Programming and scripting languages: general

If you have programming experience and a familiarity with C--the dominant language in embedded systems--Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition is exactly what you need to get started with embedded software.

Now installed on more than 20 million Internet domains around the world, PHP is an undisputed leader in web programming languages.

From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines.

When Microsoft made Visual Basic into an object-oriented programming language, millions of VB developers resisted the change to the .

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day.

ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages.

Python is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows.

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For too long, developers have worked on disorganized application projects, where every part seemed to have its own build system, and no common repository existed for information about the state of the project.

"e;This library is useful for practitioners, and is an excellent tool for those entering the field: it is a set of computer vision algorithms that work as advertised.

PL/SQL, Oracle's programming language for stored procedures, delivers a world of possibilities for your database programs.

In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications.

An enormous system comprising myriad technologies, options, and releases, Oracle's complexities have spawned numerous areas of specialization.

Okay, all you VB6 developers--time's up.

There are many books on data structures and algorithms, including some with useful libraries of C functions.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (formerly known by its code name "e;Avalon"e;) is a brand-new presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client operating system.

Lightweight yet powerful, VBScript from Microsoft is used in four main areas: server-side web applications using Active Server Pages (ASP), client-side web scripts using Internet Explorer, code behind Outlook forms, and automating repetitive tasks using Windows Script Host (WSH).

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With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in computing and business.

This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application.

Password sniffing, spoofing, buffer overflows, and denial of service: these are only a few of the attacks on today's computer systems and networks.

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Newly updated for Excel 2002, Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel.

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As users come to depend on MySQL, they find that they have to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, and performance--issues that are not well documented but are critical to a smoothly functioning site.

To-the-point, authoritative, no-nonsense solutions have always been a trademark of O'Reilly books.

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is ideal for both standalone programs and scripting applications.

This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in a convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces.

To help you be more efficient in your work, this handy pocket reference gives you instant reminders on how to use important MySQL functions, especially in conjunction with key parts of the LAMP open source infrastructure.

Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think.

Ruby is an absolutely pure object-oriented scripting language written in C and designed with Perl and Python capabilities in mind.

Given Perl's natural fit for web applications development, it's no surprise that Perl is also a natural choice for web services development.

XML is a text-based markup language that has taken the programming world by storm.

Perl soared to popularity as a language for creating and managing web content, but with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl), Perl is equally adept at consuming information on the Web.

The web services architecture provides a new way to think about and implement application-to-application integration and interoperability that makes the development platform irrelevant.

With its highly developed capacity to detect patterns in data, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for biological data analysis.

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development?

This book is a thorough introduction to Java Message Service (JMS), the standard Java application program interface (API) from Sun Microsystems that supports the formal communication known as "e;messaging"e; between computers in a network.

Java and SOAP provides Java developers with an in-depth look at SOAP (the Simple Object Access Protocol).

This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time.

Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database.

Java and XML, 3rd Edition, shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work.

Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows.

This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more.

Although MySQL's source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, it's essentially closed to you if you don't understand it.

"e;If you're looking for solid, easy-to-follow advice on estimation, requirements gathering, managing change, and more, you can stop now: this is the book for you.

For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data.

Need to extract data from a text file or aweb page?

With start-up templates for projects ranging from Windows applications to web services, and extensive help and on-line documentation, Visual Studio .

Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform.