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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.

This book has what is very hard to find with such new material as WPF... good working examples. I truely believe the the chapter on user and owner controls more than pays for the book, although the book offers much more.
Apress rates this book Beginner-Intermediate. For me, I don't think I could have understood this book 6 months ago, but after working with WPF for about a year now I find it extremely easy to read and very informative.

I found direct answers to problems that I have had over my last 6 week project, and know that if this book was out last month I could have cut 2 weeks out of that project with ease.

Back to user controls (again, this is not the only good about the book... it just what I'm focusing on right now). The chapter offers not only good examples, but insight from the authors on how to make your new control work well with others that would want to restyle it. Another section shows you how to know if your in delevopment mode so as to change it's look when in Blend if required. All in all a pretty thourgh coverage.

One thing I'd like to say, as I think this might bug some people. There is a fair amount of duplicate code in the book, as there are times that the same code really does express more than one idea, and can be reused in other sections (or even the same section at times.)

I actually agree with the author's desision to duplicate the code instead of referencing me to other sections in the book. I can keep my train of thought where it should be, and don't have to keep flipping back a few chapters as in some other books. Even with the dupicate code, there are other functions added if appropriate.

Of the examples I have read, I find them to be concise, and to accurately portray the idea the authors are describing. They do not attempt to be more than they need to be, but are strong enough to cover more than the bare minimium.

Congratulations on a job well done.

This very well written and organized book provides comprehensive coverage of WPF features. The authors get down to business right away, assuming that most readers already know basic WPF concepts such as Dependency Property, Attached Property, etc. because they don't waste time explaining many such building block concepts, and yet a few of the recipes are surprisingly beginner-ish material. Of the 200+ recipes, the ones that I thought gave me the most bang for my buck are those contained in Chapters 11 (Creating Animation), 7 (Working With Test, Documents, and Printing), 4 (Creating Use and Custom Controls) and 5 (Data Binding), either because they covered materials not found many where else, or they clarified some concepts for me. For example, the Animation Recipes discussed concepts not even covered in the very well-received "Practical WPF Graphics Programming" book by Jack Xu. The recipes in Chapters 6 (Working With Styles, Templates, Skins and Themes), 8 (Multithreading), and 10 are good, and the remaining recipes in Chapters 1 (Building and Debugging WPF Applications), 2 (Working With Windows, Forms, and Layout Management), 3 (Using Standard Controls), 9 (Working With 2D Graphics), 12 (Dealing With Multimedia and User Input) and 13 (Migrating and Windows Forms Interoperability) cover materials easily found in other books. Another positive, however, is that some chapters contain bonus nuggets of information on things you can do to make your code play nicer with designer tools like Expression Blend. Overall, I think the authors did a great job!

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.

Lately everyone seems to be talking about YouTube. What started out as a place to waste a few hours watching stupid people tricks has grown into the next big marketing thing. It makes sense. Where else can you get your infomercial or other video blurb in front of millions of people without paying a cent?

Many people are jumping on the bandwagon without thinking. They post their old commercials or send in a clip without much thought about if they should be using YouTube. While YouTube can be a great opportunity, it has to fit your company and your product. Like any marketing plan, you have to know your target audience and find out they need, want, and desire. Then, tailor your product and your marketing to suit them.

YouTube for Business goes through the complete process from figuring out if YouTube is right for your marketing plan and shooting a video through editing and formatting concerns to posting your video at YouTube and other like-minded sites. If you are the least bit curious about online video marketing, you have to get this book. It will help you figure out what you need to do and how to go about do it.

I loved this book. It is well outlined and well written. And it is very topical in today's business marketing world where small businesses can use YouTube to enhance their online marketing efforts significantly. The book has 16 chapters divided into the following five parts:

I. Marketing your business online with YouTube (1-3)
II. Producing Your YouTube Videos (4-8)
III. Managing Your YouTube Videos (9-11)
IV. Working with YouTube Video Blogs (12-13)
V. Promotion and Monetization (14-16)

And each Part is concluded with a "Profile" which applied what had been discussed in the chapters preceding it. I found these profiles very helpful and informative. Not too long ago I read and reviewed "Show Me: Marketing with Video on the Internet" (ISBN: 1884230016). I had high hopes for that book and wanted it to be like the instant book being reviewed. Unfortunately it fell short of my expectations. However, after reading "YouTube for Business" this other book might be a good companion read?

Internet marketing today seems to be about putting together successful ways to generate traffic to your company or nonprofit Web site. You can do this by performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. You can do this by creating lots of content pages in your Web site. You can do this by writing articles and posting them on free article-posting sites online. Each article will have a by-line directing traffic back to your site. You can generate traffic by creating one (or more than one) blog which will direct traffic back to your site. And after reading this book you can generate traffic by creating simple videos you post on YouTube that will direct viewers back to your Web site.

The really neat thing about YouTube traffic generation is that it not only generates traffic, but it allows you to get your face and voice in front of people as though you were standing there talking with them. You can become three-dimensional rather than just two.

My favorite part of the book was Part II where the author goes into some depth into how to produce videos for posting on YouTube. And it is these same videos you will want to paste into your main Web site and your blog posts. I highly recommend this book for just about any small business owner who wants to make a name for themselves better and quicker. 5 stars!

PS. Take a look at the Search Inside material offered by Amazon so you can examine the Table of Contents of this book and more fully understand what this book has to offer.

This author took what a computer was when Macs first came out and clearly demonstrates why a computer rocks as a digital creation tool. A excellent find and gem if you can find it.

Wow,

First, I have to state how saddening it is that NO one has entered a review before this. This is one of the most creatively cool Mac books ever made. Let me tell you why: The copyright date on my book (1st printing) is 1986. This means Michael Green likely started working on this in 1984 or '85, the year of the very first Macs. (As a student at Drexel university, I was very fortunate to receive one of the first 128K Macs -- before they went on sale to the public.)

But enough, what it REALLY means is that all or nearly all of this book is done in pure black and white -- and it's mostly illustrations. The amount of creativity Green plugs into a 512K Mac is mind-BLOWING. This book exudes so much effortless cool, I'm tempted to try resting it against my head on a hot Florida day.

Bottom line: If you think you've seen everything that can be done with just B&W dots, if you'd like to experience (or re-live) hanging ten on the screaming edge of one the coolest technological revolutions, or if you'd just like a sweet, cheap source (LESS than $7 -- shipped!-- from Amazon as I write this) of B&W creativity, BUY this book.

PS: Green is still at it today: Plug this "One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi" or this: 0762420871 into Amazon's search bar to see one of his latest works.

Every NT book out there covers the basics, this book is for the person who is looking to get total control over his NT network. This book focuses on issues like scripted installation, .adm scripts and policy files, and much much more.

I searched long and hard for a book covering the details of the ZAK and other methods that I could use to simply my administrative function. This book is it.

The full spectrum is covered here, from installations to security profiles, from Office suite control to remote registry edits. Each topic is covered in full.

This is another fine example of what a technical computer book SHOULD be from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Trust me with one thing .... there isn't another book that will give you the depth of coverage that this book provides. I literally looked at 50 books before finding this gem.

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.