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  • Bluttman, Ken: Access Hacks : Tips and Tools for Wrangling Your Data
    Access Hacks : Tips and Tools for Wrangling Your Data
    by Ken Bluttman
    ISBN 0596009240 (0-596-00924-0)
    Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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  • Action Script for Flash Mx Pocket Reference
    by Colin Moock
    ISBN 0596005148 (0-596-00514-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Flash MX developers who need instant on-the job reminders about the ActionScript language will find O'Reilly's new ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference to be the ideal solution. This concise and easy-to-use reference is the portable companion to the Flash coder's essential resource, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide by Colin Moock. Completely up-to-date, including methods and properties added in the latest Flash Player, it is the indispensable quick reference for ActionScript programmers.

    The ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference provides a complete summary of ActionScript, Flash MX's object-oriented programming language, covering the core objects' and classes' methods and properties. Also covered are ActionScript's global properties, global functions, operators, statements, keywords, and directives. This compact book also includes an excellent summary of ActionScript syntax and best practices, covering datatypes, variables, loops, conditionals, identifiers, event handling, and object-oriented programming in short order. For programmers coming from other languages, it offers a quick orientation to the most common Flash elements and operations including Movie Clips, loading and drawing graphics, text manipulation, data transfers, and XML parsing.

    O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among developers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point and need to get to the answer quickly, the new ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference is the book you'll want close by.

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  • Lott, Joey: Actionscript Cookbook
    Actionscript Cookbook
    by Joey Lott, Bruce A. Epstein
    ISBN 0596004907 (0-596-00490-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Actionscript for Flash Mx: The Definitive Guide
    by Colin Moock
    ISBN 059600396X (0-596-00396-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without.

    ActionScript is Macromedia's programming language for Flash MX, the popular authoring tool for creating rich internet applications and animations for the Web. With Macromedia's new focus on application development, ActionScript now includes a direct drawing API, loading of external MP3 and JPG files, improved sound control, an extensive set of text formatting tools, complete support for component development using movie clip subclasses, local data storage, accessibility features, and much more. And ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is the most complete, up-to-date reference available for the latest version of this language.

    Author Colin Moock, one of the most universally respected developers in the Flash community, has added hundreds of new code examples to show new Flash MX techniques in the real world: how to draw circles, save data to disk, convert arrays to onscreen tables, create reusable components, and preload variables, XML, and sounds. The book's language reference alone has nearly doubled from the first edition, with more than 250 new classes, objects, methods, and properties. You'll find exhaustive coverage of dozens of undocumented, under-documented, and mis-documented features.

    Along with the new material, Colin Moock has meticulously revised the entire text to conform to Flash MX best-coding practices. In particular, objected-oriented programming and the new event model get special attention in light of changes to Flash MX ActionScript. From sending data between two movies to creating getter/setter properties, the new edition of this book demystifies the often-confusing new features of Flash MX, giving developers easy access to its powerful new capabilities.

    ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is structured so non-programmers can learn how to use ActionScript and programmers can take their skills to new heights. If you are in the market to really learn about the hows and whys of ActionScript, then this is the book for you.

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  • Hamilton, Bill: Ado.Net Cookbook
    Ado.Net Cookbook
    by Bill Hamilton
    ISBN 0596004397 (0-596-00439-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Ambient Findability
    by Peter Morville
    ISBN 0596007655 (0-596-00765-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability.

    Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.

    The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.

    Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.

    ""A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.""

    --David Weinberger, Author, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

    ""I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched.""

    --Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

    ""Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain.""

    --Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"

    ""Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.""

    --Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca

    ""Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.""

    --Jesse James Garrett, Author, "The Elements of User Experience"

    ""It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home.""

    --Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

    ""I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future."

    --Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

    ""In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.""

    --Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina

    ""Find this book! Anyone interested in makinginformation easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!"

    --Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library

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  • Applescript the Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide
    by Beuburg
    ISBN 0596005571 (0-596-00557-1)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    If you want to know all about AppleScript--the how, where, and why of using it--dig into AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. It doesn't make the mistake that other books do: it isn't about scripting this or that particular application, and it doesn't assume that learning AppleScript is easy or obvious. Instead, the book teaches and documents the language in a clear and rigorous manner, just as you'd expect with any programming or scripting language.

    AppleScript is a dynamic, object-oriented scripting system that allows Mac users--even novices who know nothing about programming--to directly control Macintosh applications, including the Mac OS itself. You can write scripts to automate repetitive tasks, customize applications, and even control complex workflows.

    AppleScript has always been useful, but with Mac OS X it's even more so. Nearly every application that comes with Mac OS X is scriptable. Even non-scriptable applications can often be driven with AppleScript, thanks to the new Accessibility API and GUI Scripting technologies. And now AppleScripters can put a true Aqua interface around their scripts! There's never been a more exciting time for AppleScript users.

    AppleScript: The Definitive Guide explores and teaches the language from the ground up. If you're a beginner and want to learn how to write your first script or just understand what the excitement is all about, you'll be able to do so after reading this book.

    AppleScript: The Definitive Guide is the quintessential guide to this important Mac tool. Regardless of their level of experience, AppleScripters everywhere will turn to this book again and again.

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  • Smith, Jared: Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
    Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
    by Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
    ISBN 0596009623 (0-596-00962-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Baseball Hacks
    by Joseph Adler
    ISBN 0596009429 (0-596-00942-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book--one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game.

    So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on probability - how a particular batter might fare against left-handed pitching, for instance.

    The goal of this unique book is to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made great software freely available, collaborative projects such as Retrosheet and Baseball DataBank have made great data freely available. You can use these data sources to research your favorite players, win your fantasy league, or appreciate the game of baseball even more than you do now.

    Baseball Hacks shows how easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand baseball. The book lists a number of sources for current and historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a database for analysis. It then introduces several powerful statistical tools for understanding data and forecasting results.

    For the uninitiated baseball fan, author Joseph Adler walks readers through the core statistical categories for hitters (batting average, on-base percentage, etc.), pitchers (earned run average, strikeout-to-walk ratio, etc.), and fielders (putouts, errors, etc.). He then extrapolates upon these numbers to examine more advanced data groups like career averages, team stats, season-by-season comparisons, and more. Whether you're a mathematician, scientist, or season-ticket holder to your favorite team, Baseball Hacks is sure to have something for you.

    Advance praise for Baseball Hacks:

    "Baseball Hacks is the best book ever written for understanding and practicing baseball analytics. A must-read for baseball professionals and enthusiasts alike."

    -- Ari Kaplan, database consultant to the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, and Baltimore Orioles

    "The game was born in the 19th century, but the passion for its analysis continues to grow into the 21st. In Baseball Hacks, Joe Adler not only demonstrates that the latest data-mining technologies have useful application to the study of baseball statistics, he also teaches the reader how to do the analysis himself, arming the dedicated baseball fan with tools to take his understanding of the game to a higher level."

    -- Mark E. Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, SportMetrika, Inc. and Baseball Analyst for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals

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  • Lavigne, Eru: Bsd Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tip & Tools
    Bsd Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tip & Tools
    by Eru Lavigne
    ISBN 0596006799 (0-596-00679-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • McLaughlin, Brett: Building Java Enterprise Applications: Architecture
    Building Java Enterprise Applications: Architecture
    by Brett McLaughlin
    ISBN 0596001231 (0-596-00123-1)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Com and .Net Component Services
    by Juval Lowy
    ISBN 0596001037 (0-596-00103-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Aimed at the more experienced developer or Windows administrator responsible for deployment, COM and.NET Component Services provides an expert guide to getting the most out of COM+services on the Windows 2000/XP platform, including material on the new.NET platform. This guide will help you create state-of-the-art, scalable Windows components that take full advantage of transactions, object pooling, and powerful administrative features available in COM7#43;.

    While Microsoft is about to replace COM components with the new.NET standard, COM+ is still a viable technology and will be fully supported (and even enhanced) in the new.NET Framework. Much of COM and.NET Component Services concentrates on C++ and Visual Basic examples that explore areas of functionality, plus practical tips for configuring and administering components with such tools as the COM+ Services Explorer.

    The expert perspective here will help you design components that work with COM+ effectively. There is plenty of background material here on COM+ topics like marshalling and interception, which allow objects to be pooled behind the scenes on the Windows platform. But the focus is on the real APIs and programming techniques developers need to work with COM+. This practical focus extends to specific suggestions and "pitfalls" to avoid for each area of COM+ development. There is good material on COM+ transactions here, along with some excellent material on asynchronous components that tap COM+ queuing capabilities.

    The book concludes with a long chapter on.NET, which brings this title up-to-speed with Microsoft's new programming platform. The author recaps the APIs covered earlier in the book using.NET and C#. (COM+ is still a part of.NET, but you'll use a different set of APIs and programming language to work with it.) The book concludes with a glance at new COM+ 1.5 features, plus a quick introduction to.NET.

    In all, this title strikes a good balance between the old and the new. After reading this smart and fast-moving text, developers will be able to learn COM+ skills right now that will have practical benefit for both current and future Windows software. --Richard Dragan [via]

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  • Designing Embedded Hardware
    by John Catsoulis
    ISBN 0596007558 (0-596-00755-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Digital Photography: Expert Techniques
    by Ken Milburn
    ISBN 0596005474 (0-596-00547-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    This absorbing book, by professional photographer and author Ken Milburn, offers a ton of expert advice to those who are ready to move to the next level with digital photography. Rather than a general discussion of photography principles, Digital Photography: Expert Techniques focuses on workflow: time-tested, step-by-step procedures based on hard-nosed experience by and for genuine practitioners of the art. The book's conversational tone presents detailed information about what to look for in today's affordable high-end digicams, how to use simple techniques and equipment to shoot breathtaking shots, instructions on shooting great panoramas, dos-and-don'ts for creating better Photoshop masks, and professional digital darkroom techniques for everything from knockouts to restoration to transforming your photos into watercolors. It even shows you how to get your most prized photographs printed and ready for exhibition.

    Contents include:

    • Understanding your digital camera from the inside out.
    • Creating effects with the camera: making panoramas, high-resolution matrixes, infrared photos, and more.
    • General composition and managing your workflow.
    • Using the digital darkroom and Photoshop CS to make your images professional caliber.
    • Understanding the power of Photoshop CS selections and masks.
    • Using special effects to save what's good, and get rid of the bad and the ugly.
    • Creating fictitious photos: bend and wrap images to fit an object, insert a more interesting skyscrape, and more.
    • Professional color and tonal management
    • Creating portfolios and presenting your images on the Web.
    Digital Photography: Expert Techniques is in four-color front to back, allowing you to see each step in the Digital Photographer's workflow, including the steps in-between. Serious photographers, including professionals, who want to take advantage of the unique creative powers available through digital photography and digital image processing will find this problem-solving book invaluable.
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  • McFarland, David Sawyer: Dreamweaver Mx: The Missing Manual
    Dreamweaver Mx: The Missing Manual
    by David Sawyer McFarland
    ISBN 0596003498 (0-596-00349-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Essential Snmp
    by Douglas R. Mauro, Kevin J. Schmidt
    ISBN 0596008406 (0-596-00840-6)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Without Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), network administrators might have to actually get out of their chairs and go see what's up with all of the network-connected equipment under their authority. Perish the thought. Essential SNMP explains how the management protocol works and how it's implemented by several operating systems and pieces of equipment. More importantly, this book shows its reader--who should to be a network administrator who's familiar with the problems of running a distributed network--how SNMP can earn its place as a network administration tool. In other words, this book examines SNMP as a strategic resource as well as a technical phenomenon.

    Because it's orientated towards SNMP as a tool, much of the coverage in this book has to do with software that uses SNMP to provide network monitoring and control services. After a strengths-and-weaknesses overview of a number of SNMP packages, the authors use mainly HP OpenView, Castle Rock SNMPc, and Net-SNMP (the last in combination with Perl scripting) to demonstrate how SNMP works and how to take advantage of it. It's the scripting that really distinguishes this book from other SNMP books, by the way. It's integral to the authors' presentation, and the latter half of this book is packed with shell and Perl listings. --David Wall

    Topics covered: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and its applicability as a network management tool. Details like Object Identifiers (OIDs), Management Information Bases (MIBs), traps, and community strings are defined and explained. The configuration of SNMP agents is detailed for several software packages and operating systems, and the integration of SNMP and scripts (in shell languages and in Perl) is covered nicely. [via]

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  • Excel: Pocket Guide
    by Frye
    ISBN 0596005342 (0-596-00534-2)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    From simple calculations and lists to critical business management systems, Excel is not just the dominant spreadsheet application, it's one of the most widely used software applications in the world. Chances are good that you use Excel. And no matter what your level of expertise, you'll want a copy of the Excel Pocket Guide close by.

    Packed with information, the Excel Pocket Guide is a compact reference that covers such basics as creating workbooks, entering data, printing, cell formatting, and spell checking. For more advanced users, the book provides handy information on formulas, pivot tables, collaboration, and customization. This helpful guide is easy to use anywhere -- it's the perfect quick reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster without having to wade through a five hundred-page tutorial.

    If you're new to Excel, this book will get you up to speed quickly. If you consider yourself an advanced user, you'll be surprised and pleased with some of the new Excel tricks this book will teach you. The Excel Pocket Guide will help users at all levels of expertise become Excel experts.

