Let’s face it—fixing and flipping houses is sexy. Who doesn’t love the idea of buying a rundown, mold-infested shack and transforming it into someone’s dream home for massive profits? Reality TV shows make it look so easy. A little paint here, some new kitchen cabinets there, and presto! The house is sold for big bucks...
Tech Job Hunt Handbook is a career management book—just for technology professionals—that reflects today’s new economic realities. The world of work is constantly changing, and staying professionally relevant while competing for more specialized tech jobs in areas like cloud computing, mobile and social...
NOTE: This book is based on Windows 8 Release Preview; its content and publication date will be updated for final Windows 8 software.
Reimagined for full-screen and touch-optimized apps, Windows 8 provides a platform for reaching new users in new ways. In response, programming legend Charles Petzold is rewriting his...
With every successive release of iOS and its related hardware products, Apple and journalists the world over spout hyperbolic statements about “revolutionary” features, “insanely great” devices, and “unbelievable” sales. The numbers don’t disappoint, with hundreds of millions of iOS devices having...
The framework of the human body is held together by a substance
known as fascia. This is a connective tissue which envelops the
muscles, nerves and blood vessels and which gives cohesion and
order to the myriad components of the body, It allows movement
between adjacent structures and reduces the effects of pressure
and...
Our goal in writing this book was to combine a strong emphasis on problem solving
and software design with the study of data structures. To this end, we discuss applications
of each data structure to motivate its study. After providing the specification
(a header file) and the implementation of an abstract data type, we cover case...
Since 2001, the iPod has changed the way we listen to our music. It has allowed us to carry virtually our entire music collection around with us in a beautiful little package, and thanks to its unique scroll wheel, it has made that beautiful little package easy to navigate. Each year the iPod has evolved, getting physically smaller while its...
This book is about the use of techniques and tools for the design and implementation
of computer systems and software that are free from logical or functional flaws
(in the sense of functional requirements). The word rigorous in the title of this book
is justified by the fact that the arguments for such fault freeness have their roots...
I really love working with SharePoint! I’ve been doing it full-time for the last half decade, including lots of late nights and weekends. One area that I’ve found particularly interesting is Web Parts. I like the nature of a Web Part since it can act as a standalone application inside the powerful SharePoint platform—or it...
Although web standards-based websites can scale effectively—and basic CSS will give you basic results—there are considerations and obstacles that high traffic websites must face to keep your development and hosting costs to a minimum. There are many tips and tricks, as well as down-to-earth best practice information, to make sure...
What you have in your hands is a unique book. You may have seen several books
on SAP Financial Accounting (FI) that are available in the market, but none of them
are as comprehensive as this, covering the gamut of Financial Accounting in SAP
Financials including—besides the regular topics —FI-CA (Contract Accounts...
