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To achieve success in ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board. This book demonstrates how successful businesses can - and should - use customer experiences to inform and shape the product development process, from start to finish.

Widgets have become a popular expression of Ajax, enabling developers to build small real-time data applications that web masters and users can import into a web page - applications that offer stock quotes, weather, surveys, and dictionaries. This work shows how to create ultra-portable widgets that you can share or roll out on a web server.

Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to "e;rent"e; computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications.With AWS, Amazon offers a new paradigm for IT infrastructure: use what you need, as you need it, and pay as you go. Programming Amazon Web Services explains how you can access Amazon's open APIs to store and run applications, rather than spend precious time and resources building your own. With this book, you'll learn all the technical details you need to: Store and retrieve any amount of data using application servers, unlimited data storage, and bandwidth with the Amazon S3 service Buy computing time using Amazon EC2's interface to requisition machines, load them with an application environment, manage access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as neededUse Amazon's web-scale messaging infrastructure to store messages as they travel between computers with Amazon SQSLeverage the Amazon FPS service to structure payment instructions and allow the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computersCreate and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results using Amazon SimpleDB.Scale up or down at a moment's notice, using these services to employ as much time and space as you needWhether you're starting a new online business, need to ramp up existing services, or require an offsite backup for your home, Programming Amazon Web Services gives you the background and the practical knowledge you need to start using AWS. Other books explain how to build web services. This book teaches businesses how to take make use of existing services from an established technology leader.

A guide to the tips, techniques, standards, and methods of website optimization. It reveals a set of techniques to improve your site's performance by boosting search engine visibility for more traffic, increasing conversion rates to maximize leads and profits, revving up site speed to retain users, and measuring your site's effectiveness.

Offers developers and testers the tools they need to make security testing a regular part of their development lifecycle. This practical book helps to find recipes related to manual, exploratory testing as well as recipes for automated security testing that you can make part of your regression cycle. It focuses on how to test web applications.

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE.MAKE magazine leaves no stone unturned in its quest for the bizarre in Volume 09, the Fringe issue. Behold such wonders as the cosmic ray cloud chamber, high-voltage levitation, and the amazing vortex tube. Plus, learn how to make almost anything with carbon fiber, photograph the luminous auras around everything, and build a $5 guitar amp. Explore the fringes of technology with projects and articles that push the boundaries of physics and reason.

Introduces Makers to a parallel universe of surreal office-based projects. This book offers oblique industrial design and fabrication philosophies, and cultural reference points.

Includes chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with an appendix that covers Microsoft's WPF/E platform for delivering UI through standard web browsers - much like Adobe Flash. This book explains and compares the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications.

Written by members of the development team that maintains Subversion, this is the official guide and reference manual for the popular open source revision control technology. The new edition covers Subversion 1.5 with a complete introduction and guided tour of its capabilities, along with best practice recommendations.Version Control with Subversion is useful for people from a wide variety of backgrounds, from those with no previous version control experience to experienced system administrators.Subversion is the perfect tool to track individual changes when several people collaborate on documentation or, particularly, software development projects. As a more powerful and flexible successor to the CVS revision control system, Subversion makes life so much simpler, allowing each team member to work separately and then merge source code changes into a single repository that keeps a record of each separate version.Inside the updated edition Version Control with Subversion, you'll find:An introduction to Subversion and basic concepts behind version controlA guided tour of the capabilities and structure of Subversion 1.5Guidelines for installing and configuring Subversion to manage programming, documentation, or any other team-based projectDetailed coverage of complex topics such as branching and repository administrationAdvanced features such as properties, externals, and access controlA guide to best practicesComplete Subversion reference and troubleshooting guideIf you've never used version control, you'll find everything you need to get started. And if you're a seasoned CVS pro, this book will help you make a painless leap into Subversion.

Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored. This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions. This book answers the following questions: What forces created the need for Enterprise Services Architecture?How does ESA enable business process innovation?How is model-driven development used at all levels of design, configuration, and deployment?How do all the layers of technology that support ESA work together?How will composite applications extend business process automation?How does ESA create new models for IT governance?How can companies manage disruptive change?How can enterprise services be discovered and designed?How will the process of adapting applications be simplified?Based on extensive research with experts from the German software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA in a detailed way--especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks. The concise solutions and examples in the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook range from simple tasks to the more complex, organized by the types of problems you need to solve. Nearly every recipe contains a complete, documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as well as a discussion of how the underlying technology works and that outlines alternatives, limitations, and other considerations. As with all O'Reilly Cookbooks, each recipe helps you quickly understand a problem, learn how to solve it, and anticipate potential tradeoffs or ramifications.Useful features of the book include:Over 300 recipes written in the familiar O'Reilly Problem-Solution-Discussion formatHundreds of code snippets, examples, and complete solutions available for downloadVB6 updates to alert VB6 programmers to code-breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005Recipes that target Visual Basic 2005 features not included in previous releasesCode examples covering everyday data manipulation techniques and language fundamentalsAdvanced projects focusing on multimedia and mathematical transformations using linear algebraic methodsSpecialized topics covering files and file systems, printing, and databasesIn addition, you'll find chapters on cryptography and compression, graphics, and special programming techniques. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook is sure to save you time, serving up the code you need, when you need it.

Windows XP powers millions of PCs and is one of the widely used operating system in the world. For those interested in zeroing in on just the information they need without the complicated jargon, this book provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and illustrations. It is useful for a first-time and also for an experienced user.

Useful as a reference to the Visual Basic programming language, this title covers almost all the ins and outs of Visual Basic 2005, including features, such as Generics, My Namespace, and operators. It also includes an alphabetical reference to Visual Basic 2005 statements, procedures, functions, and objects.

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.Whether you use Access 2007 or an earlier version, this book will teach you new methods to query data, different ways to move data in and out of Access, how to calculate answers to financial and investment issues, and more. Learn how to apply statistics to summarize business information, how to jump beyond SQL by manipulating data with VBA, how to process dates and times, and even how to reach into the Excel data analysis toolkit. Recipes demonstrate ways to:Develop basic and sophisticated queriesApply aggregate functions, custom functions, regular expressions, and crosstabsApply queries to perform non-passive activities such as inserting, updating, and deleting dataCreate and manipulate tables and queries programmaticallyManage text-based data, including methods to isolate parts of a string and ways to work with numbers that are stored as textUse arrays, read and write to the Windows registry, encrypt data, and use transaction processingUse the FileSystemObject, use XML with XSLT, communicate with SQL Server, and exchange data with other Office productsFind answers from time-based data, such as how to add time, count elapsed time, work with leap years, and how to manage time zones in your calculationsDeal with business and finance problems, including methods for calculating depreciation, loan paybacks, and Return on Investment (ROI)Explore statistical techniques, such as frequency, variance, kurtosis, linear regression, combinations and permutationsAccess Data Analysis Cookbook is a one-stop-shop for extracting nuggets of valuable information from your database, and anyone with Access experience will benefit from these tips and techniques, including seasoned developers. If you want to use your data, and not just store it, you'll find this guide indispensable.

SharePoint Office Pocket Guide is the quick path to sharing documents and building lists. Written specifically for users of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, it covers the ins and outs of SharePoint clearly and concisely. Within minutes, you'll understand how to:Create team sites, document libraries, and shared workspaces.Add web parts to create custom pages.Build searchable libraries of PDF files.Link local copies of Word and Excel files to SharePoint workspace copies.Reconcile changes from multiple authors.Review document history.Use the Explorer Views to drag-and-drop files into SharePoint quickly.Create data lists that look up values from other lists (look-up tables).Group, total, and filter list items using views.Use InfoPath form libraries to collect data.You get the how and why of the top tasks without the tedious menu-by-menu walkthroughs that take hundreds of pages but add little value. SharePoint Office Pocket Guide also includes a guide to online resources that expand your knowledge of specific topics.

Good software testing can increase productivity, improve designs, raise quality, and make you more productive overall. This hands-on labs series teaches how Perl's test tools work and how to use them to create basic and complex tests and interpret the results. This notebook is helpful in reducing the software development cycle times.

Looks at how you can turn your car into a Wi-Fi blasting, computer-controlled, GPS-enabled, biodiesel monster; how to turn a VCR into a pet feeding robot, make a see-through potato cannon, create a remote-controlled haunted house for Holloween, and gives you the skinny on cheap welding.

