"Eric and Russell were early adopters of Cassandra at SimpleReach. In Practical Cassandra, you benefit from their experience in the trenches administering Cassandra, developing against it, and building one of the first CQL drivers. If you are deploying Cassandra soon, or you inherited a Cassandra cluster to tend, spend...
This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of...
Driven by the year-2000 problem, the hordes of COBOL developers experienced a renaissance, but the times when COBOL was state-of-the-art are long gone. Object-orientation, application servers, web front-ends, and relational database systems dominate the scene for new projects today. The fact remains however, that millions of lines of source code...
You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you wantand because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how,...
Learn from Pro SharePoint Migration on how to migrate your existing farm - infrastructure, upgrade approaches, code, branding, and impact of new features of SharePoint 2010 - in a strategic way that results in smooth transition. Noted author Sahil Malik, with Srini Sistla, work together to provide...
"The breadth of technical information provided in this book ensures that even the most demanding of administrators will find something they need." -Andrew Tridgell, President of the Samba Team and the original author of Samba
The practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to cutting IT...
The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computation power, storage, and even entire software application suites. On the other hand, service customers demand competitive pricing, service level...
Java developers have adapted to a world in which everything is an object, resources are reclaimed by a garbage collector, and multiple inheritance is replaced by interfaces. All of these things have prepared developers to thrive in Microsoft's new .Net environment using C#.
Despite similarities between Java and C#, complex...
Advanced Coverage for Experienced Network Administrators
Active Directory Best Practices 24seven is written specifically to build on the practical and conceptual knowledge you’ve already earned. Taking a "just the facts, ma'am" approach this book provides targeted instruction and insider tips to...
This second edition of Principles of Social Psychiatry appears more than 15 years after the first one, and even a cursory comparison between the contents of the two editions clearly documents that the scope and the impact of the social component of our discipline and profession have remarkably increased during the past few years.
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) has long been known for its technology leadership. This IBM Redbook is an informative guide that describes how to migrate the database system from Oracle to DB2 UDB Version 8.1 on AIX, Linux, and the Microsoft Windows platform. This guide presents the best practices in migration strategy and planning, migration...
