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• AdvancED ActionScript 3.0: Design Patterns
• Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max
• Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation
• Expert Oracle and Java Security

AdvancED ActionScript 3.0: Design Patterns Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:42 AM PDT Book Description AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 is a fresh look and new approach to utilizing valuable, structural techniques and methods that are commonly used in the field of rich interactive application development. With each method broken down into different strategized explanations, you’ll find the approach most suitable for you. Whether it is an example you can utilize as-is, or one you can start with and develop further, you will have a glossary of definitions and organizational concepts at your fingertips. Object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns are not new to the field, but can often be overlooked in their value. They are, at times, not only overwhelming to learn, but difficult to put into practice. However, they are useful because they create a structure that can be broken down, rebuilt, and reused. Provides the building blocks required for the implementation of OOP Addresses problems and concerns regarding OOP Offers solutions on how to approach and utilize OOP What you'll learn Understand the benefits of OOP How to structure code Explore new techniques Recognize patterns used by professionals in the field Feel more confident about using OOP in your development Think of coding in a new light Who this book is for AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 is for Flash and/or Flex developers seeking a better understanding of object-oriented programming and the knowledge to utilize it in a manner practical to the language itself. Table of Contents Object-Oriented Programming: What it is & What it isn't Design Patterns The Basics Coding Styles Decision Making and Planning Review/Quiz Get Real Architecture and Principles Frequently Used Patterns Structural Patterns Behavioral Patterns Creational Patterns Book Details Paperback: 436 pages Publisher: friendsofED (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1430236140 ISBN-13: 978-1430236146 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Learning Flex 4: Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Application Design and Development (13-11-2010) The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash (13-10-2010) Professional Adobe Flex 2 (17-03-2010) Learning ActionScript 3.0, 2nd Edition (08-11-2010) Getting Started with Flex 4 (27-09-2010) Flex 4 in Action: Revised Edition of Flex 3 in Action (10-11-2010) Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials (10-12-2010) Developing Flex 4 Components: Using ActionScript & MXML to Extend Flex and AIR Applications (27-01-2011) Away3D 3.6 Cookbook (18-06-2011) AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10 (23-10-2010)

Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT Book Description The Mac has come a long way, and OS X Lion is the best version yet of Apple’s desktop and laptop operating system. Stable, powerful, and versatile, the Mac allows you to do everyday tasks with ease. Taking Your OS X Lion to the Maxwalks you through the awesome features and apps standard on the Mac and the new OS X 10.7 Lion to help you become a true power user. You’ll discover keyboard shortcuts and gestures to help save time–whether you’re on a iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro, Air, or other Mac computer. Beginning with the core of OS X – the Finder - Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max outlines many of the new features and powerful revisions that make Lion the best version of OS X yet. The authors, all bloggers at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (tuaw.com), spent countless hours with Lion to show you how to fully leverage your Mac and the new OS X. And, have some fun, too! What you’ll learn: Search your Mac in seconds with customizable Spotlight searches Send files securely and quickly to others on your Wi-Fi network with AirDrop Find a lost or stolen Mac with Find my Mac Browse and purchase useful and fun apps from the Mac App Store Keep your documents updated and safe through Lion’s AutoSave, Versions, and revised Time Machine capabilities Harness the power of Launchpad, Mission Control, and multi-touch gestures to customize your Mac working environment Take advantage of conversations, full-screen mode, and search tokens in the revised Mail application Make the most of updates to Lion’s other built-in apps, including iCal, Address Book, Photo Booth, FaceTime, Preview, and System Preferences Use the powerful and inexpensive Lion Server app to create a shared work or home computing environment And more… Who this book is for: Taking Your OS X Lion to the Max is your guide to learning how to tame Apple’s Lion for work or pleasure, and a valuable reference for any Mac user. Book Details Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Apress (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 143023668X ISBN-13: 978-1430236689 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Xcode 4: Developer Reference (28-07-2011) Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max (31-03-2011) Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X, 2nd Edition (04-11-2010) Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition (18-12-2009) Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes (24-09-2011) Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa (15-08-2009) Professional Xcode 3 (01-04-2010) Professional Cocoa Application Security (31-05-2010) Objective-C: Developer Reference (17-09-2011) Objective-C Phrasebook (21-02-2011)

Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:36 AM PDT Book Description Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation is for people who have financial assets to protect in an unpredictable, inflationary environment. Maybe you have tried traditional financial advice, financial planning, and passive investment management techniques and you're still losing ground. Maybe you're worried that by the time you need to use it, your retirement fund will be worth less than your total contributions. Maybe you believe that high inflation will significantly decrease your standard of living in the future. Maybe all of these issues apply to you. Don't despair; help is at hand. Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation is a concise, no-nonsense, straightforward guide that will help you to do three things: 1. Ensure that your emergency fund will still have some purchasing power when you need it. Emergency funds sitting in checking accounts, or near-cash investments, will just be eaten away by inflation. There is a better way to give you access to the cash you need when you need it. This book shows you how. 2. Insulate you from significant changes in the strength of your home currency. If all your income and expenses are in a single currency like the U.S. dollar, you run a significant risk that your home-country currency will lose value. Currency risk in your income-purchasing power and working capital is often overlooked until it's too late to do anything about it. This book deals with this issue and gives you easy-to-follow advice to protect the value of your money. 3. Generate a better risk-adjusted return in your investment accounts. Buying a basket of stocks and mutual funds and then performing the traditional "annual rebalancing of a diversified portfolio" just doesn't generate the returns most people require from their investments. This book shows you simple, powerful, and sophisticated techniques you can use to manage your investment accounts more effectively—and without making it a full-time job. Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation can't guarantee that you will meet your financial goals, but it can guarantee that your odds of success will be significantly increased if you follow its advice. The book: Explains why traditional investing methods virtually guarantee a negative rate of return in real terms. Illustrates the pernicious effect of inflation on an average investor's portfolio—and why an inflationary period may be in the offing. Provides a three-step process to withstand emergencies, protect your liquid assets, and produce a superior risk-adjusted return on a stock portfolio compared with conventional investing methods. What you'll learn How government policy normally leads to a debasement of the currency and subsequently an inflationary environment How inflation significantly reduces your standard of living unless you can consistently increase your income or reduce your expense How the current U.S. Consumer Price Index seriously underestimates true inflation How to construct an inflation-proof emergency fund How to mitigate home-currency risk How to generate a better-than-average risk-adjusted return in investment accounts How to do all this before it's too late Who this book is for The book is aimed at people who have reached a level of financial stability and whose income is greater than monthly expenses. They have emergency cash, day-to-day working capital, and investment accounts (including retirement accounts) to protect and grow in a potentially inflationary environment. Although U.S. residents will be the primary focus, all the methods and techniques presented should be relatively straightforward to adapt to any country with a fiat currency. Table of Contents Financial Fitness Inflation: What’s the Problem? Step 1: Set Up an Emergency Fund Step 2: Make Savings and Working Capital Work for You Step 3: Generate a Good Risk-Adjusted Return on Investments Taking Control Appendix A: Recommended Reading Appendix B: Useful Resources Book Details Paperback: 146 pages Publisher: Apress (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1430238224 ISBN-13: 978-1430238225 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Your Money: The Missing Manual (16-03-2010) Sams Teach Yourself Mint.com in 10 Minutes (29-09-2011) Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of Design Strategy to Transform Your Business (11-08-2010) Personal Investing: The Missing Manual (03-06-2010) Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies (05-02-2011) Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook (07-09-2011) George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis (23-09-2011) Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth (30-03-2010) Financial Modelling in Python (25-02-2011) Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (27-09-2011)

Expert Oracle and Java Security Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:32 AM PDT Book Description Expert Oracle and Java Security: Programming Secure Oracle Database Applications with Java provides resources that every Java and Oracle database application programmer needs to ensure that they have guarded the security of the data and identities entrusted to them. You’ll learn to consider potential vulnerabilities, and to apply best practices in secure Java and PL/SQL coding. Author David Coffin shows how to develop code to encrypt data in transit and at rest, to accomplish single sign-on with Oracle proxy connections, to generate and distribute two-factor authentication tokens from the Oracle server using pagers, cell phones (SMS), and e-mail, and to securely store and distribute Oracle application passwords. Early chapters lay the foundation for effective security in an Oracle/Java environment. Each of the later chapters brings example code to a point where it may be applied as-is to address application security issues. Templates for applications are also provided to help you bring colleagues up to the same secure application standards. If you are less familiar with either Java or Oracle PL/SQL, you will not be left behind; all the concepts in this book are introduced as to a novice and addressed as to an expert. Helps you protect against data loss, identity theft, SQL injection, and address spoofing Provides techniques for encryption on network and disk, code obfuscation and wrap, database hardening, single sign-on and two-factor Provides what database administrators need to know about secure password distribution, Java secure programming, Java stored procedures, secure application roles in Oracle, logon triggers, database design, various connection pooling schemes, and much more What you'll learn Guard against data loss, identity theft, SQL Injection, and to address spoofing Protect sensitive data through encryption, both on disk and on the wire Control access to data using secure roles, single sign-on, proxy connections, and two-factor authentication Protect sensitive source ode through randomization, obfuscation, and wrapping Thwart attempts at SQL injection and other common attacks Manage constraints on the visibility of data and the scope of access Who this book is for Expert Oracle and Java Security: Programming Secure Oracle Database Applications with Java is for every Java developer who uses an Oracle database. It is also for every Oracle database administrator or PL/SQL programmer who supports Java client and web applications. Whatever role you play in developing and supporting Java and Oracle applications, you need to address computer, application, data, and identity security. This book offers the tools you’ll need to effectively manage security across all aspects of the applications you support. Table of Contents Introduction Oracle Security Secure Java Development Concepts Java Stored Procedures Adding Public Key Encryption Adding Secret Password Encryption A Working Model for Data Encryption in Transit Implementing Single Sign On Implementing Two-Factor Authentication Application Identification and Authorization Enhancing Our Security Administration of This Security System Book Details Paperback: 472 pages Publisher: Apress (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1430238313 ISBN-13: 978-1430238317 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Securing SQL Server (20-10-2011) Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, 2nd Edition (04-01-2011) Oracle PL/SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (27-12-2010) Expert PL/SQL Practices: for Oracle Developers and DBAs (12-08-2011) Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, 2nd Edition (28-07-2010) Ajax Security (25-05-2009) Zend Enterprise PHP Patterns (17-09-2009) WordPress 3 Ultimate Security (06-07-2011) Wireless Programming with J2ME: Cracking the Code (23-05-2009) Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit (23-05-2009)

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