In the five months that I have been researching and writing Cloud Computing Bible, it has become clear to me that most people recognize that cloud computing is a big deal, even if they are not really clear why that is so. Every day newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV stories report on cloud computing. The phrase “in the...

Web 2.0 has changed the way we conduct business, interact with customers, share information with friends and family, measure success in terms of business revenue and customer wallet share, and define brand management, and, most importantly, it has created a revenue channel like none other. Whether you plan your vacation, buy the newest...

This book covers methods and strategies related to food composition and analysis. Topics include antioxidant activity of maize bran arabinoxylan microspheres; active packaging based on the release of carvacrol and thymol for fresh food; enzymes for the flavor, dairy, and baking industries; membrane technology in food processing; tenderization...

Business of all sizes have a problem: How do you know—in real time—whether you are earning the profit you need to grow or even just stay in business? And which products or services are doing the “heavy lifting” in contributing to profit? Financial statements tell only part of the story. They are backward looking, for...

• Display address information for any point on the map through the location-based REST services...

• Architect a Hadoop solution with a modular design for data collection, distributed processing, analysis, and reporting
• Build a multi-node Hadoop cluster on Windows servers
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Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, 2nd Edition, shows Windows XP and 2003 users and administrators how to perform Windows management...

Just as the groundbreaking first edition of Multimedia-Based Instructional Design offered a complete guide to designing and developing interactive multimedia training, the second edition is filled with relevant new content, automated tools on the CD-ROM, updates on standards,...