Pick up any of the many PHP/MySQL books in any large bookstore and you’ll find chapters on installing PHP, variables, statements, functions, string processing, arrays, objects, file handling, debugging, and, probably, a toy e-commerce site. Not this book! I assume you already know all that stuff, or can find it somewhere if you don’t. Instead, I tried to cover essential topics that I’ve n…
Plug-ins allow third-party developers to add additional functionality to software applications and frameworks. Plug-ins exist for many different types of applications, such Mozilla Firefox (Add-ons and Extensions), Microsoft Word (Add-Ins), and development frameworks such as Salesforce.com. As Oracle Application Express (APEX) has been growing, so have the requests from the APEX community for …
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes such as finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. ERP systems like NAV thus become the center of a company's day- to-day operations. When you learn to progr…
This book presents a critical view of the current state of commercial mass media in America. It examines the media through the lens of the public policy debates about limits on the number and type of media outlets that a single firm can own. The focal point is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) policy that prevents a television station from owning or being owned by a newspaper in …
Our approach in this book will be to use statistics and social science theory to mine social media and we'll use R as our base programming language. We will walk you through many important and recent developments in the field of social media. We'll cover advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth), Twitter's OAuth API, Facebook's graph API, and so on, along with some interesting referenc…
True to its title, this book itself is an excellent financial investment. For the price of one volume it teaches two Nobel Prize winning theories, with plenty more included for good measure. How many undergraduate mathematics textbooks can boast such a claim? Building on mathematical models of bond and stock prices, these two theories lead in different directions: Black–Scholes arbitrage…
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks - and the need to protect both business and personal data - have never been greater. We've updated B…
REAL Knowledge at NASA presents a descriptive project practitioner– centered Knowledge Model derived from experience in developing Knowledge Services (KS) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It involves an organizational knowledge systems perspective that better negotiates rapid change and accelerated learning in data-rich complex project environments. It discuss…
When the author of this book’s first edition, Karim Yaghmour, first suggested using Linux in an embedded system back in 1997 while working for a hardware manufacturer, his suggestion was met with a certain degree of skepticism and surprise. Today, Linux is either in use already or is being actively considered for most embedded systems. Indeed, many industry giants and government agencies are …
The world is experiencing significant transformations in its geo-political and economic constitution. The processes of transformation have accelerated over the last decades. A signifi cant part of the growth potential of the world economy nowadays and for the coming decades resides in some fast-developing countries. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) have displayed such…
Accounting principles courses teach you the "language of business" so you understand terms and concepts used in business decisions. If you understand how accounting information is prepared, you will be in an even stronger position when faced with a management decision based on accounting information. The importance of transactions analysis and proper recording of transactions has clearly been d…
This chapter continues the discussion of cost accumulation systems. In Chapter 18, we explained and illustrated job costing. The job cost system (job costing) accumulates costs incurred to produce a product according to individual jobs. For example, construction companies use job costing to keep track of the costs of each construction job. This chapter discusses another cost accumulation system…
The former Chairman of the American Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, once believed that lending institutions were doing a good job of protecting their shareholders. Following the credit crunch experience he admitted to being in a ‘state of shocked disbelief’. Perhaps this ‘shocked disbelief’ could now extend to investors and regulators (and indeed accoun- tants themselves) who once beli…
This book will explore issues critical for success in providing e-banking. The aim is to assist organizations in utilising the opportunities offered by this relatively new set of technologies. This book largely restricts itself to the organizational view of the problem, and is therefore primarily focused on organizational internal factors. External factors, such as the political or economic…