Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond

January 18, 2010 – 9:32 am

Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond bookProfessional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond Description:
You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the underlying design principles behind professional Rich Internet Application (RIA) development and the various tools that are available to accomplish your design goals. You’ll break down an application into client-side and server-side technologies, and you’ll take advantage of key concepts such as mashups, auto-completion, and tagging for social sites.

This book is for software developers interested in practical solutions to real-world problems. You should have some familiarity with Python, Java, or Ruby on Rails.

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

December 5, 2009 – 10:14 pm

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A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming book is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic: You can use it with any Linux system, now and for years to come. Use Macs, too? This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including essential OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX books ignore.

RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302)

December 2, 2009 – 11:09 am

RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide bookRHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide Description:
This RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302) book covers every published objective in the latest two-part hands-on exam (Troubleshooting and System Maintenance; Installation and Configuration) for the Red Hat Certified Engineer credential from Red Hat. Plus it’s up to date for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The best way to prepare for the RHCE exam is with Red Hat’s prep courses, but you’ll find this book an invaluable resource in your studies and afterwards on the job.

Hardening Network Infrastructure

November 15, 2009 – 10:05 am

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Bulletproof your system before you are hacked! From the publisher of the international best-seller, Hacking Exposed, here is a brilliant new offering written with a passion for security that will help you make the necessary upgrades and take the essential steps to secure your network infrastructure. The concise and consistent approach breaks down security into logical parts, giving you actions to take immediately, information on hardening your system from the top down, and finally when to go back and make further upgrades.

Network Security Technologies, Second Edition

November 3, 2009 – 10:12 am

Network Security Bible bookNetwork Security Technologies, Second Edition Description:
Network Security Technologies, Second Edition presents key security technologies from diverse fields, using a hierarchical framework that enables understanding of security components, how they relate to one another, and how they interwork. The author delivers a unique presentation of major legacy, state-of-the-art, and emerging network security technologies from all relevant areas, resulting in a useful and easy-to-follow guide. This text is unique in that it classifies technologies as basic, enhanced, integrated, and architectural as a means of associating their functional complexities, providing added insight into their interrelationships. It introduces and details security components and their relationships to each other.

Network Security Bible

October 25, 2009 – 11:40 am

Network Security Bible bookNetwork Security Bible Description:
This is a must for working network and security professionals as well as anyone in IS seeking to build competence in the increasingly important field of security. Written by three high-profile experts, including Eric Cole, an ex-CIA security guru who appears regularly on CNN and elsewhere in the media, and Ronald Krutz, a security pioneer who cowrote The CISSP Prep Guide and other security bestsellers. Covers everything from basic security principles and practices to the latest security threats and responses, including proven methods for diagnosing network vulnerabilities and insider secrets for boosting security effectiveness.

Understanding MySQL Internals

June 3, 2009 – 2:38 am

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Understanding MySQL Internals provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner workings of this powerful database. You’ll go right to heart of the database to learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration options, and much more.

The core of Understanding MySQL Internals begins with an Architecture Overview that provides a brief introduction of how the different components of MySQL work together. You then learn the steps for setting up a working compilable copy of the code that you can change and test at your pleasure.

Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

June 1, 2009 – 1:25 am

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By read Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook, you will learn how to maximize the capabilities of Oracle Application Server Portal, customize your portals, integrate Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, and add Java functionality. Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook covers all of the design, management, and security features available in Oracle Application Server Portal 10.1.4 alongside real-world solutions.

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends

May 28, 2009 – 2:15 am

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends Book CoverBook’s Description:

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry and academia as a reference book. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science interested in the state-of-the-art in data security.