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Publisher: Charles River Media
Author: Orit Hazzan
ISBN: 1584502509
Release Date: 30 June 2004

eBook Description
While many computer science textbooks are confined to teaching programming code and languages, Algorithms and Data Structures: The Science of Computing takes a step back to introduce and explore algorithms — the content of the code. Focusing on three core topics: design (the architecture of algorithms), theory (mathematical modeling and analysis), and the scientific method (experimental confirmation of theoretical results), the book helps students see that computer science is about problem solving, not simply the memorization and recitation of languages. Unlike many other texts, the methods of inquiry are explained in an integrated manner so students can see explicitly how they interact. Recursion and object oriented programming are emphasized as the main control structure and abstraction mechanism, respectively, in algorithm design. Designed for the CS2 course, the book includes text exercises and has laboratory exercises at the supplemental Web site.

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Algorithms & Data Structures : The Science Of Computing (Electrical and Computer Engineering Series)

Publisher: Que
Author: Paul Hinsberg
ISBN: 078972815X
Release Date: 30 December 2005

eBook Description
As the price of servers comes down to the level of desktop PCs, many small- and medium-sized businesses are forced to provide their own server setup, maintenance and support, without the high-dollar training enjoyed by their big corporation counterparts. Upgrading and Repairing Servers is the first line of defense for small- and medium-sized businesses, and an excellent go-to reference for the experienced administrators who have been asking for a reference guide like this one for a long time! It’s all here in one, incredibly useful tome that you will refer to again and again.

Inside is in-depth coverage of server design and implementation, building and deploying, server hardware components, network and backup operations, SAN, fault tolerance, server racks, server rooms, server operating systems, as well as SUN Microsystems servers. No other computer hardware book has ever dared tackle this enormous topic - until now!

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Upgrading and Repairing Servers

Publisher: Charles River Media
Author: Peter G Smith
ISBN: 1584503963
Release Date: 30 March 2005

eBook Description
This book focuses on securing Linux in a networked environment, where the security of the entire network needs to be considered rather than just isolated machines.

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Linux Network Security (Administrator’s Advantage Series)

Publisher: Wiley
Author: Pong P. Chu
ISBN: 0471720925
Release Date: 14 April 2006

eBook Description
The skills and guidance needed to master RTL hardware design
This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. Focusing on the module-level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, the book illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and the underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes that faithfully reflect the module-level design and can be synthesized into efficient gate-level implementation.
Several unique features distinguish the book:

• Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDL constructs and hardware components
• Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDL codes
• Emphasis on the code reuse
• Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce design concepts, procedures, and techniques
• Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms in hardware
• Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs and coding
• One chapter covering the synchronization and interface between multiple clock domains

Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it also examines the synthesis task from the perspective of the overall development process. Readers learn good design practices and guidelines to ensure that an RTL design can accommodate future simulation, verification, and testing needs, and can be easily incorporated into a larger system or reused. Discussion is independent of technology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGA devices.
With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practical examples, this is an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic. Engineers who need to make effective use of today’s synthesis software and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.

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RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL : Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability

Publisher: O’Reilly
Author: Geoffrey LeBlond
ISBN: 0596100647
Release Date: 16 December 2005

eBook Description
Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 developer tools. Written for the impatient professional, ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook contains more than 125 recipes for solving common and not-so-common problems you are likely to encounter when building ASP.NET-based web applications.

The recipes in this book, which run the gamut from simple coding techniques to more comprehensive development strategies, are presented in the popular Problem-Solution-Discussion format of the O’Reilly Cookbook series. As with the first edition, every solution is coded in both C# and Visual Basic 2005.

Among the additions and revisions to this new edition are:

• Three new chapters, including 25 new recipes for Master and Content pages, Personalization using Profiles and Themes, Custom Web Parts, and more
• New code for every solution, rewritten to take advantage of features and techniques new to ASP.NET 2.0 and available for download

The ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook continues to provide the most comprehensive coverage you’ll find anywhere of:

• Tabular controls, including the new GridView control
• Data validation, including the new ASP.NET 2.0 validation controls, as well as techniques for performing your own validation programmatically
• User and custom controls
• Error handling, performance tuning, and caching

Whether you’re new to ASP.NET or an experienced Microsoft developer, with ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook, deliverance from a long day (or night) at your computer could be just one recipe away.

