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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 -
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 -
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 -
From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach
Author Faranak Nekoogar , Farzad Nekoogar
Information you can put straight to work!ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) and SOCs (Systems On a Chip) are among the hottest topics in semiconductor chip design today. If you're a front-end or back-end chip designer looking to learn the latest techn....
Release Date 2003/05 -
From Concept to Wall Street: A Complete Guide to Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
Author Ron Lubash , Davidi Gilo , Chemi Peres , Uri Geiger , Oren Fuerst
From Concept to Wall Street is the definitive guide to the new realities of venture capital. Two leading experts in venture-backed entrepreneurship offer start-to-finish coverage of the entire process: planning, teambuilding, protecting intellectual property, identi....
Release Date 2002/08 -
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 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 -
Quality Software Project Management
Author Linda I. Safer , Donald F. Shafer , Robert T. Futrell
The practical handbook of software project management-by practitioners, for practitioners!Quality Software Project Management is the practical, start-to-finish project management resource for every software professional-experienced managers and developers moving int....
Release Date 2002/01 -
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 -
Author David E. Bowen , Fabrício R. Santos , Aluízio Borém
An objective, thorough, and accessible introduction to biotechnology.Biotechnology will have an increasingly profound impact on human health, agriculture, the environment, and society itself. Understanding Biotechnology offers an introduction to biotechnology that i....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Linux® Kernel Primer, The: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures
Author Steven Smolski , Gordon Fischer , Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez
Learn Linux kernel programming, hands-on: a uniquely effective top-down approachThe Linux® Kernel Primer is the definitive guide to Linux kernel programming. The authors' unique top-down approach makes kernel programming easier to understand by systematically traci....
Release Date 2005/09 -
The Sockets Networking API: UNIX® Network Programming Volume 1, Third Edition
Author Andrew M. Rudoff , Bill Fenner , W. Richard Stevens
UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition"Everyone will want this book because it provides a great mix of practical experience, historical perspective, and a depth of understanding that only comes from being intimately involved in....
Release Date 2003/11 -
XML in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML
Author Priscilla Walmsley , Charles F. Goldfarb
Co-authors are the world-renowned inventor of markup languages and a developer of the W3C XML Schema specificationDetailed coverage of Office 2003 Professional XML features, plus all the XML knowledge you need to use themLearn to edit your XML document with Word, an....
Release Date 2003/12 -
Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The
Author Rachel Ralston , Jaclyn Vassallo , Craig Fellenstein
This is the complete guide to intellectual property: thinking concepts for discovering it, creating it, protecting it, and profiting from it.Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small-medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, b....
Release Date 2004/10 -
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author C. K. Prahalad , Harvey C. Fruehauf
The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and ....
Release Date 2004/07 -
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 Paul Yip , Fraser McArthur , Michael Gao , Raul Chong , Drew Bradstock , Clara Liu , Z
IBM's definitive guide to writing DB2 SQL PL stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, and dynamic compound SQLFully updated to reflect the entire DB2 UDB product family, and new SQL PL improvements for Windows, UNIX, Linux, iSeries, and zSeriesPresents expert tips and be....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Author Donald F. Ferguson , Tony Storey , Frank Leymann , Francisco Curbera , Sanjiva Weera
"Other books claim to present the complete Web services platform architecture, but this is the first one I've seen that really does. The authors have been intimately involved in the creation of the architecture. Who better to write this book?"—Anne Thomas Manes, Vi....
Release Date 2005/03 -
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 -
Computer and Communication Networks
Author Nader F. Mir
As the number and variety of communication services grow, so do the challenges of designing cost-effective networks that meet the requirements of emerging technologies in wireless, sensor, and mesh networks. Computer and Communication Networks is the first book to o....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples
Author Dwaine R. Snow , Sylvia F. Qi , Clara Liu , Raul F. Chong
The Easy, Visual Guide to IBM DB2 V8.2IBM DB2 Universal Database™ V8.2 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® is a flexible, scalable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use enterprise database. Now, one book makes DB2 even easier. Understanding DB2 teaches DB2 V8.2 visually, ste....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap
Author Rawn Shah , Keith Jones , Marc Fiammante , Sanjay Bose , Norbert Bieberstein
Praise for Service-Oriented Architecture Compass"A comprehensive roadmap to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is, in reality, a business architecture to be used by those enterprises intending to prosper in the 21st century. Decision makers who desire that the....
Release Date 2005/10 -
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 -
Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity
Author Lynn E. Foster
Inside the Emerging Multibillion-Dollar Nanotechnology IndustrySuddenly, nanotechnology isn't science fiction or mere theory: It's becoming one of the world's fastest-growing, highest-impact industries. In Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity, the....
Release Date 2005/12 -
The Linux Programmer’s Toolbox
Author John Fusco
Master the Linux Tools That Will Make You a More Productive, Effective ProgrammerThe Linux Programmer's Toolbox helps you tap into the vast collection of open source tools available for GNU/Linux. Author John Fusco systematically describes the most useful tools ava....
Release Date 2007/03 -
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 -
The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition
Author Michel Goossens , Frank Mittelbach , Chris Rowley , David Carlisle , Johannes Braams
This is the digial version of the printed book (Copyright © 2004).The LaTeX Companion has long been the essential resource for anyone using LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This completely updated edition brings you all the latest information about La....
Release Date 2004/04 -
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