Social applications are, by default, applications with the potential to be used by many users at the same time. I know, the first word that comes to your mind is scalability, but that is just one of the challenges you must tackle, and possibly not the hardest. Your application needs to work for almost every user who decides to give it a try, from the perspectives of usability and user experienc…
The Essential Handbook of Internal Auditing contains the same format as the original handbook and includes chapters on Corporate Governance Perspectives, Managing Risk and Internal Controls. It is only after having addressed these three interrelated topics that we can really appreciate the internal audit role. There are chapters on professional standards, audit approaches, managing internal aud…
Mention the word audit to IT professionals and you will probably sec their eyes glaze over as they imagine frighten visions of auditors with pointy tails, pitchforks, and checklists running around and pointing out all of the things aroung and pointing out all of the things they have done wrong to their manager.
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…
This PhoneGap 4 cookbook is a practical guide to developing hybrid applications using PhoneGap or Cordova. The sample applications here are based on real-world use cases and are shown step by step. This book covers the standard workflow using the Cordova command-line interface, and the extension of hybrid applications using various Cordova plugins. It also covers the development of hybrid appl…
Mobile devices are virtually ubiquitous among the enterprise workforce, and employees are becoming increasingly mobile. This book discusses how the enterprise workforce can take advantage of Apache Cordova/Adobe PhoneGap applications to create cross-platform hybrid mobile applications that can serve the varied needs of the user and the enterprise. This book will cover the various aspects of typ…
Network visualization has become an increasingly important approach for how we view data in our increasingly connected world. Social networks, information networks, transportation networks, and a host of other datasets can be brought to life through network maps. However, this approach was traditionally left to those with an understanding of the complex mathematical underpinnings of graph theor…
Welcome to the Instant Netcat Starter . This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get up to speed with Netcat. You will learn the basic terminology of Netcat, how to install and/or compile Netcat for Windows or Unix/Linux platforms, and many of the options that can be used to leverage the power and flexibility of this popular tool for a varie…
Welcome to the Instant Munin Plugin Starter. This book provides you with all the information that you need to set up a Munin cluster and expand it. We will also teach you how to write your own Munin plugins. This book contains the following sections: So, what is Munin? explains what Munin actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great. Installation tells you how to install Munin…
In the early days of the web, Internet was mostly used for academic purposes. Hence, all communications protocols had very little or no focus on security. The situation started changing as more and more public and commercial services started moving online and common users started actually using Internet in their daily routine. With the increase of user base we see the emerge of the malicious gr…
These days, security is the most vital subject for any organization irrespective of their size or the kind of the business they do. The primary reason for this is that organizations don't want to lose their reputation or business over compromises affecting security; secondly, they have to meet legal and regulatory requirements. When it comes to technical security of the infrastructure, Vulnerab…
Nowadays, iOS is becoming more and more prevalent in companies and larger organizations. Whether this is a trend that is driven by Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or something that is coming from within the IT department, our knowledge of platforms is being stretched more and more all the time. It’s getting harder and harder to be an expert on every platform that is in use in our organizations! …
As you start to look at getting into mobile development, it can be overwhelming to try and choose between all the different options and platforms available to you. Each plat- form comes with its own set of tools, preferred languages, and overall way of doing things. In many cases, you won’t want to restrict your application to a single platform, so naturally you’ll start looking for ways to…
After you’ve spent some time in the networking field, you tend to notice that there is rarely a single way to do things, and in many cases, rarely a single, precise definition for terms. After all, often a network engineer’s best answer is “it depends.” Such is the case with enterprise routing, so let’s start off with a definition question: what is an enterprise network? Is it a large…