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Beginning Android ADK with Arduino (Beginning Apress)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Whether you're new to Arduino and Android development, or you've tinkered a bit with either one, this is the book for you. Android has always been a natural fit with Arduino projects, but now that Google has released the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (the Android ADK), combining Android with Arduino to create custom gadgets has become even easier.

Beginning Android ADK with Arduino shows how the ADK works and how it can be used with a variety of Arduino boards to create a variety of fun projects that showcase the abilities of the ADK.

Mario B?hmer will walk you through several projects, including making sounds, driving motors, and creating alarm systems, all while explaining how to use the ADK and how standard Arduino boards may differ from Google-branded Arduinos. You aren't tied to specific hardware with this book; use what you have, and this book will show you how.

What you?ll learn

How different boards work with the ADK
How to create your first sketch and project
How to work with light and sound
How to work with servos and DC motors
How to work with photoresistors and thermistors to sense the environment
How to make your own capacitive touch game show buzzer
How to create your own camera-enabled alarm system

Who this book is for

This book is for beginning Arduino and Android enthusiasts, or Arduino developers who want to try out the new Android ADK.

Introduction
Andriod and Arduino: Getting to Know Each Other
Outputs
Inputs
Sounds
Light Intensity Sensing
Temperature Sensing
A Sense of Touch
Making Things Move
Alarm System

Pro HTML5 Accessibility (Professional Apress)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps designers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable web sites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT). It aims to be a useful ?go-to? guide, providing practical advice. It takes several approaches, including a look at the new semantics of HTML5 and how to combine its use with authoring practices you know from using earlier versions of HTML. It also demonstrates how HTML5 content is currently supported (or not) by assistive technologies such as screen readers, and what this means practically for accessibility in your web projects.??

The HTML5 specification is huge, with new APIs and patterns that can be difficult to understand. Accessibility can also seem complex and nuanced if you have no experience interacting with people with disabilities. This book walks you though the process of designing exciting user interfaces that can potentially be used by everyone, regardless of ability. Accessibility is really a quality design issue, and getting it right is often more a matter of approach than having sophisticated, cutting-edge tools at your disposal.??

This book will be your companion in your journey to understand both HTML5 and accessibility, as the author has many years of experience as a designer and web developer working directly with people with all types of disabilities. He has been involved with the development of HTML5 from an accessibility perspective for many years, as a member of the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats working group (which is responsible for ensuring W3C specifications are serving the needs of people with disabilities) as well as the HTML5 Working Group itself.??

Introduces the new HTML5 specification from an accessibility perspective
Shows how incorporating accessibility into your interfaces using HTML5 can have benefits for all users
Explains how HTML5 is currently supported by assistive technologies like screen readers, and how to work around these limitations when developing

What you?ll learn

Gain an overview of assistive technologies and how they work with web content, as well as how to approach accessibility in your design projects
Learn how HTML5 differs from HTML4 and earlier
Understand how to practically apply HTML5 to your web projects in order to design accessible content.
See what works and what doesn?t
Learn the new semantics and structures within HTML5, and how to use them to build more accessible websites and applications
See which HTML5 elements and attributes are supported by browsers and assistive technologies, and what this means for the user experience of people with disabilities
Understand which parts of HTML5 are not well supported by browsers and assistive technology
Get a snapshot of current support, its limitations, and how to design and code in a way that will support older assistive technologies and browsers as well as more feature-rich, newer technologies
Learn how CSS, JavaScript, and WAI-ARIA can be used with HTML5 to support the development of accessible web content

Who this book is for

Pro HTML5 Accessibility is for the intermediate to advanced web designer and developer who is already building websites and applications but needs some help in understanding accessibility and how it relates to HTML5. The book can be read as a basic introduction to HTML5 and accessibility, but may be more suited to the professional or experienced designer who already has knowledge of HTML4 (or earlier) as well as CSS, WAI-ARIA and JavaScript. While no detailed knowledge of CSS, WAI-ARIA or scripting is really required, it will help the reader to understand some of the design patterns and examples discussed in the book.

