Beginning ASP Databases

"Beginning ASP Databases" by John Kauffman, Kevin Spencer, Thearon Willis
Publisher: Wrox | September 1999 | ISBN: 1861002726 | PDF | 20.22 Mb | 825 Pages

Microsoft created Active Server Pages (ASP) to sew together a group of technologies for creating modern web sites, which can intelligently interact with the user at the front end and with servers and datastores at the back end. Among these technologies is ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), which allows easy, powerful and robust control of technologies that access datastores. This book explains the theory and practice of using ADO with ASP by presenting numerous examples, exercises, lists of common errors and quizzes. The emphasis is on the authors' proven teaching techniques and the presentation of the most commonly used features of ADO in ASP. If you read each chapter and do the exercises you will have a portfolio of several dozen data-intensive web pages of increasing complexity a fine return on your investment.

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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 with ASP, Coldfusion and PHP Training from the Source

1. Introducing Newland Tours
In this lesson, you will get familiar with the book's starting and ending points. You'll open the site as it exists today within Dreamweaver.
2. Preparing the Static HTML and CSS
3. Dynamic Web Sites
You'll have an idea of how dynamic sites work, and what they are created to do; you'll have Macromedia Dreamweaver configured to work with dynamic data; and you'll have created your first page that uses dynamic content.
4. Passing Data Between Pages
In this lesson, you will pass data from a URL into a cookie on the user's hard drive to create persistent dynamic data.
5. Sending Email from a Web Form
In this lesson, you'll learn how to configure your system to send email messages, if you are running Internet Information Services (IIS) or Macromedia ColdFusion locally.
6. Building a Tour Price Calculator
In this lesson, you will build a tour price calculator, which enables users to obtain an estimate for the cost of a tour based on the number of adults and children going on the tour.
7. Databases on the Web
This lesson mainly consists of a crash course in databases, including a tour of the database I have prepared for you to use in the rest of the book, and tasks that have you connect your site to the database and display a block of text dynamically pulled from a database.
8. Completing the Price Calculator
You'll learn how to document these blocks using comments, making the scriptsand the documents as a wholeeasier to read and maintain.
9. Filtering and Displaying Data
In this lesson, you will use URL parameters (also known as querystrings) to filter data.
10. Building the Tour Descriptions
11. Building Search Interfaces
In this lesson you will go behind the GUI once again and work extensively with code, especially SQL code.
12. Authenticating Users
In this lesson, you'll create a complete registration and log-in system, taking into account both when things go right and when they go awry.
13. Managing Content with Forms
In this lesson, you will create the simplest portion of the CMS: the form that Newland Tours employees can use to update the Traveler's Journal on the home page.
14. Building Update Pages
In this lesson, you will build an interface that lets employees change a registered user from one user group to another.
15. Hand-Coding a Basic CMS
In this lesson, in contrast to the previous lessons where you built pages that inserted and updated data, you will not rely on Dreamweaver server behaviors.

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How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps

In this highly-accessible self-help book, Big Issue founder John Bird explains his seven simple rules that could help you change your life. Whether you want to get a new job, quit smoking, give up drinking or go back to college, "How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps" explains how you can take what you've been given and turn it into something you'll be proud of, rather than spend your life wishing for everything you haven't got. For 99 per cent of us life doesn't come knocking on the door; you have to go out and get it. But the trouble with aiming for the stars is that you're likely to end up in the gutter. John Bird has learnt through his work with the homeless that if you start by putting just 3 per cent of your energy towards your final goal rather than a gutter-hitting 99 per cent you will eventually make the changes you are looking for. John's six other rules are as straightforward as this first one, 'Start With 3 per cent. He writes with passion about the dangers of thinking like a victim and of not telling the truth; he shares with us the importance of thinking for yourself and never putting others down, and he encourages us not to define our successes by the failures of others and to recognise our own achievements.

