Expression Web is a powerful web development product, and there are plenty of books about it. That puts readers in a tight spot when trying to figure out which book to purchase to learn how to use Expression Web to its fullest. I’ve read a lot of technical books in my career, and the ones I value the most are the...
I never thought I’d be writing a technical book. I have a MA in English Literature so I always pictured myself sitting in an oak paneled room surrounded by books and attentive students listening to me pontificating on the latest criticism of 19th Century novels. It didn’t take me long to realize though that path wasn’t for...
Business intelligence and data warehousing projects can be challenging and complex.
Dealing with new technologies, processes, and different stakeholders presents an array of potential problems. To aid the project manager, there are recipes about project definition, scope, control, and risk management. Requirements, design, data analysis,...
Both of the first author’s (Jon’s) parents were artists. They each could draw fantastical pictures that resembled real life, and were shocked to see that their son could barely muster up a stick figure. If you’ve always felt that your inner artist was best expressed through what you could build with the help of a computer...
TIBCO’s product suite comprises a diverse range of components. Each component is specialized for a particular functionality, ranging from basic messaging through services, service orchestration, the management of complex business processes, managing master data across...
THE MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS intelligence tool in the Microsoft Swiss Army knife of tools is SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This is because the other tools would be nothing without the cleansing and movement of data into a presentable format. The product can extract, transform, and load (ETL) data astonishingly fast. A 2010 benchmark...
iOS 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 5 devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You'll find numerous examples of real-world cases that will enable you to build...
One exciting aspect of software programming is that there are usually many ways
to accomplish the same goal. Unfortunately, this also presents software engineers
with unique challenges when trying to make the best design or implementation choice
for each situation. Experience plays a major role, and the learning...
Take advantage of Drupal’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites— including a job posting...
When I first started working on Enterprise projects in early 2000, I was initially lost in
the jungles of Enterprise messaging. It was (and is still, to some extent) a formidable
challenge to start an Enterprise messaging project. There used to be a variety of...
Recycled Palette, a company in Oregon founded by Ean Nogella in
2006, sells 100 percent recycled latex paint to both individuals and
businesses in the area. The high-quality recycled paint is fi ltered to
industry standards and tested for performance and environmental
safety. The paint is available in both 1 gallon cans and 5...
Many of you reading this book are about to embark on the journey of implementing customer relationship management (CRM) software within your organization; some of you are completely new to CRM, while others have been through a CRM implementation with varied success. This book was written to provide business leaders and stakeholders with a...