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  • Gaming Hacks
    by SIMON CARLESS
    ISBN 0596007140 (0-596-00714-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    It doesn't take long for an avid--or just wickedly clever--gamer to be chafed by the limitations of videogame software or hardware. If you want to go far beyond the obvious--whether you want to modify your console controller to work on other consoles, create your own text adventure, or modify your Game Boy--there's an awful lot of fun you can have for cheap or free, using the creative exploits of the gaming gurus. Gaming Hacks is the indispensable guide to cool things gamers can do to create, modify, and hack videogame hardware and software.

    Everything from social exploits and tips to be used in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) to soldering-iron heavy hardware hacks is covered in this extreme-cool hack guide written by gamers for gamers. Gaming Hacks offers a stunning variety of hacks, exploits, and other creative acts on both modern and archaic console hardware and today's PC hardware--one hundred detailed, ingenious hacks are included.

    Gaming Hacks also includes detailed software-based looks at MMO (massively multiplayer) titles, FPS (first-person shooter) games, machinima (real-time movies created using game engines), emulation, save-game hacking, and many other miscellaneous subgenres and topics.

    Gaming Hacks shows hardcore gamers how to configure the best FPS peripherals, hack the Nuon DVD Player/Gaming System, modify their Game Boy, watch movies and listen to music and their Sega Dreamcast, and much, much more.

    Gaming Hacks shows you how to do things you didn't know could be done. If you want more than your average gamer--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, make your games do what you want them to do Gaming Hacks will show you how. You don't need to be gaming guru to pick up Gaming Hacks; you'll be one when you put it down.

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  • Calishain, Tara: Google: Pocket Guide
    Google: Pocket Guide
    by Tara Calishain, D. J. Adams, Rael Dornfest
    ISBN 0596005504 (0-596-00550-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Simmons, Robert: Hardcore Java
    Hardcore Java
    by Robert Simmons
    ISBN 0596005687 (0-596-00568-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • O'Brien, Timothy M.: Jakarta Commons Cookbook
    Jakarta Commons Cookbook
    by Timothy M. O'Brien
    ISBN 059600706X (0-596-00706-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Cavaness, Chuck: Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference
    Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference
    by Chuck Cavaness, Brian Keeton
    ISBN 0596005199 (0-596-00519-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
    by David Flanagan
    ISBN 0596007388 (0-596-00738-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Java 5.0, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available.

    But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait for the latest 500 page tome on concepts and theory; you could even play around with the new JDK, hoping you figure things out--or you can get straight to work with Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook.

    This no-nonsense, down-and-dirty guide by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan skips all the boring prose and lecture, and jumps right into Tiger. You'll have a handle on the important new features of the language by the end of the first chapter, and be neck-deep in code before you hit the halfway point. Using the task-oriented format of this new series, you'll get complete practical coverage of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affects your type conversions, understand the power of varargs, learn how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and the for/in loop, and even get a grip on concurrency in the JVM.

    Light on theory and long on practical application, Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook allows you to cut to the chase, getting straight to work with Tiger's new features. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly covers important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing--you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style that suits developers. If you've been curious about Tiger, but haven't known where to start, this no-fluff, lab-style guide is the solution.

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  • McLaughlin, Brett: Java and Xml Date Binding
    Java and Xml Date Binding
    by Brett McLaughlin
    ISBN 0596002785 (0-596-00278-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Perry, J. Steven: Java Management Extensions
    Java Management Extensions
    by J. Steven Perry
    ISBN 0596002459 (0-596-00245-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Bales, Donald K.: Java Programming With Oracle Jdbc
    Java Programming With Oracle Jdbc
    by Donald K. Bales
    ISBN 059600088X (0-596-00088-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Topley, Kim: Java Web Services in a Nutshell
    Java Web Services in a Nutshell
    by Kim Topley
    ISBN 0596003994 (0-596-00399-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Javascript & Dhtml Cookbook
    by Danny Goodman
    ISBN 0596004672 (0-596-00467-2)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    On numerous online forums for JavaScript and DHTML, the majority of questions begin with "How do I...?" This new Cookbook provides the answers. After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author and scripting pioneer Danny Goodman has compiled a list of problems that frequently vex scripters of various experience levels. He has now applied state-of-the-art ECMA and W3C DOM standards and used best practices to create this extensive collection of practical recipes that can bring your web pages to life.

    The JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook is all about adding value to the content of a web page. The book focuses on practical and sensible applications of scripting, rather than flying images and gratuitous color changes. For every problem Goodman addresses, there's a solution or "recipe"--a focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. Yet, rather than just cut-and-paste code, you also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to your designs.

    The recipes range from simple tasks, such as manipulating strings and validating dates in JavaScript, to entire libraries that demonstrate complex tasks, such as cross-browser positioning of HTML elements and sorting tables. This book contains over 150 recipes on the following topics:

    • Working with interactive forms and style sheets
    • Presenting user-friendly page navigation
    • Creating dynamic content
    • Producing visual effects for stationary content
    • Positioning HTML elements
    • Managing browser windows and multiple frames
    This book is the ideal companion to O'Reilly's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference. If you own either of these books, the JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook is a must.
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  • Bergsten, Hans: Javaserver Pages
    Javaserver Pages
    by Hans Bergsten
    ISBN 059600317X (0-596-00317-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Bales, Donald: JDBC Pocket Reference : A Quick Guide for Programmers
    JDBC Pocket Reference : A Quick Guide for Programmers
    by Donald Bales
    ISBN 0596004575 (0-596-00457-5)
    Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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  • Beck, Kent: JUnit Pocket Guide
    JUnit Pocket Guide
    by Kent Beck
    ISBN 0596007434 (0-596-00743-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Apple Computer: Learning Carbon
    Learning Carbon
    by Apple Computer, Apple Computer Inc
    ISBN 0596001614 (0-596-00161-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Learning Python
    by Mark Lutz, David Ascher
    ISBN 0596002815 (0-596-00281-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Python is considered easy to learn, but there's no quicker way to mastery of the language than learning from an expert teacher. This edition of Learning Python puts you in the hands of two expert teachers, Mark Lutz and David Ascher, whose friendly, well-structured prose has guided many a programmer to proficiency with the language.

    Learning Python, Second Edition, offers programmers a comprehensive learning tool for Python and object-oriented programming. Thoroughly updated for the numerous language and class presentation changes that have taken place since the release of the first edition in 1999, this guide introduces the basic elements of the latest release of Python 2.3 and covers new features, such as list comprehensions, nested scopes, and iterators/generators.

    Beyond language features, this edition of Learning Python also includes new context for less-experienced programmers, including fresh overviews of object-oriented programming and dynamic typing, new discussions of program launch and configuration options, new coverage of documentation sources, and more. There are also new use cases throughout to make the application of language features more concrete.

