The Art of Software Modeling

The Art of Software Modeling

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Modeling complex systems is a difficult challenge and all too often one in which modelers are left to their own devices. Using a multidisciplinary approach, The Art of Software Modeling covers theory, practice, and presentation in detail. It focuses on the importance of model creation and demonstrates how to create meaningful models. Presenting three self-contained sections, the text examines the background of modeling and frameworks for organizing information. It identifies techniques for researching and capturing client and system information and addresses the challenges of presenting models to specific audiences. Using concepts from art theory and aesthetics, this broad-based approach encompasses software practices, cognitive science, and information presentation. The book also looks at perception and cognition of diagrams, view composition, color theory, and presentation techniques.

Providing practical methods for investigating and organizing complex information, The Art of Software Modeling demonstrates the effective use of modeling techniques to improve the development process and establish a functional, useful, and maintainable software system.

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CompTIA A+ Quick Reference (220-701, 220-702)

CompTIA A+ Quick Reference (220-701, 220-702)

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

The CompTIA A+ Quick Reference (220-701, 220-702) is a late-stage exam prep resource designed to be used as review shortly before your scheduled CompTIA A+ exams (2009 objectives). It is not intended to be a comprehensive curriculum. If you are using this resource, you should have already learned the material through a class or formal study method. The CompTIA A+ Quick Reference provides brief, straight forward, explanations on the major topics of the two CompTIA A+ exams — the 220-701 Essentials Exam and the 220-702 Practical Applications Exam.

About the Author

Benjamin P. Conry graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with an emphasis in composition. He earned a Master’s degree in Instructional Technology from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Currently, he holds CCNA, CCAI, and A+ certifications and is the lead instructor for Information Technology Essentials, PC Hardware and Software in Baltimore County Public Schools. Ben Conry consistently takes disadvantaged and minority students and sees them through their A+ and CCNA certifications and into college and careers. He has received awards and citations for his commitment to educational excellence and for preparing students for college and the workforce. Ben Conry lives with his wife and two children in Lutherville, Maryland.

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Broadband Network Architectures: Designing and Deploying Triple-Play Services

Broadband Network Architectures: Designing and Deploying Triple-Play Services

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“Network professionals who are looking to deploy triple-play service provider networks will find this book a useful tool.”

–Michael Newbery, IP Architect, TelstraClear Limited

“This book provides a wealth of information on current and future broadband architectures, services, and deployments. It will serve both experienced technical experts needing a comprehensive reference, as well as those needing a concise explanation of broadband access architectures and multi-play services.”

–Sanjay Wadhwa, Product Line Manager, IP Edge Products, Juniper Networks

“This book is a thorough guide for anyone involved with triple-play networks. Its multivendor approach and references to the latest standards from the DSL Forum and the IETF makes it a must-have for anyone involved in broadband access networks.”

–Andrea Lasagna, Data & Video Services Manager, FASTWEB

Service providers are increasingly focused on delivering triple-play bundles that incorporate Internet, video, and VoIP services–as well as multi-play bundles containing even more advanced services. Broadband Network Architectures is the first comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and managing the networks that make triple-play services possible.

Hellberg, Greene, and Boyes present their field-tested industry best practices and objectively evaluate the tradeoffs associated with key up-front architectural decisions that balance the complexities of bundled services and sophisticated traffic policies. Broadband Network Architectures not only documents what is possible on this rapidly changing field of networking, but it also details how to divide Internet access into these more sophisticated services with specialized Quality of Service handling.

Coverage includes

· An in-depth introduction to next-generation triple-play services: components, integration, and business connectivity

· Triple-play backbone design: MPLS, Layer 3 VPNs, and Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs)/Broadband Remote Access Servers (B-RAS)

· Protocols and strategies for integrating BNGs into robust triple-play networks

· Triple-play access network design: DSLAM architectures, aggregation networks, transport, and Layer 2 tunneling

· VLAN-per-customer versus service-per-VLAN architectures: advantages and disadvantages

· PPP or DHCP: choosing the right access protocol

· Issues associated with operating in wholesale, unbundled environments

· IP addressing and subscriber session management

· Broadband network security, including Denial of Service attacks and VoIP privacy

· The future of wireless broadband: IMS, SIP, and non-SIP based fixed mobile convergence and wireless video

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX

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Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with its own thread of control, engaging in complex coordination protocols, are difficult to correctly and efficiently engineer. Agent-oriented modelling techniques are important for the design and development of such applications. This book provides a diverse and interesting overview of the work that is currently being undertaken by a growing number of researchers in the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. The papers represent a state-of-the-art report of current research in this field, which is of critical importance in facilitating industry take-up of powerful agent technologies.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 as part of AAMAS 2008. The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected from 50 initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers have been organized into four sections on: multi-agent organizations, method engineering and software development processes, testing and debugging, as well as tools and case studies.

