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Publisher: Manning Publications Company
Author: Jim Wooley
ISBN: 1933988169
Release Date: 15 January 2008

eBook Description
LLINQ, Language INtegrated Query, is a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction. It addreses O/R mapping issues by making query operations like SQL statements part of the programming language. It also offers built-in support for querying in-memory collections like arrays or lists, XML, DataSets, and relational databases.

LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers. This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging best practices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in the upcoming C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basic LINQ concepts. You’ll then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ to XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, you’ll see how to extend LINQ for custom applications.

LINQ in Action will guide you along as you explore this new world of lambda expressions, query operators, and expression trees. As well, you’ll explore the new features of C# 3.0, VB.NET 9.0. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code. Whether you want to use LINQ to query objects, XML documents, or relational databases, you will find all the information you need to get started

But LINQ in Action does not stop at the basic code. This book also shows you how LINQ can be used for advanced processing of data, including coverage of LINQ’s extensibility, which allows querying more data sources than those supported by default. All code samples are built on a concrete business case. The running example, LinqBooks, is a personal book cataloging system that shows you how to create LINQ applications with Visual Studio 2008.

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LINQ in Action

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Diego, Adrian Naya Lazo
ISBN: 1847191525
Release Date: 31 August 2007

eBook Description
This book covers all aspects of OSWorkflow for Java developers and system architects, from basics of Business Process Management and installing OSWorkflow to developing complex Java applications and integrating this open-source Java workflow engine with the third-party components Drools for business rules, Quartz for task scheduling, and Pentaho for dashboards. Authored by an active developer of the OSWorkflow project, it gives step-by-step instructions, explaining the basics and clarifying and reinforcing principles with real-life examples. OSWorkflow is a pure Java open-source workflow engine for technical users, who can focus on the business logic and rules without Petri Net or finite state machine coding and easily integrate OSWorkflow into applications to create simple or complex workflows as needed. Because OSWorkflow provides a relatively low-level but highly flexible workflow implementation for Java developers, it is not a quick plug-and-play solution for non-technical users.

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OSWorkflow: A guide for Java developers and architects to integrating open-source Business Process Management

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Toby Velte
ISBN: 0071493034
Release Date: 23 July 2007

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Microsoft Windows Vista Administration

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Vikram Vaswani
ISBN: 007148745X
Release Date: 08 June 2007

eBook Description
Find real-world solutions to PHP programming problems

Simplify and shorten the PHP application development cycle using the in-depth information contained in this hands-on guide. PHP Programming Solutions clearly lays out more than 250 programming challenges alongside practical solutions, functioning code, detailed explanations, and usage tips.

Inside, you’ll learn to manipulate strings and arrays, work with HTML and Web pages, accept and validate user input, parse XML code, and resolve programming problems using PEAR and PECL widgets and extensions. Plus, you’ll get detailed coverage of PHP security issues, SQL database interaction, debugging techniques, and error processing.

• Work with numbers, strings, dates, times, files, and directories
• Build complex data structures using PHP’s array manipulation API
• Use functions and classes to build modular, reusable code
• Create, update, and cache HTML documents and Web content
• Obtain and process user input submitted via online forms
• Protect, log, and debug PHP script actions
• Authenticate and track users with sessions and cookies
• Traverse, validate, and transform XML documents
• Store and retrieve data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases
• Interface with different server types, network protocols, and file formats
• Perform efficient exception handling and error processing

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PHP Programming Solutions

Publisher: Auerbach Publishing
Author: Kenneth Brancik
ISBN: 1420046594
Release Date: 06 December 2007

eBook Description
An organizations employees are often more intimate with its computer system than anyone else. Many also have access to sensitive information regarding the company and its customers. This makes employees prime candidates for sabotaging a system if they become disgruntled or for selling privileged information if they become greedy. Insider Computer Fraud: An In-depth Framework for Detecting and Defending against Insider IT Attacks presents the methods, safeguards, and techniques that help protect an organization from insider computer fraud.

Drawing from the authors vast experience assessing the adequacy of IT security for the banking and securities industries, the book presents a practical framework for identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling the risks associated with insider threats. It not only provides an analysis of application or system-related risks, it demonstrates the interrelationships that exist between an application and the IT infrastructure components it uses to transmit, process, and store sensitive data. The author also examines the symbiotic relationship between the risks, controls, threats, and action plans that should be deployed to enhance the overall information security governance processes.

Increasing the awareness and understanding necessary to effectively manage the risks and controls associated with an insider threat, this book is an invaluable resource for those interested in attaining sound and best practices over the risk management process.

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Insider Computer Fraud: An In-depth Framework for Detecting and Defending against Insider IT Attacks

Publisher: No Starch Press
Author: Michael W. Lucas
ISBN: 1593271514
Release Date: 14 November 2007

eBook Description

FreeBSD—the powerful, flexible, and free Unix-like operating system—is the preferred server for many enterprises. But it can be even trickier to use than either Unix or Linux, and harder still to master.

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; a true product of his love for FreeBSD and the support of the FreeBSD community. Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition covers installation, networking, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, filesystems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more, including coverage of how to:

• Use advanced security features like packet filtering, virtual machines, and host-based intrusion detection
• Build custom live FreeBSD CDs and bootable flash
• Manage network services and filesystems
• Use DNS and set up email, IMAP, web, and FTP services for both servers and clients
• Monitor your system with performance-testing and troubleshooting tools
• Run diskless systems
• Manage schedulers, remap shared libraries, and optimize your system for your hardware and your workload
• Build custom network appliances with embedded FreeBSD
• Implement redundant disks, even without special hardware
• Integrate FreeBSD-specific SNMP into your network management system.

Whether you’re just getting started with FreeBSD or you’ve been using it for years, you’ll find this book to be the definitive guide to FreeBSD that you’ve been waiting for.

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Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Dennis Poppel
ISBN: 1847192661
Release Date: 01 August 2007

eBook Description
This book is for PHP developers who need to use PHP Data Objects (PDO) for data abstraction. Covering an overview of PDO, getting started, error handling, prepared statements, handling rowsets, advanced uses, and use in an MVC application, it first describes the topic, then gives step-by-step instructions for a particular example. A final appendix covers the object-oriented features of PHP 5. Readers should be familiar with PHP and aware of the basics of data abstraction. Lighter, faster, more powerful than existing data abstraction interfaces, PDO is an open-source query abstraction layer for accessing databases and manipulating returned records that is used with a database-specific PDO driver to access a particular database. It has the same role as classic database abstraction layers such as ODBC and JDBC. PDO ships with PHP 5.1, and is available as a PECL extension for PHP 5.0; PDO requires the new OO features in the core of PHP 5, and so will not run with earlier versions of PHP.

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Learning PHP Data Objects

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Chris Ostrowski
ISBN: 0072264608
Release Date: 23 July 2007

eBook Description

The Ultimate Oracle Application Server Portal Resource

Build dynamic, feature-rich enterprise portals using Oracle Application Server Portal and the expert information in this exclusive Oracle Press guide. You’ll learn how to maximize the capabilities of Oracle Application Server Portal, customize your portals, integrate Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, and add Java functionality. Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook covers all of the design, management, and security features available in Oracle Application Server Portal 10.1.4 alongside real-world solutions.

• Take full advantage of the built-in tools and wizards
• Create rich end-user experiences quickly and easily
• Customize pages and maintain site-wide consistency using HTML templates
• Incorporate data from disparate formats using Oracle Application Server Portal’s content management features
• Build pages using OmniPortlet and the Web clipping studio
• Write portlets with Java and Oracle JDeveloper
• Implement SOA-based applications to connect business processes
• Administer, tune, and secure Oracle Application Server Portal
• Integrate Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, and Oracle Discoverer workbooks

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Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook (Osborne Oracle Press)

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Author: Yuhui Shi
ISBN: 1558607595
Release Date: 10 August 2007

eBook Description
Russ Eberhart and Yuhui Shi have succeeded in integrating various natural and engineering disciplines to establish Computational Intelligence. This is the first comprehensive textbook, including lots of practical examples. -Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

This book is an excellent choice on its own, but, as in my case, will form the foundation for our advanced graduate courses in the CI disciplines. -James M. Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia

The excellent new book by Eberhart and Shi asserts that computational intelligence rests on a foundation of evolutionary computation. This refreshing view has set the book apart from other books on computational intelligence. The book has an emphasis on practical applications and computational tools, which are very useful and important for further development of the computational intelligence field. -Xin Yao, The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications, Birmingham

The soft analytic tools that comprise the field of computational intelligence have matured to the extent that they can, often in powerful combination with one another, form the foundation for a variety of solutions suitable for use by domain experts without extensive programming experience.

Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations provides the conceptual and practical knowledge necessary to develop solutions of this kind. Focusing on evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, the authors have constructed an approach to thinking about and working with computational intelligence that has, in their extensive experience, proved highly effective.

Features
Moves clearly and efficiently from concepts and paradigms to algorithms and implementation techniques by focusing, in the early chapters, on the specific concepts and paradigms that inform the authors methodologies.

Explores a number of key themes, including self-organization, complex adaptive systems, and emergent computation.

Details the metrics and analytical tools needed to assess the performance of computational intelligence tools.

Concludes with a series of case studies that illustrate a wide range of successful applications.

Presents code examples in C and C .

Provides, at the end of each chapter, review questions and exercises suitable for graduate students, as well as researchers and practitioners engaged in self-study.

Makes available, on a companion website, a number of software implementations that can be adapted for real-world applications.

· Moves clearly and efficiently from concepts and paradigms to algorithms and implementation techniques by focusing, in the early chapters, on the specific concepts and paradigms that inform the authors’ methodologies.

· Explores a number of key themes, including self-organization, complex adaptive systems, and emergent computation.

· Details the metrics and analytical tools needed to assess the performance of computational intelligence tools.

· Concludes with a series of case studies that illustrate a wide range of successful applications.

· Presents code examples in C and C .

· Provides, at the end of each chapter, review questions and exercises suitable for graduate students, as well as researchers and practitioners engaged in self-study.

· Makes available, on a companion website, a number of software implementations that can be adapted for real-world applications.

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Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Author: David Dagon
ISBN: 0387687661
Release Date: 29 November 2007

eBook Description

Botnets have become the platform of choice for launching attacks and committing fraud on the Internet. A better understanding of Botnets will help to coordinate and develop new technologies to counter this serious security threat.

Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat, a contributed volume by world-class leaders in this field, is based on the June 2006 ARO workshop on Botnets. This edited volume represents the state-of-the-art in research on Botnets. It provides botnet detection techniques and response strategies, as well as the latest results from leading academic, industry and government researchers.

Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat is intended for researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also appropriate as a secondary text or reference book for advanced-level students in computer science.

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Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat (Advances in Information Security)