On a weekly basis, some poor IT workers — both IT pros and developers — are saddled with new projects and or technology they know nothing about and are asked to run with them. They ’ re expected to be successful with little guidance, direction, or training. They ’ re also expected to pull off these tremendous...

The classic definition of realism has been veridical realism. Does the picture pass the comparison test? That is, would an...

On the other hand, marketing online isn’t rocket science. This book charts a practical course of action to put your business Web site to work,...

This book is a practical guide to testing in Moodle. You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as True/False, multiple choice, short answer, and so on. After you have learned how to create questions you will follow a step-by-step process to create complete tests by tweaking various options. Once you have gone...

Most of my friends and acquaintances are seniors, as I am, and I have spent a fair amount of time helping them get comfortable with computers in general and Windows 7 in particular. This book is written for them in a voice without jargon using relevant examples in clear, step-by-step instructions. This book zeroes in on only the most...

In early 2004, DTrace remained nascent; while Mike Shapiro, Adam Leventhal, and I had completed our initial implementation in late 2003, it still had substantial gaps (for example, we had not yet completed user-level instrumentation on x86), many missing providers, and many features yet to...

But the task of documenting and teaching a technology such as AppleScript is daunting (especially while you’re employed at a busy company like Apple), and it could not have been accomplished without the...

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Since the release of the bestselling title Joel on Software in 2004, requests for a sequel have been relentless. So, we went back to the famed JoelonSoftware.com archives and pulled out a new batch of favorites, many of which have been downloaded over one million times. With Joel’s newest book, More Joel on Software,...

R is a high-level language and an environment for data analysis and graphics. The design of R was heavily influenced by two existing languages: Becker, Chambers and Wilks’ S and Sussman’s Scheme. The resulting language is very similar in appearance to S, but the underlying implementation and semantics are derived from Scheme. This...

Why did professional trader and Market Wizard Linda Raschke move completely out of the stock market three days before a major crash? And what motivated Fred Hickey, a Barron’s Roundtable participant and editor of a monthly investment newsletter, to send out an alert to his subscribers three months before an October crash? And why did...