| Multimedia Security Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:30 AM PDT  JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers Multimedia security has become a major research topic, yielding numerous academic papers in addition to many watermarking-related companies. In this emerging area, there are many challenging research issues that deserve sustained studying towards an effective and practical system. Multimedia Security: Steganography and Digital Watermarking Techniques for Protection of Intellectual Property explores the myriad of issues regarding multimedia security. This book covers various issues, including perceptual fidelity analysis, image, audio, and 3D mesh object watermarking, medical watermarking, error detection (authentication) and concealment, fingerprinting, digital signature and digital right management. download  |
| JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:28 AM PDT  JasperReports 3.5 for Java Developers Product Description Create, Design, Format, and Export Reports with the world’s most popular Java reporting library - Create better, smarter, and more professional reports using comprehensive and proven methods
- Group scattered data into meaningful reports, and make the reports appealing by adding charts and graphics
- Discover techniques to integrate with Hibernate, Spring, JSF, and Struts, and to export to different file formats
- Written in a lucid and practical manner, this book introduces you to JasperReports and gets you creating complex and elegant reports
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| Drupal 6 Site Blueprints Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:27 AM PDT  Drupal 6 Site Blueprints Product Description
The hands-on example projects in this book are based on fictitious web site development briefs, and they illustrate practical ways of applying Drupal. The book dives straight into the process of constructing the featured projects. A chapter is dedicated to each example web site project. Each chapter contains a fictitious brief from which we derive the list of core and contributed modules that we will require to implement the project. Then each chapter progresses into step-by-step instructions for building the web project, aided by the extensive use of screenshots. When you have completed each project, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply the techniques you have learned to create your own custom web application. This book is for anybody who wants to build a range of Drupal sites, and see how to apply the many available Drupal plugins and features in different scenarios. If you develop Drupal sites professionally, or would like to try building web sites as a freelancer, this is a great book to help you get started. download  |
| LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:26 AM PDT  LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers Product Description Create great user interfaces for mobile devices - Make your applications stand out with dazzling graphics that look and behave the same on different mobile devices
- Log information on the runtime behavior of your program
- Write applications with attractive visual effects like transitions and animations
- Use localization so that your applications can adapt to different languages and locales
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| Web Portals: The New Gateways to Internet Information and Services Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:24 AM PDT  Web Portals: The New Gateways to Internet Information and Services Product Description
A Web portal is a special web site designed to act as a gateway giving convenient access to other related sites. This book investigates the various types of portals and describes how they can be used in business applications. After considering the nature of portals, the book describes the first general portals like Yahoo, and how they came into being. Portals are used in businesses of all types and sizes and this book discusses how portals can be used in large business corporations as well as small to medium enterprises. Web portals have increasing importance to marketers as, by their nature, they retain their users who must return to them frequently. They also provide a useful means of making information and knowledge readily available in a convenient form to authorised users. This book covers a wide range of issues relating to the use of portals in business. download  |
| Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:21 AM PDT  Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server Product Description Enhance your search with faceted navigation, result highlighting, fuzzy queries, ranked scoring, and more - Deploy, embed, and integrate Solr with a host of programming languages
- Implement faceting in e-commerce and other sites to summarize and navigate the results of a text search
- Enhance your search by highlighting search results, offering spell-corrections, auto-suggest, finding “similar” records, boosting records and fields for scoring, phonetic matching
- Informative and practical approach to development with fully working examples of integrating a variety of technologies
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| WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:19 AM PDT  WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide Product Description Manage and administer your WebSphere application server to create a reliable, secure, and scalable environment for running your applications - Create a reliable, secure, and flexible environment to build and run WebSphere applications efficiently
- Learn WebSphere security, performance tuning, and debugging concepts with a variety of real-life examples
- Thoroughly covers Java messaging, administrative agent, and product maintenance features
- No previous knowledge of WebSphere is expected
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| HTML A Beginner’s Guide Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:18 AM PDT  HTML A Beginner's Guide Product Description Create highly functional, impressive websites in no time. Fully updated and revised, HTML: A Beginner’s Guide, Fourth Edition explains how to structure a page, place images, format text, create links, add color, work with multimedia, and use forms. You’ll also go beyond the basics and learn how to save your own web graphics, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), create dynamic web content with basic JavaScript, and upload your site to the web. By the end of the book you’ll be able to build custom websites using the latest HTML techniques. An all-new chapter also covers creating HTML for e-mail, a hot-button issue for any business seeking to reach its target audience through online communication. Designed for Easy Learning -
Key Skills & Concepts–Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter -
Ask the Expert–Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips -
Try This–Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills -
Notes–Extra information related to the topic being covered - Tips–Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
- Self-Tests–Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
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| Service-Oriented Software System Engineering Challenges and Practices Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:13 AM PDT  Service-Oriented Software System Engineering Challenges and Practices Product Description
Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in web-based systems development. However, there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed before service-oriented software engineering (SOSE) becomes a prominent and widely accepted paradigm for enterprise information systems development and integration. Service-Oriented Software System Engineering: Challenges and Practices provides a comprehensive view of SOSE through a number of different perspectives. Some of those perspectives include: service-based concepts, modeling and documentation, service discovery and composition, service-oriented architecture, model-driven development of service-oriented applications, service security and service-orientation in mobile settings. It provides readers with an in-depth knowledge of the main challenges and practices in the exciting, new world of service-oriented software engineering. Addressing both technical and organizational aspects of this new field, this book offers a balance making it valuable to a variety of readers, including IT architects, developers, managers, and analysts. download  |
| Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:09 AM PDT  Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques Product Description The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features they’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip–complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the programs in a way that makes sense to them.
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