores the emerging area of hardware-oriented numerics; and presents the design of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a parallel list ranking algorithm for the Cell BE. It covers stencil computations, auto-tuning, optimizations of a computational kernel, sequence alignment and homology, and pairwise computations. The book also evaluates the portability of drug design applications to the Cell BE and illustrates how to successfully exploit the computational capabilities of GPUs for scientific applications. It concludes with chapters on dataflow frameworks, the Charm++ programming model, scan algorithms, and a portable intracore communication framework.

Explores the New Computational Landscape of Hybrid Processors
By offering insight into the process of constructing and effectively using the technology, this volume provides a thorough and practical introduction to the area of hybrid computing. It discusses introductory concepts and simple examples of parallel computing, logical and performance debugging for parallel computing, and advanced topics and issues related to the use and building of many applications.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 514 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press (December, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143982536X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439825365
  • File Size: 8.2 MiB
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Intelligent Systems, 2nd Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Technology has now progressed to the point that intelligent systems are replacing humans in the decision making processes as well as aiding in the solution of very complex problems. In many cases intelligent systems are already outperforming human activities. Artificial neural networks are not only capable of learning how to classify patterns, such images or sequence of events, but they can also effectively model complex nonlinear systems. Their ability to classify sequences of events is probably more popular in industrial applications where there is an inherent need to model nonlinear system behavior.

Fuzzy systems have similar applications. Their main advantage is their simplicity and ease of implementation. Various aspects of neural networks and fuzzy systems are covered in this volume from The Industrial Electronics Handbook, Second Edition. System optimization is also examined and several new techniques are discussed, including evolutionary methods and swarm and ant colony optimizations. The last section is devoted to several applications involving methods of computational intelligence.

The four other volumes in the Handbook are available individually: Fundamentals of Industrial Electronics, Industrial Communication Systems, Power Electronics and Motor Drives, and Control and Mechatronics. Additionally, all of the volumes are available as a set.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 610 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 2nd Edition (February, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439802831
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439802830
  • File Size: 12.2 MiB
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Bayesian Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Updated and expanded, Bayesian Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition provides a practical and accessible introduction to the main concepts, foundation, and applications of Bayesian networks. It focuses on both the causal discovery of networks and Bayesian inference procedures. Adopting a causal interpretation of Bayesian networks, the authors discuss the use of Bayesian networks for causal modeling. They also draw on their own applied research to illustrate various applications of the technology.

New to the Second Edition

  • New chapter on Bayesian network classifiers
  • New section on object-oriented Bayesian networks
  • New section that addresses foundational problems with causal discovery and Markov blanket discovery
  • New section that covers methods of evaluating causal discovery programs
  • Discussions of many common modeling errors
  • New applications and case studies
  • More coverage on the uses of causal interventions to understand and reason with causal Bayesian networks

Illustrated with real case studies, the second edition of this bestseller continues to cover the groundwork of Bayesian networks. It presents the elements of Bayesian network technology, automated causal discovery, and learning probabilities from data and shows how to employ these technologies to develop probabilistic expert systems.

Web Resource
The book's website at www.csse.monash.edu.au/bai/book/book.html offers a variety of supplemental materials, including example Bayesian networks and data sets. Instructors can email the authors for sample solutions to many of the problems in the text.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 491 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 2nd Edition (December, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781439815915
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439815915
  • File Size: 3.4 MiB
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4/14/2011

Apache Wicket Cookbook - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Apache Wicket is one of the most famous Java web application frameworks. Wicket simplifies web development and makes it fun. Are you bored of going through countless pages of theory to find out how to get your web development done? With this book in hand, you don't need to go through hundreds of pages to figure out how you will actually build a web application. You will get practical solutions to your common everyday development tasks to pace up your development activities.

Apache Wicket Cookbook provides you with information that gets your problems solved quickly without beating around the bush. This book is perfect for you if you are ready to take the next step from tutorials and step into the practical world. It will take you beyond the basics of using Apache Wicket and show you how to leverage Wicket's advanced features to create simpler and more maintainable solutions to what at first may seem complex problems.

You will learn how to integrate with client-side technologies such as JavaScript libraries or Flash components, which will help you to build your application faster. You will discover how to use Wicket paradigms to factor out commonly used code into custom Components, which will reduce the maintenance cost of your application, and how to leverage the existing Wicket Components to make your own code simpler.

