The ACE Programmers Guide or Absolute Beginners Guide to WordPerfect 12

The ACE Programmer's Guide: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming

Author: Stephen D Huston

If you're designing software and systems that must be portable, flexible, extensible, predictable, reliable, and affordable, this book and the ACE toolkit will enable you to be more effective in all of these areas. Even after spending over a decade developing ACE and using it to build networked software applications, I find that I've learned a great deal from this book, and I'm confident that you will, too.

--Douglas C. Schmidt, Inventor of ACE, from the Foreword

This book is a must-have for every ACE programmer. For the beginner, it explains step-by-step how to start using ACE. For the more experienced programmer, it explains in detail the features used daily, and is a perfect reference manual. It would have saved me a lot of time if this book had been available some years ago!
--Johnny Willemsen, Senior Software Engineer, Remedy IT, The Netherlands

With a large C++ code base, we rely on ACE to enable a cross-platform client-server framework for data quality and data integration. ACE has improved our design and smoothed over OS idiosyncrasies without sacrificing performance or flexibility. The combination of online reference materials and printed "big picture" guides is indispensable for us, and The ACE Programmer's Guide earns top-shelf status in my office.
--John Lilley, Chief Scientist, DataLever Corporation

In SITA air-ground division, we are one of the major suppliers of communication services to the airline industry. We started using ACE about a year ago and are now moving most of our new communication-related development to it. I can say that using this toolkit can reduce the development and testing time by atleast 50% in our type of application.
--Jean Millo, Senior Architect, SITA

The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an open-source software toolkit created to solve network programming challenges. Written in C++, with the help of 30 core developers and 1,700 contributors, this portable middleware has evolved to encapsulate and augment a wide range of native OS capabilities essential to support performance-driven software systems.

The ACE Programmer's Guide is a practical, hands-on guide to ACE for C++ programmers building networked applications and next-generation middleware. The book first introduces ACE to beginners. It then explains how you can tap design patterns, frameworks, and ACE to produce effective, easily maintained software systems with less time and effort. The book features discussions of programming aids, interprocess communication (IPC) issues, process and thread management, shared memory, the ACE Service Configurator framework, timer management classes, the ACE Naming Service, and more.

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete ACE toolkit, including installable kits for Windows, Solaris, and HP-UX; complete reference documentation for all of the ACE classes; and source code for every example in the book.

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect 12

Author: Laura Acklen

Maybe you just bought a brand new Dell, Sony or HP computer and are curious about the WordPerfect software that came with it. Or maybe you just took a new job in an office where they use WordPerfect 12 for word processing. Whatever the case may be, if you are new to Word Perfect 12, the Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect 12 can help you figure it all out. Endorsed by Corel, the makers of WordPerfect, this is the best beginning level guide on the market. Organized in an easy-to-follow, progressive format, you will learn how to navigate the program and build complex documents. By the time you're done, you will know how to use WordPerfect 12 from beginning to end!

Table of Contents:

I	Learning the basics	7
1	Getting started and finding help	9
2	Creating, saving, and printing documents	21
3	Finding and opening documents	35
4	Revising documents	51
5	Learning basic formatting	71
6	Using the writing tools	89
II	Making it look nice	113
7	Working with paragraphs	115
8	Working with pages	131
9	Using styles for consistency	151
III	Organizing information	163
10	Creating and formatting tables	165
11	Creating lists and outlines	193
IV	Adding visuals	209
12	Working with graphics	211
13	Sharing data	239
V	Automating your work	255
14	Using the merge feature	257
15	Using and address book	277
16	Working with templates	295
17	Creating and playing macros	300
18	Using WordPerfect's legal tools	323
VI	Appendixes	349
A	Learning Quattro Pro basics	351
B	Working with formulas and functions in Quattro Pro	363
C	Formatting your spreadsheets	377
D	Understanding the WordPerfect product family	391