Wow! eBook http://www.wowebook.com The best eBook site ever! Thu, 23 May 2013 13:11:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 wowebookhttp://feedburner.google.com Intersection http://www.wowebook.com/book/intersection/ http://www.wowebook.com/book/intersection/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 13:11:54 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.com/?p=27032 Book Description Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today’s social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human needs, modern enterprises must overcome the siloed thinking and isolated efforts of the past, and instead address their [...]

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Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today’s social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human needs, modern enterprises must overcome the siloed thinking and isolated efforts of the past, and instead address their relationships to people holistically. In Intersection, Milan Guenther introduces a Strategic Design approach that aligns the overarching efforts of Branding, Enterprise Architecture, and Experience Design, and sets them on a common course to shape tomorrow’s enterprises.

This book gives designers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders a model and a comprehensive vocabulary for tackling such deep-rooted challenges. The Enterprise Design framework cuts through the complexity of Strategic Design work, showing how to navigate key aspects and bridge diverging viewpoints. In 9 case studies, the author looks at the way companies like SAP, BBVA, IKEA, and Jeppesen (a Boeing Company) apply design thinking and practice to shape their enterprises. Moving from strategy to conceptual design and concrete results, Intersection shows what is relevant at which point, and what expertise to involve.

  • Teaches how to align business strategy with Brand Identity, Customer Experience, and Enterprise Architecture initiatives as part of a consolidated enterprise-wide design practice to achieve stakeholder value
  • Provides a framework for designing systems, products and services as the building blocks of a consistent and coherent experience for all stakeholders in the wider enterprise, joining strategic considerations with the delivery of tangible outcomes
  • Explains how to make results such as websites, apps, objects, platforms, or environments part of a larger system that orchestrates enterprise touchpoints with people

Table of Contents
Part I: Thoughts on Strategic Design
Chapter 1. The Relationship Challenge
Chapter 2. Blurring Boundaries
Chapter 3. The Design-Minded Enterprise

Part II: The Enterprise Design Framework
Chapter 4. Big Picture
Chapter 5. Anatomy
Chapter 6. Frames
Chapter 7. Design Space
Chapter 8. Rendering

Part III: Design Approach
Chapter 9. Design Process
Chapter 10. Design Program

Book Details

  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123884357
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123884350
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Data Insights offers multi-disciplinary perspectives and useful information about how visualizations can open your eyes to data. This thought-provoking book takes a conversational approach to presenting an overview of the subject, while also focusing on key details. It highlights the ideas and work of a variety of people who are actively contributing to this still emerging field. Case studies from business analytics, healthcare, games, security, and network monitoring, among others, portray what is going on in data visualization today. A diverse blend of original illustrations and real-world examples, both classical and cutting-edge, help fill in the picture.

This book provides an approachable overview of important aspects of data visualization, and…

  • Demonstrates, with a variety of case studies, how visualizations can foster a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of data
  • Answers the question, “How can data visualization help me?” with discussions of how it fits into a wide array of purposes and situations
  • Makes the case that data visualization is not just about technology; it also involves a deeply human process

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. From Terabytes to Insights
Chapter 2. A More Beautiful Question
Chapter 3. Winning Combinations: Working with the Ingredients of Data Visualization
Chapter 4. Pathways, Purposes, and Points of View
Chapter 5. Views You Can Use
Chapter 6. Thinking… Machines
Chapter 7. Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight

Book Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123877938
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123877932
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If you need to learn CUDA but don’t have experience with parallel computing, CUDA Programming: A Developer’s Introduction offers a detailed guide to CUDA with a grounding in parallel fundamentals. It starts by introducing CUDA and bringing you up to speed on GPU parallelism and hardware, then delving into CUDA installation. Chapters on core concepts including threads, blocks, grids, and memory focus on both parallel and CUDA-specific issues. Later, the book demonstrates CUDA in practice for optimizing applications, adjusting to new hardware, and solving common problems.

