The Sun Certified Programmer for Java exam remains the standard for Sun Certified Professionals who want to set themselves apart professionally. The current SCJP exam covers the Java 6 edition of Java Platform, Standard Edition. No other book provides the same level up-to-date coverage of all the official exam item types and formats included on the exam, including new test items being released in 2009.
SCJP Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 6 Practice Exams features the most accurate test questions available. Each practice exam simulates the type and style of questions found on the live exam, and matches the official exam domains. This is an integrated test preparation system based on proven methods—all new test question formats, including performance-based questions, are covered, and all questions include an in-depth explanation of both the correct and incorrect answers. The book follows the same best selling structure as SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide by Sierra & Bates.
About the Authors
Kathy Sierra (Santa Cruz, CA) was a co-developer of the SCJP exam and the SCJD exam. She was also a master trainer for Sun Educational Services, where she taught Java instructors. Her full-time job since 1998 has been to help others learn Java and prepare for the SCJP exam, and she also is also the sole founder of what is arguably the world’s largest Java certification web site, Javaranch.com. Kathy has worked for Sun Educational Services worldwide headquarters in the course development, customer training, and certification departments. Prior to that, she worked as an instructor for UCLA Extension’s IBM New Media Lab, and developed games for Virgin, MGM, and Amblin’ Entertainment.
Bert Bates (Santa Cruz, CA) is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java and has been developing software for the last 20 years. He has participated in the development of the SCJP, SCJD, and SCWCD exams. Bert has also been teaching software development, including Java programming, for many years, with a particular interest and background in artificial intelligence. His clients have included Rockwell, Timken, The Weather Channel, and Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E). He can be reached at Bert.Bates@wickedlysmart.com.
Practical Software Project Estimation: A Toolkit for Estimating Software Development Effort & Duration
Peter Hill, International Software Benchmarking Standards Group
Proven techniques from the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group
Practical Software Project Estimation is a complete toolkit for accurately estimating the size, cost, and duration of software development projects. This book is based on software project data collected by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) which contains an updated repository of more than 5,000 completed projects from around the world. The book provides clear explanations of different estimation techniques and shows you how to use them. Estimation equations and project delivery rate tables are provided for use in estimating projects, along with insights and best practices based on completed projects sitting in the ISBSG software project repository.
Practical Software Project Estimation:
Provides solutions for mitigating a wide variety of software project failures and pitfalls and delivering accurate estimates
Contains data based on more than 5,000 completed international software projects
Includes estimating exercises for real-world practice
Enables accurate estimation of costs and durations of large and small software projects
Explains different estimating techniques and how to best apply them
About the Author
Peter Hill is the chief executive officer and a director of the ISBSG. He has been in the information services industry for more than 40 years and has compiled and edited five books for the ISBSG.
The ISBSG (Australia, Finland, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA) is a not-for-profit organisation that established and now grows, maintains and exploits two repositories of IT history data (software metrics) to help improve the management of IT globally.
Mission of the ISBSG: “To improve the management of IT resources by both business and government through the provision and exploitation of public repositories of software engineering knowledge that are standardized, verified, recent and representative of current technologies.”
The ISBSG’s formation in 1997 was built upon several years of previous cooperation by a group of national software metrics associations with the common aim of developing and promoting the use of IT industry history data to improve software processes and products, for the benefit of both businesses and governments worldwide. Current members of the ISBSG represent IT and Metrics Associations from thirteen countries (Australia, Finland, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA ).
A Zend Technologies columnist and bestselling PHP author provides practical information on today’s most popular PHP framework—with more than 7 million downloads.
Aimed squarely at real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide teaches developers how to work smarter, by using the most popular open-source framework for PHP. Feature-rich, robust and mature, Zend Framework can simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, improve quality, and provide the developer with the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed in today’s competitive, rapidly-changing environment. This book shows how to maximize all the features of Zend Framework.
Zend Framework is to PHP what JavaServer Faces is to Java. Just as Java Server Faces: The Complete Reference is popular and useful for Java developers, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide will be the best guide for open source developers looking to develop web applications using PHP and the new Zend Framework.
Key Selling Features
Author is has been a well-known featured columnist with Zend Technologies since 2006. His columns are among the most popular on the Zend Technology community site.
Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework
Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory
Provides numerous projects and code examples
Companion website includes all of the code in the book
About the Author
Vikram Vaswani (Bombay, India) is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference (all McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles) and XML and PHP (New Riders Publishing) He is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users.
He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn’t looked back since. He is regular columnist with Zend Technologies (creators of PHP), as well as with IBM DeveloperWorks, CNET Builder.com, DevX.com and other OSS sites
Articles by Vikram Vaswani
Article 01: Zend Developer Zone on April 21, 2010 Build an Enterprise – Grade PHP Stack with Zend Server 5.0 and Oracle 11g To read, please click HERE
Article 02: IBM on May 11, 2010 Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework To read, please clickHERE
Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.
Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.
After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.
With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.
Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.
Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.
This practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run PHP plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. The book begins by showing you how to install, configure, and use a powerful web development environment. Then, each chapter in Plug-In PHP offers complete, working examples for specific end results you can achieve right away. In this time-saving tool, all of the code is extensively documented along with tips for adapting it for your own requirements.
Robin Nixon (UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in magazines such as PC Plus, PCW, Web User, .net, PC Advisor, and PC Answers. He is the author of 3 computing books, including the upcoming Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (O’Reilly).
OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065)
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