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Publisher: Apress
Author: Paul Sanghera
ISBN: 1590596978
Release Date: 30 May 2006

eBook Description
Best selling author, Paul Sanghera, offers cohesive, concise, yet comprehensive coverage of all the topics included in the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 exam (CX 310-055). With a laser sharp focus on the exam objectives, the Study Guide goes beyond just being an “exam cram.” The material is presented in a logical learning sequence: a section builds upon previous sections and a chapter on previous chapters. All concepts, simple and complex, are defined and explained when they appear the first time. There is no hopping from topic to topic and no technical jargon without explanation. No prior knowledge of Java programming is assumed. The single most difficult aspect of this exam is to read and understand the code in the exam questions in a limited amount of time. To help you get fluent and comfortable with the code, the book offers complete runnable code examples distributed over all the chapters and a codewalk quicklet feature at the end of each chapter.

Although the primary purpose of the book is to help you pass the SCJP exam, it will also serve as a good reference after the exam.

Special features include

• Hundreds of questions modeled after the real exam with fully explained answers.
• A complete practice exam with questions modeled after the real exam and fully explained answers.
• Hundreds of complete runnable code examples, explained in the book, that you can download and experiment with. This is a code-intensive exam.
• The Codewalk Quicklet feature based on the process-based codewalk philosophy to prepare you for efficient response to the code-based questions in the exam.
• The Exam Quick Prep feature which recaps all the important points for the last hour of preparation before taking the exam.
• Useful information and analysis for the programmers who are considering updating the J2SE 1.4 certification to J2SE 5.

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SCJP Exam for J2SE 5: A Concise and Comprehensive Study Guide for The Sun Certified Java Programmer Exam

Publisher: For Dummies
Author: Joseph Phillips
ISBN: 0471749346
Release Date: 09 October 2006

eBook Description

• The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects
• The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk
• The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft Project 2003, as well as a variety of methodologies including eXtreme, open source, SQA testing, software life cycle management, and more
• The companion Web site contains tools, case studies and other resources to help even novices get up and running

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Software Project Management For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Publisher: For Dummies
Author: Karen S. Fredricks
ISBN: 0470055146
Release Date: 09 October 2006

eBook Description
Find out how to get the most from your ACT!

Manage your contacts, communicate, synchronize ACT! with Outlook, and more

You have a business or organization to run. ACT! is designed to make that easier, and this book helps you get your ACT! together. Here’s how to set up ACT! 2007, enter and organize contact information, use ACT! to track activities, prioritize leads, and produce reports, and make it act exactly as you need it to.

Discover how to

• View details on a particular contact
• Generate faxes, e-mail, or snail mail to a list
• Add fields to customize ACT!
• Handle backups and eliminate duplications
• Group and sort contacts

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ACT! 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Publisher: Apress
Author: Jr., Jerry Lee Ford
ISBN: 159059634X
Release Date: 11 May 2006

eBook Description
If you’re just getting into programming, or you’re already an experienced VB programmer who wants to quickly learn a programming alternative, then REALbasic is the ideal language for you. REALbasic is an easy-to-learn, powerful, cross-platform programming language that allows you to write powerful applications that may be distributed across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Beginning REALbasic is an ideal beginners’ title: it starts off with a detailed introduction to REALbasic and its interface and basic functions to get you settled in comfortably. The book continues by exploring the fundamentals of programming with REALbasic–creating interfaces, menus, and toolbars, and working with conditional logic, loops, databases, object-oriented programming, sound, graphics, and more.

Each chapter provides essential background knowledge, without wasting any time on unnecessary theory. The book also features step-by-step tutorials that help you build real-world expertise.

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Beginning REALbasic: From Novice to Professional (Expert’s Voice)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Laurence Moroney
ISBN: 1590596471
Release Date: 29 May 2006

eBook Description
This book introduces a fast-track path to understanding Atlas, and how this technology can increase the power and functionality of your code while conserving time and effort. The book begins with a bare-bones introduction that explains how Atlas relates to Ajax.

Microsoft Atlas is a web-client framework that makes building Ajax-style applications easier. It provides a prewritten framework that gives you a structured environment in which to work. Atlas also provides you with an object model and standardized debugging to make development faster and simpler.

Ajax is a new way of combining a number of Web technologies including JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and a feature known as XmlHttp (which reduces the need for client browsers to constantly reconnect to the server every time new information is downloaded). But at the moment, people developing with Ajax have to write their code from the ground up, which is complex and time consuming.

The book guides you through a series of practical examples that demonstrate the Atlas framework and available controls. After reading this book, you’ll be able to compile a seamless Atlas-based application of your own!

In anticipation of changes during development of the Atlas technology, the updated source code is posted for download on the author’s blog, www.philotic.com/blog.

This book demystifies the Atlas technology and shows you how to work with it.

The first book dedicated to this revolutionary new technology.

Written by an experienced .NET author in collaboration with the Atlas development team.

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Foundations of Atlas: Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Author: M.E. Hellmann
ISBN: 3540430725
Release Date: 10 June 2002

eBook Description
There are many surprising connections between the theory of numbers, which is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, and computing and information theory. Number theory has important applications in computer organization and security, coding and cryptography, random number generation, hash functions, and graphics. Conversely, number theorists use computers in factoring large integers, determining primes, testing conjectures, and solving other problems. This book takes the reader from elementary number theory, via algorithmic number theory, to applied number theory in computer science. It introduces basic concepts, results, and methods, and discusses their applications in the design of hardware and software, cryptography, and security. It is aimed at undergraduates in computing and information technology, but will also be valuable to mathematics students interested in applications. In this 2nd edition full proofs of many theorems are added and some corrections are made.

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Number Theory for Computing

Publisher: Pogue Press
Author: Barbara Brundage
ISBN: 0596527284
Release Date: 01 September 2006

eBook Description
Anyone still think that Adobe Photoshop Elements is a toy version of the real thing? As the most popular photo-editing program on the market, Photoshop Elements not only has Photoshop’s marvelous powers, but also has capabilities the mothership lacks. Each new version includes more tools designed specifically for today’s consumer digital photo enthusiasts. The latest edition, Photoshop Elements 5, solidifies the reputation of this superb and inexpensive product with new scrapbook features, a link to online photo services, and many other improvements.

In fact, there’s so much to Photoshop Elements that it can be quite confusing at times. That’s precisely why our Missing Manuals are the bestselling books on the topic. Adobe provides a pamphlet and some help files; our book, now in its fifth edition, carefully explains every feature the program has to offer (something no other book has done) by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context. Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual covers the Windows version of Adobe’s workhorse and gives you the low down on a host of new features:

• Learn to create multiple page documents, custom photo layouts with frames, and highly customized layouts for scrapbook projects
• Master the new editor for Layer Styles, which lets you customize individual layers in a photo
• “Attach” your photos to areas of a Yahoo! Map so your friends and family can see the pictures you took in specific places

Author Barbara Brundage also introduces you to a new sophisticated tool called “Curves” to adjust the color and contrast in your photos, and shows you how to burn multi-session CDs and DVDs. As always, she lets you know which features work well, which don’t, and why — all with a bit of wit and good humor. Although the book progresses from simple to complex tasks, you can easily jump around to learn specific techniques, such as creating photomontages (composites), restoring old photos, preparing images for the Web, and archiving. More than a dozen downloadable images let you practice using the editing tools right away!

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Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Publisher: Apress
Author: Dr. James McCaffrey
ISBN: 1590596633
Release Date: 05 May 2006

eBook Description
If you develop, test, or manage .NET software, you will find .NET Test Automation Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach very useful. The book presents practical techniques for writing lightweight software test automation in a .NET environment and covers API testing thoroughly. It also discusses lightweight, custom Windows application UI automation and teaches you low-level web application UI automation. Additional material covers SQL stored procedure testing techniques.

The examples in this book have been successfully used in seminars and teaching environments where they have proven highly effective for students who are learning intermediate-level .NET programming. You’ll come away from the book knowing how to write production-quality combination and permutation methods.

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.NET Test Automation Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Vikram Goyal
ISBN: 1590596390
Release Date: 01 May 2006

eBook Description
Mobile Media API is a low-footprint and versatile API that enables you to create multimedia applications in Java-enabled phones. With this API, it is possible to add and control audio-, video-, and image-based media to MIDlets from different sources.

Pro Java ME MMAPI explores this API in great detail. This book explains the API’s architecture and covers how this architecture sits with the Mobile Independent Device Profile (MIDP). The book also shows you how to best use the multimedia capabilities of a Java-enabled phone.

This book includes detailed examples that cover the necessary basics, like audio playback and tone generation, to advanced issues, like synchronized media playback, video capture, and live radio stream. The book incorporates a mobile phone to model these examples, in addition to the Java Wireless Toolkit emulators.

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Pro Java ME MMAPI: Mobile Media API for Java Micro Edition (Pro)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Poornachandra Sarang
ISBN: 1590596412
Release Date: 11 May 2006

eBook Description
Pro Apache XML thoroughly introduces several subprojects found under the Web Services-driven API umbrella. The book begins with a concise introduction to XML and Web Services. Subsequent chapters devote themselves to specific subprojects–covering their purposes, APIs, implementation, and practical uses through appropriate code examples. Additional material includes

• Introductions to several of the Apache Foundation’s hottest projects, including Xerces, Axis, and Xindice
• Building XML-driven websites using the popular Cocoon project
• Transforming XML-based documents into a variety of formats, including PDF, SVG, and PS, using the Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) project

You’ll learn to perform tasks like validation, parsing, transformation, and storage–and how to work with this information through a programming interface. You may either read this book from cover to cover or jump to any desired subproject for a detailed study of its implementation. All programming examples use the Java programming language.

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Pro Apache XML (Pro)