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Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design

Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design

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Virtual Reality has turned the corner from being a mere laboratory novelty to become a valuable tool with practical applications in many fields. From best-selling VR guru Bill Sherman comes Developing Virtual Reality Applications – a comprehensive compendium that examines over 50 unique and foundational VR applications in Business, Science, Medicine, Education, Spatial Studies, Public Safety, and Entertainment industries. Each chapter contains one or more key applications that are explored in depth, as well as examples of these applications in their most recent form and the most current research being conducted. The book also cross-references techniques between different application areas, synthesizing the data into a coherent whole that describes overall VR trends and fundamental best practices. Such synergy gives you a hands-on guide for developing your own applications, and provides an enhanced, longitudinal view of VR development. By promoting mobility across disciplines, Developing Virtual Reality Applications becomes an indispensable one-stop reference for anyone working in this burgeoning field.

• Presents a wide variety of detailed application descriptions across ALL areas of industry, providing you with practical ideas for VR development in ANY area of interest!
• Cross references development techniques between different application areas, supplying you with fundamental best practices across disciplines!
• Includes an online and media-rich companion site with hours of footage from application demonstrations, which puts you in the middle of the action!

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The Handbook of Global User Research

The Handbook of Global User Research

Review

“Our products increasingly are finding their way around the world. Usable designs need to reflect the diversity of those global users if they are going to be successful, and not just the perspective coming from one lab in a corporate headquarters. Robert Schumacher’s Handbook of Global User Research is like a GPS system for navigating the complexities of that diversity. It is packed with an incredible amount of practical advice, useful tips, and warnings about potential disasters.”

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Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

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Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning.

This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.

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Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection

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Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection describes the foundational framework for efficient Web service selection. It lays out a theoretical underpinning for the design of models and algorithms for searching and optimizing access to Web services.

Excerpts from Prof. Fabio Casati’s foreword:

This excellent book looks at the search problem from a broader perspective. Instead of narrowing down on a specific aspect or subproblem of service search, it dissects and analyzes the fundamental problems in search and presents concrete, applicable solutions as well as the theoretical foundations behind them…One aspect I found particularly significant in the book is the mind shift it generates from thinking about service modeling for the sake of supporting deployment or invocation to modeling for supporting search. This design for search approach is exactly what we do when we design databases because search is what we worry about in that case, and there is no reason why this shouldn’t be the case for services if we want services to be searchable with a similar effectiveness.

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection is designed for researchers and practitioners in the service-oriented computing area. This book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours

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Learn Perl programming quickly and easily with 24 one-hour lessons in Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours. The book’s step-by-step lessons teach you the basics of Perl and how to apply it in web development and system administration. Plus, the third edition has been updated to include five chapters on new technologies, information on the latest version of Perl, and a look ahead to Perl 6. Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours focuses on real-world development, teaching you how to:

• Effectively use Perl for large development projects using Perl modules
• Use Perl for data processing
• Utilize Perl as a “glue” language with other programming languages
• Use Perl as a web development language

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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business

Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, TrustBus 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2005.

The 32 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital business, mobile/wireless services, certificate revocation/index search, trust, digital signature, privacy, e-auctions, and smart cards/authentication.

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Flash + After Effects: Add Broadcast Features to Your Flash designs

Flash + After Effects: Add Broadcast Features to Your Flash designs

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Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects’ robust toolset.
* Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time in executing animations

Combine these two powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash + After Effects gives the experienced Flash designer a working understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery. The companion DVD contains project media that permit you to practice essential After Effects skills that include:
* Working with video and the AE timeline
* Using alpha channels for keying and enhancing interactivity
* Putting vector animation to work with Text and Shape Layers, and animation presets
* Creating 3D backgrounds with cameras and lights
* Animating with Behaviors, Parenting, Expressions and the Puppet Tool
You also get a video primer, render and file optimization techniques, and publishing and streaming guidelines.

Combine two powerhouse applications to:
* Add motion graphics and visual effects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time

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Linux+ Certification Study Guide

Linux+ Certification Study Guide

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The most exam-focused CompTIA Linux+ study guide available. This fully integrated study system delivers trusted and up-to-date coverage of the newly revised CompTIA Linux+ certification exam. Featuring more than 200 review questions, step-by-step exercises, and in-depth explanations, this is the only study guide to include platform-independent practice exams.

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PC Magazine – November 2009 (US)

PC Magazine - November 2009 (US)

PC Magazine – November 2009 (US)
True PDF | 79 Pages | English | 5.6 Mb

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Network Simulation

Network Simulation

A detailed introduction to the design, implementation, and use of network simulation tools is presented. The requirements and issues faced in the design of simulators for wired and wireless networks are discussed. Abstractions such as packet- and fluid-level network models are covered. Several existing simulations are given as examples, with details and rationales regarding design decisions presented. Issues regarding performance and scalability are discussed in detail, describing how one can utilize distributed simulation methods to increase the scale and performance of a simulation environment. Finally, a case study of two simulation tools is presented that have been developed using distributed simulation techniques. This text is essential to any student, researcher, or network architect desiring a detailed understanding of how network simulation tools are designed, implemented, and used.

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Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers: Art, Architecture and Worship

Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers: Art, Architecture and Worship

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The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. ‘Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers’ provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings. Case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham amongst others, demonstrate how mosques and Islamic centers have evolved to integrate into the urban scenario. The book also compares tenets from Western and Eastern religious and secular philosophies and discusses their relation to architectural creation, place-making, meaning, and identity. The book shows how mosques fulfill multiple faith-based and social roles through their design; it provides a wide-ranging, basic understanding of Islamic liturgical conventions and secular functions to enable architects, designers, and community advocates to work with confidence.

‘Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers’ is the first dedicated design guide for mosques and Islamic centers available.

. Features case studies from the USA, UK, and Europe
. Explains fundamental principles to make it easy to create viable design solutions for these exacting buildings that fulfi ll a range of social and religious roles.

* First dedicated design guide for Mosques and Islamic centres available
* Features case studies from the USA, UK and Europe
* Explains fundamental principles to make it easy to create viable design solutions for these exacting buildings that fulfil a range of social and religious roles.

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Flash 8 ActionScript Bible

Flash 8 ActionScript Bible

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To create Flash applications that sizzle, you have to learn the code. In this comprehensive guide to the latest version of ActionScript, the object-oriented scripting language for Macromedia Flash, you’ll get the detailed instruction and step-by-step tutorials you need to write robust code and create sophisticated interactive animations. Work with objects and components, interoperate with JavaScript, create games, and more – it’s all here in this informative book for developers, programmers, and designers.

Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of Flash 8 ActionScript Master the basics of ActionScript expressions, functions, and variables Work with numbers, arrays, and strings Transform your movie clips with colors and filters Program sound and manage video Manage data with Web Services and Flash Remoting Call ActionScript functions from JavaScript Learn scripting for the Flash stand-alone player

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Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage

Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage

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More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development. Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection provides in-depth analysis of the need for a holistic approach for the construction and engineering of cities and societies. This defining body of research examines key issues and approaches for energy use and provides future direction of development as well.

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IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Examining the ideas and approaches necessary in deciding to outsource services and functions is a crucial assessment for any company.

IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications covers a wide range of topics involved in the outsourcing of information technology through state-of-the-art collaborations of international field experts. An enriched set of the latest cutting-edge applications, technological discoveries, and foremost research theories, this exhaustive compendium advances the IT outsourcing field and provides academicians, practitioners, and researchers with a unique collection of industry solutions.
Key Features:
Over 150 authoritative contributions by 256 of the world’s leading experts in IT outsourcing Comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field A compendium of key terms with detailed definitions References to existing literature and research on IT outsourcing Organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals Cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to IT outsourcing

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Modeling, Computation and Optimization (Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research)

Modeling, Computation and Optimization (Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research)

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This volume provides recent developments and a state-of-the-art review in various areas of mathematical modeling, computation and optimization. It contains theory, computation as well as the applications of several mathematical models to problems in statistics, games, optimization and economics for decision making. It focuses on exciting areas like models for wireless networks, models of Nash networks, dynamic models of advertising, application of reliability models in economics, support vector machines, optimization, complementarity modeling and games.

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iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

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With iPhoto ‘09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the applications, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual guide uses step-by-step instructions and hundreds of full-color screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to make the most out of their digital photos with iPhoto ‘09. Perfect for anyone who needs to learn the program inside out, this guide covers everything from importing, tagging, editing, and perfecting images to creating slideshows and photo albums to easy online Web publishing. Readers will learn about everything new in iPhoto ‘09, including: Faces, which allows you to organize your photos based on who’s in them; Places, which uses data from GPS-enabled cameras or your iPhone’s camera to categorize photos by location with easily recognizable names; themed slideshows; online sharing via Facebook and Flickr with one click; enhanced photo editing tools; and more.

