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Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, "Programming WCF Services" is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows Relentlessly practical, the book delivers insight, not documentation, to teach developers what they need to know to build the next generation of SOAs.

After explaining the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. "Programming WCF Services" focuses on the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly-documented and little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects will learn not only the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and utilities provided by the author throughout the book go well beyond anything that can be found in conventional sources.

Based on experience and insight gained while taking part in the strategic design of WCF and working with the team that implemented it, "Programming WCF Services" provides experienced working professionals with the definitive work on WCF. Not only will this book make you a WCF expert, it will make you a better software engineer. It's the Rosetta Stone of WCF..
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Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into services

Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment.

Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process.

Filled with case studies detailing dramatic service improvements in organizations from Lockheed Martin to Stanford University Hospital, this bottom-line book provides executives and managers with the knowledge they need to:

• Reduce service costs by 30 to 60 percent
• Improve service delivery time by 50 percent
• Expand capacity by 20 percent without adding staff

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The coauthor of the bestselling The Art of M&A: A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide is back with a question and answer resource that focuses on the msot critical steps in the M&A process. Drawing on the experience of 100 experts, Lajoux shows non-lawyers how to navigate due diligence and how to uncover data that can break a deal. Featuring global perspectives and special insights for small businesses, manufacturers, and service companies, this primer is essential for everyone involved in M&As..
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The fully updated classic guide to the mechanics of securities processing—a must for professional investors

This third edition of After the Trade Is Made reflects the changes that have taken place in recent years as a result of new products, technological breakthroughs, and the globalization of the securities industry. Comprehensive and easy to understand, it provides brokers, operations personnel, and individual investors with definitive and up-to-the-minute explanations of each step in the trading process—from the moment a customer decides to buy or sell a security through the final requirements of record keeping.

Written for both securities professionals and individual investors, whether domestic or in other countries, this new edition clearly explains the core of underwritings, new and established trading markets, transaction processing, margin, and more—while providing critical insights into the most recent wave of industry changes.

David M. Weiss, a veteran securities professional, traces the entire process of buying or selling a security, from order management to transaction processing to the final posting on the firmÂ’s books and records. He covers the specialized attributes of each function in a typical brokerage firm, as well as their relationships with commercial banks, transfer agents, clearing corporations, and depositories.

After the Trade Is Made is the definitive resource for anyone eager to understand and confidently navigate the vast and often surprising world of securities..
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PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly. That's the point Hugh Williams and David Lane make in Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, which combines language tutorials with application design advice to yield a comprehensive picture of its subjects at a reasonable price. Williams and Lane--both Australian academics who use an online wine store in many of their examples--deserve tremendous kudos for their way of presenting recommended coding strategies. Though the code listings themselves aren't remarkably well commented, the authors do a commendable job of explaining in prose what the code is up to.

Case in point: The ever-essential task of using PHP to open a connection to a MySQL database, submit a query to that database, receive a response, and format the returned rows, if any. The book addresses this problem with a straight code listing, followed by text that explains what's happening in five numbered steps. Similar care goes to the other popular applications of the PHP/MySQL duo: session management, shopping carts, and authentication of users. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use the PHP server-side scripting language and the MySQL database engine to underlie dynamic Web sites (those that rely on database queries) and full-on Web applications, such as those that require session management and maintenance of user rosters. Tutorials in both subjects begin with the basics and proceed through moderately complicated stuff, though there's no absolutely comprehensive reference here..
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This volume is directed toward closing the gap between theory and empirical research and improving social scientists' capacities for generating theory that is relevant and useful to their research..
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As users come to depend on MySQL, they find that they have to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, and performance--issues that are not well documented but are critical to a smoothly functioning site. This book is an insider's guide to these little understood topics.

Author Jeremy Zawodny has managed large numbers of MySQL servers for mission-critical work at Yahoo!, maintained years of contacts with the MySQL AB team, and presents regularly at conferences. Jeremy and Derek have spent months experimenting, interviewing major users of MySQL, talking to MySQL AB, benchmarking, and writing some of their own tools in order to produce the information in this book.

In "High Performance MySQL" you will learn about MySQL indexing and optimization in depth so you can make better use of these key features. You will learn practical replication, backup, and load-balancing strategies with information that goes beyond available tools to discuss their effects in real-life environments. And you'll learn the supporting techniques you need to carry out these tasks, including advanced configuration, benchmarking, and investigating logs.

Topics include:

A review of configuration and setup options

Storage engines and table types

Benchmarking

Indexes

Query Optimization

Application Design

Server Performance

Replication

Load-balancing

Backup and Recovery

Security.
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From the author of the classic book, Playing God in Yellowstone, comes a rare book about the relationship of dogs, people, and the land they inhabit. Alston Chase tells a deeply personal and exceptionally moving story of his relationship with his animal companions over a period of thirty years. The title of the book was inspired by the words of Rudyard Kipling: "When we are certain of sorrow in store/ Why do we always arrange for more/ Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware/ Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."

The book is at one level about the Jack Russell terriers Ifrit, Bungee, and their own friends as well as the people who nominally owned them and other dogs as well. Alston Chase tells of his search for the immortality of dogs, what makes them special, and why we willingly give them our hearts knowing that someday they'll die and leave us bereft.

