Poniatowski, Marty (Stamford, Connecticut) / Hewlett-Packard; 576pp 7 x 9 1/4"
Title Code: 86170-8
ISBN: 0-13-861709-0
KEY BENEFIT:This is the first book that shows system administrators how to make sure their Windows NT and HP-UX systems interoperate with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.KEY TOPICS:This book walks through setting up both Windows NT and HP-UX systems; the file system layouts and options available on both platforms; Windows NT system administration tools and the HP-UX System Administration Manager; and performance optimization on both platforms. It provides detailed information about configuring the Windows NT user environment and the HP-UX Common Desktop Environment, and shows how to maximize interoperability between platforms as it relates to both networking and user interface.MARKET:All system administrators and users in mixed Windows NT/UNIX environments, especially those running HP-UX systems.
(1997) Paper $ 44.95
Ulrich, William M. (Soquel, California) / Hayes, Ian S. (Clarity Consulting, Marblehead, Massachusetts); 624pp 7" x 9-1/4"
Title Code: 65566-2
ISBN: 0-13-655664-7
KEY BENEFIT:This book will help you understand the coming Year 2000 software crisis now - while there's still time to turn it into an opportunity.KEY TOPICS:In this book, two leading consultants provide a realistic overview of the Year 2000 challenge, and a comprehensive guide to every aspect of solving the problem. Understand the critical issues of asset management, strategic planning, budgeting, and support technologies. Gain insight into critical issues that are often overlooked, such as managing a transition when your data systems are interlinked with those of customers, suppliers and government agencies. Learn how to budget and mobilize resources; choose tools; identify tasks; deploy new code, and validate the results. Discover the ten critical mistakes to avoid. Most important of all, learn how to transform your Year 2000 project into a catalyst for strategic change to legacy infrastructures and architectures.MARKET:All IT professionals and managers.
(1997) Cloth $ 39.95
Grady, Robert (Cupertino, California); 336pp 6" x 9"
Title Code: 62662-2
ISBN: 0-13-626623-1
KEY BENEFIT:Provides common-sense, proven techniques and approaches that software managers and developers can use to deliver significant process improvements.KEY TOPICS:This book organizes software process improvement into four proven stages: Plan, Do, Check, and Act. It then thoroughly reviews the steps that managers and developers can take in each stage. It shows how to assess current software processes more effectively, and plan and invest to make software development a core competency of your organization. It presents a thoughtful recommendations for making sure that management stays committed to process improvement for the long-haul. Finally, it describes specific techniques organizations can use to track, validate and place a value upon software process improvements.MARKET:All software developers, project managers, process improvement managers, senior IT managers, and customers for custom software development.
(1997) Cloth $ 49.00
Mikkelsen, Tim / Pherigo, Suzanne (both of Fort Collins, Colorado) / Hewlett-Packard; 336pp 6 X 9"
Title Code: 24085-3
ISBN: 0-13-240854-6
KEY BENEFIT:With this book, individual developers and small development teams can gain the benefits of configuration management that were previously restricted to large organizations with large budgets.KEY TOPICS:This pragmatic, easy-to-read guide to configuration management comes with all the freeware PC developers need to get started. Developers will learn the basic concepts of configuration management -- ways to keep track of source code files, graphical images, help files and other elements associated with software development. They will also learn how to customize basic configuration management techniques to their own working environments. The book focuses on the PC platform, discussing free and inexpensive tools and technologies, rather than the expensive, complex configuration management systems that have been developed for large teams.MARKET:All PC software developers.
(1997) Paper Bound w/CD-ROM $ 45.00
Baker, Art (Cydonix Corp., Washington, D.C.); 544pp 7 X 9-1/4
Title Code: 18447-3
ISBN: 0-13-184474-1
KEY BENEFIT:Now that Windows NT is rapidly becoming the business operating system of choice, more and more programmers are faced with developing Windows NT drivers. This book explains the complex Windows driver architecture, and presents insights into a myriad of practical details that are rarely, if ever, documented.KEY TOPICS:This book clarifies the murky Microsoft Driver Documentation Kit (DDK) documentation, and contains extensive detail missing from the DDK. This information is essential now, and will prepare developers for the future, when Microsoft introduces the common Win32 Driver Model for Windows NT and Windows 95. Learn about the NT I/O Manager and its data structures, and discover how various hardware issues impact driver design. Learn about full-duplex driver architecture, techniques for handling time-out conditions, logging device errors, kernel-model threads, higher-level drivers, and class drivers for SCSI devices. Understand how to set up a driver development environment and analyze crash dumps. Includes extensive sample code on diskette, designed specifically to help streamline development projects.MARKET:All Windows programmers who have a role in writing device drivers.
