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The author provides a comprehensive reference and resource with practical, actionable information and strategies for financial planning and retirement planning. Unique to this book will be a very extensive, free, companion web site keyed to the book that will provide a wealth of additional information and updates. Readers will have access to a multitude of calculators and analytical tools to assess their own financial situations and develop their own financial plans as they read through the book....
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Programming the Cell Processor: For Games, Graphics, and Computation
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2008/09/25
Insert Date: 2008/07/04
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.The Cell processor is the brain of the Playstation 3 and is IBM's foremost device in the field of supercomputing. This book covers the Cell inside and out, from its internal architecture to its programming methods and development tools. Packed with code examples, step-by-step tutorials, and helpful diagrams, this treatment provides a hands-on introduction to programming the Cell in C, C++, and assembly language. The majority of the book describes the wide range of applications available for the Cell and the many free libraries that...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Women today are entrepreneurs, successful professionals, and savvy investors. They control more than half the private wealth in the United States and outlive their male partners, on average by four to seven years. They need to be aware of the wealth that they have, and what they want to do with it. This book is for the average woman. It is not for professionals (that is, lawyers, accountants, or financial planners).  It's for the young mother who is worried about who will care for her kids if something happens to her and her husband. It's for...
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iPhone Forensics
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By: Jonathan Zdziarski
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub. Date: 2009/01/15
Insert Date: 2008/07/04
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With the iPhone quickly becoming the world's #1 mobile device, enterprises are seeing more of the devices being used in business and are finding a need to adequately manage sensitive data and security. iPhones store enormous amounts of sensitive information that's useful to both law enforcement and malicious intruders, including images of web sites visited and search terms used. Any system administrator responsible for staff who conduct business over iPhones should know how to find, save, and securely destroy sensitive data on the iPhone. iPhone Forensics gives IT professionals, security...
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 2 is a hands-on tutorial that teaches novices as well as intermediate — even advanced designers new to Expression Web — how to use the new software and how to establish a work process that, in the end, generates proper standards-based web sites. It will take you from the design and concept stage all the way to a fully working web site and teach techniques that can be used to design, build and even re-design websites to make them standards-based and "clean".            ...
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Tear Down the Walls Between You and Your Customer!Enterprises that truly empathize with their customers can discover new opportunities faster. They're more prepared to take risks. They can rely more confidently on their decision-making intuitions. Fostering empathy across an entire organization isn't easy, but it can be done–and this book shows you how.In The Empathy Effect, top product designer and business planner Dev Patnaik shows how to "be your customer," walk in their shoes, and profit from the experience! Dev begins by showing how size and distance have disconnected most companies from...
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Computing as you know it has changed. No longer are you tied to using expensive programs stored on your computer. No longer will you only be able to access your data from one computer. No longer will you be tied to doing work only from your work computer or playing only from your personal computer.Enter Cloud Computing — an exciting new way to work with programs and data, collaborate with friends and family, share ideas with co-workers and friends, and most of all, be more productive! The "cloud" consists of thousands of computers and servers, all linked and accessible to you via the...
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Essential Silverlight 2.0
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub. Date: 2009/03/13
Insert Date: 2008/06/26
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After building an application, people often ask why theirs doesn't work as well as another similar Silverlight application. The product team answers those questions on a case-by-case basis. However, the root cause of much of this confusion is a lack of knowledge of the inner workings of the system. The functional API description provided by the SDK, Web materials, and other books allow developers to build an application that looks and behaves as they expect but when it comes to problems such as application performance and deployment, a much deeper knowledge of the product is...
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.The Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification Exam Prep is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exam for system administrators, the CX-310-200. It offers classroom-style training by one of the best and well-known authors in the Solaris world, Bill Calkins. It will equip you with vital knowledge for success on exam day plus it acts a reference guide that will come in handy after the test. The content addresses all the new exam objectives in...
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2008/08/01
Insert Date: 2008/06/24
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin, presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin, who has helped bring agile principles from a practitioner's point of view to tens of thousands of programmers, has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor...
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