Professional Web APIs with PHP or Arcade Fever

Professional Web APIs with PHP: Ebay, Google, Paypal, Amazon, Fedex Plus Web Feeds

Author: Paul Reinheimer

• Offers hands-on tips and numerous code examples that show Web developers how to leverage content and feeds from today's top Web sites-including Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo!, and FedEx

• Introduces APIs (Application Program Interfaces) in general and uses real-world examples that show how to produce and document them

• Explains how to use the popular scripting language PHP to create APIs that interact with unrelated applications over the Web

• Examples take readers through each stage of the API process, from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introducing Web services	3
Ch. 2	Introducing Web feeds	7
Ch. 3	Consuming Web feeds	23
Ch. 4	Producing Web feeds	61
Ch. 5	Introduction to Web APIs	97
Ch. 6	Interacting with the Google API	111
Ch. 7	Interacting with the Amazon API	149
Ch. 8	Interacting with the FedEx API	177
Ch. 9	Interacting with the eBay API	199
Ch. 10	Interacting with the PayPal API	235
Ch. 11	Other major APIs	263
Ch. 12	Producing Web APIs	287
App. A	Supporting functions	315
App. B	Complete feed specifications	319
App. C	Development system	333

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Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games

Author: John Sellers

Do you remember the difference between playing 'singles' and 'doubles'? Have you mastered the delicate art of hyperspace? Can you say 'joystick' in polite conversation without blushing? If you№ve answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then Arcade Fever is the book for you‹the world№s first illustrated tribute to Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Q*bert, Gauntlet and many more of the mind-blowing games you played in your youth. You want to reminisce about the coolest Atari cartridges, the silliest-named arcade oddities, and the funkiest bass riff ever used in a video game? You want interviews with early arcade heroes like Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Robotron designer Eugene Jarvis and 'Pac-Man Fever' composers Buckner + Garcia? You want to look at revealing pictures of Dragon№s Lair hottie Princess Daphne? It№s all in Arcade Fever, an infectious celebration of №70s and №80s arcade culture.

Entertainment Weekly

Remember when Space Invaders ruled the planet and "Pac-Man Fever" was a top 10 hit? John Sellers does, and his illustrated history of the arcade's glory days will push any game geek's thrust button. Fever not only describes the joystick controls and strategies that turned millions of teens into addicts in search of a Berzerk fix but puts Frogger into pop-cultural context-as a Saturday-morning Supercade cartoon and Seinfeld sight gag. Sellers, a former Donkey Kong champion, would have won some free credits by including more interviews with game designers, and Dig Dug-ing up the back stories that make some fo the entries blast off. But anyone who longs for the cacophonous wokka-wokka-wokka of the local arcade will give this book a pretty high score. Grade: B.

Time Out New York

Do you long for Pong? Does your heart belong to Ms. Pac-Man? If you're nostalgic for the early days of video games, check out Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games, written by John Sellers. After you're a few pages into this fond tribute, suddenly vast hazy expanses of your youth will come back into focus.

Philadelphia Weekly

...Sellers' book is magnificently researched, with an enthusiasm for the subject matter that bubbles out through the pages like so many dangling pairs of cherries...Sellers, a onetime writer for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has a conversational prose style, dotted with special bonus translations of game sound effects. As might well be expected, the book is filled with pop culture referecnes to Footloose, Battlesatar Galactica and Honeycomb breakfast cereal...It's the forgotten nuggets, like the fact that the rock group Journey was the subject of a game and that Captain

Maxim Online

John Seller№s Arcade Fever takes the reader back to the pre-PlayStation days by profiling virtually all of the classic (and not so classic) games, from the ubiquitous (Space Invaders) to the obscure and OCD-inducing (Bubbles). Each game examined not only gets a write-up, but has each of its vital statistics catalogued, with sidebars on cultural minutae like the Zaxxon board game and Pac-Man television shows, and even some interviews with key figures from video game history. Anyone who remembers a time when Mario wasn№t yet іsuperІ and Moon Patrol was the height of technology will enjoy reliving their high score moments with Arcade Fever. If Arcade Fever is a disease, we don№t need no cure.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Bible or Perl Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Bible

Author: Peter G Aitken

Discover all the ways Outlook can make your life with this book. In the handy package that is Outlook, you get the tools you use constantly: e-mail, a calendar and appointment book, a contacts list, a to-do list, and more. Learn to use them together, and you have a sophisticated system for managing your day. This complete A-to-Z guide can teach you, whether you’re just venturing into Outlook or are ready to customize and tweak it with VBA programming.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