The fact that Linux has more multimedia application choices than Mac OS X and Windows combined may come as a surprise to many, but not to those who know Linux well. In Linux Multimedia Hacks, author Kyle Rankin showcases the best available multimedia tools so you can maximize the entertainment capabilities of your favorite OS. Included are tips and tricks for connecting to iPods, creating MP3s and Oggs, watching and making DVDs, turning your Linux box into a Tivo ala MythTV, and much more.You don't have to be a Linux server guru to make use of this book. Linux Multimedia Hacks takes the best of Linux's multimedia tools and with step-by-step instructions shows even novice users how to do cool and useful things with images, audio, and video. It includes entry level hacks that nearly all Linux users will want, such as installing codecs for audio and video playback and managing thousands of photographs. Later, you'll find hacks that cover a variety of advanced projects, from ripping and organizing media files with metatags, to editing video and audio tracks, to creating your own DVDs. Basic or advanced, each hack stands on its own, so you can feel free to jump around to only the sections that interest you.The book is divided into five easy-to-understand chapters:Images: tips range from basic image edits to automated image manipulationAudio: hacks include audio format conversion and tweaking metadata within audio filesVideo: learn how to covert between video formats, plus how to create your own VCDs and DVDsBroadcast Media: tips include how to access and create you own web broadcasts as well as watch and record TVWeb: learn how to make your multimedia creations available to the worldAs one of the most powerful multimedia platforms around, Linux has far more capabilities and features than meets the eye. This latest Hacks book gives you the technical chops to enjoy them all.

Eclipse is the world's most popular IDE for Java development. And although there are plenty of large tomes that cover all the nooks and crannies of Eclipse, what you really need is a quick, handy guide to the features that are used over and over again in Java programming. You need answers to basic questions such as: Where was that menu? What does that command do again? And how can I set my classpath on a per-project basis?This practical pocket guide gets you up to speed quickly with Eclipse. It covers basic concepts, including Views and editors, as well as features that are not commonly understood, such as Perspectives and Launch Configurations. You'll learn how to write and debug your Java code--and how to integrate that code with tools such as Ant and JUnit. You'll also get a toolbox full of tips and tricks to handle common--and sometimes unexpected--tasks that you'll run across in your Java development cycle.Additionally, the Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide has a thorough appendix detailing all of Eclipse's important views, menus, and commands.The Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide is just the resource you need for using Eclipse, whether it's on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Put it in your back pocket, or just throw it in your backpack. With this guide in hand, you're ready to tackle the Eclipse programming environment.

Even film diehards have a tough time resisting the instant gratification of the digital camera. Today's digital cameras are more affordable then ever before, and they deliver high quality images that are a snap to share. Plus, you can take risks with a digital camera you never would with a film camera. You waste nothing; there's no film required, and because you only print the pictures you need, digital photography is cost effective and environmentally friendly.But to take full advantage of a digital camera, you need to be an experienced photographer and an expert at digital photography too. With more than 15 years of experience as a photojournalist, author Derrick Story brings you Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition. For everyone who owns or will own a digital camera (and that pretty much means everyone!), this is the perfect on-the-go guide for taking top-notch digital photos.In this third edition of the bestselling pocket guide, Story expands on the basic photography techniques that he introduced in earlier editions, including an explanation of each camera component and what it does, tips for choosing just the right settings for your needs, and much more. This indispensable guide covers everything from how to shoot sports action, close ups, and night shots, to dealing with image resolution, archiving, and memory cards.Affordable and portable, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition offers full-color photographs, screen shots, and line art illustrating all the topics in the guide's three main sections ("e;Digital Camera Components,"e; "e;Standard Camera Functions,"e; and "e;How Do I?"e;). Contents are labeled A to Z for quick reference. There's also a comprehensive table of contents and index so you'll waste no time flipping to the specific information you need--whether you want to transfer images, make a QuickTime movie, or just figure out what purpose that mystery setting on your camera serves. There's even a section of easy-to-read reference tables for quick look-up of white balance settings, exposure compensation, camera mode explanations, and plenty more.

Built on the .NET Framework, Monad provides a powerful infrastructure for the automation of a range of administrative tasks. This book is a tour of some of the important capabilities that Monad puts into the hands of system administrators and power users.

Providing how-to information on retro gaming, this is a guide to playing and hacking classic games. The author aims to locate the convergence of classic games and contemporary software, revealing not only how to retrofit classic games for systems, but how to find the golden oldies hidden in contemporary programs as well.

This straightforward guide shows SharePoint users how to create and use web sites for sharing and collaboration. Learn to use the document and picture libraries for adding and editing content, add discussion boards and surveys, receive alerts when documents and information have been added or changed, and enhance security.

