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Create Impressionist Painting Effects Using Photoshop
The Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook explains how to use Photoshop CS2 to transform everyday images into extraordinary echoes of masterworks by famous photographers, printmakers, and painters. This excerpt from Chapter 62 focuses on recreating the Impressionist style made famous by the French painters Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Pisarro. The...
Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, excerpt, image, Impressionist, O'Reilly Media Inc., Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook, technique, TechRepublic Inc., Web, Web site
Download resources 2006-05-22
Describe the exact location of your prized photos with this Flickr hack
You can use Flickr tagging features, using longitude and latitude coordinates, to describe the exact location where you took a photo, and then display your geographically precise photos on a map. This excerpt from Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online, by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner, describes...
Tags: excerpt, Flickr, Flickr Hacks, Jim Bumgardner, latitude, O'Reilly Media Inc., photograph, Sharing Photos Online, tagging, TechRepublic Inc., Web, Web site
Download resources 2006-04-14
Take advantage of Dreamweaver's timesaving features
Dreamweaver offers tools that will help you organize and manage all your HTML pages, images, links, color schemes, templates, Flash, and multimedia elements. This excerpt from Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8 explains how to use Dreamweaver's Assets panel, code snippets, and Library items to work efficiently, avoid duplicated effort,...
Tags: asset, excerpt, HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver, multimedia, Que, snippet, Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio 8, tool
Download resources 2006-04-07
Add power with a homemade 802.3af compliant wireless networking device
Since June 2003, when the IEEE ratified the 802.3af standard for Power over Ethernet PoE, several prominent manufacturers have released standards-compliant PoE products. The idea behind the standard is to supply the AP's power and UTP Ethernet connectivity requirements via a single Ethernet cable. This downloadable hack excerpt from Wireless...
Tags: Associated Press, cable, Ethernet, excerpt, IEEE, IEEE 802.3af, manufacturer, network, networking, O'Reilly Media Inc., Power over Ethernet, Rob Flickenger, Roger Weeks, standards, Tips & Tools, Web, Web site, wireless, Wireless Hacks, wireless networking
Download resources 2006-01-18
Keep everyone on your trip on the same GPS page with this wireless hack
Traveling in a caravan is more than just an activity designed to make a long trip more interesting. For many, a caravan is a useful tool for keeping everyone together. Even if there is only one GPS receiver in the group, you can still make sure everyone is following the...
Tags: daemon, excerpt, GPS, GPS receiver, network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Rob Flickenger, Roger Weeks, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, server, tool, Web, Web site, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi network, wireless, wireless network
Download resources 2006-01-18
Reap the benefits of VoIP in your own home with a clever hack
VoIP is a set of technologies, including protocols, standards and software, which enables voice applications and telephony to be carried over an IP network such as the Internet. The savings that are often realized from VoIP deployment can be tremendous. According to this excerpt from VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools...
Tags: benefit, excerpt, hack, Internet, IP, IP network, IP telephony, network, O'Reilly Media Inc., software, standards, telephone, telephony, VoIP, Web, Web site
Download resources 2006-01-13
Root out more than just network intruders with the flexibility of Snort
Snort is a free and open source network intrusion detection system NIDS that runs on all modern operating systems including Windows and Linux. One of the main advantages of Snort is its flexibility with regard to rules and configuration and its ability to implement a policy-based intrusion detection system. In...
Tags: excerpt, intruder, intrusion detection, Linux, Microsoft Windows, monitoring, network, network intrusion detection, network intrusion detection system, O'Reilly Media Inc., open source, operating system, Snort, Web, Web site
Download resources 2005-09-20
Learn to build a high availability server pair using the Linux Heartbeat package
No Starch Press recently released The Linux Enterprise Cluster, which explains how you can build a reliable business system using inexpensive machines and free software. This excerpt will give you a taste of the focus and detail the book offers, as well as introducing the Heartbeat package and describing how...
Tags: Enterprise, excerpt, heartbeat, high availability, Linux, Linux Enterprise Cluster, Linux Heartbeat, server, software, Starch Press, taste, theory
Download resources 2005-08-18
Master JavaScript basics to make your Web site more dynamic
This excerpt from The Book of JavaScript provides a basic introduction to adding interactivity to your Web pages via JavaScript and shows how to get a simple JavaScript program running. The key points of the chapter include:What you can accomplish with JavaScript.How JavaScript compares to CGI scripting, VBScript, and Java.JavaScript's...
Tags: Scripting languages, JavaScript, interactivity, CGI, Microsoft VBScript, excerpt, Java, Web, Web browser, Web site
Download resources 2005-07-27
Use the power of PHP to manage strings and arrays in your Web site
World Wide Web pages today rely on a certain level of sophistication, even if it is only a personal blog. The importance of scripting and other techniques for logins, perpetual cookies, buttons, blogs, checkboxes, user tracking, database connections, etc. cannot be underestimated. In this free downloadable excerpt from Spring Into...
