This guide was written for those who will manage or fund technology
projects with budgets between $25,000 and $500,000. Our goal is to
provide a quick-start guide for professional, smart, competent people
who are new to web project management, or who need some
guidance on how to manage a web project.
If you’re reading this book, you’re probably a web designer who has heard of Drupal,
wants to get started with it, and may have even tried it out a couple of times. And you
might be frustrated because even if you’re used to code, Drupal has thrown you a major
learning curve that you hadn’t expected....
The 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML-2011@IJCAI), collocated in Barcelona, Spain, with the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was the premier place to meet and to exchange ideas from all fields of rule technology. The aim of RuleML-2011 was to build a bridge between...
The emerging Second-Generation Web is based entirely on XML and related technologies. It is
intended to result in the creation of the Semantic Web, on which computers will be able to deal with
the meaning (“semantics”) of Web data and hence to process them in a more effective and autonomous
way. This new version of the...
Governance is the process of creating policies and rules and assigning roles and responsibilities to make a system work properly. Even if your attitude is “Good Government is Less Government,” very few of us
would want to have no government. In short, governance is the difference between order and chaos.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) has proven as a most successful way to produce large
scale, reliable, and cost-effective applications, as illustrated for file sharing or
VoIP. P2P storage is an emerging field of application which allows peers to
collectively leverage their resources towards ensuring the reliability and
availability of user...
With Writing for the Web, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create effective Web content using words, pictures, and sound. Follow along as instructor and writer Lynda Felder combines easy-to-follow guidelines with photographs, lists, and tables to illustrate the key concepts behind writing nonlinear, interactive...
Expanded into two volumes, the Second Edition of Springer’s Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security brings the latest and most comprehensive coverage of the topic: Definitive information on cryptography and information security from highly regarded researchers Effective tool for professionals in many fields and researchers of all...
In less than half a decade, the iOS platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. Only a few years ago, we were thrilled by phones with postage-stamp-sized screens, tinny audio, built-in tip calculators, and text-based web browsing. Times have indeed...
This book provides a traditional introduction to computer science, focusing on program
development and effective use of the C++ programming language. It is suitable
for motivated beginners as well as students with prior programming experience. The
book can be used in a variety of settings, such as an introductory computer science...
This book covers a vast array of information related to packetC. It is a complete language reference and contains background information on many unique parts of packetC. As packetC shares much of its grammar with C, the book focuses on being an instructional language reference and not a general C programming introduction, since extensive...
The Internet has completely transformed the way products are marketed and sold.
Technology is evolving very quickly and businesses are constantly reinventing themselves.
Customers want more for their money. They have learned to shop around to
find the best value. They compare reviews to purchase the highest-rated items. As the...