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This book provides accurate documentation about BizTalk, demystifies the product, and launches a new wave of business integration by fitting in with our other forthcoming BizTalk books. The book makes BizTalk technology accessible through a comprehensive approach to the product. It comprises the final peg in a complete BizTalk book strategy, with a thorough growth curve for the reader in our books.Upon the release of BizTalk Server 2006 Microsoft launched an impressive marketing campaign, beginning with the massive launch events of 2005/2006 urging more corporations to take another look at BizTalk. It seems that Microsoft's efforts are beginning to pay off.

Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional offers comprehensive information on using the PHP scripting language in conjunction with Oracles database platform. PHP is one of the most prominent open source technologies in the area of web development, while Oracle is one of the most widely deployed and used database products.Youll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. The book is packed with practical examples based on many years of real-world experience from authors W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla. This book is an ideal read for web designers or programmers wanting to create applications with PHP in an Oracle environment. The book covers a solid alternative to the "e;M"e; in the LAMP stack. Database examples are based on real-world scenarios. The text shows off Oracles strong enterprise features. The authors highlight Oracles robust internationalization support.

Beginning Java SE 6 by Sing Li et al should be the first beginning level tutorial on the new Java SE 6, and is ideal for learning the new core Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 platform. Each chapter in the book introduces a particular API area, discusses the APIs, and provides a hands-on example showing its use. Each chapter is independent of the other, and sharply focuses on one API area. It is a fun, highly visual book with many chapters on GUI, graphics, and gaming.

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0-enabled community-based social networking site using Ruby on Rails. You will learn how to make the best use of the Ruby on Rails framework within a large project and how to implement and adapt features specific to a community. The book offers practical advice and tips for developing and testing, along with guidance on how to take your site live, as well as optimize and maintain it.The book also explores how to integrate with other community sites such as Flickr and Google Maps, and how to make good use of Rails Ajax features. You will also learn how to optimize and adapt your site to work well on mobile browsers.

Practical JBoss(R) Seam Projects, written by renowned author and enterprise Java practitioner Jim Farley, is the first practical projects book of its kind on this groundbreaking open-source lightweight JSF-EJB3 framework. Practical application scenarios are used to demonstrate the nature of the JBoss Seam framework, its efficacy, and its limitations The series of scenarios and cases demonstrate key elements of the framework (e.g., basic web application development, rich web clients with Ajax, and so forth) Real-world case studies offer valuable insight into the new practices of JBoss Seam Web 2.0 development

Office Live provides a complete solution for ANYONE to get a web site online quickly and easily without needing coding skills, including building the site, hosting it, and sorting out its web address. And this book shows how to use it effectively. As well as giving you everything you need to use Office Live, the book includes some useful advanced topics to take the reader further than the basic guides. Office Live is very popular already (with a large number of users worldwide, and new subscribers every day,) so the book has a large target audience.

Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives. Over the years, you’ve yearned for every new gaming console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and have even won a local gaming competition or two. But lately you’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about a game idea of your own, or are exploring the possibility of making a career of this vibrant and growing industry. But where should you begin?Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame is written with the budding game developer in mind, introducing games development through the Python programming language and the popular Pygame games development library. Authored by industry veteran and Python expert Will McGugan, who worked on the MotorStorm game for PlayStation 3, you’ll be privy to insights that will not only help you to exploit Pygame to its maximum potential, but also make you a more creative and knowledgeable games developer all round. Learn how to create advanced games by taking advantage of the popular open source Python programming language and Pygame games development library Learn about coding gaming preferences, sound, visual effects, and joystick/keyboard interaction Discover the concepts that are crucial to success in today's gaming industry, such as support for multiple platforms, and granting users the ability to extend and customize your games

Using a PivotTable in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a quick and exciting way to slice and dice a large amount of data. This book explains what PivotTables are, how you can benefit from using them, how to create them and modify them, and how to use their enhanced features. It is for experienced Excel users who want to learn how to use Excel 2007 Pivot Tables for fast data analysis. The author is an internationally recognized Excel authority. Her web site on Excel, contextures.com, has over 175,000 visitors a month.

