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Publisher: Apress
Author: Steven Haines
ISBN: 1590596102
Release Date: 11 May 2006

eBook Description
Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization features proven methodology to guarantee top-performing Java EE 5 applications, and explains how to measure performance in your specific environment. The book also details performance integration points throughout the development and deployment lifecycles that are crucial for application success.

For QA and preproduction stages, this book guides you through testing and optimally deploying your Java EE 5 applications, with a focus on assessing capacity and discovering saturation points. It defines the concept and application of wait-based tuning–one of the most effective approaches to application server tuning.

The book also helps you assess and improve the health of your applications upon deployment. The topics covered include trending, forecasting, and capacity assessing and planning. When production issues arise, you’ll be armed with troubleshooting methodology and solutions to common problems that have been observed in real-world environments. This book even guides you through the creation of a formal Java EE 5 Performance Management Plan–customized to your environment to help you interpret and react to changing trends in usage patterns.

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Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Pro)

Publisher: Sams
Author: Rafe Colburn
ISBN: 0672328860
Release Date: 08 June 2006

eBook Description
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day is a new edition of the best-selling book that started the whole HTML/web publishing phenomenon. The entire book has been revised and refined to reflect current web publishing practices and technologies. It includes extensive coverage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which have become a staple in web development.

You’ll have no problem learning from expert author Laura Lemay’s clear and approachable writing style. Simple, step-by-step instructions with lots of practical, interesting examples of web pages will guide you as you master current web publishing technologies and practices.

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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Author: John Pospisil
ISBN: 0470045841
Release Date: 28 August 2006

eBook Description
Get noticed. Get discovered.

It’s YourSpace

There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It’s all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.

Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:

• Embedding graphics
• Creating animated images
• Developing your own background
• Building custom cursors
• Changing profile text styles
• Getting kinky with links
• Adding a comments box
• Altering your contact table
• Redesigning the navigation bar
• Making DIV overlays

A companion Web site provides even more tricks and techniques.

Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more.

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Hacking MySpace: Mods and Customizations to make MySpace Your Space (ExtremeTech)

Publisher: Sams
Author: Paul Hudson
ISBN: 0672329093
Release Date: 11 October 2006

eBook Description
Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Ubuntu, Ubuntu Unleashed aims to provide the best and latest information that intermediate to advanced Linux users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security. Written by renowned open source authors, Paul and Andrew Hudson, it includes detailed information on hot topics in Ubuntu Linux, such as wireless networks, and programming in PHP, Perl and others. It thoroughly covers all of Ubuntu’s software packages, including up-to-date material on new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel 2.6, USB, KDE, GNOME, Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), and security. The included DVD comes with a complete Ubuntu Linux distribution.

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Ubuntu Unleashed

Publisher: Peachpit Press
Author: John Tollett
ISBN: 032149217X
Release Date: 11 October 2006

eBook Description
If you’ve got something to say and want to join the podcasting revolution but don’t know how to start, this short and approachable guide from bestselling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett will teach you how to create and distribute podcasts using Apple’s easy-to-use audio and Web site tools. Using the Garageband and iWeb tools from Apple’s iLife 06 suite of tools, Robin and John show you how to create professional sounding and looking podcasts, including how to add chapter markers, artwork, sound effects, jingles, and musical accompaniment to your podcasts.

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Podcasting and Blogging with GarageBand and iWeb

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Aric Pedersen
ISBN: 1904811507
Release Date: 22 August 2006

eBook Description
If you are running a web host or web space reseller then the chances are you’ll be using WebHost Manager. This book shows you how to get the most from the software, for both you and your customers. It provides solutions to common WHM problems and pitfalls, leading to better customer service provided at lower cost. You will learn how to set up WHM securely, offer a variety of account styles. You will see how to use WHM to elegantly manage multiple domains, SSL certificates, and various databases and server-side technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, and Apache. WebHost Manager is a package used by web hosts to manage their servers and the individual user accounts they hold. It is part of the same package as cPanel, so the host uses WebHost Manager while the client uses cPanel. WebHost Manager is at the core of many web hosts’ business. Using web host manager, you can keep track of the accounts on your server, monitor their bandwidth and disk space usage, and much more. The book shows you how to:

