by Shelley Powers
Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. You already know the "business-side" of applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static content. This book demonstrates how to make your web pages livelier, more fun, and much...
Price: $26.36 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Nicolai M. Josuttis
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is finally becoming a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. This book demonstrates how SOA can simplify the creation of large-scale applications, whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or is a means to connect legacy applications to more modern business processes. SOA in Practice explains how -- and whet...
Price: $31.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide 
by Brian Culp
Written in jargon-free English that puts concepts in proper context, this book helps system administrators install, configure, and maintain Microsoft's newest OS. You'll get a better understanding of Vista's innovations and capabilities, learn how to leverage Vista to increase worker productivity, discover how the system can best protect sensitive data, and unlock certain features to improve ...
Price: $37.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Michael Fitzgerald
You don't have to know everything about a car to drive one, and you don't need to know everything about Ruby to start programming with it. Written for both experienced and new programmers alike, Learning Ruby is a just-get-in-and-drive book - a hands-on tutorial that offers lots of Ruby programs and lets you know how and why they work, just enough to get you rolling down the road.Interest in Ruby ...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
There's plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That's easy. The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with the new versions of Apache.Written by members of the Apache Sof...
Price: $4.79 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
Getting Started with Pyparsing
by Paul McGuire
Need to extract data from a text file or aweb page? Or do you want to make yourapplication more flexible with user-definedcommands or search strings? Doregular expressions and lex/yacc makeyour eyes blur and your brain hurt?Pyparsing could be the solution. Pyparsingis a pure-Python class library thatmakes it easy to build recursive-descentparsers quickly. There is no need tohandcraft your own parsing state ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Andy Flesner
AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the system administration field as a tool for automating administrative tasks. Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoIt to automate anything in a Windows environment. This powerful scripting language can run any program and manipulate keyboard and mouse input. With its RunAs support, administrators can perform unattended installations and c...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Jennifer Thompson
Have you ever wondered how to get started writing your own schema? As you prepare to create your schema, you must consider a number of factors. This guide explains each of those factors in detail and recommends an approach for documenting your schema development plan in an information model.Your information model can not only be used as a planning mechanism to develop your schema but can also be used as a t...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Dan Gillmor
In We the Media, nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor shows how anyone can produce the news, using personal blogs, internet chat groups, email, and a host of other tools. He tells the story of this emerging phenomenon and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make--and consume--the news. Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media oligarch...
Price: $9.26 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
by Kyle Loudon
C++ is a complex language with many subtle facets. This is especially true when it comes to object-oriented and template programming. The C++ Pocket Reference is a memory aid for C++ programmers, enabling them to quickly look up usage and syntax for unfamiliar and infrequently used aspects of the language. The book's small size makes it easy to carry about, ensuring that it will always be at-hand when ...
Price: $0.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006