Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Romans For Dummies

The Romans For Dummies
By Guy de la Bedoyere A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history. Tony Robinson star of Blackadder and Time Team. This entertaining and informative guide introduces readers to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors, epic wars, awesome architecture, heroes, and villains. With a complete rundown of Roman history alongside fascinating insights into the lives of everyday Romans, readers will discover the amazing people and events involved in the rise and fall of one of the greatest of all ancient civilisations and how its influence can still be felt around the world today. This entertaining and informative guide introduces readers to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors, epic wars, awesome architecture, heroes, and villains. With a complete rundown of Roman history alongside fascinating insights into the lives of everyday Romans, readers will discover the amazing people and events involved in the rise and fall of one of the greatest of all ancient civilisations and how its influence can still be felt around the world today.
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Poker for Dummies

Poker for Dummies
By Richard D. Harroch , Lou Krieger Poker is America’s national card game, and its popularity continues to grow. Nationwide, you can find a game in progress everywhere. If you want to play, you can find poker games on replicas of 19th century riverboats or on Native American tribal lands. You can play poker at home with the family or online with opponents from around the world. Like bowling and billiards before it, poker has moved out from under the seedier side of its roots and is flowering in the sunshine. Maybe you’ve never played poker before and you don’t even know what a full house is. Poker For Dummies covers the basics. Or perhaps you've played for years, but you just don’t know how to win. This handy guide will help you walk away from the poker table with winnings, not lint, in your pockets. If you’re a poker expert, you still can benefit – some of the suggestions may surprise you, and you can certainly learn from the anecdotes from professional players like T.J. Cloutier and Stu Unger. Know what it takes to start winning hand after hand by exploring strategy, getting to know antes and betting structure, knowing your opponents, and understanding the odds. Poker For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: * Poker games such as Seven-Card Stud, Omaha, and Texas Hold'em * Setting up a game at home * Playing in a casino: Do's and don'ts * Improving your play with Internet and video poker * Deciphering poker sayings and slang * Ten ways to read your opponent's body language * Playing in poker tournaments * Money management and recordkeeping * Knowing when and how to bluff Poker looks like such a simple game. Anyone, it seems, can play it well – but that's far from the truth. Learning the rules can be quick work, but becoming a winning player takes considerably longer. Still, anyone willing to make the effort can become a good player. You can succeed in poker the way you succeed in life: by facing it squarely, getting up earlier than the next person, and working harder and smarter than the competition.
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Access Forms & Reports For Dummies

Access Forms & Reports For Dummies
By Brian Underdahl Create queries that make forms and reports useful Develop forms to access the data you need and make reports that make sense! If you thought you had to use a spreadsheet program to produce reports and forms, guess what! Access can turn out great-looking forms and reports that actually show what's going on with your data if you know how to ask it nicely. This hands-on guide helps you do just that, and it works with all versions of Access. Discover how to * Ask Access the right questions * Work with sets of data * Create simple forms with a wizard * Use queries to create new tables * Troubleshoot queries * Add visual features to reports
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Beginning Programming for Dummies

Beginning Programming for Dummies
By Wallace Wang Qbasic is still the perfect language for beginning programmers because it is "English-like," which means it makes more sense than pt->(int)foo. As part of the ever-excellent "Dummies" series, this guide discusses general programming, programming with Qbasic, data structures, algorithms, and Internet programming. Recommended for all public libraries. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Excel Workbook For Dummies

Excel is the most sophisticated spreadsheet program available, making it easy for you to create a variety of analyses and calculations for personal and professional use. However, this program is much more than just an electronic version of an accountant’s green sheet, and mastering even the most basic functions can be a challenge.

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Essential Windows Communication Foundation

“Whether this is the first time or the fifty-first time you’re using WCF, you’ll learn something new by reading this book.” –Nicholas Allen, Program Manager, Web Services, Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the easiest way to produce and consume Web services on the Microsoft platform. With .NET 3.5, WCF has been extensively revamped–and Visual Studio 2008 gives developers powerful new tools for utilizing it. Essential Windows Communication Foundation shows developers exactly how to make the most of WCF with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Drawing on extensive experience working with early adopters, three Microsoft insiders systematically address the topics developers ask about WCF. The authors approach each subject with practical advice and present best practices, tips, and tricks for solving problems. Throughout, you’ll find detailed explanations, solutions for the “pain points” of WCF development, and an extensive collection of reusable code examples.Coverage includes *Using WCF contracts to define complex structures and interfaces*Understanding WCF’s channel stacks and channel model architecture*Configuring the WCF communication stack to use only the protocols you need*Using standard and custom service behaviors to manage concurrency, instances, transactions, and more*Serializing data from .

