| Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:09 AM PST 
Product Description The perfect companion for taking the Microsoft Office suite to the Mac! So you finally got a Mac, but you're not looking forward to figuring out how Office works in a different environment? No worries! All you need is Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies to learn the fundamentals of Office 2008. With six books in one, it shows you how to use every Office 2008 for Mac application, so you can start getting things done right away. Written by Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies provides a user-friendly guide on how to master all the programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage. This book explores ways to: - Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files
- Create your own templates on Excel and open Web pages in HTML format
- Take advantage of PowerPoint by adding animation to your slides, inserting music from your iTunes library, and fine-tuning the timing
- Organize your schedule on My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a database—all through Entourage
- Manage projects of all sizes on the Project Center
- Use all the applications together, and to their full potential
With this all-in-one reference, you'll become an expert on sharing files with Windows users, integrating Office 2008 with iLife and other Mac applications, and working with Office and Web 2.0, as well as other common business tasks. This book makes it that easy! download  |
| UML 2 Semantics and Applications Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:08 AM PST 
Product Description With an up-to-date view of the results of UML semantics and the practical applications of semantics development, this book presents the only coherent and integrated account of the leading UML 2 semantics work and its applications. With contributions from renowned experts in the area of UML 2 semantics and its applications, the book covers semantics of UML 2 diagrams, OCL, state machine diagrams, interactions, use cases, and activities. “UML Semantics and Applications” is an excellent reference for researchers and students in the model-driven development community. About the Author Kevin Lano is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at King’s College in London. He currently works on UML-RSDS: Reactive Systems Design Support where he runs the development of a method and toolset for system development using UML and MDA. Professor Lano is also an editor of the journal Software and Systems Modeling. download  |
| Intelligent Techniques for Warehousing and Mining Sensor Network Data Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:06 AM PST 
Product Description Intelligent Techniques for Warehousing and Mining Sensor Network Data presents fundamental and theoretical issues pertaining to data management. Covering a broad range of topics on warehousing and mining sensor networks, this advanced title provides significant industry solutions to those in database, data warehousing, and data mining research communities. download  |
| Enterprise-Scale Agile Software Development Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:04 AM PST 
Product Description Enterprise-Scale Agile Software Development is the collective sum of knowledge accumulated during the full-scale transition of a 1400-person organization to agile development—considered the largest implementation of agile development and Scrum ever attempted anywhere in the world. Now James Schiel, a certified Scrum trainer and member of the Scrum Alliance, draws from his experience at the helm of that global four-year project to guide you and your organization through the transition. He lends his insight on how you can use Scrum as an organizational framework and implement XP practices to define how software is written and tested. He provides key information and tools to assess potential outcomes and then make the best corresponding choices in any given situation. Schiel sequences chapters to match typical developmental progression, and in addition to practical guidance, he provides a tool kit from which you can take ideas and select what works for you. Covering quality development practices based on ISO 9001, which help you create consistently high-quality software in a cost-efficient manner, this invaluable resource shows you how to— - Improve project management practices and product quality assurance
- Adopt new management methods and requirements
- Involve your current customers in development, while inviting new ones
Much more than a mere “body of knowledge,” this volume goes beyond standardizing agile and Scrum practices. It breaks up the process into manageable tasks, illustrating how to set the stage for the change, plan it, and then initiate it. Using the methods and information presented, any organization should be able to achieve a nearly seamless transition to agile. About the Author James Schiel, CEO and owner of Artisan Software Consulting, is a Certified Scrum Trainer with a strong background in enterprise-level Scrum installations. Prior to founding Artisan, Schiel worked at a large, multi-national software development company for 23 years, where he worked initially as a developer, then as a manager for 16 years. He eventually played an instrumental role in creating one of the largest Scrum installations in the world. As a business process engineer, he helped identify, document, and implement best practices for enterprise Agile Development. download  |
| Web Wisdom: How To Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:03 AM PST 
Mobile technologies, faster connection speeds, and the 24/7 connectivity that has lead to the development of social media have created an explosion of Internet use in the ten years since the initial publication of Web Wisdom: How To Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web. A decade ago, these technologies and activities did not exist or were the purview of small select groups of internet users. Despite dramatic changes in the online realm, the basic evaluation principles presented in the first edition remain as applicable today as they were in the 1990s. Keeping up with the advances required to navigate the web for research, this second edition provides:
Expanded discussion of copyright, trademark, and other related issues with specific reference to web authoring New chapters on user-generated content and the challenges present by web resources Expanded discussion on issues related to incorporation of multimedia elements into web pages Revised and updated web page screen captures that illustrate the major concepts discussed A companion web site with supplemental materials related to the evaluation and creation of web content Many people mistakenly assume that as online technologies mature and the use of Internet-based content becomes ubiquitous, the need to emphasize critical evaluation skills lessens. On the contrary, the phenomenal global growth of the internet coupled with the ever increasing sophistication of online technologies and software applications requires individuals to be even savvier web users. This book describes the basic elements that web resource users, new or experienced, need to address to identify reliable and practical online content. The book also provides important guidance for creators of Web-based resources to more effectively convey their messages to web users. Presented in a straig download  |
