Beginning F#

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Functional programming is perhaps the next big wave in application development. As experienced developers know, functional programming makes its mark by allowing application builders to develop solutions to complicated programming situations cleanly and efficiently. A rich history of functional languages, including Erlang and OCaml, leads the way to F#, Microsoft’s effort to bring the elegance and focus of functional programming into the world of managed code and .NET.

With Beginning F#, you have a companion that that will help you explore F# and functional programming in a .NET environment. This book is both a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the language and an incisive guide to using F# for real-world professional development.

Reviewed by Don Syme, the chief architect of F# at Microsoft Research, Beginning F# is a great foundation for exploring functional programming and its role in the future of application development.

What you’ll learn

• Gain a deep familiarity with the tenets and advantages of functional programming.
• Understand F#’s concise and elegant syntax.
• Access the huge range of libraries and components that run on the .NET Framework.
• Develop for real-world scenarios using functional programming and F#.
• Develop realistic applications through a comprehensive tutorial-based approach.
• Learn imperative and concurrent programming techniques within the functional programming paradigm.

Who is this book for?

F# is the future of programming (not just on .NET), and the future is now. If you are already familiar with functional programming, you’ll find Beginning F# a great introduction to the language itself. If you are new to the FP arena, this book will also serve as a superb reference to FP in general and F# specifically.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

About the Author

Robert Pickering is an extraordinarily prolific writer on F#. The F# Wiki on his Strangelights.com web site is among the most popular F# web sites in the world. He is a consultant for LexiFi, lives in France, and works on projects in England, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. He received his bachelor’s of science in computer science from Manchester University in 1999.

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Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons

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If you play World of Warcraft, chances are you know what Deadly Boss Mods is: it’s the most widely downloaded modification available for WoW, considered required software for many professional raid guilds, and arguably the most popular modern video game mod in history.

Paul Emmerich, the author of Deadly Boss Mods, will take you from novice to elite with his approachable, up-to-date guide to building addons for the most popular video game in history. Using the powerful Lua scripting language and XML, you’ll learn how to build and update powerful mods that can fundamentally remake your World of Warcraft experience and introduce you to the field of professional software development.

Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Addons teaches you the essentials of Lua and XML using exciting code examples that you can run and apply immediately. You’ll gain competence in Lua specifics like tables and metatables and the imperative nature of Lua as a scripting language. More advanced techniques like file persistence, error handling, and script debugging are made clear as you learn everything within the familiar, exciting context of making tools that work in Azeroth.

You’ll not only learn all about the World of Warcraft API and programming, and gain coding skills that will make all your online friends think you’re a coding god, but also gain hands-on Lua scripting experience that could translate into an exciting job in the video game industry!

What you’ll learn

• See how to program Lua using basic and advanced techniques applicable to WoW and video game coding.
• Explore the unique design, modeling, and workflow constraints of video game mod makers from one of its most successful practitioners.
• Become the coolest character on your server–with tools and scripts that will make your friends gasp.

Who is this book for?

This book is for World of Warcraft players, developers, and mod makers who want to learn how to program addons in Lua and XML, either to learn Lua or to improve their game experience. Working coders who don’t know Lua and want to learn about this exciting, popular scripting language will also benefit.

The advanced material in this book will also be useful to those with World of Warcraft addon programming experience, so prior programming experience is an advantage, but not a requirement.

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Macromedia Flash 8 for Windows & Macintosh

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An improved script editor (with a visual interface), a revamped library interface, a new Undo feature, powerful run-time effects, breakthrough motion-graphics capabilities—these are just a few of the reasons Web designers are raving about the newest version of their favorite Web tool, Macromedia Flash 8. Whether you’re a beginning user looking for a good introduction to the topic or a veteran user seeking a convenient update reference, you’ll find what you need in this task-based guide. Using simple step-by-step instructions, straightforward language, loads of screen shots, and a plethora of readily accessible examples, author Katherine Ulrich shows you how to create engaging interactive content for the Web with Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. From basic vector graphics to animation with motion tweening and beyond, this inexpensive, easy-to-use guide promises to get you up to speed fast on the most important application in your design toolbox—Macromedia Flash 8.

About the Author

Katherine Ulrich is a writer and editor specializing in graphics, publishing, and multimedia software. Her career includes a 12-year stint at Macworld magazine. Katherine wrote the previous best-selling editions, including Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press/Macromedia Press).

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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide (Expert’s Voice)

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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide is a quick reference for resolving problems that intermediate-to-advanced MOM administrators are likely to face. Authors Andy Dominey and Garry Meaburn have experience with both deploying and troubleshooting MOM in large-scale environments, and the problems and solutions they discuss are ones they have actually faced in their careers.

This book is ideal if youre already familiar with MOM, but are not yet an expert at administering it. All of the solutions and troubleshooting tips get right to the point. Furthermore, the chapters are stand-alone and can be read in any order you choose. This is a book for those who measure twice before they cutand for those who didnt but wish they had.

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Foundations of Jini 2 Programming

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To understand Jini, imagine that you could move to a new office across the world or check into any hoteland could simply plug your notebook or Palm directly into the local network. Your device would immediately be recognized, and you would have access to the services at that locationtransparently. Jini is Sun’s Java-based technology, with potential to make transparent “universal plug and play” a reality.

Foundations of Jini 2 Programming, based on Jini 2.0, is an expanded, updated version of the most popular online tutorial for Jini. This is the perfect book for any Java programmer interested in learning and applying Jini toward their respective network applications (any Java-enabled device interoperable with another Java-enabled device).

Author Jan Newmarch covers comprehensive Jini advancements as well as other important concepts like how Enterprise JavaBeans blend in with the Jini framework and how CORBA fits in as well. This book contains revised chapters as well as several new chapters. New topics include Jeri, Config, Logging, ServiceStater, and advanced security.

About the Author

Jan Newmarch teaches in the Department of Information Science and Engineering at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is a well-known figure in the Java and Jini community, and is author of the best-known online tutorial on Jini.

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Network+ 2005 In Depth

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“Network+ 2005 In Depth” gives you all the skills that you need to pass the CompTIA 2005 Network+ exam. Begin with an introduction to the fundamental building blocks that form a modern network, such as protocols, topologies, hardware, and network operating systems. Then, dive into the most important concepts in contemporary networking, such as client/server architecture, TCP/IP, Ethernet, wireless transmission, and security. When you are finished, you will be prepared to select the best network design, hardware, and software for your environment. You will also have the skills to build a network from scratch and maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot an existing network. CoursePrep Exam Guide available on Companion Web Site!

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APPLE MAC SERIES MANUALS

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Don’t Just Roll The Dice – A usefully short guide to software pricing

Don't Just Roll The Dice - A usefully short guide to software pricing

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How do you price your software? Is it art, science or magic? How much attention should you pay to your competitors? This short handbook will provide you with the theory, practical advice and case studies you need to stop yourself from reaching for the dice. Table of Contents Chapter 01: Some – but not too much – Economics Chapter 02: Pricing Psychology: What is your product worth? Chapter 03: Pricing Pitfalls Chapter 04: Advanced Pricing Chapter 05: What your price says about you (and how to change it) Why read this book? “At Business of Software 2007 Michael Pryor held an impromptu session on how to price your software. So many people turned up, and so many people kept on arriving, that by the time they’d introduced themselves there was no time left to talk about software pricing. I’ve had similar experiences; in fact, “How do I price my software?” is probably the most common question I’m asked by software entrepreneurs and product managers. This handbook is an attempt to answer that question.” Neil Davidson, Author. About the Author Neil Davidson is co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software. Red Gate was founded in 1999 and now employs some 150 people. It was Cambridge News business of the year in 2006 and has been in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for three years running. It was founded with no VC money and little debt. Neil is also founder of the annual Business of Software conference and runs the Business of Software social network.

The iPhone Developers Cookbook Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK 2nd Edition

The iPhone Developers Cookbook Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK 2nd Edition

Want to get started building applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch? Already building iPhone applications and want to get better at it? This is the only book that brings together all the expert guidance–and the code–you’ll need!

Completely revised and expanded to cover the iPhone 3.0 SDK, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is the essential resource for developers building apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. Taking you further than before, this new edition starts out with an introduction to Objective-C 2.0 for developers who might be new to the platform. You’ll learn about Xcode and Interface Builder and learn how to set up and configure your iPhone Developer account. Additional highlights of this new edition include:

Using the iPhone SDK’s visual classes and controllers to design and customize interfaces

Using gestures, touches, and other sophisticated iPhone interface capabilities

Making the most of tables, views, view controllers, and animations

Alerting users with progress bars, audio pings, status bar updates, and other indicators

Using new Push Notifications to send alerts, whether your app is running or not

Playing audio and video with the MediaKit

Working with the Address Book, Core Location, and Sensors

Connecting to the Internet, Web services, and networks

Embedding flexible maps with MapKit and Google Mobile Maps

Building multiplayer games with GameKit

Using Core Data to build data-driven applications

Selling add-on content and services with In-App Purchasing using StoreKit

Building accessible apps with Accessibility Plus

The unique format of The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook presents the code you need to create feature-rich applications that leverage the latest features of the iPhone 3.0 SDK. Over 30,000 iPhone developers turned to the first edition of The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook. So should you!

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Wireless Networks Information Processing and Systems

Wireless Networks Information Processing and Systems

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008, held in Jamshoro, Pakistan, in April 2008.

The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 135 submissions. The topics include but are not limited to wireless sensor networks, satellite communication, grid computing, tracking, remote sensing, data mining, bioinformatics as well as legal and ethical issues in IT.

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Introduction to Data Technologies

Introduction to Data Technologies

Focuses on computer languages as tools for data management
Providing key information on how to work with research data, Introduction to Data Technologies presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so much time and effort yet typically receive little attention in formal education. With a focus on computational tools, the book shows readers how to improve their awareness of what tasks can be achieved and describes the correct approach to perform these tasks.Practical examples demonstrate the most important points
The author first discusses how to write computer code using HTML as a concrete example. He then covers a variety of data storage topics, including different file formats, XML, and the structure and design issues of relational databases. After illustrating how to extract data from a relational database using SQL, the book presents tools and techniques for searching, sorting, tabulating, and manipulating data. It also introduces some very basic programming concepts as well as the R language for statistical computing. Each of these topics has supporting chapters that offer reference material on HTML, CSS, XML, DTD, SQL, R, and regular expressions.

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A Generative Theory of Relevance

A Generative Theory of Relevance

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A modern information retrieval system must have the capability to find, organize and present very different manifestations of information – such as text, pictures, videos or database records – any of which may be of relevance to the user. However, the concept of relevance, while seemingly intuitive, is actually hard to define, and it’s even harder to model in a formal way.

Lavrenko does not attempt to bring forth a new definition of relevance, nor provide arguments as to why any particular definition might be theoretically superior or more complete. Instead, he takes a widely accepted, albeit somewhat conservative definition, makes several assumptions, and from them develops a new probabilistic model that explicitly captures that notion of relevance. With this book, he makes two major contributions to the field of information retrieval: first, a new way to look at topical relevance, complementing the two dominant models, i.e., the classical probabilistic model and the language modeling approach, and which explicitly combines documents, queries, and relevance in a single formalism; second, a new method for modeling exchangeable sequences of discrete random variables which does not make any structural assumptions about the data and which can also handle rare events.

