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Publisher: Sams
Author: Shyam Pather
ISBN: 0672327791
Release Date: 14 February 2006

eBook Description
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services covers the basic problems of notification applications, describes the SQL Notification Services platform and describes how to use it to build rich, scalable notification applications. Written by Shyam Pather, the Technical Lead for the SQL Notification Services Team, this book is based on his three years of experience teaching SQL Notification Services to new customers. This book is your complete resource for learning SQL Notification Services application development and the underlying architectural concepts.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services

Publisher: Sams
Author: T. Michael Clark
ISBN: 0672328607
Release Date: 13 February 2006

eBook Description
Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom is an easy-to-follow, tutorial approach to using Paint Shop Pro in exactly the way home users want to use it - to manipulate your own images in ways that a local photo lab often does to create both practical and comical projects. As you read, you will actually use the program to complete a variety of projects. You’ll learn about key Paint Shop Pro tools almost without trying through both traditional and contemporary projects.

Indulge in shrinking the kids, performing digital plastic surgery, modifying vehicles, creating creatures the tabloids would love to profile, altering pets, creating trading cards and calendars, and combining images to create once-in-a-lifetime shots. Drop people into places they’ve never been and challenge Mother Nature with unique perspectives. Create holiday magic, photo montages, and even do some traditional photo manipulation. Author T. Michael Clark provides careful instruction that will allow you, whether you are a novice or experienced Paint Shop Pro user, to complete projects and enjoy your experience with Paint Shop Pro X.

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Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom

Publisher: Apress
Author: Jeffrey Hasan
ISBN: 1590593901
Release Date: 26 July 2004

eBook Description
This book contains a mix of theory combined with ample C# code samples that will show the reader how to implement SOA solutions using a wonderful mix of technologies.

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Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0

Publisher: O’Reilly
Author: C.K. Sample III
ISBN: 0596101430
Release Date: 01 January 2006

eBook Description
Sure, it’s just what you’ve been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn’t just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and spectacular widescreen LCD for unparalleled game play, it also sports wireless connectivity and a variety of multimedia features, including video, music, and digital photography. Your wildly versatile, endlessly powerful PSP practically begs you to hack and repurpose it to your liking.

To save you the trouble and show you how to make the PSP do more than you ever imagined–and more than Sony ever intended–PSP Hacks is one succinct volume of 50 of the coolest, most useful, up-to-the-minute hacks for this amazing device. You’ll learn how to open your PSP’s hardware and what to safely plug into it. You’ll explore and put to good use every hidden feature of the device. You’ll be able to move all sorts of multimedia onto your PSP and find ways to extend its wireless capabilities. And you’ll find out how to get the very best experience out of online game play.

With PSP Hacks, you can accomplish a whole lot more than good gaming on the PSP. You’ll quickly learn to surf the Web with a PSP, chat in IRC, and use the PSP to read web comics, ebooks, and RSS feeds. Other expert tips and tools allow you to sync an address book to your PSP, watch UMD movies, fool iTunes into thinking the PSP is an iPod Shuffle, and much more.

The innovative hacks, tweaks, and how-tos in this essential guide make it easy to customize your PSP, take full advantage of features, capabilities, and functionality far beyond what’s listed in the PSP user manual, and make your PSP perform countless tricks that only an all-in-one portable entertainment unit as remarkable and revolutionary as this one could.

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PSP Hacks : Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Gaming and Entertainment Handheld (Hacks)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Roberta Bragg
ISBN: 0072253541
Release Date: 11 May 2004

