Wednesday, January 31, 2007
OReilly.The.Art.of.Project.Management
"'The Art of Project Management' covers it all--from practical methods for making sure work gets done right and on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed at Microsoft... I wish we always put these lessons into action!" --Joe Belfiore, General Manager, E-home Division, Microsoft Corporation
Topics include:
-How to make things happen
-Making good decisions
-Specifications and requirements
-Ideas and what to do with them
-How not to annoy people
-Leadership and trust
-The truth about making dates
-What to do when things go wrong
First Ever REAL Wii Modchip Arrives - CycloWiz!
It seems that Wiinja is already outdated even before its release. Fedex dropped a nice little gift for us today to review. Say hello to CycloWiz!
Here is what we know so far about this chip:
- Quicksolder (no wires required)
- Plays Wii Backups
- Plays GC Backups
- Play GC Homebrew
- Play GC Imports (swap needed)
- Built-in Audiofix (GC games using streaming are working flawlessly, no patch needed)
- DVD-R / DVD+R support
- Optional chip disable wire
- Stealth even when chip is enabled
- Multi-purpose LED
The chip is supposed to be shipped by the end of the week, so in fact this may be the first "real" Modchip to reach the market!
It looks like a very pro and easy to install solution! We're not sure Wiinja has built-in audiofix, but this is definitely a must-have feature. Expect a review soon, including a video of the installation process!
The teams' website is launching soon at Teamcyclops.com
Here is what we know so far about this chip:- Quicksolder (no wires required)
- Plays Wii Backups
- Plays GC Backups
- Play GC Homebrew
- Play GC Imports (swap needed)
- Built-in Audiofix (GC games using streaming are working flawlessly, no patch needed)
- DVD-R / DVD+R support
- Optional chip disable wire
- Stealth even when chip is enabled
- Multi-purpose LED
The chip is supposed to be shipped by the end of the week, so in fact this may be the first "real" Modchip to reach the market!
It looks like a very pro and easy to install solution! We're not sure Wiinja has built-in audiofix, but this is definitely a must-have feature. Expect a review soon, including a video of the installation process!
The teams' website is launching soon at Teamcyclops.com
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites
How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS
- Install, configure, administer, maintain and extend Drupal.
- Control access with users, roles and permissions
- Structure your content using Drupal’s powerful CMS features
- Includes coverage of release 4.7
Building websites With Joomla
A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast
- Walk through each step in a friendly and accessible way
- Customize and extend your Joomla! site
- Get your Joomla! website up fast
Mechanical Trading Systems
Mechanical Trading Systems:
A wide variety of flexible trading systems that combine sophisticated technical analysis with trading psychology theory Mechanical Trading Systems examines the development process for choosing and using mechanical trading systems in conjunction with trader psychology. This book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of mechanical trading systems; the dangers in system development and how to avoid them; the optimal methods for back-testing trading systems; position sizing and other risk quantification tools; and methods of improving rates of return on investments without significantly increasing risk. Most importantly, through a detailed examination of various types of unsuccessful trader personality traits, the book recommends different types of trading systems for a diverse array of trader types.
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Companies Are People, Too Discover, Develop & Grow Your Organizations True Personality
Companies Are People, Too Discover, Develop & Grow Your Organizations True Personality:
What you learn about your company will help you strengthen your brand, differentiate yourself from the competition, and fix problematic areas. Companies Are People, Too is a revolutionary program that helps you as a business leader get to know the core personality of your company in order to take your performance to a higher level. Equipped with a sense of who your company is, you can ease organizational change, attract and retain employees, articulate company-wide values, and send consistent messages.
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Growth and Profitability
Growth and Profitability:
Michael Donegan provides an insightful look at the strategic role of the finance function, from a two-person start-up company through a multimillion dollar corporation.
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How to Compete & Thrive in a Wal-Mart World
How to Compete & Thrive in a Wal-Mart World:
What I Learned from Sam Walton unlocks the secrets to Wal-Mart's success and provides answers to these and many other questions. As a former Wal-Mart employee, author Michael Bergdahl had the opportunity to see the Wal-Mart executive team in action. He also had the chance to work directly with Sam Walton. These experiences have provided Bergdahl with a treasure trove of great lessons, experiences, and stories that he now shares throughout the pages of this book. Readers will be introduced to Wal-Mart's unique strategy for competitive success and through the strategy known as P.O.C.K.E.T.S. (Price, Operations, Culture, Key item promotion, Expenses, Talent, Service) will learn how to compete and survive in the shadow of the world's largest company. What I Learned from Sam Walton discloses a business legend's secret strategies for achieving long-lasting success and provides competitors with a road map to successful competition.
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The Business Translator
The Business Translator:
Featuring business words, phrases, and customs in more than 90 foreign languages, this is a practical resource for business travelers or for business professionals conducting business domestically with international businesses. Organized in an easy-to-follow and intuitive format, key words and phrases can be accessed quickly.
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PSP v3.03 Downgrader
From: http://noobz.eu/
v3.03 Downgrader
After much work over the past few days, we finally succeeded - we have an easy-to-use downgrader for v3.03 PSPs! Some ground-rules:
v3.03 Downgrader
After much work over the past few days, we finally succeeded - we have an easy-to-use downgrader for v3.03 PSPs! Some ground-rules:
- This downgrader is for v3.03 firmware only. But if you have v2.81 - v3.02, no problem - you can just upgrade to v3.03 to use the downgrader.
- You need a copy of the unpatched GTA:Liberty City Stories UMD. No ISOs, no patched UMDs, not Vice City Stories. See here for some info on how to check if your version is patched. The most reliable way : the unpatched disks have the v2.0 firmware update on them.
- This downgrader is intended to enable homebrew. Homebrew is NOT the same as piracy. Don't be a thieving loser - buy the games you play.
- The downgrader will work on all current PSP hardware (TA-079 - TA-086). Patching of TA-082+ is automatic in the downgrader.
- You downgrade at your own risk. There is always a chance of bricking, although we have done everything we can think of to make this process safe.
- The 3.03 downgrader package
- Official v1.50 Firmware Update EBOOT
- Official v3.03 Firmware Update EBOOT (only if your PSP is not 3.03 already)
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Going Visual Using Images to Enhance Productivity Decision Making & Profits
Going Visual Using Images to Enhance Productivity Decision Making & Profits:
How and why to make visual communication a powerful competitive tool From digital cameras and camera phones to videoconferencing, visual communication technology is changing not only personal lives but global business relationships and communities of interest. Visual communication is an essential tool for every corporation-in any industry-that wants to stay competitive. Going Visual demonstrates how businesses can harness the power of digital images and video to communicate comprehensively and unambiguously. Through real-world success stories the authors outline a clear, simple, five-step plan for developing a Visual Communication Strategy that will sharpen every organization's competitive edge and improve its bottom line.
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Search Engine Optimization - Made Easy By Brad Callen
Search Engine Optimization - Made Easy By Brad Callen:
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Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day is an excellent primer for the beginner do it yourself search engine marketer. It covers the baisc essential of earch engine optimization and offers a comprehensive SEO plan with metrics for tracking your success that can be achieved conveniently in "an hour a day".
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Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes
Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes:
Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes provides a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building and managing MySQL databases. It is carefully organized and thoughtfully written to provide just the information that you need in order to gain a rapid working knowledge of MySQL. Get up to speed quickly with Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes.
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SQL For Dummies 6TH Edition Aug 2006
SQL For Dummies 6TH Edition Aug 2006:
See how SQL interfaces with today's environments
Start building and using relational databases with SQL's newest features.The database may be the twenty-first century filing cabinet, but building one is a little more complex than sliding drawers into a metal box. With this book to guide you through all the newest features of SQL, you'll soon be whipping up relational databases, using SQL with XML to power data-driven Web sites, and more! Discover how to:
- Use SQL in a client/server system
- Build a multitable relational database
- Construct nested and recursive queries
- Set up database security
- Use SQL within applications
- Map SQL to XML
Photoshop Workflow Setups Aug.2006
Photoshop Workflow Setups Aug.2006:
This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to:
- Create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view
- Become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths; history and actions; color, swatches and styles; and more
- Set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more
- Customize keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Work with Adobe Bridge
- Use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others
In addition to this title, Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography will also focus on color management; advanced and professional production techniques; controlling digital color and tone; and creative enhancement techniques. We're thrilled that Eddie Tapp has finally agreed to publish books-and with O'Reilly.