| Schaum’s Outline of Data Structures with Java, 2ed Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:02 AM PST 
Product Description Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there’s Schaum’s Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum’s is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum’s Outline gives you - Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
- Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
- In-depth review of practices and applications
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum’s highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum’s to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores! Schaum’s Outlines-Problem Solved. download  |
| Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies Posted: 13 Mar 2010 07:00 AM PST 
Product Description How to create a profitable, sustainable business developing and marketing iPhone apps iPhone apps are hot; the average app is downloaded more than 30,000 times. If you have some great apps in mind, Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies will show you how to produce and market them effectively. Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies provides clear, reliable business information to help developers and entrepreneurs create a profitable, sustainable business in this new and exciting market. - Identifies what goes into a successful iPhone application business
- Helps you find the market niche your applications can fill, market and promote your business, and build your brand
- Explains how to develop a pricing strategy, build your applications efficiently, and get them into the App Store
- Explores finding a sustainable revenue model, including free trials, social media models, ad-based revenue models, and subscription models
- Demonstrates effective ways to provide service and support to customers
- Written by a team that combines knowledge of iPhone app development with sound business experience
Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies can help you turn your ideas into income. download  |
| WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites Posted: 13 Mar 2010 06:58 AM PST 
Product Description Don’t let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson. This book is the perfect guide to - Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
- Working with the text editor
- Styling paragraphs and creating lists
- Working with media files
- Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
- Working with image galleries
- Adding video and audio
- Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
- Making your site stand out
- Helping others connect to your site
- Becoming search engine friendly
- Optimizing your site
- Backing up your site
- Installing and activating plugins
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| Learning iPhone Programming: From Xcode to App Store Posted: 13 Mar 2010 06:56 AM PST 
Product Description Get the hands-on experience you need to program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll build several sample applications by learning how to use Xcode tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks. Before you know it, you’ll not only have the skills to develop your own apps, you’ll know how to sail through the process of submitting apps to the iTunes App Store. Whether you’re a developer new to Mac programming or an experienced Mac developer ready to tackle the iPhone and iPod Touch, Learning iPhone Programming will give you a head start on building market-ready iPhone apps. - Start using Xcode right away, and learn how to work with Interface Builder
- Take advantage of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture with Objective-C
- Build a data-entry interface, and learn how to parse and store the data you receive
- Solve typical problems while building a variety of challenging sample apps
- Understand the demands and details of App Store and ad hoc distribution
- Use iPhone’s accelerometer, proximity sensor, GPS, digital compass, and camera
- Integrate your app with iPhone’s preference pane, media playback, and more
About the Author Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks. download  |
| Excel Data Analysis: Modeling and Simulation Posted: 13 Mar 2010 06:55 AM PST 
Product Description This book is written for the students and practitioners who are looking for a single introductory Excel-based resource that covers three essential business and analytical skills—Data Analysis, Business Modeling, and Simulation of Complex Problems. The focus of the book is clearly on analysis of problems for decision making, yet detailed explanations regarding how to use Excel tools are provided. After many years of teaching and consulting, it is abundantly clear to me that for most students, a good example is worth its weight in gold. This book contains many excellent examples in each chapter, some simple and others more complex, and there is an abundance of exhibits to guide the student through the maze of steps necessary for each analysis. The content is quite diverse: data presentation — the Feng Shui of spreadsheets, effective communication and collaboration, data preparation — import, scrub, manipulate data, data analysis — statistical methods: descriptive, inferential, and predictive, Design of Experiments, modeling — deterministic, probabilistic, What-if, Scenarios, simulation — quantifying uncertainty, Monte Carlo Simulation, optimization — constrained, Linear Programming, non-linear models, Goal Seek. Couple these features with detailed discussions of how to realistically organize and extract insight from complex problems, and I believe you have a unique educational combination in one book. About the Author Dr. Guerrero is a professor at Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He teaches in the areas of decision making, statistics, operations and business quantitative methods. He has previously taught at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and the College of Business of the University of Notre Dame. He is well known among his students for his quest to bring clarity to complex decision problems. He earned a Ph.D. Operations and Systems Analysis, University of Washington and a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA at the University of Texas. He has published scholarly work in the areas of operations management, product design, and catastrophic planning. Prior to entering academe, he worked as an engineer for Dow Chemical Company and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. He is also very active in consulting and executive education with a wide variety of clients– U.S. Government, International firms, as well as many small and large U.S. manufacturing and service firms. It is not unusual to find him relaxing on a quiet beach with a challenging Excel workbook and an excellent cabernet. download  |
