Carrying a BlackBerry used to speak volumes about a person. When you saw someone tapping at that wide keyboard with both thumbs, you could safely assume that the owner was a businessperson, and that the person’s time was so valuable that he or she couldn’t afford to be out of touch from the office for even a moment. Today, you can...
In the field of IT, the markets, business activities, needs and requirements of internal and external service
providers and customers are changing in ever-shortening cycles. This forces companies to increase their
organizational flexibility not only as far as their structure is concerned but also with regard to established
business...
Writing large applications in C++ is a complex and tricky business. However, designing reusable C++
interfaces that are robust, stable, easy to use, and durable is even more difficult. The best way to succeed
in this endeavor is to adhere to the tenets of good Application Programming Interface (API)
design.
There are many examples of the amazing evolutionary adaptations in the animal
kingdom that aid survival, but the ability of animals to hibernate is one of the most
incredible. Most vertebrates must keep warm, because hypothermia or loss of body
heat is potentially fatal, but some have evolved to withstand a massive drop in...
The Israeli department of defence has one of the strictest information security guidelines in the world, and a part of these guidelines is the requirement to have complete physical separation between the public and internal networks. A regular firewall just won't do, and this requirement gave birth to the concept of the
Air-Gap, a...
This book is about a state of the art tool, Flowcode[registered], and how you can use Flowcode to develop microcontroller applications. The book starts very simply with a tutorial project and step-by-step instructions. As you go along the projects increase in difficulty and the new concepts are explained. Each project has a clear description...
Adigital flood is upon us. Content inundates us. It begins as bits of content swirling everywhere—a document, an image, a written corporate procedure, a web page, or an email. The binary mist mixes, combines, and rains down on us. It pools in laptops, on desktops, and in server farms. Creeks and streams meander to corporate reservoirs....
When enterprise architects try to explain to people who are not enterprise architects what it is they do for a living, they almost invariably resort to using an analogy with the architecture of buildings, and describe enterprise architecture as a ‘kind of blueprint’. While this analogy may be helpful in conveying a general sense...
As you move through this book you may notice that this book doesn’t gently flow from one topic to another like a lot of technical books.This is intentional asmany of the subjects covered in this book are going to be related, but separate fields of study. As you move through the various chapters in this book you’ll be able to...
With the advent of computers, very large datasets have become routine. Standard statistical methods don’t have the power or flexibility to analyse these efficiently, and extract the required knowledge. An alternative approach is to summarize a large dataset in such a way that the resulting summary dataset is of a manageable size and yet...
Software automates a wide variety of business processes in modern enterprises. Changes made to software are, in effect, changes made to the business processes themselves that govern and automate the internal and external operations of an organization.Without a proper disciplined approach to change management, enterprises lack a full...
Drupal 7 opens the door for you as a Windows developer to build Drupal sites - including custom modules - all without leaving Visual Studio! Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers gives you everything you need to know to achieve this, whilst drilling down into the advanced topics that you'll want to master whilst working with Drupal...
