There currently no books on the market that offer to teach FreeBSD to a novice. This book will be very attractive to the rushed and impatient, as well as to those who simply have a desire to learn the benefits of FreeBSD when compared to other proprietary operating systems. The book covers the most beneficial uses of FreeBSD, as well as the...
It's easy enough to install Wireshark and begin capturing packets off the wire--or from the air. But how do you interpret those packets once you've captured them? And how can those packets help you to better understand what's going on under the hood of your network? Practical Packet Analysis shows how to use Wireshark to capture and then...
This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus -...
If you are looking to create exciting Web graphics and need to define and edit images quickly and easily, then this book is for you--whether you’re new to Adobe’s latest graphics editing software or you need a refresher on Photoshop’s wide range of resources. Open the book and you’ll discover clear, easy-to-follow...
The word “blog” is relatively new and like most new technology terms, you might not find it in your spell checker or your dictionary yet. The word blog comes from combining the words “web” (short for World Wide Web) and the word “log” (indicating a regular entry). A blog therefore, is a website that is updated...
Create your own iPhone and Mac OS X applications with ease. Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to use the Objective-C programming language, Apple's Foundation framework, the iPhone SDK, and the Xcode development environment. The first stop for aspiring...
Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.
While many think of algorithms as specific to computer science, at its core algorithmic thinking is defined by the use of analytical logic to solve problems. This logic extends far beyond the realm of computer science and into the wide and entertaining world of puzzles. In Algorithmic Puzzles, Anany and Maria Levitin use many classic...
This book contains over 400 of the best images from the ten years that Dr. Willerson served as Editor of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association and the leading cardiovascular journal worldwide. Each of the excellent pictures from the journal's highly popular Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is accompanied by a short two- to...
Improve Productivity by Integrating Automation and Defect Prevention into Your Software Development Process
This book presents an approach to software management based on a new methodology called Automated Defect Prevention (ADP). The authors describe how to establish an infrastructure that functions as a software "production line"...
This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority...
This work is based on the work of many other individuals who have been involved with applications and Analog Devices since the company started in 1965. Much of the material that appears in this work is based on work that has appeared in other forms. My major job function in this case was one of editor. The list of people I would like to credit for...
