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Publisher: Microsoft Press
Author: Michael J. Young
ISBN: 0735612773
Release Date: 09 May 2001

eBook Description
As office productivity suites grow more capable and network-wise, the demand placed upon their users–who typically are everyday office workers with no particular interest in software technology–grows dramatically. That’s why a carefully compiled manual, like Microsoft Office XP Inside Out, is invaluable in an organization that expects its employees to use the new features of Microsoft Office XP. This book won’t hold your interest if you attempt to read it straight through, and indeed it may strain your back when you lift it off the shelf. On the other hand, if you want a concise but comprehensive tutorial on the use of Excel’s PMT function or FrontPage’s new ability to output XML code–or any of hundreds of other details–this book has your number. Just check the jumbo-size index.

The book could have paid more attention to automating Office XP with Visual Basic. Even though more space is devoted to the programming language than most of the competition and the book does a good job of explaining the core language and key objects, a lot of its capabilities go unmentioned.

Otherwise, the authors do a wonderful job of explaining procedures and concepts whose power lies in their details. In explaining features, they’ll typically present a procedure that covers the generic case, then discuss variations on that theme in longer paragraphs and special sidebars. As is the trend in books like this, screen shots are augmented with labels and instructions–this aids clarity and speeds up the answer-finding process. –David Wall

Topics covered: Everything that the programs in the Microsoft Office XP suite–Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Exchange, FrontPage, and Publisher–can do, including customization via Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to an extent. Creating, formatting, editing, sharing, storing, and the rest of the work that Office assists in is covered.

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Microsoft Office XP Inside Out

Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Author: Josef Franz Huber
ISBN: 1580532640
Release Date: 11 April 2002

eBook Description
This unique book bridges the gap between ubiquitous computing (UBICOMP) and third generation mobile communication. A first-of-its-kind, this resource helps you decide which are the most promising technologies to use for specific mobile communication applications. Scenarios indicate how new applications will be developed and how to implement them. It points out each technology’s distinguishing characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, to help you determine if a certain implementation is feasible and what performance level you might expect.

The book features an informative discussion on how mobile network operators plan ongoing services and manage resources. Moreover, you learn how Internet providers, portal operators and content providers develop the right platforms for multimedia services, content aggregation and selection towards mobile Internet applications. In addition, future trends are considered. This book is an authoritative, practical reference for all your current and future projects in the field.

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UMTS and Mobile Computing

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: James C. Leiterman
ISBN: 1556229216
Release Date: 25 November 2002

eBook Description
Due to the advancement of video games and game console hardware, the super computer is now a home consumer appliance. Vector Game Math Processors explains to programmers how to write parallel-based integer and floating point based math algorithms for use in video games as well as scientific applications. Every manufacturer uses their own terms such as SIMD, Packed Data, Parallel Data, Semi-Vector, and Vector but they are all different labels for the methodology for programming multiple sets of data with the same computer instruction at the same time. Programmers have been publicly declaring these newer processors more complex and harder to program. The primary goal of this book is to explain the differences in these processors. This is an advanced title appropriate for experienced game and graphics programmers and is part of the Wordware Game Developer’s Library.

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Vector Games Math Processors (Wordware Game Math Library)

Publisher: Manning Publications Company
Author: Shawn Bayern
ISBN: 193011012X
Release Date: 15 September 2001

eBook Description
Web Development with JavaServer Pages is truly an excellent and in-depth tutorial in the effective use of JSPs to build Web applications. Geared toward the Web designer or intermediate Java programmer who’s making a transition to JSPs for the first time, this text contains a wealth of information on basic and advanced techniques.

This tutorial is as good as any that’s available, and covers all of the necessary JSP directives and syntax. For each directive, possible attributes are listed in convenient tables, which makes this also a worthwhile reference to everyday JSP development that explores the nooks and crannies of JSP APIs, and how pages are built (and cached) on today’s JSP platforms.

Web Development with JavaServer Pages also does a good job of showing how to design JavaBean components and integrate them into your JSPs through tags. (Ideally, beans should do the calculation and “thinking” on the middle tier, while JSPs work on the front end.) You’ll learn the right way to proceed with JSPs and beans–reinforced via a number of effective code samples. A larger example, a Web database of frequently asked questions (FAQs), demonstrates the big picture with JSPs and beans. Final chapters turn toward a useful aspect of JSP, custom tags, which allow Java programmers to extend the set of available tags for JSP front-end designers. There’s even a sample of interactive tags, in which tags work together with other tags, with sample code.

Filled with plenty of details that carry the reader well beyond the basics, this text is one of the better available tutorials for learning JSPs. Its no-nonsense presentation style and useful examples can help put JSP development into the hands of anyone who has some prior HTML or Java experience. –Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Overview of JavaServer Pages (JSPs)
• Server-side scripting languages, compared
• The advantages of Java servlets and JSPs
• Tutorial for basic JSP (tags and directives, expressions and scriptlets, flow control, and comments)
• JSP implicit objects, including request, response, and out
• Tutorial for simple JavaBean components
• The JSP useBean, setProperty, and getProperty tags
• Defining bean properties, including indexed properties
• Sample beans for JSPs
• Quick tutorial for JDBC and Java database programming
• Web application architecture using JSPs and beans
• Servlets vs. JSPs
• Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans
• Case study for an FAQ database
• Web archive (WAR) files, and deploying JSP-based Web applications
• Advanced topics in JSP development, including using cookies, error pages, JavaScript, and validating HTML form data
• Sample JSPs, including banner ads and a random-quote generator
• Custom tag libraries (basic and advanced interactive tags)
• Running Tomcat
• Combining JSPs with applets
• JSP syntax reference