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Listen and Lose Weight

Imagine if the first step to losing weight were as simple as listening to a CD. The truth is, simply imagining a fit and healthy you while in a deeply relaxed state will lay the foundation for lasting change.
Create new positive patterns of behavior
Form a lasting desire to eat healthily and remain fit
Build strong self-esteem and inner confidence
Program your mind to achieve your weight-loss goal without struggle.

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The Only Astrology book

Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, "The Ayurveda Encyclopedia: Natural Secrets to Healing, Prevention, & Longevity"
Sat Yuga Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0965804259 | 675 pages | PDF | 19,7 MB

Although there is no shortage of books that attempt to explain Ayurveda medicine (a system that originated in India about 5000 years ago) to a popular audience, the author, instructor at the Ayurveda Holistic Health Center in Bayville, NY, claims that this is the first English-language textbook on the subject. However, he does little to simplify this complicated system and goes into too much detail not only for average readers but for health practitioners who want to learn more about this form of treatment. Many of his statements seem far-fetched (e.g., can the color orange really help with menstrual cramps?). Organization is poor; for instance, information on therapies for diabetes is spread throughout the book rather than being concentrated in the section on diseases. Perhaps the most useful information here is the list of Ayurvedic resources and the glossary containing clear definitions of many of the terms used. Better choices for books on Ayurveda medicine include titles by Vasant Lad (Ayurveda: The Science of Self Healing, Lotus Light, 1990) and Deepak Chopra (Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, LJ 6/15/93). Recommended only for libraries with extensive collections in alternative medicine.?Natalie Kupferberg, Arizona State Univ. West, Phoenix

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Eric Verzuh - The Portable MBA in Project Management

Eric Verzuh - The Portable MBA in Project Management
Wiley | 2003 | ISBN: 0471268992 | Pages: 400 | PDF | 5.19 MB

The Portable MBA in Project Management covers the most pressing topics in project management and features all the leading thinkers in the field. While most project management books address only the techniques for managing individual projects, The Portable MBA in Project Management widens the scope to include insights for managing project-based organizations. In doing so, this comprehensive volume will help managers combine the power of individual project successes to drive the organization to new levels of productivity and customer responsiveness. Eric Verzuh, best selling author of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, brings together the leading lights of project management in this volume, including Robert G. Cooper, Randall Englund, Jack Meredith and Neil Whitten. In addition to his role as editor, Verzuh draws on his own expertise to address how and why project management is a strategic strength, how to integrate project management into your enterprise, and several other topics for which he is well-known. Together they effectively address the full spectrum of the issues in project management today.

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Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools

Omari Bouknight / Scott Shrum, Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools
Career Press | ISBN 1564146839 | First edition (August 1, 2003) | PDF | 1,9 Mb | 240 pages

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Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days

Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) By John Fronckowiak
Publisher: Sams Publishing 1997-08 | 648 Pages | ISBN: 067231083X | PDF (OCR from html) | 6.7 MB

With Sams Teach Yourself OLE DB and ADO in 21 Days, you will learn how to build distributed Web-based database applications using today's latest technologies. Step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples show you how OLE DB enables programmers to access data in the most optimal manner possible. You will also learn how to implement ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), the object model for accessing data using the OLE DB interface. You'll then move on to build the server-side infrastructure necessary to support your applications using Advanced Data Connector (ADC) controls.

* Learn OLE DB and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
* Utilize ADO and OLE DB for deploying distributed database applications
* Discover how ADO and OLE DB work with new technologies such as ADC, Visual InterDev, Transaction Server and ActiveX Server Pages
* Includes author's source code and useful third-party products.

Introduction to AutoCAD 2009: 2D and 3D Design

JAlf Yarwood, "Introduction to AutoCAD 2009: 2D and 3D Design"
Publisher: Newnes | ISBN: 0750689838 | 2008 | PDF | 428 pages | 21 Mb rared PDF

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Master the art of 2D and 3D technical drawing with Alf Yarwood's comprehensive and highly practical introductory guide

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Alf Yarwood provides a practical, structured course of work matched to the latest release of AutoCAD. After introducing first principles and the creation of 2D technical drawings, he goes on to demonstrate the construction of 3D solid and surface model drawings and rendering. All the new features of the 2009 software release are taken into account and the increasing emphasis on 3D solid modelling in the software is reflected in the book. The 2D chapters are also suitable for those learning how to use AutoCAD LT 2009.

Suitable for all new users of AutoCAD, this book is particularly applicable to vocational and introductory level undergraduate courses in engineering and construction. It is an ideal textbook for the City & Guilds Computer Aided Design and Engineering qualifications (4353 and 2303)and the relevant CAD units of BTEC National and BTEC Higher National Engineering and Construction schemes from Edexcel.

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AutoCAD Professional Tips and Techniques

You’ve been working with AutoCAD for quite some time now, and you feel you’ve got the program under control. You can get your job done, on time, with minimal stress, thank you very much! But you can’t help asking yourself if there’s a better way:

• Could there be a better way to set up the user interface so I can reach my favorite tools more quickly?


• How can I eliminate some of the AutoCAD tedium that causes me to focus more on drafting than my design?


• What are the top-secret tips and techniques that the AutoCAD pros of the world are using to get their jobs done faster?

If any of this rings true to you, then you’re in the right place, with the right book.

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Release Date December 6, 2006

ISBN 0470084545



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Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2

Tarry Singh, "Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2"
Packt Publishing | 2009-08-05 | ISBN: 1847197124 | 300 pages | PDF | 7,4 MB

Manage a Flexible and Elastic Data Center with Oracle VM Manager

# Learn quickly to install Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Servers
# Learn to manage your Virtual Data Center using Oracle VM Manager
# Import VMs from the Web, template, repositories, and other VM formats such as VMware
# Learn powerful Xen Hypervisor utilities such as xm, xentop, and virsh
# A practical hands-on book with step-by-step instructions

In DetailVirtualization is taking the technology world by storm and dramatically helping organizations save money. Oracle VM is free and forked from the open source Xen hypervisor, which brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. The robust capabilities and easy-to-use web interface of Oracle VM Manager helps administrators manage their Internal Data Center from anywhere in the world, helping us come closer to ubiquitous computing.

This practical book will give you hands-on experience on how to manage your Virtual Machines using Oracle VM Manager. Equipped with step-by-step installation and management information you will not only learn to manage your Virtual Data Center but also will include this guide among the books you consider most essential.

This book will take you into the various methods of importing Virtual Machines. You will learn to import VMs through HTTP/FTP, Repository servers, and even import other VM formats such as VMware VMs. You will also learn about the Xen utilities such as xm, xentop, and virsh. You will learn to manage your VMs through the simple and intuitive web interface of Oracle VM Manager. No matter how compact it may seem, this book covers all the essentials while keeping your learning experience to the point. The book has been deliberately written in a conversational manner so that you feel at home while learning Oracle VM Manager.

What you will learn from this book?

# Understand virtualization and learn to install Oracle VM Server
# Install/Upgrade Oracle VM Manager
# Manage VMs using Oracle VM Manager
# Secure Oracle VM Manager
# Learn Xen utilities such as xm, xentop, and virsh
# Import VMs through HTTP/FTP, Repository, CD, and VMware VMs
# Import Templates through HTTP/FTP, Repository servers, VMware templates and more

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Structural Engineering Formulas

Ilya Mikhelson, "Structural Engineering Formulas"
McGraw-Hill Professional | 2004 | ISBN: 0071439110 | 256 pages | PDF | 53 MB

Comprehensive yet compact, this is a user-friendly time-saving reference packed with key engineering formulas for a wide variety of applications. Featuring introductory material on use and application of each formula, along with appendices covering metric conversion information, and selected mathematical formulas and symbols, this is a unique resource no civil engineer should be without.

