Computer and Internet Books

"This is a book that deserves a prominent place by anyone who aspires to be a real professional developer of SQL Server applications."--from the Foreword by Ron Soukup. The message of this book is that building stored procedures in Transact-SQL is very much like building programs in any other language. It requires the same type of skill, planning, attention to detail, and overall grasp of technology that successful development in other languages requires.

This is the authoritative reference guide to the ARM RISC architecture. Produced by the architects that are actively working on the ARM specification, the book contains detailed information about all versions of the ARM and Thumb instruction sets, the memory management and cache functions, as well as optimized code examples.

How Computers Work shows you how chips, software, memory, and hardware work using detailed four-color drawings. An interactive game-like CD-ROM takes you directly inside your computer. This book is completely updated and revised to include the latest technology developments.

Tips, tricks, and solutions to your computer problems-one for every day of the year! Leo Laporte, high-energy host of TechTV's Call for Help and The ScreenSavers, shares his wit and wisdom in this entertaining book for tech enthusiasts. Poor Leo's 2002 Computer Almanac includes Windows, Mac, and Web tips each week; Leo's answers to viewer questions; "For Geeks Only" advanced projects; and advice for protecting the safety, security, and privacy of users and data.

This is the newest comprehensive update to the world's #1 guide to PC repair and maintenance. Worldrenowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has thoroughly updated his legendary Upgrading and Repairing PCs to reflect today's latest PC technologies, and added a new DVD with more than two hours of digital video demonstrating PC maintenance and repair, which can be watched on either their DVDequipped PCs or any DVD player.

Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges.

How the Internet Works, Sixth Edition is divided into eight parts, starting with a brief introduction to the Internet and followed by seven additional parts talking about connecting and communicating on the Internet, security and privacy, multimedia, Intranets and more. This book is up to date on the hottest technologies!

Combine HTML's simplicity with XML's power right now! Learn XHTML hands on, through ready-to-use examples. Don't wait! Master XHTML techniques that work with today's browsers.

JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Third Edition is the book for people who already know how to build Web pages with HTML, and are ready to take the next step in making their sites more interesting and exciting.

Takes an easy, visual approach to teaching HTML, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do; works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work; no long-winded passages - concise, straightforward commentary explains what you need to know; and companion Web site gives you all the book's example files, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

A guide to writing CGI applications with Perl, showing how to accomplish everyday tasks necessary for online operations. Includes line-by-line code explanations, examples, and skill-stretching exercises. Also covers working with HTML, tracking clicks, and cookies, among other topics. Softcover. DLC: Perl (Computer program language).

Learn from these pros everything you need to know about Web design, including the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs, and layout can work together to create the visual impression you want. Robin doesn't just tell you about good Web design, she shows you, walking you through every step of the design process, from site planning and layout to navigation design and functionality--the book is illustrated with hundreds of full-color examples. Like Robin herself, Robin Williams Web Design Workshop strikes the perfect teaching balance, combining theory and real-world experience, all wrapped up in a colorful, engaging package.

Written by a noted CGI innovator, this book provides a tutorial on CGI and scripting. It also covers the author's unique short-cut CGI tool that cuts scripting time in half. Companion Web site contains all future revisions to the CGI.pm module.

A tutorial on building usable Web sites that covers information design, interface design, and navigation systems. Also covers HTML basics, images, and the use of software to enhance Web pages.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is a complete programmer's guide and reference manual for JavaScript. It is particularly useful for developers working with the latest standards-compliant web browsers, like Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6, and Mozilla.

A quick-reference covering the fundamental rules that all XML documents and authors must follow. These include the use of XML for data-intensive documents, an exploration of technologies used for narrative XML documents such as Web pages and books, and the essentials of the basic XML standard. Softcover.

Encompasses every aspect of designing Web pages; furnishes quick and easy access to a vast array of technologies and techniques needed for effective Web design; and covers such topics as HTML, graphics, multimedia and interactivity, and much more. Original. (Beginner).

While the XML "buzz" still dominates talk among Internet developers, the critical need is for information that cuts through the hype and lets Java programmers put XML to work. Java & XML shows how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications, with the end result that both the data and the code are portable.

SVG Essentials shows developers how to take advantage of SVG?s open text-based format. Although SVG is much more approachable than the binary or PostScript files that have dominated graphics formats so far, developers need a roadmap to get started creating and processing SVG files. This book provides an introduction and reference to the foundations developers need to use SVG, and demonstrates techniques for generating SVG from other XML formats.

The Web Services development model involves creating independent application components and making them available for use across the Internet. Developers use WSDL-Web Services Description Language.to describe web services objects. UDDI-Universal Description and Discovery Interface.allows objects to register their characteristics and identify possible interactions. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is the means for the communication between the objects and their respective systems.