    The first part of Learning Python gives programmers all the information they'll need to understand and construct programs in the Python language, including types, operators, statements, classes, functions, modules and exceptions. The authors then present more advanced material, showing how Python performs common tasks by offering real applications and the libraries available for those applications. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises that will test your Python skills and measure your understanding.

    Learning Python, Second Edition is a self-paced book that allows readers to focus on the core Python language in depth. As you work through the book, you'll gain a deep and complete understanding of the Python language that will help you to understand the larger application-level examples that you'll encounter on your own. If you're interested in learning Python--and want to do so quickly and efficiently--then Learning Python, Second Edition is your best choice.

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  • Learning the Unix Operating System
    by John Strang, Grace Todino, Jerry D. Peek
    ISBN 0596002610 (0-596-00261-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Part basic primer, part reference guide, this slim volume will make your life with UNIX much simpler. This book is specifically designed for those who are new to UNIX and contains neither introductory-level condescension nor advanced-level gibberish. Well-indexed and clearly mapped, Learning the UNIX Operating System will show you how to use and manage files and get your e-mail as well as how to perform more advanced tasks, such as redirecting standard input/output and multitasking your processes. Those new to the UNIX world will appreciate its concise presentation, and those reasonably familiar with UNIX will learn many new shortcuts, tricks, and tools. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]

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  • Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther
    by Brian Jepson, Dave Taylor
    ISBN 0596006179 (0-596-00617-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Renowned for its friendliness, Mac OS® X has delighted many a loyal Mac® user with its combined ease use and underlying strength. By no means simplistic, its intelligently designed operating system and user interface boast of sophistication and power, while still offering accessibility to even the most inexperienced computer users. But Mac OS X has gone one step further: it's turned unsuspecting Mac users into Unix® users, too.

    Perhaps you're already familiar with Unix, just not on the Mac. Or perhaps you opened your Utilities folder, spotted the Terminal icon and double-clicked on it just to see what it does. Suddenly faced with a command line interface, you may have asked, "What does this mean?" followed by the most pressing question, "Why on earth would I ever want to venture into this seemingly user-unfriendly territory?"

    The new edition of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther answers these questions and more. This compact book provides a user-friendly tour for the uninitiated of the Mac's Unix base. You can safely explore Terminal and familiarize yourself with the command line, learning as you go about the hundreds of Unix programs that come with your Mac. You'll begin to understand the power and flexibility of Unix. And if Unix isn't new to you, you'll discover how it translates into this latest Mac incarnation. Updated to cover Mac OS X Panther (Mac OS X 10.3), this book will keep you current with the latest features of your Mac.

    Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther begins with a quick but in-depth introduction to Terminal and the command line interface. All the common commands are simply explained with accompanying examples, exercises, and opportunities for experimentation. There are even problem checklists to help you along the way if you get stuck. You'll learn how to:

    • Customize your shell environment
    • Manage files and directories
    • Successfully print from the Unix command line
    • Edit and create files with the vi editor
    • Perform remote logins
    • Access Internet functions, and much more
    Unix continues to thrive as an operating system because of its power, flexibility, and simplicity, and the vast community that supports it. Mac OS X Panther makes it possible for you to run Unix programs side-by-side with native Mac programs on your Mac desktop. Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther puts the power of these programs at your fingertips.
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  • Learning Unix For Mac OS X Tiger
    by Dave Taylor
    ISBN 0596009151 (0-596-00915-1)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Liberty, Jesse: Learning Visual Basic .Net
    Learning Visual Basic .Net
    by Jesse Liberty
    ISBN 0596003862 (0-596-00386-2)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Linux Device Drivers
    by Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman
    ISBN 0596005903 (0-596-00590-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Updated to cover version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel, the second edition of Linux Device Drivers remains the best general-purpose, paper-bound guide for programmers wishing to make hardware devices work under the world's most popular open-source operating system. The authors take care to show how to write drivers that are portable--that is, that compile and run under all popular Linux platforms. That, along with the fact that they're careful to explain and illustrate concepts, makes this book very well-suited to any programmer familiar with C but not with the hardware-software interface. It's worth noting that the emphasis in the title is on "device drivers" as much as "Linux". This book will make sense to you if you've never written a driver for any platform before. It helps if you have some Linux or UNIX background, but even that is secondary as a prerequisite to C skill.

    For a programming text--and one concerned with low-level instructions and data structures, at that--this book is remarkably rich in prose. You'll typically want to read this book straight through, more or less skipping the code samples, before sketching out your plan for the driver you need to write. Then, go back and pay closer attention to the sections on specific details you need to implement, such as custom task queues. For coding-time details about specific system calls and programming techniques, count on the index to point you to the right passages. --David Wall

    Topics covered: Techniques for writing hardware device drivers that run under Linux kernels 2.0.x through 2.2.x. Sections show how to manage memory, time, interrupts, ports and other details of the hardware-software interface. [via]

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  • Jepson, Brian: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
    Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
    by Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
    ISBN 0596003560 (0-596-00356-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Mac OS X Hacks
    by Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway
    ISBN 0596004605 (0-596-00460-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Mac OS X is a marvelous confluence of the user-friendly and highly customizable Macintosh of yesteryear and the power and flexibility of Unix under the hood. Those coming to Mac OS X from previous incarnations of the operating system recognize much of the friendly face of the Macintosh but they are also plunged into a whole new world. Unix converts to Mac OS X find a familiar FreeBSD-like operating system at the core and many of the command-line applications that they're familiar with.

    This presents a unique opportunity for combining traditional Unix hacking and Mac OS know-how. Mac OS X Hacks goes beyond the peculiar mix of man pages and not-particularly-helpful Help Center, pulling the best tips, tricks, and tools from the Mac power users and Unix hackers themselves.

    The collection reflects the real-world know how and experience of those well steeped in Unix history and expertise, sharing their no-nonsense, sometimes quick-and-dirty solutions to administering and taking full advantage of everything a Unix desktop has to offer: Web, Mail, and FTP serving, security services, SSH, Perl and shell scripting, compiling, configuring, scheduling, networking, and hacking. Add to that the experience of die-hard Macintosh users, customizing and modifying their hardware and software to meet their needs: System Preferences, GUI mods and tweaks, hardware tips, vital shareware and freeware, AppleScript, AppleTalk and equivalents, keyboard modifiers, and general Macintosh-style tomfoolery.

    Each Hack can be read easily in a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Mac OS X Hacks provides direct, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges facing both those meeting the Mac for the first time and long-time users delving into Mac OS X and its Unix underpinnings.

    Mac OS X Hacks is the third in O'Reilly's new Hacks Serier which aims to begin reclaiming the term "hacking" for the good guys. In recent years, the term has come to be associated with those nefarious black hats who break into computers to snoop, steal information or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term originally had a more benign meaning, and you'll still hear it used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks books are written in the spirit of the true hackers -- the people who drive innovation.

