Essential Skills for Agile Development - Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development such as mis-understanding customers' requirements, missing deadlines, over-budget, conflicts between customers and developers and poor maintainability of legacy systems.
FreeBSD Handbook - The FreeBSD newcomer will find that the first section of this book guides the user through the FreeBSD installation process and gently introduces the concepts and conventions that underpin UNIX. Working through this section requires little more than the desire to explore, and the ability to take on board new concepts as they are introduced. Once you have traveled this far, the second, far larger, section of the Handbook is a comprehensive reference to all manner of topics of interest to FreeBSD system administrators. Some of these chapters may recommend that you do some prior reading, and this is noted in the synopsis at the beginning of each chapter.
Creating XPCOM Components - Creating XPCOM Components is about Gecko and about creating XPCOM components for Gecko-based applications. The book is principally a long tutorial that describes the steps you take to make your C++ code into a component that can be used in Gecko, but it also discusses all of the tools, techniques, and technologies that make up XPCOM. The book is arranged so that you can follow along and create your own
components or learn about different XPCOM topics individually, as in a reference work. For example, the introduction includes a discussion of components and what they are, and the first chapter-in which you compile the basic code and register it with Mozilla-prompts a discussion of the relationship between components and modules, of XPCOM interfaces, and of the registration process in general.
Path: Ways of working in photography (currently not available) - Most photography books concentrate on the optical, mechanical, electronic, and chemical tools of photography. This book is about the most important factor in your photography: you.
Web-Teaching, 2nd Edition - Web courses and Web-based course supplements have popped up all over the world. No central force has yet emerged which dominates the field. Indeed, nearly every college, from the large to the small, has become a player. Tremendous, broad-based Web-delivery activity has characterized the last few years of the 20th century. Elementary students publish Web-sites. Teachers use Web-pages to communicate with parents. Web-commerce has flourished. The wave of Web-commerce has paled that of Web-teaching. The infrastructure that is emerging to support Web-commerce ultimately will permit piggybacking of Web-teaching. We can expect fast Web access to be available in students' homes.
XForms - XML Powered Web Forms - From the user’s perspective, XForms revolutionizes the way business critical information is collected and published on the Web. A key consequence of this evolution is that information technologists can continue to model business data using abstract structures that are amenable to machine processing; XForms binds a user-friendly Web browser interface to such abstract XML models, thereby empowering the end-user to edit and update these abstract structures. In this sense, XForms enables a standard Web browser to associate editable views to the underlying XML models. This ability to view and edit XML documents from within a standard Web browser is likely to prove a key empowering technology.
Structure and interpretation of computer programs - The material in this book has been the basis of MIT's entry-level computer science subject since 1980. We had been teaching this material for four years when the first edition was published, and twelve more years have elapsed until the appearance of this second edition. We are pleased that our work has been widely adopted and incorporated into other texts. We have seen our students take the ideas and programs in this book and build them in as the core of new computer systems and languages. In literal realization of an ancient Talmudic pun, our students have become our builders. We are lucky to have such capable students and such accomplished builders.
Practical File System Design with the Be File System - file system design (pdf)
Advanced Programming Language Design (currently not available) - This book stems in part from courses taught at the University of Kentucky and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on programming language design. There are many good books that deal with the subject at an undergraduate level, but there are few that are suitable for a one-semester graduate level course. This book is my attempt to fill that gap. The goal of this course, and hence of this book, is to expose first-year graduate students to a wide range of programming language paradigms and issues, so that they can understand the literature on programming languages.
Practical PHP Programming - You will have a thorough mastery of the ins and outs of PHP programming and development-related tasks, with particularly strong knowledge of forms, databases, and multimedia. You'll be able to design, develop, and deploy complex web-based solutions across several platforms. You'll have a good understanding of the uses PHP can be put to above and beyond handling forms.
Successful Lisp - I started writing this book six years ago in response to a publisher's inquiry about Lisp books. Part of their submission process involved my filling out what amounted to a market research form that disclosed all of the Lisp books I knew about, their publication dates, and a brief synopsis of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Object-Oriented Software Composition - Over the part ten years, object-oriented technology has started to have a significant impact in industry. Despite its many positive aspects, there have been some problems in successfully applying the technology to large projects, and in achieving adequate levels of flexibilitly and software reuse. Based on the research of the Object Systems Group in Geneva, this book looks at a range of issues, from programming languages and systems through to tools, frameworks and methods.
Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide - This 320-page book treats parsing in its own right, in greater depth than is found in most computer science and linguistics books. It offers a clear, accessible, and thorough discussion of many different parsing techniques with their interrelations and applicabilities, including error recovery techniques. Unlike most books, it treats (almost) all parsing methods, not just the popular ones.
Buying and selling websites: The inside dirt on buying and selling websites, with examples, valuation tips, samples of Non Disclosure Agreements and Contracts of Sale, how to do due-diligence, safe ways of paying for sites, and the best places to buy and sell websites.
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 - (currently not available) Published in July 2006, Mastering EJB is now in its 4th edition including chapters on session beans and message-driven beans, EJB-Java EE integration and advanced persistence concepts. Java Persistence API and using POJO entities with EJB is also covered extensively. This book aims you give you a deep understanding of EJB 3.0.
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