This guide was written for those who will manage or fund technology
projects with budgets between $25,000 and $500,000. Our goal is to
provide a quick-start guide for professional, smart, competent people
who are new to web project management, or who need some
guidance on how to manage a web project.
About 2 years ago, in the spring of 2010, Microsoft released Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 proved
to be a platform ready for Line-of-Business application development. Numerous developers
learned how to build great apps with it, which can run both within the browser and as a
stand-alone application on the user's machine....
"A must read for media and marketers.”
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"What do fish tacos, data storage, and disaster relief all have in common? Each has harnessed the power of marketing that amplifies via the real-time social web....
On the Internet, popularity is swift and fleeting. A mention of your website on a popular
blog can bring 300,000 potential customers your way at once, all expecting to find out
who you are and what you have to offer. But if you’re a small company just starting
out, your hardware and software aren’t...
We built Zendesk back in 2007 because we were frustrated with the quality of the customer
service applications that existed at the time. The vast majority of these “solutions”
were big, clunky, on-premise enterprise applications, distributed on CDs, and took forever
to deploy. Even proof-of-concept projects...
An MBA in 180 pages, Seeing the Big Picture simplifies the complexities of businesses large and small and shows you how a deep understanding of your company can help build the credibility and career you want. And it can make your work more fulfilling and purpose-driven by highlighting how you influence the success of your team,...
When we wrote the first edition of iPhone SDK Development, we knew we
weren’t writing something like The C Programming Language that would live
on unchanged for decades. But was two years on the shelf too much to ask
for?
Apparently so! And we’re not complaining. Since the release of...
Since its initial launch, Sencha Touch has quickly become the gold standard for
developing rich mobile web applications with HTML5. Sencha Touch is the first
HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework that allows you to develop mobile web
applications that look and feel like native applications on both iPhone and Android
touchscreen...
When you work with a computer, you can do several things at once. You can hear music while
you edit a document in a word processor and read your e-mail. This can be done because
your operating system allows the concurrency of tasks. Concurrent programming is about the
elements and mechanisms a platform offers to have multiple tasks...
Developers are used to working with Wizards, component-like products that allow them to create certain elements - like dialog buttons - quickly and easily while they are coding applications. With the launch of Windows 2000, Microsoft has announced a new set of Wizards that will help administrators and users configure and set up Windows 2000...
Millions of people have embraced online networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, but too few understand how much influence these sites can have in accelerating their job search and career.
This timely book unveils the reality that online networking is more than a fun way to pass time. It's a career management...
When I wrote Practical Oracle 8i, there was a three-week lag between publication and the first e-mail asking me when I was going to produce a 9i version of the book—thanks to Larry Ellison’s timing of the
launch of 9i. That question has been repeated many times (with changes in version number) over the
last 12...
