Object Design or The Complete Idiots Guide to Starting an Ebay Business

Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations

Author: Rebecca Wirfs Brock

If you create software using object-oriented languages and tools, then Responsibility-Driven Design has likely influenced your work. For over ten years Responsibility-Driven Design methodology has been the standard bearer of the behavioral approach to designing object-oriented software. Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations focuses on the practice of designing objects as integral members of a community where each object has specific roles and responsibilities. The authors present the latest practices and techniques of Responsibility-Driven Design and show how you can apply them as you develop modern object-based applications.

Working within this conceptual framework, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alan McKean present how user requirements, system architecture, and design patterns all contribute to the design of an effective object model. They introduce a rich vocabulary that designers can use to discuss aspects of their designs, discuss design trade-offs, and offer practical guidelines for enhancing the reliability and flexibility of applications. In addition, case studies and real-world examples demonstrate how the principles and techniques of Responsibility-Driven Design apply to real-world software designs.

You'll find coverage of such topics as:

Strategies for selecting and rejecting candidate objects in an emerging design model

Object role stereotypes and how to identify objects' behaviors

How to characterize objects using role stereotypes

Allocating responsibilities to appropriate objects

Developing a collaboration model

Strategies for designing applicationcontrol centers

Documenting and describing a design, focusing on use cases, design conversations, and annotations

Strategies for enhancing reliability, including handling exceptions and recovering from errors

How to characterize software variations and design to support them for greater flexibility

How to categorize and treat various kinds of design problems

As all experienced designers know, software design is part art and inspiration and part consistent effort and solid technique. Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations will help all software designers--from students to seasoned professionals--develop both the concrete reasoning skills and the design expertise necessary to produce responsible software designs.

0201379430B08292002

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Design Concepts	1
Ch. 2	Responsibility-Driven Design	39
Ch. 3	Finding Objects	77
Ch. 4	Responsibilities	109
Ch. 5	Collaborations	149
Ch. 6	Control Style	195
Ch. 7	Describing Collaborations	239
Ch. 8	Reliable Collaborations	277
Ch. 9	Flexibility	315
Ch. 10	On Design	355
	Bibliography	375
	Index	381

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an Ebay Business

Author: Barbara Weltman

It's payday on eBay®!

You may have been making some money on the side with eBay®, but if you've done much business at all, you know that it's not always as easy as it seems. Whether you want to be a full- time seller or make money on the side, this book will guide you step-by-step through creating the eBay® business you've dreamed of. It covers the basics of an eBay® business including record keeping, taxes, legal issues, sourcing, promotion, fraud protection, fulfillment, and other details entrepreneurs need to know. It also helps you determine what to sell, how to price it, and the details of working with services like PayPal.

Author Biography: Barbara Weltman has written over a dozen business books, including J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes and CIG to Starting a Home-Based Business. She is Staples.com's Small Business Tax Expert and has appeared as a small business expert on CNN, CNBC, Today, and eBay® Live.

RFID Essentials or Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business

RFID Essentials

Author: Bill Glover

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is rapidly changing the way businesses track inventory and assets. From Walmart and Tesco, to the U.S. Department of Defense, early efforts are already showing benefit, but software, integration, and data processing for RFID still present a challenge. If you are a developer or an architect charged with developing an RFID system, this book is for you. Drawing on extensive experience, Bill Glover and Himasnhu Bhatt provide you with essential information on this emerging technology.

In RFID Essentials you will find information on:

Tags and Tag Protocols including Electronic Product Code (EPC)

Readers and Reader Protocols

RFID Middleware

Security and Privacy

Managing RFID Devices

RFID's impact on your Architecture

With the knowledge you gain in these pages you will possess the information and understanding you need to start designing, building or integrating with RFID systems.

Table of Contents:

1	An introduction to RFID	1
2	RFID architecture	21
3	Tags	55
4	Tag protocols	77
5	Readers and printers	107
6	Reader protocols	119
7	RFID Middleware	137
8	RFID information service	171
9	Manageability	187
10	Privacy and security	197
11	The future	215
App	EPC identity encodings	229

Interesting book: Tax Research or Public Education

Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business

Author: Hunter Hastings

Today, marketing has clear marching orders: Drive profitable growth, and build brand equity that translates into real stockholder value. In this book, enterprise marketing management pioneer, Hunter Hastings, introduces the breakthrough tools and techniques you need to deliver on these commitments. Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business will help you bring unprecedented discipline, clarity, and productivity to marketing–and deliver unprecedented results. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience consulting with enterprise marketers, Hastings takes you behind the scenes at today’s most innovative marketing organizations: from Procter & Gamble to Brown-Forman, Kimberly-Clark to Microsoft, Wachovia to Hyatt. Building on their insights, Hastings reveals how to bring relentless customer focus and enterprise-wide integration to all your marketing efforts.  You’ll find specific guidance on topics ranging from product development and brand portfolio management to accountability. Along the way, Hastings shows how to systematically rethink and optimize your entire approach to marketing: processes, organization, technology, metrics, leadership…everything!

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web Designer or Real World QuarkXPress 7

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web Designer

Author: Jim Cheshir

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web

 

We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Expression Web proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Expression Web, Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web is the only book you need.

 

• 
  Create standards-compliant websites with Expression Web that will work consistently in all browsers.
• 
  Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web.
• 
  Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET without the need to write any code.
• 
  Learn how to use Expression Web with the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition to develop robust ASP.NET applications.
• 
  Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers.
• 
  Design your website for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance.

 

 

Category Web Development

Covers    Microsoft Expression Web

User Level    Intermediate—Advanced

 

“There’s definitely more to this book than just how to use Expression Web. The chapter on tag properties not only clearly explains Expression Web’s Tag Properties task pane, but it also alleviates some of the mystery behind the use of tags in HTML. This is a great book for all users of Expression Web!”

—Detra Newhouse, Readiness Lead,

Microsoft Corporation

 

Jim Cheshire is the owner of Jimco Software, the most well-known sourceof freeware add-ins for Microsoft FrontPage, and is the author of Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. Jim has been featured in numerous publications including MSDN Magazine and PC Magazine.

Jim previously worked on the FrontPage team at Microsoft and is currently an Escalation Engineer on the ASP.NET and IIS teams.

