The first in a two-book series about Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting introduces reporting to a broad base of users. Built on the Eclipse platform, this exciting technology makes it possible for programmers and non-programmers to build and deploy complex reports with...
This text demonstrates how to extract knowledge by finding meaningful connections among data spread throughout the Web. Readers learn methods and algorithms from the fields of information retrieval, machine learning, and data mining which, when combined, provide a solid...
Great organizations are made up of great people. And for leaders at all levels within those organizations, the ability to find, hire, integrate, and retain great people is an absolutely critical skill—critical to their organization's success, and critical to their own success.
But for most people, making great appointments is difficult,...
No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide...
This is an introductory book on creating ASP.NET Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The focus of this book is the Visual Studio .NET development environment. You will learn how to take full advantage of the features of the Visual Studio .NET development environment to quickly develop professional Web...
One of Java's most striking claims is that it provides a secure programming environment. Yet despite endless discussion, few people understand precisely what Java's claims mean and how it backs up those claims. If you're a developer, network administrator or anyone else who must understand or work with Java's security mechanisms, Java Security is...
This book is…one nice and convenient package that I will keep on the shelf as a reference manual.
The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on...
"This is a classic work for two reasons. First, it continues the long tradition of CRC handbooks and their commitment to excellence. Second, it establishes a new standard for handbooks in terms of layout and design. There is not much to say about this work other than 'Well done!' Highly recommended for any organization dealing with materials...
In the first expose of unjust medical experimentation since David Rothman's Willowbrook's Wars, Allen M. Hornblum releases devastating stories from within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. For more than two decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs...
In recent years, U.S. jewelry sales on the Internet have grown to nearly $3 billion yearly, a figure attained in part because of the popularity of eBay. "Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay" walks you through the process of using eBay to both purchase and purvey jewelry-from finding the perfect gem and the right style of jewelry to...
This book has a long history. It began over two decades ago as the first half of a book on information and ergodic theory. The intent was and remains to provide a reasonably self-contained advanced (at least for engineers) treatment of measure theory, probability theory, and random processes, with an emphasis on general alphabets and on ergodic...
Blauert's and Xiang's "Acoustics for Engineers" provides the material for an introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. In the second, enlarged edition, the teaching aspects of the book have been substantially improved. Carefully selected examples illustrate the application of...
