Essential SQLAlchemy Mapping Python to Databases

Essential SQLAlchemy introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its relea...

 The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

"A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use ASP.NET solutions!" The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of solutions to the most common ASP.NET problems. Let five world-class ASP.NET professionals guide you thr...

 Essential Actionscript 3. 0

ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use, cleanliness, and sophistication are considerable. Essential ActionScript 3.0 focuses on the core language and obj...

 Essential Boat Electrics

A clear, concise and logical introduction to boat electrics. An understanding of this subject is essential for any skipper-salt water is a harsh environment for wires and chips and problems can occur at any time, both in harbour and at sea. Featuring fant...

 Essential CVS Version Control and Source-Code Management - Covers CVS 1.12

This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. Ideal for software developers tracking different versions of th...

 Essential C++

For the practicing programmer with little time to spare, Essential C++ offers a fast-track to learning and working with C++ on the job. This book is specifically designed to bring you up to speed in a short amount of time. It focuses on the elements of C+...

 Stylish Home Interiors Intérieurs d'exception

This book presents a selection of the most interesting proposals in interior design, showing a return to more humanized concepts, based on the profound relationship between human beings and the space they inhabit. You will find solutions of the most diver...

 Computer Forensics An Essential Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Managers

Would your company be prepared in the event of: Computer-driven espionage A devastating virus attack A hacker's unauthorized access A breach of data security? As the sophistication of computer technology has grown, so has the rate of computer...

 Building Best Practice Websites 101 Essential Checklists

Want to learn how to make your web sites usable and accessible? Want to ensure that your sites meet current best practice, without spending hours trawling through incomprehensible specifications and recommendations from dozens of different books, research...

 Essential Microsoft Operations Manager Get Control of Your Windows Network with Microsoft's Operations Management Tool

For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of ...

 Digital Photography in Available Light Essential Skills

Digital Photography in Available Light is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. Learn how to choose the most appropriate digital camera for your workflow, manage your image files and process i...

 Python Essential Reference

Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus of this latest edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five year...

 The JavaScript Anthology 101 essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Take Control with the Ultimate Javascript Toolkit The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of elegant solutions to the most common JavaScript questions and problems. It contains thoroughly tested, standards-...

 Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration

From the command line to Apple's graphical tools, this book uses a thorough, fundamental approach that leads readers to mastery of every aspect of the server. Full of much-needed insight, clear explanations, troubleshooting tips, and security information ...

  Essential LightWave 3D 8

LightWave 3D is one of the most powerful and popular tools for creating computer graphic imagery, animation, and visual effects. This update to the best-selling Essential LightWave 3D 7.5 introduces you to the incredible new tools available in LightWave [...

 Essential SNMP Help for System and Network Administrators

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides a "simple" set of operations that allows you to more easily monitor and manage network devices like routers, switches, servers, printers, and more. The information you can monitor with SNMP is wide-rangin...

 MAC OS X Unix 101 Byte-Sized Projects Master Essential UNIX Projects and Take Charge of the Command Line

Lose the mouse and start taking advantage of the power of Unix in Mac OS X! In this practical and approachable book, Adrian Mayo guides readers through 101 useful Unix projects. Along the way, newcomers will gain a working knowledge of Unix and those alre...

  Photoshop CS2 Essential Skills

An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curricu...

  Fundamental Data Compression

Fundamental Data Compression provides all the information students need to be able to use this essential technology in their future careers. A huge, active research field, and a part of many people's everyday lives, compression technology is an essential ...

 Essential PHP Security A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications

Being highly flexible in building dynamic, database-driven web applications makes the PHP programming language one of the most popular web development tools in use today. It also works beautifully with other open source tools, such as the MySQL database a...

 The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing Creative Strategies to Boost Profits Now!

Learn and apply proven techniques for marketing your products on eBay effectively--and watch your profits soar. The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing gives you an action plan for creating a comprehensive marketing and sales strategy so you ca...

