The Optimism Advantage offers tangible, proven techniques for turning life's obstacles into opportunities with confidence and competence. Today's economy offers plenty of reasons to feel powerless and frustrated....

The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft’s computer was required to be compact and low power. Although people today find it difficult to accept that it was possible to control a spacecraft using such a...

This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework. You touch on each aspect of the software development lifecycle by building a...

In the SOA world, managing distributed services and service infrastructures is critical. Oracle Enterprise Manager - an all-encompassing management product - facilitates increased management capabilities for databases, application servers, and packaged applications. BPEL PM and OSB are two compelling, market leading products that are driving...

Elements shines on its own turf and is distinguished from Adobe Photoshop in many ways. Not only a...

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 suite contains several features that support the needs of developers, testers, managers, and architects to simplify the development process. Visual Studio provides different editions of the products such as Professional, Premium, and Ultimate with different sets of tools. Visual Studio 2010 is tightly...

Offering expert advice, bestselling author Stephen Nelson returns with updated coverage of the latest revisions and enhancements to the leading small business accounting software package: QuickBooks. After a quick review of bookkeeping basics,...

As fields like communications, speech and image processing, and related areas are rapidly developing, the FFT as one of the essential...

Cisco networking professionals are under relentless pressure to...

The advent and growing popularity of BlackBerry smartphones has changed how corporate users communicate whenever away from their offices. No longer tied to their landline phones, no longer glued to their desktop PCs, corporate users could stay in touch via voice and e-mail as long as cellphone reception was available. Then, Research In Motion...