Introduction to HTML5 Acessibility
Understanding Disability and Assistive Technology
JavaScript Isn't a Dirty Word,?and ARIA Isn't Just Beautiful Music
API and?DOM
HTML5, the New Semantics and New Approaches to Document Markup
Images, Rich Media, Audio and Video in HTML 5
HTML5 and Accessible Data Tables
HTML5 and Accessible Forms
HTML5, Usability and User-Centered Design
Tools, Tips, and Tricks: Assessing Your Acessible HTML5 Project
WCAG 2.0 Client-Side Scripting Techniques
Definition of WAI-ARIA Roles?

Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal: Building Unified Contact Centers (Networking Technology: IP Communications)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal

Building Unified Contact Centers

Rue Green, CCIE^? No. 9269

The definitive guide to deploying Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal IVRs in any contact center environment

Thousands of companies are replacing legacy ACD/TDM-based contact centers with pure IP-based unified contact center solutions. One of these solutions is quickly earning market leadership: Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP). Now, one of the leading Cisco CVP experts brings together everything network and telephony professionals need to successfully implement production Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions with CVP: architectural guidelines, deployment best practices, detailed insights for design and sizing, and more.

CCIE Rue Green guides you through designing unified contact centers with CVP, and deploying proven infrastructures to support your designs. The author first explains CVP?s architecture, outlining its key advantages and opportunities for integration and illuminating the design challenges it presents. Next, he guides you through addressing each of these challenges, covering all CVP components and tools and offering detailed insights available in no other book.

Using this book?s detailed working configurations and examples, you can minimize configuration errors, reduce downtime, strengthen monitoring, and drive maximum value from any CVP-based unified call center solution.

Rue Green, CCIE No. 9269 (Routing & Switching and Voice), CISSP, MCSE, MCITP is a Technical Leader for the Customer Collaboration Service Line within Cisco Advanced Services, where he focuses on unified contact center architectures and deployment methodologies. He currently acts in a delivery architect role for Unified CVP, Unified ICM, and Cisco Unified Communications Manager for Unified Contact Center Solutions. He has spent the last 21 years working within different roles related to the architecture, design, and implementation of large voice and data networks, including several years working with complex contact center solutions.?

????????? Discover CVP?s powerful capabilities and advantages

????????? Understand how CVP?s components fit together into a unified architecture

????????? Utilize CVP native components: Call Server, VXML Server, Reporting Server, Operations Console Server, and Cisco Unified Call Studio

????????? Integrate non-native components such as IOS devices, Unified ICM, UCM, content load balancers, and third-party servers

????????? Choose the right deployment model for your organization

????????? Implement detailed call flows for Standalone, Call Director, Comprehensive, and VRU-only deployment models

????????? Design Unified CVP for high availability

????????? Efficiently deliver media via streaming, caching, and other techniques

????????? Address crucial sizing, QoS, network latency, and security considerations

????????? Successfully upgrade from older versions or H.323 platforms

????????? Isolate and troubleshoot faults in native and non-native CVP components

????????? Design virtualized Unified CVP deployments using UCS

This IP communications book is part of the Cisco Press??Networking Technology Series. IP communications titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals understand voice and IP telephony technologies, plan and design converged networks, and implement network solutions for increased productivity.

Computer Security Fundamentals (2nd Edition)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Welcome to today?s most useful and practical one-volume introduction to computer security. Chuck Easttom brings together up-to-the-minute coverage of all basic concepts, terminology, and issues, along with all the skills you need to get started in the field. Drawing on his extensive experience as a security instructor and consultant, Easttom thoroughly covers core topics, such as vulnerability assessment, virus attacks, hacking, spyware, network defense, passwords, firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion detection. Writing clearly and simply, he fully addresses crucial issues that many introductory security books ignore, from industrial espionage to cyberbullying.

Computer Security Fundamentals, Second Edition is packed with tips and examples, all extensively updated for the state-of-the-art in both attacks and defense. Each chapter offers exercises, projects, and review questions designed to deepen your understanding and help you apply all you?ve learned. Whether you?re a student, a system or network administrator, a manager, or a law enforcement professional, this book will help you protect your systems and data and expand your career options.

