Radio Frequency Identification and Sensors

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…

R in a Nutshell

Today, R is maintained by a team of developers around the world. Usually, there is an official release of R twice a year, in April and in October. I’ve checked the code in this book against 2.15.1, but if you have an earlier or later version of R installed, don’t worry. R hasn’t changed that much in the past few years: usually there are some bug fixes, some optimizations, and a few new fu…

Quicken® 2009 FOR DUMmIES

You aren’t a dummy, of course. But here’s the deal: You don’t have to be some sort of technogeek or financial wizard to manage your financial affairs on a PC. You have other things to do, places to go, and people to meet. And that’s where Quicken 2009 For Dummies comes in. In the pages that follow, I give you the straight scoop on how to use Quicken 2009 Premier for Windows, without a …

Project 2010 FOR Dummies

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 …

Programming Scala

Today’s enterprise and Internet applications must balance a number of concerns. They must be implemented quickly and reliably. New features must be added in short, incremental cycles. Beyond simply providing business logic, applications must support secure access, persistence of data, transactional behavior, and other advanced features. Applications must be highly available and scalable, requ…

Programming microsoft’s clouds

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…

Programming Entity Framework: Code First

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…

Professional Silverlight® 4

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…

Professional Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Programming

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…

PROFESSIONAL IOS NETWORK PROGRAMMING

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…

Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint® 2010

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…

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

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 XML Development with JavaTM Technology

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is based on simple, platform-independent rules for representing structured textual information. The platform-independent nature of XML makes it an ideal format for exchanging structured textual information among disparate applications. Therefore, at the heart of it, XML is about interoperability. XML 1.0 was made a W3C1 Recommendation in 1998. Sun formally intro…

Simplified Diet Manual

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Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

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…

Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

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

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…

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11 g

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…

Pro Freeware and Open Source Solutions for Business

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…

Pro Excel Financial Modeling Building Models for Technology Startups

This book outlines smart business strategies for building a technology startup and provides a comprehensive guide to building a financial model of the company. I wrote this book to share my entrepreneuring experience and to help the entrepreneur avoid many of the obstacles and hazards that I encountered while leading and participating in early-stage companies. This book is important because it …

Introduction to Risk Management in the Public Procurement of Innovation

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 Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services From Regulation to Innova…

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Quit & Stay Quit A Personal Program to Stop Smoking

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Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth

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…

INSTANT HEALTH: THE SHAOLIN qigong workout for longevity

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Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicator…

The availability of relevant, accurate, timely, and objec- tive information on the health of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) enterprise in the United States is critical to addressing vital policy questions for the nation. Just some of these questions are • How is the contribution of STI to productivity, employment, and growth in the broader U.S. econ- omy changing in a world o…

Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

The social sciences, humanities, and law (SSH) are known to have more heterogeneous publi- cation patterns than the sciences, medicine, and technology (STM). On the one hand, original peer-reviewed research is published in a wider range of formats. Book publishing (monographs or articles in edited volumes) may even be more important than journal publishing in some of the disciplines (Sivertsen …

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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

In this chapter you’ve seen how to deploy your application to both the server and the client, and personalize the Silverlight install and application download experiences for the user to your company/application. Despite being fairly easy, adding personalization and branding to these aspects of the application is often overlooked by Silverlight developers. However, doing so can provide a more…