  • Comprehensive introduction to parallel programming with CUDA, for readers new to both
  • Detailed instructions help readers optimize the CUDA software development kit
  • Practical techniques illustrate working with memory, threads, algorithms, resources, and more
  • Covers CUDA on multiple hardware platforms: Mac, Linux and Windows with several NVIDIA chipsets
  • Each chapter includes exercises to test reader knowledge

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. A Short History of Supercomputing
Chapter 2. Understanding Parallelism with GPUs
Chapter 3. CUDA Hardware Overview
Chapter 4. Setting Up CUDA
Chapter 5. Grids, Blocks, and Threads
Chapter 6. Memory Handling with CUDA
Chapter 7. Using CUDA in Practice
Chapter 8. Multi-CPU and Multi-GPU Solutions
Chapter 9. Optimizing Your Application
Chapter 10. Libraries and SDK
Chapter 11. Designing GPU-Based Systems
Chapter 12. Common Problems, Causes, and Solutions

Book Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124159338
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124159334
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Following the footsteps of the first edition, the second edition of Business Intelligence is a full overview of what comprises business intelligence. It is intended to provide an introduction to the concepts to uncomplicate the learning process when implementing a business intelligence program.

Over a relatively long lifetime (7 years), the current edition of book has received numerous accolades from across the industry for its straightforward introduction to both business and technical aspects of business intelligence.

As an author, David Loshin has a distinct ability to translate challenging topics into a framework that is easily digestible by managers, business analysts, and technologists alike. In addition, his material has developed a following (such as the recent Master Data Management book) among practitioners and key figures in the industry (both analysts and vendors) and that magnifies our ability to convey the value of this book.

  • Guides managers through developing, administering, or simply understanding business intelligence technology
  • Keeps pace with the changes in best practices, tools, methods and processes used to transform an organization’s data into actionable knowledge
  • Contains a handy, quick-reference to technologies and terminology.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Business Intelligence – An Introduction
Chapter 2. Value Drivers
Chapter 3. Planning for Success
Chapter 4. Developing a Business Intelligence Roadmap
Chapter 5. The Business Intelligence Environment
Chapter 6. Business Models and Information Flow
Chapter 7. Data Requirements Analysis
Chapter 8. Data Warehouses and the Technical BI Architecture
Chapter 9. Business Metadata
Chapter 10. Data Profiling
Chapter 11. Business Rules
Chapter 12. Data Quality
Chapter 13. Data Integration
Chapter 14. High Performance BI
Chapter 15. Alternate Information Contexts
Chapter 16. Location Intelligence and Spatial analysis?
Chapter 17. Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Analytics
Chapter 18. Using Publicly Available Data
Chapter 19. Knowledge Delivery
Chapter 20. New and Emerging Techniques
Chapter 21. Quick Reference

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123858895
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123858894
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Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. Designed to work on multiple platforms and with wide industry support, OpenCL will help you more effectively program for a heterogeneous future.

Written by leaders in the parallel computing and OpenCL communities, this book will give you hands-on OpenCL experience to address a range of fundamental parallel algorithms. The authors explore memory spaces, optimization techniques, graphics interoperability, extensions, and debugging and profiling. Intended to support a parallel programming course, Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL includes detailed examples throughout, plus additional online exercises and other supporting materials.

  • Explains principles and strategies to learn parallel programming with OpenCL, from understanding the four abstraction models to thoroughly testing and debugging complete applications.
  • Covers image processing, web plugins, particle simulations, video editing, performance optimization, and more.
  • Shows how OpenCL maps to an example target architecture and explains some of the tradeoffs associated with mapping to various architectures
  • Addresses a range of fundamental programming techniques, with multiple examples and case studies that demonstrate OpenCL extensions for a variety of hardware platforms

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Parallel Programming
Chapter 2. Introduction to OpenCL
Chapter 3. OpenCL Device Architectures
Chapter 4. Basic OpenCL Examples
Chapter 5. Understanding OpenCL’s Concurrency and Execution Model
Chapter 6. Dissecting a CPU/GPU OpenCL Implementation
Chapter 7. Data Management
Chapter 8. OpenCL Case Study: Convolution
Chapter 9. OpenCL Case Study: Histogram
Chapter 10. OpenCL Case Study: Mixed Particle Simulation
Chapter 11. OpenCL Extensions
Chapter 12. Foreign Lands: Plugging OpenCL In
Chapter 13. OpenCL Profiling and Debugging
Chapter 14. Performance Optimization of an Image Analysis Application

Book Details

  • Paperback: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124058949
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124058941
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Being able to fit design into the Agile software development processes is an important skill in today’s market. There are many ways for a UX team to succeed (and fail) at being Agile. This book provides you with the tools you need to determine what Agile UX means for you. It includes practical examples and case studies, as well as real-life factors to consider while navigating the Agile UX waters. You’ll learn about what contributes to your team’s success, and which factors to consider when determining the best path for getting there. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge to improve your software and product development with Agile processes quickly and easily.

