It’s been a long time since we went through the dramatic transition from Mac OS 9 to
the more complicated and graphically rich world of OS X. Many of you reading this
have never known a Mac interface that wasn’t actually OS X (pronounce that “oh-ess
ten” to sound cool). The biggest change...
Have you ever imagined yourself writing a computer game and being able to make money selling
it? With Apple’s iTunes App Store and the accompanying mobile iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
devices, doing that is now easier than ever. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy—there’s still
a lot to learn about...
Maximizing the performance of your algorithms and applications is extremely important and can give you a competitive advantage, a lower cost of ownership, and happier users. Pro .NET Performance explains the internals of Windows, the CLR, and the physical hardware that affect the performance of your applications, and gives you the...
The Java EE 6 platform has taken ease-of-development in enterprise
Java programming to new heights. This book is directed
towards the audience who wants to get a quick overview
of the platform and to keep coming back to learn the basics.
This book provides an overview of the key specifications...
In my recent e-book #OccupyIT: A Technology Manifesto for the Cloud, Mobile,
and Social Era (http://www.aiim.org/occupyIT), I talk about the revolutionary
changes that are impacting how we make enterprise technology decisions.
On the one hand, we have "the business," awed and impressed by the changes and...
With the introduction of wireless LAN (WLAN), IP networks are now also available for those applications on which wired technologies are not suitable or no wired connectivity is available at all. The following are a few wireless use cases:
The time that I spent working at Microsoft was an unexpectedly transforming experience. The first half
of my career regularly put me and the companies I worked with in competition with Microsoft, and I was
often surrounded by anti-Microsoft stories and propaganda. However, when I heard about .NET, I
decided I wanted to know more...
Windows Server 2012 is probably the most significant release of the Windows
Server platform ever. With an innovative new user interface, powerful
new management tools, enhanced Windows PowerShell support, and hundreds
of new features in the areas of networking, storage, and virtualization, Windows
Server 2012...
This is the book we wish we’d had when we were first introduced to agile
methods. We want to show how design and agile are a natural fit together.
How bringing together the people who build the products you design with the
people who use the products you design will lead to better decisions and better
customer...
This second edition of Pharmaceutical Project Management is published one
decade after the first edition. What has changed over the past decade in drug
development? Actually, a lot. The move to outsourcing has intensified and the
successful management of relationships between sponsor and contractor is recognized
to be a...
In the forty years since I started working in the field, and indeed for some years before that (almost since Calvin Mooers coined the term information storage and retrieval in the 1950s), there have been a significant number of books on information retrieval. Even if we ignore the more specialist research monographs and the...
When I wrote the first edition of this book, Twitter was just starting to hit the big time: bemused front
page articles in just about every magazine and newspaper in the land wondered just what this
Twitter thing was all about; the actor Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) had just cracked the one million
follower mark; and Oprah herself had...
