If you are considering setting up a server and have a Mac of some kind waiting to be used, then this may be just the book for you. Or, alternatively, if you are considering setting up a server for a network with multiple Mac users, this may be just the book for you. ‘Using Mac OS X Lion Server” is a wonderful resource that you can use to do all that is needed to set up a Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) for your business, school or home network.
Charles Edge, the author, is a very competent, interesting and skilled techie, who shows you how to set up file sharing, a mail server, as well as servers for multiple operating systems, wikis, websites and podcasts.
Charles Edge has given speeches at several high level conferences («Mac events») and is the author of six other books about Macs, including “Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide,” “Enterprise Mac Security” and the “Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator’s Guide.”
For the past 10 years, Edge has been the Directory of Technology for 318, a Mac-first consultancy based in Santa Monica, California. He is also the author of krypted.com, a site dedicated to heterogenous networking. On krypted.com, you can find a lot of useful information about using Macs. I especially appreciated the comprehensive list of the Mac OS X commands. Overall, Using Mac OS X Lion Server is a good, comprehesive and very useful book for people working with Mac OS X servers.
Some key points made and elaborated on in the book are:
Plan your installation to make sure you have the right server hardware
Control data access with permissions, and use Apple’s Time Machine to back up your network
Share contacts, schedules, and instant messaging with groupware
Manage wikis, blogs, and websites with Lion’s web service
Build an email server and protect it against spam and malware
Handle preferences for the network’s Apple computers and iOS devices
Deploy new Apple computers to the network with disk imaging
Using Mac OS X Lion Server is a handy, comprehensive no-nonsense book that is of great value for anybody engaged in the (perhaps) daunting task of setting up a Mac server for the first time, and is likely to be useful even for people who have done it before.
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book, whose full title is High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, has probably been one of the most influential books on web development and the strange art of “front-end engineering” written during the past decade. In order to precisely identify and measure the impact of various factors that affect the speed of a website, Souders has conducted a series of tests. His conclusions, along with the test results, are presented in the book in a clear and precise manner. Some of his findings were quite surprising. And most of the techniques he discusses are techniques that can fairly easily be implemented by most people managing web sites.
The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can make changes to achieve increase the speed of your web site. Some of the rules deal with elements that go into the htaccess file of your site, some deal with how elements are loaded (sequence as well as form) on the site. Souders simply has paid a lot of attention to how browsers and servers behave and how they can be tuned to reduce the display time. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of the tuning process.
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