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 …
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…
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…
The important thing to point out right from the start is that Visual Studio LightSwitch in its stand-alone version shares much of the same functionality as the full version of Visual Studio. Figure 1-1 shows the opening screen of Visual Studio LightSwitch, which looks just like what you would see if you launched the full version. There are differences, however, in many ways. Visual Studio Light…
Today's enterprise is not confined to the physical boundaries of an organization. Open systems and an open IT infrastructure strives to provide interoperability not only between platforms, runtimes, and languages, but also across enterprises. When our concerns shift from networked systems to networked enterprises, a whole lot of opportunities open up to interact with enterprise applications. Wh…
Discussion of those questions and the struggle with the well-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics like decoherence and measurement problems is as old as the quantum mechanics itself. This was just the reason for the search of formulations of any of both theories in terms of concepts characteristic for the other one. It would be injustice to condemn or disqualify those attempts. They were fruitf…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Project management probably started back when a few cave dwellers got together and figured out how to work as a team to bag a wooly mam- moth for their Sunday dinner. Some fellow — I’ll call him Ogg — probably took the lead as the very first project manager. He drew things in the dirt with a stick to help his team members understand the strategy of the hunt, and communicated with them in …
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…
Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework, known widely as EF, introduced out-of-the- box Object Relational Mapping to .NET and Visual Studio. Central to Entity Frame- work was the Entity Data Model, a conceptual model of your application domain that maps back to the schema of your database. This conceptual model describes the core classes in your application. Entity Framework uses this conceptual…
to aBuse an already aBused cliché, we are at a tipping point for the Web and application devel- opment in general. The past several years have seen a notable shift away from basic full-page-based, postback-intensive web applications that minimized the use of JavaScript in favor of server-side code for maximum browser compatibility. Today, some amount of AJAX is assumed for any new web applicat…
And so we begin anew. While the wait for SQL Server 2005 took a ghastly five years, Microsoft has blessed us (and, no, I’m not being sarcastic!) with SQL Server 2008 in just three short years. It probably shouldn’t be surprising to me that SQL Server 2008 comes up short in terms of marquee features — the flash and glitz stuff. Yet, what I am surprised by is just how many ‘‘little t…
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…
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…
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 SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services offers an in-depth look into the latest and greatest suite of analytic tools from Microsoft. This book will help you create business intelligence (BI) solutions that improve your company’s analysis and decision making by focusing on practical, solution-oriented application of the technologies available in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS). Using th…
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 PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is for the Windows professional who is ready to make the leap to the cloud. While Cloud Computing has been around for a while now, enterprise adoption is just beginning. This book is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell, and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Cloud. Windows professionals find themsel…
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…
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…
This guide aims to provide an overview of risk management in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). By definition, pursuing an innovative solution is a process that involves a higher degree of uncertainty towards the intended result compared to choosing for a proven solution. These uncertainties often act as a major barrier to innovation. Therefore, risk management is a key suc…
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and so far lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in the United States. Previously, entrepreneurs and investors commonly took viable young firms public through initial public offerings (IPOs). In some well-known cases, these firms subsequently grew into major, globally competitive corporatio…