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How to become a better consultant by doing less billable work

September 25, 2007 12:53pm PDT

In most any profession, things seem to get added to your schedule faster than they get taken away -- so you tend to get progressively busier.  For a consultant, the effect can be magnified...

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Working with .NET access modifiers

September 25, 2007 9:58am PDT

The access modifiers available in .NET allow you to put encapsulation in action by defining who can use classes, methods, properties, and so forth, as well as keeping out those who don't need...

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White Papers

Shaping Tomorrow's Business Leaders: Principles And Practices For A model Business Ethics Program

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

Many leading businesses no longer debate the legitimacy of the role and importance of ethics; rather, they are forging ahead, finding new ways to put ethics into practice. A few recent examples...

Provided by: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics

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Integration Of Financial Supervision

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

The emergence of financial conglomerates and multinational financial institutions as well as the development of new financial products have raised concerns as to the ability of separate sectoral...

Provided by: Bank of Finland

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Barriers To Entry And Development

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

Perhaps the most challenging question in development economics is why some countries are so much poorer than the U.S. In this paper, the authors ask whether large barriers to entry are a...

Provided by: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Webcasts

A Lifecycle Approach to Requirements-Driven Quality Management

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

The ability to evaluate and mitigate risk is critical to increasing the chance for a successful business outcome to a development project. The move to end-to-end business process based...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

White Papers

Building Appropriate Websites

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

For every well-executed web development, there may be 10 that completely fail. This paper examines why it's critical to create something inline with your brand that people want to see, rather than...

Provided by: iMedia Communications

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The Dawn Of 'Sticky' Search

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

It's now well recognized that we rely on search as an everyday part of our lives. Whether it's for quick sourcing of information, leisurely researching of products or browsing for entertainment,...

Provided by: iMedia Communications

Whitepapers

Meeting Security Requirements of Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications: Secure Authentication and Authorization With Multiple Tenants

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

The Software as a Service (SaaS) business model, driven by an effort to reduce IT cost and efforts, is garnering a lot of interest in the software industry. In this model, application...

Provided by: IBM

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Adaptive Transmission of Medical Image and Video Using Scalable Coding and Context-Aware Wireless Medical Networks

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

The aim of this paper is to present a novel platform for advanced transmission of medical image and video, introducing context awareness in telemedicine systems. Proper scalable image and video...

Provided by: Hindawi Publishing

Downloads

Percula 1.1 (Windows)

September 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

Developed in Monster Labs, this extension allows straight forward searching from any Web page in Monster's large database of jobs. By integrating a direct search option in the right-click menu of...

Provided by: Gerardo Robledillo

Blog Post

How important is multithreading in application development?

September 24, 2007 9:55pm PDT

I think multithreading in application development is the wave of the future -- even though not all applications lend themselves to being multithreaded. In a blog post on MSDN about symmetric...

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Ensure your Web site displays properly with character encoding

September 24, 2007 7:50pm PDT

Tony Patton examines why developers use character encoding for Web pages, outlines the options you have, and offers guidance on how to choose a character encoding.

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Articles

Are key performance indicators a true measure?

September 24, 2007 5:48pm PDT

Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development?

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Client Embeddedness Of Service Professionals

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

The paper is concerned with the mechanisms of how junior service professionals become socially embedded with clients. It develops a measure of embeddedness based on junior professionals'...

Provided by: INSEAD

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Building QuakeSim Portlets With GTLAB

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

The QuakeSim portal is a problem solving environment to develop a solid Earth science framework for modelling and understanding earthquakes. In this study, the authors proposed an evolutionary...

Provided by: Indiana University

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Reasons For Financing R&D Using The SWORD Structure

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

Several companies in the science and technology-based industries used the SWORD structure to finance part of their R&D programs. Yet, there is no clear rational or evidence that this structure is...

Provided by: Drexel University

White Papers

Exploring The Determinants Of Global 'Social Production' Of Information And Knowledge: Insights From SETI@home

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

Commons-based peer production is an activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and production of information, knowledge and culture ('Social production' for short),...

Provided by: Monash University

Case Studies

Five Questions for Michael Eisner

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

During Michael Eisner's reign as CEO of Disney between 1984 and 2005, the company's annual income grew from $1.7billion to $30billion, helping establish Eisner as one of the most important figures...

Provided by: HSM

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Advanced Tooling for Domain-Specific Modeling: MetaEdit+

September 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

This paper describes functionalities that go beyond creating the first editor for one modeling language. These are the features that the authors have found relevant in industrial projects over the...

Provided by: MetaCase