Learn how to

Identify the worst threats to your network and assess your risks
Get inside the minds of hackers, so you can prevent their attacks
Implement a proven layered approach to network security
Use basic networking knowledge to improve security
Resist the full spectrum of Internet-based scams and frauds
Defend against today?s most common Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Prevent attacks by viruses, spyware, and other malware
Protect against low-tech social engineering attacks
Choose the best encryption methods for your organization
Select firewalls and other security technologies
Implement security policies that will work in your environment
Scan your network for vulnerabilities
Evaluate potential security consultants
Understand cyberterrorism and information warfare
Master basic computer forensics and know what to do after you?re attacked

Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X: with ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and Blocks (Professional Apress)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital.?Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications.?Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and blocks are key to developing great apps, allowing you to control threads for maximum performance. ?

If for you, multithreading is an unsolved mystery and ARC is unexplored territory, then this is the book you'll need to make these concepts clear and send you on your way to becoming a master iOS and OS X developer.

What are blocks? How are they used with GCD?
Multithreading with GCD
Managing objects with ARC

What you?ll learn

How to use blocks
How blocks work and are implemented
Details about GCD
How and when to use GCD
To understand ARC technology and how to use it

Who this book is for

This book is for professional OS X and iOS application programmers. In particular, it's for those who want to develop highly responsive applications with concurrent programming.

Life before?Automatic Reference Counting
ARC?Rules
ARC Implementation
Getting Started with Blocks
Blocks Implementation
Grand Central Dispatch
GCD?Basics
GCD?Implementation

????Appendix A. Example of ARC, Blocks and GCD

????Appendix B. References

Web Development Recipes

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

You'll see a full spectrum of cutting-edge web development techniques, from UI and eye candy recipes to solutions for data analysis, testing, and web hosting.

Make buttons and content stand out with simple cross-browser styles; do animations that work on mobile devices without plugins; build and test HTML emails; and build a flexible layout that works on desktops and mobile devices. You'll use the Backbone and Knockout JavaScript frameworks to build responsive user interfaces, and you'll learn how tools like CoffeeScript and Sass offer better ways to develop and maintain your client-side code. You'll write tests for your code that run in multiple web browsers, use Git to keep track of your work, and even get a little one-on-one time with the Apache web server.

Whether you're new to front-end development, or you've got a few years of experience, you'll become a more versatile developer by finding out how--and why--to use these solutions in your next web development project.

What You Need:

Your favorite text editor, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or higher, Google Chrome or Safari, and a working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Exam Cram (3rd Edition)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

CD FEATURES More Than 200 PRACTICE QUESTIONS

CompTIA? Security+ Exam Cram, Third Edition, is the perfect study guide to help you pass CompTIA?s newly updated version of the Security+ exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for every exam topic. The book contains a set of 200 questions in two full practice exams. The CD-ROM contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that provides real-time practice and feedback with all the questions so you can simulate the exam.

Covers the critical information you need to know to score higher on your Security+ exam!

???? .??? Master and implement general security best practices

???? .??? Systematically identify threats and risks to your systems

???? .??? Harden systems by eliminating nonessential services

???? .??? Secure your communications, networks, and infrastructure

???? .??? Systematically identify and protect against online vulnerabilities

???? .??? Implement effective access control and authentication

???? .??? Create security baselines and audit your security infrastructure

???? .??? Understand cryptographic principles, and effectively deploy cryptographic solutions

???? .??? Organize security from both a technical and organizational standpoint

???? .??? Manage every facet of security, including education and documentation

???? .??? Understand the laws related to IT security, and the basics of forensic investigations

Kirk Hausman (CISSP, CISA, CRISC, Security+) has worked as an ISO, consultant, trainer, and IT director. He is Assistant Commandant for IT at TAMU and teaches InfoSec topics as an Adjunct Professor at UMUC and UAT.

