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Making design collaboration work

March 31, 2010 12:00am PDT

This chapter from The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, by Fred Brooks (author of The Mythical Man-Month), offers a detailed look at the role of collaboration in modern...

Provided by: Addison Wesley Professional

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User beware: Electronic documents can reveal far more than you want

July 17, 2008 12:00am PDT

The WYSIWYG mentality can be dangerous when users fail to understand what underlies the visible presentation of electronic data. This chapter from Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness...

Provided by: Addison-Wesley

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Improve your UI by expressing time effectively

July 17, 2008 12:00am PDT

Your user interface may convey time for various reasons, such as through progress indicators that tell users how long they have to wait for an operation to complete. This chapter from Designing...

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Arm yourself with the knowledge to fight cybercrime

July 10, 2008 12:00am PDT

Criminal activity involving computers continues to grow, making it critical for law enforcement personnel, legislators, and IT pros to develop the knowledge to prevent, detect, report, and...

Provided by: Syngress

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A look at how the digital explosion is affecting your world

July 3, 2008 12:00am PDT

Digital technologies have already had a dramatic impact on how we create and share information -- and we're just getting started. This chapter from Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and...

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Design useful, professional-looking custom Vista gadgets

June 12, 2008 12:00am PDT

Sidebar gadgets can bring useful and convenient functionality to the Vista desktop -- especially when you create a custom gadget to meet your own (or your users') specific needs. This chapter from...

Provided by: Sams Publishing

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Improve your HTML using refactoring techniques

May 28, 2008 12:00am PDT

Refactoring code lets you rewrite it without introducing bugs -- and a similar approach can be used to improve your HTML. This sample chapter from Refactoring HTML: Improving the Design of...

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Integrate services into business processes to achieve your SOA objectives

May 8, 2008 12:00am PDT

A correctly implemented service-oriented architecture (SOA) is built on flexible and effective business and infrastructure services. This sample chapter from Implementing SOA: Total Architecture...

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Will Internet-borne threats influence the 2008 presidential race?

April 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

Political candidates are increasingly turning to the Internet to communicate their positions and gain voter support. But the same attack vectors that already pose a risk to consumers and...

Provided by: Addison-Wesley

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Try the New School approach to effective security spending

April 10, 2008 12:00am PDT

CIOs, IT managers, and security specialists all face difficult questions about security spending. This sample chapter from The New School of Information Security examines justifications for...

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Exploit these online resources to promote healthier, lower-stress special-needs traveling

November 8, 2007 12:00am PST

Over the past decade, the Internet has utterly transformed the travel industry. A wealth of online resources has allowed both business and holiday travelers to make savvier, more cost-effective...

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Use Ruby on Rails to create a social networking Web site with full community searching and browsing functionality

October 19, 2007 12:00am PDT

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as programmers' development framework of choice, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. Learn how to build large-scale...

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Represent the Fibonacci Sequence as a collection in the form of an STL sequence class

October 4, 2007 12:00am PDT

Anyone who appreciates mathematical elegance will appreciate the Fibonacci sequence and its associated relationship, the Golden Ratio. In this chapter download from Extended STL: Collections and...

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Defend your PC against spyware, adware, and Trojan horses

September 27, 2007 12:00am PDT

Examine three distinct kinds of security risks (spyware, adware, and Trojan horses) in this chapter download from The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security. Study the definition of each of...

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Uncover "deleted" file information that persists, hidden in your system

August 30, 2007 12:00am PDT

With many computer systems, deleted file information remains intact on the disk, in unallocated data blocks and unallocated file attribute blocks, until it is overwritten in the course of other...

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Build classes for the business logic layer in .NET

August 30, 2007 12:00am PDT

Classes are central to development in .NET. In this chapter download from Doing Objects in Visual Basic 2005, learn how to build classes for the business logic layer. Study the fundamentals of...

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Promote your eBay business with these professional marketing strategies

August 23, 2007 12:00am PDT

You can put 1,000 listings on eBay and not get a single bite, especially if nobody knows about them. In this chapter download from Tricks of the eBay Business Masters, investigate what may be the...

Provided by: Que Publishing

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Perfect your software by applying these critical testing processes

August 23, 2007 12:00am PDT

The quality of any software project is unknown until the development team starts pounding on it, looking for ways to push the system under test as far out of control and away from the expected as...

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Optimize a sluggish Windows Vista system

August 16, 2007 12:00am PDT

Dig deep using expert-level tools and techniques to optimize your Windows Vista system. Microsoft Windows Vista Help Desk offers step-by-step guidance to using these tools effectively whether or...

Provided by: Que Publishing

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Write automated tests in xUnit using Test Double patterns

August 8, 2007 12:00am PDT

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile software development: an effective testing strategy delivers new functionality more aggressively, accelerates user feedback, and improves quality. In...

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