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Solaris™ Application Programming is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, this wide-ranging resource shows developers and software architects how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications.

Whether you’re new to performance analysis and optimization or an experienced developer searching for the most efficient ways to solve performance issues, this practical guide gives you the background information, tips, and techniques for developing, optimizing, and debugging applications on Solaris.

The text begins with a detailed overview of the components that affect system performance. This is followed by explanations of the many developer tools included with Solaris OS and the Sun Studio compiler, and then it takes you beyond the basics with practical, real-world examples. In addition, you will learn how to use the rich set of developer tools to identify performance problems, accurately interpret output from the tools, and choose the smartest, most efficient approach to correcting specific problems and achieving maximum system performance.

Coverage includes

• A discussion of the chip multithreading (CMT) processors from Sun and how they change the way that developers need to think about performance
• A detailed introduction to the performance analysis and optimization tools included with the Solaris OS and Sun Studio compiler
• Practical examples for using the developer tools to their fullest, including informational tools, compilers, floating point optimizations, libraries and linking, performance profilers, and debuggers
• Guidelines for interpreting tool analysis output
• Optimization, including hardware performance counter metrics and source code optimizations
• Techniques for improving application performance using multiple processes, or multiple threads
• An overview of hardware and software components that affect system performance, including coverage of SPARC and x64 processors

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DotNetNuke is an open-source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application's content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and websites.

DotNetNuke has a skinning architecture, which provides a clear separation between design and content, enabling a web designer to develop skins without requiring any specialist knowledge of development in ASP.NET; only knowledge of HTML and an understanding of how to prepare and package the skins themselves are required.

If you want to create great-looking skins for your DotNetNuke websites, this book is for you. If you're new to DotNetNuke skinning, this book is the ideal introduction. It will give you clear, concise and practical guidance to take you from the basics of DotNetNuke skinning right through to developing the skills to make you a DotNetNuke skinner to be reckoned with!This book gives you step-by-step instructions to the fundamentals of skinning so that you will be in control of the look and feel of your DotNetNuke site, and dreaming of new ideas for creating more interactive user interfaces.

What you will learn from this book

• Basics of DNN skins
• Setting up your skin development environment and creating a skin
• Page design and layout for your skin
• Implementing styles in your skin
• Configuring and customizing the skin objects
• Configuring the menu in your skin
• Managing graphics for your skin to change the look
• Creating and managing containers
• Packaging and deploying your skin
• Modifying the control panel for skin administration

ApproachDesigned as a tutorial for beginners to DotNetNuke skinning, this book is packed with practical steps for you to try. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style this book will guide you through the most important tasks of working with DotNetNuke skins. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers or developers who want to customize DNN sites, to bring a specific look and feel to them, and create more attractive user interfaces.

This book is ideal for beginners to DotNetNuke skinning.

You will need to know about the general operation of DotNetNuke and also have some familiarity with creating web pages. Familiarity with CSS and basic ASP.NET would be a bonus. Author(s) Darren Neese

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Have you ever looked at a Web site and wondered, "How did they do that?" It seems everyone has a Web site these days. Families use them to swap information and share photos; churches and clubs use them to keep their members informed. And if you have a business or are in charge of communication for an organization, a Web site is a must.

Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies shows you how easy it can be to create a professional-looking Web site for your business, club, or family. The illustrated, step-by-step instructions, along with the templates you can download from the book’s companion Web site, will help you create an effective Web presence fast, whether you're creating a site for the first time or redesigning an old one.

In the easy-to-follow style you expect from For Dummies books, Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies helps you:

• Gather all your content
• Plan your site, register a domain name, and create Web graphics
• Design pages easily with Dreamweaver templates
• Add a photo gallery, blog, podcasts, videos, or money-making advertising
• Find a hosting service
• Optimize graphics for faster downloads
• Test and publish your site
• Promote your site to attract visitors

All you need are the most basic computer skills, a few easy-to-find software programs, and Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies. You'll be up and running in no time!

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This book will show administrators how to manage and administer the advanced functions and security features in Windows Vista. The recommendations, tips, tricks, and best practices are based on years of early-adopter implementations of Windows Vista in large corporate and private environments. The authors highlight the functions of Windows Vista that both large and small environments have found to be the most useful, including all-new features such as Complete PC Backup, BitLocker, and the powerful Group Policy options that are only available in Windows Vista.

Understand how to…

• Integrate Windows Vista into an Active Directory domain
• Properly protect information for local and remote users
• Utilize BitLocker to encrypt all the data on a disk
• Properly secure a Windows Vista system
• Enable self-service recovery with Shadow Copy
• Deploy Windows Vista systems without having to touch them
• Deploy powerful new Group Policy settings
• Pick the version of Vista that is right for your users
• Optimize Vista performance
• Securely access corporate information while offline
• Perform image-level backup and restore of Vista workstations

Andrew Abbate is a consultant in and best-selling author on various Microsoft technologies and security and operational practices.

James Walker, MCSE, CPM, BSME, has been a consultant, author, and technical editor to several best-selling Windows Unleashed books involving design, security, performance optimization, and data communications.

Scott G. Chimner, CISSP, MCSE, MCSA, TCSE 2, A+, is a consultant for Convergent Computing, an ISSA member, and has been in the computer industry for more than 12 years with a concentration on Information Security. Scott has also served as a contributing writer for several books on Microsoft technologies.

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This book bridges the gap between what you'll learn from a typical beginner book about Ruby on Rails and what you'll need to know to create a solid, professional, spectacular, complex web application. Professional Ruby on Rails is a guide to taking a beginner web site and making it great. The book covers topics of interest to a web professional who is trying to develop and deploy a complex application. These topics include:

• Using REST to structure your application cleanly
• How to test and deploy your application for maximum automation with minimal headache
• Protecting your site and your user's data
• Using Rails to create the kinds of interactions that web users are coming to expect

The current Rails books are either beginner books, cookbook-style books, or specifically aimed at Ajax development. This book will fill the void for a book that discusses in-depth the information that a developer would need in order to move from a basic site to a fully featured web application.
What you will learn from this book

• How to write automated tests for all parts of your Rails application

• Why rake is a handy tool for automating commonly performed actions

• Ways to manage time zones and internationalization

• How to deploy Ruby applications using Capistrano, Mongrel, and Apache

• Techniques for installing and running a Rails application in Java

• Current security techniques, including prevention of cross-site scripting attacks

Who this book is for
This book is for RoR programmers, software and web developers, designers, and architects who are looking to expand their knowledge of the Rails framework.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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