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2011-03-08T16:16:00.001-08:00

Shanghai's House of Barbie closes

2011-03-07T16:48:00.001-08:00

The six-story store, complete with spa, cafe, design studio, fashion stage and shelves and shelves of Barbies and Barbie products, closed Monday, the world's biggest toy maker said in a statement explaining that it plans to use its experience in Shanghai to reach customers across China.

"I have gone on a tour of China!" a newsmatic.com">cartoon Barbie says on the store's website, explaining the brand is on a "Barbie Pink Bus Tour."

Mattel is not the only foreign retailer with an extravagant investment in this huge but challenging market to change strategy.

The closing of Barbie's citadel of all things pink on Shanghai's Huaihai Rd. shopping belt follows the closure last month of all of electronics retailer Best Buy's brandname stores in Shanghai. Best Buy is instead focusing on expanding outlets with its locally acquired chain Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co.

Mattel, based in El Segundo, California, inaugurated the store on the 50th birthday of the Barbie brand, bringing together 45 product lines, including trampolines, jewelry and stationery.

Though sales of Barbie and other Mattel dolls have recently shown strong growth back home, the store never took off as a popular destination for local girls.

Shanghai is a hub for China's fashion industry, but local parents are far more likely to splash out on extra lessons than on expensive toys.

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Official: GCC weighing 'stability' fund

2011-03-07T04:21:00.001-08:00

GCC finance ministers had met a day earlier in the Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabian capital and expectations were that they would announce what officials, ahead of that gathering, had described as a Gulf "Marshall Plan" to help Manama and Muscat. The plan called for a hefty financial contribution by the four wealthier GCC member states that would target key economic issues such as a housing shortage and unemployment.

The financial boost is seen as pivotal for Bahrain and Oman, whose concurrent protests have brought the unrest that has thrown the Arab world into unprecedented turmoil right to Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia's doorstep. It also threatens to test the durability of the region's monarchies, with nascent calls for demonstrations focusing largely on greater accountability by the rulers and a more direct political participation in government by the people.

"The political commitment is there" for such a plan, said John Sfakianakis, chief economist with the Riyadh, Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia-based Banque Snewsmatic.com">audi-Fransi.

Bahrain's protests are more rooted in sectarian strife, with the Shiite-majority demanding greater rights from the Sunni-minority monarchy. Oman, meanwhile, is seeing building pressures against the country's sultan, who has tried to stave off the unrest with a Cabinet reshuffle and some financial measures. But neither country has the wealth of the other oil-rich GCC nations: Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

Momentum is building in the region for demonstrations. Calls for protests in Kuwait and Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia this week have surfaced, and Riyadh issued a statement outlawing all forms of demonstrations as contrary to Islamic laws and Snewsmatic.com">audi values. It warned that security forces were authorized to take action against violators.

Unrest in Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia is particularly worrisome for many. The kingdom sits atop the world's largest proven reserves of conventional crude oil — much of it in the eastern provinces where the country's minority Shiite population lives. The violence in Libya has already rattled oil markets and even the perception that oil supplies from Snewsmatic.com">audi Arabia could be disrupted would be enough to send shock waves through global oil markets.

GCC foreign ministers are slated to meet in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Monday, with the GCC's secretary general quoted in Gulf newspapers as saying that the meeting takes on "particular importance" given the unrest in the region.

It appears unlikely that the ministers will make any formal announcement about providing funds for Bahrain and Oman during that gathering, and many experts expect that the steps could take place behind the scenes, without the official framework of a fund or a specific plan.

Analysts said the general hope in the region is that propping up Bahrain and Oman will help the two nations address some of the economic catalysts behind the disquiet and that, in turn, could buy other GCC nations with more time to gradually phase in at least some of the political reforms that are being demanded.

"The money will be allocated," said Sfakianakis. "It's a matter of how they will do it and what will the mechanisms be."

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NHL Capsules

2011-03-06T13:21:00.001-08:00

Nikolai Kulemin and Dion Phaneuf also scored for the Maple Leafs, coming off a 3-2 overtime victory over Pittsburgh at home Wednesday night. Toronto, fighting for a playoff spot, 10-2-4 since the All-Star break.

Kris Versteeg scored twice for the Flyers against his former team. Toronto traded him to Philadelphia last month. The Eastern Conference-leading Flyers lost consecutive games for the first time since last December.

BOSTON (AP) — Milan Lucic broke tie with 3:42 left and Boston won its seventh straight to break a tie with Tampa Bay for second place in the Eastern Conference.

Steven Kampfer also scored for the Bruins, coming off a six-game trip. The Bruins pulled two points ahead of Tampa Bay and clinched the tiebreaker with a 3-1 series victory.

Tim Thomas had 27 saves for the Bruins, allowing only Eric Brewer's goal.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jamie McBain scored 26 seconds into overtime for Carolina.

Carolina defenseman Joni Pitkanen rushed the puck over the Sabres' blue line and waited for the trailing McBain. McBain's slap shot made it through traffic before sneaking through goalie Ryan Miller's legs.

Chad LaRose and Jiri Tlusty also scored for Carolina, 11-3-2 in its last 16 home games. The Hurricanes won consecutive games for the first time since the end of January. Cam Ward made 27 saves.

Newly acquired Brad Boyes scored his second goal in two games for the Sabres, Steve Montador also had a goal and Miller made 21 saves.

With the victory Carolina moved to seventh in the Eastern Conference, a point ahead of the New York Rangers and three ahead of Buffalo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newcomer Jason Arnott scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:19 left, and Washington beat St. Louis for its third straight victory.

Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth stopped 25 shots to set a franchise record for wins by a rookie with 21. The 22-year-old topped Bob Mason, who won 20 in 1986-87.

Playing in his second game since being acquired in a trade with New Jersey, Arnott took a crossing pass from Alexander Semin and beat goalie Ty Conklin with a slap shot from the left circle.

Scott Hannan and Niklas Backstrom also scored and Alex Ovechkin had two assists for the Capitals, who have won two in a row at home for the first time since Nov. 26-28. They're also riding their first three-game winning streak since Dec. 26-Jan. 1. Alexander Steen and B.J. Crombeen scored for the Blues.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Carey Price made 30 saves for his seventh shutout of the season and Andrei Kostitsyn and Lars Eller each had a goal and an assist for Montreal.

Hal Gill and David Desharnais also scored for the Canadiens, who have won four of their last five. Travis Moen and James Wisniewski each had two assists.

The goal was Gill's first in 100 games, dating to Dec. 31, 2009, when he scored in the same building.

Florida goalie Tomas Vokoun lasted only 8:54 before he was pulled after giving up two goals on three shots. Backup Scott Clemmensen made 25 saves.

NEW YORK (AP) — Casey Wellman, recalled from the minors hours earlier, broke a second-period tie with his second NHL goal and Jose Theodore made 40 saves for the Minnesota.

Wellman was brought up on an emergency basis in case Cal Clutterbuck was unable to play following a hard hit he took from behind Wednesday in Minnesota's loss to the New York Islanders. Clutterbuck was in the lineup, but Wellman took the place of Jed Ortmeyer, sent down to Houston of the AHL.

Kyle Brodziak also scored in the second to wipe out the Rangers' 1-0 lead, and Pierre-Marc Bouchard added insurance in the third for the Wild, who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Sean Avery scored for New York.

ATLANTA (AP) — Craig Anderson made 42 saves and Nick Foligno scored the clinching goal with just under 9 minutes remaining, giving Ottawa a victory over fading Atlanta.

Coming into the night six points out of the final playoff spot in the East, the Thrashers' playoff hopes took a crushing blow with their 11th loss in the last 13 games.

Colin Greening scored the only goal through the first two periods, and that on a shot that deflected off the skate of Atlanta defenseman Dustin Byfuglien. Bobby Butler made it 2-0 a minute into the third, before Byfuglien gave the Thrashers hope with his 19th goal.

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US pastor stuck in Haitian jail without charges

2011-03-06T08:11:00.001-08:00

But the weeks go by, and almost nothing has changed since Pye found himself abruptly jailed last October.

"I've been told it was supposed to happen pretty much every week for the last five months," Pye told The Associated Press during a brief talk at his cell.

There are no charges filed against the 29-year-old Christian pastor. He initially was ordered into 90-day custody pending an investigation into claims he'd taken property belonging to a U.S.-based ministry. The order even surprised ministry leaders, who thought they'd settled the dispute.

Pye was momentarily freed on Christmas Eve. But as he and his wife, Leanne, walked to their car, a police officer approached, handed Danny Pye a warrant, and marched him back to jail in handcuffs. Later, he was told that questions had arisen about the validity of his residency card.

Pye, who waits in a 10-by-12-foot (3-by-3½-meter) cell shared with nearly 30 other men, finds the ordeal Kafkaesque.

"I have not been charged with anything. There is no reason. ... There is no explanation."

Pye is no newcomer to Haiti. He and Leanne moved from Bradenton, Florida, in 2004 to launch their Joy in Hope ministry in Jacmel, a picturesque town on Haiti's southern coast. The widespread poverty can be overwhelming for some foreigners, she said, but the couple were happy there.

"Haiti, it's just a very simple life," Leanne Pye said from Bradenton, where she is awaiting the birth of their son, expected this month.

Then came the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010. As aid workers, fellow missionaries and journalists spilled into Haiti, Pye became a well-known contact, one whose fluent Creole and experience in Haiti made him a valuable resource.

One of the volunteers who connected with Pye then was Christopher Tompkins, executive director of the International Medical Assistance Team, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization comprising volunteer medical professionals.

"By all accounts, the guy takes good care of the kids," said Tompkins, who also is a firefighter and paramedic in Washington state's Snohomish County. "He and his wife are good people."

But after the quake, the Joy in Hope ministry itself was shaken: According to Pye, he and another couple became locked in a struggle for control of the North Carolina-based mission. Last August, Pye was dismissed by the mission's board, leading him and his wife to create a separate orphanage for the 22 children under their care that they named Kenbe Fem, Creole for "Hold Strong."

Joy in Hope director Brian Williams declined to give details about Pye's dismissal, blaming it only on "organizational issues."

When he left, Pye took five trucks and several small motorcycles that were registered in his name but had been purchased with the ministry's money. The two sides went to court and Pye agreed to sign over the vehicles, as well as any claim to about 17 acres (seven hectares) of oceanfront land near Jacmel that the ministry hopes to develop.

Both parties say they expected the deal would end the dispute. But at a meeting on Oct. 13, a judge ordered Pye into custody. He was handcuffed and led out.

Leanne Pye was stunned.

"I was asking, 'What in the world is happening?' ... I kept on asking over and over: 'What's happening?' and 'Why are they doing this?' and 'Where is he going?' And no one seemed to have any answer."

Williams, interviewed by phone from Cary, North Carolina, said he, too, was surprised. "We were shocked that he was arrested that day because we were told it was resolved."

"In no way, shape or form would I care to have a friend, someone I care deeply for, in a Haitian jail," he said.

Haitian authorities have said little about Pye's case. A court date has not been set.

The Haitian legal system gives judges wide latitude to detain people under investigation. In fact, the majority of prisoners in the country have not been convicted. Many awaiting trial are detained for periods exceeding the length of any sentence they might have received — a situation that has long been a source of criticism from human rights groups in Haiti and abroad.

Judge Maxon Samdi, who ordered the detention, did not respond to requests for comment. A fellow judge, Carlo Jean Louis, said Samdi has been seriously ill and is unavailable.

Justice Minister Paul Denis said he received a letter from U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten about the case, and the two would meet to discuss it. "I believe the case will be moving forward," he said.

Pye's supporters are holding on, but they have little optimism.

"The judge in this case is not in any hurry to release him," said Jon Hancock, who works with a separate Jacmel mission and delivers food to Pye at the jail.

Pye, barefoot and shirtless in the crowded cell, stays positive during his long wait, despite having suffered from malaria and scabies.

What's more, he plans to stay in Haiti after his release.

"Absolutely," he said. "I still have 22 kids I have to care for."

____

Tamara Lush reported from Bradenton, Florida.

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Fire causes damage at Indians' spring home

2011-03-05T22:21:00.001-08:00

No one was injured in the early-morning blaze.

The dryer, which the Indians brought with them when they moved to Arizone from Florida in 2009, was destroyed.

The facility's sprinkler system flooded the indoor bullpen and batting cage area behind the right-field wall. Water seeped under onto the field, forcing the groundscrew to repair the warning track before the Indians hosted an exhibition against the Colorado Rockies.

The Indians asked the Rockies to take batting practice at their complex in Scottsdale so workers could get the field ready.

The dryer was loaded with towels and running when it caught fire in a small laundry room located between the home and visiting clubhouses. The Reds hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night.

"There was no damage to the structure or public areas," ballpark manager Nathan Torres said. "We're ready to play ball."

Torres said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.

The Goodyear Fire Department responded to an emergency call at 6 a.m. and put out the fire, which was contained to the room filled with linens and a washer. Torres said there were employees in different areas of the 10,000-seat ballpark, but none near the fire.

This is the Indians' third spring in Arizona after moving their training home from Winter Haven, Fla. The Reds moved in last year after being in Sarasota, Fla.

"The was the first incident, a very small incident," Torres said. "Everything's fine."

Torres said the sprinkler system put out the majority of the fire before emergency workers arrived on the scene.

"The good news is everything worked as it is designed to work," he said. "The fire suppression kicked on, the fire department was deployed and did a great job."