Everything there is to know about the world's most widely used operating system. Updated to include information on the security technologies featured in Service Pack 2 (SP2), this desktop reference is dedicated to making your time at the computer safer, easier, and more fun.

Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution .These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad audience: the software developer will find thoughtful reflections on practices and methodology from leading open source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while the business executive will find analyses of business strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay.From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology trends, these essays are a must-read.The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact of this model on all forms of online collaboration is fundamentally challenging our modern notion of community.What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel traces the migration of open source ideas from computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide frontline views of functioning, flourishing online collaborative communities.The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to imagine.Open Sources 2.0 further develops the evolutionary picture that emerged in the original Open Sources and expounds on the transformative open source philosophy."e;This is a wonderful collection of thoughts and examples bygreat minds from the free software movement, and is a must have foranyone who follows free software development and project histories."e;--Robin Monks, Free Software MagazineThe list of contributors includeAlolita SharmaAndrew HesselBen LaurieBoon-Lock YeoBruno SouzaChris DiBonaDanese CooperDoc SearlsEugene KimGregorio RoblesIan MurdockJeff BatesJeremy AllisonJesus M. Gonzalez-BarahonaKim PoleseLarry SangerLouisa LiuMark StoneMark StoneMatthew N. AsayMichael OlsonMitchell BakerPamela JonesRobert AdkinsRuss NelsonSonali K. ShahStephen R. WalliSteven WeberSunil SaxenaTim O'ReillyWendy Seltzer

This book is the Windows Server version of the classic TCP/IP Network Administration. Like the book that inspired it, Windows Server 2003 Network Administration provides an overview of the essential TCP/IP protocols, and explains how to properly manage and configure the services based on these protocols. Any skilled network administrator knows that understanding how things work is as important as knowing how things are done. This book is the essential guide to both, containing everything a network administrator needs to exchange information via the Internet, and to build effective reliable networks.This must-read guide is divided into three distinct sections: fundamental concepts, tutorial, and reference. The first three chapters are a basic discussion of the network protocols and services. This discussion provides the fundamental concepts necessary to understand the rest of the book. The remaining chapters provide a how-to tutorial for planning, installing and configuring various important network services. The book concludes with three appendixes that are technical references for various configuration options. Content specifics include how to:Install, configure, and manage a Microsoft DNS and Windows DHCP serverControl remote communications with Microsoft RRAS softwareProtect hosts with Internet Connection FirewallsConfigure Internet and Intranet Web services with IISDesign proper security into your networkTroubleshoot the network when problems developAfter you've turned the final page of Windows Server 2003 Network Administration, you'll not only understand how to network, but also why it needs to be done.

If you're an advanced security professional, then you know that the battle to protect online privacy continues to rage on. Security chat rooms, especially, are resounding with calls for vendors to take more responsibility to release products that are more secure. In fact, with all the information and code that is passed on a daily basis, it's a fight that may never end. Fortunately, there are a number of open source security tools that give you a leg up in the battle.Often a security tool does exactly what you want, right out of the box. More frequently, you need to customize the tool to fit the needs of your network structure. Network Security Tools shows experienced administrators how to modify, customize, and extend popular open source security tools such as Nikto, Ettercap, and Nessus.This concise, high-end guide discusses the common customizations and extensions for these tools, then shows you how to write even more specialized attack and penetration reviews that are suited to your unique network environment. It also explains how tools like port scanners, packet injectors, network sniffers, and web assessment tools function.Some of the topics covered include:Writing your own network sniffers and packet injection toolsWriting plugins for Nessus, Ettercap, and NiktoDeveloping exploits for MetasploitCode analysis for web applicationsWriting kernel modules for security applications, and understanding rootkitsWhile many books on security are either tediously academic or overly sensational, Network Security Tools takes an even-handed and accessible approach that will let you quickly review the problem and implement new, practical solutions--without reinventing the wheel. In an age when security is critical, Network Security Tools is the resource you want at your side when locking down your network.

This lab-style guide works through nearly 50 mini-projects that introduce the Mono 1.0 release. It teaches how to acquire, install, and run Mono on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X and work with the various Mono components - from the CLR to the Mono C.

Providing the information Oracle DBAs need to keep databases operating at peak performance, this title describes each initialization parameter, including category and whether it can be modified dynamically via the ALTER SESSION or ALTER SYSTEM command. You'll also find performance tips and optimal settings for different configurations.