The Hardware Startup

If you’re reading this book, it’s likely because you’ve decided to start, or are thinking about starting, a hardware company. Congratula- tions! Launching a hardware startup is an exciting and challenging under- taking. There’s a saying: “Hardware is hard.” You have to navigate the complexities of prototyping and manufacturing, the daunting optimiza- tion problems of pricing and log…

The Business of iOS App Development

This book is to help developers with every aspect of the App Store. Oftentimes, we see amazing apps go unnoticed. There are many factors that can cause this, but often it is because we developers have trouble thinking with a business mindset. David and I wrote this book to provide you with every single thing you will need to make your apps succeed in the every crowded app marketplace. You will …

The BRIDGE

problems underscore the shortfall in our understanding of many issues related to large-scale IT systems and their applications. They suggest that achieving the promise of IT will require new research efforts. Drawing upon a recent report from the National Research Council (NRC) Computer Science and Telecommunications Board on the future of IT research (2000), this article argues for an expans…

The Art of the App Store

wITh roughly hAlf A MIllIon active apps available for download and a current pace of 20,000 new apps approved every month (according to 148apps.biz), the iOS App Store has been without doubt a phenomenal success. From its launch in 2008, it’s seen exponential growth both in revenue generated and apps created, and it continues to flourish. You may have heard the early success stories of lone p…

The Architecture of Privacy

You have decided to build a new technology that processes data about people. Where do you start? In Part I, we walk you through the initial steps that lay the foundation upon which your privacy-protective framework will be built. Chapter 1 defines the concept of privacy and the critical role of the engineer in shaping that concept through technology. We then raise some preliminary questions reg…

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef

“When deploying and administering large infrastructures, it is still common to think in terms of individual machines rather than view an entire infrastructure as a combined whole. This standard practice creates many problems, including labor-intensive admin- istration, high cost of ownership, and limited generally available knowledge or code usa- ble for administering large infrastructures.�…

Technology and Economics

The papers published in this volume commemorate Ralph Landau's many years of service to the National Academy of Engineering. Over almost two decades, Ralph Landau served the NAE as member of the council, officer of the Academy, and in a variety of capacities as a vigorous intellectual contributor to the Academy's program. Ralph Landau is an innovator who combines the characteristics of a person…

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…

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…

Slide:ology

“If you are ever presenting in a business setting, you MUST have Nancy’s book, slide:ology. It’s more than slides and design—it’s about communication and inspiration. And this book will help anyone—beginner or top professional—get to the top of their game. Simply and creatively.”

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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…

Praise for Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology

Everybody has some character trait he or she would like to change, and there are many techniques available to facilitate these changes. Unfortunately, many of them are either impractical or expensive—or both! Most people are somewhat familiar with hypnosis and subliminal technology but are reluctant to use them as serious self-help tools. In large part this is due to the fact that they’ve b…

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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…

Quicken® 2009 FOR DUMmIES

You aren’t a dummy, of course. But here’s the deal: You don’t have to be some sort of technogeek or financial wizard to manage your financial affairs on a PC. You have other things to do, places to go, and people to meet. And that’s where Quicken 2009 For Dummies comes in. In the pages that follow, I give you the straight scoop on how to use Quicken 2009 Premier for Windows, without a …

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…

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…

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Django), which have embraced the MVC (Model-View-Controller) application pattern, and if you’re one of those developers, or even if you’re just curious, this book is for you. MVC allows for (buzzword alert!) a “greater separation of concerns” between components in your application. We’ll go into the ramifi cations of this later on, but if it had to be said it in a quick sentence: AS…

Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

I wrote this book to share what I have learned about high availability and disaster recovery for SharePoint at this point in time. It is certainly an interesting time. In the past 10 years, SharePoint has gone from a compiled application that just looked superficially like a web application into a more fully fledged cloud platform. The process is far from over, however, and SharePoint will like…

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11 g

Organizations are discovering with increasing frequency that the vast majority of their information assets have a spatial component, for example, the location of customers, shipments, facilities, personnel, competitors, and so on. The ability to use this information properly is fundamental to reducing operational costs, optimizing production efficiency, and increasing the quality of service. Ev…

Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business

In early 2009, I was relaunching my business in a new city (my family and I relocated in late 2008). We had actually planned this move for a couple of years, but the timing of the sale of our house coincided with the unfolding Financial Crisis. Like many other families, we were impacted in a negative way. Our relationship with money was forever redefined, and careful budgeting became a top pri…