In this Issue

2009 - 2010 New Cars
162 Models Rated and Reviewes

Camaro
No Guessing, No Speculation, Just The Facts on the Most Anticipated American Musclear in Decades

New Lincoln MKS: Ford Gets It Right, Mostly
Rolls Phantom Coupe: How the Other Half Drive
2009 Porsche 911: Can It Get Any Better? Yes!

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Are you mystified by math word problems? This easy-to-understand guide shows you
how to conquer these tricky questions with a step-by-step plan for finding the
right solution each and every time, no matter the kind or level of problem. From
learning math lingo and performing operations to calculating formulas and
writing equations, you’ll get all the skills you need to succeed!

Mary Jane Sterling is also the author of Algebra For Dummies, Trigonometry
For Dummies, Algebra II For Dummies, CliffsStudySolver Algebra I, and
CliffsStudySolver Algebra II. She taught junior high and high school math for
many years before beginning her current tenure at Bradley University in
Peoria, Illinois. Mary Jane especially enjoys working with future teachers,
doing volunteer work with her college students and fellow Kiwanians, and
sitting down with a glass of lemonade and a good murder mystery

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As with any discipline, art, or science, natural talent is only part of the equation. Consistent success stems from honing your skills, cultivating good techniques, and hard work. Design engineering, a field often considered an intuitive process not amenable to scientific investigation, is no exception. Providing descriptive theory, broad context, and practical examples, Design Engineering: A Manual for Enhanced Creativity explores how to quantify creativity, codify inspiration, and document a process seemingly based solely on intuition. The authors talks how to clarify the design task, conceptualize candidate solutions, and search for alternatives. They delineate how these phases fit into an industrial context, including engineering product development, and what to consider during design engineering to satisfy all customers. The book discusses activities and methods for performing engineering design work in a rational, reviewable, and documented way, increasing the likelihood of finding an optimal solution. The presentation covers substantiated use of intuition and opportunism as an integral part of systematic, rational, and methodical designing. It examines the influence of other topics on the work, such as psychology, computers, teamwork, application of methods, and education. The authors recommend that results from these less systematic activities be brought into the rational and systematic framework to document the results. Based on the authors’ extensive industrial experience, the ebook elucidates a coherent body of knowledge of design engineering. The book clearly details an easily applicable theory that not only gives you solid design tools, but can also be adapted to any existing design situation.

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In this issue:

The Real Question about OIL - Should it be Cheap? by John Carey

Why garbage is a Hot Commodity?

The Spies In Your Medicine cabinet.

Media: Satellite TV’s Dish Network Starts Falling to Earth

Investing: A simple, safer way to stash large amounts of cash.

Outside Shot: Tough economic love from Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown.

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LAURENCE MORONEY is a senior technology evangelist at Microsoft.
He specializes in Silverlight and promoting how Silverlight can be
used in real-world systems to enhance the user experience. Author of
many computer books and hundreds of articles, he’s usually found
tapping at his keyboard. Outside of his computer passions, he’s big
into all kinds of sports, and has been involved with professional
men’s and women’s soccer.

nFABIO CLAUDIO FERRACCHIATI is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer using
Microsoft technologies. He works for Brain Force (www.brainforce.com) at its Italian
branch (www.brainforce.it). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, a
Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Professional,
and a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the past ten years, he’s written articles
for Italian and international magazines and coauthored more than ten books on a variety
of computer topics. You can read his LINQ blog at www.ferracchiati.com.

This book is aimed at equipping you, the developer, to understand the technologies that
are available to allow you to rapidly build secure, quality web experiences. Note that I use
the term experiences and not applications or sites. That is because the user experience is
the heart of the future Web.
Before you can start looking at the future, it is good to understand the current suite of
web development and deployment technologies that are available to you. In Part 1 of this
book, you’ll look at the Microsoft stack of technologies that allow you to build web services
and applications, and how you’ll deploy them. It will be scenario-driven, so instead
of going into depth on the various APIs, you’ll get your hands dirty in a step-by-step
approach to building, testing, and deploying multitier web applications. You’ll look at
databases and how to connect your application to them, and you’ll manage these connections
through the deployment process. Ultimately, in the first six chapters, you’ll get
a whirlwind tour of the full life cycle of application development using the .NET Framework
(which always looks good on a resume!).
If you are new to ASP.NET, these six chapters will condense everything you need to
know to get up and running with the framework. By the end of them, you’ll have learned
the technology, the tools, and the servers, and gained the know-how to deploy a multipletier
web service–based application to the enterprise server technology from Microsoft.
Even if you are experienced with ASP.NET, this is a nice refresher!
Chapter 1 will give you a tour of the history of web development, from static HTML
served up from the network, through activation of servers using CGI, to activation of
pages using ASP, PHP, and other technologies. It ends with a survey of the managed APIs
that are available for building web applications, including J2EE, PHP, and ultimately
ASP.NET.
In Chapter 2, you will look into ASP.NET in a little more detail, going through the
basics of web development with this API. You’ll see its architecture and how it uses the
concept of controls to generate markup from the server. You’ll see how it hangs together
with the standard web technologies of HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, and more. There is a
great suite of tools available to the ASP.NET developer, including the free Web Developer
Express, and you’ll look at how to download, install, and use this to build, deploy, and
debug ASP.NET server applications. Finally, you’ll survey the lifetime of an ASP.NET application,
learning how the framework can provide stateful communication in an inherently
stateless environment.
Chapter 3 takes you further into building ASP.NET web applications through the use
of web forms. You’ll look into the page processing model, postbacks, and how events are
handled in web applications. You’ll also start to look into data in your web applications.
You’ll see how to download, configure, and manage a SQL Server Express instance, and
how to access the data and functionality in it from code, from UI tools, and from data
binding.
Chapter 4 brings you further down the data path, looking at data binding in ASP.NET
and explaining the fundamentals of the ADO.NET API. You’ll look into the architecture of
this flexible data framework, including data providers, and the DataSet and DataAdapter
components. You’ll also see how some of the data-aware controls such as the GridView
are used to provide great data experiences for your users.
Chapter 5 takes you in a different direction, looking at Web Services and how this
vital technology is implemented using ASP.NET. You’ll see how to build a web service that
wraps a database and exposes its contents to users in a platform-agnostic, technologyagnostic
way. With Web Services, the technology that implements the service should be
abstract, and you’ll see how this is achieved using XML and the WS-I basic profile. You’ll
see how you can build your services to be consumed by applications running on other
technologies, such as Java. You’ll expand on some of the examples from Chapter 4, seeing
how a multitier application can be built using Web Services as the data tier, and binding
controls such as the GridView to them.
Part 1 of the book wraps up in Chapter 6. Here you will look at how to get your applications
deployed and running using Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, and IIS 6. You’ll
look at how IIS serves pages up, and go through the scenario of deploying the multipletier
application that you built in Chapter 5, moving it in a phased manner, performing
unit testing on each tier. You’ll also look at how to use the tools to automatically set up
the virtual web sites that your application will run in.
Once you’ve wrapped all that up, you’ll be ready to move into Part 2, which delves
into the next-generation web technologies, and take an in-depth look at AJAX extensions
for .NET, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation,
Silverlight, and more.

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