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Web Development with JavaServer Pages

Publisher: Sams
Author: Krishna Kothapalli
ISBN: 0672324237
Release Date: 16 October 2002

eBook Description
Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days introduces the development and deployment aspects of EJB, the fastest growing standards in developing Java applications in and enterprise environment. EJBs are, functionally, distributed network aware components for developing secure, scalable, transactional, and multi-user components in a J2EE environment. Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days covers the new features of EJB 2.0, such as local interface, CMP, and CMR. It provides hands-on examples based on practical solutions found in the industry. Tips and best practices give beginners an edge to avoid repeated mistakes. The review questions provide the reader with a study guide. Source code for a complete credit approval process in a transactional e-Commerce environment is provided.

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Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days

Publisher: Wiley
Author: Abdul H. Sadka
ISBN: 0470843128
Release Date: 15 March 2002

eBook Description
The compression schemes applied for the storage and transmission of digital video data leave content sensitive to transmission errors, information loss and quality degradation. Recent developments in error resilience techniques allow improved quality of service of video communication over a range of network platforms.
Digital video communications, supported by the Internet, ATM networks and Broadband ISDN, have undergone significant development over the past few years. Emerging applications include videoconferencing, tele-medicine and distance learning. This leading edge text addresses the problems associated with the delivery and design of video communication services.

• Presents a comprehensive overview of the principles and techniques employed in the improvement of the performance of video codecs in error prone environments
• Provides a performance evaluation and comparison of video coding standards, MPEG-4, H.261 and H.263
• Outlines methods of video communication over mobile networks
• Provides guidance on quality enhancement and the meeting Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for digital video communications
• Accompanying CD-ROM containing video clips to illustrate the coding and error resilience technology described within the text

A valuable resource for researchers and postgraduate students working with video communication technology, as well as practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing video communication systems and consultants working in the video, television, computing and communications industries.

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Compressed Video Communications

Publisher: Sams
Author: Kevin Burton
ISBN: 0672321246
Release Date: 04 April 2002

eBook Description
The .NET Framework provides a runtime environment called the Common Language Runtime, which manages the execution of code and provides services that make the development of robust software easier. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides a solid foundation for developers to build various types of applications. Whether a developer is writing an ASP.NET application, a Windows Forms application, a Web Service, a mobile code application, a distributed application, or an application that combines several of these application models, the CLR provides huge benefits such as simplified development and the ability to integrate code written in various languages.

This book is a high-end comprehensive reference to the capability of the CLR. The samples in the book have been written so that they not only illustrate a principle but give the reader a springboard to quickly translate the sample to practical, real-world applications. After reading this book, readers will be able to significantly increase their productivity by comfortably using the power and expressiveness of the Common Language Runtime in their applications. This book will take the reader beyond the syntax of C# to using and understanding the CLR to build secure, maintainable, and high performance applications.

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.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Author: Mark Hoeber
ISBN: 0321334205
Release Date: 29 September 2006

eBook Description
A hands-on guide to the Java programming language, The Java Tutorial, Fourth Edition, is perfect for any developer looking for a proven path to proficiency with Java SE. This popular tutorial “from the Source” has been completely revised and updated to cover Version 6 of the Java Platform, Standard Edition.Written by members of the Java Software team at Sun Microsystems, this book uses a tested, interactive approach and features real-world problems that help you learn the Java platform by example.

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The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, 4th Edition (The Java Series)

Publisher: Wiley
Author: Patrick Guy Farrell
ISBN: 047002920X
Release Date: 18 September 2006

eBook Description
Rapid advances in electronic and optical technology have enabled the implementation of powerful error-control codes, which are now used in almost the entire range of information systems with close to optimal performance. These codes and decoding methods are required for the detection and correction of the errors and erasures which inevitably occur in digital information during transmission, storage and processing because of noise, interference and other imperfections.

Error-control coding is a complex, novel and unfamiliar area, not yet widely understood and appreciated. This book sets out to provide a clear description of the essentials of the subject, with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most useful codes and their decoding algorithms. A practical engineering and information technology emphasis, as well as relevant background material and fundamental theoretical aspects, provides an in-depth guide to the essentials of Error-Control Coding.

• Provides extensive and detailed coverage of Block, Cyclic, BCH, Reed-Solomon, Convolutional, Turbo, and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, together with relevant aspects of Information Theory
• EXIT chart performance analysis for iteratively decoded error-control techniques
• Heavily illustrated with tables, diagrams, graphs, worked examples, and exercises
• Invaluable companion website features slides of figures, algorithm software, updates and solutions to problems     

Offering a complete overview of Error Control Coding, this book is an indispensable resource for students, engineers and researchers in the areas of telecommunications engineering, communication networks, electronic engineering, computer science, information systems and technology, digital signal processing and applied mathematics.

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Essentials of Error-Control Coding

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Joe Marini
ISBN: 0072224363
Release Date: 24 July 2002

eBook Description
Here is the ultimate guide to creating and extending documents within the application programming interface of the Document Object Model (DOM). The book examines real-world applications of the DOM, including exclusive case studies of DOM-based browsers and applications and provides a comprehensive, language-neutral examination of the DOM and its related applications.

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Document Object Model : Processing Structured Documents