A straightforward Cookbook with over 75 highly focused practical recipes to make your web application development easier with the Wicket web framework

What you will learn from this book :

  • Leverage Wicket to implement a wide variety of both simple and advanced use cases in a narrative that gets straight to the point
  • Make forms work in the crazy world of the Web by learning the ways of Wicket's form processing
  • Simplify localizing your Wicket applications
  • Take the boring out of your forms by discovering how to improve the user experience while simplifying your code at the same time
  • Leverage the built-in Table component to make displaying tabular data a snap
  • Think Wicket's Borders are not very useful? Learn to use them in unexpected places to simplify things
  • See how to integrate with Flash components and create interactive charts at the same time
  • Web 1.0 too boring? Learn how to tame Wicket's AJAX support and bring your application into Web 2.0
  • Simplify your security code by learning various security techniques
  • An application cannot be built with Wicket alone; see how to make it play nice with other frameworks

Approach
This is a hands-on practical guide to a large variety of topics and use cases. This book tries to use real-world examples when possible, but is not afraid to come up with a contrived pretext if it makes explaining the problem simpler. Unlike a lot of other books, this one does not try to maintain a continuous theme from chapter to chapter, such as demonstrating solutions on the same fictional application; doing so would be almost impossible given the wide variety of recipes presented here. Instead, this book concentrates on focused problems users are likely to encounter and shows clear solutions in a step-by-step manner. This book tries to teach by example and is not afraid to show a lot of code because, after all, it is for coders.

Who this book is written for
This book is for current users of the Apache Wicket framework; it is not an introduction to Wicket that will bore you with tons of theory. You are expected to have built or maintained a simple Wicket application in the past and to be looking to learn new and better ways of using Wicket. If you are ready to take your Wicket skills to the next level this book is for you.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (May 15, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849511608
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849511605
  • File Size: 12.8 MiB
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Joomla! 1.6 First Look - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.

Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you.

This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.

This book will take you through all that's new in Joomla! 1.6 and explain how it's going to make your life better

What you will learn from this book :

  • General changes to the Joomla! interface and the practical effects this has on creating and maintaining sites with Joomla!
  • Changes in Joomla! 1.6 that affect the day to day routine of organizing, adding and editing articles
  • Changes in menus, that make it easier to manage menus and add new menu items fast
  • Access Control Levels relevant to website administrators in need of fine grained user permissions control
  • What's new in selecting, using and editing templates
  • New extensions overhauled in Joomla! 1.6
  • New SEO features to enhance your site's SEO

Approach
This book looks at the main functional areas of Joomla! that have significant new features. All features are explained with the help of illustrative screenshots and step-by-step instructions on how to use them.

Who this book is written for
This book is for existing Joomla! users, developers, and designers who want to know about everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 236 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849513422
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849513425
  • File Size: 8.8 MiB
  • Hits: 549 times
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LaTeX: Beginner’s Guide - Free DownLoad

Book Description
LaTeX is high-quality Open Source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. However, as LaTeX is a powerful and complex tool, getting started can be intimidating. There is no official support and certain aspects such as layout modifications can seem rather complicated. It may seem more straightforward to use Word or other WYSIWG programs, but once you've become acquainted, LaTeX's capabilities far outweigh any initial difficulties. This book guides you through these challenges and makes beginning with LaTeX easy. If you are writing Mathematical, Scientific, or Business papers, or have a thesis to write, then this is the perfect book for you.

LaTeX Beginner's Guide offers you a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples. Beginning with the installation and basic usage, you will learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements like bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes and go on to managing complex documents and using modern PDF features. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand.

This practical book will guide you through the essential steps of LaTeX, from installing LaTeX, formatting, and justification to page design. Right from the beginning, you will learn to use macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. You will learn to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional looking tables as well as include figures and write complex mathematical formulas. You will see how to generate bibliographies and indexes with ease. Finally you will learn how to manage complex documents and how to benefit from modern PDF features. Detailed information about online resources like software archives, web forums, and online compilers completes this introductory guide. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand.

Create professional-looking texts, articles, and books for Business and Science

What you will learn from this book :

  • Install LaTeX and use the TeXworks editor to compile documents
  • Design the page layout; create dynamic headers and footers
  • Fine-tune appearances and the space of words, symbols, and lines
  • Apply intelligent justification and customized hyphenation to achieve fine text design
  • Typeset professional-looking tables and create bulleted and enumerated lists
  • Write sophisticated math formulas, from in-text expressions to complex multi-line equations with various alignments
  • Cross-reference objects such as figures, tables, and equations
  • Load fonts and vary their shape and style; choose between thousands of LaTeX symbols from specialized fonts
  • Use macros to save time and effort; load packages to extend LaTeX's capabilities
  • Generate an index, cite books, and create bibliographies
  • Use external pictures, color, PDF bookmarks, and hyperlinks
  • Structure and manage large documents by splitting the input
  • Manage large documents containing lists, index, and bibliography

Approach
Packed with fully explained examples, LaTeX Beginner's Guide is a hands-on introduction quickly leading a novice user to professional-quality results.

Who this book is written for
If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847199860
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847199867
  • File Size: 9.0 MiB
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Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is becoming increasingly popular in schools worldwide due to its ease of use and flexibility. Science is the perfect subject to benefit from the features of Moodle as students will find it easier to learn with the help of interactive content, rather than reading ancient textbooks.

Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0 will give you lots of tips and tricks for teaching science using Moodle. This book will make learning more fun for your students and explain complicated concepts with ease with the help of images, diagrams, and interactive quizzes. It will teach you how to create quizzes, start forum discussions, embed videos, and much more, all while keeping the students' performance at the front of your mind, which is easily monitored using the Gradebook function.

