Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge your Day

Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" -- clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task -- in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching lifehacker principle, then segues into several concrete applications. Each hack includes a step-by-step how-to for setting up and using the solution with cross-platform software, detailed screen shots, and sidebars with additional tips. Order your copy today and increase your productivity!

Edición: Wiley (2006)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Free Up Mental RAM
2. Firewall Your Attention
3. Automate Repetitive Tasks
4. Streamline Common Tasks
5. Get Your Data to Go
6. Control Your Email
7. Organize Your Stuff
8. Kickstart Your Productivity
9. Master the Web
10. Tune Your Computer

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Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity

The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them?

If you need answers to these and related questions, you need this book -- a comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0.

Edición: Morgan Kaufmann (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. A Brief History of the Web
2. A Review of the Technological Stream
3. Enabling Techniques and Technologies
4. Sample Frameworks for Web Application Development
5. Impacts of the Next Generation of the Web
6. The Semantic Web and Web 2.0

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Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook is a guide for the most commonly implemented features of the popular Cisco Systems® firewall security solutions. This is the first book to cover the revolutionary Cisco ASA and PIX® version 7 security appliances. This book will help you quickly and easily configure, integrate, and manage the entire suite of Cisco® firewall products, including Cisco ASA, PIX version 7 and 6.3, the Cisco IOS router firewall, and the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM).

Edición: Cisco Press (2005)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: CHM

Contenido:

1. Firewall Overview
2. Configuration Fundamentals
3. Building Connectivity
4. Firewall Management
5. Managing Firewall Users
6. Controlling Access Through the Firewall
7. Increasing Firewall Availability with Failover
8. Firewall Load Balancing
9. Firewall Logging
10. Verifying Firewall Operation
11. Cisco IOS Firewall: Controlling Access
12. Cisco IOS Firewall: Managing Activity
13. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Sensors
14. Appendix A. Well-Known Protocol and Port Numbers
15. Appendix B. Security Appliance Logging Messages

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming tackles real business problems. This comprehensive reference book provides insights into practices that help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. If you have some familiarity with ASP.NET, VB .NET, and Visual Studio, then this book will show you how to harness the new features of ASP.NET to build websites that tackle real business needs.

Edición: Apress (2005)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Configuration Strategy
2. Exception Management
3. Master Pages, Themes, and Control Skins
4. Developing Reusable Components: The Skinned Page-Message Control
5. User Management Tools and Login Controls for Forms Authentication
6. Managing Profiles
7. Building Portals Using the Web Parts Framework
8. Effective Search Tools and Techniques for Your Business Applications
9. Building a Reusable Reporting Framework
10. Web-Based Wizards: Avoiding Duplicate Data Entry
11. Uploading Files
12. Security and Encryption
13. Using HTTP Handlers: Request Processing, Image Generation, and Content Management

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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming

This thorough, hands-on reference for database developers and administrators delivers expert guidance on sophisticated uses of Transact-SQL (T-SQL)-one of the most familiar and powerful programming languages for SQL Server. Written by a T-SQL guru, this guide focuses on language features and how they are interpreted and processed by the SQL Server execution engine. You'll get in-depth coverage of the sophisticated uses of T-SQL, including triggers, user-defined functions, exception handling, and more. The book explains and compares solutions to database-development problems in both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, discussing the new T-SQL programming features added to SQL Server 2005 in detail. Includes extensive code samples, table examples, and logic puzzles to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of T-SQL.

Edición: Microsoft Press (2006)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Datatype-Related Problems, XML, and CLR UDTs
2. Temporary Tables and Table Variables
3. Cursors
4. Dynamic SQL
5. Views
6. User-Defined Functions
7. Stored Procedures
8. Triggers
9. Transactions
10. Exception Handling
11. Service Broker
12. Appendix A: Companion to CLR Routines

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Antennas for Portable Devices

Antennas for Portable Devices provides a complete and cutting-edge guide to the design and engineering of small antennas for portable electronic devices such as mobile phone handsets, laptop computers, RFID (radio frequency identification), microwave thermal therapies devices, wearable devices, and UWB (ultra-wideband) based consumer devices.

Edición: Wiley (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Introduction
2. Handset Antennas
3. RFID Tag Antennas
4. Laptop Antenna Design and Evaluation
5. Antenna Issues in Microwave Thermal Therapies
6. Antennas for Wearable Devices
7. Antennas for UWB Applications

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Core JavaServer Faces (2nd Edition)

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid user interface development in Java-based server-side applications. Now, Core JavaServer Faces -- the #1 guide to JSF -- has been thoroughly updated in this second edition, covering the latest feature enhancements, the powerful Ajax development techniques, and open source innovations that make JSF even more valuable.

The second edition's extensive new coverage includes: JSF 1.2's improved alignment with the broader Java EE 5 platform; enhancements to the JSF APIs; controlling Web flow with Shale; and using Facelets to replace JSP with XHTML markup. The authors also introduce Ajax development with JSF -- from real-time validation and Direct Web Remoting to wrapping Ajax in JSF components and using the popular Ajax4jsf framework.

Edición: Prentice Hall (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Getting Started
2. Managed Beans
3. Navigation
4. Standard JSF Tags
5. Data Tables
6. Conversion and Validation
7. Event Handling
8. Subviews and Tiles
9. Custom Components, Converters, and Validators
10. External Services
11. Ajax
12. Open Source
13. How Do I…

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