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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Workplace Coaching
Author Daniel A. Feldman
This guide is designed to help people become better managers. When a person is elevated to a management position, it is usually because he or she has done well at mastering the prerequisite technical skills. Coaching employees to develop their skills helps not only ....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition
Author Geoff Friesen , Chuck Cavaness , Brian Keeton
Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition specifically covers only the Standard Edition of version 1.3 of the Java Software Development Kit (SDK). It begins with a series of quick refreshers for Object-oriented programming and Java fundamentals, including applet....
Release Date 2000/12 -
High Availability: Design, Techniques, and Processes
Author Michael Hawkins , Floyd Piedad
The complete "how-to guide" for maximizing the availability of enterprise systems.Training, support, backup, and maintenance account for nearly 80 percent of the total cost of today's enterprise applications-and much of that money is spent trying to squeeze increas....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Ten Minute Guide to Performance Appraisals
Author Dale Furtwengler
As a new manager, how do you construct a performance review that will give your employees balanced, encouraging feedback, yet provide them with the critiquing they may need? This book answers that question. It explains the importance of employee appraisals to your s....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Author Martin Fowler , Kent Beck
"XP is the most important movement in our field today. I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the S.E.I. and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last." --From the foreword by Tom DeMarco The hallmarks of Extreme Programming--consta....
Release Date 2000/10 -
WAP Development with WML and WMLScript
Author Dylan Brom , Ronan Mandel , Amy O'Leary , Robert M. Juncker , Paul Fonte , Keith
This book introduces WML and WAP as wireless application development tools and teaches the reader how to develop WML applications. The reader will learn about mainstream topics such as security over wireless networks, working with image files for handheld displays, ....
Release Date 2000/09 -
Enterprise Application Integration With XML and Java™
Author Bill la Forge , JP Morgenthal
High-value solutions for integrating enterprise and legacy systemsXML, Enterprise JavaAPIs, and much moreTechniques for building flexible, extensible EIA solutionsEasy-to-read, fully-documented code throughoutCD-ROM includes leading-edge software and code library fo....
Release Date 2000/07 -
Author Andrew Ford
Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world, running on Windows NT as well as Unix and other platforms. It powers about half of the world's existing web sites and is still increasing market share. Apache also forms the basis of a number of commercial web servers....
Release Date 2000/06 -
Local Area High Speed Networks
Author Dr. Sidnie Feit
There is a great deal of change happening in the technology being used for local networks. As Web intranets have driven bandwidth needs through the ceiling, inexpensive Ethernet NICs and switches have come into the market. As a result, many network professionals are....
Release Date 2000/06 -
Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook
Author Andrew Odewahn , Steven Feuerstein
However excellent they are, most computer books are inherently passive--readers simply take in text without having any opportunity to react to it. The Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook is a different kind of animal! It's designed to engage you actively, to get ....
Release Date 2000/05 -
Author Virgilio A. F. Almeida , Daniel A. Menascé
Foreword by Jim Gray Microsoft Research and 1998 ACM Turing Award RecipientThe Complete Guide to Techniques and Models to Evaluate and Plan E-Business Sites!Avoid losing customers due to site crashesPerformance modeling and capacity planning for e-business infrastru....
Release Date 2000/04 -
IT Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking, and Marketing
Author Robert E. Matthews , Thomas R. DiPasquale , Anthony F. Tardugno
1919E-7Unleashing the Power of Integrated Service DeliveryHarris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute Solutions for IT ProfessionalsDelighting IT customers: the real-world, start-to-finish guideIT Services is the first 100% customer-focused guide to satisfying th....
Release Date 2000/03 -
Author Harvey Robbins , Michael Finley
The move to teams has largely failed, say Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, mainly because teams themselves are failing to think through the human implications of teaming. The New Why Teams Don't Work is a handbook for team members and team leaders to maintai....
Release Date 2000/01 -
Author Stephen Fardo , Dale Patrick
Understanding DC Circuits covers the first half of a basic electronic circuits theory course, integrating theory and laboratory practice into a single text. Several key features in each unit make this an excellent teaching tool: objectives, key terms, self-tests, la....
Release Date 1999/12 -
Author Stephen Fardo , Dale Patrick
Understanding AC Circuits covers the second half of a basic electronic circuits theory course, integrating theory and laboratory practice into a single text. Several key features in each unit make this an excellent teaching tool: objectives, key terms, self-tests, l....
Release Date 1999/12 -
Red Hat Linux System Administration Handbook
Author Mark F. Komarinski , Cary Collett
2539E-5Manage your Red Hat Linux systems for maximum productivity!Red Hat Linux 6.0 delivers cost-effective, rock-solid networking and Internet connectivity - and with the Red Hat Unux System Administration Handbook, anyone can administer a Red Hat Linux system suc....
Release Date 1999/10 -
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes
Author Ben Forta
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. It is for those users who don't ha....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Modern Dictionary of Electronics, 7th Edition
Author Rudolf F. Graf
Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic element....
Release Date 1999/08 -
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Second Edition
Author Kendall Scott , Martin Fowler
Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big language, and not all of it is equall....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement
Author Anita D. Carleton , William A. Florac
"While it is usually helpful to launch improvement programs, many such programs soon get bogged down in detail. They either address the wrong problems, or they keep beating on the same solutions, wondering why things don't improve. This is when you need an objectiv....
Release Date 1999/07 -
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Author Don Roberts , William Opdyke , Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , John Brant
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienc....
Release Date 1999/06 -
JavaSpaces™ Principles, Patterns, and Practice
Author Ken Arnold , Susanne Hupfer , Eric Freeman
"Ever since I first saw David Gelernter's Linda programming language almost twenty years ago, I felt that the basic ideas of Linda could be used to make an important advance in the ease of distributed and parallel programming. As part of the fruits of Sun's Jini p....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000
Author Laurie Ulrich , Read Gilgen , Robert Fuller , Timothy Dyck , Tom Mucciolo , Patrice-A
Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 gives practical advice on how to set up a "designer" look presentation and how to develop the most effective presentation for your audience. You will learn what types of other considerations should be made when develop....
Release Date 1999/05 -
Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference
Author Chip Dawes , Steven Feuerstein , Bill Pril
This pocket reference provides quick-reference information that will help you use Oracle's PL/SQL language. It is a companion to Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl's bestselling book, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, and includes coverage of the latest version of Oracle....
Release Date 1999/04 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Employee Relations
Author Terry L. Fitzwater
This pocket guide is packed with insight and key skills for those new to the process of management or anyone needing new ideas and tools concerning relationship management. It provides survey materials to help managers evaluate and assess skills and policies in orde....
Release Date 1999/01 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills
Author Jane Flaherty , Peter B. Stark
No matter how you arrived at your supervisory position, you need a specific set of skills to work successfully with your employees. Feeling positive about yourself, making effective decisions, and solving problems are still a part of your daily life, but added to th....
Release Date 1999/01 -
Author Rod Fairweather
All studio directors need to know the basics of studio directing, whether they go on to direct news, drama, children's programmes or light entertainment. Learning the ropes on air can be costly: this book gives you all the practical and technical guidance yo....
Release Date 1998/10 -
Author Janis F Chan
What does it take to impress an audience? No more boring presentations!
Release Date 1998/06 -
Author John Beresniewicz , Charles Dye , Steven Feuerstein
Oracle is the most popular database management system in use today, and PL/SQL plays a pivotal role in current and projected Oracle products and applications. PL/SQL is a programming language providing procedural extensions to the SQL relational database language a....
Release Date 1998/05