NET types to XML Infosets and representing Infosets “on the wire” *Hosting WCF services via IIS, managed .NET applications, and Windows Activation Services*WCF security, in depth: authentication; transport and message-level security; and Internet and intranet scenarios*Improving reliability: exception handling, diagnostics, and more*Workflow services: new integration points between WCF 3.5 and Windows Workflow Foundation*Building client-to-client, peer network-based applications*Utilizing WCF for non-SOAP Web services: AJAX and JSON examples and .NET 3.5 hosting classes Microsoft’s Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, and Chris Bowen are technology experts at the Microsoft Technology Center in Boston. They specialize in helping customers improve their technical agility by applying WCF and related technologies.Resnick has specialized in Internet technologies and distributed computing at Microsoft since 1995. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and is now technology director for the U.S. Microsoft Technology Centers. Crane has more than 15 years of experience in senior software development roles.

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Implementing SugarCRM: A step-by-step guide to using this powerful Open Source application in your business

Written by a veteran SugarCRM expert and experienced documentation author (not to mention official SugarCRM Rock Star!), this book is the definitive guide to implementing SugarCRM. SugarCRM is the leading open source web based customer relationship management system. It is available in both free open source and commercial versions, making it an ideal way for small-medium business to try out a CRM system without committing large sums of money. Although SugarCRM is carefully designed for ease of use, attaining measurable business gains requires careful planning and research. This book distils hard won SugarCRM experienced into an easy to follow guide to implementing the full power of SugarCRM. Using a unique checklist approach the book works from the SugarCRM basics right up to advanced features in a clear, friendly way. It is carefully designed to distil hard-won SugarCRM wisdom from a recognized expert into a clear, readable, practical guide. By helping you clarify your business goals the book enables you to build a CRM system to support your business needs, and shows SugarCRM in a realistic business setting through an Extended case study. SugarCRM is an extensive PHP/MySQL based application but with its rich administration interfaces no programming is required to get the most of it. This book is ideal for small-medium business owners/managers with reasonable IT skills, who want to implement SugarCRM for themselves as either a first CRM or as a replacement for existing solutions. It will also be a valuable resource for IT staff tasked with implementing, maintaining, or upgrading a SugarCRM installation

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ASP.NET 2.0 Everyday Apps For Dummies


Create a shopping cart, online store, and Web forum, or set up a blogASP.NET 2.0 is a functional programming tool, so why not discover how to use it by actually creating something functional? These aren’t useless “Hello World” type examples - you’ll build secure e-commerce, community, and back-end applications right from the start. Even before you’ve finished this hands-on guide, you’ll have something to show for your efforts!

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How to Program Using Java

A humorous and friendly introduction to programming for undergraduate students meeting the subject for the first time. Using Java as a running example, the authors outline the principles of programming that will serve as a valuable foundation in good practice for when students meet other languages in later courses. Packed with cartoons and entertaining examples, this book is an accessible, student-friendly guide to programming for beginners.Download Here


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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services

This practical introduction to OpenLDAP for Application Developers emphasizes how to get things done, going into Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) theory only to answer practical questions. It demystifies OpenLDAP, providing a solid understanding of how to use its directory and covering building directory services, integrating directory services, and developing directory-enabled PHP or Python applications. Readers need only basic Linux system administration experience, not LDAP experience. Open-source OpenLDAP directory server is included in all major Linux distributions; many open-source and proprietary applications can use OpenLDAP’s services. Client applications use LDAP to connect to OpenLDAP, search the directory, and (if authorized) modify and manipulate records. Most often used to provide network-based authentication services for users, LDAP servers have many other uses: address book, DNS database, organizational tool, even network object store for applications.Download Here


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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Improving Your IQ

You’re no idiot, of course. You’ve read a few books and can hold your own in a room full of university professors. But when it comes to problem-solving and understanding complex theories and facts, you feel like your brain is going to explode. Don’t reach for the aspirin just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Improving Your IQ unlocks the secrets of you brain and teaches you how to whip those sparking synapses into shape.Download Here


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