  • Includes hands on, real-world examples to illustrate the successes and common pitfalls of Agile UX
  • Introduces practical techniques that can be used on your next project
  • Details how to incorporate user experience design into your company’s agile software/product process

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Agile
Chapter 2: Agile Methods + UX = Agile UX
Chapter 3. Case studies
Chapter 4. Common success factors
Chapter 5. Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 6. Using Agile Concepts for UX teams

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124159532
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124159532
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This book is for any manager or team leader that has the green light to implement a data governance program. The problem of managing data continues to grow with issues surrounding cost of storage, exponential growth, as well as administrative, management and security concerns – the solution to being able to scale all of these issues up is data governance which provides better services to users and saves money. What you will find in this book is an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. With the provided framework and case studies you will be enabled and educated in launching your very own successful and money saving data governance program.

  • Provides a complete overview of the data governance lifecycle, that can help you discern technology and staff needs
  • Specifically aimed at managers who need to implement a data governance program at their company
  • Includes case studies to detail ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ in real-world situations

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Definitions and concepts
Chapter 3. Overview of a data governance program
Chapter 4. The data governance business case
Chapter 5. Process overview for deploying data governance
Chapter 6. Scope and initiation
Chapter 7. Assess
Chapter 8. Vision
Chapter 9. Align and business value
Chapter 10. Functional design
Chapter 11. Governing framework design
Chapter 12. Road map
Chapter 13. Rollout and sustain
Chapter 14. Data governance artifacts and tools
Chapter 15. Final remarks

Book Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124158293
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124158290
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Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises’ management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey. Unfortunately, today’s EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions today’s enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts’ insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change.

  • Covers the latest emerging technologies affecting business practice, including digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0
  • Focuses on the practical implementation of EAM rather than theory, with recommendations based on real-world case studies
  • Addresses changing business demands and practices, including Enterprise 2.0, open source, global sourcing, and more
  • Takes an innovative approach to EAM, merging standard top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up strategies, offering real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide changes

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Collaborative Enterprise Architecture?
Chapter 2. What is Enterprise Architecture?
Chapter 3. What Enterprise Architects Do: Core Activities of EA
Chapter 4. EA Frameworks
Chapter 5. EA Maturity Models
Chapter 6. Foundations of Collaborative EA
Chapter 7. Towards Pragmatism: Lean and Agile EA
Chapter 8. Inviting to Participation: EAM 2.0

Book Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124159346
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124159341
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You have to make sense of enormous amounts of data, and while the notion of “agile data warehousing” might sound tricky, it can yield as much as a 3-to-1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Bring this highly effective technique to your organization with the wisdom of agile data warehousing expert Ralph Hughes. Agile Data Warehousing Project Management will give you a thorough introduction to the method as you would practice it in the project room to build a serious “data mart.” Regardless of where you are today, this step-by-step implementation guide will prepare you to join or even lead a team in visualizing, building, and validating a single component to an enterprise data warehouse.

  • Provides a thorough grounding on the mechanics of Scrum as well as practical advice on keeping your team on track
  • Includes strategies for getting accurate and actionable requirements from a team’s business partner
  • Revolutionary estimating techniques that make forecasting labor far more understandable and accurate
  • Demonstrates a blends of Agile methods to simplify team management and synchronize inputs across IT specialties
  • Enables you and your teams to start simple and progress steadily to world-class performance levels

Table of Contents
Part I: A Generic Agile Method
Chapter 1. Why Agile?
Chapter 2. Agile Development in a Nutshell
Chapter 3. Project Management Lite
Chapter 4. User Stories for Business Intelligence Applications

Part II. Adapting Agile to Data Warehousing
Chapter 5. Developer Stories for Data Integration Projects
Chapter 6. Agile Estimation for DW/BI
Chapter 7. Further Adaptations for Agile Data Warehousing
Chapter 8. Starting and Scaling Agile Warehousing Teams

Part III. Retrospective
Chapter 9. Faster, Better, Cheaper

Book Details

  • Paperback: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123964636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123964632
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Revised and updated with improvements conceived in parallel programming courses, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an authoritative guide to multicore programming. It introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient single-core programming. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new principles, algorithms, and tools necessary for effective multiprocessor programming. Students and professionals alike will benefit from thorough coverage of key multiprocessor programming issues.