(1997) Paper $ 44.95
Pipkin, Donald L. (Tulsa, Oklahoma) / Hewlett-Packard; 224pp 7" x 9-1/4"
Title Code: 24371-7
ISBN: 0-13-243718-X
KEY BENEFIT:In Halting the Hacker, a leading Fortune 500 security consultant shows you the approaches and techniques hackers use to gain access, privileges and control of your UNIX system -- and what to do about it.KEY TOPICS:Learn to look at your system the way a hacker does, identifying potential vulnerabilities. Learn the specific countermeasures you can take now. Even more important, this book shows how to recognize and respond to future security concerns --before they become catastrophesHalting the Hacker explains how hackers transform minor oversights into major security breaches; how they cover their tracks while leaving back doors into your system; and how to protect your system against disgruntled or dishonest insiders. You'll also learn how to detect break-ins -- and what to do next. Halting the Hacker even includes an exclusive CD-ROM software library of tools to detect and eliminate security problems, and a comprehensive information archive on security and hacker-related topics.MARKET:All system administrators, managers and IS professionals.
(1997) Paper Bound w/CD-ROM $ 44.95
Day, Jerry B. (Greeley, Colorado) / Hewlett-Packard; 304pp 7" x 9-1/4"
Title Code: 35721-0
ISBN: 0-13-357211-0
KEY BENEFIT: The only book of its kind, The Color Scanning Handbook will help you get the most out of any HP ScanJet scanner. No other book offers such in-depth coverage of scanning software and related tools. KEY TOPICS: The book starts by explaining how color works -- and how color scanning works. It describes how to choose image types and file formats; how to get the best color scans using DeskScan tools and controls; and how to use scanned images with your other software applications. There's detailed coverage of scanning for print, using desktop printers for proofing, and scanning for use on the World Wide Web. Learn how to convert scanned images to vector formats using tracing software. The book contains dozens of inside tips and tricks you won't find anywhere else. MARKET: This book is for every owner of an HP ScanJet scanner, especially those involved in desktop or electronic publishing. For both PC and Macintosh users.
(1997) Paper $ 25.95
Yourdon, Edward (New York City); 227pp 6" x 9"
Title Code: 74831-9
ISBN: 0-13-748310-4
KEY BENEFIT:In the course of a career, practically every software developer will encounter several projects that are objectively "doomed to fail." This book presents specific techniques for surviving those projects -- and even for helping them succeed, to the extent possible.KEY TOPICS:Now, best-selling author Edward Yourdon brings his unique technology and management insight to the software development projects that need it most: those "death march" projects that have outrageous staffing, schedule, budget or feature constraints which make them extremely likely to fail. Yourdon shows how to make sure your career survives projects like that -- and how to manage "death march" projects to maximize the chance of success. Yourdon walks step-by-step through the entire project lifecycle, starting with up-front negotiation. He presents never-before-published, specific tips and techniques will ring true to any developer or manager faced with the impossible.MARKET:This book is essential reading for all software developers, software engineers and managers.
(1997) Cloth $ 24.95
Mahoney, R. Michael (Hewlett-Packard Company, Loveland, Colorado); 222pp 7" x 9-1/4"
Title Code: 25568-7
ISBN: 0-13-255688-X
KEY BENEFIT:This is a "no-fluff" manager's guide to the world-class flexible manufacturing techniques required to effectively compete in today's fast-changing global markets.KEY TOPICS:Starting with the basics, this book helps managers become experts in today's sophisticated high-mix, low-volume manufacturing techniques. It helps managers understand how flexible manufacturing can provide sustainable competitive advantage, and introduces the fundamental concepts, from just-in-time manufacturing to MRPII and advanced scheduling issues. It shows how to account for the multiple cross-functional relationships that impact flexible manufacturing, from lot-sizing and inventory to complexity and quality issues. It also presents detailed coverage of multiple constraint synchronization, planning and modeling, and shows how to apply performance measurements and metrics to flexible manufacturing.MARKET:This book is for all engineers and managers involved with developing or improving manufacturing strategies, including general managers, corporate manufacturing, logistics and supply managers; business process analysts; and consultants, including professors of management and operations research.
(1997) Cloth $ 60.00
Poniatowski, Marty (Stamford, CT) / Hewlett-Packard; 432pp 7 x 9 1/4
Title Code: 12587-2
ISBN: 0-13-125873-7
KEY BENEFIT: HP-UX 10.x is the latest version of the UNIX implementation from Hewlett-Packard, and eventually all HP-UX users will be moving up to this new platform. This book is the only HP-UX 10.x system administration book available - written in the popular "How To" style by the author of the highly successful guide to HP-UX 9.0. KEY TOPICS: Covers system setup and advanced networking topics, plus many topics that are singular to HP-UX, including System Administration Manager (SAM), HP user interfaces (VUE and CDE), and HP Glance Plus/UX. MARKET: For HP-UX system administrators and end-users.
(1996) Paper $ 41.00
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