Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage -- where you kick your ActionScript 2.0 skills into high gear!

Find the code, master the skills, inflame your passion

Create Flashware built for speed and performance

Built to do the impossible… built to take their breath away

Where you become a lean, mean, ActionScriptin’ machine

Strap in. Meet your driver: Dan Livingston, ActionScripter to the stars (Apple, Charles Schwab, PacBell…)

Watch, do, learn–fast:

- forms and validation, styles and skins

- data in detail, XML and RSS

- classes and objects, events and listeners

- menu systems, stylesheets, masks, preloaders

- ActionScript 2.0 architecture, new UI components, and loads more

All with no-faking, real-deal, serious downloadable code

Suddenly your Web server becomes unavailable. When you investigate, you realize that a flood of packets is surging into your network. You have just become one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of a denial-of-service attack, a pervasive and growing threat to the Internet. What do you do?

Internet Denial of Service sheds light on a complex and fascinating form of computer attack that impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of millions of computers worldwide. It tells the network administrator, corporate CTO, incident responder, and student how DDoS attacks are prepared and executed, how to think about DDoS, and how to arrange computer and network defenses. It also provides a suite of actions that can be taken before, during, and after an attack.

Inside, you'll find comprehensive information on the following topics

• How denial-of-service attacks are waged
• How to improve your network's resilience to denial-of-service attacks
• What to do when you are involved in a denial-of-service attack
• The laws that apply to these attacks and their implications
• How often denial-of-service attacks occur, how strong they are, and the kinds of damage they can cause
• Real examples of denial-of-service attacks as experienced by the attacker, victim, and unwitting accomplices

The authors' extensive experience in handling denial-of-service attacks and researching defense approaches is laid out clearly in practical, detailed terms.

• The first comprehensive, expert guide for end-to-end Linux application optimization

• Learn to choose the right tools—and use them together to solve real problems in real production environments

Superior application performance is more crucial than ever—and in today's complex production environments, it's tougher to ensure, too. If you use Linux, you have extraordinary advantages: complete source code access, plus an exceptional array of optimization tools. But the tools are scattered across the Internet. Many are poorly documented. And few experts know how to use them together to solve real problems. Now, one of those experts has written the definitive Linux tuning primer for every professional: Optimizing Linux® Performance.

Renowned Linux benchmarking specialist Phillip Ezolt introduces each of today's most important Linux optimization tools, showing how they fit into a proven methodology for perfecting overall application performance. Using realistic examples, Ezolt shows developers how to pinpoint exact lines of source code that are impacting performance. He teaches sysadmins and application developers how to rapidly drill down to specific bottlenecks, so they can implement solutions more quickly. You'll discover how to:

• Identify bottlenecks even if you're not familiar with the underlying system

• Find and choose the right performance tools for any problem

• Recognize the meaning of the events you're measuring

• Optimize system CPU, user CPU, memory, network I/O, and disk I/O—and understand their interrelationships

• Fix CPU-bound, latency-sensitive, and I/O-bound applications, through case studies you can easily adapt to your own environment

Install and use oprofile, the advanced systemwide profiler for Linux systems

If you're new to tuning, Ezolt gives you a clear and practical introduction to all the principles and strategies you'll need. If you're migrating to Linux, you'll quickly master Linux equivalents to the tools and techniques you already know. Whatever your background or environment, this book can help you improve the performance of all your Linux applications—increasingbusiness value and user satisfaction at the same time.
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Enter your Linux Desktop Garage

Don't just survive with Linux: thrive

Find tools & info to do practically everything, such as:

Ripping your CDs (&DVDs)

De-Spam-ifying your email

Capturing, editing, organizing your digital photos

Chatting with your Linux-deficient IM pals

Tracking your contacts, appointments, life

Transforming Firefox into easy blogware

Finding great substitutes for your Windows apps

Diving into a veritable plethora of games

Where you get the truth (unvarnished)

Where you get productive (quick)

Where Linux is fun (honest)

Your guide: Susan Matteson, real user, real expert

She reveals the fun stuff (from MP3s to desktop wallpaper)

Demystifies the essentials (from file management to passwords)

Simplifies the tasks they said were easy, but weren't (until now)

Where there's even more (plenty)

• Step-by-step instructions for both Mandrake & Fedora Linux

• Zero-hassle tips for managing & personalizing your PC

• Gnoppix Linux on CD-ROM (run Linux without touching Windows)

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"Other books claim to present the complete Web services platform architecture, but this is the first one I've seen that really does. The authors have been intimately involved in the creation of the architecture. Who better to write this book?"

—Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group

"This is a very important book, providing a lot of technical detail and background that very few (if any) other books will be able to provide. The list of authors includes some of the top experts in the various specifications covered, and they have done an excellent job explaining the background motivation for and pertinent details of each specification. The benefit of their perspectives and collective expertise alone make the book worth reading."

—Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA Technologies

"Most Web services books barely cover the basics, but this book informs practitioners of the "real-world" Web services aspects that they need to know to build real applications. The authors are well-known technical leaders in the Web services community and they helped write the Web services specifications covered in this book. Anyone who wants to do serious Web services development should read this book."

—Steve Vinoski, Chief Engineer, Product Innovation, IONA Technologies

"There aren't many books that are as ambitious as this one is. The most notable distinguishing factor of this book is that the authors have tried to pair down the specifications for the user and rather than focusing on competing specifications, they focus on complementary ones. Nearly every chapter provides a business justification and need for each feature discussed in the Web services stack. I would recommend this book to developers, integrators, and architects."

—Daniel Edgar, Systems Architect, Portland General Electric

"Rarely does a project arrive with such a list of qualified and talented authors. The subject matter is timely and significant to the industry. "

—Eric Newcomer, author of Understanding SOA with Web Services and Understanding Web Services and Chief Technology officer, IONA

Using today's new Web services platform, you can build services that are secure, reliable, efficient at handling transactions, and well suited to your evolving service-oriented architecture. What's more, you can do all that without compromising the simplicity or interoperability that made Web services so attractive. Now, for the first time, the experts who helped define and architect this platform show you exactly how to make the most of it.

Unlike other books, Web Services Platform Architecture covers the entire platform. The authors illuminate every specification that's ready for practical use, covering messaging, metadata, security, discovery, quality of service, business-process modeling, and more. Drawing on realistic examples and case studies, they present a powerfully coherent view of how all these specifications fit together—and how to combine them to solve real-world problems.

• Service orientation: Clarifying the business and technical value propositions

• Web services messaging framework: Using SOAP and WS-Addressing to deliver Web services messages

• WSDL: Documenting messages and supporting diverse message interactions

• WS-Policy: Building services that specify their requirements and capabilities, and how to interface with them

• UDDI: Aggregating metadata and making it easily available

• WS-MetadataExchange: Bootstrapping efficient, customized communication between Web services

• WS-Reliable Messaging: Ensuring message delivery across unreliable networks

• Transactions: Defining reliable interactions with WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity

• Security: Understanding the roles of WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation

• BPEL: Modeling and executing business processes as service compositions

Web Services Platform Architecture gives you an insider's view of the platform that will change the way you deliver applications. Whether you're an architect, developer, technical manager, or consultant, you'll find it indispensable.

Sanjiva Weerawarana, research staff member for the component systems group at IBM Research, helps define and coordinate IBM's Web services technical strategy and activities. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he contributed to many specifications including the SOAP 1.1 and WSDL 1.1 specifications and built their first implementations. Francisco Curbera, IBM research staff member and component systems group manager, coauthored BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, and other specifications. He represents IBM on the BPEL and Web Services Addressing working groups. Frank Leymann directs the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart. As an IBM distinguished engineer, he helped architect IBM's middleware stack and define IBM's On Demand Computing strategy. IBM Fellow Tony Storey has helped lead the development of many of IBM's middleware, Web services, and grid computing products. IBM Fellow Donald F. Ferguson is chief architect and technical lead for IBM Software Group, and chairs IBM's SWG Architecture Board.

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The practical guide to building "on demand" enterprise infrastructure

This book brings together innovative strategies and technologies for becoming an "on demand" enterprise: one that can respond almost instantaneously to any customer demand, market opportunity, or threat.

Leading IBM enterprise consultant Craig Fellenstein shows how to build On Demand infrastructure for integrating all your business processes, partners, suppliers, and customers. Drawing on consulting engagements with many of the world's largest organizations--and IBM's own processes--Fellenstein shows how to:

• Plan and migrate towards an on demand operating environment
• How autonomic computing streamlines and simplifies IT service delivery, and dramatically improves business agility
• Use grid computing to deliver new business services more quickly, flexibly, and cost-effectively
• Leverage on demand technologies to enter new global markets and become a world-class e-Business service provider

Whether you're an IT or business leader, manager, analyst, or strategic planner, this is the blueprint for your on demand revolution.

