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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, First Edition
Author Harry Lewis , Ken Ledeen , Hal Abelson
“If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading.”–Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission “There is no simpler or c....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Professional Visual Basic® 2008
Author Bill Sheldon , Kent Sharkey , Bill Evjen , Billy Hollis
The 2008 version of Visual Basic is tremendously enhanced and introduces dramatic new concepts, techniques, and features to this popular object-oriented language. Written by an elite author team, this comprehensive resource provides a clear and concise approach to u....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Author Walter Foster , Ken Goldman , William Powell , Debra Kauffman Yaun
Learn to draw faces, features, and figures in graphite, with inspiration from 4 accomplished artists Packed with practical advice, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, this comprehensive, 144-page book is an essential resource to which artists of all skill leve....
Release Date 2008/04 -
Author Sunil Wadhwa , Joe Kelly , Ken Draper , David Delcourt , Vik Davar , Stefan Brunner
Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. Scores of recipes address a wide range of security issues, provide step-by-step solutio....
Release Date 2008/02 -
A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing
Author Leendert Van Doorn , David Safford , Ryan Catherman , Kent Yoder , David Challener
Use Trusted Computing to Make PCs Safer, More Secure, and More ReliableEvery year, computer security threats become more severe. Software alone can no longer adequately defend against them: what’s needed is secure hardware. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) makes th....
Release Date 2007/12 -
Adobe® Photoshop® CS3: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks
Author Lynette Kent
Photoshop®: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides adventurous Photoshop users with a visual reference on how to use the bells and whistles found in the latest version of Photoshop. Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, Photoshop®: Top 100 Sim....
Release Date 2007/09 -
Author Peter Grazier , Alan Randolph , Ken Blanchard
All of us in the today's workforce are called upon more and more to work effectively in teams. But do you know how to build a team that truly takes advantage of the knowledge, experience, and motivation of its members? Most of us don't, and we quickly become ....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools
Author Alan Cameron Wills , Stuart Kent , Gareth Jones , Steve Cook
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected des....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Author Wayne S. Freeze , Ken Bluttman
If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extrac....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Network Security Assessment: From Vulnerability to Patch
Author Andrew Gold , Ken Pfeil , Steve Manzuik
This book will take readers from the discovery of vulnerabilities and the creation of the corresponding exploits, through a complete security assessment, all the way through deploying patches against these vulnerabilities to protect their networks. This is uni....
Release Date 2006/12 -
Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You
Author Tom Kendrick PMP
How to take control of teams and projects even when you're not the boss.... Project leaders these days supervise few if any of the people that they rely upon for project success. Getting projects off to a good start and then maintaining control of them is an enormo....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Teach Yourself Visually™: Digital Photography, 3rd Edition
Author Lynette Kent , Dave Huss
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modulesLearn How To:* Choose a digital camer....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Jim Steffen , Ken Blanchard
Too much to do! I never get anything done! I have so little control over my life!These were thoughts Ray had as he headed home later for supper, confident his wife, Carol, would be sympathetic to his problem.One sentence into unloading his problems on her, he h....
Release Date 2006/01 -
THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition
Author James Gosling , Ken Arnold , David Holmes
Direct from the creators of the Java™ programming language, the completely revised fourth edition of The Java™ Programming Language is an indispensable resource for novice and advanced programmers alike.Developers around the world have used previous editions to quic....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Paint Shop Pro 9 for Photographers
Author Robin Nichols , Ken McMahon
Ken McMahon and Robin Nichols have created a complete and easy-to-follow introduction to Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 9, allowing you to take full advantage of this popular photo-editor and graphics program in ways you would never have imagined. If you are an amateur digi....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition
Author Cynthia Andres , Kent Beck
“In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years’ worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of im....
Release Date 2004/11 -
The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right
Author Tom Kendrick
The Project Management Tool Kit presents proven project management practices in an accessible, easy-to-apply formatBased on established methodologies used by successful project managers in many fields, the Tool Kit features comprehensive summaries of all the process....
Release Date 2004/04 -
MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture
Author Dirk Weise , Axel Uhl , Kendall Scott , Stephen J. Mellor
"A readable and much needed introduction to MDA." --Dr. Jim Arlow, coauthor of UML and the Unified Process (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and Enterprise Patterns and MDA (Addison-Wesley, 2004)"This book provides an excellent introduction to the ideas and technologies that w....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed
Author MCSA Michael Noel - MCSE+I , CISSP Kenton Gardinier - MCSE MCSA , Joe R. Coca , Ran
The most extensive Exchange 2003 reference found on the market today from one of the world's leading Microsoft server experts, Rand Morimoto. Written from the ground up exclusively for Exchange 2003--not a revision of an Exchange 2000 book. Based on the author's e....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Migrating to the Solaris™ Operating System: The Discipline of UNIX-to-UNIX® Migrations
Author David Levy , Brian Down , Ken Pepple
Increase efficiency with new technologies and processesImprove the performance and availability of your IT solutionsReduce IT total cost of ownershipThis book presents an established methodology for transitioning the people, processes, and technologies in IT environ....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition
Author Brent Welch , Ken Jones
Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk, 4th editionThe Tcl/Tk bestseller fully updated for Tcl 8.4!Authoritative coverage of every Tcl and Tk command in the core toolkitsState-of-the-art Tk GUI coverage for Tcl, Perl, Python, and Ruby developersCovers all key Tcl 8.4 enhan....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
Author Dave Rolsky , Ken Williams
Mason doesn't aim to be the one true Perl-based templating system for building web sites, but it's led many programmers to abandon their custom solutions when they've seen how much easier using Mason can be. It's a powerful, open source, Perl-based web site deve....
Release Date 2002/10 -
Author Paul Litwin , Ken Getz , Andy Baron
Access Cookbook contains a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions,and practical examples for the Access power user or programmer who is running up against some of the apparent limits of the Access user interface or of Access application development. The div....
Release Date 2002/02 -
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, 2nd Edition
Author Alan Randolph , John P. Carlos , Ken Blanchard
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Reluctantly, he contacts an expert in empowerment, even though h....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET XML Web Services
Author Mark Stiver , Kenn Scribner
This book takes the reader from the architecture of .NET to real-world techniques they can use in their own Internet applications. The reader is introduced to .NET and Web Services and explores (in detail) issues surrounding the fielding of successful Web Services. ....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Voice Application Development with VoiceXML
Author Leon Henry Squire , John O'Reilly , Kenneth Michael Farley , Rick Beasley
Voice Application Development with Voice XML works from an application-centric approach, detailing how a programmer proficient in standard web application development tools and techniques can build voice-based applications and interfaces. The book presents both the ....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Author Martin Fowler , Kent Beck
"XP is the most important movement in our field today. I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the S.E.I. and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last." --From the foreword by Tom DeMarco The hallmarks of Extreme Programming--consta....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Performance and Fault Management
Author James M. Thompson , Kent J. Phelps , Robert L. Pavone , Christopher E. Elliott , Pau
A comprehensive guide for designing and implementing effective strategies for network performance and managementDesign and implement performance and fault monitoring that will measure and report the effectiveness of your Cisco networkGenerate reports and alerts that....
Release Date 2000/06 -
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Author Don Roberts , William Opdyke , Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , John Brant
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienc....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Author Alan Randolph , John P. Carlos , Ken Blanchard
As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing effort, awarenes....
Release Date 1999/01