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Running Training Like a Business
Author David Van Adelsberg , Edward A. Trolley
Many of today's business leaders champion learning as essential to business success, backing their belief with massive investments in Training and Development (T&D). In fact, T&D investments reach $56 billion per year in the U.S. alone. In this era of ....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Internalizing Strengths: An Overlooked Way of Overcoming Weaknesses in Managers
Author Robert Kaplan
Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance. This approach can be helpful but there is another that can be just as effective: recognizing strengths. A senior manager whom the author in....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Access Database Design and Programming, Second Edition
Author Steven Roman PhD
When using software products with graphical interfaces, we frequently focus so much on the details of how to use the interface that we forget about the more general concepts that allow us to understand and put the software to effective use. This is particularly tru....
Release Date 1999/07 -
How to Conduct Focus Groups—Business Skills
Author Neal Chalofsky
This issue explains how focus groups can be used to identify problems, plan, develop new products, obtain market information, and conduct research. It outlines how to get started with the focus group process, how to recruit participants, and how to facilitate a focu....
Release Date 1999/07 -
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 -
Author Uyless Black
2246C-4The authoritative guide to Internet telephonyManaging and optimizing the performance of IP voice networksConfiguring IP-based call centersInternetworking IP with SS7Uyless Black has written the essential guide for telecommunications professionals who must un....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide
Author Harold Davis
A multi-tasking OS with a visual, user-friendly interface, Linux has moved beyond its core of die-hard fans and into the mainstream. Red Hat Linux, the leading version of this open-source, Unix-based OS, lets you run both its own powerful productivity apps and versi....
Release Date 1999/08 -
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference
Author Nicolai M. Josuttis
The C++ standard library provides a set of common classes and interfaces that greatly extend the core C++ language. The library, however, is not self-explanatory. To make full use of its components-and to benefit from their power-you need a resource that does far mo....
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 -
Java GUI Development: The Authoritative Solution
Author Vartan Piroumian
Java GUI Development covers the Java 2 AWT, JFC, and Swing Toolkit technologies for GUI programming. It provides professional developers and software engineers with 1) a clear understanding of the conceptual framework behind Java 2 GUI tools, 2) descriptions of Java....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author Paul Hyde
Java Thread Programming shows you how to take full advantage of Java's thread facilities: when to use threads to increase your program's efficiency, how to use them effectively, and how to avoid common mistakes. There is thorough coverage of the Thread API, Thread....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author Rob McGregor
Practical C++ provides the essential pieces of C++ programming information needed by beginning-intermediate programmers to execute the most frequently used tasks and functions. Each chapter is a task-oriented module covering a group of related features or tasks full....
Release Date 1999/08 -
The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It * How to Deliver It
Author Richard Dowis
Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an audience's attent....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Mastering Algorithms with Perl
Author John Macdonald , Jon Orwant , Jarkko Hietaniemi
Many programmers would love to use Perl for projects that involve heavy lifting, but miss the many traditional algorithms that textbooks teach for other languages. Computer scientists have identified many techniques that a wide range of programs need, such as:Fuzz....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author Kyle Loudon
There are many books on data structures and algorithms, including some with useful libraries of C functions. Mastering Algorithms with C offers you a unique combination of theoretical background and working code. With robust solutions for everyday programming tasks,....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Introduction to the Team Software Process(SM)
Author James W. Over , Watts S. Humphrey
Watts Humphrey is the visionary behind the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)(R) and the Personal Software Process (PSP) (sm). The CMM contains a framework for software process improvement at the organizational level. The PSP builds the self-discipline needed for indiv....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author David Wood
The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and bu....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Simplified Design of Filter Circuits
Author John Lenk
Simplified Design of Filter Circuits, the eighth book in this popular series, is a step-by-step guide to designing filters using off-the-shelf ICs. The book starts with the basic operating principles of filters and common applications, then moves on to describe how ....
Release Date 1999/08 -
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 -
Author Tom Bialaski , Enrique Vargas , Evert Hoogendoorn , Adrian Cockcroft , Richard Mc Do
2585E-8Resource Management is a practical guide that shows how to manage system resources to meet system and performance service levels. The theory of Resource Management is introduced and a detailed analysis of what is required to implement resource management in ....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches and Internetworking Protocols, Second Edition
Author Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman's Interconnections is recognized as a leading text on networking theory and practice. It provides authoritative and comprehensive information on general networking concepts, routing algorithms and protocols, addressing, and the mechanics of bridges, r....
Release Date 1999/09 -
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 -
Author Anonymous
Maximum Linux Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Linux Server and Workstation is designed for system administrators, managers, or Linux users who wish to protect their Linux servers and workstations from unauthorized intrusions and other external threats....
Release Date 1999/09 -
The Power of Positive Criticism
Author Hendrie Weisinger
Some people just can't take criticism. And some people just can't give it-not in a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial manner, anyway. That's too bad, because criticism is essential to many aspects of business, such as performance appraisals, quality con....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Intro
Author Andrew Odewahn
This compact guide provides the jump-start Oracle developers need to make the transition from traditional programming to the development of useful Web applications for Oracle8i. Even readers who start out knowing nothing about HTML, PL/SQL, or Oracle's other tools....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Direct Broadcast Satellite Communications: An MPEG Enabled Service
Author Donald C. Mead
With its higher power and superior video and audio quality, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) communications is proliferating worldwide. Many new DBS systems are evolving and with the introduction of HDTV, DBS technology is predicted to become even more prevalent.Wri....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Programming Pearls, Second Edition
Author Jon Bentley
When programmers list their favorite books, Jon Bentley’s collection of programming pearls is commonly included among the classics. Just as natural pearls grow from grains of sand that irritate oysters, programming pearls have grown from real problems that have irr....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Peter Block Flawless Consulting: A Guide To Getting Your Expertise Used, Second Edition
Author Janis Nowlan
The second edition of Peter Block's Flawless Consulting gracefully updates what many consider the best resource of its kind. New chapters on implementation, "whole-system" strategies, and ethics are included, but in general it simply fine-tunes Block's proven advi....
Release Date 1999/09 -
Making the Team: A Guide for Managers
Author Leigh L. Thompson
Drawing upon research from leading scholars in the fields of social psychology, organization behavior, sociology, and cognitive psychology, this invaluable resource for both young managers and seasoned executives alike covers both basic and cutting-edge team buildin....
Release Date 1999/10