Wi-Fi Toys 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment

Wi-Fi Toys 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment

This ultra-cool volume invites readers to tap into your inner geek and build seventeen ultra-cool wireless devices including a solar powered access point, a wireless picture frame that dynamically changes its own photos, and even a wireless car-to-car audio and video system. This book provides readers with hands-on instruction and insider tips and tricks from those who are on the bleeding edge of wireless technology.
New addition to the ExtremeTech line of books-books for serious technophiles.

The world’s gone wireless here’s where it starts to get fun Wireless is all about freedom, freedom from cables, cords, plugs, and limitations. So why be limited to ready-made, cookie-cutter products? This book frees your imagination as it helps you create 15 exciting, individual projects using wireless technology. Each includes the necessary background, a list of materials, and step-by-step, illustrated instructions. Build a custom antenna, set up a car-to-car video link, or Wi-Fi your TiVo.

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PHP Cookbook

PHP Cookbook
Book Description
When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft’s ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook’s unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.

“PHP Cookbook” has a wealth of solutions for problems that you’ll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples — or “recipes” — for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new PDO data access extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

About the Author
Adam Trachtenberg is a technical evangelist for eBay and is the author of two O’Reilly books, “Upgrading to PHP 5″ and “PHP Cookbook”. He is a frequent speaker at O’Reilly Open Source Conferences and LinuxWorld. Adam has an MBA from Columbia Business School. While there, he focused on general management and operations, with an emphasis on the field of technology. Adam also has a BA from Columbia University. As an undergraduate, he majored in mathematics, and his other studies included computer science and Chinese.

David Sklar is a software developer at Ning, the latest startup founded by Internet hall of famer Marc Andressen. David was a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both companies, he oversaw the architecture and development of varied systems to deliver personalized dynamic content to users around the world. After discovering PHP as a solution to his web programming needs in 1996, he created the PX (http://px.sklar.com/), which enables PHP users to exchange programs. Since then, he has continued to rely on PHP for personal and professional projects. He is the author of O’Reilly’s “Learning PHP 5″, “Essential PHP Tools” (Apress) and the coauthor of “PHP Cookbook” (O’Reilly).


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Global Sensitivity Analysis

Global Sensitivity Analysis

Book Description
Complex mathematical and computational models are used in all areas of society and technology and yet model based science is increasingly contested or refuted, especially when models are applied to controversial themes in domains such as health, the environment or the economy. More stringent standards of proofs are demanded from model-based numbers, especially when these numbers represent potential financial losses, threats to human health or the state of the environment. Quantitative sensitivity analysis is generally agreed to be one such standard.


Mathematical models are good at mapping assumptions into inferences. A modeller makes assumptions about laws pertaining to the system, about its status and a plethora of other, often arcane, system variables and internal model settings. To what extent can we rely on the model-based inference when most of these assumptions are fraught with uncertainties? Global Sensitivity Analysis offers an accessible treatment of such problems via quantitative sensitivity analysis, beginning with the first principles and guiding the reader through the full range of recommended practices with a rich set of solved exercises. The text explains the motivation for sensitivity analysis, reviews the required statistical concepts, and provides a guide to potential applications.

The book:
Provides a self-contained treatment of the subject, allowing readers to learn and practice global sensitivity analysis without further materials.
Presents ways to frame the analysis, interpret its results, and avoid potential pitfalls.
Features numerous exercises and solved problems to help illustrate the applications.
Is authored by leading sensitivity analysis practitioners, combining a range of disciplinary backgrounds.

Postgraduate students and practitioners in a wide range of subjects, including statistics, mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, environmental sciences, biology, toxicology, actuarial sciences, and econometrics will find much of use here. This book will prove equally valuable to engineers working on risk analysis and to financial analysts concerned with pricing and hedging.

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Boost your hiring IQ

Boost your hiring IQ

Book Description

From the author of Boost Your Interview IQ comes the essential interviewing manual for managers

This interactive hiring guide is an absolute must, whether you’re a manager, HR professional, or a small business owner. Its powerful hiring IQ test helps youdetermine what kinds of answers they should look for when asking questions in an interview-and what those answers really mean.


Written by renowned interviewing expert Carole Martin, Boost Your Hiring IQ is filled with practical advice on what to look for when filling a position, techniques for asking the right interview questions that really show the capabilities of a prospective employee, and questions that reveal how to hire the best person for the job.

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ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks

ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks

* This unique book offers readers invaluable information from the cream of the crop-Microsoft MVPs-who are now sharing undocumented hacks for the first time
* Packed with superlative advice on ASP, Microsoft’s popular technology for Web sites, this book will help readers become more productive developer, find solutions to problems they thought unsolvable, and develop better applications
* During their many years of working with ASP.NET, Microsoft MVPs have answered thousands of questions, putting them in the distinctive position of knowing exactly what readers need to know
* Many of the hacks will apply to multiple versions of ASP.NET, not just 2.0 but 1.0 and 1.1 as well

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User Interfaces in C# - Windows Forms and Custom Controls

User Interfaces in C# - Windows Forms and Custom Controls

Book Description

User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls goes beyond simply covering the Windows Forms namespaces by combining a careful treatment of the API with a detailed discussion of good user-interface design principles. The combination will show you how to create the next generation of software applications using the .NET Framework. After reading User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, you’ll know how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, as well as how to extend .NET controls, create data-binding strategies, program graphics, and much more.


This book contains the following:
An overview of how to design elegant user interfaces the average user can understand.
A comprehensive examination of the user interface controls and classes in .NET.
Best practices and design tips for coding user interfaces and integrating helpAlthough this book isn’t a reference, it does contain detailed discussions about every user interface element you’ll use on a regular basis. But you won’t just learn how to use .NET controlsyou’ll learn how and why to extend them, with owner-drawn menus, irregularly shaped forms, and custom controls tailored for specific types of data. As a developer, you need to know more than how to add a control to a window. You also need to know how to create an entire use interface framework that’s scalable, flexible, and reusable.


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Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX

Book Description
Get an expert introduction to the new JavaScript enhancements for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. More than a basic AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) script library, the Microsoft implementation brings object orientation to JavaScript, together with enhanced client-side and server-side controls that greatly simplify coding while delivering enhanced Web experiences with any browser. This book offers expert insights direct from the Microsoft product team and noted ASP authority Dino Esposito, as well as hands-on instruction and examples of Web development with AJAX. This ideal reference will be updated online until the final release, keeping readers up to date with the evolving tool. The book includes code samples in ASP.NET 2.0 created using C# and JavaScript

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