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 Titles by the Vikram Vaswani:
Create integrated business intelligence solutions using the newest releases of the Microsoft BI stack
Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 explains how to use the entire Microsoft BI stack–SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, and Office 2010 components, including Excel/Gemini–to create integrated, practical, business intelligence solutions. An overview of SQL Server Analysis Services sets the stage for broad coverage of Excel as a front end for “self-service analysis,” using SharePoint features for collaboration and workgroup BI, and leveraging Reporting Services for enterprise dashboards and reports. This practical guide focuses on building end-to-end BI solutions that solve real business data dilemmas.
Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 features:
Authoritative content written by a senior technology specialist at Microsoft who has presented to thousands of users and developers on Microsoft’s BI technologies
A foreword by Thierry D’Hers, Business Intelligence Group Program Manager at Microsoft
Real-world exercises that enable you to build practical solutions for your own business problems
An expert guide to working with SQL Server in a mixed-database environment
Microsoft SQL Server Administration for Oracle DBAs is the ideal resource for experienced Oracle database professionals looking to expand their knowledge and skill set into the Microsoft database platform. The book compares and contrasts the platform architectures and shows how to perform everyday database administrator tasks. Screenshots, script examples, and step-by-step labs are included in this practical guide.
This book is not designed to be a “SQL Server is better than Oracle” or vice versa. It will enable experienced Oracle database administrators to get up to speed on the Microsoft SQL Server platform by building on existing relational database skills. The authors’ combination of expertise in both technologies ensures technical accuracy and real-world experiences. Interviews with members of the Oracle DBA community are included in this practical guide.
Microsoft SQL Server Administration for Oracle DBAs
Is co-written by a data platform technical specialist at Microsoft, UK who works daily with large customers integrating SQL Server into Oracle
Teaches dual skills using real-world examples based on authors’ vast experience
Quickly explains how to perform everyday database admin tasks on SQL Server
Focuses on making both platforms work together successfully
Includes step-by-step labs and interviews with members of the Oracle DBA community
Extract real, actionable business intelligence by utilizing the power of SQL queries
Featuring 300 ready-to-use SQL queries Practical SQL Queries for SQL Server 2008 shows how to write SQL queries within Microsoft’s BI stack, but well over 90% of the SQL queries will work with relational databases from other vendors. This solutions-based guide contains more than 300 SQL queries that can be immediately applied across a wide variety of BI-related problems. It begins with fundamental principles and simple queries and rapidly progresses to complex and sophisticated queries. The book is structured as follows:
Query: Introduction and description of query and its use
Syntax: Complete syntax
Result: Screen shot showing the data returned from the SQL Server relational database by the query
Analysis: Analysis of the results and tips for customization
Specific emphasis is placed on writing SQL for use within Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) connecting to SQL Server – however, the techniques and queries can also be utilized across Reporting Services (SSRS), Integration Services (SSIS), Winforms and Webforms, and in a large variety of third-party front-ends.
Practical SQL Queries for SQL Server 2008
Includes 300+ ready-to-use, easily customizable SQL queries, all available for download
Features a practical, hands-on approach with a minimum of difficult concepts and theory
Explains how to visualize actionable BI
Helps to dramatically improve analysis and decision-making skills
Complete coverage of SQL queries
Select – single table
Where; Order By
Select – multiple tables
Aggregates; Select – new tables
Except/Intersect/Union
Group By
System functions
Subqueries
Delete/Insert/Update
Views/User-defined functions
Stored procedures/Programming
DDL (data definition language)/DCL
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics & Data Visualization
A practical guide to the next-generation Business Intelligence tools available in SQL Server 2008
This book will help DBAs and business intelligence architects work with the latest 3-D visualization techniques that revolutionize data reporting, analysis, and measurement in SQL Server 2008. You will appreciate the complete end-to-end explanation of the real-time visual representation of metrics and trends.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analytics and Data Visualization begins with an overview of how these new tools, acquired from Dundas, fit into the SQL Server 2008 BI stack. You will learn strategies for data mining and advanced analytics. The book explains the full range of cutting-edge data visualization tools, including several customizable charts, map solutions for geographic data, illustrative gauges, and detailed calendars. An eight-page full-color insert highlights dazzling examples of 3-D visuals that convey business metrics in innovative ways.
Benefit to the Customer
Understand 3-D visualization techniques that can be used in reporting, analysis, and measurement.
Examples of the newest ‘Dundas’ BI tools for 3-D data visualization
Easily explore data relationships with a friendly front-end to statistical algorithms
Examples that can be used by BI Architects and connected to every desktop
Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
A practical guide to mastering Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services makes learning SSIS easier through the use of extensive exercises structured around every component within the tool. The complex topics of embedding control flow tasks and containers in a data workflow and using data transformations in the data flow are covered with real-world examples and step-by-step methods.
Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services features:
Details on installation, control flow, data flow transformations, administration, security, and troubleshooting
Two new chapters on extending SSIS through scripting/programming and standard methods for developing a data warehouse architecture
New advanced examples throughout each chapter
Hands-on exercises that are broken down into objectives, solution methodologies, numbered steps, and review for reinforcing techniques
A focus on real-world data warehousing solutions that can be easily applied to your own business challenges
Comprehensive coverage of SSIS:
Introducing SSIS
Import and Export Wizard
SSIS Workflow Nuts and Bolts
Control Flow Containers
Control Flow Tasks
Administration
Securing Packages
Advanced Features
Data Flow Components
Data Flow Transformations
Deploying Packages
Migrating
Troubleshooting and Performance Enhancements
Extending SSIS
Star Schema Data Warehouse Architecture
Practical DMX Queries for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008
Extract real, actionable business intelligence using DMX
Practical DMX Queries for SQL Server Analysis Services shows how to write DMX queries within Microsoft’s BI stack. This solutions-based guide contains more than 240 DMX queries that can be immediately applied across a wide variety of BI-related problems. It begins with fundamental principles and simple queries and rapidly progresses to complex and sophisticated queries. The book is structured as follows:
Query: Introduction and description of query and its use
Syntax: Complete syntax
Result: Screen shot showing the data returned from the Analysis Services data mining model by the query
Analysis: Analysis of the results and tips for customization
Specific emphasis is placed on writing DMX for use within Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) connected to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) – however, the techniques and queries can also be utilized across Reporting Services (SSRS), Integration Services (SSIS), WinForms and WebForms, and in a large variety of third-party front-ends.
Practical DMX Queries for SQL Server Analysis Services:
Includes 240+ ready-to-use, easily customizable DMX queries, all available for download
Features a practical, hands-on approach with a minimum of difficult concepts and theory
Explains how to visualize actionable BI
Shows how to surface knowledge discovery and make informed predictions quickly
Helps to dramatically improve analysis and decision-making skills
Complete coverage of DMX queries
Cases Queries
Content Queries
Prediction Queries with Decision Trees
Prediction Queries with Time Series
Prediction and Cluster Queries with Clustering
Prediction Queries with Association and Sequence Clustering
DDL (data definition language) Queries
Schema and Column Queries
Practical MDX Queries: For Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008
The Business Intelligence market continues to grow, despite the ongoing global recession. In fact, Gartner published (in June 2009) its annual analysis of the Business Intelligence market, citing that worldwide sales of Business Intelligence software grew 22% in 2008 (versus 13% year prior). Total revenue for the market came in at $8.8B. The BI category continues to be an area of focus and expansion for McGraw-Hill Professional.
MDX (Multi-Dimensional Expressions) is a standard language for extracting business intelligence from multi-dimensional cubes within data warehouses and is supported by multiple database vendors. This book is a guide to writing MDX queries within Microsoft’s Business Intelligence stack. The book’s approach is solutions-based, and hands-on, containing more than 300 MDX queries that can be immediately applied across a wide variety of Business Intelligence-related problems. It begins with fundamental principles and simple queries and rapidly progresses to complex and sophisticated queries. The book is structured as follows:
Query Overview: Introduction and description of query and its use
Syntax: Complete syntax
Result: Illustrates the data returned from the Analysis Services cube by the query
Analysis: Analysis of the results and tips for customization
Specific emphasis is placed on writing MDX for use within Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)—however, the techniques and queries can also be utilized across Excel, Excel Services in Sharepoint, Reporting Services (SSRS), Integration Services (SSIS), Performance Point Server dashboards, Winforms and Webforms, and in a large variety of third-party front-ends.
Features
Practical and hands-on with a minimum of difficult concepts and theory
Over 300 MDX queries – all downloadable from www.mhprofessional.com
Clear and simple layout
Refer to any query within the book and become immediately productive
Learn how to visualize actionable Business Intelligence
Create a Highly Available Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Environment
Written by the technical director for SQL Server Magazine, this expert guide shows you how to implement clustering and database mirroring in SQL Server 2008. Learn proven techniques for ensuring zero database loss, avoiding system downtime, and providing instant data backups. Filled with detailed instructions, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with Clustering & Database Mirroring takes you from planning to management of a robust high availability solution.
Configure Windows Failover Clustering
Set up the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a two node failover cluster
Install SQL Server 2008 on your cluster
Handle cluster management and backup
Configure and manage database mirroring for high availability
Implement Hyper-V virtualization and Live Migration
Take immediate advantage of all the innovative features and benefits available in SQL Server 2008 with help from this expert guide. Written by the technical director for SQL Server Magazine, this book offers a concise yet in-depth look at the new and improved enterprise data management capabilities, developer functions, Business Intelligence tools, and security enhancements of SQL Server 2008. This is the perfect resource for decision-makers, developers, and DBAs preparing for upgrades or migration. Get details on:
The new Transparent Data Encryption, Extended Events, filtered indexes, and auditing features
The new Resource Governor, policy-based management framework, T-SQL IntelliSense and debugging, and PowerShell integration
Availability enhancements-Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, peer-to-peer replication, backup compression, and the new table lock escalation
The new ADO.NET Entity Framework
LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
The new native DATE, TIME, FILESTREAM, and Geospatial data types
T-SQL enhancements, such as the new DECLARE, MERGE, and GROUPING SETS statements
The more powerful BI toolset, including Integration Services Data Profiling, Analysis Services new Cube Designer, and Reporting Services new tablix controls
Improved Microsoft Office integration capabilities
Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Maximize the Business Intelligence Tools in Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Manage, analyze, and distribute enterprise data with help from this expert resource. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 covers the entire BI lifecycle and explains how to build robust data integration, reporting, and analysis solutions. Real-world examples illustrate all of the powerful BI capabilities of SQL Server 2008. This is your one-stop guide for transforming disparate data into actionable insight for users throughout your organization.
Understand the goals and benefits of business intelligence
Design and create relational data marts and OLAP cubes
Manage Analysis Services databases using BI Development Studio
Cleanse data and populate data marts with SQL Server Integration Services
Take advantage of the flexibility of the Unified Dimensional Model
Manipulate and analyze data using MDX scripts and queries
Use data mining to identify data patterns, correlations, and clustering
Develop and distribute interactive reports with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Integrate business intelligence into enterprise applications using ADOMD.NET and the Report Viewer Control
The Definitive Guide to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Create and deliver data-rich reports across the enterprise using this complete server-based reporting solution. Written by a member of the original Reporting Services development team, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services covers the entire report-building and distribution process, including data extraction, integration with desktop and Web applications, and end-user access. The book explains how to maximize all of the powerful features, including the new Tablix data format, as well as enhanced performance, scalability, and visualization capabilities.
Install, configure, and customize SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Create SELECT queries to extract data
Generate reports from the Report Wizard and from scratch
Add charts, images, and gauges
Build reusable report templates
Use the new Tablix data format to create reports with any structure
Export reports to Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, and other formats
Enable end-user access to reports via the Report Server and its Report Manager web interface
Get Started on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in No Time
Learn to use all of the powerful features available in SQL Server 2008 quickly and easily. Microsoft SQL Server 2008: A Beginner’s Guide explains the fundamentals of each topic alongside examples and tutorials that walk you through real-world database tasks. Install SQL Server 2008, construct high-performance databases, use powerful Transact-SQL statements, create stored procedures and triggers, and execute simple and complex database queries. Performance tuning, Database Engine security, Business Intelligence, and XML are also covered.
Set up, configure, and maintain SQL Server 2008
Build and manage database objects using Transact-SQL statements
Create stored procedures and user-defined functions
Optimize database performance, availability, and reliability
Implement solid security using authentication, encryption, and authorization
Automate tasks using SQL Server Agent
Create reliable data backups and perform flawless system restores
Use all-new SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence, development, and administration tools
Learn in detail the SQL Server XML technology (SQLXML)
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.
Endorsed by Microsoft and written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide teaches programmers and developers new to Visual Studio 2010 how to maximize the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship development environment. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up. You’ll also learn how to customize the integrated development environment (IDE) itself, adding your own tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2010.
Microsoft® Visual Studio® is Microsoft’s flagship development environment, which includes a suite of development tools designed to aid software developers. Visual Studio 2010 is expected to release at the end of 2009 (most likely at the Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference in November). Visual Studio 2010 is a smart choice for developers. Because of the growing complexity of building applications these days, most developers would never think of writing code with a text editor or some other primitive tool. Businesses can’t afford to waste time and demand the greatest amount of productivity they can get with developers. Visual Studio 2010 is a tool for software developers that helps build applications that run on Microsoft platforms and integrate with other Microsoft applications, allowing for greater productivity in the process.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide helps developers get started with Microsoft’s newest version of their integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio 2010. The author shows how to build applications with Visual Studio 2010 from installation of the tool to deployment of their solutions. The book demonstrates how to get started with the features of Visual Studio 2010 that support newer technologies. The readers also learn how to customize the IDE itself, adding their own tools that work with the features that ship with VS 2010. Another important aspect of Visual Studio 2010 is extensibility. Developers can add snippets in the editor, write macros, and even develop their own tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2010. This book includes details on how the user can accomplish these tasks and make Visual Studio 2010 their own. This fast-paced tutorial helps developers learn to leverage the new features, applications, and tools in Visual Studio 2010 to their advantage..
Features
Covers C# and VB.NET languages, showing how to use the tools most productively
Incorporates the popular Beginner’s Guide elements including: Key Skills & Concepts, Ask the Experts, and Try This hands-on exercises
Bestselling author is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio who speaks at user groups and code camps, writes articles, and has a continuing on-line presence through multiple channels.
Foreword by Microsoft
About the Author
Joe Mayo, Microsoft MVP (Englewood, CO) is an author and instructor who specializes in Microsoft .NET software technology. He is also owner of Mayo Software Training where he brings real-world hands-on experience into the classroom. Joe is the author of C# Unleashed (Sams), LINQ Programming and numerous magazine articles for publishers such as Pinnacle and CoDe Magazine. Joe also operates the C# Station web site (www.csharp-station.com), which is a free resource for developers learning to apply C#. He is a prominent speaker at conferences and user group meetings. For more information about Mayo Software Training, visit www.mayosoftware.com.
In this fully updated bestseller, the world’s leading programming author provides comprehensive coverage of C# 4.0–the latest version of Microsoft’s premier programming language shipping as part of Visual Studio 2010.
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Herb Schildt’s classic programming resource, C# 4.0: The Complete Reference contains carefully crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples, covering all aspects of C# 4.0, including its keywords, syntax, and core libraries.
