In It’s About More Than the Money, award-winning financial advisor Saly A. Glassman shows you how to regain control over your financial life–and stay in control. Glassman brings together 21 fundamental investment principles, illuminates them with actual investor experiences, and guides you through...
Business Intelligence (BI) software allows you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, which makes comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI. Currently, we are in the second...
Practical ways to run a test operation that’s driven by quality – not crisis.
The wisdom in this book does not rely on brilliant theories or any Scientific Truth other than what works--on the job, time and time again. In Managing the Testing Process, you’ll examine an integrated approach–-the bricks...
“This book makes coherent and rigorous arguments that increasing energy efficiency is the primary driver of economic growth today and is key to managing climate change.”
Learn iPhone and iPad Cocos2D Game Development provides a rock-solid introduction to the cocos2d iPhone game engine and related tools. It focuses on the process of creating several games made entirely with cocos2d and little to no iPhone SDK and OpenGL code. By creating 2-3 sample games over the course of the book,...
In the design-consulting business, I have been exposed to countless FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) designs, methodologies, and design techniques. Whether my client is on the Fortune 100 list or is just a start-up company, they will inevitably do some things right and many things wrong. After having been exposed to a wide variety of...
The past decade has seen many real estate investors taken on a wild ride. The first decade of the 21st century began with real estate being seen as a safe haven for investors, and the boom that followed made real estate the sure-fire key to wealth. The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and drop in real estate values around the...
This comprehensive set of cards is an indispensable resource for agile teams. The deck of Agile in a Flash cards teaches leadership, teamwork, clean programming, agile approaches to problem solving, and tips for coaching agile teams. Team members can use the cards as reference material, ice breakers for conversations,...
Welcome to the workshop program of the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010), held in San Francisco, December 2010. These workshop proceedings represent high-quality research and industry papers that showcase recent and new working developments in service-oriented computing and related fields.
The practice of compiler construction changes continually, in part because the designs of
processors and systems change. For example, when we began to write Engineering a Compiler
(eac) in 1998, some of our colleagues questioned the wisdom of including a chapter on
instruction scheduling because out-of-order execution threatened to make...
When Alex told me he was about to write a Yii cookbook about a year ago, I was
wondering how original it would be, considering the fact that there was already an online
user-contributed cookbook (also known as Yii wiki). It turned out Alex produced a book
that is not only full of wisdom about how to use Yii effectively, but also...
As a business owner, you are probably faced with hundreds of decisions that must be made weekly. Diving headlong into a technical effort might be scary. Diving into a security and operations effort is something you likely don't know how to do.
That's where this book comes in. This book helps you fill in the blanks for...
