This paper provides a snapshot of the computer network security industry and addresses specific issues related to network security in public education. The following topics are covered: (1) security policy, including reasons for establishing a policy, risk assessment, areas to consider, audit tools; (2) workstations, including physical security, protecting workstation components, and compu…
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. – Peter Drucker, in The Practice of Management (1954) People expect some benefit when they use the products and services an organization provides. They want to get some job done, solve a problem, or experience a particular emotion. If they then perceive this benefit valuable, they’ll give something in return –…
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…
The purpose of this book is to convey vital knowledge about application security to developers working on the Android platform, to enable the development of robust, rugged, and more secure applications. While application security knowledge and skills have matured rapidly over the past couple of years, that knowledge is still scattered in a huge number of diverse locations. As of now, no single …
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest in the development community. ALM is all about how you can manage the entire cycle of building software. With a good ALM process in place, you can develop software faster, more cost effectively, and with greater quality than before. This book shows you what ALM is and why it matters. Modern organizations depend on so…
The purpose of this book is to supply, in a form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. Comparatively little will be said here about the technique of analyzing securities; attention will be paid chiefly to investment principles and investors’ attitudes. We shall, however, provide a number of condensed comparisons of specific securities—chie…
The international community has set ambitious goals for forest and landscape restoration (FLR), including reaching land degradation neutrality by 2030 (Target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals), restoring 150 million hectares by 2020 in the framework of the Bonn Challenge, and restoring 350 million hectares by 2030 under the New York Declaration on Forests. The technical feasibility…
This book’s primary focus is on designing hypermedia APIs. That may seem a bit strange to some readers. There are many books on programming languages, data stor- age systems, web frameworks, etc. This is not one of those books. Instead, this book covers the nature of the messages passed between client and server, and how to improve the content and value of those messages. I, personally, find …
The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest tech- nologies for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology . All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can pro- gram applications for all three platforms with the most common of Microsoft .NET Framework lan- guage…
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 …
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications, accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. It has been developed on the Ruby platform. This book is a tutorial for creating a complete website with Ruby on Rails (RoR). It will teach you to develop database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-…
Cocos2d-x is the most used open source game framework. It has official support from Microsoft for their mobile and desktop platform, and its small core runs faster than other frameworks, allowing it to run on low-end Android devices with outstanding performance. It is currently maintained by an active open source development community led by the author of the original Cocos2d for iPhone and…
Maybe you already have your own Web site and you’re not quite satis- fied with it. Or perhaps you’re still in the planning stages and want to know what you can do to make your site as good as it can be. You’ve been to Web sites that have all the bells and whistles, and you wouldn’t be human if you weren’t just a wee bit envious. Well, now you can have it all too. In Building a Web Sit…
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 is now seen as one of the most significant economic events in recent world history. The crisis began in early July 1997, when the Thai baht was floated, and spread into a virulent contagion—leaping from Thailand to South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. It led to severe currency depreciations and an economic recession that threatened …
Airports are vital national resources. They serve a key role in trans- portation of people and goods and in regional, national, and inter- national commerce. They are where the nation’s aviation system connects with other modes of transportation and where federal respon- sibility for managing and regulating air traffic operations intersects with the role of state and local governments that ow…
The adolescent and adult populations with learning disabilities (LD) and attention-de cit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represent the largest categories of individuals with disabilities at secondary and post- secondary institutions (educational or employment). Assessing these populations and making decisions about providing appropriate accom- modations for them at school and work have become hi…