Chase's connection to his dogs is strong as the pull of the land that he loves. He writes of both, and the spirits of both, as "inseparable ghosts." To Chase, land is a community of living things that is born and eventually dies, like dogs and people - but their spirits live on.

Rich in poetic citations, We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear presents a deeply moving belief that though people and dogs may perish and the land may change beneath one's feet, the essence of each individual soul is immortal..
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This is an up-to-date quick reference guide for an easy, fast, and convenient way of learning SAP R/3 Financial transactions(v.4.6C & 4.7). The book is a ready-reference on transactions made accessible by looking at transaction codes that are logically and conveniently arranged under various functional areas within FI. The coverage includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Asset Accounting. A miscellaneous chapter covers configuring essential items like document number ranges, exchange rate maintenance, and payment term configuration. Features +Compatible with the latest versions of SAP R/3(v 4.6C and v.4.7) + Contains a complete list of transactions/menu is provided in a easy-to-read table format for each of the functional areas of GL, AP, AR & AA +Explains the business process behind the transaction by providing an overview before each transaction + Highlights the tricky areas in transaction processing, offering techniques and screenshots to overcome them Table of Contents (Selected Transactions Only) FI- GL: General Ledger 1. GL - Easy Access: FSMN 4. 2. GL- User Parameters (Editing Options): FB00. 3. GL Account Assgmt Model: FKMT 24. 4. GL – Doc. Entry: FB50 35. 5. GL – Cash Journal Posting: FBCJ. 6. GL - Document Entry – General Posting: F-02. 7. GL - Post Incoming Payments: F-06. 9. GL – Change Doc.: FB02. 11. GL – Reverse Doc.: FB08. 12. GL Acct. - Display Balances: FS01N. 13. GL Master Record – Create Centrally: FS00. 14. GL - Create Account (mass maintenance) – Chart of Accts Area: OB_GLACC11. 15. GL - Create Account (mass maintenance) – Company Code Data: OB_GLACC12. 16. GL - Maintain Acct Description (mass mainten.): OB_GLACC13. 17. GL - Create Sample Account: FSM1. 19. GL – Bal. Audit Trail: S_ALR_87100205. 20. GL Open Item Acct Balance Audit Trail: S_ALR_87012317. 22. GL - Cash Flow Report – Direct Method: S_ALR_87012271. 23. GL - Open Item Accot Balance Audit Trail: S_ALR_87012257. 24. GL - Open Item Acct Balance Audit Trail:S_ALR_87012284. F.16.FI- AP: Accounts Payable. 26. AP-Easy Access-FKMN. 27. AP-Post Vendor Invoice-FB60. 28. AP-Post Vendor Credit memo-FB65. 29. AP-Post Vendor Invoice, using Purchasing docs-MIRO. 30. AP-Post Vendor Credit Memo, using Purchasing docs-MIRO. 32. AP-Post Outgoing Payments and Print Forms-F-58.doc. 34. AP-Change Payment Doc.-FB02.doc. 35. AP-Display Payment Document-FB03.doc. 37. AP-Change Line Item-FB09. 38. AP-Display / Change Vendor Line Item-FBL1N. 39. AP-Create Vendor Master, Centrally-XK01.doc. 40. AP-Change Vendor Master-XK02.doc. 42. AP-Block Unblock Vendor, Centrally-XK05.doc. 43. AP-Create Vendor Master, Company Code area-FK01. 44. AP-Create Bank Master-FI01. 46. AP-Payment Program-F110.doc. FI- AR: Accounts Receivable. 47. AR-Easy Access-FDMN. 48. AR-Post Incoming Payments-F-28. 49. AR-Docs, Mass Reversal - F.80. 51. AR-Customer Master Display Changes-FD04.doc. 52. AR-Delete Reference Doc: F.57. 53. AR-Parked Doc, Refuse-FBV6.doc. 54. AR-Display Cust Balances-FD10N. 55. AR-Customer ! Acct Analysis-FD11. 56. AR-Assign, Clear Open items-FB15.doc. 57. AR-Change Cust. Master-XD02.doc. 58. AR-Display Customer Master-XD03.doc. 59. AR-Block Unblock Customer Master-FD05.doc. 60. AR-Block Unblock Customer, Centrally-XD05.doc. 61. AR-Credit Management, Change Master Data-FD32.doc. 63. AR-Periodic Processing-Dunning-F150.doc. FI- AA: Asset Accounting. 64. AA-Easy Access-ASMN. 65. AA-Master Record-Create Asset-AS01.doc. 66. AA-Asset Acquisition from in-house production-ABZE.doc. 67. AA-Asset Acq. with Auto Offsetting entryr-ABZON.doc. 68. AA-Asset Explorer-AW01N.doc. 70. AA-Asset Sale without Customer-ABAON.doc. 71. AA-Asset Trans. with in Company Code-ABUMN.doc. 73. AA-Depreciation Run-AFAB.doc. Miscellaneous. 74. Schedule Manager: SCMA. 75. Copy Number Ranges to Fiscal Year: OBH2. 76. Maintain Currency Exch. Rate.
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Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined. Anne R. Pierce argues that this radical re-definition has been embraced with remarkably little discussion about what children, by nature, need..
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