• Learn how to work with the vCloud API
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Qualitative Case Studies on Implementation of Enterprise Wide Systems focuses on ERP Implementations in the tertiary education industry—a sector which is important not only for advancing the economy and quality of life in industrialized nations but also as a major source of export income. Systems failure in this information...

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution for digital artists, allowing them to naturally and easily sculpt detailed, organic characters and models in a way that feels like...

EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects...

• Extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code
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• Build applications that interface with the customer, product, and order data using...

Stymied by SPSS? This friendly, plain-English guide gets you up and running with the latest version of the software so that you can start performing calculations...

Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the...

• Explore the numerous components that provide abstractions for pretty much any functionality you need from your persistent graphs
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• Perform GIS analysis faster by automating tasks, such as selecting data or buffering data, by accessing GIS tools using scripting
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