Tags: Addison-Wesley, blog, building block, checkbox, database, excerpt, PHP, sophistication, Steven Holzner, technique, Web, Web site, WWW
Download resources 2005-05-26
Save time and reduce frustration with a special data class for ASP.NET
Many application developers coming to .NET from other platforms are a little surprised at the number of steps generally required to get data in and out of a data base. However, if you put all of your data base logic into one class, you can write statements once and manipulate...
Tags: excerpt, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, application developer, frustration, object-oriented, object-oriented programming, Web, Web site, Jeffrey Putz, Maximizing ASP.NET
Download resources 2005-05-19
Overcome quirky C++ imperfections with these practical solutions
C++ is an established and powerful programming language, but it isn't perfect. Over the years developers have come up with some creative ways to get around those imperfections. In this excerpt from Matthew Wilson's book, Imperfect C++: Practical Solutions for Real-Life Programming, some of the most common practical solutions regarding...
Tags: excerpt, filter, Addison-Wesley, developer, syntax, C++, Matthew Wilson, Practical Solutions, programming language, Web, Web site, programming, Imperfect C++, Real-Life Programming
Download resources 2005-05-04
A clear explanation of relational databases and the rules that govern them
Deploying a relational database on almost any scale requires a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts and rules that govern their behavior. This excerpt from Get It Done With MySQL 5, written by Arthur Fuller and Peter Brawley, explains the fundamental concepts underlying relational databases, including sets, tables, Codd's 12...
Tags: Databases, Storage, RDBMS, database, excerpt, MySQL, software
Download resources 2005-04-05
Troubleshooting MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
Diagnosing Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS VPN problems involves two basic processess—troubleshooting route advertisement between the customer sites, and troubleshooting the label switched path LSP across the provider backbone. For an end-to-end, step-by-step approach to troubleshooting MPLS VPNs, download this excerpt from Chapter 6 of Cisco Press' Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks....
Tags: Adobe PDF, advertisement, backbone, Chapter 6, Cisco Systems Inc., excerpt, flowchart, label switched path, Mark Lewis, MPLS, MPLS VPN, network, Troubleshooting, Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks, VPN
Download resources 2005-03-03
Strategies for success in the e-conomy: Business process transformation
In Net Ready: Strategies for Success in the E-conomy, the authors offer twelve tactics for succeeding on the Internet. In this excerpt we look at the four business process transformation strategies.by Amir Hartman and John Sifonis with John KadorThis article is an excerpt from Net Ready: Strategies for Success in...
Tags: Operational planning, Sales strategy, Guest Contributor, e-Conomy, excerpt, business process, business process transformation, McKesson Corp., strategy, pharmacy
Technical articles 2000-02-08

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Excerpt from O'Reilly's C# Cookbook: Chapter 17: Security
There are many ways to write secure code and protect data using the .NET Framework. Download this 43-page excerpt from O'Reilly's popular C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition to explore a variety of security issues related to C# programming, such as controlling access to types, encrypting and decrypting data, generating random numbers,...
Tags: Compuware Corp., C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2006-01-01
Monitoring Costs and Benefits - an excerpt from the book "IT Success"
Monitor IT costs and business benefits. Learn how to conduct an accurate cost-benefit analysis across the entire application life cycle--and gain an understanding on how to better communicate the value of IT. Read this excerpt from "IT Success!" This white paper, taken as an excerpt...
Tags: Information Technology, Monitoring, Analysis, Michael, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2007-11-07
Desktop Metrics
Need some info on where to start developing metrics for a Desktop Support group. Process development is also going to be a factor.Forrester has a great couple of papers on that issue.Here:http://www.forrester.com/Research/LegacyIT/Excerpt/0,7208,28614,00.htmlandhttp://www.forrester.com/Research/LegacyIT/Excerpt/0,7208,33271,00.htmlUsing ITIL Service Support as a framework and developing your own methodology based on it should be a...
Tags: ar15dcm@..., desktop, Forrester Research Inc., it management
Q&A 2004-10-12
Troubleshooting MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
Diagnosing Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS VPN problems involves two basic processess—troubleshooting route advertisement between the customer sites, and troubleshooting the label switched path LSP across the provider backbone. For an end-to-end, step-by-step approach to troubleshooting MPLS VPNs, download this excerpt from Chapter 6 of Cisco Press' Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks....
Tags: VPN, MPLS, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications
Book chapters 2005-03-03
IDC Excerpt: Worldwide Server Provisioning Software, 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares
The content of this excerpt is taken directly from the IDC Market Analysis Report, Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares, by Stephen Elliot. According to IDC market data based on detailed company-level revenue analysis as of August 17, the server provisioning software market grew to $277...
Tags: Server Provisioning, Opsware Inc., Server, International Data Corp.
White papers 2006-09-01
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