This book details how to install, configure, and use Windows Home Server and explains how to connect to and manage different clients such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center, and more. Its straightforward and easy-to-understand style will help you maximize all the benefits that Windows Home Server can bring. This guide features step-by-step instructions for configurations, lots of troubleshooting tips, many useful illustrations for a quick-to-learn approach, as well as handy hints, tips, and extensive walkthroughs to get you up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Pro PayPal E-Commerce contains the most comprehensive collection of information on PayPal technologies. It takes the approach of PayPal as a digital money platform, and shows how its a dynamic service that offers far more than just payment processing.With its breadth of technologies and APIs, the PayPal platform is a basis for development and innovation for an unlimited number of possibilities. It offers a wide range of payment technologies, but its not always easy to decipher which technology is the best choice for a web site. This book gets under the hood to show you how the different technologies work, how to choose the right solution, and how to implement the solutioncomplete with real-world PayPal success stories.Youll learn how to integrate PayPal directly into web sites to make use of its payment technologies. This allows you, no matter what language you program in, to build shopping carts or similar channel products with PayPal as a payment option. You can also use this book to learn about the basics of e-commerce, where PayPal fits in, and how you can meet your own e-commerce needs. This book covers How PayPal works Using the PayPal API Website Payments Standard Website Payments Pro Instant Payment Notification Payment Data Transfer Encrypted Website Payments Administration Reporting Fraud protection Payflow Gateway

Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET guides you through Microsoft's technology for building dynamic websites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of Visual Basic .NET. The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and performance tuning your site. Within these pages, you'll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you'll need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to build real-world websites right from the beginning—rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices. By the time you've finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

THis INTRODUCTION lays out who the book is written for, provides an overview of what is covered, and gives some background details on a package management utility you'll use to install many of the add-ons covered in the book. Who This Book Is For Although PHP has a lot of built-in functionality, many common Web program- ming tasks are simpler with add-on modules and packages. This book is for you if you are looking for an easier way to do these kinds of tasks with PHP: * Access a database. * Generate robust Web forms. * Use a page templating system. * Create or parse XML documents. * Request or serve XML-RPC or SOAP methods. * Send HTML or multipart e-mail messages. * Authenticate users. * Inspect your scripts with a debugger. * Boost server performance without rewriting any code. This book assumes you have a basic knowledge of PHP programming: You know how to perform tasks such as include files, write functions, create objects, and look in $_REQUEST, $_GET, or $_POST to find submitted form data.

ASP. NET IS NOT ONLY the latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages {ASP), it is a whole new programming concept altogether. This incredibly popular server-side scripting language is based on the .NET Framework, and it com- bines unrivalled developer productivity with performance and reliability. Dream weaver MX 2004 is the newest version of the popular integrated web site design tool. It enables quick and efficient web site design and programming and comes with built -in support for ASP. NET and Xl\11 web services. Whether you are an experienced ASP.NET developer and Dreamweaver user or a beginner, this book guides you through the web-development process at the right level. It shows you how to rapidly develop ASP.NET web applications with a minimum of effort. You learn about the .NET Framework, how ASP.NET fits in and interacts with other components, and how to master the ASP.NET controls via Dreamweaver MX 2004. In summary, this book covers: * The .NET Framework * Using and extending the Dreamweaver MX 2004 interface * ASP.NET programming in VB .NET * Using and expanding ASP.NET controls * Interacting with databases * Using server behaviors in Dreamweaver MX 2004 * Creating data-driven ASP.NET applications * Incorporating Xl\11 web services * Coding with best practice principles Let's get started with an introduction to the new Dreamweaver MX 2004.

As I write this, Visual Studio .NET 2003 has been in the hands of developers for slightly over a year, and it has become one of the most popular development tools of all time for the Microsoft platform. Visual Studio .NET 2003 is an incremental release of the Visual Studio IDE, and it includes a similarly incremental release of the .NET Framework, version 1.1. The significance of the changes in this release cannot be overlooked, although the basic philosophy has not changed from the original version. The differences in this release are a particular topic in this book, though we will also be reviewing some features that have changed little. This book offers you the practical experience and wisdom drawn from a wide team of programmers who use Visual Studio .NET in their work every day. After a year of using Visual Studio .NET in a production environment, everyone has, of course, grown wiser in the use of this great product. This book brings you what we have learned across the depth and breadth ofVisual Studio .NET. Without further ado, then, let us dig into the depths of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, a look at the versions provided by Microsoft, and an overview of the rest of this book.

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry. This book reaches out to managers, developers, and customers who use industry-standard methodologies, but whose projects still struggle to succeed.Author George Stepanek analyzes the project management methodology itself, a critical factor that has thus far been overlooked. He explains why it creates problems for software development projects and begins by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of projects. He also analyzes the project management body of knowledge to discover 10 hidden assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects.

Although the harrowing number of Internet-based attacks in recent years has elevated the importance of maintaining secure electronic networks, many developers continue to employ passive security administration strategies, addressing issues by using patches in a non-systematic fashion. This counterproductive strategy can be largely attributed to a lack of knowledge regarding the general concepts required to effectively prevent the attack and potential compromise of networked systems.Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security is an indispensable resource for system administrators and application developers, providing a means to understand, create, and maintain secure Internet systems. Matt Curtin's instructional approach facilitates a comprehensive understanding of online security by separating the core material into three sections: Understanding Security and Privacy introduces attack models, general privacy theory and policy, online privacy concepts, and provides a synopsis of the mechanics of threats to privacy. Prevention delves into secure design principles and deployment environments, closing with several case studies of major security problems uncovered by the author himself. The Cure investigates the mechanics of identifying and repairing flawed security design techniques before they are incorporated into the final product. Discussion regarding the failure of "opt-out" systems to protect privacy is also included in this section.

* Describes the IBM WebSphere versions 4.0 and 5.0 architecture from a nuts and bolts level, giving visibility to the technology and underlying WebSphere platform design * Describes how to proactively manage the performance of an IBM WebSphere v4 or v5 platform * Thorough descriptions of tuning WebSphere with performance and robustness in mind * Teaches the reader how to develop custom IBM WebSphere performance monitoring and management tools

* Up to date for the latest release version of .NET * Written by two Microsoft employees who have been using the technology for both internal and external use since it was in alpha stage. * Describes the ASP.NET server control architecture in Visual Studio .NET 2003 covering state management, events, rendering, cross-platform support, control lifecycle, localization and deployment. * Provides background on User Controls as compared with server controls, discussing the benefits and strengths of each. * Discusses the various methods available to create server controls including inheritance, composition, and from scratch. Discusses when to use Control as a base class as compared to WebControl highlighting the tradeoffs. * Demonstrates how to integrate client-side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology to create powerful interactive controls. * Covers ASP.NET mobile server control development including an in depth discussion of browser capabilities and device adapters when targeting the various mobile devices available. * Covers how to enrich the design-time experience when building custom server controls including custom designers, custom property editors, as well as other design-time enhancements.

l IT HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED that the maintenance phase of the typical software project's life cycle accounts for over 60 percent of the total cost incurred. For all the pomp and circumstance heaped upon the design phase, once the first release has been deployed, most of the resources will be spent on fixing bugs, adding new features, and fixing bugs resulting from those new features. The post-release development cycle of the average software application resembles that shown in Figure 1. 1. Don Coleman et al. , "e;Using Metrics to Evaluate Software System Maintainability,"e; IEEE Computer, August 1994, pp. 44-49 xv Introduction Debug Test Profile Optimize H H H t I Test Debug I Add feature H H t Figure 1. Post-release life cycle o/the average software application The post-release cycle can be initiated by the addition of a new feature or the submission of a bug report. In either case, unit and system tests are used to determine if the patched code is doing what it is supposed to. Once the paths of execution have been sufficiently stabilized, the application can be profiled to locate performance bottlenecks. A variety of optimization tech- niques can then be implemented to increase execution speed and decrease memory footprint. As customers demand new features and report new bugs, the cycle will repeat itself and the application will evolve. Most books on software engineering focus intently on the phases of development leading up to the release of an application (e. g.

WELCOME ro Beginning ANSI C++: The Complete Language, Third Edition. This is a tuto- rial guide to Standard C++. During the course of the book you'll cover all the funda- mentals of syntax, grammar, object-oriented capability, and the principal features of the standard library. You'll soon gain enough programming know-how to write your own C++ applications. Why C++? C++ is arguably the most widely used programming language in existence. It's used in professional application development because of its immense flexibility, power, and efficiency. For high-performance code across a vast range of programming contexts, C++ is unrivalled. It's also much more accessible than many people assume. With the right guidance, getting a grip on C++ is easier than you might imagine. By developing your C++ skills, you'll learn a language already used by millions, and you'll acquire a new tool in your programming toolbox that is likely to be more powerful than any of the others. The Standard for C++ In 1998, the International Standard for C++, ISO/IEC 14882, was finally approved and adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS). This was the culmination of nine years of work by a joint ANSI/ISO committee whose objective was to establish a single definition of the C++ programming language that would be accepted worldwide.

* The Definitive Guide to Apache, Third Edition is a new revision of Peter Wainwright's best-selling (actually, the highest-selling) book on Apache configuration and administration. * Provides multiple methods and examples of how to solve a particular problem; compares and contrasts the methods rather than recommending a single, "best" solution. * Demonstrates how to use many of the most-popular scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, and Python to create dynamic web sites.