Visual requirements models are one of the most effective ways to identify software
requirements. They help the analyst to ensure that all stakeholders—including
subject matter experts, business stakeholders, executives, and technical teams—understand
the proposed solution. Visualization keeps...
Need to overcome information overload and get your message across? Infographics are your secret weapon. Using them, you can deliver knowledge and ideas visually, so your audiences can understand them quickly - and take action. In The Power of Infographics, Mark Smiciklas helps you understand how to...
For most of computing history, we benefited from exponential increases in performance
of scalar processors. That has come to an end. We are now at the dawn of
the heterogeneous parallel computing era. With all applications being power-sensitive
and all computing systems being power-limited, from mobile to cloud, future computing...
A concise, focused study aid for the 2012 edition of CompTIA A+ Certification exams
More than a million PC technicians hold the CompTIA A+ certification, which is a require certification by some software and hardware vendors. Designed to work with the Sybex family of certification guides for exams 220-801 and 220-802, this...
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s platform for developing web applications. Using ASP.NET, you can create e-commerce
shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you don’t
need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can...
Everybody’s talking about cloud services today. It’s one of the hot new buzzwords, but
most of the conversation is about how to develop custom applications in the cloud.
While that is a really important topic, it ignores another very useful attribute of a distributed
cloud: as a great place to build and...
Government agencies are increasingly being called upon to publish data as a means to
increase transparency, deliver government services more efficiently, and innovate busi
ness. Civic Apps Competitions (CACs) further these goals by providing incentives and
a platform for software programmers to build innovative...
The process of identifying physical objects is such a fundamental part of our
experience that we seldom think about how we do it. We use our senses, of
course: we look at, feel, pick up, shake and listen to, smell, and taste objects
until we have a reference for them—then we give them a label. The whole...
WELCOME TO Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2012. With this book, you can become an effective C++ programmer using Microsoft’s latest application-development system, Visual Studio 2012. I aim to teach you the C++ programming language, and then how to apply C++ in the development of your own Windows applications. Along the way,...
XPages is a truly groundbreaking technology. Its initial release in 2009 revolutionized web application
development on Notes®/Domino® and brought new life and vibrancy to the developer community.
As a runtime framework built on top of standards-based technologies and open source
libraries, it greatly simplified the art of...
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently received a great deal of attention as a
promising cost-effective solution to provide coverage and broadband wireless
connectivity for mobile users to get access to different IP applications and services.
The factor that has helped WMNs become attractive is the wide application prospects...
This book breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does...