Mac OS X offers an amazing development environment for scores of technologies. It seems that
developers from numerous camps are migrating to Mac en masse. Scan the room at any Ruby or
Rails conference, for example, and you’ll see programmers coding on Macs almost exclusively. As
developers move to Mac, almost inevitably they...
There are some things you should never do at the same time: Move.
Have a baby. Adopt a puppy. Change jobs. Leah did all of this
while also writing this book.
And while anyone who knows Leah shouldn’t be surprised by her ability
to pull all of this off, this speaks to a tenacity shared by those who find...
Technological advances in hardware and software provide powerful tools with the potential to design interfaces that are powerful and easy to use. Yet, the frustrations and convoluted "work-arounds" often encountered make it clear that there is substantial room for improvement. Drawn from more than 60 years of combined experience...
Intrusion Detection and Correlation: Challenges and Solutions presents intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and addresses the problem of managing and correlating the alerts produced. This volume discusses the role of intrusion detection in the realm of network security with comparisons to traditional methods such as firewalls and...
Improving your people skills and becoming a people-person is a surefire route to success, happiness, and confidence. Weíve all looked enviously across the room at that person who seems to effortlessly interact with everyone – humorous, confident and well liked. That person is confident with...
In many ways, this is almost the hardest chapter to pen in this book; in writing this, I am forced to relive the many occasions on which I have stood in a bookstore leafing through a technical book, trying to determine its value to the technical “excursion” I am currently embarked on. I generally start with the...
Think you have the next great iOS app idea? The iOS 5 Application Sketch Book is an essential tool for any aspiring iOS developer. This sketch book makes it easy to centralize and organize your ideas, featuring enlarged iPhone 4S templates to write on. Professionally printed on high-quality paper, it has a total of 150 gridded...
* From the garage to the living room, Geek House provides hackers with 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects that are not for the faint of heart! * Taking the DIY mentality to a whole new level, this book teaches techies how to hack, customize, and modify everything-from their sprinkler systems to the temperature of their barbecues ...
Although depression is the most common presentation of bipolar disorder, correct diagnosis generally requires a history of mania and thus presents a formidable challenge. This book provides clinicians with the necessary guidance to distinguish this illness and pursue an appropriate therapeutic course. It brings together a team of clinical...
Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who have to manage these...
Nothing is as constant as change, and this is as true in enterprise computing as anywhere else. With the recent release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, developers are being called on to add even greater, more complex levels of interconnectivity to their applications.
If you're ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals...
