Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)

Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)
By Arthur W. Blume


Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: 2005-03-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471484830
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471484837
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Part of the new Treating Addictions series, Treating Drug Problems is full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating drug problems, and represents an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing drug dependence or addiction. The popular series format includes assessment scales; tables, checklists, and diagrams; features such as "Dos and Don'ts" and "Important Things to Remember"; problem-solving scenarios; "Self-Improvement Techniques"; and suggested resources, including an annotated bibliography and lists of contacts such as self-help groups, residential and outpatient treatment programs, support groups, and websites.

Other Book :
Treating Drug Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)
علاج مشاكل المخدرات (ايلي سلسلة علاج الإدمان).
Лечение проблеми с наркотиците (Wiley Лечение наркомании серия).
治疗药物问题（威利治疗吸毒系列） 。
治療藥物問題（威利治療吸毒系列）

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed
By Paul Kimmel


Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2002-01-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 067232234X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780672322341
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:

Visual Basic.NET Unleashed is a complete book on the fundamentals of programming with a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities. In addition to the fundamentals, this book covers:
Free threading and multithreading
Inheritance
Virtual methods and shared methods
Structured exception handling
Event handling
Encapsulation at the namespace level
Web Services
.NET Framework compatibility


Amazon.com:

Aimed at the more experienced developer, Visual Basic .NET Unleashed will let you master the improved object-oriented capabilities of the newest version of Visual Basic quickly. Stressing "refactoring" and advanced class design features, this challenging tutorial proves that VB .NET is in the front rank of object-oriented programming languages today. The expert focus here on language features and refactoring (for efficient class design) is the hallmark of this text.

After an in-depth tutorial on the new IDE available in Visual Studio .NET, the author digs in with a fast-moving tour of VB .NET language features (including coverage of changes from VB6). The text starts with basic and then advanced topics, but its real emphasis is on advanced class design using classes and interfaces, with some excellent material on inheritance and polymorphism, as well as taking advantage of VB .NET's support for properties and reflection, among other topics. By continually advising how to rewrite classes to improve their maintainability, the author raises the bar here by presenting some tips and best practices beyond the obvious, using techniques invented by the Extreme Programming (XP) movement.

Later chapters turn to the basics of using Windows Forms and graphics programming (with GDI+), as well as ADO.NET for building database-driven Web applications. The book finishes with a nicely comprehensive listing of all VB6 to VB .NET changes, an invaluable resource for those making this transition.

If you are going to learn to design with objects, you might as well learn to do it right, this guide argues, using the expertise garnered from other programming languages. In all, this title shows how VB .NET supports basic and advanced object-oriented design features. It will be most profitably read by those with some previous object-oriented programming experience, though it will also benefit the beginner who wants to be challenged with some expert advice to get the most out of the new object support available in VB .NET. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: In-depth introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE (including common project tasks, configuration options, debugging, and built-in views), VB6 versus VB .NET language tutorial (including new .NET data types, variables, arrays, collections, and exception handling); extending VS .NET with macros (including Add-ins and Wizards), procedures and parameters, recursion, structures, enumerated types, reflection APIs, object-oriented design tutorial, (classes, access specifiers, properties, methods, nested classes), events in VB .NET: delegates and event handlers, inheritance and polymorphism (including interfaces), shared members, attributes (plus custom attributes); VB .NET console applications (debugging and running applications), multithreaded applications (lightweight and heavyweight threading), introduction to Windows Forms, GDI+ graphics (including basic shapes, curves and Bezier splines and images), tutorial for Web services (UDDI, DISCO, building and debugging Web services); basic Web programming with ASP.NET and ADO.NET, writing to the event log, list of changes between VB6 and VB .NET, refactoring VB code, and advice for effective object-oriented programming.



Summary: Excellent Resource for the CORE VB.NET Language. If looking for Databases with VB.NET, go get an ASP.NET book and stop whining.
Rating: 5

It doesn't matter if you're coding windows applications or web applications, this book is for you because web programmers ultimately have to know the VB.NET language! It doesn't matter if you're coding .NET 1.0, 1.1, or 2.0, this book is for you...at least until they come out with version 2. This book has taught me so much about the new OOP for VB.NET with real world explanations in a concise manor. Highly recommended even if you are one of those "I know it all, I don't need books" coder...don't be ridiculous...get this book, it's a great reference.

As another person I see in their review stated that this book lacked info on databases. This book is about the VB.NET language, not Databases! If you want more about VB.NET with Databases, that's what ASP.NET books are for!!! I can recommend many for that but this book as it's labeled is for VB.NET, the LANGUAGE!!! common people...lets wake up here.

I don't have money to waste and buy my books carefully..ones that I definitely will use and this is one of them I've used a lot.


Summary: No ADO, are you kidding me?
Rating: 1

you have to be kidding me. how do you have a book called "unleashed" and then not even go into any database usage? i dont think i have ever had to write an application that did not include some type of database usage, yet the author does not even cover it. nor does he go into forms in any detail except when it comes to web forms. where are the 2 pages it would have taken to detail how to populate a listBox? i bought this book off a sidewalk vendor for half price and i got ripped off.


