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No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, the interactive disassembler, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book, you’ll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use.

Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as “profound, comprehensive, and accurate,” the second edition of The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. You’ll find complete coverage of IDA’s new Qt-based user interface, as well as increased coverage of the IDA debugger, the Bochs debugger, and IDA scripting (especially using IDAPython). But because humans are still smarter than computers, you’ll even learn how to use IDA’s latest interactive and scriptable interfaces to your advantage.

Save time and effort as you learn to:

• Navigate, comment, and modify disassembly
• Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code
• Use code graphing to quickly make sense of cross references and function calls
• Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes using the SDK
• Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more
• Use IDA’s built-in debugger to tackle hostile and obfuscated code

Whether you’re analyzing malware, conducting vulnerability research, or reverse engineering software, a mastery of IDA is crucial to your success. Download Now »

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This book will introduce you to Atlassian JIRA, the world’s most popular issue tracking software. JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.

This book will show you how to plan and design your own JIRA implementation. You will learn how to customize JIRA to adapt it to your organization and add value to your business. Chapters are structured to guide you through all the key aspects of JIRA with a practical implementation. By the end of the book, you will have built a working JIRA implementation.

You will start by setting up your own JIRA and be introduced to all the key features in subsequent chapters. With each chapter, you will learn important concepts such as business processes and workflows, e-mails and notifications, and you will have the opportunity to put your newly acquired knowledge into practice by following a live sample JIRA implementation.

Packed with real-life example and step-by-step instructions, this book will help you become a JIRA expert.

An in-depth guide to all the essential aspects of Atlassian JIRA

What you will learn from this book :

• Determine and choose the best options to set up JIRA to suit your requirements and constraints
• Understand key concepts to use JIRA more effectively Download Now »

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This proposal constitutes an algorithm of design applying the design for six sigma thinking, tools, and philosophy to software design.  The algorithm will also include conceptual design frameworks, mathematical derivation for Six Sigma capability upfront to enable design teams to disregard concepts that are not capable upfront, learning the software development cycle and saving development costs.The uniqueness of this book lies in bringing all those methodologies under the umbrella of design and provide detailed description about how these methods, QFD, DOE, the robust method, FMEA, Design for X, Axiomatic Design, TRIZ can be utilized to help quality improvement in software development, what kinds of different roles those methods play in various stages of design and how to combine those methods to form a comprehensive strategy, a design algorithm, to tackle any quality issues in the design stage.

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A realistic, step-by-step process for succeeding with DFSS

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is vital to software design activities that decide quality, cost, and cycle time of the software. This book is the first to completely cover the entire body of knowledge of software DFSS, and the first to tie all quality improvement methods used in the design stage together with a software DFSS algorithm. The algorithm includes conceptual design frameworks blended with Six Sigma tools to hasten the software development cycle and save developmental costs.

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Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is designed to run at high speed. In order to build powerful Cocoa applications you need more than the basics. This cookbook will provide you with the recipes needed to add Core Animation, gestures, Key Value Coding, and QuickTime to your appilications.

The Cocoa and Objective-C Cookbook moves developers beyond the basics of developing with Apple’s Cocoa framework. It will help you grasp advanced topics needed to build polished Cocoa applications on Mac OS X.

The cookbook provides a comprehensive overview of Cocoa’s more popular UI components found in all Mac OS X applications. It has recipes for building custom views, adding support for gestures and working with keyboard and mouse events. There are recipes for using singleton, delegation, and factory design patterns in your own application’s architecture. Alongside essential recipes for working with databases and debugging you will also find fun recipes covering animation and multimedia. The Cocoa and Objective-C Cookbook will quickly bring you up to speed with advanced technologies used to build complex applications for Mac OS X.

What you will learn from this book :

• Use Core Animation to swap and flip views
• Handle the pinch, swipe, and rotate gestures in your custom views
• Safely store and retrieve passwords using the Keychain Access API Download Now »

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Most of the software measures currently proposed to the industry bring few real benefits to either software managers or developers. This book looks at the classical metrology concepts from science and engineering, using them as criteria to propose an approach to analyze the design of current software measures and then design new software measures (illustrated with the design of a software measure that has been adopted as an ISO measurement standard). The book includes several case studies analyzing strengths and weaknesses of some of the software measures most often quoted. It is meant for software quality specialists and process improvement analysts and managers.

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A rigorous, step-by-step approach to Evaluating and designing software measures

Hundreds of software measures have been proposed to the industry over the past forty years, but limitations in their design mean that most of them are of insufficient use to practitioners. So how can practitioners recognize which measures are sound and useful for decision-making? Moreover, for those who have to design new software measures, what must they do to build sound ones?

Software Metrics and Software Metrology looks at the fundamentals of the design of a measurement method, which forms the foundation of the measures available in the sciences and in engineering. Alain Abran provides a step-by-step approach to both analyzing the design of current software measures and designing new, robust software measures for a specific business or engineering need. Download Now »

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Get the tools you need to build real software solutions on the UC platform

Whether you want to embed context into conversations or build sophisticated server side communication solutions, this book shows you how to integrate the right functionality into your applications.

It goes beyond simple samples to demonstrate how to create real software solutions on the Unified Communications (UC) platform. You’ll quickly progressfrom a basic understanding of custom UC development to using the Microsoft Lync APIs to help streamline communications and collaboration.

You’ll also discover how to extend and customize your existing messaging and voice infrastructure to adapt to your changing business needs.

Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010:

• Dives into building communication clients in Microsoft Lync 2010
• Explores the classes and operations in the UCMA API that can be used to control presence, audio and IM sessions, conferences, and more
• Explains the SIP messaging that UCMA uses behind the scenes to perform various operations
• Walks you through several useful troubleshooting techniques and solutions to specific common issues
• Covers how to build interactive voice or IM applications using communication workflows and custom communication workflow activities Download Now »