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5 reviews
Jason Albanese, Wes Sonnenreich

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003

A much-needed guide
With intelligence and wit this book tackles an issue that keeps business and IT executives up at night. For an intelligent business person, the book strikes the perfect balance between readability and technical content. It fills the wide gap on the shelf between the dumbed down primers and the textbooks for doctoral candidates. The graphic interpretations (that Edward Tufte would appreciate) ...

Web Developer.com(r) Guide to Search Engines

5 reviews
Wes Sonnenreich, Tim Macinta

Wiley, 1998

A great tool for designing search engines
I used this textbook to implement a search engine for my company's modest intranet. The textbook is direct and straightforward which allowed me to get a search engine operational by the second day of having the book. The chapters are segmented for exactly the information you need. In fact, the author tells you at the beginning of each chapter if you should read the chapter or skip ahead. This ...

Building Linux and Openbsd Firewalls

15 reviews
Wes Sonnenreich, Tom Yates

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Good content, cool writing style
This is a great book for people who already know that they want to deploy a free open source firewall solution to secure their network. While somewhat dated (e.g. Linux: ipchains and not iptables, OpenBSD: ipf and not pf), the book gives detailed and comprehensive directions for buidling a firewall platform, deploying a firewall and event sheds some light on the security policy development and ...