Here are many ProgrammingTutorials and eBooks, hosted at Arab AmericanUniversity. These programming ebooks and tutorials will helpyou learn most of the popular programming languages. After goingthrough these you will be able to understand and apply tips, tricks,and techniques to effectively use in your programming and codedevelopment. Programming languages that are covered here include C++,Perl, Java, EJB, […]
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How and Why Is Microsoft Excel Used in Data Warehousing?
by Don Jones
One of the tricks with data warehousing is to get all your data into the warehouse; the other trick is to actually examine it—meaning you need a way to ask questions and get answers from the data in the warehouse. Excel’s PivotTable feature provides a fairly straightforward way of asking those questions, and it does so in an environment that’s friendly and familiar to many data warehouse users—especially users who are already accustomed to using Excel for financial analysis and “what if” scenarios. Other spreadsheets provide pivot table functionality, too, including OpenOffice.org’s Calc.
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Complete Series: Fundamentals of Effective File Server Security
by Greg Shields
File servers maintain an increasing volume of business critical information. Maintaining the integrity and availability of these resources is a challenge that information technology professionals must rise to meet. The Essentials Series: Fundamentals of Effective File Server Security provides an introduction to the tooling in Windows Server 2008 that can be used to secure a file server, report on the security measures in place, and put in place audit controls to meet regulatory requirements and confirm internal compliance.Articles in this series include:Article 1: Enforcing File and Folder SecurityArticle 2: Enumerating File and Folder SecurityArticle 3: Auditing File and Folder Access
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Complete Series: Important Questions in Implementing Virtual Desktops
by Greg Shields
For organizations that have embraced virtualization, virtual desktops can be a natural extension of the virtual infrastructure. Virtual desktops enable businesses to centralize their desktop infrastructure in the data center, dramatically improving remote access while retaining workspace personality.Although the idea of virtual desktops and their associated business value is intriguing to many businesses, the implementation is a mystery. Where do you start? What technologies are crucial for success? How are others implementing them? By addressing these common questions, The Essentials Series: Important Questions in Implementing Virtual Desktops will help you understand why and where virtual desktops make sense for your IT environment.Articles in this series include:Article 1: Where Do I Start with Virtual Desktops?Article 2: What Technologies Are Critical for Virtual Desktop Success?Article 3: What Are Others Doing with Virtual Desktops?
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Here are 7downloadable ebooks for ActionScript 3. Theseebooks will help you learn and code Flash ActionScript withbuilding web applications. These ebooks are in pdf format.ActionScript topics covered by these ebooks: - ActionScript 3.0 - Advanced ActionScript - Actionscript Animation - Open Source Flash Programming - ActionScript 3 Programming
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Here are 121Software Engineering Process & Methodology Tutorials andArticles at Object Management Group - UML. These Software EngineeringProcess & Methodology tutorials cover the basic concepts of thesoftware engineering process and framework and serve as good referencesfor novice and expert developers alike. These Software EngineeringProcess & Methodology tutorials and learning documents discussvarious topics such asprocess agility, […]
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Solidifying Your Backup and Recovery Strategy for SQL Server
by Richard Siddaway
One of the primary responsibilities of a DBA is to ensure the safety of the data held in the databases they are responsible for administering. This is often expressed in terms of having a sound, and tested, backup policy. In reality, a sound restore policy is required, with the backup policy defining how you generate the source data for the restore process. This article will discuss the restore and backup issues surrounding SQL Server and show some of the new backup-related features in SQL Server 2008.We will concentrate on backup as it relates to functionality within SQL Server 2008. Previous versions may provide the same, or similar, functionality that is implemented in a different manner and requires a different backup technique. The discussion in this article will concentrate on using the native SQL Server backup and restore tools. Third-party backup tools can be used to produce similar results.
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Here are several excellent AJAXand GWTTraining Tutorials that are derived from MartyHall’s world-renowned live programming training courses, hosted oncourses.coreservlets.com. These areintended as a fast introductionto the basics of Ajax and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for people thatalready know how towrite the server-side part of the process using servlets and JSP.Although these tutorials provide the code […]
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Here is an informative WebInformation Systems Course atCornell University.This Web Information Systems course explains building informationsystems on the World Wide Web. These course lecture notes cover markuplanguages, web services, protocols, ontology and knowledge modelinglanguages, semi-structured data parsing, and manipulation. This WebInformation Systems course also includes readings, critical reviews,and technical projects that build expertise in tools […]
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Complete Series: Managed Application Failover for the SMB
by David Chernicoff
Application failover provides a critical part of the process for keeping your business running in the face of a technical disaster. The complexity of the process keeps many smaller SMB customers from implementing the necessary hardware and software to take this critical step in becoming a more effective business entity.In The Essentials Series: Managed Application Failover for the SMB, we will explain the concepts underlying the managed services approach to business continuity issues and provide the reader with the key concepts and critical decision points that need to be hit when choosing to use managed services and selecting a provider.Articles Include: Article 3: Implementing Business Continuity Services for the SMBArticle 2: Understanding the Business Benefits of Managed ServicesArticle1: Understanding Managed Services
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