  • This revised edition incorporates much-demanded updates throughout the book, based on feedback and corrections reported from classrooms since 2008
  • Learn the fundamentals of programming multiple threads accessing shared memory
  • Explore mainstream concurrent data structures and the key elements of their design, as well as synchronization techniques from simple locks to transactional memory systems
  • Visit the companion site and download source code, example Java programs, and materials to support and enhance the learning experience

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Mutual Exclusion
Chapter 3. Concurrent Objects and Linearization
Chapter 4. Foundations of Shared Memory
Chapter 5. The Relative Power of Synchronization Methods
Chapter 6. The Universality of Consensus
Chapter 7. Spin Locks and Contention
Chapter 8. Monitors and Blocking Synchronization
Chapter 9. Linked Lists: the Role of Locking
Chapter 10. Concurrent Queues and the ABA Problem
Chapter 11. Concurrent Stacks and Elimination
Chapter 12. Counting, Sorting and Distributed Coordination
Chapter 13. Concurrent Hashing and Natural Parallelism
Chapter 14. Skiplists and Balanced Search
Chapter 15. Priority Queues
Chapter 16. Futures, Scheduling and Work Distribution
Chapter 17. Barriers
Chapter 18. Transactional Memory

Book Details

  • Paperback: 536 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123973376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123973375
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How do you approach answering queries when your data is stored in multiple databases that were designed independently by different people? This is first comprehensive book on data integration and is written by three of the most respected experts in the field.

This book provides an extensive introduction to the theory and concepts underlying today’s data integration techniques, with detailed, instruction for their application using concrete examples throughout to explain the concepts. Data integration is the problem of answering queries that span multiple data sources (e.g., databases, web pages). Data integration problems surface in multiple contexts, including enterprise information integration, query processing on the Web, coordination between government agencies and collaboration between scientists. In some cases, data integration is the key bottleneck to making progress in a field.

The authors provide a working knowledge of data integration concepts and techniques, giving you the tools you need to develop a complete and concise package of algorithms and applications.

  • Offers a range of data integration solutions enabling you to focus on what is most relevant to the problem at hand.
  • Enables you to build your own algorithms and implement your own data integration applications
  • Companion website with numerous project-based exercises and solutions and slides. Links to commercially available software allowing readers to build their own algorithms and implement their own data integration applications. Facebook page for reader input during and after publication.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: Foundational Data Integration Techniques
Chapter 2. Manipulating Query Expressions
Chapter 3. Describing Data Sources
Chapter 4. String Matching
Chapter 5. Schema Matching and Mapping
Chapter 6. General Schema Manipulation Operators
Chapter 7. Data Matching
Chapter 8.  Query Processing
Chapter 9. Wrappers
Chapter 10. Data Warehousing and Caching

Part II: Integration with Extended Data Representations
Chapter 11. XML
Chapter 12. Ontologies and Knowledge Representation
Chapter 13. Incorporating Uncertainty into Data Integration
Chapter 14. Data Provenance

Part III: Novel Integration Architectures
Chapter 15. Data Integration on the Web
Chapter 16. Keyword Search: Integration on Demand
Chapter 17. Peer-to-Peer Integration
Chapter 18. Integration in Support of Collaboration
Chapter 19. The Future of Data Integration

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (June 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124160441
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124160446
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The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they’ll be able to use what you’ve created.

Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research techniques that will provide a basis for developing better products, whether they’re Web, software or mobile based. In addition, it’s written with an understanding of product development in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account.

Since the publication of the first edition, the business of user research has exploded with new technologies and new techniques. This second edition takes those changes into account with extensive revisions to existing topics. It also adds entirely new material on observational research, mobile usability, diary studies, remote research, and cross-cultural and multilingual projects.

