Operating systems

Conquer Windows 11 -- from the inside out!

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system.

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

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.

Rails Cookbook is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.

Already the industry standard for Python users, ProgrammingPython fromO'Reilly just got even better.

With Leopard, Apple has unleashed the greatest version of Mac OS X yet, and David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail.

Compared to industrial-strength database products such as Microsoft's SQL Server, Access is a breeze to use.

Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features.

grep Pocket Reference is the first guide devoted to grep, the powerful Unix content-location utility.

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data.

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If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age.

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data.

"e;The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences.

If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone.

FreeBSD is by far the most popular version of BSD, the legendary operating system that has contributed a great deal to every version of Unix in use today (including Mac OS X).

The Tcl language and Tk graphical toolkit are simple and powerful building blocks for custom applications.

With iPhoto '09, Apple's popular photo organizer and editing program is better than ever.

With iWork '09, Apple's productivity applications have come of age.

Is Windows giving you pause?

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology is becoming a standard feature of computer systems that support mission-critical services like file sharing, mail exchange, or Web servers.

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.

If you use Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2008 and .

Device drivers literally drive everything you're interested in--disks, monitors, keyboards, modems--everything outside the computer chip and memory.

This book puts you in charge of the most flexible and adaptable graphical interface in the computer industry.

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.

Shell scripting skills never go out of style.

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream.

If you're a developer or system administrator lured to Mac OS X because of its Unix roots, you'll quickly discover that performing Unix tasks on a Mac is different than what you're accustomed to.

Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances.

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform.

For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.

"e;Neither a "e;Starting Linux"e; book nor a dry reference manual, this book has a lot to offer to those coming to Fedora from other operating systems or distros.

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.

"e;This book is a must for anyone attempting to examine the iPhone.

O'Reilly's bestselling book on Linux's bash shell is at it again.

Schedules, budgets, communications, resources.

LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell,Second Edition is an invaluable resource for determining what you needto practice to pass the Linux Professional Institute exams.

Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the early '90s is its user interface.

In order to thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it works so well on a wide variety of systems, you need to delve deep into the heart of the kernel.

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.

Windows Vista is Microsoft's most important software release in more than a decade.

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age.

If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone.

Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "e;style"e; they picked up early on.

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So much of what is commonplace today was once considered impossible, or at least wishful thinking.