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Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

Matt Fisher

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

75% of attacks targeted against specific systems are aimed against the web application itself; not the operating system or network. While current security technologies and practices are aimed for the operating system and network, the custom developed software that runs the web application is the most exposed portion of any website, and often the most vulnerable. This book defines Web application security, why it should be addressed earlier in the lifecycle in development and quality assurance, and how it differs from other types of Internet security. Additionally, the book examines the procedures and technologies that are essential to developing, penetration testing and releasing a secure Web application. Through a review of recent Web application breaches, the book will expose the prolific methods hackers use to execute Web attacks using common vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting and Buffer Overflows in the application layer. By taking an in-depth look at the techniques hackers use to exploit Web applications, readers will be better equipped to protect confidential.

Crystal Reports XI for Developers

David McAmis

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

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Crystal Reports XI is a powerful software tool for turning raw data into corporate decision-making information. End-users and developers alike use Crystal Reports to extract and format information, and with over 9 million licenses shipped Crystal Reports is one of the most popular packages for corporate reporting. Crystal Reports XI for Developers provides a solid introduction for any report or application developer just getting started with Crystal Reports. Using this practical guide, they will learn to create presentation-quality reports from a variety of data sources, and how to add the advanced features developers need to analyze report data. Developers will learn to create simple and complex reports with the formatting and organization techniques presented in the book, and how to add filtering and summaries to crunch millions of rows of data into a concise and meaningful format. They will also learn to create their own formulas and SQL Expressions, as well as how to use advanced Crystal Reports features such as subreports, cross-tabs, charts, dynamic parameters, and more. Going beyond the sample reports that ship with the product, Crystal Reports XI for Developers is filled with step-by-step essentials and real-world examples, showing readers how to take full advantage of Crystal Reports key features so they can create information-rich, quality reports from their own data and integrate them into their own applications.

Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET

M.J. Easton, Jason King

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Well, I came home today to a pleasant surprise (Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET). So I can start freestyling, cross-platform style. An enthusiastically recommended resource especially for anyone pursuing, building, or studying for a career in the field.

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Requirements Modelling and Specification for Service Oriented Architecture

Ian Graham

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Many software developers often confuse requirements engineering with software specification and, as a result, build unusable systems, despite meeting specifications. Bringing together all the techniques needed by the modern software developer, here is a practical handbook to requirements engineering and systems specification for developers building systems within a service oriented architecture. It introduces the concepts of SOA and relevant standards and technology, such as Web services and ESBs, and then presents a range of modern requirements engineering techniques.

Multithreading Programming Techniques (J. Ranade Workstation Series)

Shashi Prasad

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Good survey, but sloppy specifics. 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

If what you are after is a survey of available mutli-threading support across several operating systems, then look no further. There is a great deal of information about how generic multithreading concepts map onto specific operating system features. In addition, the author details where different OS versions implement different behavior, and indicates OS's where some techniques are poorly suited.

However, if you want to learn the multi-threading support of any specific OS, this book is a poor choice. The examples are extremely sloppy; almost half of them are syntactially incorrect. For example, 7 is substituted for >, == is exchanged with =, and {} braces are missing. Many examples are incorrect even after fixing the syntax. Examples that might be correct contain techniques not explained in the prose.

I suggest using this book as cross-OS survey of multithreading support, and buy something else for the details.

Editorial Review:

The purpose of the book is to educate software professionals the techniques of multithreading programming, to show them how to use threads effectively to develop scaleable and parallel applications. Symmetric Multiprocessing machines (SMP) are becoming increasingly popular for many applications. Multithreading is the best technique available to developers to take advantage of the inherent parallelism of the SMP machines. The book starts with explaining SMP machines and discusses multithreading in general, and identifies the kinds of applications that can benefit from multithreading. This book explains in the clear and concise manner the techniques of multithreading programming on multiple platforms.

