Information Technology category: 2629 books
Hacking Healthcare
A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government’s Meaningful Use requirements. It’s a tremendous opportunity...
by Michael W. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
FreeBSD is one of the oldest and most featureful open-source Unix-like operating systems. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials takes you on a deep dive into FreeBSD’s disk management systems.
You’ll learn about:
identifying your storage hardware
the Common Access Method
GEOM–FreeBSD’s...
by Simon Riggs, Hannu Krosing
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Written in the cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for administrators and developers to manage databases on PostgreSQL. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular...
by Karen Fredricks
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
This is an advanced cookbook of easy-to-follow recipes about ACT! 2012 designed to transform you into an ACT! Power User. If you are an ACT! end user who wants to learn about the advanced functionality of ACT! 2012, then this book is for you. It will also be useful if you are a 2009,2010 or 2011 user,...
Classic Shell Scripting
Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power of Unix
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators-a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental...
Learning GNU Emacs
A Guide to Unix Text Processing
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment--you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to...
by April Hodge Silver
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
This a comprehensive step-by-step tutorial packed with screenshots and examples for easy and quick pickup. This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who have slightly more advanced knowledge of WordPress. If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website in a...
by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques. This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements...
Green IT
Managing your carbon footprint
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda. Yet the term ‘green IT’ still means a variety of things to a variety of people – whether that’s sustainably managing and procuring IT assets, ethically recycling...
The Conscious Universe
Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A discussion of the implications for philosophy of recent experimental results that confirm some counterintuitive aspects of the way matter behaves. The authors show that a generalised principle of complementarity is pervasive not only in physical theories such as cosmological models of the universe,...
CSS Cookbook
Quick Solutions to Common CSS Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Learn how to solve the real problems you face with CSS. This cookbook offers hundreds of practical examples for using CSS to format your web pages, and includes code samples you can use right away. You'll find exactly what you need, from the basics to complex hacks and workarounds.
Each recipe...
Management Skills in IT
Shaping your career
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This collection of articles by IT industry experts explores the challenges IT professionals face when moving from a technical into a managerial role. The authors look at the skills required to scale the career ladder, the opportunities for training and development and how to progress from a first...
by Matthew Hindman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers...
Current Trends in Web Engineering
ICWE 2016 International Workshops, DUI, TELERISE, SoWeMine, and Liquid Web, Lugano, Switzerland, June 6-9, 2016. Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2016, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in June 2016.
The 15 revised full papers together with 5 short papers were selected form 37 submissions. The workshops complement...