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Domain-Specific Languages: IFIP TC 2 Working Conference, DSL 2009, Oxford, UK, July 15-17, 2009, Proceedings

Domain-Specific Languages: IFIP TC 2 Working Conference, DSL 2009, Oxford, UK, July 15-17, 2009, Proceedings

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This volume presents the proceedings of the IFIP TC 2 Working Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, DSL 2009 held in Oxford, UK, during July 15-17, 2009. The 18 peer-reviewed full papers were selected from a total of 48 submissions. The topics covered by the papers represent the diversity of applications, challenges, and methods of domain-specific languages. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics, methods and tools, and case studies.

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Lucene in Action

Lucene in Action

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Lucene’s performance, simplicity, disarming ease-of-use, and best practices are covered in this look at the highly scalable, fast, and pure Java search engine. Newly documented solutions explain what Lucene is and how it works and how it can be used in a variety of real-world applications such as Nutch. Users will also use this guide to understand and solve “analysis paralysis,” employ advanced searching techniques, such as filtering and custom query parsing, and handle a variety of document types such as Word, PDF, HTML, and XML.

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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in 24 Hours

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to design, create, and deploy high-impact graphics and animation with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the skills and technologies you need, from creating interactivity and animation to optimizing and publishing your Flash movies on the Web.

Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Full-color figures and clear step-by-step instructions visually show you how to use Flash.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

Notes, Tips, and Cautions provide related information, advice, and warnings.

Learn how to…

• Make the most of the updated Flash interface, including its new Motion tools
• Draw and paint original art in Flash
• Use layers and the Library to efficiently organize your content
• Build animations using shape tweening, Flash CS4’s new motion tweening, and advanced inverse kinematics
• Create special effects with shapes, filters, and the new Deco Tool
• Add interactivity to your Flash movies
• Integrate a wide spectrum of audio and video content
• Use ready-built components to create sophisticated content without programming
• Get started with ActionScript 3
• Publish your movies to the Web
• Design modular Flash sites that load quickly and perform well

Phillip Kerman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of the Web and multimedia for training and entertainment. He has frequently presented at Macromedia and Adobe user conferences, and has taught Flash and other Adobe Web development technologies to working web professionals worldwide.

Lynn Beighley, a freelance web programmer and designer, has written several Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop books and training CDs. She has worked at Los Alamos National Labs, Palm, and Yahoo! Her dynamic Flash advertisements have appeared on Yahoo!’s home page.

Free Access to Online Learning Lab

Register your book at informit.com/register for free, exclusive access to the Online Learning Lab to supplement this book’s lessons:

• Video walkthroughs to show you how to complete the step-by-step examples in the book
• Fast and fun online quizzes to test your understanding of each lesson
• Updates or corrections as they become available

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build flexible, easy-to-maintain, standards-based websites with Microsoft Expression Web 3. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from concept through delivery. You’ll learn powerful ways to plan, design, construct, and even redesign websites that are simple to manage and easy to repurpose. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success, no matter what kind of site you’re building!

• Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Expression Web 3 tasks.
• Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
• By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
• Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
• Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them

Learn how to…

• Build your first Expression Web 3 website in just five minutes
• Establish work processes for building standards-based sites faster, with far less work
• Write error-free code quickly and easily with Code view and IntelliSense
• Create hyperlinks that simplify navigation, perform actions, and send commands
• Understand, create, and modify CSS style sheets with unprecedented speed and accuracy
• Use Dynamic Web Templates to consistently format (or reformat) hundreds of pages
• Implement state-of-the-art interactivity with buttons, behaviors, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Publish simple Silverlight applications and add multimedia content from Flash and other sources
• Build advanced drop-down and other CSS-based menus from scratch
• Learn how and when to use each of Expression Web’s six publishing options
• Integrate web application code written in ASP.NET or PHP

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WPF Control Development Unleashed

WPF Control Development Unleashed

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WPF Control Development Unleashed

Building Advanced User Experiences

In this book, two leading Windows Presentation Foundation experts give developers everything they need to build next-generation WPF applications–software that is more robust, usable, and compelling.

Drawing on their close ties with Microsoft’s WPF development team, Pavan Podila and Kevin Hoffman give you a clear, robust, and practical understanding of WPF, its underpinnings, its overall architecture, and its design philosophy. Podila and Hoffman introduce never-before-published WPF design patterns and support them with robust, real-world code examples–all presented in full color, just as they appear in Visual Studio.

The authors begin by explaining how to “think in WPF,” and then introduce powerful new techniques for everything from handling 3D layouts to creating game-like physics effects. Along the way, they offer in-depth coverage of data binding, building interactivity, and control development: three of WPF’s most challenging concepts. You’ll learn how to choose the right WPF features for every programming challenge, and use those features far more creatively and effectively.