• Set up a fast, secure, and effective server with WHM
• Work with Apache, PHP, Perl and Databases
• Manage standard and reseller accounts and use third-party programs that assist in this process
• Keep an eye on what is happening on your server by using tools that WHM provides and some third-party tools
• Deal with reseller and non-reseller accounts
• Manage DNS, IP and SSL issues using WHM
• Manage security on an on-going basis by learning what to look for
• Learn how to add useful features to WHM and cPanel
• Discover places you can turn to for help if you need it

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Web Host Manager Administration Guide

Publisher: Sams
Author: Danielle Larocca Signorile
ISBN: 0672329026
Release Date: 11 October 2006

eBook Description
SAP Query Reporting is everything an SAP user needs to know to create your own reports in SAP using Query tools, no programming required! Designed as a hands-on learning aid, you will be able to follow along and perform each new skill learned on your own SAP system. The book’s tutorial style, step-by-step instruction will teach you everything you need to know to use the SAP Query tools, including its configuration, advanced usage, and integration to Microsoft. Additionally the book gives best business practice recommendations for the technology and internal business use of the tools. Learn to:

• Understand query security, table reads, and table joins
• Perform basic and advanced calculations
• Incorporate pictures and graphics into reports
• Configure shortcuts and tran codes, schedule jobs and email PDFs
• Utilize SAP Reporting with Microsoft Office applications

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SAP Query Reporting

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Tiberiu Radu
ISBN: 1904811604
Release Date: 04 July 2006

eBook Description
A fast-paced example-driven tutorial to building custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and .NET 2.0. If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don’t know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control. Showing you how to use the free Visual C# 2005 Express Edition environment to develop your controls, Building Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 will teach you how to create professional, reusable custom controls for your desktop applications in no time. This book has been written with the intermediate C# developer in mind. Assuming a working knowledge of C#, the book teaches you how to implement custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and all other versions of Visual C#, and GDI with .NET 2.0 The book covers: . Understand the basics of custom controls . Use GDI to draw your own controls . Implement double buffering to speed up your forms . Add printing functionality to your custom controls . Handle the mouse events to improve the user experience . Offer design-time support for programmers using your control . Design intuitive interfaces for your users

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GDI Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Gaurav Kathuria
ISBN: 1904811094
Release Date: 30 June 2006

eBook Description
One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs.

To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know.

Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time.

From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.

• Understand the basic components of the Documentum system
• Install, configure, and get started with Documentum
• Design Documentum applications and custom object types
• Create rules and presentation files
• Master workflows and create custom workflows
• Deploy Documentum applications

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Web Content Management With Documentum

Publisher: friends of ED
Author: Paul Barnes-Hoggett
ISBN: 1590595327
Release Date: 10 October 2006

eBook Description
As a creative professional or interactive developer, you’ll be amazed at the exciting possibilities presented to you by the new features available in Flash 8; but as a busy designer, we know you won’t have as much time as you’d like to explore these new additions. Never fear–this book wastes no time looking at timeline basics, tweens, or movie-publishing options–it focuses exclusively on the new Flash 8 features, getting you quickly up to speed with a combination of illustrative tutorials, handy references, and inspirational examples.

In this book, you’ll learn how to

• Benefit from exciting new pixel-level control with the new BitmapData API
• Create stunning visual effects with filters and blend modes
• Add interactive video quickly and easily using cue points, video alpha channel support, and the industry-leading On2 VP6 codec
• Take advantage of speed enhancements with bitmap caching
• Communicate easily with browsers using the new ExternalInterface class
• Add support for uploading images directly from Flash 8 with the new File Reference class
• Take advantage of the new text field and drawing improvements

By the end of the book, you’ll know that there’s no shortage of new tools to enhance and inspire your Flash development; and since this book is written by some of the community’s leading Flash experts, you’ll know you’re in good hands. If you’re looking to master Flash 8 with a minimum of time and effort, then this is the only book for you.

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Flash 8 Essentials