vCenter Operations Manager, also known as vC Ops, is a VMware product that allows IT administrators to monitor their virtual environments in the most efficient way. It also aids in design and capacity planning. vC Ops allows us administrators and IT managers to have visibility into our entire virtual infrastructure and goes beyond the simple alarms and performance charts offered in vCenter Serv…
The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applica- tions that go beyond the scope of small example applications. This book is for people coming to Android programming from a variety of backgrounds. If you have been programming iPhone or Mac OS applications in Objective-C, you will find coverage of Android tools and Java language features relevant to Android pro…
The book can be useful for students specializing in applied mathematics and informatics, as well as economical cybernetics. Moreover, it attracts the mutual interest of mathematicians operating in the field of game theory and experts in the fields of economics, management science, and operations research. Each chapter concludes with a series of exercises intended for better understanding. Some …
This book is a practical guide to learning enterprise build systems with Gradle. This book helps you to master the core concepts of the tool and to quickly apply the knowledge to real-life projects. Throughout the book, all the chapters are supported by sufficient examples so that the reader can easily follow and absorb the concepts. The book is divided into 10 chapters. The first six chapters …
Learning Force.com Application Development is a hands-on guide aimed at developing Force.com applications on the Force.com platform. As you read through the content, you will notice that this book focuses on a single real-world example. This book builds upon this example to help you understand and use the tools and features of the Force.com platform. Cloud computing has made significant changes…
This is my first book with O’Reilly, and I’m very grateful for their help and encour- agement. Their editorial team is first class, and efficient. It was great working with you. I, like many of you, have been using Spring for a long, long time. I wasn’t initially convinced I needed Spring Roo (to be honest). It wasn’t until I sat with Ben Alex and Stefan Schmidt about a year ago and rea…
My background is in Java from back before it was even called that. From the beginning, I was very interested in embedded development as a way to program various devices that surround us in everyday life. Because Java primarily took off in web application development, most of my experience in the previous decade has been in building large enterprise systems. Then Android arrived, and once again …
We hope that our text, Advanced Modelling in Finance, is conclusive proof that a wide range of models can now be successfully implemented using spreadsheets. The models range across the complete spectrum of finance including equities, equity options and bond options spanning developments from the early fifties to the late nineties. The models are implemented in Excel spreadsheets, complemen…
The above quote by Theodor Holm Nelson, the pioneer of information technology, states a deep interconnectedness among the myriad topics of this world. The biological systems are no exceptions, which comprise of a complex web of biomolec- ular interactions and regulation processes. In particular, the field of computational systems biology aims to arrive at a theory that reveals complicated inte…
In the summer of 2005, systems administrators and security researchers from all over the world gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada for Black Hat, one of the largest computer security conferences in the world. On the morning of the first day, Michael Lynn, one of the authors of this book, was scheduled to speak about vulnerabilities in Cisco routers. These vulnerabilities were serious: an attacker cou…
It was mid-January 2003. Things were going well in my role as a network engineer supporting data center networks at Cisco. My team celebrated on January 21 when our site vice president powered off the last Avaya PBX; the Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus telephony was now 100% VoIP. We had just completed several WAN circuit and hardware upgrades and were beginning to see the highest availabil…
The Yii framework, hosted at http://www.yiiframework.com/, is a PHP-based application framework built around the Model-View-Controller composite pattern. It is suitable for building both web and console applications, but its feature set makes it most useful for web applications. It has several code generation facilities, including the full create-read-update-delete (CRUD) interface maker. It re…
Up until a few years ago, storage, computing, and network resources were intentionally kept physically and operationally separate from one another. Even the systems used to manage those resources were separated—often physically. Applications that interacted with any of these resources, such as an operational monitoring system, were also kept at arm’s length significantly involved access pol…
An economist must be “mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher, in some degree . . . as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.” So remarked John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist who, as much as anyone, could be called the father of macroeconomics. No single statement summarizes better what it means to be an economist. As Key…
businesses move more toward cloud computing, one important factor for success is adopting multi-tenant software-defined networking (SDN) solutions in data centers. Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) is a key enabler for a multi-tenant SDN solution and is essential for implementing a hybrid cloud environment where tenants can bring not only their own IPs, but their entire network topology sinc…
Thanks for purchasing the second edition of this book. It’s been almost five years since the first edition was published, and that meant that a lot has changed in the world of web security. Our goal for this edition of the book was simple: reorganize the book from a web developer’s perspective, update important new information as it applies to PHP security, and leave out any information tha…
We begin to jump into the PHP code within this chapter. You will learn about PHP best coding practices when it comes to performance. You will learn about constructing a faster-running for loop, how to include files using the optimal PHP function, and, most importantly, how to use and install VLD, strace, and Xdebug. Once VLD and strace are installed, you will analyze Opcode, as well as the Apac…