Martin Weiss (CISSP, CISA, Security+, MCSE) leads a team of information security experts at Symantec supporting solutions to provide confidence in a connected world.

Diane Barrett (CISSP, MCSE, A+, Security+) is the director of training for Paraben Corporation and an adjunct professor for American Military University.

Companion CD

The CD-ROM contains a free, complete practice exam.

Includes Exclusive Offer for 70% Off Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test

Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements:

Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), or Windows 7; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Client; Pentium class 1GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam

Pragmatic Guide to Sass

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Written by Sass creator Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin, Pragmatic Guide to Sass shows you how to you to improve your CSS, from the basics to advanced topics, from first installation to sprucing up your buttons. You'll see how to code the right way in Sass thanks to short, clear examples. Two-page spreads show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. You'll learn how to improve your pages in minutes.

You'll be able to perform amazing feats of CSS including using variables, calculating layouts, and modifying colors. Did you ever want to make a color 10% less saturated? We'll show you how to do that without needing a calculator.

Plus, learn about Compass, Sass's library of carefully built hacks, reusable parts, and frameworks. Find out how to shortcut cross-browser issues and develop mixins for shortening text and making lists more exciting. You'll wonder how you spent all those years styling sites without it!

Make things even easier with Blueprint, and discover how to use its predefined classes that you can apply to your Web site. From selector scoping to bundling, debugging, and designing custom functions, Pragmatic Guide to Sass will help you build the pages you've always wanted.

What You Need:

An installation of Sass and Compass

Some basic command line knowledge

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Cert Guide, Deluxe Edition (2nd Edition)

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Learn, prepare, and practice for CompTIA Security+ SY0-301exam success with this CompTIA Authorized Cert Guide, Deluxe Edition from Pearson IT Certification, a leader in IT Certification learning and a CompTIA Authorized Platinum Partner. DVD features three complete practice exams, complete video solutions to the 25 hands-on labs, plus 25 interactive flash-based learning activities that include drag-n-drop and matching to reinforce the learning.

Master CompTIA?s Security+ SY0-301 exam topics
Assess your knowledge with chapter-ending quizzes
Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
Practice with realistic exam questions on the DVD
Includes complete video solutions to the 25 hands-on labs
Plus 25 interactive learning activities on key exam topics

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Cert Guide, Deluxe Edition includes video solutions to the hands-on labs, practice tests, and interactive activities that let the reader learn by doing. Best-selling author and expert instructor David Prowse shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The book presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. Review questions help you assess your knowledge, and a final preparation chapter guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your approach to passing the exam.

The companion Deluxe Edition DVD contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine, with three complete practice exams and hundreds of exam-realistic questions. The assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most. The Deluxe Edition DVD also includes complete video solutions to the 25 hands-on labs in the book and 25 interactive learning activities on key exam topics to reinforce the learning by doing. Learning activities such as test password strength, match the type of Malware with its definition, find the security issues in the network map, and disallow a user access to the network on Saturday and Sunday.

Interactive Learning Activities:

2.1 Filtering Emails
2.2 Malware Types
2.3 Securing the BIOS
3.1 Stopping Services in the Command Prompt
3.2 Patch Management
5.1 Port Numbers, Part 1
5.2 Port Numbers, Part 2
5.3 Port Numbers, Part 3
5.4 Network Attacks, Part 1
5.5 Network Attacks, Part 2
5.6 Network Attacks, Part 3
5.7 Network Attacks, Part 4
6.1 Network Security
7.1 Password Strength
8.1 802.1X Components
8.2 Authentication Types
9.1 Access Control Models
9.2 Configuring Logon Hours
10.1 Risk Assessment, Part 1
10.2 Risk Assessment, Part 2
10.3 Vulnerability Management Process
11.1 Packet Analysis
12.1 Symmetric and Asymmetric Algorithms
14.1 RAID Levls
15.1 Social Engineering Types

Hands-On Labs:

2-1 Using Free Malware Scanning Programs
2-2 How to Secure the BIOS
3-1 Discerning & Updating Service Pack Level
3-2 Creating a Virtual Machine
3-3 Securing a Virtual Machine
4-1 Securing the Browser
4-2 Disabling Applications
5-1 Port Scanning Basics
6-1 Packet Filtering and NAT Firewalls
6-2 Configuring Inbound Filter on a Firewall
6-3 Enabling MAC Filtering
7-1 Securing a Wireless Device: 8 Steps
7-2 Wardriving and the Cure
8-1 Enabling 802.1X on a Network Adapter
8-2 Setting Up a VPN
9-1 Password Policies and User Accounts
9-2 Configuring User and Group Permissions
10-1 Mapping and Scanning the Network
10-2 Password Cracking and Defense
11-1 Using Protocol Analyzers
12-1 Disabling LM Hash in Windows Server 2003
13-1 A Basic Example of PKI
13-2 Making an SSH Connection
14-1 Configuring RAID 1 and 5
16-1 How to Approach Exam Questions

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this CompTIA ?authorized study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The CompTIA authorized study guide helps you master all the topics on the Security+ exam, including

Core computer system security
OS hardening and virtualization
Application security
Network design elements and threats
Perimeter security
Network media and devices security
Physical security and authentication models
Access control
Vulnerability and risk assessment
Monitoring and auditing
Cryptography, including PKI
Redundancy and disaster recovery
Policies and procedures

Companion Deluxe Edition DVD

The Deluxe Edition DVD contains three free, complete practice exams, video solutions to the 25 hands-on labs plus 25 interactive flash-based learning activities that include drag-n-drop and matching to reinforce the learning. Includes Exclusive Offer for 70% Off Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test.

Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements:

Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), or Windows 7; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Client; Pentium class 1GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB hard disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam.

CompTIA Network+ N10-005 Authorized Cert Guide

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:12 +0700

Learn, prepare, and practice for exam success

Master Network+ exam topics
Assess your knowledge with chapter-ending quizzes
Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
Practice with realistic exam questions on the DVD

CompTIA Network+ N10-005 Authorized Cert Guide is a best-of-breed exam study guide. Best-selling author and expert instructor Kevin Wallace shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion DVD contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine, complete with hundreds of exam-realistic questions. The assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most. The DVD also contains more than two hours of personal video mentoring from the author.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this authorized study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The authorized study guide helps you master all the topics on the Network+ exam, including:

Computer networks and the OSI model
Network components
Ethernet
IP addressing
Routing traffic
Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Wireless LANs
Network performance
Command-line utilities
Network management
Network security
Troubleshooting

Kevin Wallace, CCIE No. 7945, is one of the most prolific and best-selling authors in the networking industry. He is a certified Cisco instructor, and he holds multiple certifications including CCNP, CCNP Voice, CCNP Security, and CCDP, in addition to multiple security and voice specializations. With networking experience dating back to 1989 (and computer experience dating back to 1982), Kevin is a Senior Technical Instructor for SkillSoft. Kevin has been a network design specialist for the Walt Disney World Resort and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University.

Companion DVD

The DVD contains two free, complete practice exams and more than two hours of video training.

Includes Exclusive Offer for 70% Off Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test

Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements:

Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), or Windows 7; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Client; Pentium class 1GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disc space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam

Shelving Category: CompTIA Certification
Covers: Network+ N10-005

flazx Feed, last 10 books

Beginning Android ADK with Arduino (Beginning Apress)

What you?ll learn

Who this book is for

Table of Contents

Pro HTML5 Accessibility (Professional Apress)

What you?ll learn

Who this book is for

Table of Contents

Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal: Building Unified Contact Centers (Networking Technology: IP Communications)

Computer Security Fundamentals (2nd Edition)

Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X: with ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and Blocks (Professional Apress)

What you?ll learn

Who this book is for

Table of Contents

Web Development Recipes

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Exam Cram (3rd Edition)

Pragmatic Guide to Sass

CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 Authorized Cert Guide, Deluxe Edition (2nd Edition)

CompTIA Network+ N10-005 Authorized Cert Guide