A few years ago, after having meandered around the Web's nooks and crannies for quite a while, I got this sudden urge to have my own home page. "Sheesh," I thought to myself, "All these people are doing this wild Web stuff that just seems so, well, cool. I want in!" So I scoured the Web and bookstores for information on...

There's only so much you can do by multitasking applications. Frequently, you just need another computer for testing software, trying out network configurations, or doing any of a dozen things that engineers and administrators need to do. VMware allows you to run several virtual machines on one physical computer, each completely...

The field of network security is a huge subject. To be a network security expert, you must be an expert on routers, switches, hubs, firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), servers, desktops, email, HTTP, instant messages, sniffers, and a thousand other topics. There are...

The last decade has witnessed a revolution in interdisciplinary research where the boundaries of different areas have overlapped or even disappeared. New fields of research emerge each day where two or more fields have integrated to form a new identity. Examples of these emerging areas include bioinformatics (synthesizing biology with...

Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology provides a comprehensive introductory-level guide to invasive cardiac EP studies. Its focus is to enable the reader to understand and interpret the recording and stimulation techniques used during an EP study. The primary emphasis is on tachyarrhythmia diagnosis, but the book also includes bradycardias,...

Beginning with tips for the person who is programming with SQL for the first time, SQL Tips and Techniques grows with your skills. You can start with Tip 1, "Understanding the Definition of a Database," and by the last Tip, "Displaying Image Data Stored Within a SQL Table," you will have covered all aspects of...

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This new book by the world's leading programming language textbook authors carefully explains how to use Python as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server,...

The book covers a huge range of business topics including: jobs; people and organisations; production;...