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Beyond Technical Analysis How to Develop & Implement a Winning Trading System
Beyond Technical Analysis How to Develop & Implement a Winning Trading System:
In trading, a winning system is everything. Without a systematized methodology on which to base their actions, traders quickly succumb to market fear and confusion and watch helplessly as precious profits vanish. And while it is theoretically possible to buy a canned trading system, most experts agree that the best system is proprietary to each trader developed, implemented, and tested by the individual to suit his or her exact requirements.
In this book/software package, acclaimed technical trading system developer Tushar Chande shows traders how to develop a winning trading system, and how to test its future performance through computer simulation. The result? Users can paper trade their personal trading system before using it in the real world, accurately estimating how well they can cope with the day-to-day pressures of implementing the system when their capital is at risk and emotions are involved.
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An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog
An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog:
The areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics have continued to grow in recent years, driven by the demand to automatically process text and spoken data. With the processing power and techniques now available, research is scaling up from lab prototypes to real-world, proven applications. This book teaches the principles of natural language processing, first covering linguistics issues such as encoding, entropy, and annotation schemes; defining words, tokens and parts of speech; and morphology. It then details the language-processing functions involved, including part-of-speech tagging using rules and stochastic techniques; using Prolog to write phase-structure grammars; parsing techniques and syntactic formalisms; semantics, predicate logic and lexical semantics; and analysis of discourse, and applications in dialog systems. The key feature of the book is the author's hands-on approach throughout, with extensive exercises, sample code in Prolog and Perl, and a detailed introduction to Prolog. The reader is supported with a companion website that contains teaching slides, programs, and additional material. The book is suitable for researchers and students of natural language processing and computational linguistics.
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Schaums Outline of Electronic Devices & Circuits 2nd Edition
Schaums Outline of Electronic Devices & Circuits 2nd Edition:
This updated version of its internationally popular predecessor provides and introductory problem-solved text for understanding fundamental concepts of electronic devices, their design, and their circuitry.Providing an interface with Pspice, the most widely used program in electronics, new key features include a new chapter presenting the basics of switched mode power supplies, thirty-one new examples, and twenty-three PS solved problems.
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How to Cheat at Securing a Wireless Network
How to Cheat at Securing a Wireless Network:
Wireless connectivity is now a reality in most businesses. Yet by its nature, wireless networks are the most difficult to secure and are often the favorite target of intruders. Some of the primary threats are the result of the following factors:
- Denial of service (DoS) and other network layer attacks
- Unauthorized access across the perimeter and within the organization Application layer intrusions and attacks, both from within and outside the network Extended connectivity through remote access and extranets
- An increase in unmanaged or ill-managed endpoint devices
- New applications like VoIP, instant messaging, and peer-to-peer
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Optimizing Linux Performance
Optimizing Linux Performance:
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.
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Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks Techniques, Models and Tools for 4G
Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks Techniques, Models and Tools for 4G:
Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks: Techniques, Models and Tools for 4th Generation Communication Networks provides the main results of the prestigious and well known European COST 273 research project on the development of next generation mobile and wireless communication systems.
Based on the applied research of over 350 participants in academia and industry, this book focuses on the radio aspects of mobile and wireless broadband multimedia communications, by exploring and developing new methods, models, techniques, strategies and tools towards the implementation of 4th generation mobile and wireless communication systems.
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Advances in Universal Web Design And Evaluation
Advances in Universal Web Design And Evaluation:
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Oreilly Mysql Cookbook
Oreilly Mysql Cookbook:
The new edition covers MySQL 5.0 and its powerful new features, as well as the older but still widespread MySQL 4.1. One major emphasis of this book is how to use SQL to formulate queries for particular kinds of questions, using the mysql client program included in MySQL distributions. The other major emphasis is how to write programs that interact with the MySQL server through an API. You'll find plenty of examples using several language APIs in multiple scenarios and situations, including the use of Ruby to retrieve and format data. There are also many new examples for using Perl, PHP, Python, and Java as well.
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OReilly BlackBerry Hacks
OReilly BlackBerry Hacks:
BlackBerry Hacks will enhance your mobile computing with great tips and tricks. You'll learn that the BlackBerry is capable of things you never thought possible, and you'll learn how to make it an even better email and web workhorse:
- Get the most out of the built-in applications
- Take control of email with filters, searches, and more
- Rev up your mobile gaming--whether you're an arcade addict or poker pro
- Browse the web, chat over IM, and keep up with news and weblogs
- Work with office documents, spell check your messages, and send faxes
Designing Relational Database Systems
Designing Relational Database Systems:
This book is a practical, pragmatic, and highly knowledgeable treatment of building real database applications in today's high-paced software development world, written by someone who's been there and done it. Anyone trying to build database applications will find it useful. Anyone trying to map database theory to practice will find it enlightening. And to top it all off, its written in a fun, refreshing style that makes it light and entertaining to read—something I would have thought impossible for a book about databases!
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MySQL Essential Skills
MySQL Essential Skills:
Set up a MySQL database on Windows or Linux with help from this step-by-step beginner’s guide. Learn to design and create a database with tables, load data into your tables, and generate basic and advanced reports. You’ll also get details on how to administer, secure, and back up your database, and import data from other programs. Plus, learn to use PHP for dynamic web pages and MySQL web interfaces. Get started in no time with today’s most popular open source database and take advantage of all the features MySQL database server has to offer.
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Think Like Your Customer A Winning Strategy to Maximize Sales
Think Like Your Customer A Winning Strategy to Maximize Sales:
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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day:
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day is a new edition of the best-selling book that started the whole HTML/web publishing phenomenon. The entire book has been revised and refined to reflect current web publishing practices and technologies. It includes extensive coverage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which have become a staple in web development.
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Radio Engineering for Wireless Communication & Sensor Applications
Radio Engineering for Wireless Communication & Sensor Applications:
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Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips:
Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2’s new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more.
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Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop
Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop:
This book teaches you how to:
- Work with layers, layer styles, and patterns.
- Create shapes with selections.
- Combine and crop images.
- Create web buttons, headers, and backgrounds.
- Add content to a web page using Macromedia Dreamweaver.
- Design web pages of various styles.
Mastering Digital Photography 2nd Edition
Mastering Digital Photography 2nd Edition:
Mastering Digital Photography, Second Edition shows you how to take your digital photography to the next level using the simple tools and techniques that separate the amateurs from the pros. Achieve pixel proficiency as you learn what your digital camera's controls mean to your photographs as well as the creative techniques that allow you to capture the ideal image digitally. Discover both the technical side of digital photography 'why so many options, features, and formats exist and how to use them to improve your pictures' as well as the professional techniques that anyone can use to take better action photos, portraits, scenic shots, close-ups, and more. Mastering Digital Photography, Second Edition gives you everything you need to take professional-quality photographs with your digital camera.
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Digital Photography All in One Desk Reference For Dummies 3rd Edition
Digital Photography All in One Desk Reference For Dummies 3rd Edition:
8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow". From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.
Discover how to:
- Choose the right camera and software
- Compose and shoot great pictures
- Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
- Scan old prints and repair them
- Print your photos or share them online
Raw 101 Better Images with Photoshop Elements and Photoshop
Raw 101 Better Images with Photoshop Elements and Photoshop:
The first introductory book on using Adobe Camera Raw, RAW 101 covers all practical aspects of RAW in Photoshop Elements 3 and Photoshop CS2. Just follow the heavily illustrated, step-by-step examples and you'll quickly figure out how to attain the greatest accuracy from your RAW files, whether it's correcting shadow and highlight detail, fixing white balance, or eliminating noise. Once you see the startling results, you'll no longer want to rely on your camera to make critical decisions for you.Inside, you'll learn everything you need to know to:
- Get your images ready for RAW file conversion
- Navigate the Adobe Camera Raw workspace
- Master RAW conversion controls for exposure, shadows, brightness, and contrast
- Extend beyond the basics to control white balance, color tint, noise, and more
- Automate Camera Raw to optimize your workflow
- Use advanced conversion options in Photoshop CS2, such as curves control, cropping, and straightening
- Put the finishing touches on your images-adjust levels, use filters, resize, and much more!
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