This book has been written for the complete DirectShow novice; you don’t need to know anything about DirectShow—or even audio or video—to get started. If you’re already familiar with DirectShow, chances are you’ll be able to race through the first three chapters of this book very quickly. However,...
Knuth's multivolume work, widely recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science, is now available in an attractive, boxed set. The three volumes included in this set have each been revised recently to reflect developments in the field. As earlier editions clearly demonstrated, they comprise an invaluable resource in...
The .NET Framework offers new, more effective ways to secure your Web and LAN-based applications. Sybex’s .NET Development Security Solutions uses detailed, code-intensive examples—lots of them—to teach you the right techniques for most scenarios you’re likely to encounter. This is not an introduction to...
"This volume offers relentlessly pragmatic solutions to help your business applications get the most out of XML, with a breezy style that makes the going easy. Mike has lived this stuff; he has a strong command of the solutions and the philosophy that underlies them.">-Eve Maler, XML Standards Architect, Sun...
The Apache web server is a remarkable piece of software. The basic package distributed by the Apache Software Foundation is quite complete and very powerful, and a lot of effort has gone into keeping it from suffering software bloat. One facet of the package makes it especially remarkable: it includes extensibility by design. In...
f you run a Linux machine, you must think about security. Consider this story told by Scott, a system administrator we know:
In early 2001, I was asked to build two Linux servers for a client. They just wanted the machines installed and put online. I asked my boss if I should secure them, and he said no, the
For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to...
C++ is a flexible, powerful programming language with hundreds of
thousands of applications. However, the knowledge of how to take
advantage of its full potential comes only with time and experience.
That’s where this book comes in. Think of it as a “cookbook” for solving
your programming...
Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a...
The UML community has begun to define a series of 'profiles' which better suit the needs of UML-users within specific domains, settings or technologies.
The UML Profile for Framework Architectures provides a UML profile for object and component frameworks. It shows how to describe framework architectures and to support...
In this practical reference, popular author Lewin Edwards shows how to develop robust, dependable real-time systems for robotics and other control applications, using open-source tools. It demonstrates efficient and low-cost embedded hardware and software design techniques, based on Linux as the development platform and operating system and the...
This book especially targets SQL Server Express (SSE), Visual Basic Express (VBE), and Visual Web Developer Express (VWDE), all of which offer traditional fans of Microsoft technology an inexpensive and easy route for adapting, learning, and growing professionally. As their names suggest, these products are all compact versions of...
