PHP has changed the world: no other language has influenced and spurred web development
so strongly. From simple home pages to social software and business applications
to the largest global websites, PHP has played a leading role for years. Simultaneously,
Microsoft and its Windows operating system has made computers available to all...
If you are reading this book, there is a good chance you have heard of Google and its
powerful office productivity suite, Google Apps. Google offers search, email, word
processing, and hundreds of other cloud applications and services that can be available
to the individual and can scale all the way up to massive corporations and...
Back in 1995, the central computing services at Cambridge University were running
a variety of mail transfer agents, including Sendmail, Smail 3, and PP. Some
years before, I had converted the systems whose mail I managed from Sendmail to
Smail to make it easier to handle the special requir ements of the early 1990s...
SEE IT DONE. DO IT YOURSELF. It’s that Easy! Easy Mac OS X Lion teaches you the fundamentals of working with the Mac operating system as well as how to use many of the applications that come with your Mac. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through each task, building the...
The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive
use of wireless channels and...
To explain the perspective from which this book was written, it will be helpful to define
the terms machine learning and hackers.
What is machine learning? At the highest level of abstraction, we can think of machine
learning as a set of tools and methods that attempt to infer patterns and extract...
We’ve designed this book to show you how to write professional applications using Microsoft
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As software developers, we understand how difficult it is to develop software in real life. End
users expect their applications to be reliable, functional, and polished. They’ll also have preferences in...
Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition. This book provides a clear
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It has been more than 6 years since the publication of the original edition of this book. A great deal has happened in the world of computer security since that time. This edition is updated to include newer information, updated issues, and revised content.
The real question is who is this book for. This book is...
Communications is changing our life in many ways. Our society is increasingly dependent
on wireless communications technologies and the applications they support. In
the same way that we can’t understand how the folks who lived in 1800 managed
without anesthesia, television, … (insert favorite must-have...
SECURITY AND PRIVACY issues with computers and computer networks
are constantly in the news these days, and everyone seems to be concerned
about them to some degree. Businesses everywhere are worried about
having
sensitive customer information such as credit card numbers or email
addresses
stolen,...
This book is now in its fifth edition. Each edition has corresponded to a different phase in the way computer networks were used. When the first edition appeared in 1980, networks were an academic curiosity. When the second edition appeared in 1988, networks were used by universities and large businesses. When the third edition appeared in...
