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CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology
Author Stratton , Alan , Schubert , Karl D. , , Niven , Paul R. , , Hugos , Michael , , Hill , Anth
If you are a CIO, or intend to become a CIO, or simply want to understand the strategic importance of IT for your entire enterprise, CIO Best Practices provides you with the best practice guidance on the key responsibilities of the CIO and its important role in mod....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Exposure and Lighting For Digital Photographers Only
Author Charlotte K. Lowrie , Michael Meadhra
Even with digital cameras and automatic exposure, lighting and exposure remain the most difficult element to master in the quest for quality photography. This book, written by a professional photographer for photographers, provides real-world advice to help you achi....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns
Author William J. Bernstein , Michael E. Edleson
Michael Edleson first introduced his concept of value averaging to the world in an article written in 1988. He then wrote a book entitled Value Averaging in 1993, which has been nearly impossible to find—until now. With the reintroduction of Value Averaging, you now....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Programming Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition
Author Anthony Massa , Michael Barr
If you have programming experience and a familiarity with C--the dominant language in embedded systems--Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition is exactly what you need to get started with embedded software. This software is ubiquitous, hidden away inside our w....
Release Date 2006/10 -
The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Author Cate Reavis , Michael Watkins , Peter H. Daly
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges—from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation
Author IBM Redbooks , Chunhui Yang , Michael Storrs , Sunil Ranahandola , Nathan Owen , Rich
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a fast-growing technology for accessing common directory information. LDAP has been embraced and implemented in most network-oriented middleware. As an open, vendor-neutral standard, LDAP provides an extendable archite....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Security Development Lifecycle
Author Steve Lipner , Michael Howard
Your customers demand and deserve better security and privacy in their software. This book is the first to detail a rigorous, proven methodology that measurably minimizes security bugs—the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). In this long-awaited book, security exp....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, R2 Edition
Author Alex Lewis , Michael Noel , Rand Morimoto
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, 3rd Edition is the first book on the market to cover Windows Server 2003 R2. This latest edition will keep the text viable with the major "R2" update being released from Microsoft late in 2005. Many of the Windows Server 2003....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Author Jim Joseph , Michael Lisin
SQL Server Reporting enables the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports. An integrated part of the Microsoft business intelligence framework, Reporting Services combines the data management c....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom
Author T. Michael Clark
CorelPaint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom is an easy-to-follow, tutorial approach to using Paint Shop Pro in exactly the way home users want to use it - to manipulate your own images in ways that a local photo lab often does to create both practical and comical project....
Release Date 2006/02 -
ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook, 2nd Edition
Author Geoffrey T. LeBlond , Michael A Kittel
Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 developer tools. Writ....
Release Date 2005/12 -
How Home Theater and HDTV Work
Author Michael Troller , Michael Miller
Home theater and HDTV are hot, but most consumers know little or nothing about these technologies. You no longer have to rely on sales people to direct you to underpowered and overpriced equipment that doesn't meet your needs and is quickly outdated. Take matters i....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure
Author David Kim , Michael Gregg
As an IT professional, you need to know how to perform network security assessments. Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure is a collection of utilities and templates that will take you through the assessment process. Written by two high....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Beginning Mac OS® X Programming
Author Drew McCormack , Michael Trent
Beginning Mac OS X ProgrammingEvery Mac OS X system comes with all the essentials required for programming: free development tools, resources, and utilities. However, finding the place to begin may be challenging, especially if you have no prior development knowledg....
Release Date 2005/07 -
Culture, Society and the Media
Author Janet Wollacott , Michael Gurevitch , James Curran , Tony Bennett
This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society. The first deals with questions regarding the power of the media: how should it be defined? how is it wielded and by whom? are previous approaches and answ....
Release Date 2005/07 -
Cyber Spying Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives
Author Ted Fair , Sandra Ring , Michael Nordfelt , Eric Cole
Cyber Spying Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives shows everyday computer users how to become cyber-sleuths. It takes readers through the many different issues involved in spying on someone online. It begins with an explanation of reasons and ethi....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 in 10 Minutes
Author Colin Spence , Michael Noel
Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes is the first quick reference book for users of SharePoint 2003. Easy-to-follow instructions for the most common tasks in SharePoint 2003 are the basis of this book, which also provides answers to the most commonly as....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide for Java Developers
Author Kevin Sharp , Michael Juntao Yuan
"I have had the good fortune to be involved with mobile Java from the very beginning, and I know what it takes to be successful in this marketplace. This book will help you be successful with mobile Java application design and development. If you take the informatio....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Linux Application Development, Second Edition
Author Erik W. Troan , Michael K. Johnson
"The first edition of this book has always been kept within arm's reach of my desk due to the wonderful explanations of all areas of the Linux userspace API. This second edition greatly overshadows the first one, and will replace it." --Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux ke....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Paul Yip , Fraser McArthur , Michael Gao , Raul Chong , Drew Bradstock , Clara Liu , Z
IBM's definitive guide to writing DB2 SQL PL stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, and dynamic compound SQLFully updated to reflect the entire DB2 UDB product family, and new SQL PL improvements for Windows, UNIX, Linux, iSeries, and zSeriesPresents expert tips and be....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration
Author Erin Mulder , Jan Machacek , Michael Wessler , Rob Harrop
Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration focuses on the latest version of Oracle's fully J2EE-certified application server (previously called Oracle9iAS). Oracle Corporation is aggressively attacking this market with a new lost-cost version....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Malcolm Upton , David T. Rowlands , John Maxey , Michael L. George
A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERBestselling Lean Six Sigma author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of Lean Six SigmaThe Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine whic....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Geoffrey T. LeBlond , Michael A Kittel
Developers who want to create dynamic, data-driven web sites running on Microsoft web servers have long relied on Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP.NET is Microsoft's latest evolution of ASP. While ASP.NET has a lot in common with its predecessor, this new technology....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies
Author Michael Weinstock , Achim Menges , Michael Hensel
Emergence is an important new concept in artificial intelligence, information theory, digital technology, economics, climate studies, material science and biometric engineering.It is a development which is set to inform not only the construction of buildings, but al....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10
Author Roger Sanborn , Steve Lucas , Kathryn Hunt , Joe Estes , Michael Voloshko , James Edk
Special Edition Using Crystal Reports 10 is a reference guide designed to provide hands-on experience with the latest release of the product suite. The latest version of the Crystal Reporting Suite, delivers vast enhancements that drive upgrades from licensees who'....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 3: Patterns for Resource Management
Author Prashant Jain , Michael Kircher
The first volume of the POSA pattern series introduced a broad-spectrum of general-purpose patterns in software design and architecture. The second narrowed the focus to fundamental patterns for building sophisticated concurrent and networked software systems and ap....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation
Author Chunhui Yang , Michael Storrs , Sunil Ranahandola , Nathan Owen , Richard Macbeth , J
The implementation and exploitation of centralized, corporate-wide directories are among the top priority projects in most organizations. The need for a centralized directory emerges as organizations realize the overhead and cost involved in managing the many distri....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Author Kenneth L. Calvert , Michael J. Donahoo , David Makofske
"TCP/IP sockets in C# is an excellent book for anyone interested in writing network applications using Microsoft .Net frameworks. It is a unique combination of well written concise text and rich carefully selected set of working examples. For the beginner of n....
Release Date 2004/05 -
Author Jennifer Balogh , James P. Giangola , Michael H. Cohen
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to voice user interface (VUI) design. The VUI is perhaps the most critical factor in the success of any automated speech recognition (ASR) system, determining whether the user experience will be satisfying or frus....
Release Date 2004/02