  • Explains how to balance usability with creativity and originality
  • A valuable resource for designers, developers, project managers — anyone whose work affects the end user experience
  • Provides a real-world perspective on research. Helps you do user research cheaply and quickly, and present it persuasively
  • Gives you the tools and confidence to perform user research on your own design, tuning user experience to the unique needs of your product and its users

Table of Contents
Part I: Why Research is Good and How It Fits Into Product Development
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Do a Usability Test Now!
Chapter 3. Balancing Needs Through Iterative Development

Part II: User Experience Research Techniques
Chapter 4. The Research Planning
Chapter 5. Competitive Research
Chapter 6. Universal Tools: Recruiting and Interviewing
Chapter 7. Focus Groups
Chapter 8. More Than Words: Object-Based Techniques
Chapter 9. Field Visits: Learning from Observation
Chapter 10. Diary Studies
Chapter 11. Usability Tests
Chapter 12. Surveys
Chapter 13. Global and Cross-Cultural Research
Chapter 14. Others’ Hard Work: Published Information and Consultants
Chapter 15. Analyzing Qualitative Data
Chapter 16. Automatically Gathered Information: Usage Data and Customer Feedback

Part III: Communicating Results
Chapter 17. Research into Action: Representing Insights as Deliverables
Chapter 18. Reports, Presentations, and Workshops
Chapter 19. Creating a User-Centered Corporate Culture

Appendices
Appendix A. The Budget Research Lab
Appendix B. Common Survey Questions
Appendix C. Observer Instructions

Book Details

  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123848695
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123848697
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Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well-laid-out and well-written content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web.

  • New material on content strategy, search engine optimization, and social media
  • Lots of new and updated examples
  • More emphasis on new hardware like tablets, iPads, and iPhones

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Content! Content! Content!
Chapter 2. Planning: Purposes, Personas, Conversations
Chapter 3. Designing for Easy Use
Chapter 4. Starting Well: Home Pages
Chapter 5. Getting There: Pathway Pages
Chapter 6. Breaking up and Organizing Content
Chapter 7. Focusing on Conversations and Key Messages
Chapter 8. Announcing Your Topic With a Clear Headline
Chapter 9. Including Useful Headings
Chapter 10. Tuning up Your Sentences
Chapter 11. Using Lists and Tables
Chapter 12. Writing Meaningful Links
Chapter 13. Using Illustrations Effectively
Chapter 14. Getting from Draft to Final
Chapter 15. Test! Test! Test!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123859301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123859303
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Data virtualization can help you accomplish your goals with more flexibility and agility. Learn what it is and how and why it should be used with Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Systems. In this book, expert author Rick van der Lans explains how data virtualization servers work, what techniques to use to optimize access to various data sources and how these products can be applied in different projects. You’ll learn the difference is between this new form of data integration and older forms, such as ETL and replication, and gain a clear understanding of how data virtualization really works. Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Systems outlines the advantages and disadvantages of data virtualization and illustrates how data virtualization should be applied in data warehouse environments. You’ll come away with a comprehensive understanding of how data virtualization will make data warehouse environments more flexible and how it make developing operational BI applications easier. Van der Lans also describes the relationship between data virtualization and related topics, such as master data management, governance, and information management, so you come away with a big-picture understanding as well as all the practical know-how you need to virtualize your data.

  • First independent book on data virtualization that explains in a product-independent way how data virtualization technology works.
  • Illustrates concepts using examples developed with commercially available products.
  • Shows you how to solve common data integration challenges such as data quality, system interference, and overall performance by following practical guidelines on using data virtualization.
  • Apply data virtualization right away with three chapters full of practical implementation guidance.
  • Understand the big picture of data virtualization and its relationship with data governance and information management.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Data Virtualization
Chapter 2. Under the Hood of a Data Virtualization Server
Chapter 3. Caching of Virtual Tables
Chapter 4. Query Optimization Techniques
Chapter 5. Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Chapter 6. A Business Intelligence Architecture based on Data Virtualization
Chapter 7. Design Guidelines for Data Virtualization
Chapter 8. Data Virtualization and SOA
Chapter 9. Data Virtualization and Master Data Management
Chapter 10. Data Virtualization, Information Management, and Data Governance
Chapter 11. The Data Delivery Platform – A New Architecture for Information Management
Chapter 12. The Future of Data Virtualization

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123944252
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123944252
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Flash is fading fast as Canvas continues to climb. The second edition of this popular book gets you started with HTML5 Canvas by showing you how to build interactive multimedia applications. You’ll learn how to draw, render text, manipulate images, and create animation—all in the course of building an interactive web game throughout the book.