If you want to build truly outstanding WPF applications, this is the book that will get you there.

• Master the patterns and techniques you need to build state-of-the-art WPF applications
• Write more powerful and effective applications that reflect a deep understanding of WPF’s design philosophy
• Learn how WPF has evolved, and take full advantage of its growing sophistication
• Make the most of advanced declarative programming techniques
• Leverage IScrollInfo, virtualization, control theming, and other complex features
• Build more powerful interactivity into your WPF applications
• Create more visual software with 3D elements, custom animations, and shader effects
• Optimize WPF application performance in real-world environments
• Master design patterns for organizing your controls more effectively

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Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice

Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice

Proven Software & Systems Requirements Engineering Techniques

“Requirements engineering is a discipline used primarily for large and complex applications. It is more formal than normal methods of gathering requirements, and this formality is needed for many large applications. The authors are experienced requirements engineers, and this book is a good compendium of sound advice based on practical experience.” –Capers Jones, Chief Scientist Emeritus, Software Productivity Research

Deliver feature-rich products faster, cheaper, and more reliably using state-of-the-art SSRE methods and modeling procedures. Written by global experts, Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice explains how to effectively manage project objectives and user needs across the entire development lifecycle. Gather functional and quality attribute requirements, work with models, perform system tests, and verify compliance. You will also learn how to mitigate risks, avoid requirements creep, and sidestep the pitfalls associated with large, complex projects.

• Define and prioritize customer expectations using taxonomies
• Elicit and analyze functional and quality attribute requirements
• Develop artifact models, meta-models, and prototypes
• Manage platform and product line development requirements
• Derive and generate test cases from UML activity diagrams
• Deploy validation, verification, and rapid development procedures
• Handle RE for globally distributed software and system development projects
• Perform hazard analysis, risk assessment, and threat modeling

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ASP.NET eBooks Collection

The ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of solutions to the most common ASP.NET problems. Let five world-class ASP.NET professionals guide you through countless practical solutions using C#.

An introduction to ASP.NET web programming

How to develop a one-page web application.

Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET

VB.NET and C# Programming Basics

Web Forms and Web Controls.

Rich Data Controls, Chapter 34 – Advanced Web Services.

Inside ASP.NET Web Matrix

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Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences: Neural Networks and Kernels

Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences: Neural Networks and Kernels

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Machine learning methods originated from artificial intelligence and are now used in various fields in environmental sciences today. This is the first single-authored textbook providing a unified treatment of machine learning methods and their applications in the environmental sciences. Due to their powerful nonlinear modeling capability, machine learning methods today are used in satellite data processing, general circulation models(GCM), weather and climate prediction, air quality forecasting, analysis and modeling of environmental data, oceanographic and hydrological forecasting, ecological modeling, and monitoring of snow, ice and forests. The book includes end-of-chapter review questions and an appendix listing web sites for downloading computer code and data sources. A resources website containing datasets for exercises, and password-protected solutions are available. The book is suitable for first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It is also valuable for researchers and practitioners in environmental sciences interested in applying these new methods to their own work.

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AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10

AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10

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In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Create Flash Lite-based widgets on Nokia Series 60 devices and other Flash enabled devices
• Extend device capabilities using both Sony Ericsson Capuchin and Nokia S60 Platform Services with Flash
• Leverage Flash Video on smartphones and other Non-PC devices

• Approach migrating existing Flash content into native iPhone content using 3rd Party Developer tools
• Create two full working real life touch screen Flex mobile applications

AdvancED Flash on Devices, written for existing Flash developers and other interested mobile professionals, covers both mobile and device development with Flash Lite, as well as upcoming Flash 10 for smartphones and other non-PC devices.

The book starts with a discussion of the mobile development landscape—the different players, tools, hardware, platforms, and operating systems. The second part of the book covers Flash Lite and how to take advantage of new features supported in Flash Lite 3.x. Then, the book covers AIR applications for multiple screens and includes topics such as:

• How to utilize new features of AIR 1.5 and Flash 10 as well as pitfalls to be aware of when building an AIR application for mobile
• How to include platform and context awareness for better adaptation
• How to adopt an application on multiple devices using dynamic graphical GUI
• Creating two full working real life touch screen mobile application

The last part of the book covers creating Flex applications running Flash 9 and 10 in mobile device browsers and includes topics such as:

• How to adopt Flex for multiple mobile device browsers
• How to create various video players for Flash Lite and Flash 10 and optimize your content.
• How to take advantage of Flash Media Server

Experienced Flash and ActionScript programmers who want to extend their skills to mobile platforms should find this book a great help in developing in this exciting and expanding marketplace.

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Windows 7 Just the Steps For Dummies

Windows 7 Just the Steps For Dummies

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Just the steps you need to get going with Windows 7!

Coming in day and date with Microsoft’s exciting release of the new Window 7 operating system, this friendly, accessible book shows you the features and functions you need from this exciting new operating system. Presented in a series of numbered steps that are concise, visually clear, and easy to follow, you’ll learn to navigate the Windows 7 desktop, create files, connect to the Internet, search the Web, use e-mail, and more with this fun and practical guide.

• Get quickly and easily up to speed on Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7
• Master Windows 7 through a list of steps and easy-to-follow visual elements
• See how to set up your desktop, copy and delete files, connect to the Internet, create folders, and more
• Discover what so many readers already know-fun, readable Dummies books are a great way to get the most out of your Windows technology in a non-intimidating way

Why waste time on extraneous information? Get this book and get just the steps!

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Software Testing as a Service

Software Testing as a Service

Product Description

In today’s unforgiving business environment where customers demand zero defect software at lower costs—it is testing that provides the opportunity for software companies to separate themselves from the competition. Providing a fresh perspective on this increasingly important function, Software Testing as a Service explains, in simple language, how to use software testing to improve productivity, reduce time to market, and reduce costly errors.

The book explains how the normal functions of manufacturing can be applied to commoditize the software testing service to achieve consistent quality across all software projects. This up-to-date reference reviews different software testing tools, techniques, and practices and provides succinct guidance on how to estimate costs, allocate resources, and make competitive bids.

Replete with examples and case histories, this book shows software development managers, software testers, testing managers, and entrepreneurs how proper planning can lead to the creation of software that proves itself to be head and shoulders above the competition.

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Beautiful Testing

Beautiful Testing

Product Description
Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it’s a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas.
Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate the qualities and techniques that make testing an art. Through personal anecdotes, you’ll learn how each of these professionals developed beautiful ways of testing a wide range of products — valuable knowledge that you can apply to your own projects.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll find inside:

• Microsoft’s Alan Page knows a lot about large-scale test automation, and shares some of his secrets on how to make it beautiful
• Scott Barber explains why performance testing needs to be a collaborative process, rather than simply an exercise in measuring speed
• Karen Johnson describes how her professional experience intersected her personal life while testing medical software
• Rex Black reveals how satisfying stakeholders for 25 years is a beautiful thing
• Mathematician John D. Cook applies a classic definition of beauty, based on complexity and unity, to testing random number generators

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Expert VB 2008 Business Objects

Expert VB 2008 Business Objects

Product Description
Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you.
In Rockford Lhotka’s Expert VB 2008 Business Objects, you’ll learn how to use advanced .NET Framework capabilities alongside OO design and programming to create scalable, maintainable object–oriented applications. Better still, this book includes CSLA .NET 3.6, a widely used framework on which you can base your application development. By using the concepts and framework in the book, you can focus more on your business issues, and less on technology.
Having updated this third edition using VS2008 and VB 2008, Rockford Lhotka shows you how CSLA .NET 3.6 allows great flexibility in object persistence, so business objects can use virtually any data sources available. The CSLA framework supports 1–, 2–, and n–tier models through the concept of mobile objects. This provides the flexibility to optimize performance, scalability, security, and fault tolerance with no changes to code in the UI or business objects.
Business objects based on CSLA .NET 3.6 automatically gain many advanced features that simplify the creation of Windows forms, web forms, WPF, WCF, WF and web services interfaces, and LINQ.

Who is this book for

This book is for Visual Basic .NET developers using VS 2008 who want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability, and employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment.
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Trainsignal CCNA Security 640-533

Cisco CCNA Security Training /IINS 640-553 Exam

In as Little as 13 Hours, You’ll Learn How To Identify, Lockdown, &
Secure Vulnerabilities in a Small to Medium Enterprise Branch Network…
And Have the Knowledge Necessary to Pass the Cisco CCNA Security/IINS 640-553 Exam…Guaranteed!

A Letter From Chris Bryant
CCIE #12933, CCNA, CCNP

You cannot be a Cisco Network Administrator without knowing Cisco Security. Today, security knowledge is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity in nearly any IT position.

Any job applicant, from the most experienced network admin to the entry level junior admin will be required to demonstrate a substantial amount of knowledge concerning security elements.

Passing the CCNA Security exam and proving your security knowledge is difficult. That’s why I have created this comprehensive course that shows you how to tackle the diverse security issues that you will face on the exam and in the real world.

