Who needs to manage a project? Well, frankly, everyone working in the public or private sector. Yet how many of us get adequately trained in how to do it? This is where this book can help. Written by an experienced practitioner, what lies at the beating heart of this book is the structure of a strategy to ensure that every project is...
This book is intended to provide IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to create a high-performance team.
IT managers’ work cannot be achieved without collaboration and teamwork. Whether leading a team, or working as a team member or part of a cross-functional team, the successful implementation of IT projects...
Reviews: "This is the best little 'how-to' book for starting and running a small business I've come across. Don't even think about going into business without it. And if you are already in business, this book is a must-read."
--Larry Winget, television personality and 5 time...
Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose—including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.
The arrival of the iPhone changed everything. Or, at the very least, it changed the direction
of software development for mobile platforms, which is a pretty big thing. It has
spawned an entire generation of copycat devices and brought an entire multibilliondollar
industry to its knees. Despite this, it still fits in...
R has a command-line interface, not a point-and-click GUI (graphical user
interface).1 A GUI is easier to learn, and is the best way to interact with graphics.
But you can be more expressive with command lines. The commands have a
syntax. It’s a language, and like any language the more fluent you are the more
expressive you...
Pro T–SQL 2012 Programmer’s Guide is every developer’s key to making full use of SQL Server 2012’s powerful, built–in Transact–SQL language. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact–SQL functionality. Fully functioning examples and...
This text is based on two rich sources: (1) materials in lecture notes I taught to senior
and graduate-level computer science and electrical engineering students at Rice University
and at the University of Houston, and (2) my research in the area of timing
analysis and verification of real-time systems since the late 1980s,...
In the past two years, since the release of this book, usage of the HTML5 Canvas has
grown by leaps and bounds. The original edition of this book was one of the first publications
dedicated to the Canvas. While we were proud to get out of the gate fast, it also
meant that we had to do a lot of research and exploration...
In recent years, mathematics has become valuable in many areas, including economics and management science as well as the physical sciences, engineering and computer science. Therefore, this book provides the fundamental concepts and techniques of real analysis for readers in all of these areas. It helps one develop the ability to think...
Volume 4 of Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits contains many new, not previously cov
ered circuits, organized into 104 chapters. Circuit titles are listed at the beginning of
each chapter, for references. Most of these circuits appeared in publications since 1988
and should be very useful for obtaining new ideas for research and...
For students following pre-degree vocational electronic and electrical engineering courses at levels 2 and 3; foundation degree students and undergraduates.
The BTEC National Engineering course has a brand new syllabus and this text is now fully updated to reflect these changes. It introduces electrical principles and...