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  • Stone, Chris: Mac OS X in a Nutshell
    Mac OS X in a Nutshell
    by Chris Stone, Chuck Toporek, Jason McIntosh
    ISBN 0596003706 (0-596-00370-6)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Toporek, Chuck: Mac OS X Pocket Guide
    Mac OS X Pocket Guide
    by Chuck Toporek
    ISBN 0596004583 (0-596-00458-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
    by David Pogue
    ISBN 0596000820 (0-596-00082-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Widely esteemed Mac authority David Pogue weighs in on the latest offering from Cupertino with Mac OS X: The Missing Manual. It's a fact-packed romp through the operating system and the extras that come with it, made resoundingly more readable by the depth of Pogue's knowledge, his familiarity with Mac history, and his eagerness to engage novices as members of the Mac user community. Unlike most books about Mac OS X, this one explores its Unix-like underpinnings (the Apple implementation is called Darwin) pretty thoroughly. However, on the logic that if you wanted to use Unix, you would, Pogue emphasises the traditional, graphical Mac interface over the Terminal window.

    Pogue, who's written about Macs for years writes about Macs at the user level with clarity. He's also quite good at dealing with the numerous options and variations that apply to Mac procedures, and makes very good use of sidebars for clarifying details. In a section on printing, for example, Pogue explains why there's no longer an option to turn off background printing (true multitasking has rendered the option obsolete). There's also good coverage of the online iTools, tailored to people unfamiliar with integrating remote resources into their personal computing environments. --David Wall

    Topics covered: Apple Mac OS X for people who will use the operating system, either on a standalone computer with Internet access or on a computer that is part of a home or organisational network. Running applications (in Classic mode as well as in native Mac OS X mode), printing, networking, multimedia, security (including Keychain), and utilities are all covered. [via]

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  • Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition
    by David Pogue
    ISBN 0596006152 (0-596-00615-2)
    Softcover, Pogue Pr

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    Apple says that Mac OS X 10.3 introduces 150 new features--but that's not really true. In fact, "Panther" includes many more than that. It's faster, more polished, and much more efficient. But it still comes without a manual.

    With 300,000 copies in print, the first two versions of this book became industry bestsellers. Now David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to this completely rewritten, greatly expanded edition. It covers:

    • Getting started. The early chapters demystify the Dock, windows, and the unfamiliar Mac OS X folder structure--an ideal introduction.
    • New technologies. Mac OS X 10.3 brings breakthroughs in window management (Expose, the Sidebar); security (File Vault, Secure Empty Trash); and productivity (faxing, Fast User Switching).
    • Bonus software. Panther comes with over 50 free programs--and this book gives you expertise in all of them. This beefed-up edition includes all-new mini-manuals on iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, iChat AV, and Safari.
    • Basics of Unix. You can completely ignore Panther's Unix core. But if the command line intrigues you, this book offers a gentle introduction.
    • Finding familiar features. Two "Where'd It Go?" Dictionaries make it easy for Mac OS 9 and Windows refugees to look up a traditional feature--and find out where it went in Mac OS X 10.3.

    As always, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual offers warm, witty writing, and bursts with the shortcuts, surprises, and design touches that make the Mac the most passionately championed computer in the world.
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  • MAC OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
    by David Pogue
    ISBN 0596009410 (0-596-00941-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    You can set your watch to it: As soon as Apple comes out with another version of Mac OS X, David Pogue hits the streets with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover it with a wealth of detail. The new Mac OS X 10.4, better known as Tiger, is faster than its predecessors, but nothing's too fast for Pogue and Mac OS X: The Missing Manual. There are many reasons why this is the most popular computer book of all time.

    With its hallmark objectivity, the Tiger Edition thoroughly explores the latest features to grace the Mac OS. Which ones work well and which do not? What should you look for? This book tackles Spotlight, an enhanced search feature that helps you find anything on your computer; iChat AV for videoconferencing; Automator for automating repetitive, manual or batch tasks; and the hundreds of smaller tweaks and changes, good and bad, that Apple's marketing never bothers to mention.

    Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition is the authoritative book that's ideal for every user, including people coming to the Mac for the first time. Our guide offers an ideal introduction that demystifies the Dock, the unfamiliar Mac OS X folder structure, and the entirely new Mail application. There are also mini-manuals on iLife applications such as iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto, those much-heralded digital media programs, and a tutorial for Safari, Mac's own web browser.

    And plenty more: learn to configure Mac OS X using the System Preferences application, keep your Mac secure with FileVault, and learn about Tiger's enhanced Firewall capabilities. If you're so inclined, this Missing Manual also offers an easy introduction to the Terminal application for issuing basic Unix commands.

    There's something new on practically every page, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Mac's brought a new cat to town and we have a great new way to tame it.

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  • King, Tim: Managing and Using Mysql
    Managing and Using Mysql
    by Tim King, George Reese, Randy Jay Yarger, Hugh E. Williams
    ISBN 0596002114 (0-596-00211-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography
    by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
    ISBN 0596007035 (0-596-00703-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?

    Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.

    Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time.

    Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure!

    With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

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  • Mastering Oracle Sql.
    by Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu
    ISBN 0596006322 (0-596-00632-2)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The vast majority of Oracle SQL books discuss some syntax, provide the barest rudiments of using Oracle SQL, and perhaps include a few simple examples. It might be enough to pass a survey course, or give you some buzz words to drop in conversation with real Oracle DBAs. But if you use Oracle SQL on a regular basis, you want much more. You want to access the full power of SQL to write queries in an Oracle environment. You want a solid understanding of what's possible with Oracle SQL, creative techniques for writing effective and accurate queries, and the practical, hands-on information that leads to true mastery of the language. Simply put, you want useful, expert best practices that can be put to work immediately, not just non-vendor specific overview or theory.

    Updated to cover the latest version of Oracle, Oracle 10g, this edition of the highly regarded Mastering Oracle SQL has a stronger focus on technique and on Oracle's implementation of SQL than any other book on the market. It covers Oracle s vast library of built-in functions, the full range of Oracle SQL query-writing features, regular expression support, new aggregate and analytic functions, subqueries in the SELECT and WITH clauses, multiset union operators, enhanced support for hierarchical queries: leaf and loop detection, and the CONNECT_BY_ROOT operator, new partitioning methods (some introduced in Oracle9i Release 2), and the native XML datatype, XMLType.

    Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition fills the gap between the sometimes spotty vendor documentation, and other books on SQL that just don't explore the full depth of what is possible with Oracle-specific SQL. For those who want to harness the untapped (and often overlooked) power of Oracle SQL, this essential guide for putting Oracle SQL to work will prove invaluable.

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  • Sells, Chris: Mastering Visual Studio .Net
    Mastering Visual Studio .Net
    by Chris Sells, Jon Flanders
    ISBN 0596003609 (0-596-00360-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Mind Hacks
    by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb, Steven Johnson
    ISBN 0596007795 (0-596-00779-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious.

    Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen.

    Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put together.

    Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this book, you'll find:

    • Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions
    • See Movement When All is Still
    • Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention
    • Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty
    • Mold Your Body Schema
    • Test Your Handedness
    • See a Person in Moving Lights
    • Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect
    • Boost Memory by Using Context
    • Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention
    Steven Johnson, author of "Mind Wide Open" writes in his foreword to the book, "These hacks amaze because they reveal the brain's hidden logic; they shed light on the cheats and shortcuts and latent assumptions our brains make about the world." If you want to know more about what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key--let yourself play with the interface between you and the world.
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  • Network Security Hacks
    by Andrew Lockhart
    ISBN 0596006438 (0-596-00643-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    To the uninitiated, the title may seem like an oxymoron: after all, aren't hacks what network security is supposed to prevent? But if you're network administrator, this book's title not only makes sense; it makes a lot of sense. You know that a busy administrator needs a hatful of devilishly effective security hacks to keep your 12-hour days from becoming all-nighters.

    Network Security Hacks is not a long-winded treatise on security theory. Instead, this information packed little book provides 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure today.

    This compendium of security hacks doesn't just cover securing TCP/IP-based services, but also provides intelligent host-based security techniques. Loaded with concise but powerful examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending, and incident response, Network Security Hacks will demonstrate effective methods for defending your servers and networks from a variety of devious and subtle attacks.

    Network Security Hacks show how to detect the presence (and track every keystroke) of network intruders, methods for protecting your network and data using strong encryption, and even techniques for laying traps for would-be system crackers. Important security tools are presented, as well as clever methods for using them to reveal real, timely, useful information about what is happening on your network.

    O'Reilly's Hacks Series reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys--innovators who use their ingenuity to solve interesting problems, explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, and create useful tools. Network Security Hacks lives up to reputation the Hacks series has earned by providing the "roll-up-your sleeves and get-it-done" hacks that most network security tomes don't offer. Every hack can be read in just a few minutes but will save hours of searching for the right answer.

    Using just one of these amazing hacks will make this slim book's price seem like a remarkable deal. The other 99 make Network Security Hacks absolutely invaluable.

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  • Biafore, Bonnie: Online Investing Hacks
    Online Investing Hacks
    by Bonnie Biafore
    ISBN 0596006772 (0-596-00677-2)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Greenwald, Rick: Oracle Essentials: Oracle9I, Oracle8I and Oracle8
    Oracle Essentials: Oracle9I, Oracle8I and Oracle8
    by Rick Greenwald, Jonathan Stern, Robert Stackowiak, O'Reilly & Associates, Jonathan Stem
    ISBN 0596001797 (0-596-00179-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Oracle SQL Tuning
    by Mark Gurry
    ISBN 0596002688 (0-596-00268-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Oracle Sql*plus
    by Jonathan Gennick
    ISBN 0596008856 (0-596-00885-6)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The Oracle SQLPlus Pocket Reference is a must-have for anyone working with Oracle databases, especially those looking to maximize the effectiveness of SQLPlus. As Oracle's long-standing interactive query tool, SQLPlus is available at every Oracle site, from the largest data warehouse to the smallest single-user system. Despite its wide use, however, SQLPlus is still often not completely understood or fully utilized.

    Database administrators and developers alike will therefore find the Oracle SQLPlus Pocket Reference to be extremely beneficial. In addition to summarizing all of the SQLPlus syntax and format options, including new Oracle Database 10g features, this handy, on-the-job guide specifically shows readers how to:

    • Differentiate between SQL and SQLPlus
    • Interact with SQLPlus from both the command line and the web browser
    • Select, insert, update, and delete data
    • Format both text and HTML reports with SQLPlus
    • Specify SQLPlus commands and format elements
    • Tune SQL queries
    The new third edition of this book has been updated for Oracle Database 10g to include information on both SQL*Plus and SQL. New SQL information includes the SELECT statement's new MODEL clause, flashback queries, partition outer joins, and DBMS_XPLAN.

    With its quick-reference format and compact size, the Oracle SQLPlus Pocket Reference follows in the long line of successful "pocket references" offered by O'Reilly. It also serves as the ideal companion to O'Reilly's larger, more comprehensive book on SQLPlus, the bestselling Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide.

    Author Jonathan Gennick is an editor for O'Reilly specializing in database and programming titles, having amassed some 17 years of programming and database management experience.

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    Oracle Sql*Plus Pocket Reference
    by Jonathan Gennick
    ISBN 0596004419 (0-596-00441-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Nielsen, David M.: PayPal Hacks: PayPal Hacks
    PayPal Hacks: PayPal Hacks
    by David M. Nielsen, Shannon Sofield, Dave Burchell
    ISBN 0596007515 (0-596-00751-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Perl Cookbook
    by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
    ISBN 0596003137 (0-596-00313-7)
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    When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl if it put updated recipes in the new edition. Instead, O'Reilly chose to release the many Perl code examples as a separate entity: The Perl Cookbook.

    The recipes are well documented and the examples aren't too arcane; even beginners will be able to pick up the lessons taught here. The authors write in relatively easy-to-understand language (for a technical guide). Through this book and its arsenal of recipes, you will learn many new things about Perl to help you through your toughest projects. The next time you're working on a project at 2 a.m., you'll thank yourself for the guidance and direction The Perl Cookbook provides. --Doug Beaver [via]

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  • Wallace, Shawn: Perl Graphics Programming
    Perl Graphics Programming
    by Shawn Wallace
    ISBN 059600219X (0-596-00219-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Perl in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
    by Stephen Spainhour, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever
    ISBN 0596002416 (0-596-00241-6)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Perl in a Nutshell strives to be a perfect set of socket tools for the active Perl programmer. By and large, it succeeds, providing endless and well-thought-out lists and tables on the language's modules, flags, and extensions. The authors briefly address basic learner's questions--such as the difference between a hash and an array--but these concepts are not the purpose of the book. (Those new to Perl would be better off with others in the O'Reilly Perl series, such as Learning Perl, while programmers making the switch to Perl can pick up the nuances of the language with Programming Perl.) This book is pure Perl reference, briefly covering Perl/Tk (for GUI Perl programs on Unix and Windows 95/NT) and Perl for Win 32.

    The authors do start at the very beginning, and even in a self-described "desktop quick reference" find the time to comment on less urgent--but still interesting--Perl-related matters (like how to find online help amidst the "Perl culture"). The format of the book makes sections on topics such as Perl debugging easily understandable, illustrating how to make an interactive and timesaving environment.