Thus his book is of major interest to researchers and graduate students in information retrieval who specialize in relevance modeling, ranking algorithms, and language mode

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CompTIA Network+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition

CompTIA Network+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition By Michael Meyers

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | English | 2009-05-21 | ISBN: 0071614877 | 704 pages | PDF | 22,7 MB

Get complete coverage of all the material included on the latest release of the CompTIA Network+ exam inside this fully updated, comprehensive resource. Written by CompTIA certification and training expert Mike Meyers, this authoritative exam guide features learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CompTIA Network+ exam with ease, this definitive volume also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

Covers all exam topics, including how to:

• Build a network with the OSI seven-layer model
• Configure network hardware, topologies, and cabling
• Connect multiple Ethernet components
• Configure wireless networks
• Work with network protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SIP, and IMAP
• Configure IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols
• Share and access network resources
• Interconnect network operating systems-Windows, Mac OS, UNIX/Linux
• Set up clients and servers for remote access
• Monitor and troubleshoot networks
• Secure networks with firewalls, packet filtering, encryption, authentication, and other methods


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Refactoring: Ruby Edition

Refactoring: Ruby Edition

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The Definitive Refactoring Guide, Fully Revamped for Ruby

With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler’s classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout–not code adapted from Java or any other environment.

The authors introduce a detailed catalog of more than 70 proven Ruby refactorings, with specific guidance on when to apply each of them, step-by-step instructions for using them, and example code illustrating how they work. Many of the authors’ refactorings use powerful Ruby-specific features, and all code samples are available for download.

Leveraging Fowler’s original concepts, the authors show how to perform refactoring in a controlled, efficient, incremental manner, so you methodically improve your code’s structure without introducing new bugs. Whatever your role in writing or maintaining Ruby code, this book will be an indispensable resource.

This book will help you

• Understand the core principles of refactoring and the reasons for doing it

• Recognize “bad smells” in your Ruby code

• Rework bad designs into well-designed code, one step at a time

• Build tests to make sure your refactorings work properly

• Understand the challenges of refactoring and how they can be overcome

• Compose methods to package code properly

• Move features between objects to place responsibilities where they fit best

• Organize data to make it easier to work with

• Simplify conditional expressions and make more effective use of polymorphism

• Create interfaces that are easier to understand and use

• Generalize more effectively

• Perform larger refactorings that transform entire software systems and may take months or years

• Successfully refactor Ruby on Rails code

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Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3

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Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software, called BI 2.0. This generation is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.

As computers and software have evolved, more data can be presented to end users with increasingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight can be used to transform traditional UIs filled with boring data into fully interactive analytical applications to deliver insight from large data sets quickly. Furthermore, RIA applications include 3D spatial design capabilities that allow for interesting layouts of aggregated data beyond a simple list or grid. BI 2.0 implemented via an RIA technology can truly bring out the power of BI and deliver it to an average user via the Web.

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Rich Internet Applications provides developers, designers, and architects a solid foundation of BI design and architecture concepts with Microsoft Silverlight. This book covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without requiring an existing BI infrastructure. The author, Bart Czernicki, will show you how to build small BI applications by example that are interactive, highly visual, statistical, predictive, and most importantly, intuitive to the user.

BI isn’t just for the executive branch of a Fortune 500 company; it is for the masses. Let Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Rich Internet Applications show you how to unlock the rich intelligence you already have.

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Tree-Structure based Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Theoretical Foundations and Applications

Tree-Structure based Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Theoretical Foundations and Applications

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Research in computational intelligence is directed toward building thinking machines and improving our understanding of intelligence. As evident, the ultimate achievement in this field would be to mimic or exceed human cognitive capabilities including reasoning, recognition, creativity, emotions, understanding, learning and so on. In this book, the authors illustrate an hybrid computational intelligence framework and it applications for various problem solving tasks. Based on tree-structure based encoding and the specific function operators, the models can be flexibly constructed and evolved by using simple computational intelligence techniques. The main idea behind this model is the flexible neural tree, which is very adaptive, accurate and efficient. Based on the pre-defined instruction/operator sets, a flexible neural tree model can be created and evolved.

