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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you think computer security has improved in recent years, The Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega, formerly Chief Security Architect at McAfee, reports on the sorry state of the industry, and offers concrete suggestions for professionals and individuals confronting the issue.Why is security so bad With many more people online than just a few years ago, there are more attackers -- and they're truly motivated. Attacks are sophisticated, subtle, and harder to detect than ever. But, as Viega notes, few people take the time to understand the situation and protect themselves accordingly. This book tells you:Why it's easier for bad guys to 'own' your computer than you thinkWhy anti-virus software doesn't work well -- and one simple way to fix itWhether Apple OS X is more secure than WindowsWhat Windows needs to do betterHow to make strong authentication pervasiveWhy patch management is so badWhether there's anything you can do about identity theftFive easy steps for fixing application security, and moreProvocative, insightful, and always controversial, The Myths of Security not only addresses IT professionals who deal with security issues, but also speaks to Mac and PC users who spend time online.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:JavaScript - Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more. Network - Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster. Browser - Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster.This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more.Ruby Best Practices will help you:Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby's code blocksLearn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the flyDiscover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and how to design for testabilityLearn to write faster code by keeping things simpleDevelop strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressionsUnderstand how and why things can go wrongReduce cultural barriers by leveraging Ruby's multilingual capabilitiesThis book also offers you comprehensive chapters on driving code through tests, designing APIs, and project maintenance. Learn how to make the most of this rich, beautiful language with Ruby Best Practices.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mercurial: The Definitive Guide takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects with this flexible, open source version control system. Used by Mozilla, Python, and various open source projects on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and several variants of Unix, Mercurial permits virtually an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, including both centralized and distributed version control.This guide starts with the basics, including how to work with a version repository. You ll learn to use Mercurial to collaborate with others, merge streams of work, manage releases, find and fix mistakes, and more. You ll also get up to speed on advanced uses, such as handling repository events with hooks, and customizing Mercurial s output.Like the versioning system it describes, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide has a strong focus on simplicity to help you learn Mercurial quickly and thoroughly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Java Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports 'messaging' -- the software-to-software exchange of crucial data among network computers. You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar systems and applications, increasing scalability, eliminating system bottlenecks, supporting concurrent processing, and promoting flexibility and agility.Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor-agnostic specification will help you write messaging-based applications using IBM's MQ, Progress Software's SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging services.With Java Message Service, you will:Build applications using point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe messaging modelsUse features such as transactions and durable subscriptions to make an application reliableImplement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using message-driven beansUse JMS with RESTful applications and with the Spring application frameworkMessaging is a powerful paradigm that makes it easier to uncouple different parts of an enterprise application. Java Message Service, Second Edition, will quickly teach you how to use the key technology that lies behind it.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience.Written by leaders of the international Erlang community -- and based on their training material -- Erlang Programming focuses on the language's syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency.This book helps you:Understand the strengths of Erlang and why its designers included specific featuresLearn the concepts behind concurrency and Erlang's way of handling itWrite efficient Erlang programs while keeping code neat and readableDiscover how Erlang fills the requirements for distributed systemsAdd simple graphical user interfaces with little effortLearn Erlang's tracing mechanisms for debugging concurrent and distributed systemsUse the built-in Mnesia database and other table storage featuresErlang Programming provides exercises at the end of each chapter and simple examples throughout the book.