Windows 8 provides a new and exciting platform for developers. This coming version of Windows promises to
run on new hardware, such as tablets, as well as existing laptops and desktops. Microsoft has developed a new
layer for accessing and leveraging system resources, including the operating system services. The new Windows
Runtime...
Adobe Flash Professional CS6 provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating interactive and media-rich applications. Flash is widely used to create engaging projects integrating video, sound, graphics, and animation. You can create original content in Flash or import assets from other Adobe...
Have you ever sat down and had an open discussion over coffee with an industrial chemist
or chemical technician about his or her work? Have you ever “shadowed” a chemist or a
chemical technician for a day as he or she went about the daily routine in an industrial
or government laboratory? If you have done these things,...
This book helps you prepare for the Cisco FIREWALL 642-618 certification exam. The
FIREWALL exam is one in a series of exams required for the Cisco Certified Network
Professional Security (CCNP Security) certification. This exam focuses on the application
of security principles with regard to the...
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of electric refractory materials as exotic materials
(i.e., metallic and semiconducting refractory materials) from fundamental properties to application
in a wide variety of electronics. The metallic ceramics or metalloids are the transition metal
carbides, nitrides, and diborides of...
Hacking and electronic crimes sophistication has grown at an exponential rate in recent years. In fact, recent
reports have indicated that cyber crime already surpasses the illegal drug trade! Unethical hackers better known
as black hats are preying on information systems of government, corporate, public, and private networks and
are...
SharePoint 2010 is a complex product, and a diverse skill set is required to administer it. You have to be part database administrator (DBA), part web developer, part network administrator, and part server administrator to fully wrap your mind around this product. This book was written to help you do just that.
It is appropriate that I first acknowledge my appreciation to Professor Leo Grigsby for inviting me to
prepare the chapter on power transformers for the first edition (2001) of his now very popular Electric
Power Engineering Handbook. From this evolved the recognition that two chapters from the 2001
Handbook, those for (1) substations...
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that HTML
and CSS have to offer.
In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students
the software concepts and...
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook will help you learn the tools necessary for the development of Essbase databases in Oracle Essbase version 11.1.2.1. Here you will find over 90 recipes that explain everything from how to use a relational data model to building and loading an Essbase database in Essbase Studio. The book also goes over...
Discover the secret recipes for your favorite restaurant dishes and learn how to make them yourself. This cookbook will teach you the jealously guarded secrets behind actual dishes from billion dollar restaurants - The Cheesecake Factory, KFC, The Olive Garden, PF Chang's, Red Lobster, Hard Rock Cafe... (far too many to list here) and...
Fortran remains one of the principal languages used in the fields of scientific, numerical,
and engineering programming, and a series of revisions to the standard defining successive
versions of the language has progressively enhanced its power and kept it competitive with
several generations of rivals.