Use Moodle to create quizzes, forums, activities, and much more, to make your science lessons more interactive

What you will learn from this book :

  • Use scientific notation, mathematical functions, and display molecules to make your students understand difficult concepts more easily
  • Use the DragMath Equation editor to teach about kinetic energy and momentum
  • Set up surveys to enable your students to help one another and improve the course with their suggestions
  • Create databases to classify elements, materials, and structures
  • Embed videos and images that students can access from home
  • Monitor your students with Gradebook
  • Set up quizzes and collect the results to see how your students are progressing
  • Easily explain difficult concepts such as light and sound waves using animations
  • Theme your site to make it more science-centric

Approach
Packed with lots of practical examples, each chapter takes you through a different aspect of teaching using Moodle. All examples are based around a sample science course, which you can see growing throughout the book.

Who this book is written for
This book is for science teachers who would like to enhance their lessons using Moodle. It doesn't matter if you haven't used Moodle before; as long as someone has set it up for you, you can get started with the exercises in the book straightaway.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 30, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849511489
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849511483
  • File Size: 17.5 MiB
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Sphinx Search: Beginner’s Guide - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Sphinx is an open-source full-text search server, designed from the ground up with a focus on performance, relevance, and integration simplicity. With Sphinx, you can either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as a database server.

Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide serves as a guide to everything you need to know about running a Sphinx Search Engine. In today's world, search is an integral part of any application and having a reliable search engine like Sphinx Search can be the difference between running a successful and unsuccessful business. What good is being on the Web if no one knows you are there? It is easy to build a proficient search engine with Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide to hand.

This practical guide provides insight into one of the most popular open source search engines, Sphinx. You will learn how to set up Sphinx on your own server, with the basics of how a search engine works explained in brief. You will learn how to create an index using Sphinx and then perform a search on that index using the client API, as well as learning how to configure Sphinx to get the most out of it. You will also be shown how Sphinx gives quality search results by relevance ranking. The book will help a beginner in all possible ways to create both simple and complex search forms in their applications. It's easy to use Sphinx Search engine, when you have the Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide to hand.

What you will learn from this book :

  • Install Sphinx on your system
  • Create indexes in Sphinx by using Sphinx's indexer utility
  • Use the Sphinx API to issue search queries from your PHP applications
  • Filter your search results using different attributes
  • Create a functional application in PHP that will use the Sphinx search engine as the backend to serve search queries
  • Use PHP to create an application that fetches different feeds and stores the feed item data in a Sphinx index
  • Create an advanced search form that implements lots of filters, as well as a search form for geodistance searches
  • Explore the different configuration options available in the Sphinx configuration file that tailor Sphinx according to your needs

Approach
This book is a step-by-step guide for an absolute beginner. It covers everything, from installing to configuring, to get you started quickly. It has numerous code examples that the reader can try on their own and learn while doing so. It has two full-fledged applications as examples that readers can follow. This book is specifically focused on the Search feature of web applications.

Who this book is written for
This book is for developers who are new to Sphinx Search. All code examples use PHP but the logic is same for any other web scripting languages as well.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184951254X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849512541
  • File Size: 5.5 MiB
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CMMI for Development: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, 3rd Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes and improve performance. Already widely adopted throughout the world for disciplined, high-quality engineering, CMMI-DEV Version 1.3 now accommodates other modern approaches as well, including the use of Agile methods, Lean Six Sigma, and architecture-centric development.

CMMI® for Development, Third Edition, is the definitive reference for CMMI-DEV Version 1.3. The authors have revised their tips, hints, and cross-references, which appear in the margins of the book, to help you better understand, apply, and find information about the content of each process area. The book includes new and updated perspectives on CMMI-DEV in which people influential in the model's creation, development, and transition share brief but valuable insights. It also features four new case studies and five contributed essays with practical advice for adopting and using CMMI-DEV. This book is an essential resource–whether you are new to CMMI-DEV or are familiar with an earlier version–if you need to know about, evaluate, or put the latest version of the model into practice.

The book is divided into three parts.
Part One, "About CMMI," consists of seven chapters:

  • Chapter 1, "Introduction," offers a broad view of CMMI. It introduces you
  • to the concepts of process improvement and describes the benefits of CMMI, the history of models used for process improvement, and different process improvement approaches.
  • Chapter 2, "Process Area Components," describes all of the components of the CMMI process areas.
  • Chapter 3, "Process Institutionalization," describes the model components
  • that ensure that the implementation of processes is effective, repeatable, and lasting.
  • Chapter 4, "Relationships among Process Areas," provides insight into the meaning and interactions of the major CMMI components.
  • Chapter 5, "Tying It All Together," assembles the model components and process infrastructure into the representations and explains the concepts of maturity level and capability level.
  • Chapter 6, "Using CMMI Models," describes paths to adoption and use of CMMI for process improvement and benchmarking.
  • Chapter 7, "A CMMI Case Study: United Space Alliance, LLC," describes the real-life experiences of an organization as it prepared to adopt CMMI. This chapter may help you plan your own organization's adoption of CMMI.

