Category: #BOOKS

Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe
ISBN: 978-1-118-40791-2
Paperback
528 pages
March 2013

Achieve the performance, scalability, and ROI your business needs

What can you do at the start of a virtualization deployment to make things run more smoothly? If you plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions in your company, this unique book provides keen insight and solutions. From hardware selection, network layout, and security considerations to storage and hypervisors, this book explains the design decisions you’ll face and how to make the right choices.

Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions.

• Shows IT administrators how plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere virtualization solutions
• Explains the design decisions typically encountered at every step in the process and how to make the right choices
• Covers server hardware selection, network topology, security, storage, virtual machine design, and more
• Topics include ESXi hypervisors deployment, vSwitches versus dvSwitches, and FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS storage

Find out the “why” behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for vSphere 5.x.

Forbes Guthrie, VCAP-DCD, (tweet @forbesguthrie) is a technical architect who specializes in virtualization and storage technologies. He is also a VMware vExpert and the creator of several popular virtualization reference cards. Forbes blogs at http://www.vReference.com. Scott Lowe, VCDX 39, (tweet @scott_lowe) is a technical architect at VMware. Scott is a VMware vExpert and the author of Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Scott also writes at blog.scottlowe.org, which attracts thousands of visitors daily.

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Frank Wander
ISBN: 978-1-1184-3653-0
Hardcover
203 pages
February 2013

Practical, proven guidance for transforming the culture of any IT department

As more and more jobs are outsourced, and the economy continues to struggle, people are looking for an alternative to the greed-driven, selfish leadership that has resulted in corporations where the workers are treated as interchangeable parts. This book shows how the human factors can be used to unlock higher returns on human capital such that workers are no longer interchangeable parts, but assets that are cared about and grown. Refreshingly innovative, Transforming IT Culture shows how neuroscientific and psychological research can be applied in the IT workplace to unleash a vast pool of untapped potential.

• Written by an expert on IT culture transformation
• Considers the widespread “cultural blindness” in business today, and how it can be addressed
• Draws on the author’s repeated success transforming IT divisions across major corporations by applying the human factors
• Explains why social intelligence, human factors, and collaboration are the source of harmony, shared learning, mutual respect, and value creation

Employees want positive change in business, something to stop the downward spiral we are on, both financially and emotionally. Transforming IT Culture shows how the essential ingredient to any high performing IT department is a culture where employees are valued and managed to their strengths. Using the Information Technology profession as a lens through which we can understand knowledge worker productivity and how to seriously improve it, this important new book reveals why Collaborative Social Systems are essential to every organization.

FRANK WANDER is founder and CEO of the IT Excellence Institute, an organization dedicated to answering Peter Drucker’s challenge to increase the productivity of knowledge workers. Prior to starting the Institute, Frank was CIO at Guardian Life for more than five years, transforming the culture and capability of IT to deliver business projects on time and on budget, across 90% of its portfolio. He is a highly sought-after speaker at leading IT industry events, contributes articles to CIO Magazine and Computerworld, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

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Title: Windows 8: The Missing Manual
By: David PoguePublisher:O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: February 2013
Ebook: February 2013
Pages: 930
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1403-3| ISBN 10:1-4493-1403-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1402-6| ISBN 10:1-4493-1402-3

With Windows 8, Microsoft completely reimagined the graphical user interface for its operating system, and designed it to run on tablets as well as PCs. It’s a big change that calls for a trustworthy guide—Windows 8: The Missing Manual. New York Times columnist David Pogue provides technical insight, lots of wit, and hardnosed objectivity to help you hit the ground running with Microsoft’s new OS.

This jargon-free book explains Windows 8 features so clearly—revealing which work well and which don’t—that it should have been in the box in the first place.

David Pogue

David Pogue, Yale ’85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world’s bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

View David Pogue’s full profile page.

