Windows Server 2003 Security Infrastructures is a must for anyone that wants to know the nuts and bolts of Windows Server 2003 security and wants to leverage the operating system’s security infrastructure. The primary goal of this book is to provide insights into the security features and technologies of the Windows Server 2003...

No one begins playing a game without first knowing the basic rules. In the mergers and acquisitions game, however, it seems that there are no rules: movement is chaotic and the undisputed leader one day might be gone the next. Despite years of experience and intense due diligence by the most seasoned executives, knowing how and where to make the...

• Analyses of nearly 100 tools and methodologies--from...

Yet most managers are either unable or unwilling to harness the power of culture, thereby missing a critical opportunity to turn the...

Throughout the course of the book, you'll develop an off-road driving...

Perhaps the preeminent conventional fighting force in the world, the United States Marine Corps owes much of its modern-day success to the adoption of a combat philosophy known as maneuver warfare. Maneuver warfare uses speed, surprise, and concentrated force to exploit an opponent’s weakness and enables the Marines to achieve maximum...

Fundamentals of SVG Programming: Concepts to Source Code is a comprehensive guide to the core concepts of SVP programming, including the coordinate systems, color gradients, grid patterns, Bezier curves, transforms, charts, graphs, and more. Written for those new to SVG, this book does an excellent job of “marrying” SVG to...

Applied Software Engineering with Apache Jakarta Commons is a software engineering based guide to the Apache Jakarta Commons components (e.g., Betwixt, Digester, Discovery, Collections), other Apache projects such as Ant, the Axis Web Service toolkit, and the popular JUnit framework. The book emphasis focuses on solutions to complex...

Featuring in-depth information on SQL Server CE 2.0 and the .NET...

As the need for application-to-application communication and platform interoperability continues to grow, Web Service developers need to be skilled in the technologies and languages that make this communication possible. Web Services provide a language and platform independent standard for creating and connecting code that allows software...

JDO reduces the amount of code that application developers write to store and retrieve persistent state. JDO frees...

King wasn't a DBA, but he might have been. Technology, and particularly the DBA world, has been about change in the last several years. Each year, with a new software release here or a new operating system release there, we have to contend with changes. DBAs are a special lot because we really have to understand all those layers to some...