| 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, 2nd Edition Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST 
Book Description 31 Days to Build a Better blog is a 31 day challenge where you're given a daily piece of teaching and an achievable activity to go away and implement – all of which is designed to rejuvenate your blog. You can take the challenge at your own pace – some do it daily over a month, others tackle it in a more intense way over a week or others dip into it over a number of months – the key is to learn the key strategies for successful blogging and more importantly to DO something with what you learn. By the end of the 31 steps you'll have: - published a variety of different types and styles of posts
- learned techniques for coming up with new post ideas
- promoted your blog in a variety of ways and found new readers
- deepened reader engagement with current readers
- reached out to and developed working relationships with other bloggers
- developed an editorial calendar for your blog going forward
- discovered ways to be more connected to your niche/topic
- designed a plan for the next month of your blogging
- … and much more.
Updated for 2012
Many thousands of ProBlogger readers have invested in edition 1 of 31DBBB but as it was written back in 2009 I felt it was time for an update. So much has changed since then both here on ProBlogger and in the blogosphere that I wanted to create something that built upon and enhanced version 1. In this freshly designed and layed out 2nd edition you'll get - all 31 tasks that were in the first edition – but they've all been updated and refreshed for 2012.
- 7 brand new days (so now you're really getting 38 days – we're including 7 in a new bonus week PDF)
- Case studies of blogs, big and small, who are doing it right. Get insights into blogs you may not have heard of, and learn from their expertise
- Every task includes links to further information, reading and intelligence on the topic
- integration with social media – each day has its own hashtag so you can connect with others doing the challenge to learn from and support one another
This 140 page workbook is all about action – follow the daily tasks and we guarantee you'll see your blog improve. Quite literally we're happy to give your money back if you go through it and don't notice the changes! Book Details - Paperback: 140 pages
- Publisher: ProBlogger (November 2011)
- Language: English
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| Learning Nagios 3.0 Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:40 PM PST 
Book Description Nagios is a tool for system and network monitoring. It constantly checks other machines and various services on those machines. The main purpose of system monitoring is to detect and report any system not working properly as soon as possible so that you are aware of problems before a user runs into them. It is a modular and flexible solution that uses plug-ins to do its job. The book is an introduction to Nagios that will teach readers to use Nagios with its advanced features. At the same time, readers who have already used earlier versions of Nagios will also benefit because they will learn about the new and advanced features of Nagios 3. This book focuses on the new features of Nagios and will teach readers to secure their systems in a much improved manner. What you will learn from this book - Understand system monitoring and how Nagios works
- Install and configure Nagios to administer your network and system
- Deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor assets with advanced features of Nagios
- Notify users of current and future incidents to protect the availability, performance, and security of monitored assets
- Configure and work your way around Nagios’s web interface
- Pass service and host check results over the network using NSCA
- Set up a working and usable distributed monitoring system using NSClient++ and NC_Net.
- Develop custom plug-ins responsible for doing the checks and analyzing results
- Use the web interface to manage scheduled downtimes for hosts and services
- Monitor UPS status over the network
- Use adaptive monitoring to modify various check-related parameters
- Use SSH and NRPE for doing remote checks
- Use SNMP to retrieve information from a device, set options, and also cover means for a device to notify other machines about a failure
Approach
This is a beginner-level book, which will introduce Nagios to System Administrators who are interested in monitoring their systems. The focus is on teaching system administrators to secure their systems in a much improved manner incorporating the newer features of Nagios. It will teach Nagios beginners the basics of installation and configuration of version 3; it will show professionals who have already worked on earlier versions of Nagios the new features of Nagios like inheritance and also the new internal functions like better check scheduling. Who this book is for
The target readers for this book are System Administrators interested in using Nagios. This book will introduce Nagios with the new features of Version 3 for System Administrators. Book Details - Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847195180
- ISBN-13: 978-1847195180
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| Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:41 AM PST 
Book Description Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business. Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight. This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others. What you will learn from this book - Learn how to create custom user controls, reference resources, and edit basic control templates
- Build an end-to-end dashboard solution
- Learn how to use Microsoft Expression Blend to style a dashboard
- Explore the different types of dashboards, and learn how to choose the most appropriate dashboard type based on your project goals
- Discover and represent user needs and scenarios as a basis for dashboard design, using user experience best practices
- Understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and OData)
- Host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model
Approach
This book is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight. Who this book is for
If you are a .Net developer who wants to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight, then this book is for you. You should have an intermediate understanding of .Net development, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Silverlight. Book Details - Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849682348
- ISBN-13: 978-1849682343
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| Liferay Portal Systems Development Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:40 AM PST 
Book Description Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, content management systems, web content management, collaboration, social networking and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and WAP sites using Liferay portal, this book is all you need. Liferay Portal Systems Development shows Java developers how to use Liferay kernel 6.1 and above as a framework to develop custom web and WAP systems which will help you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience! The clear, practical examples in the sample application that runs throughout this book will enable professional Java developers to build custom web sites, portals, and mobile applications using Liferay portal as a framework. You will learn how to make all of your organization’s data and web content easily accessible by customizing Liferay into a single point of access. The book will also show you how to improve your inter-company communication by enhancing your web and WAP sites to easily share content with colleagues. What you will learn from this book - Provide complete coverage of both the commercial and open source versions of Liferay Portal 6.1 within the real-world example Knowledge Base portlet
- Build basic and advanced MVC portlets with the Service-Builder and RBAC permissions, helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web sites
- Use Ext plugins and Hooks, allowing you to perform custom actions on your portal
- Manage images, documents, videos, audio, and records using the Document and Media Library and record management
- Build web content and web forms using the WYSIWYG editors, Custom Attributes, assets tagging and classification, and Dynamic Data List
- Create a collaborative and social API complete with Ratings, Comments, Subscriptions, Collaboration, Social Equity, and Asset Links
- Improve your portal with staging, scheduling, remote publishing, caching, clustering, indexing, search, and workflow.