eBook Description
The definitive tool to learn what’s proper for Microsoft Windows systems. Roberta’s excellent guidance will easily help you build secure, resiliant systems. –Steve Riley, Security Business and Technology Unit, Windows Division, Microsoft Corporation Take a proactive approach to network security by hardening your Windows systems against attacks before they occur. Written by security evangelist Roberta Bragg, this hands-on resource provides concrete steps you can take immediately as well as ongoing actions to ensure long-term security. Whether you have one Windows server or one hundred, you’ll get complete details on how to systematically harden your network from the ground up, as well as strategies for getting company-wide support for your security plan. With coverage of Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP and Windows Server 2003, this book is an essential security tool for on-the-job IT professionals. Features a four-part hardening methodology: Do This Now!–Checklist of immediate steps to take to lockdown your system from further attack Take It From The Top–Systematic approach to hardening your enterprise from the top down, focusing on authentication, access controls, borders, logical security boundaries, communications, storage, and administrative authority Once Is Never Enough!–Ongoing monitoring and assessment plan to keep your network secure, including patch management and auditing How to Succeed At Hardening Your Windows Systems–Strategies for getting budget approval, management buy-in, and employee cooperation for your security program Roberta Bragg, CISSP, MCSE: Security, Security , co-author of Network Security: The Complete Reference, instructor, and consultant, focuses on how to proactively deploy proven security principles to defend Windows systems from possible attack. Roberta is the Security Advisor columnist for MCP magazine, the Security Expert for searchWin2000.com, and writes for the Security Watch newsletter. Roberta is the series editor of McGraw-Hill/Osborne’s Hardening security series.

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Hardening Windows Systems (Hardening)

Publisher: Sams
Author: Michael Schmidt
ISBN: 0672318571
Release Date: 19 October 2000

eBook Description
Implementing the IEEE Software Engineering Standards is a practical and professional guide to implementing the IEEE Software Engineering standards in your software development process. There are 39 complex standards involved, some more critical than others. This book explains where to start, which standards to implement first, and how to integrate them into your current software development process. The book presents a realistic Software Life-Cycle Model to complement the standards and aid development. One of the book’s biggest benefits is that it helps software engineers reconcile some latest “best practices” such as rapid prototyping and use of CASE tools with use of the standards.

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Implementing the IEEE Software Engineering Standards

Publisher: Microsoft Press
Author: William R. Stanek
ISBN: 0735613540
Release Date: 12 March 2003

eBook Description
A quick answer, daily operations guide to the Windows .NET Server operating system featuring quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions. Softcover.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Publisher: New Riders
Author: Richard Bartle
ISBN: 0131018167
Release Date: 15 July 2003

eBook Description
Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual worlddesign to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It’s a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary,economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethicalunderpinnings of design, while providing the reader with a deep, well-grounded understanding of VW design principles. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.

Designing Virtual Worlds brings a rich, well-developed approach to the designconcepts behind virtual worlds. It is grounded in the earliest approaches to such designs, but the examples discussed in the book run the gamut from the earliest MUDs to the present-day MMORPG games mentioned above. It teaches the reader the actual, underlying design principles that many designers do not understand when they borrow or build from previous games. There is no other design book on the market in the area of online games and virtual worlds that provides the rich detail, historical context, and conceptual depth ofDesigning Virtual Worlds.

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Designing Virtual Worlds

Publisher: Apress
Author: Andy McKay
ISBN: 1590593294
Release Date: 28 June 2004

eBook Description
The Definitive Guide to Plone is the authoritative, unique guide to Plone, describing everything from installing Plone (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. The book - part of Apress’s library of Python programming and content management tools, and written by one of Plone’s core development team - emphasizes the customization of Plone, and shows how to fully integrate Plone into an existing Web site and application. If you want to adopt Plone for some or all of its features, this is the book to pick up and learn by.

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The Definitive Guide to Plone

Publisher: Cisco Press
Author: William R Parkhurst
ISBN: 1587201224
Release Date: 08 September 2004

eBook Description
Your first step into the world of routing

• No routing experience required
• Includes clear and easily understood explanations
• Makes learning easy

Your first step to understanding routing begins here!

• Learn routing basics simply and easily
• Explore how network traffic gets from here to there
• Understand routing tools and technologies
• Reinforce your understanding with chapter review questions

Welcome to the world of routing!

Routing is the technology that enables worldwide Internet communication. Many people involved with networking technologies or companies need to know how routing works. But learning about routing tends to involve a complex web of terms and acronyms-a language that can be difficult and unfamiliar.

No routing experience needed!

Routing First-Step explains the basics of Internet routing in language all of us can understand. This book takes you on a guided tour of routing, starting with systems you are familiar with: the postal system, the telephone system, and the interstate highway system. From there, you’ll learn routing simply and easily. Whether you are looking to take your first step into a career in networking or are interested only in gaining knowledge of the technology, this book is for you!

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Routing First-Step (First-Step)