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Murphy looking for spot with Mets

2011-03-05T20:50:00.000-08:00

But once again he finds himself trying to learn a new position just to get that opportunity.

The 25-year-old is one of four players competing for the New York Mets' second base job this spring.

So far, he remains a strong candidate, despite the fact he is playing his fourth position in five years and might be better suited for a utility role.

Luis Castillo, Brad Emaus and Justin Turner also are in the mix at second, according to manager Terry Collins.

"He's moving very good for me," Collins said of Murphy. "... A lot of times just watching his footwork, when the ball is hit, he is moving good. His leg's not a question, so I am very happy for him. I'm glad he's healthy, and I just hope he gets some double plays so I can see how he reacts to them."

Murphy has moved around to try to find a place on the team.

He struggled as an outfielder in 2009 and moved to first base where he was set to start last season before suffering a right knee sprain at the end of spring training.

Former first-round draft pick Ike Davis secured first base while Murphy was on the disabled list, forcing Murphy to try second.

In just his second game playing the position in Triple-A Buffalo in June, he ended up with a season-ending tear of the medial collateral ligament in that same knee.

Despite the setback, Murphy said he feels more comfortable and capable of playing second after gaining experience there during winter ball in the Dominican Republic and arriving early to camp for voluntary workouts the first week of February.

"It's going really well," Murphy said. "I feel like I'm getting a little better every day. I feel like I've come a long way in a short amount of time, but also with that is the understanding I still have a long way to go to get where I want."

Collins would like to see Murphy's left-handed bat in the lineup. Collins said although the second base position requires good defense, it also is becoming a more offensive position. Murphy led the Mets with 12 home runs in 2009, while hitting .266 with 63 RBIs.

Meanwhile, the other three candidates at second base also have their own situations.

Castillo is owed $6 million this year, and Emaus could be helped by his status as a Rule 5 selection, which would require the Mets to offer him back to Toronto if he doesn't remain on the major league roster this season.

The Mets claimed Turner off waivers from Baltimore last May, and he batted .333 in Triple-A Buffalo in 2010.

"We've got to start making some choices there," Collins said.

Murphy has been putting in some extra time learning the position, especially with his pivots. He often comes in early or stays late to get in some practice time by himself.

"We have a pitching machine in the batting cages, so I go in there and turn it on and work on transfers and some of my footwork without it being too taxing or worrying about finishing the play and throwing it, so it's not too tiring on my arm," Murphy said. "That's more of a 'me' time, to get a feeling for my body and what I can do, things I need to work on, what I'm not quite as good at. It's basically just me trying to get an understanding of myself as a second baseman."

Murphy said playing second doesn't feel any different on his knee, and he is completely healthy and ready to compete after testing it in winter ball this offseason.

"I got a chance to play some second base in a game situation, and it was also a chance to prove to myself and confirm what I already knew, which was I am healthy," Murphy said. "I played for a month and didn't miss a beat. I felt good, stole some bases and was able to kind of make up for some of the at-bats I missed last year."

If Murphy doesn't win the starting second base job, he moves into the competition for a bench spot, but he is hoping his versatility gives him an edge there.

"First and foremost I want to make this ball club," Murphy said. "I want to help this team win. I hope the fact I can play first, I can play third, and I am getting more consistent at second that will allow me to make the team."

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2011-03-03T16:11:00.001-08:00

Defiant Tripoli neighborhood endures crackdowns

2011-03-01T21:03:00.001-08:00

"They opened fire everywhere from anti-aircraft guns. We felt it was an earthquake," said one of the marchers. Another described barrages of gunfire that lit up the sky "like lightening." Those who managed to flee saw bodies of slain protesters dumped on the back of pickup trucks and taken away.

On other days, neighborhood residents said they were fired on by armed and masked men, saw their neighbors dragged from their homes at night and faced the anxiety of injured relatives disappearing from their hospital beds. Some said they are still searching for bodies of slain relatives to bury, but can't find them.

In a city that remains tightly in the grip of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Tajoura is a rare pocket of defiance.

And it is paying the price. Residents say at least 17 people in the neighborhood have been killed in the crackdown and the fate of at least six others is unknown.

Anti-Gadhafi activists and renegade army units have seized about half of Libya's coastline, including a number of major cities in the east. But they have made little headway in western Tripoli, the regime stronghold that is home to about a third of the country's six million people. Pro-Gadhafi militias have been particularly harsh in suppressing any dissent in the capital — much of their violence targeting anti-regime protesters in Tajoura.

The neighborhood of about 100,000 on Tripoli's eastern edge is one of capital's oldest and largest, made up mainly of poor and middle class Libyans. It is dotted with two- and three-storey residential buildings, with an open-air fruit and vegetable market and garbage piling up on the streets.

All shops are shuttered and residents say they are on strike or afraid to open them. The buildings that represent government authority, including a police station and a telecoms office, have been torched and their walls are covered in black soot. But perhaps the neighborhood's most distinguishing mark is the graffiti scrawled on walls all over that derides Gadhafi as a "dog" and declares: "We will not retreat: Either victory or death."

Residents hack down palm trees and scatter rocks in the streets to keep pro-Gadhafi forces out. During marches, they cover walls the walls with more graffiti.

Each morning, the militias clear the roads and repaint the walls. But just as soon as they leave, the protesters scrawl new graffiti.

Residents told an Associated Press reporter who visited the neighborhood Monday of their many attempts to hold anti-Gadhafi marches over the past ten days and the regime's swift and brutal moves to suppress them. All the residents and witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

One young man said they tried to march on three days last week, the final time on Friday, which they dubbed "the day of massacre."

On Wednesday, they marched to Tajoura's central square, but quickly found themselves surrounded by militia vehicles and under heavy fire from anti-aircraft guns. The next day, they marched toward the sea that borders the area, only to take cover in a graveyard from militia gunfire, witnesses said.

The neighborhood rallied for a larger march on Friday after Muslim midday prayers.

A mobile phone video shot by a marcher showed thousands marching, holding the flag of Libya's pre-Gadhafi monarchy and chanting" ''The people want to topple the regime" — the rallying cry of protests who succeeded in bringing down leaders in Libya's neighbors, Tunisia and Egypt. One protester said women cheered on the marchers from their balconies.

A second video showed protesters scattering under heavy gunfire, screaming "God is great!"

Gunmen in pickup trucks, ambulances and white taxis with female soldiers in them fired wildly into the crowd, spraying them with a hail of bullets, residents said.

A third video showed protesters carrying a man who had been shot, his bloody head leaving a trail of red liquid smeared on the street.

At night, pro-government forces raided local homes, dragging a few activists off to unknown locations.

Gadhafi and his son, Seif al-Islam, have denied repeatedly that force has been used against demonstrators.

But Tajoura's residents say it's all a big lie.

"They talk about negotiations and talks," one resident said. "They know no language but weapons."

One man said his 43-year-old uncle was shot in the shoulder during the Friday march. The family took him to the hospital, but he disappeared the next day.

"The whole family is in fear," he said. "They know nothing about my uncle. We can't even ask because if we ask, we might join him."

Another family called a doctor to their house to remove a bullet from a man's knee, fearing that he, too, would disappear if he went to the hospital.

Those killed are quietly buried nearby, residents said, since relatives fear the regime is removing bodies from morgues to hide the unrest's death count.

Several hundred people marched on Monday, but dispersed quickly when forces came.

But their defiance takes smaller forms, too.

Islamic Ebook (in Indonesia Language)

2008-01-24T21:25:00.001-08:00

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CSS Cookbook

2008-01-15T12:18:00.001-08:00

This book is for web designers and developers struggling with the problems of designing with CSS. With this book, web builders can solve common problems associated with CSS-enabled web page designs.

This book is good for people who have wanted to use CSS for web projects, but have shied away from learning a new technology. If you are this type of reader, use the solutions in the book one or a few at a time. Use it as a guidebook and come back to it when you are ready or need to learn another technique or trick.

If you consider yourself an expert with CSS but not an expert in basic design knowledge, this book is useful to have by the side of your computer.
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Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005

2008-01-15T11:22:00.001-08:00

This book is mainly intended to be a systematic guide to learning SQL using SQL Server 2005--a relational and multiuser database. The book is aimed at students who wish to learn SQL using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. The book is expected to be used by schools and SQL training organizations as well as by database and IT professionals who are actively working with SQL Server 2005.

The book starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. The purpose of this book is to present every topic, concept, and idea with examples of code and output. Exercises have also been included to gain SQL proficiency using SQL Server. The best approach to using this book efficiently is to read through the book with SQL Server open and active. As the book is read, it will be advantageous for you to work with and understand the examples.

If the book is used for a beginning database course, the exercises are presented to be done by the students over the course of one semester at a pace of one chapter per week. The exercises are found at the end of each chapter.

Due to the dramatic increase in the popularity of relational and multiuser databases, many schools and training organizations are using SQL Server in their database courses to teach database principles and concepts. This development has generated a need for a concise book on SQL Server programming, tied in with database principles and conceptshence this book.
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ASPnet Web Developer Guide

2008-01-10T07:55:00.001-08:00

With the advent of ASP.NET we see a shift from traditional scripting to the
beginning of full-fledged programming online.VBScript isn’t the only option
anymore, as programmers can now employ the full power that lies behind both

Visual Basic (VB) and C within their ASP.NET assemblies.
There is no denying the widespread acceptance that .NET received from the
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solid ideas on how the programming world should continue to change.The
introduction of a software solution that enables anyone to code in any language
that is compatible with the framework is groundbreaking to say the least.
In this chapter we will take a look at how Active Server Pages (ASP) itself
began just a couple of years ago and how it has captivated programmers ever
since. It has had some problems, of course, but the .NET architecture seems to
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Even though this is a stable beta, and many people are assuming already that
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Theory and Practice of Online Learning

2008-01-10T06:58:00.001-08:00

Increasingly, organizations are adopting online learning
as the main delivery method to train employees (Simmons, 2002). At the same
time, educational institutions are moving toward the use of the Internet
for delivery, both on campus and at a distance. However, for organizations
and institutions to make this often expensive move, there must be a perception
that using online learning provides major benefits. Some of the benefits
for learners and instructors are outlined below.

For learners, online learning knows no time zones, and location and distance are not an issue. In asynchronous
online learning, students can access the online materials at anytime, while
synchronous online learning allows for real time interaction between students
and the instructor. Learners can use the Internet to access up-to-date and
relevant learning materials, and can communicate with experts in the field
in which they are studying. Situated learning is facilitated, since learners
can complete online courses while working on the job or in their own space,
and can contextualize the learning.

For the instructor, tutoring can be done at anytime and from anywhere.
Online materials can be updated, and learners are able to see the changes
at once. When learners are able to access materials on the Internet, it is
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their needs. If designed properly, online learning systems can be used to
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How to Build Computer

2008-01-10T06:47:00.001-08:00

This free ebook includes sections: Choosing the parts,
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Optimizing and Overclocking Your New Computer and Conclusion.

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C Elements of Style

2008-01-06T19:19:00.001-08:00

Style and Program Organization
A program is a detailed set of instructions read by both a human and a machine. The computer reads only the code, while the human concentrates on the comments. Good style pertains to both parts of a program. Well-designed, well-written code not only makes effective use of the computer, it also contains careful constructed comments to help humans understand it. Well-designed, well-written code is a joy to debug, maintain, and enhance.

Program Organization
Good programming style begins with the effective organization of code. using a clear and consistent organization of the components of your program you make them more efficient, readable, and maintainable.
Program Organization

Good computer programs are organized much like good books. This can seen especially well with technical books, in which the structure is very clear.

People have been writing books for hundreds of years, and during that time they have discovered how to organize the material to efficiently present their ideas. Standards have emerged. For example, if I asked you when this book was copyrighted, you would turn to the title page. That's where the copyright notice is always located

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The Python programming language

2008-01-04T15:43:00.001-08:00

Programmer Python, Java, PerlThe programming language you will be learning is Python. Python is an example of a high-level language; other high-level languages you might have heard of are C, C++, Perl, and Java.

As you might infer from the name “high-level language,” there are also low-level languages, sometimes referred to as “machine languages” or “assembly languages.” Loosely speaking, computers can only execute programs written in low-level languages. So programs written in a high-level language have to be processed before they can run. This extra processing takes some time, which is a small disadvantage of high-level languages.

But the advantages are enormous. First, it is much easier to program in a high-level language. Programs written in a high-level language take less time to write, they are shorter and easier to read, and they are more likely to be correct. Second, high-level languages are portable, meaning that they can run on different kinds of computers with few or no modifications. Low-level programs can run on only one kind of computer and have to be rewritten to run on another.

Due to these advantages, almost all programs are written in high-level languages. Low-level languages are used only for a few specialized applications.

Two kinds of programs process high-level languages into low-level languages: interpreters and compilers. An interpreter reads a high-level program and executes it, meaning that it does what the program says. It processes the program a little at a time, alternately reading lines and performing computations.

A compiler reads the program and translates it completely before the program starts running. In this case, the high-level program is called the source code, and the translated program is called the object code or the executable. Once a program is compiled, you can execute it repeatedly without further translation.

Python is considered an interpreted language because Python programs are executed by an interpreter. There are two ways to use the interpreter: interactive mode and script mode. In interactive mode, you type Python programs and the interpreter prints the result:

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Underground Book

2008-01-04T13:57:00.001-08:00

Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession
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Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

2008-01-04T13:50:00.001-08:00

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms is available free online. This book is divided into six parts as Data Compression, Noisy-Channel Coding, Further Topics in Information Theory, Probabilities and Inference, Neural networks, Sparse Graph Codes.

