Over the past half century, the years in which Richard Jolly has been working as a development economist and practitioner, he led or contributed to some major changes in development thinking. This collection of essays illumi- nates and evaluates some consequences of these changes in approach. Two broad categories of change can be distinguished: first, from an exclusive focus on aggregate inco…
Most web applications are changed and adapted frequently and quickly. Their envi- ronment, for example the size and the behaviour of the user base, are constantly chang- ing. What was sufficient yesterday can be insufficient today. Especially in a web envi- ronment it is important to monitor and continuously improve the software quality not only when developing, but also when maintaining the so…
Asignificant analytical literature began to develop in the early 1970s to address a succession of macroeconomic woes that afflicted developing countries. By the 1980s, this literature had reached a level of rigor and sophistication comparable to that characteristic of macroeconomic analysis for high- income countries. However, these developments were not typically reflected in standard textbook…
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, or simply SharePoint, is the new buzzword around Microsoft software. I first used SharePoint some years back simply to store documents and access them from home via the Web. Over time, I came to realize that this software offered an opportunity to totally change the way I work with documents in that it blurred the distinction between the local PC and the Inte…
The idea that government can manage itself strategically, in a similar manner to well-performing private sector organisations, has featured prominently in New Zealand’s contributions to PUMA work since 1994. The purpose of this paper is to outline the rationale for a strategic approach to government management, to describe the elements of the approach which we have developed, to assess its im…
The book combines both interesting areas; business, and technology, into one single literature. The reader will get to know all important key areas of unified communications technologies: How to evaluate and integrate unified communications project in your own company or for your customer, how you select the right solution, how you plan, design, and implement the technology itself, and also how…
As it turns out, this is quite a difficult question to answer. The problem lies in the wide audience that eXist serves. eXist is many things to many people, and thus there is no single succinct answer. eXist is an open source piece of software written in Java that is freely available in both source code and binary form. eXist has always been made available under the Lesser GNU Public License (L…
All organizations must have a clear notion of their vision before they may craft and implement any form of strategy. This notion of vision encapsulates the future expression of what an organization hopes to become through the passing of time. Vision represents the perception of the anticipated end state of organizational maturation over large periods of time ranging from years to decades. Visio…
Whether you work for a Fortune 500 corporation, a small company, a government agency, or a not-for-profit organization, if you’re reading this introduction the chances are you use Microsoft Excel in your daily work. Your job probably involves summarizing, reporting, and analyzing data. It might also involve building analytic models to help your employer increase profits, reduce costs, or mana…
Then should the government intervene in the economy? When do mar- kets fail? How do we craft policies that maximize social welfare? How do we design policies to minimize unintended consequences? Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework to tackle those questions. This frame- work, however, relies on an overly simple model of human behavior. This book revisits the core questions…
Plug-ins allow third-party developers to add additional functionality to software applications and frameworks. Plug-ins exist for many different types of applications, such Mozilla Firefox (Add-ons and Extensions), Microsoft Word (Add-Ins), and development frameworks such as Salesforce.com. As Oracle Application Express (APEX) has been growing, so have the requests from the APEX community for …
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes such as finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. ERP systems like NAV thus become the center of a company's day- to-day operations. When you learn to progr…
Apple originally introduced iOS in January of 2007 as the operating system for the iPhone, under the original name of iPhone OS. In June of 2010, Apple renamed its mobile operating system to iOS. This book will walk you through the creation of your first Adobe AIR application using the Flex 4.5 framework and provide examples of how to interact with the device’s components. These include GPS, …
The relationship between businesses and Apple has always been a complex one, par- tially due to Microsoft’s traditional death-grip on the corporate market, and Apple’s sometimes ambivalent attitude toward corporate users. iOS has done a lot to change this, as it brought many new Apple users in through the mobile back door. The reality is that iOS is something to be taken seriously by corpor…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is offered in a variety of deployment scenarios. From the standard on-premise deployment to a private cloud or an online cloud offering from Microsoft, the choice depends on each customer, their type of project, and a large number of requirements, policies, and legal restrictions. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: • Dynamics CRM • Prerequisites to c…
Welcome to the first chapter of our journey into the world of data protection through Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM). This chapter will provide you with an overview of DPM. After reading this chapter you will understand what DPM is and the basis of what it can and cannot do. We will go through DPM Architecture, pricing of DPM, DPM downfalls, compare DPM to other back up solutions, DPM …
Given the dramatic advances in the transportation and information technologies that have allowed the world economy to globalize over the last few decades, experts have begun to speculate on whether the world is now “flat” (Friedman 2007) or perhaps “spiky” (Florida 2008). Previous thinkers supposed that globalization would lead to creative workers being drawn to specific cities and regi…
When I first wrote this book, I was living in Houston. After I met Nerissa, I moved to Austin. I then began the process of manifesting our dream home. After a few months, we found a beautiful two-acre, two-story, Hill Country property with wandering wild deer and rabbit, and an outside pool, between Austin and San Antonio, in a small spiritual-artistic community called Wimberley, Texas. …
The Android mobile operating system was first introduced in the fall of 2008 as part of the G1 handset. Android began to gain some momentum as major device manufac- tures like Motorola, HTC, Sony, and Samsung adopted Android to run on their hard- ware. As the number of available devices began to grow (allowing mobile customers a wide range of choices), the number of Android handsets being activ…
IT organizations are realizing the benefits of infrastructure consolidation and virtualiza- tion—cost savings, operational savings, better posture toward disaster recovery—and the challenges associated. Consolidating infrastructure increases the distance between the remote office worker and the tools they need to ensure productivity—applications, servers, content, and more. Application ac…