 

     On the CD-ROM

• 
  Sample files from the author
• 
  FREE! full version of Logo Creator (retail value of $39.95)
• 
  FREE! full version of DHTML Menu Builder Lite (retail value of $25)
• 
  Electronic version of this book in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF)

 

 

Introduction xxix

Part I An Overview

Chapter 1 A Tour of Expression Web 3

Part II Web Sites in Expression Web

Chapter 2 Creating a Web Site                  25

Chapter 3 Importing a Web Site           41

Chapter 4 Web Site Management and Reporting    67

Chapter 5 Publishing a Web Site            83

Chapter 6 Using Personal Web Packages              93

Part III Creating and Editing Web Content

Chapter 7 Creating Pages and Content               103

Chapter 8 Using Web Page Views      127

Chapter 9 Using Tables and Layout Tables             149

Chapter 10 Using Frames     179

Chapter 11 Using Forms Controls           195

Chapter 12 Editing Tag Properties          215

Chapter 13 Using the Quick Tag Tools                        227

Chapter 14 Using Graphics and Multimedia             241

Chapter 15 Configuring Page Editor Options          257

16 Using Find and Replace                            271

Part IV Using CSS in Expression Web

Chapter 17 Creating Style Sheets       289

Chapter 18 Managing CSS Styles           311

Part V Optimizing Your Web Site         

Chapter 19 Accessibility Features in Expression Web          339

Chapter 20 Designing for Compatibility                       349

Part VI Scripting, DHTML, and Other Dynamic Content

Chapter 21 Using Dynamic Web Templates        363

Chapter 22 Using Interactive Buttons 381

Chapter 23 Using Behaviors               393

Chapter 24 Using Client Scripting        415

Chapter 25 Using Layers    439

Chapter 26 Creating VBA Macros       455

Part VII ASP.NET Development in Expression Web

Chapter 27 Using the ASP.NET Development Server         485

Chapter 28 Using Standard ASP.NET Controls   495

Chapter 29 Using ASP.NET Navigation Controls 527

Chapter 30 Using ASP.NET Master Pages          549

Chapter 31 Developing a Login System Using ASP.NET     569

Chapter 32 Implementing Form Validation Using ASP.NET  595

Chapter 33 Using ASP.NET Web Parts                607

Part VIII Accessing Data in Expression Web

Chapter 34 Primer on Data Access Technologies           629

Chapter 35 Accessing Data with ASP.NET 2.0          635

Part IX Appendices

A Using Expression Web with Visual Web Developer Express Edition  655

B Taking Advantage of E-Commerce      677

C The Future of Web Development        685

D Resources on Expression Web, Web Design, and ASP.NET                    695

Index       699

Interesting book: Preventative Law for Business Professionals or Career Development and Systems Theory

Real World QuarkXPress 7

Author: David Blanter

Real World QuarkXPress is the world's best-selling reference on QuarkXPress. At many design firms and schools it's considered required reading. With its friendly, easy-to-read style, you'll learn QuarkXPress from the bottom up as a beginner. If you've had some experience with QuarkXPress, this book will help you sharpen your skills with all the new features of version 7. And if you're an advanced user, all the tips, tricks, and techniques will turn you into a raging, inexorable QuarkXPress demon.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Speed up just about every task with the new Measurements palette
• Apply sophisticated drop shadows to text, images, boxes, and more
• Experiment with transparency and image effects
• Create expert tables with imported Microsoft Excel data and rich formatting
• Collaborate with others using the Shared Content and Composition Zones technologies
• Prevent sticky output problems with color setups, output styles, and Job Jackets
• Automate your projects with new QuarkXPress scripts and third-party XTensions

For the latest updates, visit the Real World QuarkXPress site: www.peachpit.com/Quark7

"This is the book. Period. I've learned something from every new edition of Real World QuarkXPress since 1990."
—Jay Nelson, Editorial Director, PlanetQuark.com and Design Tools Monthly

Simply JavaScript or Will Work for Fun

Simply JavaScript

Author: Kevin Yank

Packed with full-color examples, Simply JavaScript is all you need to start programming in JavaScript the right way. Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events (such as mouse clicks and key strokes), and design eye-catching animations. Then move on to more powerful techniques using the DOM and Ajax.

World-renowned authors, Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams have used their exquisite skills and in-depth knowledge of JavaScript to deliver a book that teaches JavaScript with unprecedented clarity.

This JavaScript beginner's book will show you how to:
-Learn JavaScript's built-in functions, methods, and properties.
-Easily integrate JavaScript into your web site.
-Use JavaScript to validate form entries and interact with your users.
-Understand how to respond to user events.
-Create animations that bring your web site to life.
-Start programming using the DOM and Ajax.

See also: Anlagengebäude & Gemeinschaftsentwicklung

Will Work for Fun: Three Simple Steps for Turning Any Hobby or Interest into Cash

Author: Alan R Bechtold

Will Work for Fun illustrates how, anyone can easily turn any hobby or outside interest into a reliable source of incomefreeing the reader to do what he or she truly loves doing, all day long. Will Work for Fun invites readers to discover their hidden interests and talents, then walks them through a simple process, developing those interests into a thriving business. The author has discovered the way to make his play pay, enabling him to play all day, every day. He has perfected the fine art of turning fun into money by thinking like a publisher (not like a writer). And he consistently makes better money having fun than I could ever make working at a job.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Foreword   Dr. Joe Vitale     xi
Prologue: "Why Don't They Stop?"     xiii
A Million to One     xiv
What Would You Do?     xvi
We Can All Be Rock Stars     xvii
Introduction: The True Nature of Work     xix
Round-the-Clock Non-Workaholic     xx
Work: A Different View     xxi
A Best-Selling Author's Life-Without Writing a Word     xxiii
Publishers Make the Real Money     xxvii
About the Author     xxix
The Sitcom as Life     1
Why Your Life Never Matches What You See on the Screen-And How Easy It Is to Create a Life That Does     1
Inventorying Your Life Experience     14
Identifying Your Real Passion     17
Where You Are Now-And Why     23
Getting Where You Want to Be-Fast     31
FUN Money Profile: Erik D. Stafford     38
Wrap-Up     40
Which Friend Are You?     43
Jenny Gets Started     44
A Different Definition of Work     46
Rachel, Monica, Chandler, or Ross?     50
What about Phoebe-Or Joey?     52
Discovering the Character You Really Play in Your Life     53
Reinventing the Character You Really Play in Your Life     56
FUN Money Profile: Jorge Arguello     59
Wrap-Up     61
It All Starts with a Book     63
Free Fun Is Great Fun     64
Mail Boxed In     66
Plotting Your New Life     67
Storyboarding Your New Life: It's like Planning a Screenplay-But a Lot Easier     71
Casting Call: Plugging In Your Character     75
Characters Count     78
Be Your Own Nielsen-Finding Out What Your Prospects Want to Buy before You Spend One Minute Developing Anything     80
Planning the Happy Ending     84
FUN Money Profile: Lori Steffen and Jeff Wark     86
Wrap-Up     90
Scripting the Pilot     93
A Small Social Experiment     94
If You Can Write-Great!     95
If You Can't Write or Simply Don't Want to Write-Great!     98
The Key to FUN Money: Think like a Publisher     100
Finding the Right Resources     104
Preselling the Fall Season     119
Selecting the Right Product/Promotional Mix     120
FUN Money Profile: Don Strinz     139
Wrap-Up     143
The "Pitch"      147
Selling Isn't Hard When You're Selling You     147
Setting Your Marketing System Goals     148
You Have to Sell Free, Too     149
How to Create a Marketing Campaign That Will Attract Prospects     150
Mr. Whipple Really Knew His Marketing     151
A Driving Rain-of Prospects, Customers, and Cash     160
An Easy Marketing System for {dollar}200 or Less     160
Virtually Lock Out Any Potential Competitors     166
FUN Money Profile: Randy Charach     168
Wrap-Up     173
The Payday That Never Ends     177
Recycling: It's Not Just for Aluminum Cans     177
How to Repurpose Everything You Do     178
Your Newsletter-The Constant Marketer     180
Continue Developing and Finding New, Profitable Products and Services to Sell to Your Growing List of Fans     182
FUN Money Profile: C. J. Bronstrup     185
Wrap-Up     189
Epilogue     191
FUN Money Profile: Lee and Robin Collins     192
Afterword   Mark Joyner     203
Index     205

Computer Aided Legal Research on the Internet or Introductory Techniques for 3 D Computer Vision

Computer-Aided Legal Research on the Internet

Author: Craig Simonsen

KEY BENEFIT: This book is an essential tool for paralegal and other legal professionals to bring computer-aided legal research alive. KEY TOPICS: It provides an introduction to computers in the law, reviews and explains sources and evaluation of documents and materials found on the Internet, and features many examples of doing CALR. MARKET: For paralegal and other legal professionals.