CHAPTERS
Stress and strain
Properties of geometric sections
Beams
Frames
Arches
Trusses
Plates
Soils
Foundations
Retaining Structures
Retaining Structures
Pipes and tunnels
Pipes and tunnels

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When Rebels Become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India

Prof. Subrata K. Mitra, V. B. Singh, "When Rebels Become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India"
Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd 2009 | ISBN-10: 8178299453 | 344 Pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

When Rebels become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India, explores the agency of ordinary men and women in the making of democratic social change in India. The study is specific to India, but the issues are of general interest, particularly for the comparative politics of democratic social change.

In contrast to the majority of post-colonial states, India has achieved both democracy and social change. The authors focus on the political skills of India's voters and their leaders, instead of the essence of Indian culture to explain this remarkable phenomenon. The study draws on public opinion data on political information, attitudes, values and participation, derived from three national surveys of the Indian electorate held in 1971, 1996 and 2004, to explain this complex theme. It specifies the two main puzzles-the instrumentality of electoral agency in the making of India's social revolution, and implications of the findings of the study for the theory of democratic social change that underpin the study. The author provides an analysis of the empirical results, a resume of the empirical findings, theoretical implications of those findings for democracy and social change, questionnaires, explanation of the research designs used in the surveys, and the method of data collection.

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Handbook of Electrochemistry by Cynthia G. Zoski

Handbook of Electrochemistry by Cynthia G. Zoski (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science | 11 Dec 2006 | ISBN: 0444519580 | Pages: 934 | PDF | 31.9 MB

Electrochemistry plays a key role in a broad range of research and applied areas including the exploration of new inorganic and organic compounds, biochemical and biological systems, corrosion, energy applications involving fuel cells and solar cells, and nanoscale investigations. The Handbook of Electrochemistry serves as a source of electrochemical information, providing details of experimental considerations, representative calculations, and illustrations of the possibilities available in electrochemical experimentation.

The book is divided into five parts: Fundamentals, Laboratory Practical, Techniques, Applications, and Data. The first section covers the fundamentals of electrochemistry which are essential for everyone working in the field, presenting an overview of electrochemical conventions, terminology, fundamental equations, and electrochemical cells, experiments, literature, textbooks, and specialized books. Part 2 focuses on the different laboratory aspects of electrochemistry which is followed by a review of the various electrochemical techniques ranging from classical experiments to scanning electrochemical microscopy, electrogenerated chemiluminesence and spectroelectrochemistry. Applications of electrochemistry include electrode kinetic determinations, unique aspects of metal deposition, and electrochemistry in small places and at novel interfaces and these are detailed in Part 4. The remaining three chapters provide useful electrochemical data and information involving electrode potentials, diffusion coefficients, and methods used in measuring liquid junction potentials.

* serves as a source of electrochemical information
* includes useful electrochemical data and information involving electrode potentials, diffusion coefficients, and methods used in measuring liquid junction potentials
* reviews electrochemical techniques (incl. scanning electrochemical microscopy, electrogenerated chemiluminesence and spectroelectrochemistry)

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How We Test Software at Microsoft

How We Test Software at Microsoft
405 pages | Microsoft Press (December 10, 2008) | 0735624259 | PDF | 2 Mb

Discover how Microsoft implements and manages the software-testing process company-wide with guidance and insights direct from its test managers. Organizing any testing program the people, processes, and tools can be challenging and resource intensive. Even when the necessary tradeoffs are made, no development team can test every scenario. This book explains how a worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions staffed with 8,000 testers implements and manages its testing process effectively company-wide. Whether you re a tester or test manager, you ll gain expert insights on effective testing techniques and methodologies including pros and cons of various approaches. For interesting context, the book also shares such facts as the number of test machines at Microsoft, how the company uses automated test cases, and bug statistics. It answers key testing questions, such as who tests what, when, and with what tools. And it describes how test teams are organized, when and how testing gets automated, testing tools, and feedback with illuminating insights for software-development organizations of all kinds.