This volume comprises of 6 chapters including an introductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions and the last Chapter provides some important research challenges. Academics, scientists as well as engineers engaged in research, development and application of computational intelligence techniques and data mining will find the comprehensive coverage of this book invaluable.

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MacBook Air Portable Genius

MacBook Air Portable Genius

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You don’t have to be a genius to use a MacBook Air. But if you want to get the very most out of yours, put this savvy Portable Genius guide to work and start ramping up the pace. Want to connect your MacBook Air to a television or network printer? Remotely view your Webcam via the Internet? Improve your e-mail life with a smart mailbox? Synch with MobileMe or your cell? You’ll find cool and useful Genius tips, full-color screenshots, and pages of easy-to-access shortcuts and tools that will save you loads of time.

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Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems

Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems

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The focus of this book is not how to make technology more efficient, nor even how technology harms or helps society, but rather how to successfully combine society and technology into socio-technical performance.

The Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems (2-Volumes) provides a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge in this evolving, multi-disciplinary field distinctive in its variety of international authors’ perspectives, depth and breadth of scholarship, and combination of practical and theoretical views. This noteworthy Handbook of Research extends a useful collection for anyone interested in modern socio-technical systems where knowledge of social principles can mean the difference between success and failure. This title offers: 53 authoritative contributions by over 100 of the world’s leading experts on socio-technical design and social networking systems from 16 countries; comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field; more than 1,900 references to existing literature and research on socio-technical design and social networking systems; a compendium of over 350 key terms with detailed definitions. This title is organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals. It features cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to socio-technical design and social networking systems and free institution-wide access to the online version with the purchase of the print publication.

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Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook

Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook

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Extend and Customize Oracle E-Business Suite

Transform your Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure to suit enterprise requirements using the comprehensive development methods in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle E-Business Suite Development & Extensibility Handbook lays out each tool alongside reusable code and step-by-step examples. Learn how to create multiorg objects, integrate Java and PL/SQL, design custom user interfaces, and use Oracle Application Framework and Oracle Workflow. This detailed volume also explains how to work with Oracle XML Gateway, publish dynamic business intelligence reports, and tune your configuration.

• Manage an efficient development platform with Oracle Application Object Library
• Develop concurrent programs, customized forms, and personalized graphical user interfaces
• Securely share data between organizations
• Distribute business communiqués through Oracle Reports and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
• Develop Java extensions with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Framework
• Capture and graphically map business processes using Oracle Workflow
• Exchange data between applications via Oracle XML Gateway
• Change the appearance of applications using Custom Look and Feel
• Integrate Oracle E-Business Suite with service-oriented architecture using Oracle Applications Adapter On Demand

About the Author

Anil Passi is an Oracle ACE with more than 10 years of technical consulting experience. He is a speaker on Oracle Applications, and an Oracle University trainer.

Vladimir Ajvaz heads the future technologies development team at the Imperial College in London.

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Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices)

Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices)

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Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You ll also get links to additional technical resources that can help with your application development.

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Neural Networks and Micromechanics

Neural Networks and Micromechanics

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This is an interdisciplinary field of research involving the use of neural network techniques for image recognition applied to tasks in the area of micromechanics. The book is organized into chapters on classic neural networks and novel neural classifiers; recognition of textures and object forms; micromechanics; and adaptive algorithms with neural and image recognition applications. The authors include theoretical analysis of the proposed approach, they describe their machine tool prototypes in detail, and they present results from experiments involving microassembly, and handwriting and face recognition.

This book will benefit scientists, researchers and students working in artificial intelligence, particularly in the fields of image recognition and neural networks, and practitioners in the area of microengineering.

