This book tells you how to improve the effectiveness of your software development process using version control. Version Control, sometimes called source code control, is the first leg of our project support tripod. We view the use of version control as mandatory on all projects. Version control offers many advantages to both teams and individuals. • It gives the team a project-wide undo but…
Thanks for picking up this book. Together, we’re going to journey through bits of cognitive science, neuroscience, and learning and behavioral theory. You’ll see surprising aspects of how our brains work and see how you can beat the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. We’re going to begin to refactor your wetware—redesign and rewire your brain—to make you more ef…
When I graduated with a doctorate in 1977, I researched and published articles on mainstream topics, particularly current value accounting and the interaction between earnings and cash flows. After a while, it occurred to me that these are not the crucial issues of financial accounting and reporting. Ethics and honesty and fairness to financial statement users comprise the foundational issu…
The version of Zendesk covered by this book is the latest public release as at September 12, 2012. Zendesk has a frequent—often weekly—release schedule, with new features and updates to existing features. The release notes are made available to the public in the official What’s New in Zendesk forum. Throughout this book I’ve deliberately de‐ scribed features without giving detailed st…
White-collar crime is rampant, and has been for some time, in the business community of the U.S. economy. Experts have estimated that the costs of white-collar crime averages about 20 times the costs of street crimes each year. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimated that fraud cost the U.S. economy $660 billion in 2004. But white-collar crime has taken a backseat to stree…
This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, D…
Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego (hereafter TE) first appeared as an article in the French academic journal, Recherches Philosophiques in 1937. It was among Sartre’s first philosophical publications, the outcome of a period of intense critical engagement with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). Sartre had become interested in phenomenology earlier…
International capital mobility is today a concern that breeds broader social uncertainty because of unprecedented degrees of financial social- isation. Financial markets now attract a greater volume of savings than at any previous time in their history. Existing living standards are there- fore increasingly dependent upon the market environment continuing to function in the manner prescribed by…
There is an ever-increasing need for advanced information and decision support systems in today’s fierce global competitive environment. The profitability and the overall business can be managed better with access to predictive tools—to predict, even approximately, the market prices of raw materials used in production, for instance. Business analytics involves, among others, quantitative te…
When the World Wide Web was first developed, it was a static place. It was mainly a really big library with information that visitors could read. Documents were linked together so that the information was easy to find, but the Web pages were basically static. Every visitor to a Web site saw the same Web page. Over time, the Web has evolved. It’s now a dynamic environment where visitors inter…
Security and privacy issues have risen in importance as the use of technology increases. Newly devel- oped technological devices for asset security can only be successful if people are willing to use them. Gaining an understanding of individuals’ acceptance and possible use of new security technologies would be beneficial to entities that are developing, marketing, and implementing new securi…
The papers in this volume, and the symposium on which it is based, reflect the work of managers and union representatives, engineers and consultants, professors, and practitioners. Despite their common interests in the implementation of new technologies, these groups do not often meet and talk together. There are language barriers across the groups as well as within; there is no more automatic …
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may consist of many interconnected components. As a result of this, the Oracle SOA Suite is a large piece of software that initially seems to be overwhelmingly complex. In this chapter, we will provide a roadmap for your understanding of the SOA Suite and provide a reference architecture to help you understand how to apply SOA principles with the SOA Suite. A…
The Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference is a quick reference guide to the PL/SQL programming language, which provides procedural extensions to the SQL relational data- base language and a range of Oracle development tools. Where a package, program, or function is supported only for a particular version of the Oracle database (e.g., Oracle Data- base 11g), we indicate this in the text. The …
The purpose of the Oracle DBA Checklists Pocket Reference is to help Oracle DBAs quickly look up the procedures they’ll need to follow when performing key Oracle data- base administration tasks. This book is divided into three major sections covering the three main areas of an Oracle DBA’s responsibilities: data- base management, installation and configur…
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management and security. This book will introduce the reader to those features, providing a step-by-step guide to building a complete system from scratch. The aim of the book is to equip a developer or analyst with a good basic understanding of what…
Oracle ADF is a powerful Java application framework for building next generation enterprise applications. Oracle ADF in combination with JDeveloper IDE offers visual and declarative approaches to enterprise application development. This book will teach you to build scalable, rich enterprise applications by using the ADF Framework, with the help of many real world examples. This book discusses…
Information technology (IT) is a label that is used in many ways in today’s increasingly technically focused world. Such wide and varied usage of the “information technology” or “IT” label can lead to confusion and unneces- sary complexity. For that reason, I begin this book with an explanation of the context in which I am addressing IT. IT is more than a function within a business an…
Organic Sensations and Emotions.—Discomfort accompanied by square form of the mouth (149). Craving for food shown by cooing sound (155). Strongest feeling connected with appeasing of hunger (157). Restless nights (162). Astonishment at new sounds and sights; with fright (86). Thirty-first week, at clapping of fan. Thirty-fourth week, at imitation of voices of animals (173).