Computers

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...

Managing NFS and NIS

by Mike Eisler, Ricardo Labiaga & Hal Stern

A modern computer system that's not part of a network is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing...

Learning Python

by Mark Lutz & David Ascher

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Python is considered easy to learn,...

Learning Perl

by Tom Phoenix & Randal L. Schwartz

If you ask Perl programmers today what book they relied on most when they were learning Perl, you'll find that an overwhelming majority will name Learning Perl--also known affectionately as "the Llama." The...

LDAP System Administration

by Gerald Carter

Be more productive and make your life easier. That's what LDAP System Administration is all about.

System administrators often spend a great deal of time managing configuration information located on many different...

Hardening Cisco Routers

by Thomas Akin

As a network administrator, auditor or architect, you know the importance of securing your network and finding security solutions you can implement quickly. This succinct book departs from other security literature...

Designing Large Scale Lans

by Kevin Dooley

This unique book offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local area networks according to business or organizational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Author and independent network...

Apache Cookbook

by Ken Coar & Rich Bowen

Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. Both free and rock-solid, it runs more than half of the world's web sites, ranging from huge e-commerce operations to corporate intranets...

Windows Powershell Pocket Reference

by Lee Holmes

This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. It's an ideal on-the-job...

The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources

by John Allspaw

Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide...

Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore

Quicken is a convenient way to keep track of personal finances, but many people are unaware of Quicken's power and end up using only the basic features. Sometimes Quicken raises more questions than it answers:...

Learning ASP.NET 3.5

by Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz & Brian MacDonald

With this book, you will learn how to create engaging and interactive web applications using the latest version of the world's most popular web development platform: ASP.NET with AJAX, built on the productivity-enhancing...

Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB

by James Murty

Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how...

Google Apps: The Missing Manual

by Nancy Conner

Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new...