“Blanchard is demanding. He won’t allow you to flip through this book, nod your head, and leave. If you’re in, you’re going to have to invest to get your rewards.”
A survival guide for writers in the real-world, Writing and Designing Manuals, Third Edition has become a standard reference for technical writers and editors. Readable and practical, it addresses all aspects of manual development from choosing a format to writing effective warnings. Not limited to text elements, the manual also provides...
Modern advancements and developments in the field of computer have brought the world into new era. Computer has emerged as a powerful tool that is continuously transforming the shape of our working methodologies and day-to-day services. There is hardly any sphere of life left now, in which computers are not being used. Be it...
In a book written for mathematicians, teachers of mathematics, and highly motivated students, Harold Edwards has taken a bold and unusual approach to the presentation of advanced calculus. He begins with a lucid discussion of differential forms and quickly moves to the fundamental theorems of calculus and Stokes’ theorem. The result is...
Few IT professionals take the time to learn what needs to be known to do disaster recovery well. Most labor under the pretense that good administration equals close to five-nines uptime. Most technical people do not see the value of planning for disasters until the unexpected has already happened, and the effects of a disaster involving a...
Deciding to take the leap from one technology to another is a difficult one. You face the risk of improper implementation of the technology, which can cause performance issues. You also face possible impact to business logic, which can produce disruption to your customers and partners. Many core business processes were written many years ago and...
We almost never read forewords or introductions, so we’ll try to be as brief as
possible. There were several reasons for writing this book. As time has gone by
and FileMaker has evolved into a more sophisticated development tool, the
need for more advanced FileMaker reference materials has grown as well. We
felt that while...
Since the first edition of this book, the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has grown, transformed,
and emerged from a promising toolkit for web applications into a toolkit that
truly supports 1) developers and managers in delivering web applications that can
push the boundaries of the possible and 2) the application of...
Editorial Review As the backbone to so many commercial communications infrastructures, Microsoft's Exchange Server technology has become a critical component in many an IT department. With the latest incarnation of Exchange Server on the horizon, and indeed almost upon us, it is becoming increasingly urgent that SysAdmins get to grips...
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and...
I can trace Angular’s beginnings to 2009, on a project called Google Feedback. We’d
gone through months of frustration with our development speed and ability to write
testable code. At around the six month mark, we had around 17,000 lines of front-end
code. At that point, one of the team members, Misko...
Hollywood is under attack from videogames. Movies defined the 20th century but games are now pushing them aside as the medium that captures our time, fascination and money. Generation Xbox digs into the love-hate relationship between games and cinema that has led us to this point. It's a story of disaster, triumph and Angelia Jolie in hot...