“I’ve worked with Dmitry on many projects. He is both a designer (artist) and a developer (programmer), so his book genuinely speaks to both audiences.”

—Charles F. Goldfarb

Leverage the incredible power of XSLT 2.0 to create sites that are easy to build, maintain, and extend!

This book teaches you exactly how to build state-of-the-art web sites with XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. XML developer and web designer Dmitry Kirsanov drills down to real development challenges and specific tools and techniques for solving them.

You’ll learn from a hands-on project that gives you insights you just won’t find anywhere else. Kirsanov covers the entire project lifecycle: schema creation, validation, transformation, testing, and maintenance… offering outstanding code and markup examples every step of the way.

• Explore new XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 standards from a web developer’s point of view
• Develop rock-solid, high-performance domain-specific schemas
• Create and convert source documents for effective XML processing
• Set up XSLT transformations to automatically generate HTML, graphics, and other site components
• Build your dynamic web site on the solid foundation of the Cocoon framework
• Use Schematron to validate XML and streamline processing
• Study complete printed and downloadable page sources, stylesheets, and schemas

XSLT 2.0 Web Development is an indispensable resource for…

• Professional web developers
• Project managers who want to streamline site development and maintenance
• Graphic designers who need more flexible ways to present structured information
• Content management specialists using XML documentation/publishing systems

Fully tested and implemented examples are available at authors.phptr.com/kirsanov andwww.kirsanov.com/xsltwd

Get great results with digital photography and video--and have more fun doing it!

It's easy: Digital Imagery will teach you everything you need to know, step-by-step. You'll find easier ways to do what you want... fast answers to your digital imaging questions... and great new ideas for using your digital photos and video. Want to copy your old videotapes to DVD? View photos on your TV? Scan and fix your old snapshots? Edit your own movies? Print brilliant digital prints? Use digital imaging in your business or career? You can do it all... and this one-stop, easy-to-use guide covers it all!

• Capture better video with your VHS, VHS-C, Hi 8, or digital camcorder
• Transfer your video and photos to CD or DVD with the best possible quality
• Convert your entire tape library to digital formats that won't deteriorate
• Edit your videos with titles, effects, transitions, music, and more
• Take better photos: action shots, close-ups, vacation pictures, even pet photos
• Edit your pictures: easily fix mistakes, create collages, and add special effects
• Share your photos online, in digital slide shows, albums, or even on your TV
• Scan your old snapshots, enlargements, and slides with your scanner
• Make vivid prints for sharing or scrapbooking
• Choose the best computer and software for all your digital imaging projects
• Pick the digital camera, camcorder, scanner, or color printer that's right for you
• Make the most of your HP Pavilion or Compaq Presario PC, HP DVD Movie Writer, HP Photosmart camera, HP Scanjet scanner, HP Deskjet printer or HP Digital Media Receiver

The expert guide to deploying and managing any WebSphere Application Server V5.x application and environment

If you’re a WebSphere Application Server administrator or developer, this is your advanced guide for delivering applications rapidly, running them smoothly, and administering them efficiently. Four leading IBM consultants draw on their years of experience to illuminate the key steps involved in taking WebSphere Application Server applications from development to production. They focus on the areas most crucial to success, including application assembly and build, application and infrastructure configuration and administration, and application testing and verification. Along the way, they show how to implement automated deployment processes that can be executed frequently, reliably, and quickly -- so you can get your applications to market fast. The focus is on WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1, but much of the information applies to other versions.

Coverage includes:

• Installing, testing, and managing WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, security, messaging, integration, and more
• Deploying and managing key J2EE technologies: JDBC, Connectors, EJB, container managed and message driven beans, transactions, JMS, JavaMail, and more
• Deploying highly available, scalable multi-node WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, distributed session management, and edge components
• Advanced considerations: working with Java Management Extensions, caching, and much more
• Performance tuning tools
• Troubleshooting
• Leveraging key WebSphere deployment and administration tools: ANT, wsadmin, Admin Console, and the Application Server Toolkit.
• Advanced discussions of J2EE and architectural concepts you need to deploy successfully -- with practical examples