Part Two, "The Process Areas," contains 25 sections, one for each of the CMMI process areas.3 To facilitate your referring to them, these chapters are organized alphabetically by process area acronym. Each chapter contains descriptions of goals, best practices, and examples.

Part Three, "The Appendices and Glossary," consists of four information resources:

  • Appendix A, "References," contains references you can use to locate documented sources of information such as reports, process-improvement models, industry standards, and books that are related to CMMI.
  • Appendix B, "Acronyms," defines the acronyms used in CMMI.
  • Appendix C, "CMMI Project Participants," contains a list of people and their organizations who participated in the CMMI project. That project developed the models on which this book is based.
  • The "Glossary" defines the terms used in CMMI.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321711505
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321711502
  • File Size: 4.0 MiB
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PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
With PHP for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language. Leading technology author Larry Ullman guides readers through the latest developments including use and awareness of HTML5 with PHP. Other addressed changes include removal of outdated functions and more efficient ways to tackle common needs.

Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the technology, and more intermediate users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here–in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples.

From the Back Cover
Learn PHP programming–the quick and easy way!

  • Easy visual approach uses demonstrations and real-world examples of dynamic Web development using PHP and shows you what to do step by step.
  • Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.
  • Essential reference guide keeps you coming back again and again.
  • Whether you're a programming newbie or an experienced veteran learning PHP for the first time, this book will teach you all you need to know, including the latest changes in PHP, what to expect in HTML5, and more!
  • Visit the companion website for online resources, including all the scripts used in the book, bonus content, and a support forum where you can get answers directly from the author.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 4th Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321733452
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321733450
  • File Size: 13.0 MiB
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4/13/2011

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 Unleashed, 3rd Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Covers the newest version of WHS!

This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to the brand-new version of Windows Home Server 2011. Paul McFedries doesn't just cover all facets of running Windows Home Server: He shows how to use it to simplify everything from file sharing to media streaming, backup to security.

With real-world examples, McFedries guides you through using new features ranging from the Dashboard and Launchpad to Remote Web Access and Alert Viewer. You'll find network configurations and step-by-step solutions you can easily understand and use, even if you have no server experience. Then, when you're ready, McFedries reveals how Home Server's hidden business-class features can help you save more time and get even better performance.

Packed with exclusive tips and tricks, this go-to guide will help you every step of the way…as you create a home network that does more and runs perfectly!

  • Quickly set up networks, user accounts, devices, and storage
  • Add any computer to your network: Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac, or Linux
  • Efficiently share folders, files, and digital media
  • Set up passwords and users and protect your sensitive information
  • Reliably automate backups, so you never lose an important file
  • Centrally manage all your storage, so you never have to buy more than you need
  • Stream and share your digital images, audio, and video–even on your Xbox 360 or other devices
  • Use Home Server's built-in web server to create powerful, flexible websites
  • Use Windows SharePoint Foundation to help everyone coordinate their busy lives
  • Automatically apply up-to-date security fixes to all your Windows computers
  • Remotely access your content from any Internet-connected computer–safely and securely
  • Use Home Server power tools, including Local Group Policy Editor, Computer Management snap-ins, and scripting
  • Efficiently monitor, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Windows Home Server

Book Details

  • Paperback: 720 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 3rd Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780672335402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672335402
  • File Size: 39.2 MiB
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Data-driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go - Free DownLoad

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Use FileMaker® technologies to create powerful mobile data apps for iPhone®, iPod® touch, and iPad™

Apple's FileMaker technologies make it easy to create powerful, data-driven apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and any mobile device's web browser. In this book, leading FileMaker and iOS expert Jesse Feiler teaches you all the skills and techniques you'll need, whether you're a developer, knowledge worker, or manager.

Feiler thoroughly reviews each strategy for delivering mobile data using FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and Bento. You'll learn how mobile data-driven apps are different from traditional desktop-driven apps, and how to create highly usable interfaces for them. Step by step, Feiler demonstrates how to extend existing databases to mobile devices and the web, and how to create and optimize brand-new databases for iPad and iPhone.

This book brings together core principles, practical development techniques, and proven tips and shortcuts. You'll discover the best ways to incorporate printing, touch interface elements, and location-based features into your apps; integrate data from multiple FileMaker and non-FileMaker sources; and much more.

  • Use FileMaker Go apps to access FileMaker databases hosted on FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro, or databases resident on a mobile device
  • Move FileMaker Pro databases, scripts, and layouts to mobile environments
  • Develop easy-to-use interfaces for mobile data apps
  • Design FileMaker Go solutions for iPhone, iPad, or both
  • Optimize FileMaker databases for FileMaker Go
  • Integrate printing and charting features into your mobile database apps
  • Use Bento to share data and synchronize libraries
  • Work effectively with Bento records, fields, forms, and tables
  • Build location-aware database apps for iOS mobile devices
  • Import/export data from Bento, FileMaker, spreadsheets, and other sources
  • Move FileMaker databases to the web with IWP, CWP, and FileMaker Server

Jesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has worked with Apple mobile devices from Newton through iPad and has worked with FileMaker technologies since 1984. Feiler created ChamplainArts.com's powerful iPad meeting management app MinutesMachine. His books include Using FileMaker Bento, Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours, The Bento Book, and FileMaker Pro 10 in Depth.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Que (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789747863
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789747860
  • File Size: 13.5 MiB
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Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel's Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!
  • Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities
  • Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models
  • Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with just a few clicks
  • Powerful techniques for every active investor who can use Excel

Now that high-speed traders dominate the market, yesterday's slower-paced analysis strategies are virtually worthless. To outperform, individual traders must discover fleeting market trends and inefficiencies and act on them before they disappear.

Five years ago, this required multimillion-dollar data mining and analytical infrastructures. Today, you can do it with Microsoft Excel, a powerful PC, and this book.

Step by step, world-class trader Jeff Augen shows how to use Excel 2007 or 2010 to uncover hidden correlations and reliable trade triggers based on subtle anomalies and price distortions…create and test new hypotheses others haven't considered…visualize data to reveal insights others can't see!

From the Back Cover
"Augen authors another winner. A skilled analyst and trader himself, Augen offers individuals a cutting-edge approach to analysis, utilizing simple software, which allows traders to better steer their own financial destiny. In this new book, he outlines his personal investing techniques, unlike any other technical approach I've ever seen. This unique book is a must-read for self-directed traders seeking to create their own tools to gain an edge in the computer-driven markets of today."
–Kira McCaffrey Brecht, Managing Editor, SFO Magazine

"Jeff Augen continues his streak of great books that can help traders improve returns with a book about programming option trades that doesn't require a quant degree to be put into action. He has done what I thought was impossible: He has written a programming guide for option traders that is interesting and actionable. This is the most interesting, understandable, and actionable guide to using Excel to trade options that I have read."
–Mark Sebastian, COO and Director of Education, Option Pit

"Jeff's insights into modern-day options have provided me with several real-world trading breakthroughs. I increasingly lean on Jeff for clarity in today's hard-charging, volatile markets–I'd get my hands on everything he puts out!"
–Preston James, Founder, Traders Edge Network, LLC

Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel's Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!

There's only one way to gain a consistent edge in today's high-speed markets: adopt the same advanced data mining and analysis techniques the institutions use. Fortunately, with Microsoft Excel and a modern PC, you can do just that. In this book, Jeff Augen covers a variety of approaches for systematically improving your trades by exploiting Excel's most powerful new features.

Augen demystifies key analytical concepts and teaches all the Excel skills you'll need. Using realistic examples, he explains everything from simple conditionals and expressions to sophisticated VBA macro programming.

You'll learn to create new indicators and alerts that identify high-profit opportunities…perform statistical analyses to back-test strategies more accurately…validate, invalidate, or tune combinations of indicators across any time frame…quickly visualize enormous datasets, so hidden trends jump out at you.

Own Excel? Use a trading platform? You already have the tools to gain a powerful trading advantage. Get this book–and put those tools to work.

  • Use Excel 2007/2010 to systematically improve the way you analyze trades
    Translate complex trading hypotheses into simple, testable Excel models
  • Uncover market distortions in time to profit from them
    Profit from inefficiencies that disappear in hours, minutes, or even seconds
  • Identify new correlations the market hasn't noticed
    Perform "experiments" of virtually unlimited size, number, or complexity

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137131828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137131822
  • File Size: 2.8 MiB
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Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience - Free DownLoad

Book Description
"This book represents a thorough and extensive treatment of the software build process including the choices, benefits, and challenges of a well designed build process. I recommend it not only to all software build engineers but to all software developers since a well designed build process is key to an effective software development process."
—Kevin Bodie, Director Software Development, Pitney Bowes Inc.

"An excellent and detailed explanation of build systems, an important but often overlooked part of software development projects. The discussion of productivity as related to build systems is, alone, well worth the time spent reading this book."
—John M. Pantone, Objectech Corporation, VP, IT Educator and Course Developer

"Peter Smith provides an interesting and accessible look into the world of software build systems, distilling years of experience and covering virtually every type of tool in the build engineer's toolbox. Well organized, well written, and very thorough; I would recommend this book to anyone with a build system under their responsibility."
—Jeff Overbey, Project Co-Lead, Photran

"Software Build Systems teaches how to think about building software. It surveys the tools and techniques for building software products and the ways things go wrong. This book will appeal to those new to build systems as well as experienced build system engineers."
—Monte Davidoff, Software Development Consultant, Alluvial Software, Inc.

Inadequate build systems can dramatically impact developer productivity. Bad dependencies, false compile errors, failed software images, slow compilation, and time-wasting manual processes are just some of the byproducts of a subpar build system. In Software Build Systems, software productivity expert Peter Smith shows you how to implement build systems that overcome all these problems, so you can deliver reliable software more rapidly, at lower cost.

Smith explains the core principles underlying highly efficient build systems, surveying both system features and usage scenarios. Next, he encapsulates years of experience in creating and maintaining diverse build systems–helping you make well-informed choices about tools and practices, and avoid common traps and pitfalls. Throughout, he shares a wide range of practical examples and lessons from multiple environments, including Java, C++, C, and C#. Coverage includes

  • Mastering build system concepts, including source trees, build tools, and compilation tools
  • Comparing five leading build tools: GNU Make, Ant, SCons, CMake, and the Eclipse IDE's integrated build features
  • Ensuring accurate dependency checking and efficient incremental compilation
  • Using metadata to assist debugging, profiling, and source code documentation
  • Packaging software for installation on your target machine
  • Best practices for managing complex version-control systems, build machines, and compilation tools

If you're a developer, this book will illuminate the issues involved in building and maintaining the build system that's best for your team. If you're a manager, you'll discover how to evaluate your team's build system and improve its effectiveness. And if you're a build "guru," you'll learn how to optimize the performance and scalability of your build system, no matter how demanding your requirements are.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780321717283
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321717283
  • File Size: 6.3 MiB
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, 5th Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Includes C++ compiler and IDE for Windows, Mac & Linux

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn the basics of programming with C++–one of the most popular and powerful programming languages ever created.

Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, this fast and friendly tutorial teaches you everything you need to know, from installing and using a compiler, to debugging the programs you've created, to what's coming in C++0x, the next version of C++.

Each lesson builds on what you've already learned, giving you a solid understanding of the basics of C++ programming concepts and techniques.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common C++ programming tasks
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test yourself to make sure you're ready to go on
Starter Kit software provides everything you need to create and compile C++ programs on any platform–Windows, Mac or Linux

Learn how to…

  • Install and use a C++ compiler for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux
  • Build object-oriented programs in C++
  • Master core C++ concepts such as functions, classes, arrays, and pointers
  • Add rich functionality with linked lists and templates
  • Debug your programs for flawless code
  • Learn exception and error-handling techniques
  • Discover what's new in C++0x, the next version of C++

Book Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 5th Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672333317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672333316
  • File Size: 2.1 MiB
  • Hits: 1,266 times
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Crapshoot Investing: How Tech-Savvy Traders and Clueless Regulators Turned the Stock Market into a Casino - Free DownLoad

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Equity markets are now high-speed casinos rigged against individual investors. Now, Barron's Washington Editor Jim McTague reveals the twin causes: high-frequency traders and blundering regulators. Learn why the Flash Crash happened (and will again)… discover titanic, uncontrolled forces driving market chaos… find rational strategies for profiting in this terrifying new environment!

From the Back Cover
"The government's master planners have done it again! Usurping the role of 'invisible hand,' they have inadvertently destabilized the stock market and frightened off long-term investors. McTague sardonically chronicles how this happened and the new dangers the meddling has created for the investing public."
–Larry Kudlow, Host, The Kudlow Report, CNBC

"Jim McTague is the best, because he refuses to report like the rest. He was the first to report in the dot-com boom that earnings should matter, and in the real estate boom, that simple math matters. Some might call that being the skunk at the picnic. Pity we don't have more skunks."
–Neil Cavuto, Host, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox News Channel

"Jim McTague presents a ferocious verdict on the state of the markets after the Flash Crash of 2010. It takes a strong mind to read the anecdotes and reporting in Crapshoot Investing and not break down laughing. Cash under the mattress or in a coffee can? Far more secure than the ticker tape."
–John Batchelor, Host, The John Batchelor Show, WABC Radio Network

"This fascinating and compelling book is a must-read for anyone that invests in the stock market. Jim McTague pulls no punches in telling the alarming story of how these markets have been transformed into risky casinos. If you plan to be one of the winners, this is a book for you."
–James R. Barth, Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University

"This book is like a fast, furious, and sometimes airborne motorcycle ride. It hurtles along, avoiding the obstacles that lie in the path of investors, devilishly constructed by Wall Street and haplessly beyond the ken of the regulators. It is not a book that makes you feel good about your 401K, but you will laugh aloud often.
–Llewellyn King, Host, White House Chronicle, PBS

"McTague's book is an indispensible read for everyone interested in the problems and benefits of replacing human traders with algorithmic machines in one of the most important markets in the world. The equity markets play a central role in the allocation of scarce resources to many of the most productive enterprises that provide jobs for workers, and goods and services for consumers. Short-term retail investors should also consider Jim McTague's advice: 'It has become a shark tank and we are the anchovies.'"
–Robert Auerbach, Professor of Public Affairs, The Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

The equity markets are now nothing more than high-speed casinos: white-knuckle rollercoaster rides that have left individual investors legitimately terrified of equities. The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010—when the DJIA plummeted 734 points in 17 minutes and dozens of top companies traded as low as zero—was just a harbinger of even greater disasters.

In Crapshoot Investing, Jim McTague, Barron's Washington Editor, reveals the twin causes of this massive transformation: high-frequency traders using mathematical hocus pocus and blundering regulators whose new rules have massively backfired.

