| 1.
| - Small Town Rules: How Three Major Shifts Created a Small Town Environment for All Business
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By
Barry J. Moltz, Becky McCray
- May 18, 2012
- This chapter explains the concept behind and contents of the book Small Town Rules.
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| 2.
| - CCNP Security Firewall 642-618 Quick Reference: Basic Connectivity and Device Management
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By
Anthony Sequeira
- May 17, 2012
- This section starts to examine the configuration of the Cisco ASA and covers the fundamentals for providing basic connectivity and device management. This section covers basic command-line interface (CLI) configuration, but mainly focuses on configuring the ASA through the graphical Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).
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| 3.
| - Choosing the Right Algorithm in C++
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By
Brian Overland
- May 17, 2012
- To write the best programs, use the best techniques. Microsoft veteran and successful author Brian Overland, author of C++ Without Fear: A Beginner's Guide That Makes You Feel Smart, 2nd Edition, considers recursion, iteration, randomization, and data-handling, and how these can help or hurt the efficiency of your programs.
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| 4.
| - Marketing in the Round: Develop an Integrated Marketing Campaign in the Digital Era
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By
Geoff Livingston, Gini Dietrich
- May 17, 2012
- This chapter explains how and why marketing serves as the hub in the round of communication disciplines, how to break down the silos, how to get senior leadership involved, and how to develop the marketing round team and get your vision, goals, and dashboard ready.
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| 5.
| - Monitoring and Managing Your Google AdSense Account
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By
Michael Miller
- May 16, 2012
- This chapter shows how to find and manage the most essential data you need to evaluate your AdSense performance.
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| 6.
| - Planning and Designing 802.11 Wireless Technologies
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By
Roger Nobel, Federico Lovison, Fabian Riesen, Erik Vangrunderbeek, Federico Ziliotto
- May 16, 2012
- On top of normal networking issues, WLAN adds a couple of new challenges, such as Layer 1 (radio frequency [RF]) issues; a set of L2 protocols, such as IEEE 802.11; and the need for agencies to regulate the use of this shared medium, as the authors explain in this excerpt from their book, CCIE Wireless Exam (350-050) Quick Reference.
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| 7.
| - Securing Wireless Networks for CompTIA Network+
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By
Anthony Sequeira
- May 16, 2012
- This important article walks the reader through key security mechanisms that should be considered for any wireless network environment.
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| 8.
| - Social Media in Litigation and E-Discovery: Risks and Rewards
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By
Robert McHale
- May 16, 2012
- This chapter discusses the growing use of social media in the courtroom, and the steps companies need to take to properly discover, preserve, and authenticate such evidence.
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| 9.
| - An Insider's Look into the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Challenge
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By
Brad Bowers
- May 15, 2012
- Brad Bowers takes an insider look into the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Challenge that faces off hardened penetration testers against defending college teams in this annual cyber attack and defend competition.
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| 10.
| - Profile of Spain from a Search Engine Marketing Perspective
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By
Anne F. Kennedy, Kristjan Mar Hauksson
- May 14, 2012
- This chapter provides a look at one international market, Spain, from the perspective of relevant search and demographic information important to marketers.
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| 11.
| - Seven Ways to Find Software Defects Before They Hit Production
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By
Matthew Heusser
- May 11, 2012
- If you've ever been surprised by a bug that seemed obvious in hindsight, you may be curious where test ideas originate and how to generate more of them. Matt Heusser walks through a half-dozen ideas to kickstart (or reinvigorate!) your software testing.
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| 12.
| - Outsmarting Social Media: Social and Contextual Discovery
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By
Evan Bailyn
- May 10, 2012
- This chapter explains the concept of social and contextual discovery and compares them to traditional search. It also explains how you can begin to use social and contextual discovery in your business.
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| 13.
| - Capturing and Tagging Your First Notes in Evernote
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By
Katherine Murray
- May 9, 2012
- This chapter explains the tasks you'll need to perform to create and tag your first notes in Evernote.
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| 14.
| - Managing Virtual Machines in the Cloud with the Open-Source libvirt API
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By
Stephen B. Morris
- May 9, 2012
- Stephen Morris shows you how to get up to speed with cloud virtualization using libvirt, an open-source API for access to virtualization facilities.
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| 15.
| - Reproducing Race Conditions in Tests
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By
Stephen Vance
- May 9, 2012
- The importance of testing software code is impossible to overstate. But how do you test for bugs you can't easily reproduce in the lab? Stephen Vance dissects race conditions, helping us to comprehend what causes a race condition and then working from that understanding to figure out how to reproduce the race condition deterministically in tests.
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| 16.
| - Typical Switch Setup for CompTIA Network+
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By
Anthony Sequeira
- May 9, 2012
- This important article details the basic setup of one of transparent switches, and describes key concepts such as VLANs and management interfaces that any Network + candidate should master.
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| 17.
| - Going Shopping with Siri
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By
Erica Sadun, Steve Sande
- May 8, 2012
- This chapter explores the ways that Siri works at your command to make your shopping journeys as smooth as possible.
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| 18.
| - Creating a B2B Digital Marketing Plan
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By
Michael Miller
- May 7, 2012
- This chapter explains what a digital marketing plan is and why you need one. It then explains how to build your own plan and put it into place.
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| 19.
| - Quality of Service (QoS) for CompTIA Network+
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By
Anthony Sequeira
- May 7, 2012
- What are the reasons for worrying about Quality of Service in networks today? What are overall approaches to these issues and what are specific Quality of Service solutions? This article answers these important questions, and then details much more for Network+ candidates.
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| 20.
| - Automated Software Testing: An Example of a Working Solution
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By
Elfriede Dustin
- May 5, 2012
- Elfriede Dustin, author of Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality, discusses the challenges involved in developing a custom automated software testing (AST) framework and provides some tips on how to address such challenges.
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