    Of particular convenience is the outstanding section on the standard Perl modules. A four-page "quick look" allows you to easily scan through short definitions of all the modules and find the entry you're looking for. An index with full definitions for each module follows, showing you how to use each module and providing a more in-depth explanation (and often, examples). Perl in a Nutshell concludes--as you might expect--with an excellent and well-cross-referenced index. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]

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  • Practical Rdf
    by Shelley Powers
    ISBN 0596002637 (0-596-00263-7)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions.

    Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects.

    The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF/XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF's data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF/XML.

    If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.

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  • Fogel, Karl: Producing Open Source Software: How To Run Sucessful Free Software Project
    Producing Open Source Software: How To Run Sucessful Free Software Project
    by Karl Fogel
    ISBN 0596007590 (0-596-00759-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Osborn, John: Programming .NET Security
    Programming .NET Security
    by John Osborn, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones
    ISBN 0596004427 (0-596-00442-7)
    Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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  • Lott, Joey: Programming Flash Communication Server
    Programming Flash Communication Server
    by Joey Lott, Brain Lesser, Giacomo Guilizzoni
    ISBN 0596005040 (0-596-00504-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Programming Visual Basic 2005
    by Jesse Liberty
    ISBN 0596009496 (0-596-00949-6)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS
    by Patrick Burton, Matthew Holmes, Roger Knoell
    ISBN 0596002009 (0-596-00200-9)
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  • Lowy, Juval: Programming.NET Components
    Programming.NET Components
    by Juval Lowy
    ISBN 0596003471 (0-596-00347-1)
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  • Chris Adamson: Quicktime For Java: A Developer's Notebook
    Quicktime For Java: A Developer's Notebook
    by Chris Adamson
    ISBN 0596008228 (0-596-00822-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Regular Expression: Pocket Reference
    by Nathan Torkington, Tony Stubblebine
    ISBN 059600415X (0-596-00415-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Book summary:

    Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. While a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill, all there is to know about them fills a very large volume, and you don't always have time to thumb through hundreds of pages each time a question arises. The answer is the Regular Expression Pocket Reference. Concise and easy-to-use, this little book is the portable companion to Mastering Regular Expressions.

    This handy guide offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, Regular Expression Pocket Reference is a comprehensive guide to regular expression APIs for C, Perl, PHP,Java, .NET, Python, vi, and the POSIX regular expression libraries.

    O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point and need to get to a solution quickly, the new Regular Expression Pocket Reference is the book you'll want to have.

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  • Vlist, Eric Van Der: Relax Ng
    Relax Ng
    by Eric Van Der Vlist
    ISBN 0596004214 (0-596-00421-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Davidson, James Duncan: Running Mac OS X Panther
    Running Mac OS X Panther
    by James Duncan Davidson
    ISBN 0596005008 (0-596-00500-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Brownell, David: Sax2
    Sax2
    by David Brownell
    ISBN 0596002378 (0-596-00237-8)
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  • Cranor, Lorrie: Security And Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use
    Security And Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use
    by Lorrie Cranor, Simson Garfinkel
    ISBN 0596008279 (0-596-00827-9)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    by Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin
    ISBN 0596005458 (0-596-00545-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    When it comes to network security, many users and administrators are running scared, and justifiably so. The sophistication of attacks against computer systems increases with each new Internet worm.

    What's the worst an attacker can do to you? You'd better find out, right? That's what Security Warrior teaches you. Based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, Security Warrior reveals how your systems can be attacked. Covering everything from reverse engineering to SQL attacks, and including topics like social engineering, antiforensics, and common attacks against UNIX and Windows systems, this book teaches you to know your enemy and how to be prepared to do battle.

    Security Warrior places particular emphasis on reverse engineering. RE is a fundamental skill for the administrator, who must be aware of all kinds of malware that can be installed on his machines -- trojaned binaries, "spyware" that looks innocuous but that sends private data back to its creator, and more. This is the only book to discuss reverse engineering for Linux or Windows CE. It's also the only book that shows you how SQL injection works, enabling you to inspect your database and web applications for vulnerability.

    Security Warrior is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book covering the art of computer war: attacks against computer systems and their defenses. It's often scary, and never comforting. If you're on the front lines, defending your site against attackers, you need this book. On your shelf--and in your hands.

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  • Spring: A Developer's Notebook
    by Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland
    ISBN 0596009100 (0-596-00910-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Since development first began on Spring in 2003, there's been a constant buzz about it in Java development publications and corporate IT departments. The reason is clear: Spring is a lightweight Java framework in a world of complex heavyweight architectures that take forever to implement. Spring is like a breath of fresh air to overworked developers.

    In Spring, you can make an object secure, remote, or transactional, with a couple of lines of configuration instead of embedded code. The resulting application is simple and clean. In Spring, you can work less and go home early, because you can strip away a whole lot of the redundant code that you tend to see in most J2EE applications. You won't be nearly as burdened with meaningless detail. In Spring, you can change your mind without the consequences bleeding through your entire application. You'll adapt much more quickly than you ever could before.

    Spring: A Developer's Notebook offers a quick dive into the new Spring framework, designed to let you get hands-on as quickly as you like. If you don't want to bother with a lot of theory, this book is definitely for you. You'll work through one example after another. Along the way, you'll discover the energy and promise of the Spring framework.

    This practical guide features ten code-intensive labs that'll rapidly get you up to speed. You'll learn how to do the following, and more:

    • install the Spring Framework
    • set up the development environment
    • use Spring with other open source Java tools such as Tomcat, Struts, and Hibernate
    • master AOP and transactions
    • utilize ORM solutions
    As with all titles in the Developer's Notebook series, this no-nonsense book skips all the boring prose and cuts right to the chase. It's an approach that forces you to get your hands dirty by working through one instructional example after another-examples that speak to you instead of at you.
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  • Ssh, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
    by Daniel Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
    ISBN 0596008953 (0-596-00895-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The suite of utility applications that Unix users and administrators find indispensable--Telnet, rlogin, FTP, and the rest--can in fact prove to be the undoing of interconnected systems. The Secure Shell, aka SSH, which isn't a true shell at all, provides your otherwise attack-prone utilities with the protection they need. SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide explains how to use SSH at all levels. In a blended sequence, the book explains what SSH is all about, how it fits into a larger security scheme, and how to employ it as an everyday user with an SSH client. More technically detailed chapters show how to configure a SSH server--several variants are covered--and how to integrate SSH with non-Unix client platforms.