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Firewalls and Internet Security

2008-01-02T12:59:00.001-08:00

What is “computer security”? Broadly speaking, security is keeping anyone from doing things
you do not want them to do to, with, on, or from your computers or any peripheral devices. This definition is, of course, much too broad. Nevertheless, it does lead us to some very important questions that must be answered by anyone who wishes to deploy an effective security mechanism. The first such question is “What resources are we trying to protect?” The answers are not always obvious. Is it the CPU cycles? At one time, that made a great deal of sense; computer time was very expensive. That is no longer true in most situations, supercomputers being a
notable exception. More seriously, a CPU—or rather, a CPU running certain software with certain configuration files—has a name, an identity, that lets it access other, more critical resources. These are often more sensitive than CPU time. A hacker who compromises or impersonates a host will usually have access to all of its resources: files, storage devices, phone lines, etc. From a practical perspective, some hackers are most interested in abusing the identity of the host, not so much to reach its dedicated resources, but to launder further outgoing connections to other, possibly more interesting, targets. Others might actually be interested in the data on your machine, whether it is sensitive company material or government secrets.

Introduction

An Overview of TCP/IP

Part II Building Your Own Firewall

Firewall Gateways

How to Build an Application-Level Gateway

Authentication

Gateway Tools

Traps, Lures, and Honey Pots

The Hacker's Workbench

Part III A Look Back

Classes of Attacks

An Evening with Berferd

Where the Wild Things Are: A Look at the Logs

Part IV Odds and Ends

Legal Considerations

Secure Communications over Insecure Networks

\Where Do We Go from Here?

Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates

2008-01-02T12:54:00.001-08:00

Individuals and organizations often have a legitimate need to verify the identity or
other attributes of the individuals they communicate or transact with. The traditional
method for demonstrating that one meets certain qualifications is to disclose one
or more paper-based certificates. As defined in the third edition of the American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a certificate is “a document testifying
to the truth of something.” Photographs, handwritten signatures, and physical cues
help the verifier to establish the identity of the holder of a certificate. Embedded
security features (such as special paper, watermarks, ink that appears different when
viewed from different angles, and microprinted words and other detail that is hard to replicate) serve to protect against counterfeiting and unauthorized duplication.

Understanding OSI

2008-01-02T12:31:00.001-08:00

OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) represents the totality of protocol definitions and associated additional texts which provide international standardization of many aspects of computer-to-computer communication. In theory it extends from the lowest level of signalling techniques to high-level interactions in support of specific applications.

The work on OSI was initiated in the late 1970s, and came to a level of maturity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the time of writing this text, there are many OSI standards in place, and implementations of the more popular standards are available as commercial products. Wide-scale purchase and use of a wide-range of OSI products is still however not yet a reality, with the free Internet (TCP/IP-based) software still having the greater market share.

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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005

2008-01-02T12:16:00.001-08:00

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ASP Free ebook

2008-01-02T11:28:00.001-08:00

Inside ASP.NET Web Matrix is a free ASP.NET ebook by
Alex Homer and Dave Sussman. It has 3 parts: Part 1 – What is Web
Matrix?, . Part 2 – Putting Web Matrix to Work and Part 3 – Configuring
and Extending Web Matrix.

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A Litle Smalltalk

2008-01-02T11:13:00.001-08:00

Little Smalltalk is a minimalistic implementation of the Smalltalk programming language

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Practical SmallTalk

2008-01-02T11:07:00.001-08:00

The simplicity, effectiveness and elegance of Smalltalk comes from it's simple yet highly expressive syntax and the design of it's various libraries of 'objects'. Smalltalk was the first, and remains one of the few, pure object systems, which simply means that everything in a Smalltalk program is an object. Smalltalk is generally recognized as the second Object Programming Language (OPL) (after Simula and "object" influences from Sketchpad, the B5000 and the 220 File System, see The Early History of Smalltalk, Section I), the first Pure Object Programming Langauge, the first true Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and the first IDE that eliminated the "Edit-Compile-Link-Run-Test-Debug" build cycle by integrating them all together so that cycle turn around time can be measured in seconds and all phases can be active at once - true interactive development! All of these features and capabilities have significant positive implications and important benefits.

An object is a collection of data grouped together in meaningful ways with related operations, or chunks of programs, that manipulate that data. It is suprising how well this way of organizing software works. Objects get work done by sending 'messages' to each other. i.e. In english this would be like Jill saying to Jack, Jack drop the ball please. In Smalltalk this might be written as jack dropTheBall. Communication via messages is something that we're all familar with in our lives. Messages can be thought of as 'verbs' that ask the receiving object to perform an operation. Messages may have objects as parameters. i.e. In english this would be like someone saying to Jack, Jack pass the ball to Jill. In Smalltalk this might be written as jack passTheBallTo: jill or even more flexibly as jack pass: theBall to: jill so that other objects, like aPen, can be passed around. A nice example of accomplishing more with less.

Smalltalk has a powerful concept known as "blocks" which are snippets of program code that are also treated as objects, this enables them to be used like any other object. In addition blocks enable you to extend the Smalltalk language very easily in powerful ways that other popular languages only dream of.

Smalltalk was designed to be easy to learn and use. It is an expressive language that uses a simple sub set of human languages, nouns and verbs. Something that all humans can related to. This faciliates a clean expression of solutions that map very well with human thinking. This is one of the compelling reasons that Smalltalk programs tend to be one third to one half the size of programs written in other popular languages. Smalltalk programs typically can do two to three times as much work for the same amount of code. Often Smalltalk programs can actually do a lot more with much less code. Less code to write, re-write, test and maintain means a lower cost of development, a faster time to market, and potentially a higher quality of system which lowers maintenance costs again and opens new opportunities.

The bottom line is that Smalltalk can work for you by letting you focus on your solutions and the rewards of your business endeavours.
source:http://www.smalltalk.org

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PC Assembly Tutorial

2008-01-01T12:29:00.005-08:00

The tutorial has extensive coverage of interfacing assembly and C code and so might be of interest to C programmers who want to learn about how C works under the hood. All the examples use the free NASM (Netwide) assembler. The tutorial only covers programming under 32-bit protected mode and requires a 32-bit protected mode compiler.

I have example code files for: DJGPP, Borland, Microsoft, Open Watcom and Linux C compilers. The examples in the text of the tutorial are for DJGPP only, but how to interface with the other compilers is discussed as well. The example files also include macros that allow easy input/output and debugging (register dumps, memory dumps, coprocessor dumps and stack dumps). If you plan on running the examples in the tutorial, you must download the appropriate example code file. It contains support files used by the examples in the tutorial (such as asm_io.inc).

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Introduction to Machine Learning

2008-01-01T11:20:00.001-08:00

sorry no ebook description

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Apache Desktop Reference

2008-01-01T11:07:00.001-08:00

On a monthly basis, Netcraft checks a representative set of web servers
around the world to gather statistics about the server market. For its
Web Server Survey1 in April 2000,more than 14 million web sites were contacted and their server software identifed by parsing the HTTP responses. According to Netcraft, as of April 2000, more than 60 percent of the servers were based on Apache that is, more than 8 million web servers. server. Apache has been the market leader for more than three years now and has put a large distance between itself and its competitors (Microsoft Internet Information Server: 21 percent; Netscape server family and various others: less than 10 percent each). In other words, Apache is the definitive, worldleading web server software on the market and a drop in popularity is not expected in the next 12 months. On the contrary, its popularity is increasing.

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Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More

2007-12-28T15:28:00.001-08:00

Addison-Wesley and Developmentor have provided TheServerSide.NET with the entire book of Essential XML Quick Reference for free download. Essential XML Quick Reference is for anyone working with today's mainstream XML technologies. It was specifically designed to serve as a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical questions.It goes beyond the traditional pocket reference design by providing complete coverage of each topic along with plenty of meaningful examples. Each chapter provides a brief introduction, which is followed by the detailed reference information. This approach assumes the reader has a basic understanding of the given topic.The detailed outline (at the beginning), index (in the back), bleeding tabs (along the side), and the page headers/footers were designed to help readers quickly find answers to their questions.
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FreeBSD Handbook

2007-12-28T14:55:00.001-08:00

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and
Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T),
ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version
of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and
maintained by a large team of
individuals. Additional platforms are in various
stages of development.

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The Complete FreeBSD

2007-12-28T14:48:00.001-08:00

On Friday, 14 October 1995, I received a visit from a number of people from Walnut Creek CDROM,
with whom I had published a CD-ROM of ported free software. This experience had also prompted
me to write a book, “Porting UNIX Software”. At the time of the visit, O'Reilly and
Associates were in the course of publishing the book, and I showed the final drafts to Jack
Velte and Greg Long. They were very interested, and Jack said “Can't you write a book
about how to install FreeBSD? Doesn't need to be long, just about 50 pages or so.”

At the time I had installed FreeBSD on a couple of machines, but my operating system of
choice was BSD/OS. The idea sounded like fun, though, and so I quickly hacked together a few
pages. Jack and Greg liked what they saw, and so we went ahead. I had gained some experience
with using groff while writing “Porting UNIX Software”, and as the result of
some production issues that I had had with that book, we agreed that I would do the entire
formatting and supply the book in PostScript format.

On 24 February 1996, little over 4 months later, I submitted the final draft of a book which
I called “Running FreeBSD 2.1”, and which Walnut Creek called “Installing And
Running FreeBSD”. That's the way it was printed, as those of you who have this book can
confirm.

The book was a great success. Of course, it was a little more than 50 pages; in fact, a
total of 322 pages, including 54 pages of man pages from the FreeBSD distribution. Despite
this, Jack wasn't happy: “Those Linux books have over 1000 pages! This looks like
nothing. What can you do? We need something yesterday!”.

Well, I had started the trend with the first edition. I added many more man pages, a little
more editorial content, and 5 months later, on 19 July, I submitted the next version. We had
now agreed on the title: “The Complete FreeBSD”, with only 844 pages still shy of
the 1000 page mark. 542 of those pages were man pages. Given the extreme time constraints, I'm
still surprised that I managed so much.

From then on, I had more time to work on the book, and the material evolved in a more
orderly manner. I formatted the second (or was that third?) edition on 29 November 1997, now
with a whopping 1,766 pages (of which only 1,108 were man pages; that still left 658 pages of
real content). Jack was finally pleased.

That proved to be too much, though. People complained that the book was unwieldy, and after
all, man pages are intended to be read online. We agreed that printing lots of man pages was
also a waste of money. When the third edition appeared, on 17 May 1999, it was slimmer: only
808 pages, still including 126 pages of man pages chosen because they could be of use when the
machine wasn't running.

Changes were afoot in the industry, though. Jack left Walnut Creek, and later Bob Bruce
merged Walnut Creek CDROM with BSDI. Shortly after that, they were taken over by Wind River
Systems, who were ambivalent about the book. Round this time I convinced Andy Oram, my editor
at O'Reilly, to publish the book. The fourth edition finally appeared in O'Reilly's
“Community Press” series in May 2003. It had 718 pages and—oh
wonder!—none of them were man pages.

That's the current status. Looking at those dates, you'll see that as time went on, each
edition was further from its predecessor. There are several reasons for this: the material is
mainly there, there are now other books on FreeBSD out there, and I don't have the time.

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J2ME Gamming Book

2007-12-25T12:19:00.001-08:00

This book is about programming with J2ME on wireless
devices with focus on developing games. It is assumed you have some
knowledge and programming experience with J2ME and J2SE. The book
does not go into detail on topics like how to make high level GUI
menu but does demonstrate what a game menu might look like. Nor
will it explain in detail how to use the Record Management System
(RMS), but will go over topics that use RMS such as high score and
game settings. As well a knowledge and experience with threading
will be an asset before proceeding with game development. The book
will go over in detail the new game classes that are now included
in the MIDP 2.0.

The book also serves as quick reference for Java programmers
who are interested in mobile game development. As well, to
provide good introduction for experience game developers who developed
games in other languages/platforms and are now interested
in using J2ME to develop games.

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Thinking In Java 1st Edition

2007-12-25T11:55:00.001-08:00

Java looks a lot like C++, and so naturally it would seem that C++ will be replaced by Java. But I’m starting to question this logic. For one thing, C++ still has some features that Java doesn’t, and although there have been a lot of promises about Java someday being as fast or faster than C++ the breakthroughs haven’t happened yet (it’s getting steadily faster, but still hasn’t touched C++). Also, there seems to be a perking interest in C++ in many fields, so I don’t think that language is going away any time soon. (Languages seem to hang around. Speaking at one of my “Intermediate/Advanced Java Seminars,” Allen Holub asserted that the two most commonly-used languages are Rexx and COBOL, in that order.)

I’m beginning to think that the strength of Java lies in a slightly different arena than that of C++. C++ is a language that doesn’t try to fit a mold. Certainly it has been adapted in a number of ways to solve particular problems. Some tools combine libraries, component models and code generation tools to solve the problem of developing windowed end-user applications (for Microsoft Windows). And yet, what do the vast majority of Windows developers use? Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB). This despite the fact that VB produces the kind of code that becomes unmanageable when the program is only a few pages long (and syntax that can be positively mystifying). As successful and popular as VB is, from a language design viewpoint it’s a mountain of hacks. It would be nice to have the ease and power of VB without the resulting unmanageable code. And that’s where I think Java will shine: as the “next VB.” You may or may not shudder to hear this, but think about it: so much of Java is designed to make it easy for the programmer to solve application-level problems like networking and cross-platform UI, and yet it has a language design intended to allow the creation of very large and flexible bodies of code. Add to this the fact that Java has the most robust type checking and error-handling systems I’ve ever seen in a language and you have the makings of a significant leap forward in programming productivity.

Should you use Java instead of C++ for your project? Other than Web applets, there are two issues to consider. First, if you want to use a lot of existing libraries (and you’ll certainly get a lot of productivity gains there), or if you have an existing C or C++ code base, Java might slow your development down rather than speeding it up. If you’re developing all your code primarily from scratch, then the simplicity of Java over C++ will shorten your development time.

The biggest issue is speed. Interpreted Java has been slow, even 20 to 50 times slower than C in the original Java interpreters. This has improved quite a bit over time, but it will still remain an important number. Computers are about speed; if it wasn’t significantly faster to do something on a computer then you’d do it by hand. (I’ve even heard it suggested that you start with Java, to gain the short development time, then use a tool and support libraries to translate your code to C++, if you need faster execution speed.)

The key to making Java feasible for most non-Web development projects is the appearance of speed improvements like so-called “just-in time” (JIT) compilers and possibly even native code compilers (two of which exist at this writing). Of course, native-code compilers will eliminate the touted cross-platform execution of the compiled programs, but they will also bring the speed of the executable closer to that of C and C++. And cross compiling programs in Java should be a lot easier than doing so in C or C++. (In theory, you just recompile, but that promise has been made before for other languages.)

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Teach Your self Oracle 8 In 21 Days

2007-12-25T11:44:00.001-08:00

Being an Oracle database operator or administrator can be a demanding but rewarding career that carries with it a great deal of responsibility as well as authority. This book is intended to help you embark on this exciting path. I hope that within the pages of this book I can convey some of the enthusiasm and excitement I feel when working with state-of-the-art hardware and software such as Oracle8. I think the best way to grasp a concept is to fully understand why actions are taken and the consequences of those actions. If you understand how Oracle works and its interactions with the operating system and hardware, you can more easily predict and anticipate the result of actions you take. In this book, I attempt to fully explain the workings of Oracle and the supporting software and hardware.
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PostgreSQL Book

2007-12-25T10:39:00.001-08:00

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead logging for fault tolerance. It supports international character sets, multibyte character encodings, Unicode, and it is locale-aware for sorting, case-sensitivity, and formatting. It is highly scalable both in the sheer quantity of data it can manage and in the number of concurrent users it can accommodate. There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data. Some general PostgreSQL limits are included in the table below.
Limit Value
Maximum Database Size Unlimited
Maximum Table Size 32 TB
Maximum Row Size 1.6 TB
Maximum Field Size 1 GB
Maximum Rows per Table Unlimited
Maximum Columns per Table 250 - 1600 depending on column types
Maximum Indexes per Table Unlimited

PostgreSQL has won praise from its users and industry recognition, including the Linux New Media Award for Best Database System and three time winner of the The Linux Journal Editors' Choice Award for best DBMS.

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The C Language eBook

2007-12-25T10:32:00.001-08:00

C is a remarkable language. Designed originally by one man, Dennis Ritchie, working at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, it has increased in use until now it may well be one of the most widely-written computer languages in the world. The success of C is due to a number of factors, none of them key, but all of them important. Perhaps the most significant of all is that C was developed by real practioners of programming and was designed for practical day-to-day use, not for show or for demonstration. Like any well-designed tool, it falls easily to the hand and feels good to use. Instead of providing constraints, checks and rigorous boundaries, it concentrates on providing you with power and on not getting in your way.

Because of this, it's better for professionals than beginners. In the early stages of learning to program you need a protective environment that gives feedback on mistakes and helps you to get results quickly—programs that run, even if they don't do what you meant. C is not like that! A professional forester would use a chain-saw to cut down trees quickly, aware of the dangers of touching the blade when the machine is running; C programmers work in a similar way. Although modern C compilers do provide a limited amount of feedback when they notice something that is out of the ordinary, you almost always have the option of forcing the compiler to do what you said you wanted and to stop it from complaining. Provided that what you said you wanted was what you really did want, then you'll get the result you expected. Programming in C is like eating red meat and drinking strong rum except your arteries and liver are more likely to survive it.

Not only is C popular and a powerful asset in the armoury of the serious day-to-day programmer, there are other reasons for the success of this language. It has always been associated with the UNIX operating system and has benefited from the increasing popularity of that system. Although it is not the obvious first choice for writing large commercial data processing applications, C has the great advantage of always being available on commercial UNIX implementations. UNIX is written in C, so whenever UNIX is implemented on a new type of hardware, getting a C compiler to work for that system is the first task. As a result it is almost impossible to find a UNIX system without support for C, so the software vendors who want to target the UNIX marketplace find that C is the best bet if they want to get wide coverage of the systems available. Realistically, C is the first choice for portability of software in the UNIX environment.

C has also gained substantially in use and availability from the explosive expansion of the Personal Computer market. C could almost have been designed specifically for the development of software for the PC—developers get not only the readability and productivity of a high-level language, but also the power to get the most out of the PC architecture without having to resort to the use of assembly code. C is practically unique in its ability to span two levels of programming; as well as providing high-level control of flow, data structures and procedures—all of the stuff expected in a modern high-level language—it also allows systems programmers to address machine words, manipulate bits and get close to the underlying hardware if they want to. That combination of features is very desirable in the competitive PC software markeplace and an increasing number of software developers have made C their primary language as a result.

Finally, the extensibility of C has contributed in no small way to its popularity. Many other languages have failed to provide the file access and general input-output features that are needed for industrial-strength applications. Traditionally, in these languages I/O is built-in and is actually understood by the compiler. A master-stroke in the design of C (and interestingly, one of the strengths of the UNIX system too) has been to take the view that if you don't know how to provide a complete solution to a generic requirement, instead of providing half a solution (which invariably pleases nobody), you should allow the users to build their own. Software designers the world over have something to learn from this! It's the approach that has been taken by C, and not only for I/O. Through the use of library functions you can extend the language in many ways to provide features that the designers didn't think of. There's proof of this in the so-called Standard I/O Library (stdio), which matured more slowly than the language, but had become a sort of standard all of its own before the Standard Committee give it official blessing. It proved that it is possible to develop a model of file I/O and associated features that is portable to many more systems than UNIX, which is where it was first wrought. Despite the ability of C to provide access to low-level hardware features, judicious style and the use of the stdio package results in highly portable programs; many of which are to be found running on top of operating systems that look very different from one another. The nice thing about this library is that if you don't like what it does, but you have the appropriate technical skills, you can usually extend it to do what you do want, or bypass it altogether.
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Extreme Perl Programming

2007-12-25T10:25:00.001-08:00

xtreme Programming (XP) is an agile software-development methodology. XP helps you remain light on your feet by avoiding unnecessary baggage and by incorporating feedback continuously. Changing requirements are an expected and acceptable risk, because the customer sees the system being developed in real-time. Mistakes are immediately visible and are corrected while the feature's implementation is fresh and pliable, much like a potter reworks clay.

Programmers work and rework the code in XP projects. The customer sees a system grow from layer upon layer of detail. The software is only as effective as the details it embodies. A tax accounting system must round computations correctly, or it can't be used; it's insufficient to get the formula right without considering that taxes are collected in whole currency units. Details matter, and XP programmers reflect back to the customer in the only way that matters: working code.

All this working and reworking requires a stable base and good tools. To throw pots effectively, you need to be seated comfortably at your potter's wheel, and your tools need to be within easy reach. In the world of idea creation, people need comfort, too. They need to know what's expected of them and why. An XP team is expected to follow 12 simple practices. You aren't supposed to execute the practices blindly, however. XP gives us a framework of four core values that lets us adjust the practices to suit our particular project. The four core values are like a comfortable mental chair; we work our code using the practices with the core values supporting our every movement.

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Windows XP For Dummies

2007-12-25T09:53:00.001-08:00

Windows is just another piece of software, like the zillions of others lining
the store shelves. But it’s not a program in the normal sense—something
that lets you write letters or lets your coworkers play Bozark the Destroyer over the office network after everybody else goes home.
Rather, Windows controls the way you work with your computer.
Years ago, computers looked like typewriters connected to TV sets.
Just as on a typewriter, people typed letters and numbers onto the computer’s
keyboard. The computer listened and then placed those letters
and numbers onto the screen. But it was ever-so-boring.
The method was boring because only computer engineers used computers.
Nobody expected normal people to use computers—especially
not in their offices, their dens, or even in their kitchens. Windows
changed all that in several ways.

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Get Dollar with Blog

2007-12-23T17:45:00.001-08:00

Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain. Imagine
a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want,
wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick
back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.
In this step, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our
own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own
domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a
free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. If you are
a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is robust and
infinitely expandable.
Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster
and you will be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I
have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However,
Wordpress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks
and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this
later).
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Affiliate Mastering

2007-12-23T17:01:00.001-08:00

An affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to get your feet wet in ecommerce.
You send visitors (i.e., potential customers) to a merchant’s Web site
that you are representing. If they buy or complete a required action (for
example, fill in a form), the merchant pays you a commission. Simple, right?
That, in essence, is the beauty of the affiliate concept. You can be up and
building a business in record time, at minimal risk. Top-notch merchants
supply everything (i.e., excellent products, ordering, credit card processing, and
delivery). All you need to do is to put yourself in the path between customers
and quality merchants... and earn a commission for your efforts.
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Introduction to Python Language

2007-12-23T16:50:00.001-08:00

Python is one of those rare languages which can claim to be both simple
and powerful. You will find that you will be pleasantly surprised on
how easy it is to concentrate on the solution to the problem rather
than the syntax and structure of the language you are programming in.
The official introduction to Python is

Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level
data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming.
Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make
it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on
most platforms.

Simple
Python is a simple and minimalistic language. Reading a good Python
program feels almost like reading English, although very strict English!
This pseudo-code nature of Python is one of its greatest strengths. It allows
you to concentrate on the solution to the problem rather than the language itself.

Easy to Learn As you will see,
Python is extremely easy to get started with. Python has an extraordinarily simple syntax, as already mentioned. Free and Open Source Python is an example of a FLOSS (Free/Libré and Open Source Software). In simple terms, you can freely distribute copies of this software, read it's source code, make changes to it, use pieces of it in new free
programs, and that you know you can do these things. FLOSS is based
on the concept of a community which shares knowledge. This is one of
the reasons why Python is so good - it has been created and is constantly
improved by a community who just want to see a better Python.

High-level Language
When you write programs in Python, you never need to bother about the
low-level details such as managing the memory used by your program,
etc.

Portable
Due to its open-source nature, Python has been ported (i.e. changed to
make it work on) to many platforms. All your Python programs can
work on any of these platforms without requiring any changes at all if
you are careful enough to avoid any system-dependent features.
You can use Python on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Macintosh, Solaris,
OS/2, Amiga, AROS, AS/400, BeOS, OS/390, z/OS, Palm OS, QNX,
VMS, Psion, Acorn RISC OS, VxWorks, PlayStation, Sharp Zaurus,

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Teach Your self Shell Programming in 24 Hours

2007-12-21T15:35:00.001-08:00

In recent years, the UNIX operating system has seen a huge boost in its popularity, especially with the emergence of Linux. For programmers and users of UNIX, this comes as no surprise: UNIX was designed to provide an environment that's powerful yet easy to use.
One of the main strengths of UNIX is that it comes with a large collection of standard programs. These programs perform a wide variety of tasks from listing your files to reading email. Unlike other operating systems, one of the key features of UNIX is that these programs can be combined to perform complicated tasks and solve your problems. One of the most powerful standard programs available in UNIX is the shell. The shell is a program that provides you with a consistent and easy-to-use environment for executing programs in UNIX. If you have ever used a UNIX system, you have interacted with the shell.
The main responsibility of the shell is to read the commands you type and then ask the UNIX kernel to perform these commands. In addition to this, the shell provides sophisticated programming constructs that enable you to make decisions, repeatedly execute commands, create functions, and store values in
variables. This book concentrates on the standard UNIX shell called the Bourne shell. When Dennis Ritche and Ken Thompson were developing much of UNIX in the early 1970s, they used a very simple shell. The first real shell, written by Stephen Bourne, appeared in the mid 1970s. The original Bourne shell has changed slightly over the years; some features were added and others were removed, but its syntax and its resulting power
have remained the same. The most attractive feature of the shell is that it enables you to create scripts. Scripts are files that contain a list of commands you want to run. Because every script is contained in a file and every file has a name,
scripts enable you to combine existing programs to create completely new programs that solve your problems. This book teaches you how to create, execute, modify, and debug shell scripts quickly and easily. After you get used to writing scripts, you will find yourself solving more and more problems with them.

