If you’ve done any previous research on SharePoint disaster recovery topics, such as content recovery, backup and restore, and high availability, you’ve probably found quite a bit of information on the subject. That held true for us when we wrote the original Disaster Recovery Guide for SharePoint 2007, and it’s just as true...

The history of database research over the past 30 years is one of exceptional productivity that has led to the database system becoming arguably the most impor tant development in the field of software engineering- The database is now the underlying framework of the information system, and has fundamentally changed the way many...

Joomla! is one of the best known Open Source content management systems with many hundreds of thousands of applications in the most varied areas of use. It offers the best possible conditions for implementing a comprehensive and accessible Web presence. Thousands of extensions for almost any purpose are freely available. The developer and...

Vision plays a fundamental role for living beings by allowing them to interact with the environment in an effective and efficient way. The Machine Vision goal is to endow computing devices, and more generally artificial systems, with visual capabilities in order to cope with not a priori predetermined situations. To this end, we have to take...

his book is a new type of intermediate macroeconomics textbook- Until now, the choice was between books that use calculus to present formal theory dryly and with few, if any, applications to the real world and books that include applications but present theory using only graphs and algebra. This book uses calcu- lus, algebra, and graphs to...

In the last five decades various attempts to formulate theories of quantum gravity have been made, but none has fully succeeded in becoming the quantum theory of gravity. One possible explanation for this failure might be the unresolved fundamental issues in quantum theory as it stands now. Indeed, most approaches to quantum gravity...

Generation Y is creating startups at an unprecedented rate, and their approach to business is unlike anything you’ve seen. The generation described by the media as spoiled, entitled, even narcissistic, is proving...

Do you pull out your credit card when you know you shouldn’t? Do you watch others make a purchase and decide to make the same one, despite the fact that you have neither the money nor the need for it? Do you find yourself ignoring your bank statements because you’re afraid of what they might show?Many, if not most, Americans would...