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Office 2007: The Missing Manual

by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald & E. A. Vander Veer

Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access so you can start using...

Learning PHP & MySQL: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Database-Driven Web Sites

by Michele E. Davis & Jon A. Phillips

PHP and MySQL are quickly becoming the de facto standard for rapid development of dynamic, database-driven web sites. This book is perfect for newcomers to programming as well as hobbyists who are intimidated...

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide: A Developer's Reference for Apollo's Alpha Release

by Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon & Jeff Swartz

Written by members of the Apollo product team, this is the official guide to the Alpha release of Adobe Apollo, the new cross platform desktop runtime from Adobe Labs.

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket...

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

by Omar AL Zabir

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop...

Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference

by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl & Chip Dawes

The fourth edition of this popular pocket guide provides quick-reference information that will help you use Oracle's PL/SQL language, including the newest Oracle Database 11g features. It's a companion to Steven...

Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX: A Practical Hands-on Guide

by Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz & Brian MacDonald

With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft's latest web development tools -- ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create...

Programming ASP.NET AJAX

by Christian Wenz

Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for...

Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

by Chris McNab

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it. Network Security Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools professional security consultants use to identify and assess risks in...

Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administration

by Rich Bowen & Ken Coar

There's plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That's...

Securing Ajax Applications: Ensuring the Safety of the Dynamic Web

by Christopher Wells

Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax and web application security...

Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices

by Steven Feuerstein

In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into...

A+, Network+, Security+ Exams in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

by Pawan K. Bhardwaj

If you're preparing for the new CompTIA 2006 certification in A+, or the current Network+ and Security+ certifications, you'll find this book invaluable. It provides all the information you need to get ready...

Java Generics and Collections

by Maurice Naftalin & Philip Wadler

This comprehensive guide shows you how to master the most important changes to Java since it was first released. Generics and the greatly expanded collection libraries have tremendously increased the power of...

HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference

by Jennifer Niederst Robbins

After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent "standards-compliant" design that is de rigueur among...

Mastering Perl

by brian d foy

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught...

The Myths of Innovation

by Scott Berkun

How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the...

C# 3.0 Design Patterns

by Judith Bishop

If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you're ready for C# design patterns -- elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers...

Network Security Hacks

by Andrew Lockhart

In the fast-moving world of computers, things are always changing. Since the first edition of this strong-selling book appeared two years ago, network security techniques and tools have evolved rapidly to meet...

Essential CVS

by Jennifer Vesperman

This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. Ideal for software...

Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development

by Jon Loeliger

Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible, open source version control system.

Git permits virtually an infinite variety...