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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Ajax Hacks
This book “was written for people enjoy hacking web applications creatively, as well as for both experienced and new web-application developers.” The release goes onto offer a bullet list of take-aways that readers will get out of the book. They are as follows:

* Enhance HTML forms with Ajax capabilities, customizing them to fit user expectations
* Explore the Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, and GeoURL APIs, and combine them
* Work with cookies in an Ajax environment Manage Browser History and the Back button
* Create Ajax applications using Direct Web Remoting for Java and Ruby on Rails
* Build applications on the Prototype, Rico, and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries
* Manage network connections and web services

Amazon Hacks
Amazon Hacks is a collection of tips and tools for getting the most out of Amazon.com, whether you're an Amazon shopper, Amazon Associate developing your online storefront and honing your recommendations for better linking and more referral fees, a seller listing your own products for sale on Amazon.com, or even a programmer building your own application on the foundation provided by the rich Amazon Web Services API.

CSS Hacks & Filters

* Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a method of describing how a Web page should look in a Web browser, but a growing number of browsers do not support CSS in the same way, forcing developers to constantly play catch-up to keep their sites consistent

* Bestselling author Joe Lowery eases the pain for those Web developers who aren't feeling the CSS love-he guides readers through real-world workarounds that will help a CSS-based site look and work the way it was meant to

* Readers will grit their teeth, clench their fists, and roll their eyes for the last time once they learn how to craft fluid multi-column layouts, build interactive navigation, fix the Box Model, implement CSS hacks in Dreamweaver, and more cool tricks .

Hack Notes - Network Security
It show you how to guard against standard and uncommon network penetration methodologies and eliminate susceptibility to e-commerce hacking. Plus, learn to bolster Web application security and secure vulnerable hacking function areas.

Online Investing Hacks
ndividual investors have become more computer-literate and
technology-dependent than ever before. Whether you're looking for
suitable investments, studying alternatives, or managing your
portfolios, you need data. The Internet can be a goldmine of
financial data and research, but today's online investors also use
spreadsheets, databases, and financial applications to select,
study and manage investments. If your proficiency has grown to the
point where you crave industrial-strength tips and tools to turbo-
charge your efforts, Online Investing Hacks is the book for you.

Swing Hacks
Swing Hacks Tips & Tools for Building Killer GUIs O´Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co. Marinacci, Joshua Adamson, Chris, "Swing Hacks helps Java developers move beyond the basics of Swing, the graphical user interface (GUI) standard since Java 2. If you´re a Java developer looking to build enterprise applications with a first-class look and feel, Swing is definitely one skill you need to master. This latest title from O´Reilly is a reference to the cool stuff in Swing. It´s about the interesting things you learn over the years--creative, original, even weird hacks--the things that make you say, "I didn´t know you could even do that with Swing!" "Swing Hacks will show you how to extend Swing´s rich component set in advanced and sometimes non-obvious ways. The book touches upon the entire Swing gamut-tables, trees, sliders, spinners, progress bars, internal frames, and text components. Detail is also provided on JTable/JTree, threaded component models, and translucent windows.

You´ll learn how to filter lists, power-up trees and tables, and add drag-and-drop support. "Swing Hacks will show you how to do fun things that will directly enhance your own applications. Some are visual enhancements to make your software look better. Some are functional improvements to make your software do something it couldn´t do before. Some are even just plain silly, in print only to prove it could be done. The book will also give you give you a small glimpse of the applications coming in the future. New technology is streaming into the Java community at a blistering rate, and it gives application developers a whole new set of blocks to play with. With its profusion of tips and tricks, "Swing Hacks isn´t just for the developer who wants to build a better user interface. It´s also ideally suited for client-side Javadevelopers who want to deliver polished applications, enthusiasts who want to push Java client application boundaries, and coders who want to bring powerful techniques to their own applications.

TiVo Hacks - 100 Industrial - Strength Tips & Tools

PTSLUG has another title in the O'Reilly's "Hacks" series, a manual that lets you get the most out of your TiVo or other personal video recorder (PVR). This is one of those special interest book, perfect for anyone who has a TiVo video recorder. Armed with just a screwdriver and basic understanding of computer hardware (or willingness to learn), preeminent hackability awaits. First, TiVo Hacks covers tips for changing the order of recorded programs, activating the 30-second skip to blaze through commercials, and more, by using magical remote-control codes. Then, once you take the lid off your TiVo, you will learn how to gain even more fun and functionality. You can upgrade the hard drive for more hours of recording. Log in to the serial port for command-line access to programming data, log files, closed-captioning data, display graphics on the TiVo screen, and even play MP3s.

Readers who use advanced hacks to put TiVo on their home network via the serial port, Ethernet, USB, or wireless (with 802.11b WiFi) will watch a whole new world open up. By installing various open source software packages, you can use TiVo for mail, instant messaging, caller-ID, and more. It's also easy to run a web server on TiVo to schedule recordings, access lists of recorded shows, and even display them on a web site. While TiVo gives viewers personalized control of their TVs, TiVo Hacks gives users personalized control of TiVo. My rating: 4 stars for easy to read, thorough and well indexed.

Web Hacking:Attacks and defense

Intended for a course that is teaching students how and where web-based applications are particularly vulnerable. The authors explain the complete range of attacks, including buffer overflows—the most problematic of all attacks.

Features

* Keen analysis on how hackers infiltrate web commerce systems, including database servers and payment systems.
* Case studies are a unique feature, effectively communicating to students what they need to know.
* Complete methodologies show actual techniques and attacks and give the students a chance to learn by experiencing how the hacker actually works.

Web Site Measurement Hacks
In order to establish and then maintain a successful presence on the Web, designing a creative site is only half the battle. What good is an intricate Web infrastructure if you're unable to measure its effectiveness? That's why every business is desperate for feedback on their site's visitors: Who are they? Why do they visit? What information or service is most valuable to them?

Unfortunately, most common Web analytics software applications are long on functionality and short on documentation. Without clear guidance on how these applications should be integrated into the greater Web strategy, these often expensive investments go underused and underappreciated.

Enter Web Site Measurement Hacks, a guidebook that helps you understand your Web site visitors and how they contribute to your business's success. It helps organizations and individual operators alike make the most of their Web investment by providing tools, techniques, and strategies for measuring--and then improving--their site's usability, performance, and design. Among the many topics covered, you'll learn:

* definitions of commonly used terms, such as "key performance indicators" (KPIs)
* how to drive potential customers to action
* how to gather crucial marketing and customer data
* which features are useful and which are superfluous
* advanced techniques that senior Web site analysts use on a daily basis

XML Hacks
Like the other books in this series, 'XML Hacks' provides a wide range of Tips, Tricks, Techniques and other good things (not all of them beginning with T). Featuring a veritable who's who of well-known XML authors and experts, (including Micah Dubinko, Rick Jeliffe, Jason Hunter, Michael Smith as well as editor and lead author Michael Fitzgerald), this is a book that is grounded in day to day practice.

Organised into seven chapters, the book opens with a series of introductory hacks that look at dealing with XML documents, from how to look at an XML document in a browser to how to style a document with CSS to testing documents on-line and off-line. The final hack in this chapter shows how to use Java to process XML documents. No previous Java knowledge is assumed, and the hack walks through the process of how to install and configure Java so that jar files can be used from the command-line. This is an important step because Java offers many open-source tools for processing XML, using this hack makes these available even to those who know little, if anything, about it.

The next chapter looks at XML documentation creation. This includes a round-up of editors and tools, including , Emacs, Vim, MS Office and more. Other hacks in this section include converting documents from CSV or text files, converting from HTML to XHTML and so on.

Yahoo Hacks
I've been using Yahoo! for as long I've been using the web, somewhere around 10 years. Over the years, Yahoo! has become a part of my daily life. If I want to find a local business, I type yp.yahoo.com before I reach for the yellow pages in my kitchen, and then I type maps.yahoo.com to find my way to that business. I browse news, check stock prices, and get movie times with Yahoo! Even though I interact with Yahoo! technology on a regular basis, I've never thought of Yahoo! as a technology company.

Now that Yahoo! has released a Web Services interface, my perception of them is changing. Suddenly having programmatic access to a good portion of their data has me seeing Yahoo! through the eyes of a developer rather than a user. Reading through the documentation on their new site for Yahoo! developers, I've suddenly realized that there is some impressive technology behind the services I took for granted.

Yahoo! isn't the first big web company to give outside developers access to their data via web services. Google and Amazon kicked things off in 2002 with free web APIs. These two became the canonical examples I heard at conferences, and I've seen quite a few demo applications that pull in current book prices or Google search results. eBay released a for-pay API in 2003, giving paying developers access to their auction database. And now Yahoo!'s impressive entry into the web services fray is another sign that big web companies have embraced outside developers in a big way.

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