McTague takes you through the Flash Crash moment by moment, revealing what happened and how it happened. Next, he burrows "under the volcano" to uncover the titanic, uncontrolled forces at work in equity markets, showing you exactly what you're up against when you trade stock. Last but not least, he presents a rational strategy for investors who need to get ahead in markets that have become riskier than most casinos!

  • Bi-polar markets: from mania to depression in an instant
    The massive new forces pumping new volatility into the markets
  • How markets are selling unfair advantages—at your expense
    How some traders buy privileged access—and tilt the markets against you
  • The new SEC rules that helped destroy the markets
    …and what must be done to fix them
  • How to invest successfully in a shark-infested market
    A disciplined new approach to long-term investing: today's only route to success

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780132599689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132599689
  • File Size: 3.1 MiB
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Investing with Volume Analysis: Identify, Follow, and Profit from Trends - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Analyzing volume can help you look deep inside trends, identify shifts more rapidly, and earn higher profits with less risk. Now, award-winning stock analyst Buff Pelz Dormeier explains how to make volume analysis work for you. Analyze volume responsiveness, reliability, risk, and returns–and use your insights to optimize your returns.

From the Back Cover
"I found Investing with Volume Analysis of great interest. Any new study of volume and its great technical importance demands immediate attention. It is good to have Buff's new ideas and discoveries added to the history and importance of volume in technical analysis. My sincere thanks to Buff for his great work and contribution."
—Joseph E. Granville, The Granville Market Letter

"The author has gathered in one place all the major methods and theories that deal with volume in the stock market and has recognized volume as an equal partner with price in the workings of market and stock movements. He puts it all together into usable and readable guidance, using effective analogies and occasional humor."
—Richard W. Arms, Jr., Arms Advisory

"Buff presents a thorough discussion of the utility of volume and volume-based market indicators, both traditional and of his own creation. Fellow market analysts can be glad for this resource and the fact that the VPCI on Buff himself is in a strongly rising trend."
—Robert Prechter and Dave Allman, Elliott Wave International

"I really enjoyed and appreciated the author's ability to combine volume with many of the basic indicators used by technicians today."
—Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Managing Director, Altaira Investment Solutions

"I trade for a living and don't have time for fluff and puff. Buff tossed facts and figures in my face like a silver cross in front of a vampire. He is on to much here, as you will see. This book is not a morsel; it's a nine-course meal. Dig in."
—Larry Williams, Private Trader, World Cup Trading Champion

"For every stock trade that takes place, three key pieces of information are recorded: price, time, and size. It is from these three pieces of data that we derive all the key information that technical analysts use to examine a stock's behavior. If you are only looking at prices, then you are throwing out a whole lot of key information.

Buff's book teaches you how to take that information about the size of trades and turn it into the seven types of volume indicators. Better still, he teaches you how to use those tools to improve your own trading."
—Tom McClellan, Editor, The McClellan Market Report

If price is the market's testimony, then volume is the market's polygraph. More than any other indicator, volume tells you the real force and extent of investors' convictions about prices. By analyzing the market's volume-oriented "lie detector tests," you can uncover trends sooner with more reliability–and thus be better positioned to capture the profits those trends might deliver.

In Investing with Volume Analysis, award-winning technical analyst Buff Dormeier reveals how volume validates, interprets, and leads price. Using volume analysis, you'll learn to uncover surprising shifts in investor enthusiasm, identify disparities in market opinion, and sniff out coming trend reversals.

Dormeier reviews many traditional volume indicators, introduces his own groundbreaking approaches, and shows you exactly how to apply them. You'll learn how to assess strength and weakness in both supply and demand; identify common market narratives buried beneath volume data; integrate volume analysis with other portfolio allocation techniques; and much more.

Volume analysis speaks volumes. Read this book and discover what the market has been telling you if only you had turned on the volume!

Volume: what it says that you can't learn any other way
Uncover the market's true convictions about present prices

Apply the classical laws of motion in securities analysis
Achieve more profitable trading strategies

Is market movement accelerating– or is it about to halt and reverse?
Use volume analysis to evaluate the "state of the trend"

Go beyond standard volume analysis by discovering new breakthrough techniques
Buff up your market analysis with Capital Weighted Volume and overcome volume distortions while improving visibility

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137085508
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137085507
  • File Size: 15.4 MiB
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Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk - Free DownLoad

Book Description
In Mobile DNA, leading geneticist Haig Kazazian thoroughly reviews our current understanding of the substantial role mobile genetic elements play in genome and organism evolution and function. He offers an accessible intellectual history of mobile DNA, rich and insightful perspectives on how investigators ask and answer research questions, and his predictions about future developments and research directions for this active field.

From the Back Cover
A Richly Engaging Review, History, and Prospective on Mobile DNA

Haig Kazazian reviews our current scientific understanding of mobile DNA and its role in the evolution and function of genomes and organisms, offering an in-depth portrait of the developing perspectives and research strategies pursued by the workers in his own laboratory. He presents an engaging history of the field, showing how advances have presented unexpected new questions, and how new tools and techniques have promoted further progress. Coverage includes: multiple types of mobile DNA; retrotransposition and other key concepts; important mobile DNA research advances in the human genome, mammals, and plants; mobile DNA's role in increasing genome plasticity and diversity; and the roles of leading scientists in moving mobile DNA research forward. Kazazian concludes with informed reflections on the possible biological roles of mobile DNA, and his own current best guesses about how a number of the leading questions currently under active investigation will likely be answered.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780137070626
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137070626
  • File Size: 4.9 MiB
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4/12/2011

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration - Free DownLoad pdf

Book Description
If you need to deploy, manage, or secure Microsoft SQL Server 2008, this is the complete, fast-paced, task-based reference you've been searching for. Authored by a world-class expert on SQL Server in the enterprise, this book goes far beyond the basics, taking on the complex tasks that DBAs need to make the most of Microsoft's flagship database platform. SQL Server MVP, Ross Mistry presents proven techniques for SQL Server 2008 installation, upgrades, backup/restore, data transfer, indexing, high availability, security, and much more. He draws on extensive testing in high-profile production environments to offer step-by-step solutions and powerful tips you won't find anywhere else. Every chapter begins with a section identifying SQL Server 2008's most significant new improvements, and concludes with a convenient summary of best practices. Each chapter also outlines the benefits of leveraging Windows Server 2008.

Understand how to:

  • Master DBA tips, tricks, and best practices proven in actual enterprise environments
  • Install, upgrade or transition to SQL Server 2008.
  • Harden and Secure an implementation.
  • Encrypt SQL Server from an end-to-end perspective.
  • Implement high availability–and leverage SQL Server 2008's major improvements to failover clustering and database mirroring
  • Save time with SQL Server 2008's new policy-based management tools
  • Performance tune and troubleshoot a SQL Server 2008 environment.
  • Optimize application performance and manage workloads with the powerful new Resource Governor
  • Implement Performance Studio, maintenance plans, Transparent Data Encryption and much more…

Bonus Content:

  • The book is based on Windows Server 2008
  • Step by step instructions of how to implement a failover cluster on Windows Server 2008
  • SQL Server PoweShell Administration Tasks
  • Consolidate and virtualize SQL Server with Hyper-V
  • Step by step instructions on how to install Hyper-V
  • Proactively Monitor SQL Server with Operations Manager
  • Install Windows Server 2008 certificates to encrypt SQL Server data

Book Details

  • Paperback: 912 pages
  • Publisher: Sams (December, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780672330445
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672330445
  • File Size: 19.8 MiB
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Sams Teach Yourself eBay in 10 Minutes - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself eBay® in 10 Minutes

Sams Teach Yourself eBay in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you need to know to shop for, purchase, and sell items on eBay—safely and securely.

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

  • Bid in eBay auctions
    Win auctions with last-minute snipes
  • Buy fixed-price items
  • Pay for your purchases
  • Find items to sell
  • List items for sale via online auction
  • Sell items at a fixed price
  • Use pictures in your eBay listings
  • Pack and ship the items you sell
  • Accept credit card payments via PayPal
  • Deal with feedback
  • Manage your eBay activity with My eBay
  • Browse and search for items to buy
  • Deal with non-paying buyers
  • Create more effective item listings
  • Use a Trading Assistant to sell your items
  • Sell internationally
  • Use eBay's advanced selling tools
  • Buy online safely and securely

Book Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Sams (February, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672335360
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672335365
  • File Size: 7.0 MiB
  • Hits: 578 times
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ITIL Capacity Management

Book Description
The Business-Focused, Best-Practice Guide to Succeeding with ITIL Capacity Management

Using ITIL® capacity management processes, IT organizations can eliminate waste and overbuying, reduce both equipment and staffing costs, drive more value from existing investments, and consistently provide the right resources to meet the needs of the business. Now, in this comprehensive, best-practice guide, leading ITIL expert Larry Klosterboer systematically explains how to manage capacity using the ITIL framework and techniques.

Drawing on his extensive ITIL experience, Klosterboer covers all facets of ITIL-based capacity management, and offers proven solutions to the challenges IT organizations encounter in implementation. He presents expert guidance on accurately projecting demand and growth, planning and staffing, tool selection, process implementation, and much more.

This book's practical insights will be invaluable to every IT leader who wants to leverage ITIL's best practices for capacity management, and for every business and technical manager who wants IT to deliver greater value, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Coverage includes

  • Making the business case for capacity management
  • Establishing specific goals for capacity management
  • Mastering ITIL capacity management terminology
  • Predicting capacity in dynamic, fast-changing organizations
  • Implementing systems that help you anticipate trends
  • Defining capacity plans, staffing capacity management teams, and implementing ongoing processes
  • Linking capacity with performance management and with other ITIL processes
  • Selecting the right capacity management tools for your environment
  • Integrating capacity issues into your IT project management discipline
  • Using "business capacity planning" to help the entire business become more agile

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press (February, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137065922
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137065929
  • File Size: 1.6 MiB
  • Hits: 1,055 times
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