As with all Train Signal courses, this CCNA Security course presents the same combination of clearly explained theory and an abundance of “real world” lab examples using the new Security Device Manager (SDM) and the Command Line. This exciting course contains over 13 hours of video instruction where I break down network security theory as you work hands on with real Cisco routers & switches… and secure your own network!
Cisco CCNA Security Training Course FAQs
“Am I qualified to take this course?”

YES! If you are a network administrator, an aspiring network administrator, or have on-the-job security experience, this course will build a stronger foundation of advanced security concepts.

YES! If you have Cisco CCNA Certification or a basic understanding of Cisco Routers and Switches (without certification), this course is for you.

Note: The prerequisite to take the Cisco CCNA Security exam is Cisco CCNA certification.

Note: If you plan to continue on to the CCSP certification, the Cisco CCNA Security certification is the prerequisite.
“Do I need Cisco equipment to complete this training course?”

NO You do not need any Cisco equipment to watch the videos or to pass the Cisco CCNA Security/IINS 640-553 exam; however, working hands-on with Cisco equipment may enhance your training experience.
“I already have my CCNA. Do I need my Cisco CCNA Security certification?”

YES! The ability to secure a Cisco network is one of the most marketable skills for any Cisco professional and network security has never been more important.

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Digital Tutors – Product Visualization in Maya

A complete guide to modeling and rendering for visualization in Maya
Learn a design-oriented workflow to product visualization and production techniques to designing with aesthetic and usability constraints, studio lighting, and photorealistic rendering. Provides 5 hours of project-based training on modeling, lighting, and rendering topics for use in product visualization.
Ideal for intermediate and experienced artists.
Popular highlights include:

Solutions to Design Challenges
Establishing Scale and Volume
NURBS Modeling Workflows
Trimming Surfaces
Lofting Surfaces
Adding Realism with Detail
Polygon Modeling Workflows
Converting Geometry Types
Effective Boolean Techniques
Projecting Curves onto Surfaces
Simulating Studio Lighting
Creating Bounce Cards and Light Diffusers
Light Setup and Placement
Recreating Real-world Materials
Architectural Materials
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VTC – Microsoft Excel Automation

Lauri Matson “VTC – Microsoft Excel Automation”
30/01/09 | 5 hrs – 71 leçons | VTC | Win/Mac | 260 MB

VTC’s Microsoft Excel Automation course is intended for intermediate and advanced users who wish to increase their efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. Students should have already completed Excel introduction courses or have equivalent knowledge.

Created for all versions of Excel, this course will help students master the art of spreadsheet design and will provide comprehensive instruction in the automation and simplification of even the most complex data.

Expanding upon our basic Excel courses, Lauri Matson explores the more advanced features of Excel such as VLookup functions, validation, pivot tables, analysis tools, charting, and more.

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VTC QuickStart Apple Logic Pro 9

This QuickStart! course is intended to guide you through some of the basics of Logic Pro 9 so that you can get your system up and running quickly. Expert instructor Adam Olson will take you through the process from recording audio and MIDI to bouncing your project to a mix and burning a CD or DVD. The course is still useful for those already familiar with Logic because Adam discusses some of the features that are new in Logic 9.

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Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed

Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed

Product Description

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed is the ultimate guide to designing, deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and supporting any Exchange Server 2010 environment, no matter how large or complex.

Drawing on their extensive experience with hundreds of enterprise Exchange Server environments–including Exchange Server 2010 early adopters–the authors thoroughly cover every stage of the Exchange Server 2010 lifecycle. They present detailed recommendations, proven tips and tricks, and step-by-step techniques for implementation and migration planning, architecture, installation, administration, security, monitoring, integration, availability, optimization, and much more.

Rand Morimoto and his expert colleagues also offer indispensable practical guidance for making the most of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s many enhancements–from its improved web access to its enhanced support for Unified Communications and Mobility.

• Use proven best practices to plan your Exchange Server 2010 implementation
• Architect higher-performance, lower-cost enterprise Exchange Server environments
• Maximize the security of your Exchange Server infrastructure, transport, and messages
• Migrate smoothly from Exchange Server 2003/2007 and Active Directory 2000/2003 to Exchange Server 2010 and Active Directory 2008
• Utilize Microsoft Operations Manager to monitor Exchange Server 2010
• Use Windows PowerShell to streamline Exchange Server management
• Integrate other Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007
• Leverage the full capabilities of the Outlook Web App (OWA) client
• Provide robust messaging to non-Windows and non-Outlook systems
• Implement Exchange Server’s powerful new Database Availability Group replication feature
• Back up Exchange Server 2010 environments and recover quickly from a disaster
• Systematically optimize Exchange Server 2010 environments, including storage

