Let me start by saying I’m a lazy developer by design. I’d rather spend a day to code something once than code the same task over and over again. The same goes for processes: why do repetitive tasks if you can automate them? Imagine all the time you’ll save. We live in a world where time is scarce and where project managers are breathing down our necks to get that specific feature, th…
The rapid scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has resulted in the sharp increase of time resolution and the continuous decrease of voltage headroom. As a result, time-mode circuits where information is represented by the time difference between the occurrence of digital events, rather than the nodal voltages or branch currents of electric networks, offer a viabl…
I’ve always felt that implementing a software system is much harder than it needs to be. It is difficult to map requirements to the implementation and then trace the implementation back to the requirements. Although many approaches—such as object-oriented programming, component-oriented programming, and design patterns—help to some extent, none of them satisfactorily addresses the sy…
There are many sources of information and documentation for configuring Cisco networking devices, but few provide a quick and portable solution for networking professionals. This book is designed to provide a quick-and-easy reference guide for a wide range of commonly used features that can be configured on Cisco routers. In essence, the subject matter from an entire bookshelf of Cisco IOS Soft…
During our work as supervisors in Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences in Mansoura University, Egypt, we were really frustrated with the number of graduation projects entitled or include “E-Learning” leading to the spread of a type of E-Learning graduation projects that focuses on the managerial aspects of the “University”, and abstracting the learning process in the uploadi…
The information revolution has been a mixed blessing for China and the world. On one hand, computer networks have enhanced economic productivity, national security, and social interaction. In 2009 alone the Internet contributed to 2.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in China and 3.8% in the United States. The Internet contribution to GDP growth from 2004 to 2009 averaged 21% for mature …
This book on Advanced Network Programming Principles and Techniques covers in detail network architectures, including the latest wireless heterogeneous networks, communication protocol models, and protocols and support for communicationbased services. Network programming techniques are introduced in this book, including server-side and client-side programming solutions, advanced client–se…
In ancient Greek, ‘stratos’ was the term for the army and so in military terms, ‘strategy’ referred to ‘the act of the general’. So, the origins of ‘strategy’ – the ‘art of the general’ – comes from the military arena – from China came “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, from Prussia came “On War’ by Carl von Clausewitz. In recent times the defeat of the Nazi regime…
As ActionScript has evolved from a few statements in Flash to a full-fledged Internet programming language in the latest release of Flash and Flex, we have the ability to implement sophisticated designs developed for languages using object-oriented programming (OOP). ActionScript 3.0 heralds a new era in Flash and Flexprogramming because it implements the ECMAScript standard for Internet la…
Bell (1966) discusses marketing’s debt to systems theory, in particular to cybernetics, ‘the science of control and communication in the animal and in the machine’, first developed by Norbert Wiener. This focuses attention on marketing as part of a social system. Generally, the approach used in this text is managerialist, focused on the perspective of the firm rather than that of the …
Economists have, in some sense, always known that growth is important. Yet, at the core of the discipline, the study of economic growth languished after the late 1960s. Then, after a lapse of two decades, this research became vigorous again in the late 1980s. The new research began with models of the determination of long-run growth, an area that is now called endogenous growth theory. Othe…
In the providence of God, and by the will of his late Majesty Kamehameha III., this day read in your hearing, I have been called to the high and responsible position of the Chief Ruler of this nation. I am deeply sensible of the importance and sacredness of the great trust committed to my hands, and in the discharge of this trust, I shall abide by the Constitution and laws which I have just swo…
So wonderful are the days in which we are living and so rapidly is the canvas being crowded with the record of achievement in the woman's movement that it is time for readers of the Woman's Journal and for all suffragists to know somewhat intimately and as never before what goes on in the four little rooms in Boston where the organ of the suffrage movement is prepared for its readers each week.…
CARE is a rich organization in information resources, our program activities produce every day a wealth of information on every aspect of our work. We are by essence an organization that creates vast amounts of data, information and knowledge. We are an organization rich in methodologies, practices, implementation strategies, work methods and experiences. But at the same time we are a poo…