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• Application Security for the Android Platform
• PDF Explained
• The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
• MongoDB in Action
• OSGi in Depth

Application Security for the Android Platform Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:06 AM PST Book Description With the Android platform fast becoming a target of malicious hackers, application security is crucial. This concise book provides the knowledge you need to design and implement robust, rugged, and secure apps for any Android device. You'll learn how to identify and manage the risks inherent in your design, and work to minimize a hacker's opportunity to compromise your app and steal user data. How is the Android platform structured to handle security? What services and tools are available to help you protect data? Up until now, no single resource has provided this vital information. With this guide, you'll learn how to address real threats to your app, whether or not you have previous experience with security issues. Examine Android's architecture and security model, and how it isolates the filesystem and database Learn how to use Android permissions and restricted system APIs Explore Android component types, and learn how to secure communications in a multi-tier app Use cryptographic tools to protect data stored on an Android device Secure the data transmitted from the device to other parties, including the servers that interact with your app Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Android Architecture Chapter 3. Application Permissions Chapter 4. Component Security and Permissions Chapter 5. Protecting Stored Data Chapter 6. Securing Server Interactions Chapter 7. Summary Book Details Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media (December 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449315070 ISBN-13: 978-1449315078 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR (05-05-2011) App Inventor (09-05-2011) Android in Action, 3rd Edition (19-12-2011) Android Apps for Absolute Beginners (23-06-2011) Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook (10-08-2011) Unlocking Android (28-07-2009) The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development (09-01-2010) The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, Version 3.6 (04-04-2011) The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (25-11-2010) Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours, 2nd Edition (24-09-2011)

PDF Explained Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:06 AM PST Book Description At last, here's an approachable introduction to the widely used Portable Document Format. PDFs are everywhere, both online and in printed form, but few people take advantage of the useful features or grasp the nuances of this format. This concise book provides a hands-on tour of the world's leading page-description language for programmers, power users, and professionals in the search, electronic publishing, and printing industries. Illustrated with lots of examples, this book is the documentation you need to fully understand PDF. Build a simple PDF file from scratch in a text editor Learn the layout and content of a PDF file, as well as the syntax of its objects Examine the logical structure of PDF objects, and learn how pages and their resources are arranged into a document Create vector graphics and raster images in PDF, and deal with transparency, color spaces, and patterns Explore PDF operators for building and showing text strings Get up to speed on bookmarks, metadata, hyperlinks, annotations, and file attachments Learn how encryption and document permissions work in PDF Use the pdftk program to process PDF files from the command line Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Building a Simple PDF Chapter 3. File Structure Chapter 4. Document Structure Chapter 5. Graphics Chapter 6. Text and Fonts Chapter 7. Document Metadata and Navigation Chapter 8. Encrypted Documents Chapter 9. Working with Pdftk Chapter 10. PDF Software and Documentation Book Details Paperback: 138 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media (December 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449310028 ISBN-13: 978-1449310028 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Take Control of Your Paperless Office (08-12-2010) Take Control of PDFpen 5 (04-11-2010) Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide (06-01-2011) LaTeX: Beginner's Guide (14-04-2011) iText in Action, 2nd Edition (12-11-2010) How to Do Everything Adobe Acrobat X (17-05-2011) Adobe Acrobat X: Visual QuickStart Guide (07-03-2011) Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book (24-02-2011)

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:06 AM PST Book Description The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour—so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets. We’re all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness. The Information Diet shows you how to thrive in this information glut—what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential for everyone who strives to be smart, productive, and sane. In The Information Diet, you will: Discover why eminent scholars are worried about our state of attention and general intelligence Examine how today's media—Big Info—give us exactly what we want: content that confirms our beliefs Learn to take steps to develop data literacy, attention fitness, and a healthy sense of humor Become engaged in the economics of information by learning how to reward good information providers Just like a normal, healthy food diet, The Information Diet is not about consuming less—it's about finding a healthy balance that works for you Book Details Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media (December 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449304680 ISBN-13: 978-1449304683 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