1. Getting Started with Outlook.

2. Installing and Using Outlook.

3. Email Accounts.

4. Fundamentals of Email.

5. Formatting Your Email Messages.

6. Working with Advanced Email Message Components and Editing.

7. Understanding Email Options.

8. Dealing with Junk Email.

9. Processing Messages with Rules.

10. Managing Your Contacts.

11. Working with the Calendar.

12. Working with Schedules and Meetings.

13. Working with Outlook Notes.

14. Using the Journal.

15. Keeping Track of Tasks.

16. Making Use of RSS Feeds.

17. Making the Most of Outlook Categories.

18. Working with Outlook Folders and Categories.

19. Customizing Outlook to Suit the Way You Work.

20. Managing Security Issues.

21. Using Outlook with Other Applications.

22. Writing Macros and Visual Basic Code in Outlook.

23. Getting Started with VBA.

24. Understanding the Outlook Object Model.

25. Programming Outlook with VBA: Some Examples.

26. Working with Outlook Forms.

27. Going Beyond Basic Forms.

28. Using Outlook with Exchange Server.

29. Using Outlook with SharePoint Services.

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Perl Programming for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Jerry Lee Ford

Perl is an enormously popular scripting language that runs on many different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X, and provides programmers with a robust and powerful programming language that is easy to learn, yet sufficiently complex to tackle just about any job. As such, it's a perfect programming language for those new to programming to learn. Perl Programming for the Absolute Beginner has been designed to teach you how to develop Perl scripts and to help you become an effective programmer, and teaches concepts through the creation of simple games. Whether you are an experienced programmer looking to learn another language or you are reading this book as the first step in your programming career, you will find that this book's games-based teaching approach makes the learning process a lot more enjoyable. You will also find that the knowledge you?ll gain from developing Perl-based games will provide you with a strong foundation from which you can branch out and tackle more complex challenges.

Building a Web Site with Ajax Visual Quickproject Guide Series or The Coming Convergence

Building a Web Site with Ajax [Visual Quickproject Guide Series]

Author: Larry Ullman

Ajax is at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. It isn't a technology but, rather, is a technique that leverages other technologies and techniques, such as CSS, XML, DHTML, and XHTML. Many Web designers and programmers would like to incorporate Ajax in their projects because of the amazing functionality it can add to a Web site, but they can't because of the steep learning curve. That's where this book steps in. It makes learning Ajax fun and easy -- a great place to start! Visual QuickProject Guides focus on a single project. In this case the project is creating a business employee directory, like an address book. What's being created is a better, new kind of Web site.

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The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future

Author: Stanley Schmidt

Imagine direct communication links between the human brain and machines, or tailored materials capable of adapting by themselves to changing environmental conditions, or computer chips and environmental sensors embedded into everyday clothing, or medical technologies that eliminate currently untreatable conditions such as blindness and paralysis. Now imagine all of these developments occurring at the same time. The stuff of science fiction?
Not So. These are actually the reasonable predictions of scientists attempting to forecast a few decades into the future based on the rapid pace of innovation.
• Author Stanley Schmidt-a physicist, a writer, and the editor of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact-explores these and many more amazing yet probable scenarios in this fascinating guide to the near future. He shows how past convergences have led to today's world, then considers tomorrow's main currents in biotechnology, cognitive science, information technology, and nanotechnology. Looking even further downstream he foresees both exciting and potentially dangerous developments:

• Longer, healthier lives
• Cheap, generally available food, energy, and technology
• Reduced pollution and environmental stress
• Economic disruption during transitional periods
• Excessive power in too few hands
• Increased vulnerability from overdependence on technology.

Schmidt notes that even a routine technology such as the CAT scan is the result of three wholly separate innovations started many decades ago which recently converged: the X-ray, the computer, and advances in medicine. On a more ominous note, he also observes that the9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was made possible by the malicious convergence of two separate trends in modern engineering and technology: the concentration of people in high rises within cities and the success of the passenger airline industry.
The message is clear: the choices we make now will converge to create a near and distant future that will be almost unbelievably wonderful or unimaginably catastrophic, or both. This knowledgeable, fascinating glimpse into the future is a must read for everyone interested in technology, upcoming innovations in business, science fiction, and the future.