 The Essential Digital Video Handbook A Comprehensive Guide To Making Videos That Make Money

The digital video revolution has blurred the lines between professional and amateur equipment, with some Hollywood movies being shot and edited using the same technology as families use for their vacation footage. With sales of these remarkable digital vi...

 C++ Common Knowledge Essential Intermediate Programming

What Every Professional C++ Programmer Needs to Know-Pared to Its Essentials So It Can Be Efficiently and Accurately Absorbed C++ is a large, complex language, and learning it is never entirely easy. But some concepts and techniques must be thoroughl...

 Essential Actionscript 2.0

In September 2003, Macromedia released Flash MX 2004, and with it, ActionScript 2.0, a dramatically improved version of Flash's programming language. ActionScript 2.0 introduces a formal object-oriented programming syntax and methodology for creating Flas...

 RapidIO The Embedded System Interconnect

RapidIO - The Next Generation Communication Fabric for Embedded Application brings together one essential volume on RapidIO interconnect technology, providing a major reference work for the evaluation and understanding of RapidIO. Covering essential aspec...

 Portable DBA Oracle Essential Techniques for the Day-to-Day DBA

Your On-the-Job Quick Reference Carry essential Oracle Database administration information and troubleshooting techniques along with you so you can handle a wide variety of tasks on the spot. This handy resource offers fast access to administrative...

  Essential mathematics for games and interactive applications

Based on the authors' popular tutorials at the Game Developers Conference, Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications presents the core mathematics necessary for sophisticated 3D graphics and interactive physical simulations. The book be...

 Photoshop 7 Real World

Master the essential day-in and day-out Photoshop production techniques with this definitive resource from bestselling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser. The authors place a dual emphasis on efficiency and getting the best quality possible out of Pho...

 Photoshop CS Essential Skills

The latest title to join the Essential Skills series, Photoshop: Essential Skills uses a tried and tested curriculum, activities taken from actual student experiences to offer an in-depth coverage of the software for educational teaching and study. The...

 Lotus Notes and Domino essential reference

Put simply: compact, complete, definitive. Lotus Notes & Domino Essential Reference is a panacean tool to help you develop applications with speed and confidence. This book contains all the front- and back-end classes for LotusScript and Java with the...

 Essential Windows NT System Administration

This book combines practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Windows NT systems as productively as possible. It covers the standard utilities offered with the Windows NT operating system and from the Resource Kit, as well as importa...

 Essential PHP Tools Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators

This book is an essential guide to some of the best free add-ons to PHP. These add-ons provide invaluable functionality for improving your PHP Web applications, including accessing databases, generating robust Web forms, using page templating systems, cre...

 Essential System Administration

Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essen...

 Essential .NET Volume 1 The Common Langage Runtime

Essential .NET, Volume 1, is an authoritative guide to the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime. This book shows how developers can take full advantage of the power available in Microsoft .NET. This book starts by describing the glue of the .NET Framew...

 Essential COM Building distributed objects using C++ and OLE

All Windows programmers take advantage of features made possible by COM and DCOM, but they generally do so at arm's length through an intermediate programming technology such as ActiveX. Offering essential information for the Windows developer, this text ...

 Essential blogging Selecting and using weblog tools

Anyone can run a blog, a web site offering running commentary that can range from personal diary entries to political analysis to technology observations. From everyday people to Elvis Costello and RuPaul, bloggers are making their voices heard around the...

 Essential Director 8.5 Fast

Macromedia Director 8.5 provides an exciting environment for composing interactive, attractive and media rich movies suitable for the web. Starting with an introduction to the development environment, Fiaz Hussain presents a quick and effective guide to t...

 Essential C# fast

C# is a new language from Microsoft and is a key part of their .NET framework. It is a modern, well-engineered language, in the same family of programming languages in terms of syntax, as C, C++ and Java. If you have knowledge of one of these languages, i...