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The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era
Author Marshall Goldsmith , Frances Hesselbein
The Leader of the Future 2 follows in the footsteps of the international bestseller The Leader of the Future, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and is one of the most widely distributed edited collections on leadership to date.In twenty-seven in....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Rick F. van der Lans
The Classic SQL Tutorial: Fully Updated for Today’s Standards and Today’s Top DatabasesFor twenty years, van der Lans’ Introduction to SQL has been the definitive SQL tutorial for database professionals everywhere, regardless of experience or platform. Now van der L....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Making Leadership a Reality
Author Harriet Mayor Fulbright
This article is the text of a graduation speech that Harriet Fulbright gave on May 23, 2006, at the Early College of Guilford, an advanced-placement public high school in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Release Date 2006/08 -
Handbook of Constraint Programming
Author To Walsh , Peter van Beek , Francesca Rossi
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is cur....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Author Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and ....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Succeeding At Your Yahoo!® Business
Author Linh Tang , Frank Fiore
The Yahoo! Stores have grown into one of the largest online shopping destinations on the Web today. The nearly 20,000 Yahoo! Stores have a 71% reach among online consumers, the highest on the Web. Many of these stores have become so successful that they have grown f....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Author Cody Fauser
RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that is executed when it is returned to the browser. This JavaScript generation....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Author Len Fenster
Writing robust enterprise applications presents a special challenge for developers, but Microsoft has addressed that challenge with the free, downloadable Enterprise Library for the .NET Framework.Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks and guidance....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 06
Author Mark Frauenfelder
If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life.....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Author Robert Fuller
In his groundbreaking book Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert Fuller identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest: rankism, abuse of the power inherent in rank. Low rank—signifying weakness—marks people for abuse and discri....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Author John H. Jack Zenger , Joseph R. Folkman
Praise for The Power of Feedback"Some books are worthy of being recommended simply because of their subject matter. . . . There is no greater force to improve the quality of human relationships or improve the way organizations function than to multiply the amount an....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Analysis, Second Edition
Author FRANK J. FABOZZI , LAURIE S. GOODMAN , DOUGLAS J. LUCAS
Since first edition's publication, the CDO market has seen tremendous growth. As of 2005, $1.1 trillion of CDOs were outstanding -- making them the fastest-growing investment vehicle of the last decade. To help you keep up with this expanding market and its various....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Writing for Visual Media, 2nd Edition
Author Anthony Friedmann
This book looks at the fundamental problems a writer faces as a beginner learning to create content for media that is to be seen rather than read. It takes you from basic concepts to a first level of practice through explicit methods that train you to consistently i....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit
Author James Foxall
Looking to break into C# programming? Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit is a valuable resource. You will start by learning the basics of the Visual C# environment and begin to build working programs very quickly. As the programs be....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Author Bruce Frey
Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. ....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Marketing Metrics: 50+ Metrics Every Executive Should Master
Author David J. Reibstein , Phillip E. Pfeifer , Neil T. Bendle , Paul W. Farris
Few marketers recognize the extraordinary range of metrics now available for evaluating their strategies and tactics. In Marketing Metrics, four leading researchers and consultants systematically introduce today's most powerful marketing metrics. The authors show ....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Java EE and .Net Interoperability: Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices
Author Sonu Sharma , Marina Fisher , Ray Lai , Laurence Moroney
“It’s a fact the .NET and Java platforms exist in the enterprise with many touch points. Developers are very eager for information and examples on how the two environments can coexist. This book reflects our interoperability collaboration with Sun and provides best....
Release Date 2006/04 -
Author Mihai Bucica , Filip Chereches-Tosa , Bogdan Brinzarea , Cristian Darie
AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications is the most practical and efficient resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX. This book will teach you how to create faster, lighter, better web applications by using the AJAX ingredients techno....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Launching Your Yahoo! Business
Author Linh Tang , Frank Fiore
You’ve made the decision to take your business online, but where do you go from here? Launching Your Yahoo! Business helps you do everything from creating a business plan to using basic marketing strategies to promote your business to managing a Yahoo! store. It al....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Bill White , Bob Louden , Sherwin Lake , Octavio Ferreria
This new and improved Communications Server (CS) for z/OS TCP/IP Implementation series provides easy-to-understand step-by-step how-to guidance on enabling the most commonly used and important functions of CS for z/OS TCP/IP.In this IBM Redbooks publication we begin....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Harrison Fisk , Alex Davies
Clustering is the final component of MySQL that makes it truly enterprise-level and able to compete fully with proprietary databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. The increased number of high-demand, high-productivity corporations and institutions choosin....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Tom Phoenix , brian d foy , Randal L. Schwartz
Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Intermediate Perl is a....
Release Date 2006/03 -
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
Author Steven Feuerstein , Guy Harrison
The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future,....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Peter Robson , Stephane Faroult
For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departme....
Release Date 2006/03 -
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2
Author Nigel French
It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you'r....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters
Author Gina Fant-Saez
You’ve got the power. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on recording-studio time anymore. Now, using Pro Tools—a digital-audio workstation—you can record demos at home on your own computer, edit tracks, add effects, and even output songs to a CD. But if y....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Can Two Rights Make a Wrong?: Insights from IBM’s Tangible Culture Approach
Author Research With Contributors from IBM Business Consulting Services and Institute f
“This is the book for people who never get past page two of a management book—it is as close as the genre comes to being a compulsive page turner. Its main thesis is built on at least three big ideas that are individually persuasive and cumulatively compelling. They....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
Author Mark Frauenfelder
If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life.....
Release Date 2006/02 -
The Credit Market Handbook: Advanced Modeling Issues
Author H. GIFFORD FONG
In The Credit Market Handbook, financial expert and Editor H. Gifford Fong has assembled a group of prominent professionals and academics familiar with the credit arena. In each chapter, a different expert analyzes a different issue related to today's dynamic credi....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
Author Chris Fox
For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the proble....
Release Date 2006/02