| 1. | - Designing the iPhone User Experience: Prototyping App Concepts
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Suzanne Ginsburg
- Sep 2, 2010
- This chapter looks at various iPhone prototyping approaches — paper, software, and video — and suggests how to choose the best approach for your iPhone app.
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| 2. | - Introduction to vSphere
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Eric Siebert, Simon Seagrave
- Sep 2, 2010
- 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.
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| 3. | - Tagging in SharePoint 2010
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Scott Jamison
- Sep 2, 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.
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| 4. | - Introduction to Business Intelligence Today
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Mike Biere
- Sep 1, 2010
- 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.
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| 5. | - Innovate the Future: Are You Managing Innovation? Or Are You Crippling Innovation?
- By
David Croslin
- Aug 31, 2010
- 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?
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| 6. | - The Developer's Guide to Social Programming: Application Discovery, Tabbed Navigation, and the Facebook JavaScript Library
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Mark D. Hawker
- Aug 31, 2010
- 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.
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| 7. | - An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 28: Early TSP Trials and the Teradyne Team Launch
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Watts S. Humphrey, Grady Booch
- Aug 30, 2010
- 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.
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| 8. | - An Introduction to Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
- By
Paul Dix
- Aug 30, 2010
- This chapter explores the basic goals of service-oriented design and design guidelines for splitting applications into separate services.
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| 9. | - Retaining a Business Resumption Planning Expert Witness (Part 2 of 2)
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Leo Wrobel, Sharon Wrobel
- Aug 27, 2010
- 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.
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| 10. | - Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010
- By
Mike Walsh
- Aug 26, 2010
- Mike Walsh shows you how to install SPF 2010 in the simplest possible way.
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| 11. | - The Imperative for a New Approach to Information Architecture
- By
Michael Schroeck
- Aug 26, 2010
- Michael Schroeck, a coauthor of The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight, explains why managing information effectively is crucial to business survival and success today. He presents the context for developing an 'Information Agenda' as the basis for turning your organization into an information-enabled enterprise.
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| 12. | - Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 3 of 3)
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Andrei Alexandrescu, Eric Niebler
- Aug 25, 2010
- Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.
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| 13. | - iPad Application Development: Presenting Options with Popovers and Toolbars
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John Ray
- Aug 25, 2010
- Learn how to prepare views for use in popovers, including adding toolbars and toolbar buttons (the most frequent UI element used to invoke a popover). You'll also learn how to configure the different display attributes associated with popovers, and communicate information between popover views and your main application view.
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| 14. | - Introduction to Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World
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Robert Aiello, Leslie Sachs
- Aug 24, 2010
- Implementing good CM is not easy and requires a considerable amount of hard work. This introduction will help you start your journey.
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| 15. | - Retaining a Business Resumption Planning Expert Witness (Part 1 of 2)
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Leo Wrobel, Sharon Wrobel
- Aug 24, 2010
- In the first article of a two-part series, Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel list essential traits that qualify an expert witness for testifying in court cases. They begin by focusing on the primary qualification: thorough knowledge of the field. How can you assess whether a potential expert witness is sufficiently knowledgeable? The authors explain how knowledge can be both provable and demonstrable.
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| 16. | - An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 27: Formal Methods, the Failure of PSP, and Tragedy of Beautiful Software
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Watts S. Humphrey, Grady Booch
- Aug 23, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 27, Humphrey discusses his work with formal methods, why he had to move away from the PSP process, and why beautiful work in software does not get noticed.
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| 17. | - Understanding ARM Architectures
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David Chisnall
- Aug 23, 2010
- The ARM architecture is increasingly becoming relevant to software developers of all types. David Chisnall describes the unique features of the design and how they affect people writing code for these chips.
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| 18. | - Posting Links, Photos, and Videos in Google Buzz
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Steven Holzner
- Aug 19, 2010
- Learn the ins and outs of posting links, photos, and videos to Google Buzz. In addition, take a look at how to deal with those items in Gmail, Buzz's home base.
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| 19. | - A 10-Minute Guide to Web Analytics
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Michael Miller
- Aug 18, 2010
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In this lesson, you learn what web analytics is—and what it does.
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| 20. | - Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 2 of 3)
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Andrei Alexandrescu, Eric Niebler
- Aug 18, 2010
- Part 2 of this interview about the D programming language finds Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu deep in discussion about structs versus classes, the difficulties of copy semantics, rvalue references, the intricacies of garbage collection, and Andrei's occasional failure in serving as the standard-bearer for policy-based design.
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