The most well-known social software applications are weblogs, wikis, social networking sites and instant messaging. Social networking at a high level is described as the convergence of technologies that make it possible for individuals to easily communicate, share information, and form new communities online. But the big question today is not what social networking is, but rather what it means …
As of this writing, we (Brad, Ozh, and Justin), have publicly released 50 plugins, which have been downloaded nearly one million times, and that ’s not counting private client work. This is a precious combined experience that we are going to leverage to teach you how to code your own plugins for WordPress by taking a hands - on approach with practical examples and real life situations you wi…
This chapter identified SharePoint 2010 as an extremely flexible solution platform that is capable of replacing several legacy document management systems. However, before that can happen, careful planning should take place to ensure that the end user experience is improved, not degraded. Also, the path for migrating content from a legacy solution to SharePoint 2010 should be identified beca…
Globalization has played a crucial role in the expansion of supply chains across countries and continents into ever-changing worldwide networks. Manufacturers, driven by the desire to produce cost-effective, high-quality products are continuing to extend their supply-demand chains, introducing new challenges to these networks. This seismic shift has lead to the phasing out of internal logistic…
Information is the lifeblood of any organization. Without good information, poor decisions are made, risks are not recognized and communicated, and valuable information is lost or stolen. Cyber risks are increasing, and these risks are seriously impacting organizations. Without good information risk management, customer trust and loyalties as well as the organization’s reputation and brand ar…
All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents of the University of California and Karl S. Pister and Rita Olsen Pister,dated January 15, 2002, and August 28, 2002, respectively. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript,including the right to publish,are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the Univers…
Today, many global supply chains in process industries are neither equipped nor orchestrated to cope effectively with the new VUCA world we are facing. VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—is an acronym that originated in the military back in the late 1990s and was quickly adapted to the business environment. It describes precisely the conditions of increasing variability…
Many projects fail because of the simplest of causes. You don’t have to be a genius to deliver a project on time, nor do you have to be steeped a mystical project management methodology to be a project manager. If an averagely competent person can’t deliver a project successfully after reading this then I will run buck naked through Times Square on my 75th birthday. See if I don’t!
Peninsular Malaysia, then known as the Federation of Malaya, gained independence from Britain in 1957. An expanded federation of Malaysia was formed in September 1963 by federating the Federation of Malaya with the former Straits Settlements island colony of Singapore to the south of Malaya, Sabah (previously run by the British North Borneo Company, set up by royal charter) and the former Bro…
The first thing that should be said to someone who is thinking of “going offshore” is that it is like going into major surgery. The outcomes can differ enormously, depending on the skill of the surgeons and what they are trying to accomplish. You may simply want to protect your money from volatility that comes with market crisis, economic instability, and a turbulent U.S. dollar. Or maybe …
For quite a long time, computer security was a rather narrow field of study that was populated mainly by theoretical computer scientists, electrical engineers, and applied mathematicians. With the proliferation of open sys- tems in general, and the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) in particular, this situation has changed fundamentally. Today, computer and network practitioners are equally…
This new book focuses directly on how to develop a human capital (HC) strategy in today’s turbulent and changing environment . Too often, HC strategy encompasses a classic and traditional approach to human resources (HR): recruit- ing the best people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them for high performance, and retaining them for several years . While this is all necessary, it is…
The first edition of this book, Energy Law and the Environment, was published in 2002 and was the first one in the field that considered the legal environmental imperatives for the energy sector. The first edition was written to be accessible to both lawyers and non-lawyers alike and the same theme continues in this, the second edition. However, the interest and concerns of policymakers, multin…
Welcome to PhoneGap social app development. Social networking has changed the way we share information in our world. Where it used to be an e-mail to a friend (or even a letter!), now it's a tweet or a Facebook post, often for the world to see. What's even more amazing is how relatively young the various social networks are and how quickly they have changed the way we communicate and consume in…
To speed up with the content of this book, prior knowledge of OpenStack is required. If you don't have experience in OpenStack, reading small snippets from the OpenStack community, http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/ content/ch_getting-started-with-openstack.html, will bring you onto the same wavelength of this book. As the title of the book promises, you should not expect a long and d…
Next generation supercomputers require drastically better energy efficiency to allow these systems to scale to exaflop computing levels.Virtually all major processor ven- dors and companies such asAMD, Intel, and IBM are developing high-performance and highly energy-efficient multicore processors and dedicating their current and future development and manufacturing to multicore products. It …
Wireless networks and security might be considered an oxymoron. Indeed it is hard to believe in security when it is so easy to access communication media such as wireless radio media. However, the research community in industry and academia has for many years extended wired security mechanisms or developed new security mechanisms and security protocols to sustain this marriage between wireless/…
The first edition of this book appeared eight years ago. Since then the banking industry experienced a lot of change and challenges. The most recent financial crisis which started around May 2007 and lasted in its core period until early 2009 gave rise to a lot of scepticism about whether credit risk models are appropriate to capture the true nature of risks inherent in credit portfolios in gen…
Zabbix was born as a distributed network monitoring tool with a central web interface where you can manage almost everything. Nowadays, with Zabbix 2.4, the number of possible architectures has been reduced to a single server setup and a Zabbix-proxies distributed setup.
This book contains the joint proceedings of the workshop on Boundaries that took place in Graz, from June 29–July 3, and the Alp-Workshop that was held immediately afterwards in Sankt Kathrein am Offenegg, on the weekend July 4–5, 2009
This book deals with the notion of “risk” and is devoted to analysis of risks in finance and insurance. We will study risks associated with financial and insurance contracts, by which we understand risks to be uncertainties that may result in financial loss and affect the ability to make payments associ- ated with the corresponding contracts. Our approach to this analysis is based on the …
Marketing is an activity and process in a market context. Thus most people will agree that marketing and markets are connected, both in theory and in practice. However, the title of this book, ‘Reconnecting Marketing to Markets’, suggests that not only has there been a disconnection in academic research sometime in the past but also that the editors and authors entertain ideas about a possi…