- Build WAP mobile-based applications and leverage diverse portlet bridges like JSF, Struts, and Spring MVC
Approach
This book focuses on teaching by example. Every chapter provides an overview, and then dives right into hands-on examples so you can see and play with the solution in your own environment. Who this book is for
This book is for Java developers who don’t need any prior experience with Liferay portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of open source frameworks, no prior experience of using these is assumed. Book Details - Paperback: 546 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849515980
- ISBN-13: 978-1849515986
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| Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:20 PM PST 
Book Description Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals provides you with a guide to digital technology forensics in plain English. In the authors’ years of experience in working with attorneys as digital forensics experts, common questions arise again and again: “What do I ask for?” “Is the evidence relevant?” “What does this item in the forensic report mean?” “What should I ask the other expert?” “What should I ask you?” “Can you explain that to a jury?” This book answers many of those questions in clear language that is understandable by non-technical people. With many illustrations and diagrams that will be usable in court, they explain technical concepts such as unallocated space, forensic copies, timeline artifacts and metadata in simple terms that make these concepts accessible to both attorneys and juries. The authors also explain how to determine what evidence to ask for, evidence might be that could be discoverable, and the methods for getting to it including relevant subpoena and motion language. Additionally, this book provides an overview of the current state of digital forensics, the right way to select a qualified expert, what to expect from a qualified expert and how to properly use experts before and during trial. - Includes a companion Web site with: courtroom illustrations, and examples of discovery motions
- Provides examples of direct and cross examination questions for digital evidence
- Contains a reference of definitions of digital forensic terms, relevant case law, and resources for the attorney
Table of Contents
Section 1: What is Digital Forensics?
Chapter 1. Digital Evidence is Everywhere
Chapter 2. Overview of Digital Forensics
Chapter 3. Digital Forensics – The Sub-Disciplines
Chapter 4. The Foundations of Digital Forensics – Best Practices
Chapter 5. Overview of Digital Forensics Tools
Chapter 6. Digital Forensics at Work in the Legal System Section 2: Experts
Chapter 7. Why Do I Need an Expert?
Chapter 8. The Difference between Computer Experts and Digital Forensic Experts
Chapter 9. Selecting a Digital Forensics Expert
Chapter 10. What to Expect from an Expert
Chapter 11. Approaches by Different Types of Examiners
Chapter 12. Spotting a Problem Expert
Chapter 13. Qualifying an Expert in Court Sections 3: Motions and Discovery
Chapter 14. Overview of Digital Evidence Discovery
Chapter 15. Discovery of Digital Evidence in Criminal Cases
Chapter 16. Discovery of Digital Evidence in Civil Cases
Chapter 17. Discovery of Computers and Storage Media
Chapter 18. Discovery of Video Evidence
Chapter 19. Discovery of Audio Evidence
Chapter 20. Discovery of Social Media Evidence
Chapter 21. Discovery in Child Pornography Cases
Chapter 22. Discovery of Internet Service Provider Records
Chapter 23. Discovery of Global Positioning System Evidence
Chapter 24. Discovery of Call Detail Records
Chapter 25. Obtaining Expert Funding in Indigent Cases Section 4: Common Types of Digital Evidence
Chapter 26. Hash Values: The Verification Standard
Chapter 27. Metadata
Chapter 28. Thumbnails and the Thumbnail Cache
Chapter 29. Deleted Data
Chapter 30. Computer Time Artifacts (MAC Times)
Chapter 31. Internet History (Web and Browser Caching)
Chapter 32. Windows Shortcut Files (Link Files)
Chapter 33. Cellular System Evidence and Call Detail Records
Chapter 34. Email Evidence
Chapter 35. Social Media
Chapter 36. Peer to Peer Networks and File Sharing
Chapter 37. Cell Phones
Chapter 38. Video and Photo Evidence
Chapter 39. Databases
Chapter 40. Accounting Systems and Financial Software
Chapter 41. Multiplayer Online games
Chapter 42. Global Positioning Systems Book Details - Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Syngress (September 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 159749643X
- ISBN-13: 978-1597496438
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