Updated for the latest implementations of Canvas and related HTML5 technologies, this edition includes clear and reusable code examples to help you quickly pick up the basics—whether you currently use Flash, Silverlight, or just HTML and JavaScript. Discover why HTML5 is the future of innovative web development.

  • Create and modify 2D drawings, text, and bitmap images
  • Use algorithms for math-based movement and physics interactions
  • Incorporate and manipulate video, and add audio
  • Build a basic framework for creating a variety of games
  • Use bitmaps and tile sheets to develop animated game graphics
  • Go mobile: build web apps and then modify them for iOS devices
  • Explore ways to use Canvas for 3D and multiplayer game applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to HTML5 Canvas
Chapter 2. Drawing on the Canvas
Chapter 3. The HTML5 Canvas Text API
Chapter 4. Images on the Canvas
Chapter 5. Math, Physics, and Animation
Chapter 6. Mixing HTML5 Video and Canvas
Chapter 7. Working with Audio
Chapter 8. Canvas Games: Part I
Chapter 9. Canvas Games: Part II
Chapter 10. Going Mobile!
Chapter 11. Further Explorations
Appendix A. Full Code Listings

Book Details

  • Paperback: 750 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449334989
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449334987
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Book Description

If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript—the core JavaScript language—from the ground up. You’ll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus is on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.

JavaScript knowledge is essential for working with today’s Web, whether you’re building applications for the client, the server, or for mobile use—and your PHP experience gives you a head start. This book will help you become fluent with JavaScript quickly, and then serve as a handy reference once you start coding.

  • Explore JavaScript syntax, including variables, arrays, loops, and conditions
  • Learn how functions are important in JavaScript—and why they’re actually objects
  • Delve into JavaScript’s object-oriented features, including prototypes, code reuse, and inheritance
  • Examine the built-in API and explore its global functions, properties, and objects
  • Learn about updates in ECMAScript5, the latest version of the standard
  • Use common design patterns to organize your code in large applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. JavaScript Syntax
Chapter 3. Functions
Chapter 4. Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 5. The Built-In API
Chapter 6. ECMAScript 5
Chapter 7. JavaScript Patterns

Book Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449320198
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449320195
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Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Model–view–controller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.

Guided by two engineers who worked on AngularJS at Google, you’ll walk through the framework’s key features, and then build a working AngularJS app—from layout to testing, compiling, and debugging. You’ll learn how AngularJS helps reduce the complexity of your web app.

  • Dive deep into Angular’s building blocks and learn how they work together
  • Gain maximum flexibility by separating logic, data, and presentation responsibilities with MVC
  • Assemble your full app in the browser, using client-side templates
  • Use AngularJS directives to extend HTML with declarative syntax
  • Communicate with the server and implement simple caching with the $http service
  • Use dependency injection to improve refactoring, testability, and multiple environment design
  • Get code samples for common problems you face in most web apps

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to AngularJS
Chapter 2. Anatomy of an AngularJS Application
Chapter 3. Developing in AngularJS
Chapter 4. Analyzing an AngularJS App
Chapter 5. Communicating with Servers
Chapter 6. Directives
Chapter 7. Other Concerns
Chapter 8. Cheatsheet and Recipes

Book Details

  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449344852
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449344856
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If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you’ll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you’ll learn how algorithms help you solve computing problems.

Each chapter builds on material introduced earlier in the book, so you can master one core building block before moving on to the next. You’ll explore fundamental topics such as loops, arrays, objects, and classes, using the easy-to-learn Ruby programming language. Then you’ll put everything together in the last chapter by programming a simple game of tic-tac-toe.