Every new C# 4.0 feature is covered, such as support for dynamic types and for parallel programming, which allows a program to perform portions of a task simultaneously when a computer contains multiple processors. Details on PLINQ, a parallel version of LINQ (Language-Integrated Query), are included. All other new features such as named and optional method arguments, and covariance and contravariance for generic interfaces and delegates are also covered. In addition, the book discusses the new classes, interfaces, and methods available in .NET 4.0.
Features
New important coverage of Parallel programming, PLINQ, and dynamic types
New features of C# 4.0 covered in detail: named and optional method arguments, and covariance and contravariance for generic interfaces and delegates
Reviewed and endorsed by Michael Howard, Microsoft
Provides a depth of coverage in a form that average programmers can understand
Includes keyword quick reference for fast look-up of keyword syntax
Author Information
Herb Schildt (Mahomet, IL) is the world’s leading programming author, whose books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. His acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference.
A Beginner’s Guide series, written for absolute beginners is designed for Easy Learning with Key Skills & Concepts with chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter , Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips, hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills, Extra information related to the topic being covered and Helpful reminders to help you prepare for the exam and alternative ways of doing things.
This series has reveived several praises from SciTech Book News, which is published by Book News, Inc. Book News prepares concise, descriptive reviews of new books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for librarians and other buyers of serious books; SciTech Book News is unique in its coverage of high-level books in technology, engineering, computer, medicine, agriculture, and the physical & biological sciences.
Reviewed in the March 2010 issue ofSciTech Book News
“Written for absolute beginners, this tutorial shows how to program in AppleScript, the scripting language built into Mac OS X, in order to automatically generate documents, spreadsheets, and e-mails. Sections cover getting started, essential AppleScript programming techniques, and automating major applications with AppleScript. Debugging and error handling are also covered. Learning features include Q&A sections, hands-on exercises, tips, cautions, and example code with annotations. A companion web site offers ready-to-use code. Hart-Davis has written other computer books.”
Reviewed in the September 2009 issue of SciTech Book News
“The fourth edition of this beginner’s guide to programming in the HTML language describes the basic steps of structuring pages, placing images, formatting text, creating links, adding color, using forms and working with multimedia. Willard, a freelance web designer and consultant, uses hands-on exercises, self tests and Q&A sections so that novices can learn advanced applications such as dynamic web content, CSS and JavaScript. A new chapter has been added in this version that covers the use of HTML for email so that target audiences can be reached through online communications.”
An excerpt from this book has been published in the Winter issue of iPhone Life Magazine. To view the excerpt, please use the following link (article located on pages 80-81 of the electronic issue), please click Here.
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C# 4.0 The Complete Reference
April 5, 2010C# 4.0 The Complete Reference
Author: Schildt, Herbert
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-174116-3
ISBN-10: 007174116X
©2010 | 1st Edition | 928 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: May 2010
Price: US$ 49.99
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In this fully updated bestseller, the world’s leading programming author provides comprehensive coverage of C# 4.0–the latest version of Microsoft’s premier programming language shipping as part of Visual Studio 2010.
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Herb Schildt’s classic programming resource, C# 4.0: The Complete Reference contains carefully crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples, covering all aspects of C# 4.0, including its keywords, syntax, and core libraries.
Every new C# 4.0 feature is covered, such as support for dynamic types and for parallel programming, which allows a program to perform portions of a task simultaneously when a computer contains multiple processors. Details on PLINQ, a parallel version of LINQ (Language-Integrated Query), are included. All other new features such as named and optional method arguments, and covariance and contravariance for generic interfaces and delegates are also covered. In addition, the book discusses the new classes, interfaces, and methods available in .NET 4.0.
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Author Information
Herb Schildt (Mahomet, IL) is the world’s leading programming author, whose books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. His acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference.