8/06/2010

Beginning SQL Server Modeling: Model-Driven Application Development in SQL Server 2008 - pdf

Beginning SQL Server Modeling: Model Driven Application Development in SQL Server 2008Book Description
Get ready for model-driven application development with SQL Server Modeling! This book covers Microsoft’s SQL Server Modeling (formerly known under the code name “Oslo”) in detail and contains the information you need to be successful with designing and implementing workflow modeling.

Beginning SQL Server Modeling will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of how to apply DSLs and other modeling components in the development of SQL Server implementations. Most importantly, after reading the book and working through the examples, you will have considerable experience using SQL Modeling components, because the book and accompanying source code take you through the steps of actually building solutions using the platform.

Beginning SQL Server Modeling is the only book that comprehensively covers .NET application development using SQL Modeling. This book explains the critical concepts of SQL Server Modeling and model-driven development that every SQL Server developer should know. The book is simple and concise, giving readers an immediate return on their investment. After learning the lessons of this book, business process analysts and developers will be prepared to use SQL modeling for model-based design, development, and implementations.

What you'll learn

  • About the Repositor—where the specifics of the model entities and relationships reside
  • How to use Quadrant—a visual modeling tool for creating and modifying the model
  • How to work with Intellipad—short for Intellisense Workpad, this is a text-based code editor incorporating Microsoft's implementation of code autocompletion; it is a part of Quadrant
  • Developing with the M programming language—specifically designed for developing domain-specific languages
  • Model-driven development concepts by building a realistic sample application

Who is this book for?
This book is tailored to analysts and developers, with extensive code samples and exercises. Managers and Business Analysts will be interested in understanding how SQL Modeling and model-driven development can reduce project development time and increase reusability of processes. Database and Software architects will be interested in understanding how to design and implement dynamic model-driven solutions. Programmers will want to quickly ramp up on the technology to include SQL Modeling in their .NET development experience.

About the Author
Bart Weller is software developer and consultant specializing in object-oriented development. Over the years he has worked on a system simulation of a satellite command & control system, a laser remote sensing system for atmospheric pollutants, and scientific instrumentation systems for NASA’s Apollo Skylab. Enterprise business applications he has worked on include an on-line commodities trading system, several enterprise insurance applications, and a telecommunications network. He occasionally works part-time at a small college, and has rebuilt a Jeep engine — twice. He lives in western Colorado with his wife, dog Duffey (named in honor of the late John Duffey, former lead tenor and mandolin player with the Seldom Scene), two country cats, and eight feral llamas. He is a volunteer DJ at the local community radio station, and his hobbies are clearing deadfall and fixing things. Among the people he admires are Einstein, Lincoln, Alan Kay, Patch Adams, and J.J. Cale.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (July, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430227516
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430227519
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My New iPad: A User’s Guide - pdf

My New iPad: A User's GuideBook Description
The iPad is cute. It’s lovable. It’s fun to play with. And it’s a bit mysterious.

My New iPad is your guide to getting more from your new iPad, Apple’s latest magical creation. You’ll learn how to do the things you want to do right now—like surf the Internet, send email, listen to music, take notes, read ebooks, and play with your photos.

Wallace Wang, bestselling author of My New Mac and My New iPhone, takes you step-by-step through the iPad’s many useful features. You’ll learn how to:

  • Find your way using the Maps app and the iPad’s compass
  • Sync and share photographs, calendars, and contact information
  • Set up your email accounts and browse the Web
  • Shop on iTunes and the iBook Store for new music, movies, TV shows, and books
  • Customize your iPad by rearranging icons and changing the wallpaper
  • Set parental controls and control privacy settings
  • Edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files
  • Get organized with the Notes, Calendar, and Contacts apps

Discover the hundreds of amazing things your iPad can do with My New iPad.

About the Author
Wallace Wang is the author of several best-selling books, including My New Mac, My New iPhone, Steal This Computer Book, Steal This File Sharing Book, and The Book of Nero (all No Starch Press). He is also a successful standup comic who has appeared on A&E’s “Evening at the Improv” and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (June, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593272758
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593272753
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Network Flow Analysis - pdf

Network Flow AnalysisBook Description
You know that servers have log files and performance measuring tools and that traditional network devices have LEDs that blink when a port does something. You may have tools that tell you how busy an interface is, but mostly a network device is a black box. Network Flow Analysis opens that black box, demonstrating how to use industry-standard software and your existing hardware to assess, analyze, and debug your network.

Unlike packet sniffers that require you to reproduce network problems in order to analyze them, flow analysis lets you turn back time as you analyze your network. You’ll learn how to use open source software to build a flow-based network awareness system and how to use network analysis and auditing to address problems and improve network reliability. You’ll also learn how to use a flow analysis system; collect flow records; view, filter, and report flows; present flow records graphically; and use flow records to proactively improve your network. Network Flow Analysis will show you how to:

  • Identify network, server, router, and firewall problems before they become critical
  • Find defective and misconfigured software
  • Quickly find virus-spewing machines, even if they’re on a different continent
  • Determine whether your problem stems from the network or a server
  • Automatically graph the most useful data

And much more. Stop asking your users to reproduce problems. Network Flow Analysis gives you the tools and real-world examples you need to effectively analyze your network flow data. Now you can determine what the network problem is long before your customers report it, and you can make that silly phone stop ringing.

About the Author
Michael W. Lucas is a network/security engineer who keeps getting stuck with network problems nobody else wants to touch. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Absolute FreeBSD, Absolute OpenBSD, Cisco Routers for the Desperate, and PGP & GPG, all from No Starch Press.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (June, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593272030
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593272036
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