Interesting textbook: Microeconomics or The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marketing

Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision

Author: Emanuele Trucco

An applied introduction to modern computer vision, focusing on a set of computational techniques for 3-D imaging, this book covers a wide range of fundamental problems encountered within computer vision and provides detailed algorithmic and theoretical solutions for each. Each chapter concentrates on a specific problem and solves it by building on previous results.

FEATURES:

• Provides a guide to well-tested theory and algorithms including solutions of problems encountered in modern computer vision.
• Contains many practical hints highlighted in the book.
• Develops two parallel tracks in the presentation, showing how fundamental problems are solved using both intensity and range images, the most popular types of images used today.
• Each chapter contains notes on the literature, review questions, numerical exercises, and projects.
• Provides an Internet list for accessing links to test images, demos, archives and additional learning material.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface: About this Book
1	Introduction	1
2	Digital Snapshots	15
3	Dealing with Image Noise	51
4	Image Features	67
5	More Image Features	95
6	Camera Calibration	123
7	Stereopsis	139
8	Motion	177
9	Shape from Single-image Cues	219
10	Recognition	247
11	Locating Objects in Space	279
App. A.1	Experiments: Good Practice Hints	307
App. A.2	Numerical Differentiation	311
App. A.3	The Sampling Theorem	314
App. A.4	Projective Geometry	316
App. A.5	Differential Geometry	320
App. A.6	Singular Value Decomposition	322
App. A.7	Robust Estimators and Model Fitting	326
App. A.8	Kalman Filtering	328
App. A.9	Three-dimensional Rotations	332
	Index	335

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All in One Desk Reference or Handbook of Logic in Computer Science

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference

Author: Andy Cowitt

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies provides a one-stop reference for users looking to harness the power of this Web building suite. The book covers each of the core applications in Studio MX including Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Fireworks, ColdFusion and, newly added to this edition, Contribute. Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies also contains coverage on using all the applications together in a single Web building project as well as an overview of the basics of good Web design. This book, like the product itself, should appeal to both professional and hobbyist Web builders who want a single product that can do the work of six or seven separate products.

Interesting book: Dissecting a C Application or Step by Step Composition Techniques for Digital Photographers

Handbook of Logic in Computer Science: Semantic Modelling, Vol. 4

Author: Samson Abramsky

The Handbook of Logic in Computer Science is a multi-volume work covering all the major areas of the application of logic to theoretical computer science. It comprises six volumes, each containing five or six chapters giving an in-depth overview of one of the major topics in the field. The handbook is the result of many years of cooperative effort by eminent researchers in the area, and will no doubt be the standard reference work in logic and theoretical computer science for years to come. Volume 4: Semantic Modelling covers the fundamental topics of semantic modelling in logic and computation. Contents include models for concurrency, concrete process algebra, correspondence between operational and denotational semantics, effective algebras, and abstract interpretation.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Models for concurrency	1
	Concrete process algebra	149
	Correspondence between operational and denotational semantics: the full abstraction problem for PCF	270
	Effective algebras	357
	Abstract interpretation: a semantics-based tool for program analysis	527
	Index	637

Data Structure and Other Objects Using C or AutoCAD 2002 Tutorial

Data Structure and Other Objects Using C++

Author: Michael Main

This book successfully balances the introduction of object-oriented concepts with data structures in C++. KEN TOPICS:Provides interfaces for the principal example classes, which are compliant with the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard Library classes. Thorough coverage of the role of the const keyword in the C++ Standard Library. Covers C++ features such as namespaces, static member constants, typename keyword, and inheritance. Thorough review of C++ syntax and OOP concepts, making book accessible for programmers at various levels. The book also gives readers a firm grasp of key concepts and allows programmers experienced in another language to adjust easily. A solid foundation in building and using abstract data types is also provided, along with an assortment of advanced topics such as B-trees for project building and graphs. This book is designed for novice programmers who have learned the concepts of objects and classes and want to move on to the data structures topics of recursion and data abstraction.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The phases of software development	1
Ch. 2	Abstract data types and C++ classes	33
Ch. 3	Container classes	95
Ch. 4	Pointers and dynamic arrays	145
Ch. 5	Linked lists	211
Ch. 6	Software development with templates, iterators, and the STL	278
Ch. 7	Stacks	348
Ch. 8	Queues	389
Ch. 9	Recursive thinking	431
Ch. 10	Trees	469
Ch. 11	Tree projects	534
Ch. 12	Searching	575
Ch. 13	Sorting	622
Ch. 14	Derived classes and inheritance	673
Ch. 15	Graphs	722
App. A	ASCII character set	771
App. B	Further big-O notation	772
App. C	Precedence of operators	774
App. D	Command line compiling and linking	775
App. E	Dealing with older compilers	778
App. F	Input and output in C++	780
App. G	Selected library functions	788
App. H	Brief reference for the standard template classes	791
App. I	A toolkit of useful functions	799
App. J	Fundamental style guide	802
App. K	Downloading the GNU compiler and software	803
App. L	Exception handling	804

New interesting book: Conquest in Cyberspace or Learning Red Hat Linux

AutoCAD 2002 Tutorial: 3D Modeling

Author: Randy H Shih

This book contains a series of ten tutorial style lessons designed to introduce students to AutoCAD 2002's 3D modeling functions.

Solving Business Problems Using a Calculator Student Text or New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Comprehensive Second Edit

Solving Business Problems Using a Calculator Student Text

Author: Mildred Polisky

This consumable spiral-bound text-workbook contains 34 lessons in six sections that teach students how to use the efficient 10-key touch method to solve business problems on a calculator.

Table of Contents:

Section 1 10-Key Touch Method Lesson 1 Touch Addition of Whole Numbers  Lesson 2 Touch Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers  Lesson 3 Crossfooting  Lesson 4 Touch Addition and Subtraction of Dollars and Cents  Lesson 5 Rounding and Estimating Without a Calculator  Lesson 6 Multiplication  Lesson 7 Division  Business Calculator Applications 1: Keypad Introduction  Practice Test 1  Section 2 Multiplication and Division  Lesson 8 Constant Multiplication and Division  Lesson 9 Multiplying Three or More Factors  Lesson 10 Mixed Operations  Lesson 11 Accumulative Multiplication  Lesson 12 Negative Multiplication  Business Calculator Applications 2: Using Memory Keys for Repeated Operations  Practice Test 2  Section 3 Percents and Discounts  Lesson 13 Fractions and Decimals  Lesson 14 Percents  Lesson 15 Finding Percentage, Rate, and Base  Lesson 16 Amounts and Percents of Increase or Decrease  Lesson 17 Single Discounts  Lesson 18 Series Discounts  (and more...)