Summary: There's Nothing to be unleashed! BAD BOOK
Rating: 1

The Title says "Visual Basic .Net Unleashed"... what a title? if you want to learn Visual Basic .Net, don't buy this book. Can we use definitions in writing programs? I don't think so. I bought this book because of its title but when i started reading it, its only full of definitions, less examples.


Summary: Good book for the vb.net language
Rating: 4

This is a good book for covering the actual language of vb.net (classes, delegates etc). There isn't much content on creating win or web forms or ado.net for that matter. You will need a separate book if you want to learn these techniques.


Summary: too much effort to go thru this one!!
Rating: 1

The authors seems to know what he is talking about and
the code looks good. However the downloadable code for
this book does not carry the code to call any of the scripts
in his book.
A separate script is needed and
needs to be written by the reader to call each script and
basically test if his vb.net scripts are execute and run successfully.

This approach forces hands-on approach but seeing how large
the .net framework is, my money would have been better spent
on another book.

With the effort required by this book, it could end up to be
a waste of time if his code doesn't work in the end.

This must be one of the worst books I have purchased ...

Other Visual Basic books

Visual Basic .NET Unleashed
البصرية الأساسية. شبكة العنان.
Visual Basic. NET Unleashed.
Visual Basic中。 NET中释放出来。
Visual Basic中。 NET中釋放出來。
Visual Basica. NET Unleashed.

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides)
By Michael Sikora


Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 2002-12-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1558609091
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781558609099
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

If you're an experienced programmer, you already have a rock-solid foundation for learning Java. All you need is a resource that takes your experience into account and explains Java's key principles and techniques in an intelligent, efficient way.

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers is precisely that resource. Here, you won't have to wade through hundreds of pages of overly simplistic material to learn the basics of Java programming. Instead, you get highly focused instruction in the core elements of Java 1.4, accompanied by carefully chosen examples and line-by-line analyses that are right to the point. You'll be astonished at how soon you can begin productive coding in Java, and how quickly your skills will progress.

Web resources:
Source code from the book is no longer available at
http://www.zm.sikora.btinternet.co.uk/source.html
Please press the 'Companion Page' button on the upper right side of this page to access a zip file containing it.

Sun J2SE download page
http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html

Sun J2SE API documentation
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/index.html

* Written expressly for people who already know a procedural or object-oriented programming language.
* Takes a concise approach designed to make the most of the experience you already have.
* Covers the core elements of Java 1.4, including language syntax, OO features, collections, exception handling, input/output, threads, event handling, and Swing components.
* Filled with incisive coding examples and line-by-line analyses.
* Via a companion Web site, provides downloadable example code and links to additional resources.



Summary: A CONCISE Java Grammar!
Rating: 5

I love this little one. From time to time, between working through and losing myself in half dozen or more heavy tomes of Java book, I would come back to this little one to get a grip of fundamentals and essentials. The book is concise and no nonsensical. I also like the banking application sample code. Practical enough. Who doesn't bank?


Summary: Good for experienced coders
Rating: 4

As the book's title shows, it's just a guide, a simple guide that you can not expect too much details out from it. Before learning Java, I am a Delphi coder. So, I was looking for some book to transfer me from Delphi to Java quickly. Within merely 170-odd pages, Sikora brings you an overview of the Java language. I think this guide just right fits my taste. Another thing to be mentioned, if you are a serious coder, a detailed reference is necessary. As what I am doing now, Java 2, The Complete Reference is by far the most suitable book for me, after I have an bird's eye view from Sikora's guide.


Summary: quickly learn Java?
Rating: 4

Indeed, Sikora offers a quick start to learning Java. He eshews an exhaustive enumeration of every core class in J2SE. Instead, he takes several high level topics and explains which common classes deal with these. A question arises. Can you indeed learn Java from so slender a book? Perhaps. Sikora teaches a core functionality. Made easier if you have already programmed in some other language.

For graphics, he leads you right into Swing. No time wasted on the earlier and inferior AWT classes.

For input/output, Java is more powerful than C or C++, but concomitantly harder to use. The coding is far more verbose, compared to a simple printf() or scanf() in C, for example. The minimal descriptions in Java given here are admirable in how he found the essence of enough to be useful.


Summary: Java for self-starters
Rating: 5

If I could only recommend one book to an experienced programmer who wanted to learn Java it would be this one. It's only 170 pages long and it doesn't contain anything that's unnecessary. But it does cover syntax, flow control, classes and methods, inheritance, exception handling, file I/O, GUI's, collections and threads. That's genuinely Java in a nutshell.

The author can offer such a stripped-down book, of course, because he assumes that the reader already understands programmatic flow control and objects, and can follow a basic inheritance hierarchy without tedious explanation.

Java isn't a difficult language: it can merely be made to seem so by textbooks that bury simple facts under mountains of verbiage. I hope other authors will take Zbigniew Sikora's "Java: Practical Guide for Programmers" as a model for textbooks for busy people.