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Teach Your self TCP-IP in 14 Days

2007-12-21T12:51:00.001-08:00

So you've just been told you are on a TCP/IP network, you are the new TCP/IP system
administrator, or you have to install a TCP/IP system. But you don't know very much
about TCP/IP. That's where this book comes in. You don't need any programming skills,
and familiarity with operating systems is assumed. Even if you've never touched a
computer before, you should be able to follow the material.
This book is intended for beginning through intermediate users and covers all the
protocols involved in TCP/IP. Each protocol is examined in a fair level of detail to show
how it works and how it interacts with the other protocols in the TCP/IP family. Along
the way, this book shows you the basic tools required to install, configure, and maintain
a TCP/IP network. It also shows you most of the user utilities that are available.
Because of the complex nature of TCP/IP and the lack of a friendly user interface,
there is a lot of information to look at. Throughout the book, the role of each protocol
is shown separately, as is the way it works on networks of all sizes. The relationship
with large internetworks (like the Internet) is also covered.
Each chapter in the book adds to the complexity of the system, building on the material
in the earlier chapters. Although some chapters seem to be unrelated to TCP/IP at first
glance, all the material is involved in an integral manner with the TCP/IP protocol
family. The last few chapters cover the installation and troubleshooting of a network.
By the time you finish this book, you will understand the different components of a
TCP/IP system, as well as the complex acronym-heavy jargon used. Following the
examples presented, you should be able to install and configure a complete TCP/IP
network for any operating system and hardware platform.

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Teach Your self SQL in 21 Days

2007-12-21T11:58:00.001-08:00

The history of SQL begins in an IBM laboratory in San Jose, California, where SQL was
developed in the late 1970s. The initials stand for Structured Query Language, and the
language itself is often referred to as "sequel." It was originally developed for IBM's
DB2 product (a relational database management system, or RDBMS, that can still be
bought today for various platforms and environments). In fact, SQL makes an RDBMS
possible. SQL is a nonprocedural language, in contrast to the procedural or thirdgeneration
languages (3GLs) such as COBOL and C that had been created up to that
time.
The characteristic that differentiates a DBMS from an RDBMS is that the RDBMS
provides a set-oriented database language. For most RDBMSs, this set-oriented database
language is SQL. Set oriented means that SQL processes sets of data in groups.
Two standards organizations, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and
the International Standards Organization (ISO), currently promote SQL standards to
industry. The ANSI-92 standard is the standard for the SQL used throughout this book.
Although these standard-making bodies prepare standards for database system designers
to follow, all database products differ from the ANSI standard to some degree. In addition, most systems provide some proprietary extensions to SQL that extend the
language into a true procedural language. We have used various RDBMSs to prepare
the examples in this book to give you an idea of what to expect from the common
database systems.

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Teach Yourse lf MySQL in 21 Days

2007-12-18T13:58:00.001-08:00

For those who need a full-powered relational DBMS without the considerable
expense of well-known commercial products (such as Microsoft SQL Server),
MySQL has quickly become a favorite. This open source database is available
for virtually all platforms, including the various incarnations of Windows. But
like many open source products, its documentation is sparse. Enter Teach
Yourself MySQL in 21 Days, a book that solves the documentation dearth
problem with an effective and accessible step-by-step course in the DBMS.
No prior SQL experience is assumed so even beginners will benefit from this
book.

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O'reilly Palm Programming

2007-12-18T13:30:00.001-08:00

In 1888, the invention of the ballpoint pen revolutionized the world of writing. In 1995 the invention of the PilotTM connected organizer revolutionized the world of computing. The concepts behind the Palm Computing® platform have a history longer than the device itself. Before the advent of the Palm Computing platform, Jeff Hawkins and others at a small start-up called Palm Computing were developing software for handheld devices, working with myriad hardware manufacturers to have them adopt the vision of those at Palm Computing. When Jeff and the others finally realized it would never happen, they opted to create the hardware themselves. Years later, out of this primordial ooze of creativity, the Pilot 1000 was born. Then came the Pilot 5000, the PalmPilotTM Personal, the PalmPilotTM Professional, and the Palm IIITM connected organizers. Companies started calling upon Palm Computing to partner, and out of those relationships came upgrade cards, pager cards, the IBM WorkPad, the Symbol SPT 1500 with integrated barcode scanner, and the Qualcomm pdQ with integrated cellular phone. And the list continues to grow. Within eighteen months, four products shipped from Palm Computing, and over a million devices were sold. We knew we had a solid and compelling platform that would be popular with developers. The fundamental idea behind our strategy was first to get a large installed base using the devices as personal organizers, and then to focus on signing up developers to broaden their usefulness. This was a very different approach than those of our predecessors. They believed you needed thousands of partners and a publicly accepted standard to attract a large body of users. A million-plus users later, we have over ten thousand addon software and hardware developers, and more are signing up daily. They believe, as we do, that the Palm Computing platform represents a new, exciting, and commercially compelling opportunity for companies like themselves. This development community has been and will continue to be an integral part of our success story. Developers new to the platform will find that the design philosophy that has made Palm's products such a success with users is mirrored in our approach to development. One example is that of minimalistic design. Palm's products have always been designed with only the necessary pieces in mind. Never are arbitrary frills thrown in just to make the device seem more appealing. Instead, we implement features that people will actually use and that are well suited to the constraints present on a small device. True to the philosophy of the devices themselves, the Application Programming Interface (API) has been written with simplicity and applicability to a small device in mind. The functions are tweaked for instant response to user input, easy synchronization and backup, and a simple, consistent user interface in all applications. We believe that this book will greatly benefit any Palm Computing platform developer who follows the book's advice on how to create the best application with the lowest development cost. To quick-start your own application, you can use the sample programs in the book as building blocks. We hope that they will contribute to the fast development and superior performance of your application-and, in turn, will help it contribute to the growth and power of the Palm Computing platform.

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SQL Quick References

2007-12-18T13:21:00.001-08:00

if you're a beginer in database and SQL, this book can be great reference. Contain of this book is SQL basic, especially SQL 92 standart.
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Thinking in C++ Volume 2Standard Libraries and Advanced Topic

2007-12-18T13:14:00.001-08:00

You can’t just look at C++ as a collection of features; some of the features make no sense in
isolation. You can only use the sum of the parts if you are thinking about design, not simply
coding. And to understand C++ in this way, you must understand the problems with C and
with programming in general. This book discusses programming problems, why they are
problems, and the approach C++ has taken to solve such problems. Thus, the set of features I explain in each chapter will be based on the way that I see a particular type of problem being solved with the language. In this way I hope to move you, a little at a time, from
understanding C to the point where the C++ mindset becomes your native tongue.
Throughout, I’ll be taking the attitude that you want to build a model in your head that allows you to understand the language all the way down to the bare metal; if you encounter a puzzle you’ll be able to feed it to your model and deduce the answer. I will try to convey to you the insights which have rearranged my brain to make me start “thinking in C++.”

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Thinking in C++ volume 1 2nd Edition

2007-12-18T13:00:00.001-08:00

I clawed my way into C++ from exactly the same position I expect
many of the readers of this book are in: as a programmer with a
very no-nonsense, nuts-and-bolts attitude about programming.
Worse, my background and experience was in hardware-level
embedded programming, in which C has often been considered a
high-level language and an inefficient overkill for pushing bits
around. I discovered later that I wasn’t even a very good C
programmer, hiding my ignorance of structures, malloc( ) and
free( ), setjmp( ) and longjmp( ), and other “sophisticated”
concepts, scuttling away in shame when the subjects came up in
conversation instead of reaching out for new knowledge.

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Graphics in Delphi

2007-12-18T12:47:00.001-08:00

this book explain about graphics in delphi. espesially animate and bitmap.
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Programming XML By Example

2007-12-16T18:55:00.001-08:00

XML stands for the eXtensible Markup Language. It is a new markup language,
developed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), mainly to
overcome limitations in HTML. The W3C is the organization in charge of
the development and maintenance of most Web standards, most notably
HTML. For more information on the W3C, visit its Web site at www.w3.org.
HTML is an immensely popular markup language. According to some studies
there are 800 million Web pages, all based on HTML. HTML is supported
by thousands of applications including browsers, editors, email
software, databases, contact managers, and more.
Originally, the Web was a solution to publish scientific documents. Today it
has grown into a full-fledged medium, equal to print and TV. More importantly,
the Web is an interactive medium because it supports applications
such as online shops, electronic banking, and trading and forums.
To accommodate this phenomenal popularity, HTML has been extended
over the years. Many new tags have been introduced. The first version of
HTML had a dozen tags; the latest version (HTML 4.0) is close to 100 tags
(not counting browser-specific tags).
Furthermore, a large set of supporting technologies also has been introduced:
JavaScript, Java, Flash, CGI, ASP, streaming media, MP3, and
more. Some of these technologies were developed by the W3C whereas
others were introduced by vendors.

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The Little Black Book of Computer Virus

2007-12-16T17:31:00.001-08:00

Computer viruses can be classified into several different types. The first and most common type is the virus which infects any application program. On IBM PC’s and clones running under PC-DOS or MS-DOS, most programs and data which do not belong to the operating system itself are stored as files. Each file has a file name eight characters long, and an extent which is three characters long. A typical file might be called “TRUE.TXT”, where “TRUE” is the name and “TXT” is the extent. The extent normally gives some information about the nature of a file—in this case “TRUE.TXT” might be a text file. Programs must always have an extent of “COM”, “EXE”, or “SYS”. Under DOS, only files with these extents can be executed by the central processing unit. If the user tries to execute any other type of file, DOS will generate an error and reject the attempt to execute the file. Since a virus’ goal is to get executed by the computer, it must attach itself to a COM, EXE or SYS file. If it attaches to any other file, it may corrupt some data, but it won’t normally get executed, and it won’t reproduce. Since each of these types of executable files has a different structure, a virus must be designed to attach itself to a particular type of file. A virus designed to attack COM files cannot attack EXE files, and vice versa, and neither can attack SYS files. Of course, one could design a virus that would attack two or even three kinds of files, but it would require a separate reproduction method for each file type. The next major type of virus seeks to attach itself to a specific file, rather than attacking any file of a given type. Thus, we might call it an application-specific virus. These viruses make use of a detailed knowledge of the files they attack to hide better than would be possible if they were able to infiltrate just any file. For example, they might hide in a data area inside the program rather than lengthening the file. However, in order to do that, the virus must know where the data area is located in the program, and that differs from program to program. This second type of virus usually concentrates on the files associated to DOS, like COMMAND.COM, since they are on virtually every PC in existence. Regardless of which file such a virus attacks, though, it must be very, very common, or the virus will never be able to find another copy of that file to reproduce in,and so it will not go anywhere. Only with a file like COMMAND.COM would it be possible to begin leaping from machine to machine and travel around the world. The final type of virus is known as a “boot sector virus.” This virus is a further refinement of the application-specific virus, which attacks a specific location on a computer’s disk drive, known as the boot sector. The boot sector is the first thing a computer loads into memory from disk and executes when it is turned on. By attacking this area of the disk, the virus can gain control of the computer immediately, every time it is turned on, before any other program can execute. In this way, the virus can execute before any other program or person can detect its existence.

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Teach Yourself Linux In 24 Hours

2007-12-16T17:12:00.001-08:00

Welcome to Linux! You hold in your hands everything you need to install and use one of the
most powerful computer operating systems in the world. This book is designed to help guide
you through the process of learning about Linux.
Although the title of this book is Sams’ Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours, you won’t be alone
while you learn. As you’re taken from installation through system administration to playing
games, you’ll find advice, tips, and hints to help you along the way. Before you know it you’ll
be familiar with the terms, topics, and technical concepts dealing with the hottest and newest operating system in the world—Linux!

This book is designed to help you learn quickly. You’ll find it an indispensable guide to
installing Linux and getting right to work. This book helps you overcome technical obstacles,
explains complex subjects in simple language, and shows you some neat tricks to make your
computing experience easier.

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Javascript for Beginner

2007-12-14T13:53:00.001-08:00

Javascript for beginer, explain about basic javascipt, array, function atc
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Securing Optimizing Linux RedHat

2007-12-14T13:40:00.001-08:00

Linux is an operating system that was first created at the University of Helsinki in Finland by a young student named Linus Torvalds. At this time the student was working on a UNIX system that was running on an expensive platform. Because of his low budget, and his need to work at home, he decided to create a copy of the UNIX system in order to run it on a less expensive platform, such as an IBM PC. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked
steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The current full-featured version at this time is 2.2.X (released January 25, 1999), and development continues. The Linux operating system is developed under the GNU General Public License (also known as GNU GPL) and its source code is freely available to everyone who downloads it via the Internet. The CD-ROM version of Linux is also available in many stores, and companies that provide it will charge you for the cost of the media and support. Linux may be used for a wide variety of
purposes including networking, software development, and as an end-user platform. Linux is
often considered an excellent, low-cost alternative to other more expensive operating systems because you can install it on multiple computers without paying more.
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Regex for Python

2007-12-14T13:25:00.001-08:00

Regular expressions (or REs) are essentially a tiny, highly specialized programming language embedded inside Python and made available through the re module. Using this little language, you specify the rules for the set of possible strings that you want to match; this set might contain English sentences, or e-mail addresses, or TeX commands, or anything you like. You can then ask questions such as “Does this string match the pattern?”, or “Is there a match for the pattern anywhere in this string?”. You can also use REs to modify a string, or to split it apart in various ways. Regular expression patterns are compiled into a series of bytecodes, which are then executed by a matching engine written in C. For advanced use, it may be necessary to pay careful attention to how the engine will execute a given RE, and optimize the RE in order to produce bytecode that runs faster. Optimization isn’t really covered in this document, because it requires that you have a good understanding of the matching engine’s internals.
The regular expression language is relatively small and restricted, so not all possible string processing tasks can be done using regular expressions. There are also tasks that can be done with regular expressions, but the expressions turn out to be very complicated. In these cases, you may be better off writing Python code to do the processing; while Python code will be slower than an elaborate regular expression, it will also probably be more understandable.

