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...
LET ’ S FACE IT: Shipping great software is diffi cult. Is it rewarding? Yes. Is it profi table? Yes. Does it
mix art and engineering? Yes. Is it easy? No.
Yet some companies and organizations do ship great software. They deliver products that their
customers love. They do it on time and on budget. They deliver solutions...
In the last few years SharePoint has taken the world by storm. In fact,
the product is one of the fastest growing products in the history of
Microsoft. Companies of all sizes are rapidly implementing SharePoint and
moving it to the center of their organization. The interesting thing about
SharePoint, however, is that if you ask ten...
Let’s face it, while GUI applications are nice and they do provide
significant levels of hand holding, they’re cumbersome and inefficient.
The command line is an essential part of the administrator
experience—at least, if the administrator wants to go home at night
and spend weekends somewhere other than work. Using...
This book is designed to help students learn how to analyze and interpret research data with basic
statistics. It is intended to be a supplemental text in an introductory (undergraduate or graduate)
statistics or research methods course in the behavioral sciences or education and it can be used in
conjunction with any mainstream text....
The TITLE of Volume 4 is Combinatorial Algorithms, and when I proposed it I was strongly inclined to add a subtitle: The Kind of Programming I Like Best. Mv editors have decided to tone down such exuberance, but the fact remains that programs with a combinatorial flavor have always been my favorites.
This book is complete: my checklists and FileMaker databases have cross-indexed features, preferences, and the applications that ship with Mac OS X, to make certain that everything shows up somewhere in the book. It has been revised against the second update—Mac OS X 10.0.2. We have tried to include screen shots of almost every feature,...
Thirty years ago, when the first edition of this book was published, little had
been written about the management of libraries and information centers.
Those seeking advice, examples, and information about how to manage libraries
were forced to search for answers in the literature of public administration
or business management. Since...
There is very little specialist literature available on IMAP servers, and no
current documentation deals with the subject in sufficient depth.
There is a real need for a guide to IMAP. A quick look at relevant mailing
lists shows that they are full of questions and problems, indicating that the
software solutions now in use...
Congratulations! By reading this sentence, you are already 20 seconds closer to
learning C++, one of the most important programming languages in the world.
If you continue for another 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 40 seconds, you will master
the fundamentals of the C++ programming language. Twenty-four 1-hour lessons
cover the...
Standard advice for writing a preface tells the author to begin by answering the
question, “Why did you write this book?” The published answers almost always
include an explanation of how something is still missing in the already vast body of
existing literature, and how the book in question represents a valiant attempt to...
With more than 400 million active users and growing, it’s hard to ignore
the buzz about Facebook. It’s a hot topic these days, and shows no signs of
letting up. If you’re ready to get to the bottom of this Internet sensation
and find out how to use this social networking phenomenon for yourself,...