    As befits its detail- and variation-rich subject, this book comprises many specialised sections, each dealing with some specific aspect of use or configuration (setting up access control at the account level, for example, or generating keys for a particular SSH server). The writing is both informative and fun to read; the authors switch back and forth between text and entry-and-response listings from SSH machines. They often run through a half-dozen or more variants on the same command in a few pages, providing the reader with lots of practical information. The discussion of how SSH fits into a Kerberos Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is great, as is the advice on defeating particular kinds of attacks. --David Wall

    Topics covered:

    • The Secure Shell (SSH) for installers, administrators, and everyday users
    • SSH design and operation
    • Server setup
    • SSH agents
    • Client configuration
    • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration
    • SSH1
    • SSH2
    • F-Secure
    • OpenSSH for Unix
    • SSH1 and SecureCRT for Microsoft Windows
    • NiftyTelnet SSH for Mac OS
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  • Stl Pocket Reference
    by Ray Lischner
    ISBN 0596005563 (0-596-00556-3)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    The STL Pocket Reference describes the functions, classes, and templates in that part of the C++ standard library often referred to as the Standard Template Library (STL). The STL encompasses containers, iterators, algorithms, and function objects, which collectively represent one of the most important and widely used subsets of standard library functionality.

    The C++ standard library, even the subset known as the STL, is vast. It's next to impossible to work with the STL without some sort of reference at your side to remind you of template parameters, function invocations, return types--indeed, the entire myriad of details you need to know in order to use the STL effectively and get work done. You need a memory-aid.

    Books that cover the standard library and the STL tend to be quite heavy and large, describing each aspect of the STL in detail. Such books are great when you're not familiar with the library, but get in the way when you simply need to remind yourself of a function name, or the order in which you pass arguments to a function. Programmers familiar with the STL need a small, lightweight memory-aid. That's what the STL Pocket Reference is. It's small, lightweight, and chock-full of information that you can take in at a glance, so you can get on with your work.

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  • Vb.Net Language: Pocket Reference
    by Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
    ISBN 0596004281 (0-596-00428-1)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Visual Basic .NET is a radically new version of Microsoft Visual Basic, the world's most widely used rapid application development (RAD) package. Whether you are just beginning application development with Visual Basic .NET or are already deep in code, you will appreciate just how easy and valuable the VB.NET Language Pocket Reference is.

    VB.NET Language Pocket Reference contains a concise description of all language elements by category. These include language elements implemented by the Visual Basic compiler, as well as all procedures and functions implemented in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace. Use it anytime you want to look up those pesky details of Visual Basic syntax or usage. With concise detail and no fluff, you'll want to take this book everywhere.

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  • Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits
    by Tyler Mitchell
    ISBN 0596008651 (0-596-00865-1)
    Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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    With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area.

    Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS.

    Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it.

    Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.

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  • Killelea, Patrick: Web Performance Tuning
    Web Performance Tuning
    by Patrick Killelea
    ISBN 059600172X (0-596-00172-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Web, Graphics and Perl/Tk: Best of the Perl Journal
    by Jon Orwant
    ISBN 0596003110 (0-596-00311-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal (TPJ) became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical Perl topics and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. Back issues were hoarded, or swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format, The Perl Journal remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development.

    Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk is the second volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its five years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes.

    The forty articles included in this volume are simply some of the best Perl articles ever written on the subjects of graphics, the Web, and Perl/Tk, by some of the best Perl authors and coders.

    Much of Perl's success is due to its capabilities for developing web sites; the Web section covers popular topics such as CGI programs, mod_perl, spidering, HTML parsing, security, and content management. The Graphics section is a grab bag of techniques, ranging from simple graph generation to ray tracing and real-time video digitizing. The Perl/Tk section shows you how to use the popular Perl/Tk toolkit for developing graphical applications that work on both Unix/Linux and Windows without a single change.

    Written by twenty-three of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, including Lincoln Stein, Mark-Jason Dominus, Alligator Descartes, and Dan Brian, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl.

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  • Weblogic: The Definitive Guide
    by Jon Mountjoy, Chugh Avinash, Brett McLauglin
    ISBN 059600432X (0-596-00432-X)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Book summary:

    BEA's WebLogic Server implements the full range of J2EE technologies, and includes many additional features such as advanced management, clustering, and web services. Widely adopted, it forms the core of the WebLogic platform, providing a stable framework for building scalable, highly available, and secure applications. In fact, in the long list of WebLogic's strengths and features, only one shortcoming stands out: the documentation that comes with the WebLogic server often leaves users clamoring for more information.

    WebLogic: The Definitive Guide presents a 360-degree view of the world of WebLogic. Providing in-depth coverage of the WebLogic server, the book takes the concept of "definitive" to a whole new level. Exhaustive treatment of the WebLogic server and management console answers any question that developers or administrators might think to ask. Developers will find a useful guide through the world of WebLogic to help them apply their J2EE expertise to build and manage applications. Administrators will discover all they need to manage a WebLogic-based setup. And system architects will appreciate the detailed analysis of the different system architectures supported by WebLogic, the overall organization of a WebLogic domain and supporting network infrastructure, and more.

    WebLogic: The Definitive Guide is divided into three sections that explore WebLogic and J2EE, Managing the WebLogic Environment, and WebLogic Enterprise APIs. Some of the topics covered in this comprehensive volume include:

    • Building web applications on the WebLogic Server
    • Building and optimizing RMI applications
    • Using EJBs with WebLogic, including CMP entity beans
    • Packaging and deploying applications
    • Understanding WebLogic's support for clustering
    • Performance tuning and related configuration settings
    • Configuring WebLogic's SSL support
    • Maximizing WebLogic's security features
    • Building web services with XML
    • Using WebLogic's JMX services and MBeans
    Anyone who has struggled with mastering the WebLogic server will appreciate the thorough, clearly written explanations and examples in this book. WebLogic: The Definitive Guide is the definitive documentation for this popular J2EE application server.
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  • Tulloch, Mitch: Windows Server Hacks
    Windows Server Hacks
    by Mitch Tulloch
    ISBN 0596006470 (0-596-00647-0)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Flickenger, Rob: Wireless Hacks
    Wireless Hacks
    by Rob Flickenger
    ISBN 0596005598 (0-596-00559-8)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • Writing Excel Macros With Vba
    by Steven Roman
    ISBN 0596003595 (0-596-00359-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Newly updated for Excel 2002, Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on:

    • The Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete, state-of-the-art integrated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros.
    The VBA programming language, the same programming language used by the other applications in Microsoft Office XP and 2000, as well as by the retail editions of Visual Basic 6.0. The Excel object model, including new objects and new members of existing objects in Excel 2002. Excel exposes nearly all of its functionality through its object model, which is the means by which Excel can be controlled programmatically using VBA. While the Excel object model, with 192 objects, is the second largest among the Office applications, you need to be familiar with only a handful of objects to write effective macros. Writing Excel Macros focuses on these essential objects, but includes a discussion of many more objects as well.

    Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition is written in a terse, no-nonsense manner that is characteristic of Steven Roman's straightforward, practical approach. Instead of a slow-paced tutorial with a lot of handholding, Roman offers the essential information about Excel VBA that you must master to write macros effectively. This tutorial is reinforced by interesting and useful examples that solve common problems you're sure to have encountered.

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