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Designing the iPhone User Experience: Prototyping App Concepts
By 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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Introduction to vSphere
By 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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Tagging in SharePoint 2010
By 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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Introduction to Business Intelligence Today
By 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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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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The Developer's Guide to Social Programming: Application Discovery, Tabbed Navigation, and the Facebook JavaScript Library
By 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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An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 28: Early TSP Trials and the Teradyne Team Launch
By 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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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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Retaining a Business Resumption Planning Expert Witness (Part 2 of 2)
By 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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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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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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Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 3 of 3)
By 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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iPad Application Development: Presenting Options with Popovers and Toolbars
By 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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Introduction to Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World
By 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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Retaining a Business Resumption Planning Expert Witness (Part 1 of 2)
By 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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An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 27: Formal Methods, the Failure of PSP, and Tragedy of Beautiful Software
By 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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Understanding ARM Architectures
By 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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Posting Links, Photos, and Videos in Google Buzz
By 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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A 10-Minute Guide to Web Analytics
By Michael Miller
Aug 18, 2010
In this lesson, you learn what web analytics is—and what it does.
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Interview with Andrei Alexandrescu (Part 2 of 3)
By 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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