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VB .NET Language in a Nutshell

2007-12-14T13:18:00.001-08:00

Microsoft Visual Basic began its life just over ten years ago as a kind of amalgamation of Microsoft's QBasic programming language and a graphical interface design program developed in part by Alan Cooper. Since then, it has become by far the most popular programming language in the world, with an installed base that is estimated at five to eight million developers worldwide. The tenth anniversary of Visual Basic coincides with the introduction of Microsoft's new .NET platform, and with a totally revised and revamped version of VB named Visual Basic .NET. The language has been streamlined and modernized, and many old "compatibility" elements have been dropped from the language, while other language elements that were implemented as statements are now either functions or procedures. In addition, many of you will be glad to hear that Visual Basic is now a fully object-oriented programming language, with the inclusion of the long sought-after class inheritance, as well as other OOP features.
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OReillyLearning the UNIX Operating System

2007-12-14T11:47:00.001-08:00

An operating system (or "OS") is a set of programs that controls a computer. It controls both the hardware (things you can touch - such as keyboards, displays, and disk drives) and the software (application programs that you run, such as a word processor). Some computers have a single-user OS, which means only one person can use the computer at a time. Many older OSes (like DOS) can also do only one job at a time. But almost any computer can do a lot more if it has a multiuser, multitasking operating system like UNIX. These powerful OSes let many people use the computer at the same time and let each user run several jobs at once. UNIX was invented almost 30 years ago for scientific and professional users who wanted a very powerful and flexible OS. It's been significantly developed since then. Because UNIX was designed for experts, it can be a bit overwhelming at first. But after you get the basics (from this book!) you'll start to
appreciate some of the reasons to use UNIX:
l It comes with a huge number of powerful application programs. You can get many others for free on the Internet. (The GNU utilities, freely available from the Free Software Foundation, are very popular.) You can thus do much more at a much lower cost. l Not only are the applications often free, but some versions of UNIX itself are also free. Linux is a good example. Like the free applications, these free versions of UNIX are usually of excellent quality. They're maintained by volunteer programmers who want a powerful OS and are frustrated by the slow, bug-ridden development of OSes at big companies.
l Much of the development of the Internet was done on UNIX systems. Many Internet web sites and Internet service providers use UNIX because it's so powerful, flexible, and inexpensive. l UNIX runs on almost any kind of hardware. After you learn UNIX on one system, you'll know how to use it on any other system.

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Essential Pascal

2007-12-14T11:27:00.001-08:00

The Pascal language was originally designed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth, professor at the Polytechnic of Zurich, Switzerland. Pascal was designed as a simplified version for educational purposes of the language Algol, which dates from 1960. When Pascal was designed, many programming languages existed, but few were in widespread use: FORTRAN, C, Assembler, COBOL. The key idea of the new language was order, managed through a strong concept of data type, and requiring declarations and structured program controls. The language was also designed to be a teaching tool for students of programming classes.
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C Sharp Language Reference

2007-12-14T11:22:00.001-08:00

C# is a simple, modern, object oriented, and type-safe programming language derived from C and C++. C# (pronounced “C sharp”) is firmly planted in the C and C++ family tree of languages, and will immediately be familiar to C and C++ programmers. C# aims to combine the high productivity of Visual Basic and the raw power of C++. C# is provided as a part of Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0. In addition to C#, Visual Studio supports Visual Basic, Visual C++, and the scripting languages VBScript and JScript. All of these languages provide access to the Next Generation Windows Services (NWGS) platform, which includes a common execution engine and a rich class library. The .NET software development kit defines a "Common Language Subset" (CLS), a sort of lingua franca that ensures seamless interoperability between CLS-compliant languages and class libraries. For C# developers, this means that even though C# is a new language, it has complete access to the same rich class libraries that are used by seasoned tools such as Visual Basic and Visual C++. C# itself doe not include a class library.
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Advanced XML Applications from the Experts at The XML

2007-12-11T15:49:00.001-08:00

Numerous books abound for the beginning programmer who wants to learn XML, but there are few learning resources available for those who are already proficient in XML and need expert-level advice to help maximize their workflow. Advanced XML Applications from the Experts at The XML Guild provides such a resource, written by the expert programmers at The XML Guild. The book is not intended to be another exhaustive XML "bible," rather, it’s a collection of advanced tips and techniques that the authors have used in the real world-and are now happy to share with you. Each chapter is written by the guild member considered to be the expert on a particular topic.

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Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0

Here is the talk I had prepared for the Web 2.0 panel a the XML 2006 conference. This has been a very interactive panel and even though I haven't pronounce exactly the same sentences, the message is the same.

I had proposed a whole session titled “Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0”. I have tried to shrink this 45 minutes presentation to fit within a 5 minutes slot, but that didn't really work. Instead of presenting the result of this hopeless exercise, I will use a well known metaphor. Of course, metaphors do not prove anything but they are great to quickly illustrate a point and that's what I need.

Bamboo stems can reach 40 meters in height with diameters up to 30 cm and some species can grow over one meter per day. Despite that, they are so strong that in Asia they are used to build scaffoldings for sky scrappers. These performances are due to the tube like structure of stems reinforced by their nodes.

It recently occurred to me that the IT technology (and probably science in general) is progressing like bamboos and alternates periods of fast innovation with periods of consolidation. It is interesting to note that the prominent actors for these phases are often different. Consolidation builds on prior experience and is a good work for established experts. On the other hand, expertise often tends to censor new ideas and it can seriously limit the ability to innovate.

This theory is well illustrated by the history of the World Wide Web.

In the eighties and early nineties, hypertext experts were stuck by the complexity of their models and a new phase of innovation began with the invention of HTTP and HTML.

The consolidation phase was launched ten years ago by Jon Bosak when he said “You have to put SGML on the web. HTML just won't work for the kinds of things we've been doing in industry.”

In five years time, this consolidation phase grew to a stage where the XML stack is so heavy that it looks like legacy. Its development is almost stalled and a new innovation phase was badly required.

Those of you who know me know me as an XML expert and as many XML experts the crazy hype that is obscuring Web 2.0 kept me away for a long time.

I started to look what's behind the hype a year ago. Having done so, I am happy to report that Web 2.0 could be the next innovation phase.

A good indication is that XML experts predict that Web 2.0 will fail for the same reasons hypertext experts predicted that HTML would fail: Web 2.0 is messy, over simplistic, not well enough designed, ...

If Web 2.0 is the next innovation phase, what should we do?

We can contribute, actively follow the growth of the phenomena, provide guidance but we should avoid to be too directive for the moment.

My first personal contribution is the book
Professional Web 2.0 Programming . This book is for anyone wanting to catch the Web 2.0 wagon. It's also a set of reminders and guidances by we've tried to be as open as possible and for instance, we have covered not only XML but its alternatives (including controversial technologies such as JSON).

If we keep ready, our turn will come again when the next consolidation phase starts.

This consolidation phase will eventually put XML on the Web like XML has (at least partially) put SGML on the Web.

Will XML on the Web still be XML? Maybe not: SGML on the Web is no longer SGML, why should XML necessarily survive to the next iteration? Anyways, does that really matter?

Professional Web 2.0 Programming

2007-12-11T15:45:00.001-08:00

Web 2.0 architecture opens up an incredible number of options for flexible web design, creative reuse, and easier updates. Along with covering the key languages and techniques of Web 2.0, this unique book introduces you to all of the technologies that make up Web 2.0 at a professional level. Throughout the chapters, you'll find code for several example applications built with popular frameworks that you'll be able to utilize.

You'll first explore the technologies that are used to create Web 2.0 applications. This includes an in-depth look at XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and Ajax. Next, you'll gain a better understanding of the protocols and formats that enable the exchange of information between web clients and servers. Ultimately, you'll discover exactly what you need to know about server-side programming in order to implement new ideas and develop your own robust applications.

What you will learn from this book

How Web 2.0 applications are developed
New ways to get the major client-side technologies to work together
The new class of emerging tools
All about HTTP and URIs, XML, syndication, microformats, and Web Services
Techniques for implementing and maintaining your URI space
How to serve XML over HTTP
Steps for building mashups to aggregate information from multiple sources
Methods for enhancing security in your applications

Who this book is for

This book is for professional developers who have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

This book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes:

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088)
Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491)
Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889)
Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)

From the Back Cover
Web 2.0 architecture opens up an incredible number of options for flexible web design, creative reuse, and easier updates. Along with covering the key languages and techniques of Web 2.0, this unique book introduces you to all of the technologies that make up Web 2.0 at a professional level. Throughout the chapters, you'll find code for several example applications built with popular frameworks that you'll be able to utilize.

You'll first explore the technologies that are used to create Web 2.0 applications. This includes an in-depth look at XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and Ajax. Next, you'll gain a better understanding of the protocols and formats that enable the exchange of information between web clients and servers. Ultimately, you'll discover exactly what you need to know about server-side programming in order to implement new ideas and develop your own robust applications.

What you will learn from this book

How Web 2.0 applications are developed
New ways to get the major client-side technologies to work together
The new class of emerging tools
All about HTTP and URIs, XML, syndication, microformats, and Web Services
Techniques for implementing and maintaining your URI space
How to serve XML over HTTP
Steps for building mashups to aggregate information from multiple sources
Methods for enhancing security in your applications

Who this book is for

This book is for professional developers who have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML.

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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

2007-12-11T15:35:00.001-08:00

Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it.

Programming Collective Intelligence takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions about user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavior in general -- all from information that you and others collect every day. Each algorithm is described clearly and concisely with code that can immediately be used on your web site, blog, Wiki, or specialized application. This book explains:

Collaborative filtering techniques that enable online retailers to recommend products or media
Methods of clustering to detect groups of similar items in a large dataset
Search engine features -- crawlers, indexers, query engines, and the PageRank algorithm
Optimization algorithms that search millions of possible solutions to a problem and choose the best one
Bayesian filtering, used in spam filters for classifying documents based on word types and other features
Using decision trees not only to make predictions, but to model the way decisions are made
Predicting numerical values rather than classifications to build price models
Support vector machines to match people in online dating sites
Non-negative matrix factorization to find the independent features in a dataset
Evolving intelligence for problem solving -- how a computer develops its skill by improving its own code the more it plays a game

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Tech Perl Programming in 21 Days

2007-12-11T13:49:00.001-08:00

Perl is an acronym, short for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It was designed
by Larry Wall as a tool for writing programs in the UNIX environment and is
continually being updated and maintained by him.
For its many fans, Perl provides the best of several worlds. For instance:
l Perl has the power and flexibility of a high-level programming language such as
C. In fact, as you will see, many of the features of the language are borrowed
from C.
l Like shell script languages, Perl does not require a special compiler and linker to
turn the programs you write into working code. Instead, all you have to do is
write the program and tell Perl to run it. This means that Perl is ideal for
producing quick solutions to small programming problems, or for creating
prototypes to test potential solutions to larger problems.
l Perl provides all the features of the script languages sed and awk, plus features
not found in either of these two languages. Perl also supports a sed-to-Perl
translator and an awk-to-Perl translator.
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Introduction Unix Operating System

2007-12-11T13:11:00.001-08:00

Unix is a layered operating system. The innermost layer is the hardware that provides the services for the OS. The operating system, referred to in Unix as the kernel, interacts directly with the hardware and provides the services to the user programs. These user programs don’t need to know anything about the hardware. They just need to know how to interact with the kernel and it’s up to the kernel to provide the desired service. One of the big appeals of Unix to programmers has been that most well written user programs are independent of the underlying hardware, making them readily portable to new systems. User programs interact with the kernel through a set of standard system calls. These system calls
request services to be provided by the kernel. Such services would include accessing a file: open close, read, write, link, or execute a file; starting or updating accounting records; changing ownership of a file or directory; changing to a new directory; creating, suspending, or killing a process; enabling access to hardware devices; and setting limits on system resources. Unix is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system. You can have many users logged into a system simultaneously, each running many programs. It’s the kernel’s job to keep each process and user separate and to regulate access to system hardware, including cpu, memory, disk and other I/O devices.
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Introduction Unix Operating System

2007-12-11T13:09:00.001-08:00

XML Tutorial Book

2007-12-11T12:30:00.001-08:00

XML is a text-based markup language that is fast becoming the standard for data interchange on the Web. As with HTML, you identify data using tags (identifiers enclosed in angle brackets, like this: <...>). Collectively, the tags are known as "markup".
Why Is XML Important?
There are a number of reasons for XML's surging acceptance. This section lists a few of
the most prominent.
Plain Text
Since XML is not a binary format, you can create and edit files with anything from a
standard text editor to a visual development environment. That makes it easy to debug
your programs, and makes it useful for storing small amounts of data. At the other end of
the spectrum, an XML front end to a database makes it possible to efficiently store large
amounts of XML data as well. So XML provides scalability for anything from small
configuration files to a company-wide data repository.
Data Identification
XML tells you what kind of data you have, not how to display it. Because the markup tags
identify the information and break up the data into parts, an email program can process it, a search program can look for messages sent to particular people, and an address book can
extract the address information from the rest of the message. In short, because the different parts of the information have been identified, they can be used in different ways by different applications.
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Understanding Visual Basic.NET Syntax and Structure