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ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly))

Publisher: O’Reilly
Author: Elliotte Harold
ISBN: 0596527500
Release Date: 16 May 2006

eBook Description
Because it doesn’t provide a printf() function like C/C , some developers think Java isn’t up to snuff with files and streams. Author Rusty Harold Elliotte argues against this notion in Java I/O, a book that shows how Java’s stream support can help simplify network programming, internationalization, and even compression and encryption.

The book opens with an overview of Java’s stream capabilities. (The author defends Java’s lack of support for console input/output (I/O) since today’s applications use graphical user interfaces anyway.) He shows how to open, read, and write local files in Java applications. His file viewer example presents data in a variety of formats. (This example is improved several times until it winds up supporting different international character sets by the end of the book.)

Next the author covers network programming using URL and network streams, including sockets. Sections on filters show how classes can filter out characters within streams. The tour moves forward to cover data streams, which permit streaming of Java’s primitive data types. Details on how to communicate within Java programs using pipes follow. In a notable chapter, the author thoroughly explicates Java’s support for encryption, including hashing, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm, and ciphers.

The last portion of the book explains object serialization, which allows Java objects to save and restore their state, plus it includes sections on Java’s support for data compression (and ZIP files) and multilingual Unicode character sets. (Java is prepared to handle virtually any of the world’s languages with its reader and writer classes.) Finally, the author shows how you can format output in Java using its support for width and numeric precision APIs.

In all, Elliotte makes a good case that Java streams are a flexible and powerful part of the language, and certainly not a limitation. –Richard Dragan

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Java I/O

Publisher: SAS Publishing
Author: Publishing SAS Publishing
ISBN: 1599940027
Release Date: 30 April 2006

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Getting Started with SAS(R) Enterprise Miner(tm) 5.2

Publisher: friends of ED
Author: John Oxton
ISBN: 1590595815
Release Date: 20 February 2006

eBook Description
Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internet–from individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures.

And that includes you, right? If you haven’t got a blog already, you want to start one, and want to find out how. If you have already got one, you want to know how to customize it, and make it look cooler than everybody else’s. In either case, this is the ideal book for you.

In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world’s most popular blogging engines — Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine!

With this book in hand, you’ll have found your way to blog heaven in no time!

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Blog Design Solutions (Solutions)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Paul Cornell
ISBN: 1590595912
Release Date: 02 December 2005

eBook Description
Beginning Excel What-If Data Analysis Tools explores the use of Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver to help you get insight on your data. This book is focused and to the point, and it provides tutorial treatment of what-if tools in a practical, hands-on manner.

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Beginning Excel What-If Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Author: Simon Thompson
ISBN: 0201342758
Release Date: 29 March 1999

eBook Description
The second edition of Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming is essential reading for beginners to functional programming and newcomers to the Haskell programming language. The emphasis is on the process of crafting programs and the text contains many examples and running case studies, as well as advice an program design, testing, problem solving and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the book includes many new and improved features:

Complete coverage of Haskell 98, the standard version of Haskell which will be stable and supported by implementations for years to come.

An emphasis on software engineering principles, encouraging a disciplined approach to building reusable libraries of software components.

Detailed coverage of the Hugs interpreter with an appendix covering other implementations.

A running case study of pictures emphasizes the built-in functions which appear in the standard prelude and libraries. It is also used to give an early preview of some of the more complex language features, such as high-order functions.

List comprehensions and the standard functions over lists are covered before recursion.

Early coverage of polymorphism supporting the “toolkit” approach and encouraging the resuse of built-in functions and types.

Extensive reference material containing details of further reading in books, journals and on the World Wide Web.

Accompanying Web Site supporting the book, containing all the program code, further teaching materials and other useful resources.

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Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (2nd Edition)