Sustainable Design HCI, Usability and Environmental Concerns

This book will examine the importance of Human Computer Interaction, Usability, and Sustainability, including sustainable design, in the Information Communication and Technology sector (ICT). ICT usage by businesses and individuals has become a significant instrument for searching, conducting research, communication, entertainment, commerce and information. The recycling of ICT usage is becomin…

Strategic ICT Planning in Pathology

This book is concerned with the assessment of medical pathology laboratory in- formation systems effectiveness, and in what way information system effectiveness impacts on the medical pathology business. To achieve this goal we discuss a study that focused on determining the level of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and by what means information system effectiveness is measured, in…

STARTUP AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO LAUNCHING AND RUNNING A BUSINESS

Too often, business owners, managers, and decision-makers get fooled by the way they use language into thinking that their business is a “thing.” It is not. It is convenient and even necessary to use a noun to refer to your business when communicating with people, but when you visualize it for yourself, make sure you don’t ever do so. One of the lessons I have brought along to all of the …

QlikView 11 for Developers

Congratulations on your decision to start learning QlikView development! You are now well on your way to building and delivering analytical applications which will help you and your organization quickly gain new insights and make fact-based decisions. Before we dive in and start building all sorts of wonderful things, we first need to review some of the basics. This first chapter introduces …

SQL Antipatterns Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

I hadn’t been taught SQL in school. Databases weren’t as ubiquitous as they are today, and open source brands like MySQL and PostgreSQL didn’t exist yet. But I had developed complete applications in shell, and I knew something about parsers, having done projects in classes like compiler design and computational linguistics. So, I thought about taking the job. How hard could it be to parse…

SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE

The book you hold in your hands, or see on your screen, is the result of a series of studies of how teams all over the world specify, develop, and deliver the right software, without defects, in very short cycles. It presents the collective knowledge of about 50 projects, ranging from public websites to internal back-office systems. These projects involved diverse teams, from small ones working…

Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles

Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a corporation ’ s management chains, causing delays and disruptions of critical business functions. In trying to strengthen the links, companies spend dearly on applications tuning and sizing; unfortunately, the only deliverables of many of such ventures are lost investment as well as the ruined credibility of computer profess…

SOA in Practice

INEVER PLANNED TO BECOME A SOA EXPERT.IWAS A TEAM LEADER IN A DEPARTMENT WHICH WAS instructed to use the new service-oriented architecture approach to communicate with the systems of other departments and business units. A cross-departmental SOA team had provided a SOA concept, including thousand of pages of documentation, several frame- works and libraries, and some sketches of corresponding p…

SIP Trunking

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Instant Silverlight 5 Animation

This chapter describes Silverlight/WPF concepts needed for creating animations, namely dependency and attached properties, bindings, transforms, and storyboards. We assume that the reader is already familiar with most of the concepts within this section and uses it simply as a refresher, as well as a way to jump-start the samples for the rest of the application. In this chapter we will look at:…

Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

It is a very exciting time to be in the software development industry. The governing concepts of developing software are changing and rapidly evolving before our eyes. Skills and frameworks that you may have used even just two years ago could very well be considered obsolete and replaced with something more efficient. This is why software vendors and the developers of engineering products need …

Shipbuilding Technology and Education

After decades of outstanding contributions to the nation’s naval capability, the U.S. shipbuilding industry is in crisis. During the 1980s, at the behest of the Reagan administration, U.S. shipbuilders turned to constructing many new naval vessels. Following these achievements and with the ensuing defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders lost significant parts of their business and work force, ha…

MANUAL OF REGULATIONS FOR NON-BANK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

The 2008 Manual of Regulations for Non-Bank Financial Institutions (MORNBFI) is an updated compilation of regulations and policies issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for financial institutions under its supervision. Available in hard and soft copies, it is a convenient reference and guide for said financial institutions in the conduct of their operations. The updated MORNBFI incorp…

SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch

The important thing to point out right from the start is that Visual Studio LightSwitch in its stand-alone version shares much of the same functionality as the full version of Visual Studio. Figure 1-1 shows the opening screen of Visual Studio LightSwitch, which looks just like what you would see if you launched the full version. There are differences, however, in many ways. Visual Studio Light…

URBAN EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PLAN

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Service Oriented Java Business Integration