  • Learn how to write algorithms to solve real-world problems
  • Understand the basics of computer architecture
  • Examine the basic tools of a programming language
  • Explore sequential, conditional, and loop programming structures
  • Understand how the array data structure organizes storage
  • Use searching techniques and comparison-based sorting algorithms
  • Learn about objects, including how to build your own
  • Discover how objects can be created from other objects
  • Manipulate files and use their data in your software

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Computer Science
Chapter 2. How Does the Computer Really Work?
Chapter 3. Core Programming Elements
Chapter 4. Conditional Structures
Chapter 5. Loop Structures
Chapter 6. Arrays
Chapter 7. Sorting and Searching
Chapter 8. Using Objects
Chapter 9. Defining Classes and Creating Objects
Chapter 10. Object Inheritance
Chapter 11. File Input/Output
Chapter 12. Putting It All Together: Tic-Tac-Toe

Appendix A. Recommended Additional Reading
Appendix B. Installing Ruby
Appendix C. Writing Code for Ruby
Appendix D. Using irb

Book Details

  • Paperback: 188 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449355978
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449355975
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Dig deeper into Grails architecture and discover how this application framework works its magic. Written by a core developer on the Grails team, this practical guide takes you behind the curtain to reveal the inner workings of its 2.0 feature set. You’ll learn best practices for building and deploying Grails applications, including performance, security, scaling, tuning, debugging, and monitoring.

Understand how Grails integrates with Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, and other JVM technologies, and learn how to create and use plugins to augment your application’s functionality. Once you know how Grails adds behavior by convention, you can solve problems more easily and develop applications more intuitively.

  • Write simpler, more powerful code with the Groovy language
  • Manage persistence in Grails, using Hibernate or a NoSQL datastore
  • Learn how Grails uses Spring’s functionality and optional modules
  • Discover how Hibernate handles details for storing and retrieving data
  • Integrate technologies for messaging, mail, creating web services, and other JEE technologies
  • Bypass convention and configure Grails manually
  • Learn a general approach to upgrading applications and plugins
  • Use Grails to develop and deploy IaaS and PaaS applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Groovy
Chapter 2. Grails Internals
Chapter 3. Persistence
Chapter 4. Spring
Chapter 5. Hibernate
Chapter 6. Integration
Chapter 7. Configuration
Chapter 8. Plugins
Chapter 9. Security
Chapter 10. The Cloud
Chapter 11. AOP
Chapter 12. Upgrading Applications and Plugins

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449323936
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449323936
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Organize your network resources by learning how to design, manage, and maintain Active Directory. Updated to cover Windows Server 2012, the fifth edition of this bestselling guide gives you a thorough grounding of Microsoft’s network directory service by explaining concepts in an easy-to-understand, narrative style.

You’ll negotiate a maze of technologies for deploying a scalable and reliable AD infrastructure, with new chapters on management tools, searching the AD database, authentication and security protocols, and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). This book provides real-world scenarios let you apply what you’ve learned–ideal whether you’re a network administrator for a small business or a multinational enterprise.

  • Upgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012
  • Learn the fundamentals, such as how AD stores objects
  • Use the AD Administrative Center and other management tools
  • Learn to administer AD with Windows PowerShell
  • Search and gather AD data, using the LDAP query syntax
  • Understand how Group Policy functions
  • Tackle designing a new Active Directory forest
  • Examine the Kerberos security protocol
  • Learn AD Federation Services
  • Get a detailed look at the AD replication process
  • Explore AD Lightweight Directory Services

Ideal for administrators, IT professionals, project managers, and programmers alike, Active Directory is not only for people getting started with AD, it’s also for experienced users who need to stay up-to-date with the latest AD features in Windows Server 2012. It is no wonder this guide is the bestselling AD resource available.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction
Chapter 2. Active Directory Fundamentals
Chapter 3. Active Directory Management Tools
Chapter 4. Naming Contexts and Application Partitions
Chapter 5. Active Directory Schema
Chapter 6. Site Topology and Active Directory Replication
Chapter 7. Searching Active Directory
Chapter 8. Active Directory and DNS
Chapter 9. Domain Controllers
Chapter 10. Authentication and Security Protocols
Chapter 11. Group Policy Primer
Chapter 12. Fine-Grained Password Policies
Chapter 13. Designing the Active Directory Structure
Chapter 14. Creating a Site Topology
Chapter 15. Planning for Group Policy
Chapter 16. Active Directory Security: Permissions and Auditing
Chapter 17. Designing and Implementing Schema Extensions
Chapter 18. Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance
Chapter 19. Upgrading Active Directory
Chapter 20. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Chapter 21. Active Directory Federation Services

Book Details

  • Paperback: 738 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 5th Edition (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449320023
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449320027
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