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Book Description

Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition presents comprehensive coverage of the

popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Windows users, Mac users, and Linux enthusiasts have been increasingly turning to Ubuntu for a user-friendly, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Ubuntu. You will learn how to set up a workstation or a server, and you will find complete details on Ubuntu’s easy-to-use desktop and productivity software.

Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition includes a range of coverage: From the software you need in your everyday work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, to how to configure your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more.

For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the

X Window system, Linux programming, web server administration, and network administration.

Ubuntu 9.10 on DVD

DVD includes the full Ubuntu 9.10 distribution for Intel x86 computers as well as the complete OpenOffice.org office suite and hundreds of additional programs and utilities. Download Now »

Book Description

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful, easy-to-maintain websites with Drupal–fast! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill you’ll need, from organizing sites and using Drupal’s design themes to setting up search, polls, forums, and security. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Drupal tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the

discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to

perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Jesse Feiler provides consulting services to small businesses and non-profits through his company, North Country Consulting (northcountryconsulting.com). His recent books include FileMaker Pro 10 In Depth, The Bento Book, How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups, and iWork ‘09 For Dummies®. Download Now »

Book Description

The only Windows 7 book upgraders need!
Switching to Microsoft Windows 7? Here’s all the help you’ll ever need!
Learn how to move from Windows XP or Windows Vista quickly and painlessly… discover the fast, efficient “Windows 7 way” to perform every common task… do more with your PC than you ever could before! It’s all here… everything from Family Safety to Photo Gallery, to search to security!

Every Windows 7 upgrader needs a friendly expert to show them the ropes. With this book, you’ve got yours!

•  Discover what’s different about Windows 7–and what hasn’t changed from Vista and XP

•  Plan for the easiest possible upgrade

•  Migrate your applications and data, painlessly

•  Find everything fast, with Windows 7’s supercharged search tools

•  Use Microsoft’s latest new applications–including the downloadable, free Live Essentials

•  Set up Windows 7 networks, and connect Windows 7 computers to existing networks

•  Use Windows 7’s powerful new virtual hard disk feature

•  And much more… Download Now »

Book Description

12 Questions to Help You Find Your Ideal Career
Professionals in IT are struggling with these questions:
# How do I make a career change?
# What do I do for a career?
# How do I advance in IT?

You are being bombarded with reams and reams of data concerning what is hot and what is not, what jobs are paying a living wage and which are not, which technologies are dying and which are getting ready to launch. Between all the salary surveys, expert opinions, gurus, and talking heads predicting where the sector is going, trying to make a career decision in this sector is mind-numbing.

You and you alone are the person who has to make the decision. No one else can make it for you. But to make the right decision, you have to ask the right questions. We often are so emotionally embroiled in the struggle that we might overlook the obvious: the questions that will direct us in the correct path.

With Warren Wyrostek’s guidance through a series of 12 targeted questions, you will get a chance to diagnose and treat your career, providing you with an excellent career prognosis. Are you ready to make a change? Download Now »

Book Description

Learn web services and Apache Axis2 easily

If you’d like to learn how to create web services (in particular, using Apache Axis2) and make some sense of various standards like SOAP, WSDL, MTOM, WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Policy, XML Encryption and XML Signature, then this book is for you.  Why?

* It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
* It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
* Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what’s happening.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Designing the interface for a simple web service
Chapter 2 Implementing a web service
Chapter 3 Optimizing the development environment
Chapter 4 Understanding the calling process
Chapter 5 Accepting multiple parameters
Chapter 6 Sending and receiving complex data structures
Chapter 7 Sending binary files
Chapter 8 Invoking lengthy operations
Chapter 9 Signing and encrypting SOAP messages
Chapter 10 Integrating Your Web Services with Tomcat and Spring Download Now »

Book Description

How to learn JSF, Facelets and JBoss Seam easily?
If you’re required to develop an application in JSF but are just learning it (JSF), this can be a daunting task. If you need to learn Facelets and JBoss Seam at the same time, it will quickly become unmanageable. With this book, you will have much better chances of hopping over the hurdles. How?

# It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
# It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
# Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what’s happening.

Products covered in the book

This book covers JSF 1.2 (reference implementation), Facelets 1.2, JBoss Seam 2.0, JBoss RichFaces 3.1, JBoss IDE Tools 2.0, Eclipse Europa for Java EE.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Getting Started with JSF
• Chapter 2 Using Forms
• Chapter 3 Validating Input
• Chapter 4 Creating an e-Shop
• Chapter 5 Building Interactive Pages with AJAX
• Chapter 6 Using Facelets
• Chapter 7 Providing a Common Layout  with Facelets
• Chapter 8 Using JBoss Seam
• Chapter 9 Supporting Other Languages Download Now »