I started writing articles on such topics in the 1980s and published them in obscure academic journals. Then in January 1996 I began writing the “Spirit of Accounting” col- umn for Accounting Today with my friend Paul Miller. I needed a break in 2000, so I quit the column; Paul Bahnson joined Paul Miller on it. After a year’s respite, I found myself writing “Accounting Annotations” fo…
The first edition of The Companion to Development Studies has been very well received, both critically and in the marketplace. Indeed, the major criticism we encountered suggested that we had made it all too easy for students of development studies – a limitation that we could more than happily live with! Further, the original volume has given rise to at least one other companion to devel…
DotNetNuke is not just a great piece of free (yes, free!) software: It’s your key to a vibrant and ever-changing community of software users, designers, and developers. How deeply you choose to get involved with the DotNetNuke world is up to you. If you opt for little involvement, you can simply download the code or find a hosting provider who can set you up with a domain and hosting where yo…
So how does a former police officer come to write a book on corporate social responsibility? I often ask myself the same question, as the path from where I began to where I am now has hardly been a predictable one. After leaving school I soon found myself in uniform. I worked at Merrylands and Cabramatta police stations in the late eighties and early nineties. It was frustration over attending …
This guide contains the basic elements that should be addressed by each university concerning the safe and legal use of vehicles operated by the university, whether they are university owned, rented, or privately owned. The use of this guide will facilitate continuity across the IHL System with regard to elements addressed while allowing flexibility among member institutions as to how each elem…
I wrote this book to help developers discover Force.com as a viable, even superior tool for building business applications. I’m always surprised at how many developers I meet who aren’t aware of Force.com as a platform.They know of Salesforce, but only that it’s a CRM. Even those who have heard of Force.com are amazed when I describe what Appirio and other companies are building with it.…
The Java API for Representational State Transfer (JAX-RS) specification defines a set of Java APIs for building web services conforming to the REST style. This specification defines how to expose POJOs as web resources, using HTTP as the network protocol. Applications using these APIs can be deployed to an application server in a portable manner. Some of the key features that are introduced i…
This may seem like a strange way to start a tech book—but you really, really need to read this book. Let us explain. We’ll start with a little bit about ourselves and why we needed this book. I’m Dave, the developer. I’ve been obsessed with Microsoft Web Application technolo‐ gies since I was 16 years old. It began with the beta of classic ASP and Access 2.0 to be exact. Since then, I…
This article presents the purchase management information system, finance management information system and security information system, their interdependence and tight correlation. Furthermore, we state the goals of the purchase management information system that must be achieved in any organisation, as the purchase (sub)process is carried out in every organisation. P-K matrix gives a deta…
In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way. The times through which we are passing have afforded to many of us a confirmation of our faith. We see that the things we had thought evil are really evil, and we know more definitely than we ever did before the directions in which men must…
As program manager for ESRI’s ArcGIS mapping software product, Jim is responsible for a daily build of 20 million lines of code. He previously managed the transportation and logistics department for ESRI Professional Services, where he brought many multi-million–dollar software projects in on-schedule and on-budget using the design techniques described in this book. Lots of people have m…
We begin with basic questions and theories. Why do states adopt certain goals or objectives, and pursue particular foreign military and economic policies? Why do wars start and end? Why are they fought in certain ways? What role is played by objective factors, such as the balance of power, uncertainty, and the ability to make “credible commitments”? How does the political system or “regim…
This is not a book about algorithms, nor is it a replacement for a book about algorithms. We deliberately avoided an algorithm-centered approach. We believe there is a relatively small set of fundamental concepts or principles that underlie techniques for extracting useful knowledge from data. These concepts serve as the foundation for many well- known algorithms of data mining. Moreover, these…
If you are like the rest of the networking community, you probably have many certifications. Certification is one of the best things you can do for your career in the computer or networking field. It proves that you know what you’re talking about when it comes to the area in which you are certified. In this book, you’ll find out what the Network+ exam is all about. Each chapter covers a pa…