Other Java Books : 
Java: Практическо ръководство за програмисти (Практическите ръководства).
爪哇：实用指南程序员（实用指南） 。
爪哇：實用指南程序員（實用指南） 。
Java: Guia pràctica per als programadors (els guies pràctiques).
Java: Praktični vodič za Programeri (praktičnog vodiča).
Java: Practical Guide for programmører (Den praktiske vejledninger).
Java: Praktische Gids voor programmeurs (De praktische gidsen).

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability (Windows Server System)
By: Paul Bertucci
ISBN: 0672326256

ISBN-13: 9780672326257
Publisher: Sams - 2004-11-05
Paperback | 456 Pages


From the Publisher

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: A Complete Guide is the first book that explains how to assess, select, and build high availability solutions from the ground up. Chief architects, system and data architects, system and database administrators, and developers will all benefit from this guide. Learn valuable skills, including how to drill-down into the heart of high availability requirements, how to assess and classify these requirements, and how to select, configure, and specify a matching high availability solution that optimally meets your needs. Most importantly, learn how to achieve five 9s (99.999% uptime).


Synopsis Intended for system architects and database administrators, this guide describes the various hardware and software options within the Microsoft family of products that address high availability, and defines a formal design approach for matching a company's computer system requirements to the appropriate availability solution. Four example business cases walk through the implementation of Cluster Services, SQL clustering, log shipping, data replication, and distributed transaction processing.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents Pt. I Understanding high availability Ch. 1 Essential elements of high availability 5 Pt. II Choosing the right high availability approaches Ch. 2 Microsoft high availability options 31 Ch. 3 Choosing high availability 53 Pt. III Implementing high availability Ch. 4 Microsoft cluster services 91 Ch. 5 Microsoft SQL server clustering 127 Ch. 6 Microsoft SQL server log shipping 167 Ch. 7 Microsoft SQL server data replication 195 Ch. 8 Other ways to distribute data for high availability 271 Ch. 9 High availability pieced together 295 Ch. 10 High availability design issues and considerations 315 Ch. 11 High availability and security 369 Ch. 12 Future directions of high availability 391

MySQL Certification Study Guide

MySQL Certification Study Guide (Paperback)
by Paul DuBois, Stefan Hinz, Carsten Pedersen

Paperback: 648 pages
Publisher: MySQL Press (April 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672326329
ISBN-13: 978-0672326325

The authoritative study guide to prepare for the MySQL Core Certification and MySQL Professional Certification exams. When you purchase a copy of the MySQL Certification Study Guide, you automatically receive 25% off the cost of registration for the MySQL Core Certification exam. Details on the back cover of the book. The MySQL certification program is a carefully developed, high-quality certification process that can help you prove your skills in using, maintaining, and administering MySQL database servers and other technologies from MySQL AB. Covering both the basic MySQL Core Certification exam and the advanced MySQL Professional Certification exam, MySQL Certification Study Guide is the one authority to look to when you¿re preparing for either test. The book teaches you all the concepts, principles, and techniques that you¿ll need to know for the Core and Professional certification exams, and it includes an array of learning aids, practice questions, and real-world examples to help you prepare for test day. Certified computer professionals often find that having proven, recognized credentials can advance them farther in their fields, give their careers a boost, and make them better, more productive employees for their companies or organizations. Whatever reason for becoming MySQL certified, MySQL Certification Study Guide gives you the information you need to help you better understand MySQL technologies and prepare for and pass the exams. Download Description The authoritative study guide to prepare for the MySQL Core Certification and MySQL Professional Certification exams. When you purchase a copy of the MySQL Certification Study Guide, you automatically receive 25% off the cost of registration for the MySQL Core Certification exam. Details on the back cover of the book. The MySQL certification program is a carefully developed, high-quality certification process that can help you prove your skills in using, maintaining, and administering MySQL database servers and other technologies from MySQL AB. Covering both the basic MySQL Core Certification exam and the advanced MySQL Professional Certification exam, MySQL Certification Study Guide is the one authority to look to when you're preparing for either test. The book teaches you all the concepts, principles, and techniques that you'll need to know for the Core and Professional certification exams, and it includes an array of learning aids, practice questions, and real-world examples to help you prepare for test day. Certified computer professionals often find that having proven, recognized credentials can advance them farther in their fields, give their careers a boost, and make them better, more productive employees for their companies or organizations. Whatever reason for becoming MySQL certified, MySQL Certification Study Guide gives you the information you need to help you better understand MySQL technologies and prepare for and pass the exams.--This text refers to the Digital edition

Other My SQL BOOKs :

MySQL Certification Study Guide
MySQL شهادة الدراسة الدليل.
MySQL Сертифициране Проучване гид.
MySQL的认证研究指南。
MySQL的認證研究指南。
Guia d'Estudi de Certificació de MySQL.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
MySQL Certification Studiegids.
MySQL Varmentava opinto-opas.
MySQL Certification Study Guide.
Πιστοποίηση Οδηγός MySQL Μελέτη.
MySQL Certification Study guide.