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“…For the first time, this book brings together IBM best practices, techniques, tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb for virtually every aspect of advanced DB2 UDB v8 database administration-including all this and more: Ability to design, create, and manage table spaces Ability to design, create, and manage buffer pools When and how to exploit parallelism in DB2 UDB Configuring federated database access Designing and implementing a backup and recovery strategy Ability to implement a standby database Monitoring and tuning DB2 Using and managing tables with multidimensional clustering Designing and configuring multiple database partitions Implementing authentication and encryption on a large scale Leveraging parallelism and symmetric multiprocessing Preparing for and executing recovery in an enterprise environment Rapid recovery in the event of table space or table level disasters Effective monitoring and problem determination Maximizing performance and scalability About the CD The accompanying CD-ROM contains the IBM® DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition Version 8.1, for Windows® Operating Environments, Evaluation Copy, plus DB2 UDB v8 Enterprise Server Edition documentation in PDF format…”

“…Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) in Silverlight Examines the Silverlight feature areas in depth: graphics, text, audio, video, animation, ink, events, and more Demonstrates how to create reusable controls and perform common tasks (such as drag-and-drop) using basic building blocks Explains how to download assets asynchronously to maximize your user experience Demonstrates how to create hybrid applications that mix Silverlight content with HTML or Flash content Highlights features scheduled for future versions of Silverlight while showing how to achieve your desired results with the current version Introduction 1 Part I Fundamentals 1 Getting Started 9 2 XAML 39 Part II Creating Static Content 3 Shapes, Lines, and Curves 61 4 Text 83 5 Brushes and Images 99 6 Positioning and Transforming Elements 117 Part III Making Your Content Come to Life 7 Responding to Input Events 143 8 Downloading Content on Demand 179 9 Animation 191 10 Audio and Video 219…”

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“…What's Inside A fast-paced Clojure tutorial Creating web services with Clojure Scaling through messaging Creating DSLs with Clojure's macro system Test-driven development with Clojure Distributed programming with Clojure, and more This book assumes you're familiar with an OO language like Java, C#, or C++ but requires no background in Lisp or Clojure itself. ================================== Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED Introduction to Clojure A whirlwind tour Building blocks of Clojure Polymorphism with multimethods Clojure and Java interop State and the concurrent world Evolving Clojure through macros PART 2 GETTING REAL Test-driven development and more Data storage with Clojure Clojure and the web Scaling through messaging Data processing with Clojure More on functional programming Protocols, records, and type More macros and DSLs…”

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