The key to mastering any Unix system, especially Linux and Mac OS X, is a thorough knowledge of shell scripting. Scripting is a way to harness and customize the power of any Unix system, and it's an essential skill for any Unix users, including system administrators and professional OS X developers. But beneath this simple promise, lies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands and standards. "bash Cookbook" teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell - the bash shell - and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages. Packed full of useful scripts, along with examples that explain how to create better scripts, this new cookbook gives professionals and power users everything they need to automate routine tasks and enable them to truly manage their systems - rather than have their systems manage them.

Scripting languages have played an important role in the information technology infrastructure for many years. They have been used for all kinds of tasks, ranging from job automation to prototyping and implementation of complex software projects. The Java development platform can also benefit from scripting concepts and languages. Java developers can use scripting languages in areas that are proven to be the most suitable for this technology. This synergy of the Java platform and scripting languages adds an extra quality to the overall software development process. As more Java developers are coming from web-oriented (i.e., HTML, JavaScript, a bit of PHP or JSP) backgrounds, more Java developers are turning to scripting as an option to increase code efficiency within their Java applications. In this book Bosanac describes the concepts behind scripting languages, summarizes solutions available to Java developers, and explores use cases and design patterns for applying scripting languages in Java applications.

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers provides a developer-level introduction along with the more
advanced and useful features of JavaScript.

Starting at the beginning, the book explores how JavaScript originated and evolved into what it is today. A detailed discussion of the components that make up a JavaScript implementation follows, with specificfocus on standards such as ECMAScript and the Document Object Model (DOM). The differences inJavaScript implementations used in different popular Web browsers are also discussed.

Building on that base, the book moves on to cover basic concepts of JavaScript including its version of
object-oriented programming, inheritance, and its use in various markup languages such as HTML. An
in-depth examination of events and event handling is followed by an exploration of browser detection
techniques and a guide to using regular expressions in JavaScript. The book then takes all this knowledge
and applies it to creating dynamic user interfaces.

The last part of the book is focused on issues related to the deployment of JavaScript solutions in Webapplications. These topics include error handling, debugging, security, optimization/obfuscation, XML, and Web Services.

Pro Apache Tomcat 6 is ideal for Tomcat administrators and others who want to configure Tomcat. It covers only Tomcat 6 and doesn''t get bogged down trying to overexplain tasks from each older version of the server. The book examines the entire installation, including file system, database, and web server, and provides you with security and performance tips.

Author Matthew Moodie describes configuration files, as well as administration features like security, auto-deployment, remote deployment, and data sources. He gets right to the point and teaches you to use Tomcat without wasting time on Java or JSP introductions or excess discussion of JSP and Java code.

On numerous online forums for JavaScript and DHTML, the majority of questions begin with "How do I…?" This new Cookbook provides the answers. After reading thousands of forum threads over the years, author and scripting pioneer Danny Goodman has compiled a list of problems that frequently vex scripters of various experience levels. He has now applied state-of-the-art ECMA and W3C DOM standards and used best practices to create this extensive collection of practical recipes that can bring your web pages to life. The JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook is all about adding value to the content of a web page. The book focuses on practical and sensible applications of scripting, rather than flying images and gratuitous color changes. For every problem Goodman addresses, there's a solution or "recipe"–a focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. Yet, rather than just cut-and-paste code, you also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to your designs. The recipes range from simple tasks, such as manipulating strings and validating dates in JavaScript, to entire libraries that demonstrate complex tasks, such as cross-browser positioning of HTML elements and sorting tables.

Build interactive Web applications with Ajax

Create live searches and online spreadsheets

Discover programming mistakes to avoid!

Create blazing-fast Web applications with powerful Ajax

If you think that mastering Ajax is too difficult, guess again. You can create Web applications that look and feel like desktop apps in less time than you think with the comprehensive Ajax instruction in this in-depth book. You'll find easy-to-follow tutorials, hundreds of tips and tricks, and so much practical information that even skilled developers will reach for this book first. Let this Bible be your guide as you jump into the hottest Web programming technology in years.

The tremendous growth of the World Wide Web has resulted in a demand for dynamic and interactive Web sites. To attract customer attention on the Web, companies need to hire experts for creating their Web sites. There is a tremendous scope for those who want to be the pillars of such companies by mastering scripting languages that give life to Web sites. One such language that is easy to master and handle is JavaScript.

This book is an attempt to bridge the ever-increasing gap between the market demand and availability of such expertise. The first step in becoming an expert involves gaining in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, and that is exactly what this book offers. The book will begin with the basics of scripting and then discusses the intricacies of scripting.

Along with conceptual information, the book will provide extensive practical exercises for the reader. This will help the reader gain valuable exposure to the procedures for designing Web sites by using JavaScript. The book content will consist of lucid examples, code sample, visuals, and demonstrations. The concepts covered will be supported adequately by case studies that will be formulated in such a way that they provide a frame of reference for the reader. Problems are presented to the reader against the backdrop of real-life scenarios. The practical approach followed will help readers understand the real-life application and usage of JavaScript in various scenarios.

This is not only a great introduction to JDM, but also a great introduction for a practitioner to data mining in general. This is a must have" for anyone developing large scale data mining applications in Java.
Robert Grossman, Open Data Group and University of Illinois at Chicago

It pleases me that the Java Community Process(sm)(JCPsm) Program could host the development of the Data Mining standard, JSR 73, whose evolution and usability are presented so compellingly in Java Data Mining: Standard, Strategy and Practice. The authors have taken a unique approach to describing a broad range of aspects from strategies to problem solving with data mining technology in a variety of industries. The book is a must-read for those who want to introduce themselves to Java data mining (JDM) and fully realize the strategic importance of this technology in an ever competitive environment.
Onno Kluyt, senior director, JCP Program at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Chair of the JCP

Java is now ubiquitous, and over the past few years the Java world has shifted focus on–among other things–new frameworks, such as the Java Data Mining (JDM) framework. JDM addresses a clear need for standardization in data mining operations, yet to those approaching both Java and data mining the mountain seems as Everest. Hornick, Marcadé, and Venkayala could not have written this book at a better time. To the expert it is a reference and map of the landscape, and to the novice it will be a constant guide and companion to each journey in JDM. This book is approachable, usable, practical, and necessary for any Java data mining software architect, developer, or analyst.
Frank Byrum, Chief Scientist, CorMine Intelligent Data, LLC

This book looks at the two most popular ways of using Java SE 6 to write 3D games on PCs: Java 3D (a high-level scene graph API) and JOGL (a Java layer over OpenGL).

Written by Java gaming expert, Andrew Davison, this book will be first Java
game book to market that uses the new Java (SE) 6 platform and its features
including splash screens, scripting, and the desktop tray interface.

This will be first and maybe only book to market that covers Java game
development using the Java 3D API and Java for OpenGL, both critical
components and libraries to Java-based 3D game application development.

This book looks at the two most popular ways of using Java SE
6 to write 3D games on PCs: Java 3D (a high-level scene graph API) and JOGL
(a Java layer over OpenGL).

Written by Java gaming expert, Andrew Davison, this book will be first Java
game book to market that uses the new Java (SE) 6 platform and its features
including splash screens, scripting, and the desktop tray interface.

This will be first and maybe only book to market that covers Java game
development using the Java 3D API and Java for OpenGL, both critical
components and libraries to Java-based 3D game application development.