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System Software Reliability

Hoang Pham, "System Software Reliability"
Springer | 2006-11-02 | ISBN: 1852339500 | 440 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB

Computer software reliability has never been more important. Today, computers are employed in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, aircraft, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-systems, automotive, mechanical and safety control, and hospital patient monitoring systems. Many of these applications require critical functionality as software applications increase in size and complexity.
System Software Reliability is an introduction to software reliability engineering as well as a detailed survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. The most recent research results in the field are reported and future directions in the subject are signposted.
This comprehensive text will be of interest to:
graduate students as an introduction to software reliability engineering and a textbook for graduate courses;
software and reliability engineers as a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field; and,
researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volume reference.

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Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL (book + source code)

"Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL" by Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, John J. Croft, IV, J. Ambrose Little, Bill Ryan, Phil Winstanley, David Yack, Jeremy Zongker
Publisher: Wrox (2005) | ISBN: 0764584375 | PDF | 5.081 Mb | 648 Pages

ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database.
Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0 Framework and discusses the appropriate time and way to use them. You'll learn how to make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler and you'll walk away with a solid foundation for developing database-driven applications.

What you will learn from this book
* The basics of creating a connection, executing a query, and returning a result
* Best uses for Oracle in the ADO.NET Framework
* The many new features that are available for XML
* How to use the full text search capabilities of Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2005
* Methods for retrieving data and presenting it in various ways
* Why MySQL is a viable option for data storage.

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Professional XML Databases (by Kevin Williams)

"Professional XML Databases" by Kevin Williams
Publisher: Wrox | Nov 2000 | ISBN: 1861003587 | PDF | 5.55 Mb |
1005 Pages

In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data.
By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at the developer's XML toolbox, discussing associated technologies and strategies that will help us in describing, processing, and manipulating data. We also discuss common techniques for data access, data warehousing, transmission, and marshalling and presentation, giving working examples in every chapter.
Whether you are using XML for storage, as an interchange format, or for display, this book looks at some of the key issues you should be aware of when structuring, processing, accessing, and storing your documents.

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DIGITAL APPRENTICE WORKSHOP ANIMATION FOUNDATIONS

Whether you're a newcomer to animation or you're a seasoned pro, AnimationFoundations is designed for all artists alike. In this 7 part series,veteran animator David Weinstein will break down the "12 Principals"of animation with simple, easy to follow lessons. Watch and listenas David shows you his personal workflow, tips, tricks and insightfor achieving realistic and convincing movement. You will learn thesame techniques used by industry professionals to create dynamic andbelievable character movement. These lessons will all be demonstratedstep by step so that viewers can animate along or experiment at theirown pace.Coverage Includes:The 12 Animation Principals as Applied to the ComputerResidual MotionPhysics & WeightKeyframe ArrangementUnderstanding the Curve/Graph EditorAnticipationTimeline TricksIntro to Humanoid Animation

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What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering

Do you… · Use a computer to perform analysis or simulations in your daily work? · Write short scripts or record macros to perform repetitive tasks? · Need to integrate off-the-shelf software into your systems or require multiple applications to work together? · Find yourself spending too much time working the kinks out of your code? · Work with software engineers on a regular basis but have difficulty communicating or collaborating? If any of these sound familiar, then you may need a quick primer in the principles of software engineering. Nearly every engineer, regardless of field, will need to develop some form of software during their career. Without exposure to the challenges, processes, and limitations of software engineering, developing software can be a burdensome and inefficient chore. In What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering, Phillip Laplante introduces the profession of software engineering along with a practical approach to understanding, designing, and building sound software based on solid principles. Using a unique question-and-answer format, this book addresses the issues and misperceptions that engineers need to understand in order to successfully work with software engineers, develop specifications for quality software, and learn the basics of the most common programming languages, development approaches, and paradigms.

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