Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Deliver compelling business intelligence (BI) solutions by choosing the right combination of services in Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010. This practical guide gives you a big picture view of Excel® Services, PerformancePoint® Services, Visio® Services, and more. Walk through each technology, and learn which tool to use where, when,

 

Introduction to Software Process Improvement

This textbook is a systematic guide to the steps in setting up a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) improvement initiative.  Readers will learn the project management practices necessary to deliver high-quality software solutions to the customer on time and on budget.  The text also highlights how software process

 

David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming ToolBox

Are you looking for practical, ready-to-use ideas to help you design more innovative and unique video games? “David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox” is a brainstorming and strategy guide for game designers, filled with inspiration-generating tips that challenge you to create better games. Using their years

 

Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Microcontrollers to the Cloud

What is the Internet of Things? It’s billions of embedded computers, sensors, and actuators all connected online. If you have basic programming skills, you can use these powerful little devices to create a variety of useful systems—such as a device that waters plants when the soil becomes

 

Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS: Unleash Multicore Performance with Grand Central Dispatch

Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn’t it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore iOS devices and Mac

 

Practical JIRA Administration

If you’re familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions

 

Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5

Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with

 

HTML5 Geolocation

Truly revolutionary: now you can write geolocation applications directly in the browser, rather than develop native apps for particular devices. This concise book demonstrates the W3C Geolocation API in action, with code and examples to help you build HTML5 apps using the “write once, deploy everywhere” model.

 

Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming

Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming brings you into the modern world of development as you master the fundamentals of programming with C# and learn to develop efficient, reusable, elegant code through the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology. Take your skills out of the 20th century and into this one

 

Applied WPF 4 in Context

Applied WPF 4 in Context sets the standard for leveraging the latest Windows user interface technology in your business applications. 

Using this book, you’ll learn how to implement world-class WPF solutions in a real-world line of business applications, developing the code from the ground up,