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Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player: A Guide to C++ Object-Oriented Control

Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player: A Guide to C++ Object-Oriented Control

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Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player provides a comprehensive guide to creating object-oriented C++ programs for robots using the Player and Aria APIs within a Linux environment. A basic knowledge of object-oriented techniques is assumed, but the text is written in a user-friendly style, and is equally suitable for researchers with previous experience of robot control, or for students completely new to the field. The book is fully supported throughout with examples, diagrams, sample programs, and configuration files. MobileRobot’s Pioneers are used as vehicles throughout the book, but most of the techniques and programs that are demonstrated for Player are directly applicable to the wide number of other makes and models that the API supports. In addition, the Aria section is also appropriate for other robots made by MobileRobots.

The book discusses how to install the various pieces of software needed and also describes how to:

• configure robots;

• control robots remotely;

• program each individual sensor and actuator; and

• set up and control robots, in both the real world and in a simulated environment (either through Player’s Stage plug-in or Aria’s MobileSim simulator).

Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player serves as a complete text for undergraduate and postgraduate robotics programming modules, and is also an invaluable reference source for students, teachers and researchers.

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Programming .NET Components

Programming .NET Components

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Brilliantly compiled by author Juval Lowy, “Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework–the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to use the .NET Framework to program reusable, maintainable, and robust components. Following in the footsteps of its best-selling predecessor, “Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition has been updated to cover .NET 2.0. It remains one of the few practical books available on this topic. This invaluable resource is targeted at anyone who develops complex or enterprise-level applications with the .NET platform–an ever-widening market. In fact, nearly two million Microsoft developers worldwide now work on such systems.

“Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition begins with a look at the fundamentals of component-oriented programming and then progresses from there. It takes the time to carefully examine how components can simplify and add flexibility to complex applications by allowing users to extend their capabilities. Next, the book introduces a variety of .NET essentials, as well as .NET development techniques. Within this discussion on component development, a separate chapter is devoted to each critical development feature, including asynchronous calls, serialization, remoting, security, and more. All the while, hazardous programming pitfalls are pointed out, saving the reader from experiencing them the hard way.

A .NET expert and noted authority on component-oriented programming, Lowy uses his unique access to Microsoft technical teams to the best possible advantage, conveyingdetailed, insider information in easy-to-grasp, activity-filled language. This hands-on approach is designed to allow individuals to learn by doing rather than just reading. Indeed, after digesting “Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition, readers should be able to start developing .NET components immediately.

“Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework–the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to use the .NET Framework to program reusable, maintainable, and robust components.

Following in the footsteps of its best-selling predecessor, “Programming .NET Components,” Second Edition has been updated to cover .NET 2.0. This invaluable resource is targeted at anyone who develops complex or enterprise-level applications with the .NET platform–an ever-widening market.

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Maximum PC – September 2009

Maximum PC - September 2009

Maximum PC – Are you techno savvy? Looking to make improvements to your PC? Or just trying to keep up with the latest in home computing? Maximum PC is the No.1 magazine for home computing enthusiasts. Editorial covers reviews of new computers and equipment, profiles of leaders in the industry and those making advances. Subscribe to maximumpc today! Note: This is the non-disc version.

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MacUser – 4 December 2009

MacUser - 4 December 2009

MacUser – 4 December 2009
PDF | 101 pages | 37.5 Mb | English

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System Modeling and Control with Resource-Oriented Petri Nets

System Modeling and Control with Resource-Oriented Petri Nets

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Petri nets are widely used in modeling, analysis, and control of discrete event systems arising from manufacturing, transportation, computer and communication networks, and web service systems. However, Petri net models for practical systems can be very large, making it difficult to apply such models to real-life problems.

System Modeling and Control with Resource-Oriented Petri Nets introduces a new resource-oriented Petri net (ROPN) model that was developed by the authors. Not only does it successfully reduce model size, but it also offers improvements that facilitate effective modeling, analysis, and control of automated and reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

Presenting the latest research in this novel approach, this cutting-edge volume provides proven theories and methodologies for implementing cost and time-saving improvements to contemporary manufacturing systems. It provides effective tools for deadlock avoidance—deadlock-free routing and deadlock-free scheduling. The authors supply simple and complex industrial manufacturing system examples to illustrate time-tested concepts, theories, and approaches for solving real-life application problems. Written in a clear and concise manner, the text covers applications to automated and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems, semiconductor manufacturing systems, and flexible assembly systems.

