Learn IT - Books tags agile

Implementing a Digital Asset Management System: For Animation, Computer Games, and Web Development

Focal Press, 2005

"It's certainly a challenging read, but one that's worth spending some brain power on if you're keen to create a successful computer-based production company. Getting into such a competitive market means doing some research, and for aspiring imageers this is a great first step." - Advanced Photoshop

In situations...

How to Build a Business Rules Engine: Extending Application Functionality through Metadata Engineering

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Business rules engines can make organizations more agile by allowing them to manage diverse sets of operating rules, such as many different contracts for goods and services with different clients. For example, business rules engines can contain interfaces that allow users to define business rules to add specific functionality to software...

Software Development Rhythms: Harmonizing Agile Practices for Synergy

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

In the deep dark night, lying down on Kande beach on the shores of Lake Malawi, we looked up into the cloudless sky. Countless tiny stars were blinking at us. A little tired, or perhaps just mesmerized by those distant, mysterious lights, we closed our eyes and began to hear more, the peaceful slap of water on the little beach, and the small,...

Effective Methods for Software Testing

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Stop looking for needles in haystacks.

There's a better way.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has made quality testing crucial to the software development process. William Perry's Quality Assurance Institute has developed a proven set of guidelines and checklists to help you...

Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems - EDF and Related Algorithms

Springer, 1998

Many real-time systems rely on static scheduling algorithms. This includes cyclic scheduling, rate monotonic scheduling and fixed schedules created by off-line scheduling techniques such as dynamic programming, heuristic search, and simulated annealing. However, for many real-time systems, static scheduling algorithms are quite restrictive and...

Essential Software Testing: A Use-Case Approach

Auerbach Publications, 2008

Much has been written about the difficulty of software testing. Often these laments are accompanied by cautionary words about how careful one has to be to ensure testing is done properly. However, there is a dearth of resources that give practical guidance on the nuts and bolts of testing. Essential Software Testing: A Use-Case...

NHibernate in Action

Manning Publications, 2008

In the classic style of Manning's "In Action" series, NHibernate in Action shows .NET developers how to use the NHibernate Object/Relational Mapping tool. This book is a translation from Java to .NET, as well as an expansion, of Manning's bestselling Hibernate in Action. All traces of Java have been carefully replaced by their .NET...

High Performance Parallel Database Processing and Grid Databases (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

The latest techniques and principles of parallel and grid database processing

The growth in grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important opportunity to understand and utilize high-performance parallel database processing within a major database management system...

Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices

IGI Global, 2007

Project infrastructure and software repositories are now widely available at low cost with easy extraction, providing a foundational base to conduct detailed cyber-archeology at a scale not open to researchers before. Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices provides a collection of empirical research acting as a focal point to the status...

Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices (Premier Reference Source)

IGI Global, 2008

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization....

The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

Apress, 2009

The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a...

Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails (Brain-Friendly Guides)

O'Reilly, 2009

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework.

By the time you're...

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