eBook Details:

• Paperback: 789 pages
• Publisher: Que; 2nd edition (July 11, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078974919X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789749192

eBook Description:

Microsoft Expression Web 4 In Depth: Updated for Service Pack 2 – HTML 5, CSS 3, JQuery, 2nd Edition

This is the most complete and practical guide to Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP2 – including its newest HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery features. Writing for experienced web professionals, renowned Microsoft web development expert Jim Cheshire brings together intensely useful information that simply can’t be found elsewhere. Readers will find expert guidance on creating and managing web sites that work with any browser and any platform, including today’s hottest mobile devices. Cheshire presents high-efficiency techniques for every stage of the modern web development process, from creating and importing sites through publishing, management, and reporting.

• He covers all this, and much more:
• Creating HTML5 and CSS3 content easily with brand-new Expression Web 4 SP2 tools
• Adding dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers
• Working with tables, forms, QuickTags, Dynamic Web templates, and client scripting
• Designing sites for accessibility using Section 508 and WCAG
• Leveraging ASP.NET’s power without writing any code

This is the world’s most expert, complete, and practical guide to succeeding with Expression Web 4 SP2! Microsoft insider Jim Cheshire presents today’s best solutions for everything you need to do with Expression Web 4 SP2 and its brand-new HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery tools!. Download eBook Free »

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (June 27, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672335875
• ISBN-13: 978-0672335877

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Sams Teach Yourself Xcode 4 in 24 Hours

XCode 4.2 offers unprecedented power and flexibility to every OS X or iOS developer. Now that it’s available on the Mac App Store, thousands of new users are diving in – and XCode 4.2′s radical innovations mean that even experienced developers must start fresh. Sams Teach Yourself Xcode 4 in 24 Hours is the friendly, easy guide to XCode 4.2 for every Apple developer, regardless of experience. In just 24 quick lessons, it covers everything from basic project organization to advanced reuse and testing, helping developers optimize workflows and build highly reliable software.

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Xcode 4 in 24 Hours will help you achieve breakthrough productivity with Apple’s new Xcode 4.3+ development environment for OS X and iOS devices. Every lesson introduces new concepts and builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

XCode 4.2 offers unprecedented power and flexibility to every OS X or iOS developer. Now that it’s available on the Mac App Store, thousands of new users are diving in – and XCode 4.2′s radical innovations mean that even experienced developers must start fresh. Sams Teach Yourself Xcode 4 in 24 Hours is the friendly, easy guide to XCode 4.2 for every Apple developer, regardless of experience. In just 24 quick lessons, it covers everything from basic project organization to advanced reuse and testing, helping developers optimize workflows and build highly reliable software. Download eBook Free »

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 2nd edition (June 22, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672336197
• ISBN-13: 978-0672336195

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Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac and iOS in 24 Hours, 2nd Edition

Apple now installs Core Data and the SQLite database automatically on every iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Macintosh. Using Core Data, it’s simpler than ever to build iOS or Mac apps that store and work with data. Now, in 24 lessons of one hour or less, leading Apple database expert Jesse Feiler shows how to take full advantage of Core Data on both iOS and Mac OS X platforms. Feiler covers both using the database and creating interfaces to it, and offers all the guidance developers need to meet any data requirements, whether casual or enterprise-class. He fully reflects all of Apple’s latest innovations, including the new Xcode 4.3 development environment, iOS 5, and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). This book also covers crucial topics such as NSPredicate that most previous Core Data books have ignored. This revised edition brings the book’s coverage up to date with version 4.3 of Xcode.

