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- Designing the iPhone User Experience: Prototyping App Concepts
- This chapter looks at various iPhone prototyping approaches — paper, software, and video — and suggests how to choose the best approach for your iPhone app.
- Introduction to vSphere
- vSphere 4.0 is VMware's successor to Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3). In this chapter, Eric Siebert and Simon Seagrave introduce the many new features of vSphere 4.0.
- Tagging in SharePoint 2010
- Scott Jamison, one of the authors of Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning, discusses one of the most eagerly anticipated new features in SharePoint 2010: the ability to tag documents (both authoritatively and socially), helping users to categorize and search for the documents they need.
- Introduction to Business Intelligence Today
- In this chapter, Mike Biere discusses overall BI scenarios today, the view of the CIO, the IT perspective, the end user perspective, and establishing a vision.
- Innovate the Future: Are You Managing Innovation? Or Are You Crippling Innovation?
- If you don't want to hear what they really think, beware little kids and old ladies. Why? Because they'll tell you the 'unvarnished truth,' says David Croslin, author of Innovate the Future: A Radical New Approach to IT Innovation. If you could get your employees to tell you what they really think about the ground rules that management establishes to 'help' them innovate, would their answers surprise you?
- The Developer's Guide to Social Programming: Application Discovery, Tabbed Navigation, and the Facebook JavaScript Library
- This chapter explores how you can use dashboards in your Facebook Platform application through the Dashboard API and how you can use application tabs as a way of sharing your application's information with users and their friends.
- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 28: Early TSP Trials and the Teradyne Team Launch
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 28, Humphrey discusses his experiences with TSP trials, why business continuity is a real problem for the software community, and the difference between a team leader and a coach.
- An Introduction to Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
- This chapter explores the basic goals of service-oriented design and design guidelines for splitting applications into separate services.
- Retaining a Business Resumption Planning Expert Witness (Part 2 of 2)
- It may seem wrong, but it's a fact: In court, being believable is more important than being knowledgeable. Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel conclude their series on choosing an expert witness by examining traits that are as important as subject expertise, but much less objective.
- Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010
- Mike Walsh shows you how to install SPF 2010 in the simplest possible way.
Podcasts
System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007 R2 Unleashed- Kerrie Meyler discusses key components of her book, "System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007 R2 Unleashed".
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Aggregation and Creation - Part 2 of 4
- Companies can take many approaches to aggregating social content. Some might be more effective than others.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Creation vs. Curation - Part 1 of 4
- Companies around the Web are struggling to present the content their users seek from the social sphere. Here we want to help companies create better aggregation user experiences.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Curation Best Practices - Part 3 of 4
- Here we identify some common practices that help make curated experiences better.
- Audience, Relevance, and Search: Limits of Curation Strategy - Part 4 of 4
- Curation cannot replace creation in all environments. Its application is limited to certain use cases. Here we outline some use cases where the only reasonable approach is creation.
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- Dealing with Data Defining the Components to Tune
I've been reading a fascinating article about the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC facility. It's a scientific research facility that houses a particle collider, which generates an incredible amount of data. Their original plan was to stream the data to tape, then sending the data to "islands" closer to the users, offloading the network as quickly as possible. But they found that the network could handle the streaming better than they thought - so they now stream the data directly to the users, saturating the network. It's a new way of thinking about moving the data around.
- Top 10 Things to Do with Your BlackBerry After Purchasing an iPhone
Are you the proud owner of a new iPhone? Have an old BlackBerry that you don't know what to do with? Never fear. Following are 10 ways you can still enjoy your Blackberry (albeit temporarily):
- Work Swarms
I’ve been reading some excerpts from Gartner, Inc. and information from others on the changes they are seeing in the workplace. It’s holding true where I work and in the workplaces of the other data professionals I work with. One of those new trends is called “Swarming” – where informal teams get together to work on a particular project, and in some cases a single task, as a group. They then move on to another task, and so on, like a swarm of bees. These are less formal than the “Tiger Teams” I used to be part of that were also temporary, but had a more formal banding and dis-banding. The Gartner article states that this is more often the norm in companies than not.
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