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…
At a roller rink, you can see something that holds insights into great questions of politics and society. At a roller rink you see 100 people skating—but wait!— Rather than imagine what you know happens at a roller rink, imagine that you have never seen or heard of a roller rink. Nor an ice skating rink. Long ago, people didn’t know anything of skating. Imagine yourself one of them. Ima…
This subject guide is written for students studying 24 Principles of banking and finance. The aim is to help you to interpret the syllabus. It tells you what you are expected to know for each area of the syllabus and suggests the reading which will help you understand the material. It must be emphasised that this guide is intended to supplement the essential textbooks, not replace them. A…
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…
Pick up any of the many PHP/MySQL books in any large bookstore and you’ll find chapters on installing PHP, variables, statements, functions, string processing, arrays, objects, file handling, debugging, and, probably, a toy e-commerce site. Not this book! I assume you already know all that stuff, or can find it somewhere if you don’t. Instead, I tried to cover essential topics that I’ve n…
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…
Every day I read e-mails and articles dealing with computer security attacks and breaches, and the repercussions that follow. I have been getting onboard with computer security for decades, and there is no end in sight for this effort. Each and every professional in information technology has a commitment to keep with regard to computer security. We have, most of us, signed computing codes of c…
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, …
Asia and the Pacific has been advancing in many aspects of its development, but the potential for growth is vast. The ADB Institute Series on Development Economics aims to identify and propose solutions using a multidisciplinary approach to impor- tant development issues facing economies in the Asia and Pacific region. Through edited volumes and monographs, the series showcases the research out…
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…
Financial management continues to change at a rapid pace. Advancements are occurring not only in the theory of financial management but also in its real-world practice. One result has been for financial management to take on a greater strategic focus, as managers struggle to create value within a corporate setting. In the process of value creation, financial managers are increasingly supple…
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…