The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management

Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards

This is the first book to provide readers a comprehensive technical guide covering recent and open issues in wireless mesh networks. Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards explores the various key challenges in diverse scenarios as well as emerging standards, including capacity and scalability. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols proposals, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation, experiments, and future research directions. It contains illustrative figures and allows for complete cross-referencing. It also details information on the particular techniques for efficiently improving the mesh network performance.

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails–the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You'll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You'll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout.

You will begin by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a product catalog interfaced with your choice of database technologies. Then you'll discover how to build modern, Ajax-powered shopping carts and add useful features like customer feedback modules. Next you'll learn how to integrate your application with open source packages like the Ferret full-text search engine, and how to interface with back-end electronic payment systems. You'll also learn how to make your application work flawlessly with existing production systems using web services, and then ultimately deploy and tune your application for production use.

Windows Vista For Dummies

The thing that’s made Windows For Dummies so successful is that it’s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more.