• Delegating effectively
• Using feedback and goal-setting
• Developing influence
• Handling one-on-one meetings
• Coaching and mentoring
• Deciding what work to do–-and what not to do
• …and more.

• Identify and plug the new holes in Oracle and Microsoft® SQL Server
• Learn the best defenses for IBM's DB2®, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, and MySQL® servers
• Discover how buffer overflow exploitation, privilege escalation through SQL, stored procedure or trigger abuse, and SQL injection enable hacker access
• Recognize vulnerabilities peculiar to each database
• Find out what the attackers already know

The Ruby Way assumes that the reader is already familiar with the subject matter. Using many code samples it focuses on "how-to use Ruby" for specific applications, either as a stand-alone language, or in conjunction with other languages.

Topics covered include:

• Simple data tasks
• Manipulating structured data
• External data manipulation
• User interfaces
• Handling threads
• System programming
• Network and web programming
• Tools and utilities.

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Contemporary speech synthesis is perceived as inadequate for general adoption for user interaction, largely because it rests on an inadequate model of human speech production and perception. This book reviews the underlying model, brings out areas of inadequacy and suggests how improvements might be made. It is argued that a greater understanding of the fine detail of speech will enable new research and application initiatives. The authors draw on their extensive experience in both theoretical and applied research to bring forward proposals for producing more natural sounding synthetic speech.

• Provides an overview of the current work in speech synthesis, including a critical review of markup systems (including XML and SSML) embedded in interactive applications.
• Argues that naturalness in synthesis will benefit from enhancements to underlying models of prosody which more accurately account for the properties of human speech, yet can also be productively transferred to speech synthesis.
• Emphasises the importance of an explicit and extensible architecture as the basis for future developments, stressing particularly the importance of close modelling of expressive and emotive content – key features of naturalness.
• Focuses on the dynamic nature of prosody, as opposed to the more usual static treatment, especially as an adaptive model compliant with pragmatic and environmental constraints.

• It is geared towards managers and a such is an easy read. Most managers will not even pick up a 500 page book - they just don't have time. This book can be read in a day - I did it.
• Bruce points out the strenghts and weakness of both Java and Ruby and admits that Ruby is not yet the answer for everything - but points out that it is already a lot better in several areas of development then Java.
• He addresses risks in great detail, too often not on developers minds, but I guarantee it is on every good manager's mind.
• He offers advice on how to evaluate Ruby for your organization.
• He offers praticle steps to safely transition to Ruby and Ruby on Rails and how to get a proper infrastructure set up.

I highly recommend this book to those who want to quickly gain an understanding of why Ruby and RoR may be a good fit for their organization and as a guide to getiing the ball rolling. The investment in this book is he cheapest insurance I can think of to give an organization the right balance between risk and competitive edge for the future.

Want to save time on your next project? Improve working relationships? Understand what contributed to your success , or what didn't? You'll need a retrospective to do these things, and this is the book that will guide you to planning and conducting a great retrospective.

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• Install and configure ISA Server 2004
• Upgrade from ISA Server 2000
• Use scripts to automate recurring tasks
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• Set up VPNs and perimeter networks
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• Monitor system performance, traffic, and events
• Manage arrays with Active Directory Application Mode
• Optimize integration with other Windows Server System software

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• Winsock application programming interface (API)
• .NET Sockets (from C#)
• Visual Basic Winsock Control
• Client Remote Access Server (RAS)
• IP Helper API
• Legacy Networking—NetBIOS and the Windows redirector

MCAD/MCSD Training Kit.
1. Developing Windows-Based Applications - 2nd ed.
2. Developing Web Applications - 2nd ed.
3. Developing XML Web Services and Server Components
4. Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures