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Ken Schaefer, Jeff Cochran, Scott Forsyth, Dennis Glendenning, Benjamin Perkins

ISBN: 978-1-1183-8804-4

Paperback
984 pages
November 2012

Stellar author team of Microsoft MVPs helps developers and administrators get the most out of Windows IIS 8

If you’re a developer or administrator, you’ll want to get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft’s new IIS 8 platform with this complete, in-depth reference. Prepare yourself to administer IIS 8 in not only commercial websites and corporate intranets, but also the mass web hosting market with this expert content. The book covers common administrative tasks associated with monitoring and managing an IIS environment–and then moves well beyond, into extensibility, scripted admin, and other complex topics.

The book highlights automated options outside the GUI, options that include the PowerShell provider and AppCmd tool. It explores extensibility options for developers, including ISAPI and HTTPModules. And, it delves into security protocols and high availability/load balancing at a level of detail that is not often found in IIS books.

• Author team includes Microsoft MVPs and an IIS team member
• Covers the management and monitoring of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 8 for administrators and developers, including MOF and MOM
• Delves into topics not often included in IIS books, including using the PowerShell provider and AppCmd tool and other automated options, and extending IIS 8 with ISAPI or HTTPModules
• Explores security issues in depth, including high availability/load balancing, and the Kerberos, NTLM, and PKI/SSL protocols
• Explains how to debug and troubleshoot IIS

Professional Microsoft IIS 8 features a wealth of information gathered from individuals running major intranets and web hosting facilities today, making this an indispensible and real-world reference to keep on hand.

Ken Schaefer is a senior architect at HP Enterprise Services and a coauthor of Professional IIS 7. He is a Microsoft MVP for Window Server/IIS.

Jeff Cochran is a senior network specialist for the City of Naples, Florida.

Scott Forsyth is the co-founder and Chief Systems Engineer of Vaasnet, and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET/IIS.

Dennis Glendenning is an enterprise solutions architect with Avanade.

Benjamin Perkins is a senior support escalation engineer at Microsoft Deutschland.

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Jack Purdum

ISBN: 978-1-1183-3692-2

Paperback
624 pages
October 2012

The ideal beginner’s guide to C# and object-oriented programming

Wrox beginners’ guides have the perfect formula for getting programming newcomers up and running. This one introduces beginners to object-oriented programming using C# to demonstrate all of the core constructs of this programming framework. Using real-world situations, you’ll discover how to create, test, and deliver your programs and how to work with classes, arrays, collections, and all the elements of object-oriented programming.

• Covers exactly what beginners, even those with no prior programming experience, need to know to understand object-oriented programming and start writing programs in C#
• Explains the advantages and disadvantages of C#, and tips for understanding C# syntax
• Explores properties, encapsulation, and classes; value data types; operands and operators; errors and debugging; variables; and reference types
• Shows how to use statement repetition and program loops, understand arrays and collections, and write your own classes
• Also covers inheritance and polymorphism

Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with C# uses the tried-and-true Wrox formula for making this popular programming method easy to learn.

Jack Purdum, Ph.D., is an established author of more than a dozen programming books. Using his teaching experience as a professor of computer language instruction at Purdue University, he has identified common stumbling blocks for beginning programmers and knows how to teach concepts so readers can understand and code immediately.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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Title: iOS 6 Programming Cookbook
By: Vandad Nahavandipoor
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012 (est.)
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 976 (est.)
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-4275-3| ISBN 10:1-4493-4275-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-4270-8| ISBN 10:1-4493-4270-1

Overcome the vexing issues you’ll inevitably confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. By making use of new and revised recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary to write complete iOS apps—including ways to store and protect data, enhance and animate graphics, manage files and folders, and take advantage of Passbook.

Thoroughly updated for iOS 6 SDK, this cookbook shows you how to use hundreds of techniques to solve problems that developers of all levels commonly face. Each recipe includes sample code you can use right away.