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Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : January 2013
ISBN : 1849515565
ISBN 13 : 9781849515566
Author(s) : Tom Ryder

• Monitor almost anything in a network
• Control notifications in your network by configuring Nagios Core
• Get a handle on best practices and time-saving configuration methods for a leaner configuration
• Use the web interface to control notification behaviour on the fly and for scheduled outages, without restarts
• Pull Nagios Core’s data into a database to write clever custom reports of your own devising

What you will learn from this book

• Finding, installing, and writing your own plugins, and learning to reference them as Nagios Core commands for use as host and service checks, including workarounds for making checks through difficult network layouts such as those using Network Address Translation.
• Managing notifications to send the right kind of notifications to the right people at the right time, and defining contact methods besides simple email messages, including an example of automatic contact rotation.
• In-depth examples of using the standard set of Nagios Plugins for common network monitoring needs, with discussion of generic methods for monitoring the results of SNMP queries.
• Remote monitoring methods to handle the situations where Nagios Core cannot directly check a service’s status over the network, to check things such as database servers that only listen locally, or hardware devices with no SNMP OIDs exported.
• Defining network structure and dependencies in Nagios Core to enable it to perform its notification behavior more intelligently, and allow you to very quickly find the “root” of particular problems; also how to reflect this structure in the network map once defined, and even decorate it.
• Best practices for managing Nagios Core configuration to make it leaner, more robust, and better suited to programatically generating configuration as specified by other systems.
• Automating other interactions with Nagios Core, including using passive checks to track tasks being performed both locally and in other parts of the network, or running scripts automatically in response to checks; also includes discussion of developing your own reports or vizualisations using automatically exported data from the system.

Tom Ryder

Tom Ryder is a systems administrator and former web developer from New Zealand. He uses Nagios Core as part of his “day job” as a systems administrator, monitoring the network for a regional internet service provider. Tom works a great deal with UNIX-like systems, being a particular fan of GNU/Linux, and writes about usage of open source command line development tools on his blog Arabesque: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz.

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By David Mark , Jack Nutting , Jeff LaMarche , Fredrik Olsson

• ISBN13: 978-1-4302-4512-4
• 764 Pages
• User Level: Beginner to Intermediate
• Publication Date: January 21, 2013
• Available eBook Formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF

The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development is back again for Beginning iOS 6 Development, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple’s latest and greatest iOS 6 SDK, as well as with the latest version of Xcode.

There’s coverage of brand new technologies, with chapters on storyboards and iCloud, for example, as well as significant updates to existing chapters to bring them in line with all the changes that came with the iOS 6 SDK. You’ll have everything you need to create your very own apps for the latest iOS devices, including the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and the latest iPod touch. Every single sample app in the book has been rebuilt from scratch using latest Xcode and the latest 64-bit iOS 6-specific project templates and designed to take advantage of the latest Xcode features.

Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Beginning iOS 6 Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. The book starts with the basics, walking through the process of downloading and installing Xcode and the iOS 6 SDK, and then guides you though the creation of your first simple application.

From there, you’ll learn how to integrate all the interface elements Apple touch users have come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, and sliders. You’ll master a variety of design patterns, from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. The confusing art of table building will be demystified, and you’ll learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. You’ll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using a variety of persistence techniques, including Core Data and SQLite. And there’s much more! You’ll learn to draw using Quartz 2D and OpenGL ES, add multitouch gestural support (pinches and swipes) to your applications, and work with the camera, photo library, accelerometer, and built-in GPS. You’ll discover the fine points of application preferences and learn how to localize your apps for multiple languages.

• The iOS 6 update to the bestselling and most recommended book for Cocoa touch developers
• Packed full of tricks, techniques, and enthusiasm for the new SDK from a developer perspective
• Written in an accessible, easy-to-follow style

What you’ll learn

• Everything you need to know to develop your own bestselling iPhone and iPad apps
• Best practices for optimizing your code and delivering great user experiences
• How to create “universal” apps for both the iPhone and iPad
• What is data persistence and why is it important
• Get started with building cool, crisp User Interfaces
• What and how to use Table Views
• How to do graphics with Quartz and OpenGL ES
• What geo app development features the new iOS brings to the iPhone
• How to get your app in iCloud
• And much much more…

Who this book is for
Everyone who wants to start developing for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad!

For the latest source code, please head to http://www.iphonedevbook.com.

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