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A collection of 100 insider tips and tricks, this title covers the finer points of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax as it's known. It teaches you tasks like how to display Weather.com data, scrape stock quotes, fetch postal codes and more.

Focusing on Analytical Chemistry, this textbook offers a modern portrait of the tools and techniques of chemical analysis, incorporating real data, spreadsheets and applications, all presented in a personable style that engages students without compromising the science.

Shows professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. Intended for software developers tracking different versions of the same code, this edition offers an overview of CVS, explains the core concepts, and describes its commands.

Part tutorial and part reference, this book helps you develop new JavaScript skills by building on your basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general. It includes scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, DOM, SVG, XML, and web services and also serves as a detailed reference for the more experienced web developers.

Explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the developments in global communication. The author discusses the annoyance and dangers of BlackBerrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation, and using a phone or iPod whilst driving.

This text provides an introduction to the Perl programming language and its culture. This third edition has been expanded to cover Version 5.6 of Perl. New topics include threading, the compiler, and Unicode.

Ajax is short for Asynchronous JavaScript+CSS+DOM+XMLHttpRequest. With screen shots, actual code and explanations, and live Web sites where you can see Ajax applications doing their thing, this work can have you using Ajax to create Web applications that look and act like desktop applications.

Offers coverage of Novell Linux Desktop and Open Enterprise Server with information on YaST management tools and the OpenExchange e-mail server. This work introduces basic Linux methodologies, including partitions, filesystems and filesystem layout. It covers virtualization, including dosemu, wine, Crossover Office, uml xen and Vmware.

Wikis are Web-based applications that allow all users not only to view pages but also to change them. The success of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has drawn increasing attention from private users, small organizations and enterprises to the various possible uses of wikis. Their simple structure and straightforward operation make them a serious alternative to expensive content management ...

A guide to the Xcode Mac OS Development Environment. This work shows how to use Xcode to build applications with any Macintosh technology or language. It helps you learn Xcode's text editor, industry-standard gcc compiler, graphical interactive debugger, mature UI layout and object linkage editor, and optimization tools.

Provides technical managers and those new to directory services with a fundamental introduction to LDAP. This concise guide examines how the technology works and gives an overview of the successful directory products in an easy-to-reference format. It offers an overview of LDAP, including how directories differ from databases.

This volume offers detailed instructions on how to use, optimize, and troubleshoot modperl. The authors provide tips and advice from their experience, as well as those from the modperl community at large.

This text provides a complete overview of Cocoa's Objective-C Frameworks - vital tools for anyone interested in developing applications for Mac OS X. It provides developers who may be experienced with other application toolkits the grounding they'll need to start developing Cocoa applications.