• Use Pass Kit to deliver digitally-signed passes such as loyalty cards
• Define the layout of UI elements with Cocoa Auto Layout
• Develop location-aware apps
• Get working examples for implementing gesture recognizers
• Use new Objective-C Runtime features
• Play audio and video files and access the iPod library
• Retrieve contacts and groups from the Address Book
• Determine camera availability and access the Photo Library
• Create multitasking-aware apps
• Use Event Kit to manage calendars, dates, and events
• Apply the accelerometer and gyroscope
• Enhance your app with the iCloud service

Vandad Nahavandipoor

Vandad Nahavandipoor has developed software using Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Assembly, Delphi, and .NET for many years. As a staff member of a company that is a global leader in mobile money solutions in London, he has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands–such as Visa and US Bank–to deliver mobile applications to their customers. Vandad brings an interest in management, leadership and entrepreneurship to his work, believing in the synergy that is achieved as a result of cooperation and working together in a team.

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Title: Juniper Networks Warrior
By: Peter Southwick
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 432
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1663-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-1663-8
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1662-4| ISBN 10:1-4493-1662-X

In this practical book, Juniper Networks consulting senior network engineer, Peter Southwick, offers unique first-person field studies on designing, configuring, and troubleshooting new systems that are changing the networking world. Each chapter-long “travelogue” follows a team of Juniper Networks warriors as they solve specific needs with emerging network platform architectures.

In these case studies, Southwick and his fellow warriors analyze a client’s particular situation, arrive at an architectural solution, and work through the deployment details. For anyone who operates, installs, designs, or works in IT, this book provides an intimate and entertaining look at what’s changing and why.

Among the case studies, you’ll discover how:

• A service provider protected customers from malicious traffic with Juniper Networks IDP systems
• SRX5800s improved connectivity and security in a data center
• Ethernet WAN technology was chosen as a storage solution, rather than a proprietary design on dark fiber
• An enterprise severed communications between different departments to comply with government personal credit card standards
• Core network and edge devices helped a power company serve local customers and ISPs in the data services market
• A hosting company migrated its core, datacenter, edge, and access domains to a state-of-the-art network

“In this uniquely written book, you will get a detailed view of life in the data center, the edge, the core, and the office of the customer’s CIO.”
Steve Fazio, CEO, TorreyPoint

Peter Southwick

Peter Southwick is a Senior Network Engineer at Proteus Networks, providing both professional services support and training for Proteus Networks customers. He is a JNCI, holds JNCIE-M #473 and other Juniper certifications in routing and security. He is an author of Telecommunications: a Beginners Guide, co-author of ISDN: Concepts, Facilities and Services (both published by McGraw Hill), and contributing author to The Handbook of Local Area Networks (CRC Press).

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Title: Windows Server 2012: Up and Running
By: Samara Lynn
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012 (est.)
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 258 (est.)
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2075-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-2075-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-2074-4| ISBN 10:1-4493-2074-0

If your organization plans to move to a cloud infrastructure from a LAN or WAN, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Windows Server 2012. Experienced Windows administrators will learn how to deploy, configure, and manage the server’s expanded capabilities and features step-by-step, using clear examples and numerous screen shots. You’ll also discover how to integrate employees’ private mobile devices into your corporate network.

Whether you intend to take your infrastructure to a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, Windows Server 2012 provides the virtualization technology to get you there. This book helps you put it to work.

• Control your entire Windows infrastructure from the Server Manager console
• Learn how Active Directory Domain Services provide more centralized network administration
• Use Dynamic Access Control to manage data and user permissions
• Provide data integrity and fault tolerance with Storage Spaces and ReFS
• Gain robust management of virtual environments with Hyper V R3
• Master networking tools such as IPAM to help you move to the cloud
• Connect clients to network resources through Unified Remote Access

Samara Lynn

Samara Lynn has over fifteen years experience in Information Technology; most recent as IT Director at a major New York City healthcare facility. She is a Lead Networking and Business Analyst at PCMag.com. She has several technology certifications, a Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and was a Technology Editor for the CRN Test Center.

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