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This book made my programming efforts efficient, up to date and elaborate

Great book. I've got about 6 MFC / C++ Windows programming books and very few tell you what you want to know. This book covers a lot in a logical manner.

This book does just what it says it does: it provides a no-nonsense, quick and easy approach to learning specific tasks with Microsoft Word. Need to do something? Look it up. The pictures and step-by-step instructions make it impossible to screw things up. And the Tips in many of the sections help you go beyond the basics. All without a lot of time-consuming "dummies" chatter. This is the third Visual Quick Guide I have by Maria Langer and all I can say is that she really knows her stuff!

Since Microsoft does not include any manuals or written materials with Word:mac 2001, Ms. Langer's book is indispensable. Her explanations are clear, concise, and to the point. Her instructions are much more easy to follow than what appears in the onscreen MS Word Help.

This book does a good job of covering all the aspects that need to be considered when setting up a web server, and gives useful examples.

Just finished reading this book and would recommend it to anyone who works with Unix, will be keeping this on my refernce shelf.

I'm now about 2/3 of the way through the book, and it really has not been a difficult learning exercise. It gives a great overview of web servers, and the included videos really are a great learning tool - nothing like seeing someone actually telnet into Apache and fake out a browser request. There are some errors in cross reference to the CD-only book, and some audios are out of place, but that'e life. Well worth the money.

This multimedia volume is well worth the purchase price. Exceptionally written using real-world examples, this volume creates a virtual education factory for webserver training. As a partner at a major e-services firm I require this volume be used by all my web practicioners.

It contains to the point but thorough information of how to write code that breaks as rarely as possible and when it does break exposes as little as possible to an attacker. At the same time the language is clear and enjoyable.

Initially I didn't liked Windows Vista. A resource hog, some incompatibilities... But I had to use it at work so I installed it and worked with it for two months. After that, I really like the security features it has, but I felt like missing more details about specific topics... So I decided to buy this book.

Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista comes as a, mostly C++ oriented (although contains some C# examples), "how to use all new features" book. Very well structured, with lots of code examples, best practices, direct to the topic, and one thing I liked a lot: very sincere. If something is working bad, the authors state it clearly (for example, the Windows Firewall API, which has bugs), and they even provide workarounds to avoid them.

Down to the content, the book covers a lot of topics: New safer C functions, banned APIs, new APIs, UAC, token manipulation, integrity levels, code signing, virtualization, buffer overrun defenses, IPv6, Secure Socket extensions, Windows Firewall (Vista version, of course), IE7 security mechanisms & defenses (very interesting), Windows services development best practices, protected mode API and DEP, and the new CNG (Cryptography API: Next Generation).

Even if you don't usually develop with C++ I highly recommend this book. With it you will learn a lot about all the new security features of Vista. You just need some basic knowledge of standard Windows security features and some C++/API programming.

Gary DeWard Brown's books on JCL are classic. I had the first edition, back in 1978 (which was titled 'System 360 JCL', if I recall correctly) -- I learned from it; I used it as a reference; I annotated it and created my own index; I had pages memorized.

Brown has updated the book over the years. If you have a development background but know very little about mainframes or about JCL, the first section will give you an excellent introduction. If you are writing or maintaining JCL, the book will be a valuable reference.

I first encountered this book in edition 1 as a programer. We were on Edition 2 when I was a project Lead and everyone in my staff was issued a copy. On Edition 3 I was teaching a college course on JCL and had the text changed to this excellent reference. I am now a consultant and just finished a two day seminar to familiarize a group of analysts with their computing environment and the necessary JCL to get things done. I showed them edition 5 and recommended they get a copy. I believe that right now an order for about 12 copies of this tool is being approved. Very simply this continues to be the best overall resource on JCL in print. The additional information on TSO and SMS make it the single most powerful technical resource on the market. I have been in data processing for almost 23 years and have yet to encounter anything better.

Educators talk about their desire to implement 1-to-1 laptop programs in the classroom but oftentimes they hold back, citing cost and the lack of objective measures of success. Other schools spend the money but don't have a solid rationale. Either approach results in failure, as a May article in the New York Times about the dismantling of such programs demonstrated. I imagine the results would have been different if the heads of technology at those schools had read Pamela Livingston's book. Finally there's a reader-friendly manual for programs that more than justify their cost. It's made a world of difference at my school and two other schools nearby.

... To my surprise I found the book very well laid out and ultra-conducive to high speed learning. To document my effort (and to have fodder for my lawsuit) I videotaped my Flash 5 session. After 7 minutes I began to think that this book really does deliver. At 9 minutes and 47 seconds I threw my hands up in the air and said "Its true, this book is amazing, I can learn this stuff in 10 minutes."...

I started out not even knowing how to use the Internet before I read this book. Now, as you can tell, I can use the Internet and many other functions on my computer.

If you already have an information systems background and are suddenly confronted with System 7, this is the book to have. In fact it would be wise to obtain a copy before you need it. If you are past system 7 then keep the book for nostalgia.

Chapters include:

What is System 7?

Before you Upgrade to system7

Installing system 7

What To do with Your Old Files

The New Desktop

Stationery

Publish and Subscribe

Converting Fonts To TrueType

System Software Primer