Explaining complex concepts in a manner that is easy to understand, the authors provide the understanding and tools needed for more effective modeling, analysis, performance evaluation, control, and scheduling of engineering processes that will lead to more flexible and efficient manufacturing systems.

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Debugging Linux Systems

Debugging Linux Systems

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Debugging Linux Systems discusses the main tools available today to debug 2.6 Linux Kernels. We start by exploring the seemingly esoteric operations of the Kernel Debugger (KDB), Kernel GNU DeBugger (KGDB), the plain GNU DeBugger (GDB), and JTAG debuggers. We then investigate Kernel Probes, a feature that lets you intrude into a kernel function and extract debug information or apply a medicated patch. Analyzing a crash dump can yield clues for postmortem analysis of kernel crashes or hangs, so we take a look at Kdump, a serviceability tool that collects a system dump after spawning a new kernel. Profiling points you to code regions that burn more CPU cycles, so we learn to use the OProfile kernel profiler and the gprof application profiler to sense the presence of code bottlenecks. Because tracing provides insight into behavioral problems that manifest during interactions between different code modules, we delve into the Linux Trace Toolkit, a system designed for high-volume trace capture.

The section “Debugging Embedded Linux” takes a tour of the I/O interfaces commonly found on embedded hardware, such as flash memory, serial port, PCMCIA, Secure Digital media, USB, RTC, audio, video, touch screen, and Bluetooth, and provides pointers to debug the associated device drivers. We also pick up some board-level debugging skills with the help of a case study. The section “Debugging Network Throughput” takes you through some device driver design issues and protocol implementation characteristics that can affect the horsepower of your network interface card. We end the shortcut by examining several options available in the kernel configuration menu that can emit valuable debug information.

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Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 1

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 1

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture held in Beijing, China on October 18-20, 2008.

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

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Spring Enterprise Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Spring Enterprise Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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The Spring Framework is a widely adopted enterprise and general Java framework. The release of Spring Framework 3.0 has added many improvements and new features for Spring development. Written by Gary Mak of the best-selling Spring Recipes and Josh Long, an expert Spring user and developer, Spring Enterprise Recipes is one of the first books on the new Spring 3.

This key book focuses on Spring Framework 3.0, the latest version available, and a framework-related suite of tools, extensions, plug-ins, modules, and more—all of which you may want and need for building three-tier Java EE applications.

• Build Spring enterprise and Java EE applications from the ground up using Recipes from this book as templates to get you started, fast.
• Employ Spring Integration, Spring Batch and jBPM with Spring to bring your application’s architecture to the next level.
• Use Spring’s remoting, and messaging support to distribute your application, or bring your application to the cloud with GridGain and Terracotta.

What you’ll learn

• Integrate legacy systems with Spring, bridging the gaps with Spring’s JMS support and Spring Integration.
• Use Spring Batch to insulate yourself from the tedious, hard-to-test code required to efficiently handle offline or batch processing scenarios.
• Build highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta
• Build modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server. Take the lightweight philosophy of the Spring framework to its logical extension. The Spring framework brings you all of the power of JEE, à la carte!
• Integrate Spring with Java EE 5 and 6 APIs and services
• How to leverage job scheduling, and e-mail services using Spring’s abstractions.

Who is this book for?

A new breed of applications are in demand today. These applications are either simply not supported by JEE, or the support is tedious, and not reflective of modern day architectures. This book is for those with a working knowledge of Java and Spring who would like to take their skills, and their applications, to the next level.

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WordPress 2.8 Theme Design

WordPress 2.8 Theme Design

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Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it’s quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it. The second is “Unique and Beautiful”. Occasionally, the site’s theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you’ll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes. This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors. Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you’ll find clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.

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Microsoft Silverlight 3: A Beginner’s Guide

Microsoft Silverlight 3: A Beginner's Guide

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Essential Skills Made Easy This hands-on guide prepares software developers to create next-generation Web and Windows applications using Microsoft Silverlight–the new technology that extends the .NET Framework to the client. The book covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite technologies. You will learn to use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight applications, and implement security.

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ModSecurity 2.5

ModSecurity 2.5

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Prevent web application hacking with this easy to use guide

• Secure your system by knowing exactly how a hacker would break into it
• Covers writing rules in-depth and Modsecurity rule language elements such as variables, actions, and request phases

• Covers the common attacks in use on the Web, and ways to find the geographical location of an attacker and send alert emails when attacks are discovered
• Packed with many real-life examples for better understanding

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Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 5

Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 5

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The scalability, performance and Emmy Award-winning workflow of Final Cut Pro 5 make it the first choice of professional editors everywhere. For those clamoring to get in on the action, this best-selling volume uses a series of class-length lessons designed to provide a strong foundation in all aspects of the digital video editing powerhouse. Readers follow the step-by-step instructions to complete the book’s hands-on exercises, using the project files on the accompanying DVD. Master teacher Diana Weynand covers everything from basic editing skills to complex topics such as creating transitions and motion effects, real-time color correcting, titling techniques, and more. Previously published as Final Cut Pro HD, this revision has been updated to cover all of Final Cut Pro 5’s new features, including higher quality effects, RT Extreme with Dynamic RT, editing multi-camera projects, closer integration with Apple’s other creative tools and more.

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Microsoft Windows 7 Your Way: Speed Up and Customize Window

Microsoft Windows 7 Your Way: Speed Up and Customize Window

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Want to make Windows 7 run faster, smarter, easier, better? Want to personalize Windows to look and act the way you want it to? Want to get
more efficient and ditch all those Windows hassles? You don’t need
a Ph.D in computer science or expensive upgrades. All you need is this book!

Michael Miller makes it easy to tweak Windows so it works just like you

want it to–and runs smooth as silk for years to come. No extreme hacking required: These are simple, step-by-step techniques anyone can perform in minutes–even beginners!

• Customize Windows 7’s desktop for the way you work

• Strip out bloated, worthless software that slows your PC down

• Get your network running faster and more reliably

• Surf the Web more quickly and safely

• Improve performance and battery life on notebooks and netbooks

• Get more security with fewer annoyances

• Discover great free and cheap alternatives to Microsoft’s built-in software

• Fix Windows 7’s most aggravating problems

• And much more…

Michael Miller has written more than 100 non-fiction how-to books over the past 20 years, including Que’s Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics, Speed It Up! A Non-Technical Guide for Speeding Up Slow Computers, and How Microsoft Windows Vista Works. His books have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. He has earned a reputation for clearly explaining technical topics to non-technical readers and for offering useful real-world advice about complex topics.

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The Google Best Practices Guide(Updated in September 2009)

The Google Best Practices Guide(Updated in September 2009)
Jerry West | ISBN: N/A | September 2009 | 176 pages | PDF | 10.3 MB

The Google Best Practices Guide is the only guide available based strictly on test results. TO ACHIEVE High Rankings in Google , You Need 583 Domains Working For You To Show You How To Dominate Google. Google isn’t going to tell you how things really work with their algorithm, and the whole Matt Cutts “nofollow” issue is a clear indication of that. You need a trusted source to get you the right information – at the right time.This is the only guide you will need to improve your Google rankings. The Google Best Practices Guide contains information found no where else. You will learn SEO techniques that have been proven through countless hours of testing on real domains. I share same optimization techniques that I’ve used to build 583 dominant websites.
Let’s face it, there are many Search Engine “Gurus” that claim Matt Cutts of Google is one of their “best buddies” and that he gives them “secret inside information” no one else knows. I have one question when I hear this: How long do you think Google would keep Matt around if he was leaking “secret information” about the Google search filters and algorithms.
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