Learn IT - Books tags extreme

Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend

Cengage Learning, 2007

These days, everyone seems to have a home page or a Web site. However, just because you create and publish a Web site doesn't mean anyone will visit it. Competition to attract visitors is extreme. The reality is that of the millions of Web pages out there, only a handful actually attract a steady readership; and these same Web pages are...

Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly

Springer, 2014

Are you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts? Would you like to know which agile techniques work, which ones do not matter much, and which ones will harm your projects? Then you need Agile!: the first exhaustive, objective review of agile principles, techniques and tools.

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Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2008

This state-of-the-art survey, reflecting on the teaching of programming, has been written by a group of primarily Scandinavian researchers and educators with special interest and experience in the subject of programming. The 14 chapters - contributed by 24 authors - present practical experience gathered in the process of teaching programming and...

Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing, Beta Edition

Strawberry Canyon, 2012

(NOTE: this Beta Edition may contain errors. See http://saasbook.info for details.) A one-semester college course in software engineering focusing on cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), and Agile development using Extreme Programming (XP). This book is neither a step-by-step tutorial nor a reference book. Instead, our goal is to...

Image Processing Using Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks

Springer, 2005

Humans have an outstanding ability to recognise, classify and discriminate
objects with extreme ease. For example, if a person was in a large classroom
and was asked to find the light switch it would not take more than a second or
two. Even if the light switch was located in a different place than the human
expected or it was...

CVD Diamond for Electronic Devices and Sensors

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synthetic diamond is diamond produced by using chemical or physical processes. Like naturally occurring diamond it is composed of a three-dimensional carbon crystal. Due to its extreme physical properties, synthetic diamond is used in many industrial applications, such as drill bits and scratch-proof coatings, and has the potential to be used in...

Sacred Places Around the World: 108 Destinations (Sacred Places: 108 Destinations series)

CCC Publishing, 2004

Human civilization in the 21st century can be defined by diversity and duality. One-fifth of the world’s population is Chinese, another fifth Muslim. A hundred million of us are homeless children living in extreme poverty. More than two percent of the human population is mentally retarded. There are over 10,000 spoken languages. Yet, a...

The Big and the Small - From Microcosm to the Macrocosm: The Facinating Link Between Particle Physics and Cosmology

University of Texas Press, 2007

This book is the second part of the two-volume set entitled The Big and the Small. The first volume, Journey into the Microcosm: The Story of Elementary Particles, dealt essentially with the small, i.e., elementary particles. The present volume first takes the reader to the other extreme, the big or the cosmos, and then wraps up...

The Art of Agile Development

O'Reilly, 2007

The Art of Agile Development contains practical guidance for anyone considering or applying agile development for building valuable software. Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single...

Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-on Tutorial

Packt Publishing, 2012

The May 26, 2011 edition of the Economist magazine cites a report by the the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) about data becoming a factor of production, such as physical or human capital. Across the industry, enterprises are investing significant resources in harnessing value from vast amounts of data to innovate, compete, and reduce...

Agility by ARIS Business Process Management: Yearbook Business Process Excellence 2006/2007

Springer, 2006

Agility and Execution – Organizational Success Through Flexible Business Processes

Only a company which is flexible, agile and responsive will be successful. The secret to success is agility, meaning the ability to quickly adapt company processes. Against this backdrop, IT is of particular importance as it is virtually the machine...

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

Prentice Hall, 2008

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with...

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