Publishers Weekly

It's far easier to describe the past than to predict the future: this principle is unwittingly demonstrated by Schmidt, a physicist and longtime science fiction editor (Analog: Science Fiction and Fact). His book is best when discussing how past technologies have come together, usually in unforeseen ways, to enable social change. Joseph-Marie Jacquard's late-18th-century work on automatic looms controlled by punch cards, for example, can be traced forward to the development of early computers. Schmidt is glib but far less informative when projecting where the confluence of current technologies is likely to take us. He touches on nanotechnology and improvements in computing power, among other fields, and offers projections about how medicine, communication and interpersonal relationships are apt to change, but he largely does so superficially and perhaps overly optimistically: "In the kind of world we can aspire to, everybody will have enough and nobody will have to work very hard to get it." Though he acknowledges that some convergences can be harmful, he dismisses this downside with equal ease, concluding simply that we need to be vigilant about the choices we make. Illus. (Apr.)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Table of Contents:

Foreword     9
Acknowledgments     13
Introduction: Converging Currents: Then, Now, and Tomorrow     15
From Fabric Looms to the Internet: The Story of Computing     31
Aviation and Big Buildings     49
New Arts and Sciences     69
Looking Inside: New Technologies and Medicine     87
Computers and Genes     101
New Directions in Biotechnology     115
Cognitive Science: How Do We Know?     129
The Explosion in Information Technology     147
Nanotechnology     173
Metaconvergences: When Big Streams Make Still Bigger Streams     185
Potentials and Promises     215
Pitfalls and Perils     223
Getting There from Here: Challenges and Strategies     235
Notes     247
Index     263

Software Solutions for Engineers and Scientists or Finite Element Method Using MATLAB

Software Solutions for Engineers and Scientists

Author: Julio Sanchez

Engineers and scientists often need to develop software to suit their particular needs, but they do not always have the advanced programming skills that are required to do so. Serving as a comprehensive problem-solving resource, Software Solutions for Engineers and Scientists provides development tools and practical shortcuts for professionals who already have basic programming skills but may lack the knowledge needed to perform sophisticated tasks and difficult mathematic calculations. This book includes mathematical-computation intensive code along with programming techniques that are compatible with both Visual C++ console applications as well as Windows program applications.

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Finite Element Method Using MATLAB

Author: Young W Kwon

Expanded to include a broader range of problems than the bestselling first edition, Finite Element Method Using MATLAB, Second Edition presents finite element approximation concepts, formulation, and programming in a format that effectively streamlines the learning process.

Booknews

Presenting introductory and some advanced topics of the finite element method (FEM), this text is intended for upper-level undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses; it contains more material than can be covered in a single semester, but some sections can be skipped for a one-semester introductory course. Includes an introduction to MATLAB for those new to the software, as well as analysis of shell structures as one of the most important structural applications of FEM. New to this edition is a chapter on special topics, including analysis of cracks, thermal analysis for multilayered structures, and buckling analysis, both static and dynamic. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel or The SSCP Prep Guide

Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office XP

Author: Michael R Middleton

Spreadsheet skills are important for a first job, and DATA ANALYSIS USING MICROSOFT EXCEL prepares students to enter the world of work with stronger spreadsheet skills. Designed as a supplement to a main statistics text or as a reference for professionals, this handbook helps students build their proficiency in Microsoft Excel and shows them how to use the built-in capabilities of Excel to analyze data and make decisions. Although many of the examples are business oriented, the step-by-step approach makes this book appropriate for statistical analysis in other courses and academic disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction to Excel	1
Ch. 2	Managing Files and Printing	13
Ch. 3	Basic Charts	25
Ch. 4	Univariate Numerical Data	35
Ch. 5	Categorical Data	49
Ch. 6	Bivariate Numerical Data	61
Ch. 7	Probability Distributions	71
Ch. 8	Sampling and Simulation	85
Ch. 9	One-Sample Inference for the Mean	97
Ch. 10	Quality Control Charts	113
Ch. 11	Two-Sample Inference for Means	123
Ch. 12	Chi-Square Tests	139
Ch. 13	Analysis of Variance	149
Ch. 14	Simple Linear Regression	167
Ch. 15	Simple Nonlinear Regression	183
Ch. 16	Multiple Regression	197
Ch. 17	Regression Using Categorical Variables	207
Ch. 18	Autocorrelation and Autoregression	219
Ch. 19	Time Series Smoothing	233
Ch. 20	Time Series Seasonality	249
App	Excel on the Macintosh	271
	References	273
	Index	275

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The SSCP Prep Guide: Mastering the Seven Key Areas of System Security

Author: Debra S Isaac

• SSCP (System Security Certified Practitioner) is the companion test to CISSP, appealing to the practitioners who implement the security policies that the CISSP-certified professionals create

• Organized exactly like the bestselling The CISSP Prep Guide (0-471-41356-9) by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, who serve as consulting editors for this book

• This study guide greatly enhances the reader's understanding of how to implement security policies, standards, and procedures in order to breeze through the SSCP security certification test

• CD-ROM contains a complete interactive self-test using all the questions and answers from the book, powered by the Boson test engine