Today's enterprise is not confined to the physical boundaries of an organization. Open systems and an open IT infrastructure strives to provide interoperability not only between platforms, runtimes, and languages, but also across enterprises. When our concerns shift from networked systems to networked enterprises, a whole lot of opportunities open up to interact with enterprise applications. Wh…

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Selected Topics in Applications of Quantum Mechanics

Discussion of those questions and the struggle with the well-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics like decoherence and measurement problems is as old as the quantum mechanics itself. This was just the reason for the search of formulations of any of both theories in terms of concepts characteristic for the other one. It would be injustice to condemn or disqualify those attempts. They were fruitf…

Search Patterns

In astronomy, averted vision is the art of seeing distant objects by looking to their periphery. It works by shifting responsibility from cones, which sense color and fine detail, to rods, which detect motion and help us to juggle, play chess, and see in the dark. This form of peripheral vision can be practiced. Observers often report a gain of three to four magnitudes. It’s a powerful remind…

SAP Implementation

Implementing SAP has always been about transformation, or letting go of old ways of doing things in favor of something newer and better. Transformation goes beyond the incremental changes an organization might adopt as it seeks to change. Instead, transfor- mational change is synonymous with revolutionary, rather than evolutionary, change. It’s about turning the corner, getting over the hump,…

REVIEW OF THREE DIVISIONS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY AT THE NAT…

At the request of the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in 2015 the National Research Council1 formed the Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and formulated the following statement of task for the panel: The National Research Council shall appoint a panel to assess the scientific a…

Real Estate & the New Economy The impact of information and communications te…

The overall aim of this book is to show how new technology (i.e. Infor- mation and Communications Technology (ICT)) is impacting on the shape and form of real estate in our towns and cities, and how it is influ- encing and is being influenced by other forces within what many commen- tators call the ‘new economy’, as part of an ‘information society’. UK private sector commercial prope…

Radio Frequency Identification and Sensors

There is an unprecedented enthusiasm for radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies today. RFID is based on the exchange of information carried by electromagnetic waves between a label, or tag, and a reader. This technology is currently in full economic expansion, which has manifested itself in widely backed research activities, some of which will be examined in this book. There are mul…

Project 2010 FOR Dummies

Project management probably started back when a few cave dwellers got together and figured out how to work as a team to bag a wooly mam- moth for their Sunday dinner. Some fellow — I’ll call him Ogg — probably took the lead as the very first project manager. He drew things in the dirt with a stick to help his team members understand the strategy of the hunt, and communicated with them in …

Programming microsoft’s clouds

this book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solu- tions, so understanding what each has to offer enables you to decide on which cloud technology to b…

Programming Entity Framework: Code First

Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework, known widely as EF, introduced out-of-the- box Object Relational Mapping to .NET and Visual Studio. Central to Entity Frame- work was the Entity Data Model, a conceptual model of your application domain that maps back to the schema of your database. This conceptual model describes the core classes in your application. Entity Framework uses this conceptual…

Professional Silverlight® 4

to aBuse an already aBused cliché, we are at a tipping point for the Web and application devel- opment in general. The past several years have seen a notable shift away from basic full-page-based, postback-intensive web applications that minimized the use of JavaScript in favor of server-side code for maximum browser compatibility. Today, some amount of AJAX is assumed for any new web applicat…

Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Programming

And so we begin anew. While the wait for SQL Server 2005 took a ghastly five years, Microsoft has blessed us (and, no, I’m not being sarcastic!) with SQL Server 2008 in just three short years. It probably shouldn’t be surprising to me that SQL Server 2008 comes up short in terms of marquee features — the flash and glitz stuff. Yet, what I am surprised by is just how many ‘‘little t…

PROFESSIONAL IOS NETWORK PROGRAMMING

AS IPHONES AND IPADS BECOME A UBIQUITOUS part of your personal and professional life, you become more and more dependent on their capability to seamlessly and fl awlessly interact with hosts across the Internet or with other phones across the room. This book provides a compilation of methods to accomplish this level of connectivity with examples and best practices for each of these methods. T…

Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint® 2010

THE CREATION OF BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICES (BCS) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 involved a massive investment of people and resources by Microsoft. The result of this investment is a set of services, components, and technologies that have signifi cant implications for the entire SharePoint community. Gradually, the impact of BCS is beginning t…