A Project Management Primer

A Project Management Primer by Nick Jenkins is a short but an excellent guide on making the projects to work. Download this 43 pages primer in pdf format from http://www.nickjenkins.net/prose/projectPrimer.pdf

Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide

Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide. This 320-page book authoured by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs from VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands treats parsing in its own right, in greater depth than is found in most computer science and linguistics books. It offers a clear, accessible, and thorough discussion of many different parsing techniques with their interrelations and applicabilities, including error recovery techniques. Unlike most books, it treats (almost) all parsing methods, not just the popular ones. To download the pdf version of this guide, click http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html

Open-Source Security Tools

Open-Source Security Tools by Tony Howlett is a practical, hands-on introduction to open-source security tools. The authour, a seasoned security expert has reviewed the overwhelming assortment of these free and low-cost solutions to provide you with the "best of breed" for all major areas of information security. Download this book from http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0321194438/downloads/0321194438_book.pdf

Practical Common Lisp

Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel presents an introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, the author demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code. The site http://apress.com/free/ from where one can download this book claims that it is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world and makes the general perception that Lisp is an academic language, a false.

XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP

The book XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP provides a fast-moving introduction to the XML family of technologies for programmers. Although written with a focus upon JSP- and ASP-based XML solutions, the book presents the material from a language-independent point of view that benefits all developers, whatever their language. The code is written to be readable by all. It is an indispensable resource for programmers who wish to become proficient in XML technologies and use them for solving large-scale, real-life problems. Download the PDF version from URL http://apress.com/free/

Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications

Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications by Kenneth P. Birman reviews important network technologies from a security and reliability perspective and discusses effective solutions with an eye towards their application to real-world systems. All computing professional who works with networked software will find this book valuable in understanding security and reliability vulnerabilities and how to address them. The contents of the book includes: Components of a reliable networked computing system; Reliability of Web and related Internet technologies; How and why networked systems fail; Techniques for making systems secure and reliable; Retrofitting reliability into existing applications. This 591 pages book priced at USD 58 can be downloaded in PDF format from the url http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~ler/docencia/tfd0405/bib/BSRNA.pdf. The authour has also placed his slides to facilitate the development of course materials on Cornell University's public file server and they can be accessed at ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/ken/slides

eSlideshows

The site at http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1874,2122516,00.asp has a no. of eSlideshows on a wide range of topics of direct interest to IT professionals. To name a few: IT's Most Taxing Tasks; 10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever; Enterprise 2.0 in Action; Ten Ways the '$100' Laptop Will Change Corporate PCs; Seven Things Your CEO Really Needs to Know; Unified Communications: The Next-Generation of Workplace Phones and Devices; How to Prep for NAC; Top 100 Most Influential People in IT; Linux for Beginners; Market Demand for Business Intelligence and Performance Management in 2007.

Tips & Help Articles

The PC World website at http://pcworld.in/hereshow has a host of Here’s How – tips and help articles in the areas of Communications Desktops & Notebooks Digital Cameras & Camcorders Digital Entertainment Monitors Office Tools PDAs & Cell Phones Printers Spyware & Security Storage Upgrading Windows, Hardware , Internet, Software, Technology. Some sample articles -- 20 Ways to Keep Your Windows XP System Fresh; Back Up Your Files Online With Ease; Determine the Perfect Format for Your Photo Files; Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge; Take Charge of What Web Sites Know About You; im Rapoza Picks the Top Web Technologies of All Time.