Computers & Internet

Passing the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam What do Ford Financial, IBM, and Victoria's Secret have in common? Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). As the industry standard for platform-independent reusable business components, EJB has just become Sun... More

Know Your Enemy 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... More

After 25 years of avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak breaks his silence and tells the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on the iconic cult status it enjoys today. But for Steve's dream to build himself a computer, Apple would never have happened. In June, it was ... More

Description Successful project management is increasingly vital to all organizations, driven by the demands of global competition, rapid technological growth, and faster time to market (just to name a few). For those in technology fields, project management s... More

The Practice of Writing Excellent Code Many programmers know how to write correct code - code that works. But not all know how to craft great code - code that is well written and easy to understand. Code Craft teaches programmers how to move beyond writing co... More

Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning & Administration Written by the world's top authors of best-selling Oracle books, Mike Ault, Daniel Liu and Madhu Tumma target their substantial knowledge of evaluating Oracle new features in this important book. With... More

SQL*Plus & SQL Syntax (Covers Oracle Database 10g) The Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference is a must-have for anyone working with Oracle databases, especially those looking to maximize the effectiveness of SQL*Plus. As Oracle's long-standing interactive query to... More

Next Generation Open Source Version Control One of the greatest frustrations in most software projects is version control: the art of managing changes to information. Today's increasingly fast pace of software development--as programmers make small changes to... More

There's More Than One Way To Do It Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bib... More

Description: The first edition of Programming Pearls was one of the most influential books I read early in my career, and many of the insights encountered in that book stayed with me ling after I read it Jon has done a wonderful Job updating the material. I am very impressed at how fresh the new exa... More

This practical, hands-on book offers deep, thorough coverage of the internals of architecture and resource management in SQL Server 2005, focusing on the Storage Engine. The book features extensive code samples and table examples. Understanding the internals of storage in SQL Server helps database d... More

Table of contents : Part I Introducing C# and the .NET Platform · The Philosophy of .NET · Building C# Applications Part II The C# Programming Language · C# Language Fundamentals · Object-Oriented Programming with C# 2.0 · Understanding Object Lifetime &middo... More

Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems Covers Windows, Linux, UNIX, and OS X Backup & Recovery offers a comprehensive approach to the challenges you face in backing up your data. It provides hands-on, practical, straightforward instructions and advice... More

A Comprehensive Resource for XHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript Packed with information on the latest web specifications and browser features, this new edition is your ultimate one-stop resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript d... More

The 6/e Update Edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations and a new chapter on the newest Operating System to capture the attention of critics, consumers, and industry alike: Windows XP. · Brand new chapter on the ... More

I  Artificial Intelligence1. Introduction2. Intelligent AgentsII  Problem-Solving3. Solving Problems by Searching4. Informed Search and Exploration5. Constraint Satisfaction Problems6. Adversarial SearchIII  Knowledge and Reasoning7. Logical Agents8. First-Order Logic9. Inference in Firs... More

A Caffeinated Learning Guide to the world of Dynamic Web pages Sick of creating web sites that reload every time a user moves the mouse? Tired of servers that wait around to respond to users' requests for movie tickets? It sounds like you need a little (or ma... More

Unix Text Processing For many users, working in the Unix environment means using vi, a full-screen text editor available on most Unix systems. Even those who know vi often make use of only a small number of its features. Learning the vi Editor is a complete ... More

Description Do you enjoy writing software, except for the database code? Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook is for you. Database experts may enjoy fiddling with SQL, but you don't have to--the rest of the application is the fun part. And even database expert... More