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, start using Core Data to build powerful data-driven apps for iOS devices and Mac OS X computers! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll discover how Apple’s built-in data persistence framework can help you meet any data-related requirement, from casual to enterprise-class. Beginning with the absolute basics, you’ll learn how to create data models, build interfaces, interact with users, work with data sources and table views, and even get started with iCloud. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success! Download eBook Free »

eBook Details:

• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (June 23, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132564718
• ISBN-13: 978-0132564717

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Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace

Network forensics is transforming the way investigators examine computer crime: they have discovered that the network holds far more evidence than could ever be retrieved from a local hard drive. Network forensic skills are in especially short supply, and professionals are flocking to the scarce resources available for mastering these skills. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive and practical book on the subject. Building on their pioneering SANS Institute course, top network forensics experts Jonathan Ham and Sherri Davidoff take readers through an exciting, entertaining, and technically rigorous journey through the skills and principles of successful network investigation. One step at a time, they demonstrate how to recover usable forensic evidence from firewalls, web proxies, IDS, routers, wireless access points, and even raw packet captures.

Hackers leave footprints all across the Internet. Can you find their tracks and solve the case? Pick up Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace and find out.

Learn to recognize hackers’ tracks and uncover network-based evidence in Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace.Carve suspicious email attachments from packet captures. Use flow records to track an intruder as he pivots through the network. Analyze a real-world wireless encryption-cracking attack (and then crack the key yourself). Reconstruct a suspect’s web surfing history and cached web pages, too from a web proxy. Uncover DNS-tunneled traffic. Dissect the Operation Aurora exploit, caught on the wire. Download eBook Free »

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5th edition (July 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137058918
• ISBN-13: 978-0137058914

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The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, 5th Edition

Now completely updated for the industry’s newest trends, The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, 5th Edition is the world’s #1 non-technical guide to today’s fast-changing telecommunications industry. Long-time consultant Annabel Z. Dodd reflects every important new trend and emerging technology, from cloud services to social networks, mobile video to telepresence. Now a faster read with a more attractive design, this edition reveals how the telecom market has evolved from a low-margin “commodity” business to a higher-margin customer-oriented services business targeting key verticals from finance to healthcare. Dodd explains how revolutionary tools like Skype, Facebook, and the iPhone are transforming networks; how service providers are refocusing on higher-bandwidth, higher-value offerings; and how new concerns about regulation, security, and energy usage are reshaping the industry yet again. This edition focuses far more heavily on mobile and wireless networks, infrastructure to support soaring video requirements; as well as crucial industry developments throughout Asia, China, India, Africa, and Latin America. Writing in plain English, Dodd demystifies today’s (and tomorrow’s) technologies, standards, and architectures introduces the providers, their strategies, and the competitive marketplace they’re operating in briefs you on everything industry participants need to know now, whether they’re salespeople, marketers, investors, or customers.

Completely updated for the newest trends and technologies, The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, 5th Edition, is the world’s top-selling nontechnical guide to today’s fast-changing telecommunications industry. More than 170,000 copies of previous editions are in print, and this indispensible resource has been translated into nine languages. Download eBook Free »

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 7th edition (July 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133017605
• ISBN-13: 978-0133017601

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The Official Ubuntu Book, 7th Edition

Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use while also enhancing speed, power, and flexibility. It is Linux for human beings, designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. Ubuntu 12.04 is the latest release more powerful, more forward-looking, and friendlier than ever. The Official Ubuntu Book, 7th Edition, will get you up and running quickly.

This title serves a wide audience: Ubuntu novices, intermediate users, ,those who just want to test the waters and give Ubuntu a try, and those who want to take the next step toward becoming power users. It is not intended as a guide to highly technical uses like professional systems administration or programming, although there is some technical material here. The focus is on learning the landscape, starting from little to no experience with Ubuntu or Linux and maturing through proficiency and power use as a regular, everyday home or business user.

Written by expert, leading Ubuntu community members, this book covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu 12.04, whether you’re a home user, small business user, server administrator, programmer, or novice. The authors explain Ubuntu 12.04 from start to finish: installation, configuration, desktop productivity, games, management, support, and much more. A new focus in this edition is deep coverage of the groundbreaking, user-experience-focused Unity desktop, an innovative new style of human-computer interaction that has undergone extensive development and testing to provide powerful, industry-leading usability. Download eBook Free »