by Stephen Few
Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you...
Price: $4.50 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
by Ken Pugh
Learn by pragmatic example how to create effective designs composed of interfaces to objects, components and services.You'll learn what polymorphism and encapsulation really mean, and how to use these ideas more effectively. See how to create better interfaces using agile development techniques, and learn the subtle differences between implementing an interface and inheriting an implementation. Take a ...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2006
by Marc Delisle
For most of us, setting up the database for an application is often an afterthought. While you don't need to be a professional database designer to create a working application, knowing a few insider tips and techniques can make both the process easier and the end result much more effective. This book doesn't set out to make you an expert in data analysis, but it does provide a quick and easy way ...
Price: $11.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2006
Designing and Implementing Linux Firewalls and QoS using netfilter, iproute2, NAT and L7-filter 
by Lucian Gheorghe
Implementing Packet filtering, NAT, bandwidth shaping, packet prioritization using netfilter/iptables, iproute2, Class Based Queuing (CBQ) and Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB); Designing and implementing 5 real-world firewalls and QoS scenarios ranging from small SOHO offices to a large scale ISP network that spans many cities; Building intelligent networks by marking, queuing, and prioritizing different typ...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2006
by David Byrnes, Mark Middlebrook
AutoCAD 2007 is a premiere computer-aided designing program that lets you organize the objects you draw, their properties, and their files. It also helps you create great-looking models. But it's not always easy to figure out how to perform these functions, and many users end up missing out on AutoCAD's full potential.This hands-on guide lets you discover how to navigate around all the complicatio...
Price: $4.01 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2006
by Paul DuBois
Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problem...
Price: $4.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
Access 2007: The Missing Manual 
by Matthew MacDonald
Access 2007: The Missing Manual was written from the ground up for this redesigned application. You will learn how to design complete databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information, and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry. You'll even delve into the black art of Access programming (including macros and Visual Basic), and pick up valuable tricks and techniques to a...
Price: $16.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
PowerPoint 2003 Just the Steps For Dummies
by Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
Offers an easy-to-navigate design featuring a two-column landscape layout loaded with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help readers get up to speed fast on key PowerPoint tasks-and create effective and striking presentations. Shows how to print a presentation, set up a slide show, work with pictures and clip art, color text and objects, modify the slide master, create a template, insert a diag...
Price: $3.97 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2006
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8
by W. Jason Gilmore , Robert H. Treat
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open-source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL 8 database server and PHP 5 scripting language. You'll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. This is an ideal read if you are a web designer, programmer, hobbyist, or novice who wants to crea...
Price: $26.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2006
Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases, 2nd Edition
by Damien Foggon
Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases: From Novice to Professional is a comprehensive introduction to connecting a website to many different data sourcesnot just databases. You'll learn how to build a relational database, use SQL to communicate with it, and leverage both in your web applications.You'll also learn about the new features of ADO.NET and ASP.NET in .NET 2.0. The authors cover mission-critic...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2006