2007-12-11T12:04:00.001-08:00

To borrow the catch phrase of a now defunct U.S. car manufacturer, “This is not your father’s Visual Basic!” While true to its heritage, Visual Basic.NET is a much-improved version of the venerable Visual Basic language that many of us have grown to love. Visual Basic has matured into a full-featured, object-oriented language. But unlike previous releases of Visual Basic, this version of VB was rebuilt from the ground up. Literally.
In moving to VB.NET, Microsoft has ditched a number of older, arcane features like GoSub
and default properties, and totally reworked features such as arrays and data types. Other
native features like the MsgBox function and the Cxxx convert functions have been demoted. These demoted features are still in VB.NET but Microsoft is recommending that you move to using the .NET System classes instead. Of course, depending on your experience and base of existing legacy VB applications, some of the changes may cause considerable pain. More than likely, however, you will soon grow to appreciate the redesigned VB language. What does the new Visual Basic.NET language mean to the average ASP developer who has written thousands of lines of VBScript code but who has had little exposure to VB proper? If you find yourself in this category of developer, you may experience a short period of bewilderment,
as you get accustomed to the wealth of new features offered by VB.NET, features that
VBScript never offered. But soon enough, you will start to forget the limited VBScript language and grow to appreciate and even love the much more nimble and full-featured VB.NET.
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Tcl Scripting Language

2007-12-11T10:23:00.001-08:00

cripting is difficult to define. It has existed for a long time - the first scripting languages were
job control languages such as the shell program found in Unix systems. Modern scripting
languages such as Perl, Tcl, Python, awk, Ruby and so on are general purpose, but often they
have more powerful basic operations than those found in conventional general purpose computer languages. For example it is common to have operators that perform regular-expression pattern matching in a scripting language.
Scripting languages are normally interpreted, and the interpreter contains the routines to do the pattern matching. One line of script code may be equivalent to 100 lines of C. However, the overhead in having a (say) 3MB script interpreter is sometimes a problem, although less so these days. Perl is widely used, as it is found in active web page developments. Tcl/Tk is useful for GUI development, allowing us to prototype new GUI applications quickly.
The languageTcl (Tool Command Language) is an interpreted scripting language, with useful inter-application communication methods, and is pronounced ’tickle’. Tk originally was an X-window toolkit implemented as extensions to ’tcl’. However, now it is available native on all platforms. The program xspin is an example of a portable program in which the entire user interface is written in wish. The program also runs on PCs using NT or Win95, and as well on Macintoshes.
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Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites Problem Design Solution (Paperback)

2007-12-09T17:20:00.001-08:00

Book Description

Shows Web developers how to make the transition from HTML to XHTML, an XML-based reformulation of HTML that offers greater design flexibility

Demonstrates how to work with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-now supported by ninety percent of browsers and integral to new site-building tools from Macromedia and others-and implement a consistent style throughout and entire site

Explains how to make a site accessible to people with impaired vision, limited hand use, dyslexia, and other issues-now a legal requirement for many sites in the U.S. and the U.K.

OK, so you really know that you need to move on to Style Sheets and the new version of HTML. But you've put it off. The books on XHTML and CSS are long and tedious, and written for beginners so they contain a lot of fluff that you already know.

This book is different. It starts with the presumption that you are already an HTML programmer. In fact you are probably running a site that has a few hundred pages on line and you don't want to go redo the whole thing. This book starts with a fictional web site that uses good HTML 4.0 as was proper in the late 1990's. It's a typical site with lots of tables within tables as was the style of the day.

The first thing that he does is go re-write the HTML into XHTML, removing the commands that handle the style of the presentation. Going to XHMTL is a pretty straightford thing, but without the style aspects you have a pretty dull page.

Second he says let's use CSS to make the page pretty once again. Since you've seen the pages. And you've looked at the HTML that generated them, the task is a conversion, not a design the page problem. This probably matches your real problem a lot better than the way most books cover the subject.

Third is the first word in the title: Accessible. There are now laws coming into effect that say a web site should be accessible to people with various disabilities. What does this mean, and how must you think about page design to make the site accessible?

Finally there is a chapter on what's coming. The web is dynamic and the rules are still changing. This chapter covers the things that are being considered, designed, or discussed about in the committees that make the rules. This is what you will be having to learn next.
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Linux Web Solution PHP-APACHE-MYSQL

2007-12-07T14:13:00.001-08:00

Of all the web servers on the market today, Apache is most popular
because it supplies basic web server functionality right out of the
box. Yet, many customers want a more sophisticated website, one
with SQL database functionality, search capabilities, and server-side
scripting. The complexity and interdependencies of these packages
make it difficult for independent software vendors, solution
developers, and website administrators to put together a solution.
Customizing the Apache server with additional functionality can be
complex on the Linux platform. The solutions for extending
functionality are just not obvious.
This technical guide demonstrates how to integrate PHP, MySQL,
and ht://Dig with the Apache server. Independent software vendors,
solution developers, programmers, and website administrators can
use this guide to plan and deploy advanced Apache web servers on
the Linux platform.
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Linux Programming Unleashed

2007-12-07T14:00:00.001-08:00

Linux has always provided a rich programming environment, and it has only grown richer.
Two new compilers, egcs and pgcs, joined the GNU project’s gcc, the original Linux
compiler. In fact, as this book went to press, the Free Software Foundation, custodians of
the GNU project, announced that gcc would be maintained by the creators and maintainers
of egcs. A huge variety of editors stand alongside the spartan and much-maligned vi
and emacs’ marvelous complexity. Driven largely by the Linux kernel, GNU’s C library
has evolved so dramatically that a new version, glibc (also known as libc6) has emerged
as the standard C library. Linux hackers have honed the GNU project’s always serviceable
development suite into powerful tools. New widget sets have taken their place
beside the old UNIX standbys. Lesstif is a free, source-compatible implementation of
Motif 1.2; KDE, the K Desktop Environment based on the Qt class libraries from
TrollTech, answers the desktop challenge posed by the X Consortium’s CDE (Common
Desktop Environment).
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Linux Administrator Guide 2nd

2007-12-07T13:23:00.001-08:00

Linux is a freely distributable Unix clone for personal computers. It currently
runs on a variety of machines that includes the Intel family of processors, but
also Motorola 680x0 machines, such as the Commodore Amiga and Apple
Macintosh; Sun SPARC and Ultra-SPARC machines; Compaq Alphas; MIPS;
PowerPCs, such as the new generation of Apple Macintosh; and StrongARM,
like the rebel.com Netwinder and 3Com Palm machines. Linux has been
ported to some relatively obscure platforms, like the Fujitsu AP-1000 and the
IBM System 3/90. Ports to other interesting architectures are currently in
progress in developers' labs, and the quest to move Linux into the embedded
controller space promises success.
Linux was developed by a large team of volunteers across the Internet. The
project was started in 1990 by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish college student, as an
operating systems course project. Since that time, Linux has snowballed into a
full-featured Unix clone capable of running applications as diverse as
simulation and modeling programs, word processors, speech recognition
systems, World Wide Web browsers, and a horde of other software, including
a variety of excellent games. A great deal of hardware is supported, and Linux
contains a complete implementation of TCP/IP networking, including SLIP,
PPP, firewalls, a full IPX implementation, and many features and some
protocols not found in any other operating system. Linux is powerful, fast, and
free, and its popularity in the world beyond the Internet is growing rapidly.
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Linux Network Admin Guide

2007-12-07T13:09:00.001-08:00

This book was written to provide a single reference for network administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced users alike should find the information they need to cover nearly all important administration activities required to manage a Linux network configuration. The possible range of topics to cover is nearly limitless, so of course it has been impossible to include everything there is to say on all subjects. We've tried to cover the most important and common ones. We've found that beginners to Linux networking, even those with no prior exposure to Unix-like operating systems, have found this book good enough to help them successfully get their Linux network configurations up and
running and get them ready to learn more. There are many books and other sources of information from which you can learn any of the topics covered in this book (with the possible exception of some of the truly Linux-specific features, such as the new Linux firewall interface, which is not well documented elsewhere) in greater depth. We've provided a bibliography for you to use when you are ready to explore more.
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Linux Install Guide

2007-12-07T13:07:00.001-08:00

This book is meant for UNIX novices and gurus alike. It contains information on
how to obtain Linux, software installation, a tutorial for new Linux users, and an
introduction to system administration. It is meant to be general enough to be applicable
to any distribution of Linux.
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Java Programming Language HandBook

2007-12-07T12:40:00.001-08:00

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Java Programming Language HandBook

2007-12-07T12:31:00.001-08:00

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Delphi - Database application developers book

2007-12-07T11:56:00.001-08:00

Delphi enables you to create robust database applications quickly and easily. Delphi
database applications can work directly with desktop databases like Paradox, dBASE,
the Local InterBase Server, and ODBC data sources. The Delphi Client/Server edition
also works with remote database servers such as Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server,
Informix, InterBase, and ODBC data sources. Delphi client applications can be scaled
easily between mission critical network-based client/server databases, and local
databases on a single machine.
This chapter introduces Delphi’s database tools, including the Data Access and Data
Controls component pages, the Fields Editor, the Database Desktop, and the Database
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Create Dynamic Sites With PHP and MySQL

2007-12-07T11:53:00.001-08:00

This tutorial shows you how to use two open source, cross-platform tools for creating a
dynamic Web site: PHP and MySQL. When we are finished, you will know how dynamic sites
work and how they serve the content, and you will be ready to serve your own dynamic content from your site.
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C++ How to

2007-12-07T11:51:00.001-08:00

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C++ Unleashed eBook

2007-12-07T11:47:00.001-08:00

C++ Unleashed is a survey of advanced topics in C++. The goal of this book is to provide
a focused examination of each of these topics, covering the essential information
you need to fully exploit the power of the C++ language.
Many of the topics in this book deserve a book in their own right. Because it is not possible,
given the available space, to cover every aspect of some of these subjects, the
chapters in this book explain only what is most necessary for you to gain a working
understanding of the technologies they describe. Often, you will find that the information
provided here is sufficient for your immediate needs. Even if that is not always the
case, these chapters provide a useful foundation in these advanced issues that will allow
you to quickly gain a more comprehensive understanding of them with further study.
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100 Trick n Tips for Linux

2007-12-07T11:44:00.001-08:00

This book was written for anyone using Linux, from new users to experts who want to explore this wonderful
operating system. The tips and tricks in this book were discovered by myself over years of experience using Linux, and learning about it. Some are very basic tips to make your computing life easier, others are advanced tricks that can save you days of work.
I tried to cover all distributions of Linux in this book. I personaly use Slackware and RedHat on PC systems. If you find any error in the book, feel free to contact me so a future second edition could correct them.

Chapter 2 covers installation of Linux. These are tips and tricks useful when installing Linux
itself or any new program. Some tips will cover new means of installing Linux on non-typical
hardware, others will explain how to take Linux distributions from an FTP server and make
your own CD-ROM with them, or where to find Linux CD-ROMs for as little as $2.

Chapter 3 covers hardware related matters. You will learn tips there on how to get your
non-PostScript compatible printer to work, or how to get a sound card detected.

Chapter 4 covers software. You will find tips there about all kinds of Linux software,
including where to find and how to install the Java Development Kit port, and everything
about the Pine mail and news program.

Chapter 5 covers networking in all its forms. There you will see how to setup a PPP
connection quickly, without editing all of the configuration files yourself, as well as some nice programs that were made to ease dialup procedures. You will also see tricks on how to make your local LAN network without unexpected problems.

Chapter 6 is the last chapter but covers an important part of Linux: development. Here you will find a lot of tips on how to write powerful scripts to make your system easier to handle, and a full overview of what to do and what you don't want to do in C to avoid problems like
memory leaks, and how to allow easy scalability.
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Access Oracle From Java Tutorial

2007-12-07T11:40:00.001-08:00

You’re writing a Java program and you want to access a database. What should you use? JDBC and/or SQLJ. These are both APIs (or drivers or packages… whatever you want to call them) used to access a database. Why two API’s rather than one? The simple answer is that each one is better for specific situations. Actually, you only need JDBC, but as we’ll see later on in this paper, you’ll want to use SQLJ as well. JDBC is an vendor-independent standard developed by Javasoft which was modeled after ODBC (developed by Microsoft). It stands for Java Database Connectivity. JDBC is today the de facto method for accessing a database from Java. Several vendors, including Oracle, Intersolv, and Weblogic develop several types (the various Oracle drivers will be explained in more detail a few paragraphs from now) of JDBC drivers. Oracle’s, of course, are the best (I’m the product manager for Oracle’s JDBC drivers so it is my duty to brainwash you).
SQLJ is a new standard for embedding SQL directly into Java programs. It is the product of a joint standards effort by Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Tandem, and Informix. For those you who are familiar with Pro*C (embedded SQL in C), you can view SQLJ as Pro*Java. Why isn’t it called Pro*Java then? Pro*anything implies an Oracle-specific technology (Pro*prietary?) while SQLJ is an open standard. As we’ll see later in this paper, SQLJ simplifies the task of writing, managing,anddebugging database-backed Java applications to the point that it is almost pleasurable.
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ASP-Database Tutorial book

2007-12-07T11:06:00.001-08:00

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AJAX and PHP :Building Interactive Web Application

2007-12-07T10:12:00.001-08:00

AJAX is a complex phenomenon that means different things to different people. Computer users appreciate that their favorite websites are now friendlier and feel more responsive. Web developers learn new skills that empower them to create sleek web applications with little effort. Indeed, everything sounds good about AJAX!
At its roots, AJAX is a mix of technologies that lets you get rid of the evil page reload, which represents the dead time when navigating from one page to another. Eliminating page reloads is just one step away from enabling more complex features into websites, such as real-time data validation, drag and drop, and other tasks that weren't traditionally associated with web applications. Although the AJAX ingredients are mature (the XMLHttpRequest object, which is the heart of AJAX, was created by Microsoft in 1999), their new role in the new wave of web trends is very young, and we'll witness a number of changes before these technologies will be properly used to the best benefit of the end users. At the time of writing this book, the "AJAX" name is about just one year old.
AJAX isn't, of course, the answer to all the Web's problems, as the current hype around it may suggest. As with any other technology, AJAX can be overused, or used the wrong way. AJAX also comes with problems of its own: you need to fight with browser inconsistencies, AJAX-specific pages don't work on browsers without JavaScript, they can't be easily bookmarked by users, and search engines don't always know how to parse them. Also, not everyone likes AJAX. While some are developing enterprise architectures using JavaScript, others prefer not to use it at all. When the hype is over, most will probably agree that the middle way is the wisest way to go for most scenarios.
In AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications, we took a pragmatic and safe approach by teaching relevant patterns and best practices that we think any web developer will need sooner or later. We teach you how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to write efficient AJAX code, and how to achieve functionality that is easy to integrate into current and future web applications, without requiring you to rebuild the whole solution around AJAX. You'll be able to use the knowledge you learn from this book right away, into your PHP web applications.
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Pragmatic AJAX: Web 2.0 Primier

2007-12-06T07:32:00.001-08:00

This is a book about developing effective web applications. We’re not
going to dance around this issue. Underneath everything else, this
book is about XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, and standards that have been
around for almost a decade now. Not only do we admit this truth, we
embrace it. Just because these standards have been around for a while
doesn’t mean we can’t build something new and exciting out of them.
Technology, like Jello, takes a while to solidify into something tasty and
satisfying.
Ajax (and Web 2.0) represents the maturation of Internet standards into
a viable application development platform. The combination of stable
standards, better understanding, and a unifying vision amount to a
whole that is greater, by far, than the sum of its parts. With Ajax, you’ll
be able to achieve the double Holy Grail: feature-filled user interfaces
and a no-hassle, no-install deployment story.
It wasn’t long ago that Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax. When
he first released the term onto the public consciousness, it stood for
Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. It has since, like SOAP before it,
lost its acronym status and is just a word. However, it is an enormously
powerful word. With this single word, Jesse James was able to harness
an industry-wide trend toward richer, install-free web applications and
give it focus.
Naming a thing is powerful. In this case, it’s not powerful enough to
become a movement, though. A spark was still lacking. It was to be
provided by an entirely unlikely entity. What follows is the story of
one development team, that spark, and how it changed the way we
approach web software.
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2007-12-06T07:13:00.001-08:00

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MXEntriInjection Book

2007-12-04T14:49:00.001-08:00

This document presents a new attack technique against web applications that communicate
with mail servers, generally webmail applications. Some of these applications are vulnerable to this new threat, which I called MX Injection due to the possibility of injecting commands from mail protocols (IMAP, SMTP).
This document details the techniques and possibilities of MX Injection, as well as some counter measures to protect against this new attack type.
This document is oriented toward web developers building applications that communicate with
mail servers, as well as to security professionals who audit these kinds of applications.
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PHP-MySQL Book for Web Programmer

2007-12-04T12:54:00.001-08:00

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XSS :Script Exploits Attack and Defense

2007-12-04T11:49:00.001-08:00

Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities date back to 1996 during the early days of the World
Wide Web (Web). A time when e-commerce began to take off, the bubble days of
Netscape,Yahoo, and the obnoxious blink tag. When thousands of Web pages were
under construction, littered with the little yellow street signs, and the “cool”Web sites
used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Frames.The JavaScript programming language
hit the scene, an unknown harbinger of cross-site scripting, which changed the
Web application security landscape forever. JavaScript enabled Web developers to create
interactive Web page effects including image rollovers, floating menus, and the despised
pop-up window. Unimpressive by today’s Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) application
standards, but hackers soon discovered a new unexplored world of possibility.
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MySQL and Java Developer Guide

2007-12-04T11:20:00.001-08:00

Have you ever been assigned a project and realized that you had no idea
how you were going to accomplish it? Many developers have experienced
this feeling when asked to interface their code with a database.
With a few exceptions, most developers were busy learning Lisp, linked lists,
and big-O notation during their formal education instead of learning the fundamentals
of relationship database management systems. When the time comes
to interface their code with a database, they turn to a book like the one you are
holding.
Your challenge might be to write a Web-based system using servlets and Enterprise
JavaBeans (EJBs) to transfer shipping records from the home office in
Bend, Oregon, to a satellite shipper in New Jersey. Or perhaps your father just
opened his new medical office and you volunteered to create a scheduling system
over the weekend.
Whatever the situation, interfacing an application to a database is one of the
most fundamental tasks a developer is required to perform. This book is
designed for developers who either have a pressing task ahead of them or who
are curious about how to read database information into their application.
By combining MySQL, the number-one open source database available, with
Java, the most portable language ever developed, you can create an undisputable
champion. So, sit back in your desk chair with a hot chocolate and get
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ASP.NET Cookbook

2007-12-04T11:00:00.001-08:00

This new book provides a wealth of solutions to problems commonly encountered when developing ASP.NET web applications in the popular problem-solution-discussion Cookbook format. For every problem, there's a worked-out solution or recipe a short, focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. This ultimate ASP.NET code sourcebook will quickly earn the dog-eared corners and coffee rings that mark a web developer's most valued resource.

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Extending and Embedding PHP

2007-12-04T10:47:00.001-08:00

In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; developers seeking to build PHP extensions and increase the performance and functionality of their PHP applications are left to word of mouth and muddling through PHP internals without systematic, helpful guidance. Although the basics of extension writing are fairly easy to grasp, the more advanced features have a tougher learning curve that can be very difficult to overcome. This is common at any moderate to high-traffic site, forcing the company hire talented, and high-priced, developers to increase performance. With Extending and Embedding PHP, Sara Golemon makes writing extensions within the grasp of every PHP developer, while guiding the reader through the tricky internals of PHP.

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Ajax for Web Application Developers

2007-12-04T10:39:00.001-08:00

Ajax is one of the latest and greatest ways to improve users' online experience and create new and innovative web functionality. By allowing specific parts of a web page to be displayed without refreshing the entire page, Ajax significantly enhances the experience of web applications. It also lets web developers create intuitive and innovative interaction processes.

Ajax for Web Application Developers provides the in-depth working knowledge of Ajax that web developers need to take their web applications to the next level. The book shows how to create an Ajax-driven web application from an object-oriented perspective, and it includes discussion of several useful Ajax design patterns.

This detailed guide covers the creation of connections to a MySQL database with PHP 5 via a custom Ajax engine and shows how to gracefully format the response with CSS, JavaScript, and XHTML while keeping the data tightly secure. It also covers the use of four custom Ajax-enabled components in an application and how to create each of them from scratch.

The final section of the book combines the individual code examples and techniques from earlier chapters of the book into one larger, Ajax-driven applicationan internal web mail application that can be used in any user-based application, such as a community-based web application. Readers will learn not only how to create and use their own reusable Ajax components in this application

but also how to connect their components to any future Ajax applications that they might build.

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PHP 5 In Practice

2007-12-02T04:08:00.001-08:00

With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP's success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provides developers with easy-to-use and easily extensible code to solve common PHP problems. It focuses on providing real code solutions to problems, allowing the reader to learn by seeing exactly what is happening behind the scenes to get your solution. Because a real-life situation will rarely match the book's example problems precisely, PHP 5 in Practice explains the solution well enough that you will understand it and can learn how to truly solve your own problem.
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Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional

2007-11-30T11:48:00.001-08:00

Welcome to Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional. This book is for novices and teaches JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2 using basic principles. You don't need to know any Java to use this book because JSP 2 is a significant development of the JSP technology that has greatly reduced JSP's reliance on Java knowledge. However, to get the most out of supporting technologies and maximize your JSP applications, you need to know some basic Java techniques. We'll teach you these techniques and show you when and where to use the Java language.

The JSP 2 specification is the biggest revision of JSP since its creation. It's now easier for nonprogrammers to build powerful, dynamic Web applications. The authors of this book realize that JSP 2 is a tremendously powerful tool but that it's also a daunting prospect for many nonprogrammers. In response to this, the authors have written an easily accessible guide for those who are beginning their career in Web programming. This book introduces all the important concepts without fuss or overcomplication and always keeps the readers' best interests at heart.

Chapter 1 takes you through the Java and JSP installation processes so you're ready for the rest of the book. Chapter 2 is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) recap, which will act as a useful reference for those who already know a little HTML. After running through the basics, the book moves through simple JSP pages in Chapter 3 to working with data in Chapter 4, probably the most common and important task you'll have to undertake when using JSP. After all, what's the point of using dynamic Web pages if you have no dynamic data on which to work?

Chapters 5 and 6 introduce your first Java and show you how to use simple Java utility code to enhance your JSP pages. The emphasis is always on JSP and how Java fits into the new JSP 2 framework. Throughout these chapters you'll slowly build and incrementally improve an application that uses HTML forms, databases, and validation. The book explains each stage and introduces good practice as you learn new techniques.

Chapters 7 and 8 introduce more advanced JSP techniques and use the newly incorporated JSP Tag Library (JSTL) tags to work with dates, times, and formatting. Chapter 8 introduces Extensible Markup Language (XML), the ubiquitous data description specification, and JSP's tools for dealing with it. XML is such an important part of modern Web applications that it's essential in any beginner's handbook. You'll soon find that XML is an inescapable part of today's Web.

Chapters 9 and 10 cover topics that will ensure your applications are well designed and flexible. Specifically, Chapter 9 covers servlets and filters, both of which are Java classes that run alongside JSP pages and add robust functionality to any Web application. Chapter 10 introduces the Model-View-Controller design concept and the Struts framework, which implements it for JSP pages. By using Struts you instantly add good design and flexibility without any of the hard work usually associated with scalable Web applications.

By the time you've finished the book, you'll have an example Web application for taking data, validating it, storing it in a database, and reporting back to the user. However, the real benefit will be in the design under the covers. Your application will use good practice throughout and can form the basis for many similar applications in the future.

I hope you enjoy reading this work and that you have every success in the future.

Matthew Moodie, Editor

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Software Architecture Design and Patterns

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About Author

Partha Kuchana is an experienced enterprise systems architect. He has eleven
years of experience in all aspects of project delivery management (onsite/offshore
models), enterprise architecture, design, development, mentoring and training. He
is a Sun certified enterprise architect.
During the last several years, he has worked on numerous client–server, Ebusiness,
Web portal and enterprise application integration (EAI) projects at various
client sites in the United Kingdom and the United States, involving iterative design
methodologies such as Rational Unified Process (RUP) and extreme programming.
He has extensive experience applying design patterns in application architecture
and design. He has successfully architected and designed business-to-business
systems and complex heterogeneous systems integration using Web services,
middleware and messaging products from various vendors. He has several published
software-related publications.

About this Book

The objective of this book is to discuss design patterns in an easy to understand
manner with simple examples. This book discusses 42 design patterns including
the 23 patterns by GoF. These patterns are arranged in six categories:

* 7 Basic Patterns — Section III (Chapter 3 through Chapter 9)
* 5 Creational Patterns — Section IV (Chapter 10 through Chapter 14)
* 4 Collectional Patterns — Section V (Chapter 15 through Chapter 18)
* 11 Structural Patterns — Section VI (Chapter 19 through Chapter 29)
* 11 Behavioral Patterns — Section VII (Chapter 30 through Chapter 40)
* 4 Concurrency Patterns — Section VIII (Chapter 41 through Chapter 44)

Each pattern discussion starts with an explanation of the pattern followed by
an example implemented in Java™ programming language. How a given pattern
is applied in the example is discussed in detail along with code segments and
UML diagrams (class, sequence). At the end of each pattern discussion, a few
practice questions are provided for you to work on to improve your understanding
of the pattern. Wherever applicable, patterns are compared with other similar
looking patterns. The examples in this book are kept simple for easy understanding. The
objective is to enhance the explanation of each pattern with examples for a better
understanding.The UML section provides an overview of the Unified Modeling Language
(UML) and discusses various elements of class and sequence diagrams.
The case study at the end of the book demonstrates the collective usage of
different design patterns in a real-world application design scenario. This section
discusses how various patterns can be used in designing a reusable application
framework for a fictitious Web hosting company.

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Hardcore Java

2007-11-30T10:30:00.001-08:00

Hardcore Java is an advanced book that focuses on the little-touched but critical parts of the Java programming language that expert programmers use. We're not talking about trivial things; we're talking about difficult but extremely powerful and useful programming techniques like reflection, advanced data modeling, advanced GUI design, and advanced aspects of JDO, EJB and XML-based web clients. This unique book reveals the true wizardry behind the complex and often-mysterious Java environment.
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High Performance MySQL

2007-11-30T09:04:00.001-08:00

In High Performance MySQL you will learn about MySQL indexing and optimization in depth so you can make better use of these key features. You will learn practical replication, backup, and load-balancing strategies with information that goes beyond available tools to discuss their effects in real-life environments. And you'll learn the supporting techniques you need to carry out these tasks, including advanced configuration, benchmarking, and investigating logs.
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