MongoDB in Action Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:50 AM PST Book Description MongoDB in Action is a comprehensive guide to MongoDB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its ideal use cases. A series of tutorials designed for MongoDB mastery then leads into detailed examples for leveraging MongoDB in e-commerce, social networking, analytics, and other common applications. Big data can mean big headaches. MongoDB is a document-oriented database designed to be flexible, scalable, and very fast, even with big data loads. It’s built for high availability, supports rich, dynamic schemas, and lets you easily distribute data across multiple servers. MongoDB in Action introduces you to MongoDB and the document-oriented database model. This perfectly paced book provides both the big picture you’ll need as a developer and enough low-level detail to satisfy a system engineer. Numerous examples will help you develop confidence in the crucial area of data modeling. You’ll also love the deep explanations of each feature, including replication, auto-sharding, and deployment This book is written for developers. No MongoDB or NoSQL experience required. What’s Inside Indexes, queries, and standard DB operations Map-reduce for custom aggregations and reporting Schema design patterns Deploying for scale and high availability Table of Contents Part 1: Getting started Chapter 1. A database for the modern web Chapter 2. MongoDB through the JavaScript shell Chapter 3. Writing programs using MongoDB Part 2: Application development in MongoDB Chapter 4. Document-oriented data Chapter 5. Queries and aggregation Chapter 6. Updates, atomic operations, and deletes Part 3: MongoDB mastery Chapter 7. Indexing and query optimization Chapter 8. Replication Chapter 9. Sharding Chapter 10. Deployment and administration Appendix A. Installation Appendix B. Design patterns Appendix C. Binary data and GridFS Appendix D. MongoDB in PHP, Java, and C++ Appendix E. Spatial indexing Book Details Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Manning Publications (December 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935182870 ISBN-13: 978-1935182870 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Windows Powershell in Action, 2nd Edition (24-06-2011) Tuscany SCA in Action (12-02-2011) Tika in Action (19-12-2011) The Definitive Guide to MongoDB (16-05-2011) SQL Server DMVs in Action: Better Queries with Dynamic Management Views (24-05-2011) SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (01-02-2011) Spring in Action, 3rd Edition (12-07-2011) Spring Batch in Action (01-11-2011) SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action (12-02-2011) SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action (16-04-2011)

OSGi in Depth Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:49 AM PST Book Description OSGi in Depth shows Java developers how to develop to the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise specification, an emerging Java-based technology for developing modular enterprise applications. OSGi is a mature framework for developing modular Java applications. Because of its unique architecture, you can modify, add, remove, start, and stop parts of an application without taking down the whole system. You get a lot of benefit by mastering the basics, but OSGi really pays off when you dig in a little deeper. OSGi in Depth presents practical techniques for implementing OSGi, including enterprise services such as management, configuration, event handling, and software component models. You’ll learn to custom-tailor the OSGi platform, which is itself modular, and discover how to pick and choose services to create domain-specific frameworks for your business. Also, this book shows how you can use OSGi with existing JEE services, such as JNDI and JTA. Written for Java developers who already know the basics, OSGi in Depth picks up where OSGi in Action leaves off. What’s Inside Deep dives into modularization, implementation decoupling, and class-loading Practical techniques for using JEE services Customizing OSGi for specific business domains Table of Contents OSGi as a new platform for application development An OSGi framework primer The auction application: an OSGi case study In-depth look at bundles and services Configuring OSGi applications A world of events The persistence bundle Transactions and containers Blending OSGi and Java EE using JNDI Remote services and the cloud Launching OSGi using start levels Managing with JMX Book Details Paperback: 392 pages Publisher: Manning Publications (December 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 193518217X ISBN-13: 978-1935182177 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Spring Persistence with Hibernate (03-11-2010) Spring Dynamic Modules in Action (10-09-2010) Secure Java: For Web Application Development (25-11-2010) OSGi and Apache Felix 3.0 Beginner's Guide (15-12-2010) Modular Java (29-06-2009) Eclipse Rich Client Platform, 2nd Edition (05-07-2010) Tomcat 6 Developer's Guide (31-12-2009) The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) (30-09-2011) The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform (06-06-2009) The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition (05-07-2009)

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