The book follows a road tested experiential methodology to expose the critical steps to planning, budgeting, organizing, and managing a web design or redesign project from conceptualization through launch. The authors use a sound pedagogical style that is appealing; easy to access; and full of forms, checklists, and worksheets to assist readers in working through their own projects. The page design will allow for easy browsing of material. In addition, the intuitive organization will make it easy for readers to find the material they need. See the attached table of contents.

The opening section is a crash course on the skills needed to attempt the projects in this book. Subsequent chapters show how to use the markup languages to create a variety of typical web sites.

Using a heavily illustrated, step-by-step style, Watt aims to ease designers into a more analytical, programming approach to graphics without losing the appeal of form and design. The change in mindset required of graphic designers in exploiting "visual components" is explained clearly and practically. While presenting real-world examples of design tasks (such as creating a logo, navigation bar, or a full web page), Watt embeds sidebars, notes, and tips to convey the strict programming portion of the process. This makes it easier for the reader to balance the formality of the SVG code with the functionality of the design.

In Don't Make Me Think, usability expert Steve Krug distills his years of experience and observation into clear, practical--and often amusing--common sense advice for the people in the trenches (the designers, programmers, writers, editors, and Webmasters), the people who tell them what to do (project managers, business planners, and marketing people), and even the people who sign the checks.

Molly Holzschlag brings her trademark style and and enthusiasm to Special Edition Using XHTML, including comprehensive information that will help web professionals to get the most from XHTML. The book starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML, and why it's necessary. It then covers the "meat" of XHTML, including syntax and document creation. Additional topics include creating tables and frames, designing pages effectively, using graphics, color, images and tools, working with stylesheets, adding multimedia and embedded objects, and the relationship between XHTML and XML. Later sections discuss the concept of XHTML modularization, which can be applied to create web content for alternative browsers including pagers, cell phones, and hand held devices.

CGI Programming 101 takes you from the absolute basics of writing CGIs, to advanced topics such as database interaction and using modules, Perl variables, CGI environment variables, form processing, data file I/O, searching/sorting, server-side includes (SSI), random number generation, strings, date and time manipulation, HTTP cookies, e-mail processing, securing scripts, Perl modules, database programming, and custom Perl modules.

8.5" x 11" laminated color reference card, 3-hole punched. A color wheel for web designers to visualize the symmetries among the colors they can use for their sites. Designed to be inserted in a portfolio when visiting clients to help the discussion of color schemes. Color chips are grouped by hue: all shades of the same hue are touching.

Discover and enjoy new design potential through the informed use of color in web design. Over 250 illustrations accompany clear, concise text. Beginning with the basics, practicing web designer and degreed artist Jill Morton takes the reader on a clear, concise, rapid-paced and fully-illustrated review of color terminology, color harmony and color effects.

Color Voodoo for Web Design is a high-powered encyclopedia that includes the following four books from the Color Voodoo series: "A Guide to Color Symbolism," "50 Symbolic Color Schemes," "Color Logic for Web Site Design" and "Color Voodoo for E-Commerce." This series is a complete pictorial guide - it's packed with 580 color illustrations plus RGB/HEX formulas - for successful web site design. (This informative package saves you $50.00 over the price of purchasing each book separately!)

Choosing the right color palette can create a world of meaning for any on-line project. Color Harmonyfor the Web is a wonderful tool created for Web designers and desktop publishers. It provides you with the building blocks to ensure that you make the most effective color choices for every Web project-every time.

Shows how to use CGI to deliver dynamic content on websites. Demonstrates current techniques available with the CGI.pm module and the latest versions of Perl. Explains how CGI and the underlying HTTP protocol work, and then moves quickly into the important details of developing CGI programs.

This book is for anyone wanting to mark up web pages and use scripting to enhance the quality of their pages. It will be useful for those who wish to enter the world of web development with an advantage over existing developers, for those who are already developing pages and wish to stay current with the latest technological changes, and for those who want to access new markets and reduce their workload.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn JavaScript. You will need a very basic knowledge of HTML, but no prior programming experience is necessary. Whether you want to pick up some programming skills, or want to find out how to transfer your existing programming knowledge to the Web, then this book is for you. All you need is a text editor (like Notepad) and a browser, and you're ready to go!

XML is now an established technology for the description and transportation of data, and has made a major impact on almost every aspect of software development. When Microsoft introduced the .NET Framework, they took advantage of XML wherever they could. No other technology is so tightly bound with .NET as XML, both at the developer level and underlying the whole framework.

This book teaches you all you need to know about XML - what it is, how it works, what technologies surround it, and how it can best be used in a variety of situations, from simple data transfer to using XML in your web pages. It builds on the strengths of the first edition, and provides new material to reflect the changes in the XML landscape - notably SOAP and Web Services, and the publication of the XML Schemas Recommendation by the W3C.

JavaScript lets users enrich their Web pages with interactivity, animation, and other fun and useful features that can make a site worth every click. Unlike many other books, this complete guide teaches the JavaScript language as well as how to apply it.