Computers

Learning Visual Basic .NET

by Jesse Liberty

Most Visual Basic .NET books are written for experienced object-oriented programmers, but many programmers jumping on the .NET bandwagon are coming from non-object-oriented languages, such as Visual Basic 6.0...

JavaScript Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan

JavaScript--the powerful, object-based scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML pages--has earned its place in the web developer's toolkit, to the extent that it's now considered required knowledge...

Oracle SQL Tuning Pocket Reference

by Mark Gurry

One of the most important challenges faced by Oracle database administrators and Oracle developers is the need to tune SQL statements so that they execute efficiently. Poorly tuned SQL statements are one of...

qmail

by John Levine

qmail has quietly become one of the most widely used applications on the Internet today. It's powerful enough to handle mail for systems with millions of users--Like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, while remaining...

JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook: Solutions and Example for Web Programmers

by Danny Goodman

On numerous online forums for JavaScript and DHTML, the majority of questions begin with "How do I...?" This new Cookbook provides the answers. After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author...

XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents

by John Simpson

Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you need from everything else? XPath and XPointer are two closely...

Perl & LWP

by Sean M. Burke

Perl soared to popularity as a language for creating and managing web content, but with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl), Perl is equally adept at consuming information on the Web. LWP is a suite of modules for...

vi Editor Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

For many users, working in the UNIX environment means using vi, a full-screen text editor available on most UNIX systems. Even those who know vi often make use of only a small number of its features.

The vi...

Using SANs and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators

by W. Curtis Preston

Data is the lifeblood of modern business, and modern data centers have extremely demanding requirements for size, speed, and reliability. Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) allow...

Understanding Linux Network Internals

by Christian Benvenuti

If you've ever wondered how Linux carries out the complicated tasks assigned to it by the IP protocols -- or if you just want to learn about modern networking through real-life examples -- Understanding Linux...

Tomcat: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide

by Jason Brittain & Ian F. Darwin

Jakarta Tomcat is not only the most commonly used open source servlet engine today, it's become the de facto standard by which other servlet engines are measured. Powerful and flexible, it can be used as a stand-alone...

Transact-SQL Cookbook

by Ales Spetic & Jonathan Gennick

This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling...

sed and awk Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed...

Programming Web Services with SOAP

by James Snell, Doug Tidwell & Pavel Kulchenko

The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and implement application-to-application integration and interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant. Two applications, regardless...

Practical mod_perl

by Stas Bekman & Eric Cholet

mod_perl embeds the popular programming language Perl in the Apache web server, giving rise to a fast and powerful web programming environment. Practical mod_perl is the definitive book on how to use, optimize,...

Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

by Darl Kuhn & Scott Schulze

Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference is a handy guide for DBAs who intend to use Oracle Recovery Manager for database backup and recovery. Because Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a relatively new tool, many DBAs are just...

Network Troubleshooting Tools

by Joseph D Sloan

Over the years, thousands of tools have been developed for debugging TCP/IP networks. They range from very specialized tools that do one particular task, to generalized suites that do just about everything except...

Network Security with OpenSSL: Cryptography for Secure Communications

by John Viega, Matt Messier & Pravir Chandra

Most applications these days are at least somewhat network aware, but how do you protect those applications against common network security threats? Many developers are turning to OpenSSL, an open source version...

Mastering Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces in Perl

by Stephen Lidie & Nancy Walsh

Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. With Perl/Tk, you can build...

Mastering Algorithms with C

by Kyle Loudon

There are many books on data structures and algorithms, including some with useful libraries of C functions. Mastering Algorithms with C offers you a unique combination of theoretical background and working...