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 in 24 Hours

Product Description

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Dynamics CRM 4. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, this book offers a quick way for you to get started with Dynamics CRM by leveraging real business examples, practice exercises, and big picture theory. In addition to learning how to use the core application, you will develop a deeper understanding of how Dynamics CRM fits into today’s business needs.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the questions, issues, and tasks most common to Dynamics CRM.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you build and test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

• Orchestrate a successful CRM project
• Identify building blocks of Dynamics CRM
• Automate processes
• Create and manage your business units and users
• Use and maintain security roles
• Redefine an account
• Import new contacts and distribute leads
• Create marketing campaigns and capture the results
• Convert a lead to an account and contact
• Configure your display
• Capture contact and activity details
• Email directly from Dynamics CRM
• Master scheduling
• Integrate Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Excel and other applications
• Create simple workflows
• Customize and add utilities

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Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems

Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems

Product Description

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2009, held in East Stroudsbury, PA, USA in June 2009, in conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2009).

The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model-driven quality analysis, architectural performance prediction, architectural knowledge, as well as case studies and experience reports.

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Digital Animation Bible: Creating Professional Animation with 3ds Max, Lightwave, and Maya

Digital Animation Bible: Creating Professional Animation with 3ds Max, Lightwave, and Maya

Product Description
This title deals with: how to choose and use the right software for your animation needs – covers industry leaders Lightwave, Maya, and Flash; how to create and execute intricate storyboards; character rendering; and lighting in 3-D animation.

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SQL, Second Edition

SQL, Second Edition

Product Description
As dynamic, database-driven Web sites become the standard, more and more nonprogrammers just like yourself are being forced to work with database information and create and edit database objects. With SQL and this task-based guide to it, you can do it too–no programming experience required! After going over the relational database model and SQL syntax in the first few chapters, veteran author Chris Fehily launches into the tasks that will get you comfortable with SQL fast. In addition to explaining SQL basics, this updated reference covers the ANSI SQL:2003 standard and contains a wealth of brand-new information, including a new chapter on set operations and common tasks, well-placed optimization tips to make your queries run fast, sidebars on advanced topics, and added IBM DB2 coverage.

Best of all, the book’s examples were tested on the latest versions of Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. On the companion Web site, you can download the SQL scripts and sample database for all these systems and put your knowledge to work immediately on a real database..

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After Effects CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

After Effects CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Product Description
Here to get filmmakers, Web designers, broadcasters, and digital artists of all kinds up to speed on After Effects CS4—and in time to meet their next deadline—is everyone’s favorite task-based guide. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows readers how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. They’ll learn about key features with real world examples of how and when features should be used, including what’s new in After Effects CS4: the addition of Imagineer System’s Mocha for Adobe After Effects, which allows users to do motion tracking for difficult shots; the ability to export rich media compositions from After Effects to Adobe Flash; searchable timelines and projects, plus easier composition navigation; the ability to import Photoshop 3D layers; independent keyframing of X, Y, and Z axis positions; the new Cartoon effect for creating an animated look to live footage; and many more enhancements.

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Securing Ajax Applications: Ensuring the Safety of the Dynamic Web

Book Description
Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. By making security part of the process from the start, you will learn how to build secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond quickly when attacks occur.

Securing Ajax Applications succinctly explains that the same back-and-forth communications that make Ajax so responsive also gives invaders new opportunities to gather data, make creative new requests of your server, and interfere with the communications between you and your customers. This book presents basic security techniques and examines vulnerabilities with JavaScript, XML, JSON, Flash, and other technologies — vital information that will ultimately save you time and money.
Topics include:

• An overview of the evolving web platform, including APIs, feeds, web services and asynchronous messaging
• Web security basics, including common vulnerabilities, common cures, state management and session management
• How to secure web technologies, such as Ajax, JavaScript, Java applets, Active X controls, plug-ins, Flash and Flex
• How to protect your server, including front-line defense, dealing with application servers, PHP and scripting
• Vulnerabilities among web standards such as HTTP, XML, JSON, RSS, ATOM, REST, and XDOS
• How to secure web services, build secure APIs, and make open mashups secure

Securing Ajax Applications takes on the challenges created by this new generation of web development, and demonstrates why web security isn’t just for administrators and back-end programmers any more. It’s also for web developers who accept the responsibility that comes with using the new wonders of the Web.
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Component-Based Software Engineering

Product Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA in July 2007. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers feature new trends in global software services and distributed systems architectures to push the limits of established and tested component-based methods, tools and platforms. The papers are organized in topical sections on component-based architectures and change, quality of service, runtime verification and monitoring, extra-functional properties and compositional reasoning, as well as Web services, late composition and verification.

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