SOAP: Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML

Scott Seely, Kent Sharkey

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SOAP will be the universal "application glue" for tomorrow's widely distributed systems. It's simple, based on widely deployed standards such as XML and HTTP, and will enable virtually any business software to communicate across the Internet. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML offers a practical, hands-on introduction to SOAP that demonstrates how to leverage this technology on multiple platforms, using virtually every leading programming language. Seely begins by reviewing the history of distributed computing, and demonstrating how SOAP solves distributed computing problems that DCOM and CORBA failed to solve. He presents basic introductions to XML, and then to SOAP's syntax -- including SOAP's use of HTTP headers, the SOAP payload, error handling, data types, encoding structures, and more. You'll walk through building a simple SOAP server for Windows; then discover how SOAP can be extended to support multiple platforms and programming languages. SOAP: Cross Platform Internet Development Using XML contains detailed chapters on utilizing SOAP with each of five leading programming languages: C++, Perl, Python, Visual Basic, and Java. The book concludes by reviewing today's leading SOAP servers. For all developers and system integrators constructing Internet applications, applications written in multiple programming languages, or applications that integrate diverse enterprise systems; and for any IT professional evaluating SOAP.

OpenDoc Cookbook

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A companion volume to OpenDoc Programmer's Guide for the Mac OS is a hands-on guide to implementing OpenDoc that combines practical advice, tutorials, and lore of the development team at Apple. (Advanced).

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide (Adobe Developer Library)

Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt

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Written by members of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) product team, this is the official guide to the beta release of Adobe's new cross-platform desktop runtime, previously known by its code name Apollo.

This book explains how you can use AIR to build and deploy HTML and JavaScript-based web applications to the desktop, using all of the tools and technologies with which you are already familiar. Everything you need to know about this platform is right here, so you can start building applications with AIR right away.

Topics include:

• What AIR is, and the problems this runtime aims to solve
• How to set up your development environment
• How to create your first app using HTML and JavaScript
• The HTML and JavaScript environments within AIR
• How to do common tasks, presented in the easy-to-use O'Reilly Cookbook format

Also included is a guide to AIR packages, classes and command line tools. Once you understand the basics of building an HTML- and JavaScript-based AIR applications, this pocket guide makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems. Welcome to the revolution!

Adobe Developer Library is a co-publishing partnership between O'Reilly Media and Adobe Systems, Inc. and is designed to produce the number one information resources for developers who use Adobe technologies. Created in 2006, the Adobe Developer Library is the official source for comprehensive learning solutions to help developers create expressive and interactive web applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. With top-notch books and innovative online resources covering the latest in rich Internet application development, the Adobe Developer Library offers expert training and in-depth resources, straight from the source.

OpenDoc Programmer's Guide

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OpenDoc is the new cross-platform technology being codeveloped by Apple, IBM, and Novell/WordPerfect. This guide provides definitive instruction and reference for programmers who want to design and implement their programs. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete reference to the classes and methods of the OpenDoc class libraries, methods of the OpenDoc class libraries, and more.

Applied SOAP: Implementing .NET XML Web Services (Kaleidoscope)

Kenn Scribner, Mark Stiver

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Great book on .NET and SOAP 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

Here's what you get in the book: you will learn how to use .NET in order to shape your SOAP messages. There's a lot to know and understand: manipulating XML, creating custom attributes, debugging, reading messages. This book covers all of those items in detail and has the code to save you time. The book tells me exactly what I needed to know in order to make better use of SOAP in my .NET applications. Kenn teaches this stuff for Wintellect and developed the course on this. It's also pretty clear that the day jobs for both these guys involves writing Web Services. When you are done with the book, you will understand all you need in order to write your own Web Services.

I read the two other reviews and I don't understand why the readers are complaining. SOAP is one way to do Web Services and is the only thing that the authors talk about in the entire book. Perhaps this reader has a problem with the fact that, for the most part, SOAP == Web Services? As for the horrible waste of time review, I again think that the person didn't really look at the book. This is the best book I have seen to date which describes how to mold your SOAP messages, write custom attributes, etc. These guys explain pretty well what SOAP is for. Better for Web Page scraping? I think that reviewer simply picked up a copy in a book store, read 2 pages, and that's it.

Editorial Review:

This book takes the reader from the architecture of .NET to real-world techniques they can use in their own Internet applications. The reader is introduced to .NET and Web Services and explores (in detail) issues surrounding the fielding of successful Web Services. Practical guidelines as well as solutions are provided that the rader may use in their own projects. Some of the issues involve lack of specific guidance in the SOAP specification, while others transcend SOAP and involve issues Internet developers have grappled with since the inception of the World Wide Web. At this time, this book has no competition.