See also: Cooks Books or Roses Table

New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Comprehensive, Second Edit

Author: June Parsons

Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach and innovative technology for meaningful learning of Microsoft Excel 2003. This Second Edition has been updated to include basic to more advanced features of Excel, from creating professional-looking workbooks to using templates, creating multiple worksheets, and developing customized applications with macros and Visual Basic.

Excel Data Analysis For Dummies or Inside the C Object Model

Excel Data Analysis For Dummies

Author: Stephen L Nelson CPA MBA MS

So here’s a funny deal: You know how to use Excel. You know how to create simple workbooks. And how to print stuff. And you can even, with just a little bit of fiddling, create cool-looking charts. But sometimes you wish that you could do more with Excel, such as how to use Excel to really gain insights into information, the data, that you work with in your job.

Using Excel for this kind of stuff is what Excel Data Analysis For Dummies is all about. This is a book that assumes that you want to use Excel to learn new stuff, discover new secrets, and gain new insights into the information you’re already working with in Excel.

Ready to take Excel to the next level? This plain-English guide covers all of these concepts, and more, to ensure that you’re using Excel to its fullest capacity:

• Harnessing information in lists

• Querying external databases and Web pages tables

• Cleaning data with text functions

• Building and working with PivotTables

• Customizing PivotCharts

• Using the statistics functions

• Understanding Optimization Modeling

If all this talk of statistics and advanced tools makes you light-headed, don’t worry. Excel Data Analysis For Dummies distills the most important fundamentals into everyday language. You’ll find just enough information to help you get your work done – without leaving you gasping for air in a sea of technobabble. It’d be a real shame if you didn’t at least know what bells and whistles Excel has to offer and the basic stepsthat you need to use them.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Where's the Beef?	7
Ch. 1	Introducing Excel Lists	9
Ch. 2	Grabbing Data from External Sources	31
Ch. 3	Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Cleaning Data	55
Pt. II	PivotTables and PivotCharts	77
Ch. 4	Working with PivotTables	79
Ch. 5	Building PivotTable Formulas	105
Ch. 6	Working with PivotCharts	125
Ch. 7	Customizing PivotCharts	145
Pt. III	Advanced Tools	166
Ch. 8	Using the Database Functions	167
Ch. 9	Using the Statistics Functions	187
Ch. 10	Descriptive Statistics	229
Ch. 11	Inferential Statistics	249
Ch. 12	Optimization Modeling with Solver	271
Pt. IV	The Part of Tens	293
Ch. 13	Almost Ten Things You Ought to Know about Statistics	295
Ch. 14	Almost Ten Tips for Presenting List Results and Analyzing Data	305
Ch. 15	Ten Tips for Visually Analyzing and Presenting Data	311
Pt. V	Appendix	323
	App.: Glossary of Data Analysis and Excel Terms	325
	Index	335

Interesting textbook: Uma Armação para Vender Gestão

Inside the C++ Object Model

Author: Stanley B Lippman

Inside the C++ Object Model focuses on the underlying mechanisms that support object-oriented programming within C++: constructor semantics, temporary generation, support for encapsulation, inheritance and "the virtuals" - virtual functions and virtual inheritance. This book shows how your understanding the underlying implementation models can help you code more efficiently and with greater confidence. Lippman dispells the misinformation and myths about the overhead and complexity associated with C++, while pointing out areas in which costs and trade-offs, sometimes hidden, do exist. He then explains how the various implementation models arose, points out areas where they are likely to evolve, and why they are what they are. He covers the semantic implications of the C++ object model and how that model affects you programs.

Davide Marcato, Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books - Davide Marcato

Understanding The True Semantics of C++

Stanley Lippman is a very popular name in the C++ community, in particular because the author of this book has also written the bestselling C++ Primer (now in its third edition), which I consider one of the best companions to Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, and because of his activity as the editor of the well-respected C++ Report magazine.

In this text, Stanley analyzes the language from a very different perspective compared to his other excellent book: The reader is supposed to possess a good working knowledge of C++ and have some real practical experience in his/her curriculum before approaching the first page. From this level s/he is taken to real mastery of the semantics of the complexities of the language, which reserves a lot of surprises and hidden dangers to even the most skilled engineers. Almost all of the fundamental building blocks are dissected, put in a historical perspective, and explained with precision in a surprisingly easy-to-follow way.

I am convinced that much of the clarity evident even in the most intrinsically complicated passages is due to the author's choice of giving very little for granted prior to starting a thorough discussion around a tough point. This manual will surely be of little help to a neophyte, but just as surely one needs not belong to a panel of experts to benefit from its observations, because the level of complexity never gets too deep without having spent some pages of prior accessible contextual information to get everyone up to speed.

Inside the C++ Object Model is aimed at those developers who routinely use C++ but feel the discomfort of not really knowing the underlying weight of many common operations they perform or constructs they peruse. A particularly fit subset of these programmers is made up of the hardcore plumbers who pay their bills writing C++-based programming tools and libraries, or those who assume the uneasy role of the "official code optimizer" in a medium-to-large development team. Each of these programmers are going to immensely appreciate the intensive coverage of the object-oriented features offered by the language, their run-time overhead (in terms of execution time and binary size), and their influence in compilation times. This knowledge constitutes a major aid when it comes time to decide whether a certain language feature fits your needs without breaking your requirements. Moreover, along the way the text is sprinkled with interesting anecdotes explaining why certain common myths regarding C++ are nothing more than unfounded rants.

The topics and comparisons filling up the chapters are always concrete and never exceedingly academic. For example, the old C-style data manipulation is compared side-by-side with the modern encapsulation methodologies promoted by OOP, which involves inline accessors and mutators. Another chapter deals with the tricky semantics of construction and destruction, dedicating a fair amount of room to the exact circumstances that trigger the execution of constructors, destructors, copy constructors, and conversion operators. This leads to the treatment of the delicate topic of the automatic creation of temporary variables by the compiler.

Moving on, of particular interest to me are the sections focusing on the cost of virtual functions (to achieve polymorphism) compared to static-bound methods, as well as the section discussing various facets of multiple inheritance.

There are very few aspects of this book that do not deserve praise. One of them, by far the least important, is the design, which I would have preferred to be more dynamic, thereby simplifying the jumps from one point to another (which makes sense considering the typology of the contents).

The real drawback of Inside The C++ Object Model is that it is dated. Most of what Stanley says still holds true and is informative, but the language has evolved a lot since its 1996 incarnation, when the manuscript was first sent to the printers. Consequently, many of the newer features, despite their undoubted load of semantic insights and potential misconceptions, are not even touched. Namespaces are entirely forgotten, and even such crucial relatively recent elements like exceptions, templates and run-time type information receive far less coverage than they deserve. Now that the ANSI/ISO C++ committee has agreed on a final standard, I really hope Lippman will decide to take the time to update and expand his already admirable work.

The Complete E Commerce Book or The Best Damn Cisco Internetworking Book Period

The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, and Maintain a Successful Web-based Business

Author: Janice Reynolds

'The Complete E-Commerce Book offers a wealth of information on how to design, build and maintain a successful web-based business.... Many of the chapters are filled with advice and information on how to incorporate current e-business principles o

Make your e-commerce vision a success with this comprehensive, step-by-step handbook. Whether your company is a startup or well-established, you'll learn how to plan, implement and operate a successful e-commerce site -- from selecting the right software and Internet service provider through effectively marketing your online business.

Todays Librarian

Reynolds completely covers the rudiments of e-business with succinct guidance on how to analyze, build, maintain and operate web businesses. ... This would be an ideal companion to more detailed references that lack the breadth and simplicity of Reynolds' work.

First Monday - Paolo Cordone

Where the book really stands out is in providing an overall and firm understanding of the processes of creating, building and maintaining an e-commerce Web site. Alone for this, the author deserves a praise.

Books about: The Constitutional Convention or Presidential Anecdotes

The Best Damn Cisco Internetworking Book Period

Author: Syngress

 

Everything You Need to Know About Cisco Internetworking Technologies

 

·         Step-by-Step Instructions for Integrating Wired and Wireless LAN Technologies, Including Coverage of the Cisco Aironet Line of Devices

 

• Detailed Coverage of Cisco WAN Technologies, Including Configuration and Deployment
• Build a Working PIX Firewall Design, from Initial Planning to Robust Configuration

 

About the Author:

 

Charles Riley (CCNP, CSS-1, CISSP, CCSA, MCSE, CNE-3) has co-authored several books including Routing and Configuring Cisco Voice over IP, Second Edition. Exhausting the educational offerings of Remington, Charles matriculated at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C. before attending Gallaudet University (www.gallaudet.edu). Quick to a decision and even quicker to change his mind, he moved to Florida where he graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1989.  Upon graduation, Charles was contacted by and offered a position with the U.S. Army, a relationship that lasted over 10 years.  As a consultant for Sprint, he designed and implemented robust networking solutions for large Fortune 500 and privately held companies.

Table of Contents:

Wireless Home Networking Simplified or IT Portfolio Management Step by Step

Wireless Home Networking Simplified

Author: James Doherty

Wireless Home Networking Simplified

 

• The full-color, fully illustrated, simple guide to wireless home networking
• Step-by-step instructions: Plan, install, secure, optimize, and troubleshoot your wireless network
• Discover all the fun things you can do with your wireless network

 

Jim Doherty

Neil Anderson

 

 

Using today’s wireless networks, you can save money, become more productive, and even have more fun! Now, there’s an easy, fully illustrated step-by-step guide to wireless networking for your home: Wireless Home Networking Simplified.

 

This plain-English guide teaches you everything you need to know to set up a wireless network at home, even if you do not have a technical background. You’ll find simple, easy-to-follow guidance on selecting the right equipment, installing your network devices properly, connecting to the Internet, safeguarding your information, fixing problems, and much more.

 

• Understand how wireless home networks work
• Compare today’s wireless standards, and choose the right one for you

• Design your wireless network for maximum convenience, reliability, and simplicity
• Secure your network, step by step–and keep it secure
• Troubleshootfailed connections, poor coverage, and slow performance
• Temporarily allow guests onto your network without exposing your data
• Use your network to listen to music, view video, and play video games anywhere in your home
• Preview and prepare for tomorrow’s wireless technologies

 

Wireless Home Networking Simplified cuts through the confusion, demystifies the technologies, and helps you make the most of wireless… quickly, simply, painlessly.

 

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, the only authorized publisher for Cisco Systems®.

 

Category: Networking

Covers: Home Networking

 

$24.99 USA / $29.99 CAN

 

Jim Doherty is the vice president of marketing at CipherOptics, where he leads the outbound marketing teams. Prior to joining the CipherOptics team Jim held leadership positions with Symbol Technologies and Cisco®. Jim has more than 15 years of technical marketing and engineering experience and has led various marketing campaigns for IP telephony, routing and switching, and network security solutions. Jim is the coauthor of the Networking Simplified series of books published by Cisco Press. Jim is a former Marine Corps sergeant; he holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from N.C. State University and an M.B.A. degree from Duke University.

 

Neil Anderson is the senior manager of enterprise systems engineering with Cisco. Neil has more than 20 years of broad engineering experience including public telephone systems, mobile phone systems, Internet, and home networking. At Cisco, Neil’s focus is on large corporate customers in the areas of routing and switching, wireless, security, and IP communications. Neil is the coauthor of the Networking Simplified series of books including Home Networking Simplified, Home Network Security Simplified, and Internet Phone Services Simplified. Neil holds a B.S. degree in computer science.

 

Table of Contents:

How Does It Work
How Wireless LANs Work     3
Why Wireless?     4
Before We Get to the Wireless Bit, What the Heck Is a LAN?     5
Okay, Now the Wireless Part     9
Challenges for Wireless Communication     9
The Solution     10
Putting It All Together     11
Summary     12
Where to Go for More Information     13
Wireless Standards: What the Letters Mean     15
The Standard 802.11 and the IEEE     16
802.11a     17
802.11b     18
802.11g     19
802.11n     20
Combinations     21
What Happened to the Other Letters?     21
Summary     22
Where to Go for More Information     22
Selecting the Right Wireless Standard for Your Network     23
What to Consider When Choosing Your Wireless Standard     24
Compatibility     24
Relationships Among Wireless Standards     25
Dual-Band Products     26
Proprietary Extensions     27
Speed     27
Range     28
Security     28
Cost     29
AdditionalConsiderations     29
Comparing the IEEE WLAN Standards     30
Recommendations     31
Summary     32
Where to Go for More Information     32
What You Should Know
Planning Your Wireless Network     35
Wireless Network Topologies     35
Sketching a Network Layout     37
Thinking Your Network Plan Through     39
Determining the Networking Capabilities of Your Computers     40
Looking for a Wired NIC     40
Looking for a Wireless NIC     40
Determining Your Immediate Needs to Create a Wireless Network     43
Completing Your Plan     44
Summary     45
Wireless Security: What You Need to Know     47
Why Should I Worry About Wireless Network Security?     47
What Do I Do to Secure My Wireless Network?     50
Don't Advertise Your Wireless Network     51
Scramble Your Signal     52
What Is Encryption?     52
Choosing an Encryption Key     53
Disable Ad Hoc Networking     54
Other Tips to Consider     55
Summary     55
Where to Go for More Information     55
What to Buy      57
Determining Network Readiness     57
Making Your List, Checking It Twice     61
Wireless Router Options     62
Wireless NIC Options     63
Gear for Travel Bugs and Road Warriors     65
Extra Stuff     66
Where to Buy Your Gear     67
Summary     69
Where to Go for More Information     69
How Do I Set It Up?
Wireless Router Setup     73
Connecting the Wireless Router     74
Configuring the Wireless Router     75
Using the Linksys Setup Wizard     77
Using an Internet Browser     84
Using Linksys EasyLink Advisor     91
Summary     98
Where to Go for More Information     98
Wireless NIC Setup     99
Installing the Wireless NIC     99
Installing a PCI Wireless Card in a Desktop Computer     101
Installing a PCMCIA Wireless Card in a Laptop Computer     102
Installing a USB Wireless NIC in a Computer     103
Associating the Wireless NIC to the Wireless Router     105
Wireless Profiles     106
Wireless Connection Managers     108
Using the Windows Wireless Network Connection Utility      109
Using Linksys WLAN Monitor     111
Using Linksys EasyLink Advisor     113
Summary     121
Where to Go for More Information     122
Wireless Security Setup     123
Setting Up Wireless Encryption     123
Tips Before We Start     125
If Only It Were That Easy     126
Manually Setting Up Wireless Encryption     127
Enabling WEP Encryption on the Wireless Router     128
Enabling WEP Encryption on the Wireless NIC     130
WPA Encryption Example     137
Setting Up Wireless Encryption with Linksys SecureEasySetup     142
Linksys SecureEasySetup on the Wireless Router     144
Linksys SecureEasySetup on the Wireless NIC     148
Setting Up Wireless Encryption with Linksys EasyLink Advisor     150
Linksys EasyLink Advisor on the Wireless Router     151
Using EasyLink Advisor to Add Encryption to Wireless NICs     156
More Wireless Security Steps     162
Stop Advertising Your Wireless Network     163
Turn On the Firewall     164
Prevent Unintentional Roaming     164
MAC Address Locking     166
Top Troubleshooting Tips for Wireless Encryption      167
Summary     167
Where to Go for More Information     168
"Honey, This Stupid Wireless Thing Is Not Working"
Troubleshooting: I Can't Connect at All     173
Steps to Connecting     174
Scanning     176
Matching     176
Associating     176
Securing the Connection     176
Obtaining an IP Address     177
Sending and Receiving     177
What Can Go Wrong     177
Problems During Scanning     178
Problems During Matching     179
Problems During Association     180
Problems Securing the Connection     180
Problems Obtaining an IP Address     180
Problems Sending and Receiving     180
Five Things to Look At First     181
How to Tell if You Do Not Have a Connection     181
Figuring Out Why It Will Not Connect     183
Scanning-Related Issues     184
Incompatible Wireless Standards     184
Wireless Turned Off     185
Poor Signal Strength     187
Matching-Related Issues     189
SSID Mismatch     189
SSID Broadcast     192
Association-Related Issues     193
Security- and Encryption-Related Issues     196
Encryption Type Mismatch     196
Encryption Key Mismatch     197
Windows XP Authentication Setting Mismatch     209
IP Address Assignment-Related Issues     210
Determining if an IP Address Is Assigned     211
Determining if IP Address Assignment Is Failing     212
Trying the Windows XP Repair Function     214
Checking the Router's DHCP Client Pool     215
Wireless Connection Made     216
Oops, How Embarrassing!     218
The 10-Minute Miracle     218
Summary     218
Where to Go for More Information     218
Troubleshooting: I Can Connect Sometimes     219
How Wireless Coverage Works     219
Tuning Your Wireless Coverage     221
Performing a Wireless Survey     221
Wireless Survey Using Windows XP     223
Wireless Survey Using Linksys WLAN Monitor     224
What to Conclude from Your Wireless Survey     226
What You Can Do to Improve Coverage     227
Improving the Location of the Wireless Router     227
Trying Different Channels     229
Trying Different Antenna Positions     234
Upgrading the Antenna     236
Using Wireless Range Extenders and Additional Access Points     236
Upgrading the Wireless Router     237
Summary     237
Where to Go for More Information     237
Troubleshooting: I Can Connect, but It's Slow     239
Is the Broadband Internet Connection the Bottleneck?     239
Checking the Broadband Connection     241
Testing Your Broadband Speed     243
Is the Wireless Network Too Slow?     244
Understanding Wireless Standards and Speeds     244
Verifying Wireless Network Speed     245
Is the Wireless Network Signal Getting Degraded?     248
Interference from Other Wireless Routers     248
Checking for Conflicting Wireless Routers     248
Determining Whether the Conflicting Wireless Router Is Causing an Issue     250
Correcting a Conflicting Wireless Router Situation     251
Interference from Cordless Phones and Other Devices     252
Determining Whether the Conflicting Cordless Phone Is Causing an Issue     252
Correcting a Conflicting Cordless Phone Issue     254
Summary     255
Where to Go for More Information      255
Bells and Whistles
Wireless Video and Entertainment     259
Wireless Video Cameras     259
Finding Uses for Wireless Video Cameras     261
Connecting the Video Camera to Your Wireless Network     263
Determining Who Can Access the Video Camera     268
Viewing Video from Within Your House     271
Viewing Video over the Internet     273
Setting Up the Wireless Router for Internet Camera Viewing     274
How to View the Camera over the Internet     276
Problems with Viewing Video over the Internet     277
Using the Video Camera as a Motion Detector     277
Wireless Online Gaming     279
Gaming Servers     280
Options for Online Gaming     280
How to Connect Video Game Consoles to Your Wireless Network     281
Setting Up the Wireless Game Adapter     282
Connecting a Video Game Console     284
Connecting to an Online Game Provider     285
Networking Your DVR     288
Typical DVR Setups Today     289
Reasons to Network Your DVR     289
Networking Your DVR     290
Using TiVoToGo     291
Summary     293
Where to Go for More Information     293
Wireless to Go     295
What Is a Wireless Hotspot?     295
How to Find Wireless Hotspots     297
Wireless Hotspot Options and Costs     298
Discovering and Connecting to Wireless Hotspots     299
Connecting to Hotspots Using Linksys WLAN Monitor     300
Connecting to Hotspots Using Windows XP     302
Connecting to Hotspots Using Boingo     305
Passing the Membership Test     305
Example: Connecting to a Free Service at Bear Rock Cafe     306
Example: Connecting to T-Mobile Service at Borders Book Stores     307
What Not to Do When Using a Wireless Hotspot     308
Setting Up Your Own Portable Hotspot     310
How Wireless Travel Routers Work     310
Setting Up a Wireless Travel Router     311
Setting Up Your Laptop to See the Travel Router     314
How to Use a Wireless Travel Router     315
Summary     316
Where to Go for More Information     316
The Future of Wireless Networking     317
Wireless Networks Will Be Faster     317
Wireless Networks Will Go Farther     319
Wireless Networks Will Be in More Places      319
Wireless Networks Will Move with You     320
More Devices Will Connect to Wireless Networks     321
Summary     321
Where to Go for More Information     321
Appendixes
MAC Address Filtering     325
802.1 In Wireless Channels     331
802.11 Additional Revisions     333
Glossary     335
Index     345

Look this: Moralemissionen im Geschäft: Eine Philosophische Annäherung

IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step: Unlocking the Business Value of Technology

Author: Bryan Maizlish

Information technology (IT) provides inordinate value if applied properly. Identifying and implementing new value and revenue opportunities, while maximizing return based on existing investments is contingent on understanding the entire portfolio of information technology investments. Just as a financial investment portfolio requires constant monitoring and action, the investments a company has, or is making, in IT must constantly be evaluated. This need is evermore heightened in today's demanding regulatory environment. While silver bullet solutions do not exist for difficult problems, IT portfolio management provides a realistic approach to ensuring that investments in technology continue to support the needs of business.

Based on the authors' combined professional hands-on IT and financial experience of over thirty years, the unparalleled input and support from an army of individuals from the leading IT market research firm in the area of IT portfolio management, extensive research and case studies from many exemplar companies, IT Portfolio Management Step-By-Step provides the closest thing to a Holy Grail solution—the first complete book ever published that presents a proven, pragmatic, and non-technical approach to simplifying the process of achieving a rationalized and business-aligned IT portfolio.

IT Portfolio Management Step-By-Step encapsulates the essential ingredients novices and experts need to build or fortify an existing IT portfolio, including extensive coverage of:

• The comprehensive five-level IT portfolio maturity model and portfolio metrics
• Policies, principles, organizational roles, and other governance aspects of IT portfolio management, including linkages to Sarbanes-Oxley and CobiT
• The IT life cycle and each IT sub-portfolio in their content and context
• The eight detailed stages and specific tasks of building, step by step, the IT portfolio, replete with realities and lessons learned
• Coverage of advanced IT portfolio management topics such as Monte Carlo Simulation, the Efficient Frontier curve, Real Options, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Earned Value Analysis, Balanced Scorecard, and Scenario Planning
• Criteria for selecting an IT portfolio management tool vendor
• Insight regarding the impact of future trends and technologies on IT portfolio management

What People Are Saying

David Mitchell
David Mitchell, President and CEO, webMethods, Inc.
IT Portfolio Management describes in great detail the critical aspects, know-how, practical examples, key insights, and best practices to improve operational efficiency, corporate agility, and business competitiveness. It eloquently illustrates the methods of building and integrating a portfolio of IT investments to ensure the realization of maximum value and benefit, and to fully leverage the value of all IT assets. Whether you are getting started or building on your initial success in IT portfolio management, this book will provide you information on how to build and implement an effective IT portfolio management strategy.

Peter Fingar
IT Portfolio Management details a comprehensive framework and process showing how to align business and IT for superior value. Maizlish and Handler have the depth of experience, knowledge, and insight needed to tackle the challenges and opportunities companies face in optimizing their IT investment portfolios. This is an exceptionally important book for executive leadership and IT business managers, especially those wanting to build a process-managed enterprise.
—(Peter Fingar, Executive Partner Greystone Group, coauthor of The Real-Time Enterprise and Business Process Management (BPM): The Third Wave)

John C. Reece
John C. Reece, Chairman and CEO, John C. Reece & Associates, LLC Former deputy commissioner for modernization and CIO of the IRS
Bryan Maizlish and Robert Handler bring their deep experience in IT 'value realization' to one of the most absent of all IT management practices—portfolio management. They capture the essence of universally proven investment practices and apply them to the most difficult of challenges—returning high strategic and dollar payoffs from an enterprise's IT department. The reader will find many new and rewarding insights to making their IT investments finally return market leading results.

Michael J. Montgomery
Michael J. Montgomery, President, Montgomery & Co.
I found IT Portfolio Management very easy to read, and it highlights many of the seminal aspects and best practices from financial portfolio management. It is an important book for executive, business, and IT managers.

Richard Max Maksimoski
Richard "Max" Maksimoski, Senior Director R&D, The Scotts Company
A must-read for the non-IT manager who needs to understand the complexity and challenges of managing an IT portfolio. The portfolio management techniques, analysis tools, and planning can be applied to any project or function.

Donavan R. Hardenbrook
Donavan R. Hardenbrook, New Product Development Professional, Intel Corporation
This book provides an excellent framework and real-world based approach for implementing IT portfolio management. It is a must-read for every CIO staff considering how to strategically and operationally impact their company's bottom line.

The Civil War on the Web or Microsoft SQL Server 2008

The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites

Author: Alice E Carter

About the Authors:

Alice E. Carter has served as Project Manager for The New York Times on the Web and is currently the Director of Project Management with Interactive Media Associates, an Internet consulting company.  Prior to these positions, she was Associate Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History of the University of Virginia.

Richard Jensen is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago and research associate at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications.  In 1992, he founded H-Net, the groundbreaking and highly successful web-based book review and information source for the academic community.  Dr. Jensen has written extensively on using the web for historical research, and he has conducted computer research training programs all over the world.

The New York Times

This new book offers much-needed help. The authors give equal time to both the battlefield and the homefront, where important social, cultural and racial changes occurred.

Civil War Times Illustrated

If you buy only one book this year on the Civil War, this should be it.

The Christian Science Monitor

A valuable guide to anyone who is interested in the war and hopes to avoid hours of circular and fruitless web navigation.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
	User's Guide
Pt. I	The Very Best Civil War Web Sites - Reviews and Ratings
Ch. 1	Battles and Campaigns	3
Ch. 2	Political and Military Leaders	29
Ch. 3	Life of the Soldier	45
Ch. 4	Naval Operations	59
Ch. 5	The Experience of the U.S. Colored Troops	73
Ch. 6	Slavery and Emancipation	87
Ch. 7	Women in the Civil War	107
Ch. 8	Civil War Regiments	119
Ch. 9	General History, Historic Documents, Links, and Online Bookstore Sites	135
Pt. II	Sites Worth a Visit - A Topical Index
	Battles and Campaigns	155
	Political and Military Leaders	169
	Life of the Soldier	177
	Naval Operations	184
	The Experience of the U.S. Colored Troops	188
	Slavery and Emancipation	191
	Women in the Civil War	195
	Civil War Regiments	197
	General History, Historic Documents, Links, and Online Bookstore Sites	233

Book review: Asian Bistro Cookbook or The Pasquotank Plate

Microsoft SQL Server 2008: A Beginner's Guide

Author: Dusan Petkovic

Deploy and manage SQL Server 2008 with ease

Completely revised from the ground up, the new edition of this popular beginner's guide covers the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server. You will get a rigorous introduction to all of the new and improved features, including the administration, development, and Business Intelligence tools. This is the ideal resource for serious database novices, or anyone upgrading from the previous version of the software.

Dusan Petkovic is a computer science professorat the Polytechnic in Rosenheim, Germany. He is the bestselling author of the previous editions of this book and has written numerous articles for SQL Server Magazine.

Debugging ASPNET or Introduction to AutoCAD 2005

Debugging ASP.NET

Author: Jonathan Goodyear

Debugging ASP.NET focuses on the various tools, techniques, and best practices associated with debugging ASP.NET web applications under Microsoft's new .NET platform. Brief descriptions of the problems with debugging previous versions of ASP are covered, as well as how the new features of ASP.NET can be exploited to their fullest to find and eliminate bugs quickly and easily. The book introduces changes to the code structure paradigm as implemented in the .NET platform, and how to structure ASP.NET code in this new paradigm to enable faster web application debugging.

Booknews

Directed toward experienced developers and project managers, this useful volume provides a resource for figuring out the bugs in your code. Readers should be familiar with developing ASP.NET web applications; all code examples are given in both Visual Basic.NET and C#. Among the skills taught here are the debugging tools available in ASP.NET, how to write code less susceptible to bugs, methods to remove bugs from large web applications, issues found in migrating traditional ASP web applications to ASP.NET, and locating bugs associated with specific parts of ASP.NET, including user controls, caching, ADO.NET, and web services. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

See also: Desenvolvimento e Modificação Social:uma Perspectiva Global

Introduction to AutoCAD 2005: 2d and 3d Design

Author: Alf Yarwood

"Taking the reader step by step through the features of AutoCAD 2005, Alf Yarwood provides a practical, structured course of work matched to the latest release of this software. After introducing first principles and the creation of 2D technical drawings, the author goes on to demonstrate construction of 3D solid model drawings and rendering of 3D models. In particular, editing tools, Sheet Sets (an important new feature of the latest AutoCAD software), the increased use of palettes, as well as an outline of the enhancements found in AutoCAD 2005 specifically, are covered in detail. Worked examples and exercises are included throughout the text, to enable the reader to apply theory to real-world engineering practice, along with revision notes and exercises at the end of chapters for the reader to check their understanding of the material they have covered." Suitable to new users of AutoCAD, or anyone wishing to update their knowledge from previous releases of the software, this book is also applicable to introductory level undergraduate courses and vocational courses in engineering and construction. Further Education students in the UK will find this an ideal textbook to cater for the relevant CAD units of BTEC Higher National and BTEC National Engineering schemes from Edexcel, and the City & Guilds 4351 qualification.

Table of Contents:

1	Introducing AutoCAD 2005	1
2	Introducing drawing	14
3	Osnap, AutoSnap and draw tools	30
4	Zoom, pan and templates	48
5	The modify tools	60
6	Dimensions and text	81
7	Orthographic and isometric	98
8	Hatching	111
9	Blocks and inserts	124
10	Other types of file format	135
11	Sheet sets	149
12	Building drawing	157
13	Introducing 3D modelling	164
14	3D models in viewports	188
15	The modification of 3D models	198
16	Rendering	219
17	Three-dimensional space	231
18	3D surface models	246
19	Editing 3D solid models : more 3D models	259
20	Other features of 3D modelling	275
21	Internet tools	291
22	Design and AutoCAD 2005	296
App. A	Printing/plotting	300
App. B	List of tools	304
App. C	Some of the set variables	310
App. D	Computing terms	312

RFID Handbook or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification

Author: Klaus Finkenzeller

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is used in all areas of automatic data capture allowing contactless identification of objects using RF. With applications ranging from secure internet payment systems to industrial automation and access control, RFID technology solutions are receiving much attention in the research and development departments of large corporations. RFID is a major growth are in auto ID, allowing emergency vehicles to safely trip traffic signals, and providing the technology behind contactless smart cards, "autopiloting" cars, and production automation. Fully revised and updated to include all the latest information on industry standards and applications, this new edition provides a standard reference for people working with RFID technology. Expanded sections explain exactly how RFID systems work, and provide up-to-date information on the development of new tags such as the smart label.

• Updated coverage of RFID technologies, including electron data carrier architecture and common algorithms for anticollision

• Details the latest RFID applications, such as the smartlabel, e-commerce and the electronic purse, document tracking and e-ticketing

• Detailed appendix providing up-to-date information on relevant ISO standards and regulations, including descriptions of ISO 14443 for contactless ticketing and ISO 15693 covering the smartlabel

A leading edge reference for this rapidly evolving technology, this text is of interest to practitioners in auto ID and IT designing RFID products and end-users of RFID technology, computer and electronics engineers in security system development and microchip designers,automation, industrial and transport engineers and materials handling specialists. Also a valuable resource for graduate level students in electronics and industrial engineering design. 

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Differentiation Features of RFID Systems	11
3	Fundamental Operating Principles	29
4	Physical Principles of RFID Systems	61
5	Frequency Ranges and Radio Licensing Regulations	161
6	Coding and Modulation	183
7	Data Integrity	195
8	Data Security	221
9	Standardisation	229
10	The Architecture of Electronic Data Carriers	273
11	Readers	309
12	The Manufacture of Transponders and Contactless Smart Cards	329
13	Example Applications	341
14	Appendix	394
	Index	419

Go to: Delmars Dictionary of Digital Printing Publishing or Ecological Debt

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Author: Timothy J OLeary

The O’Leary Office 2007 text is crafted to allow students to easily develop Microsoft Office application skills. The text design emphasizes step-by-step instructions with full screen captures that illustrate the results of each step performed. Each Lab, designed to be covered in 1 hour of class time, combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. Each Lab opens with a running case study that highlights real-world applications of each software program and leads students from problem to solution.

Project Study Guide or IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals

Project+ Study Guide: Exam (Pko-002)

Author: Lona Cram

Here's the book you need to prepare for the latest version of CompTIA's Project+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:

• Clear and concise information on project management

• Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience

• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and electronic flashcards

You'll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:

• Project Initiation and Scope Definition

• Project Planning

• Project Execution, Control and Coordination

• Project Closure, Acceptance and Support

This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.

Note:CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	IT project management overview	1
Ch. 2	Project initiation	31
Ch. 3	Scope planning	69
Ch. 4	Schedule planning	103
Ch. 5	Cost planning	133
Ch. 6	Other planning processes	165
Ch. 7	Comprehensive project plan	207
Ch. 8	Project execution	231
Ch. 9	Project control	275
Ch. 10	Project closure	321
App. A	Systems development life cycle	343

See also: Paths to God or Working in the Dark

IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals

Author: James Henry Carmouch

An introduction to designing and configuring Cisco IPsec VPNs

Understand the basics of the IPsec protocol and learn implementation best practices

Study up-to-date IPsec design, incorporating current Cisco innovations in the security and VPN marketplace

Learn how to avoid common pitfalls related to IPsec deployment

Reinforce theory with case studies, configuration examples showing how IPsec maps to real-world solutions

IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals provides a basic working knowledge of IPsec on various Cisco routing and switching platforms. It provides the foundation necessary to understand the different components of Cisco IPsec implementation and how it can be successfully implemented in a variety of network topologies and markets (service provider, enterprise, financial, government). This book views IPsec as an emerging requirement in most major vertical markets, explaining the need for increased information authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation for secure transmission of confidential data. The book is written using a layered approach, starting with basic explanations of why IPsec was developed and the types of organizations relying on IPsec to secure data transmissions. It then outlines the basic IPsec/ISAKMP fundamentals that were developed to meet demand for secure data transmission. The book covers the design and implementation of IPsec VPN architectures using an array of Cisco products, starting with basic concepts and proceeding to more advanced topics including high availability solutions and public key infrastructure (PKI). Sample topology diagrams and configuration examples are provided in each chapter toreinforce the fundamentals expressed in text and to assist readers in translating concepts into practical deployment scenarios. Additionally, comprehensive case studies are incorporated throughout to map topics to real-world solutions.