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PostGIS in Action

April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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: Man ning Publica tions | 2011 | 425 Pages | ISBN: 1935182269 | PDF | 17 Mb

Whether you’re canvassing a congressional district, managing a sales region, city bus schedules, or analyzing local cancer rates, thinking spatially opens up limitless possibilities for database users. PostGIS, a freely available open-source database extender, can help you answer questions that you could not answer using a mere relational database. Its feature set equals or surpasses proprietary alternatives, allowing you to create location-aware queries and features with just a few lines of SQL code.
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Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

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The groundbreaking book Driven brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is “Too Damn Difficult” will appreciate this book.

Design Driven Testing shows that, by combining a forward-thinking development process with cutting-edge automation, testing can be a finely targeted, business-driven, rewarding effort. In other words, you’ll learn how to test smarter, not harder.

  • Applies a feedback-driven approach to each stage of the project lifecycle.
  • Illustrates a lightweight and effective approach using a core subset of .
  • Follows a real-life example project using and /ActionScript.
  • Presents bonus chapters for DDTers covering unit-test antipatterns (and their opposite, “test-conscious” design patterns), and showing how to create your own test transformation templates in Enterprise Architect. [Read more...]

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Building a Web Site For Dummies, 4th Edition

September 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Building a Web Site For Dummies, 4th Edition

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The bestselling guide to a knockout site, newly updated. An site is the key to success for every venture from class reunions to major corporations. And since technology changes rapidly, Building a Web Site , 4th Edition is fully updated for the cutting-edge tools and trends.

If you need to build and maintain a Web site, even if your experience is severely limited, this book makes it easy and fun. You’ll learn to plan, , create, launch, and maintain your site using the most up-to-date tools.

  • A quality Web presence is essential in today’s marketplace, and many individuals charged with creating one are unaware of the challenges
  • This guide gives novice Web designers the tools and know-how to plan, design, and build effective Web sites
  • Provides a nuts-and-bolts guide to site-building, including coverage of HTML, WYSIWYG construction software, , and navigation plans
  • Shows how to spruce up your site with topnotch graphics, video, and great content
  • Guides you through getting your site online, promoting it, and even making money from it

Building a Web Site For Dummies, 4th Edition is the tool every first-time Web designer needs to build a professional-looking site. [Read more...]

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Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence Software

September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Silverlight 4 Business Intelligence SoftwareBook Description
() software allows you to view different components of a business using a single platform, which makes comprehending mountains of data easier. is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of . Currently, we are in the second generation of software—called 2.0—which is focused on writing software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.

As computers and software have evolved, more data can be presented to end users with increasingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft can be used to transform traditional user-interfaces filled with boring data into fully interactive analytical applications that quickly deliver insight from large data sets. Furthermore, RIA applications now include 3D spatial-design capabilities that move beyond a simple list or grid and allow for interesting layouts of aggregated data. BI 2.0 implemented via an RIA technology can truly bring out the power of BI and deliver it to an average user on the Web.

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with provides developers, designers, and architects with a solid foundation in BI design and architecture concepts for Microsoft Silverlight. This book covers key BI design concepts and how they can be applied without an existing BI infrastructure. Author Bart Czernicki provides you with examples of how to build small BI applications that are interactive, highly visual, statistical, predictive—and most importantly—intuitive to the end-user.

BI isn’t just for the executive branch of a Fortune 500 company—it is for the masses. Let Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 4 show you how to unlock the rich intelligence you already have. [Read more...]

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Inside NAND Flash Memories

September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Inside NAND Flash Memories

Digital photography, MP3, digital video, etc. make extensive use of NAND-based cards as storage media. To realize how much NAND memories pervade every aspect of our life, just imagine how our recent habits would change if the NAND memories suddenly disappeared. To take a picture it would be necessary to find a film (as well as a traditional camera…), disks or even magnetic tapes would be used to record a video or to listen a song, and a cellular phone would return to be a simple mean of communication rather than a multimedia console. The development of NAND memories will not be set down on the mere evolution of personal entertainment systems since a new killer application can trigger a further success: the replacement of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with Solid State Drives (SSDs). SSD is made up by a microcontroller and several NANDs. As NAND is the technology driver for IC circuits, designers and technologists have to deal with a lot of challenges. Therefore, SSD (system) developers must understand technology in order to exploit its benefits and countermeasure its weaknesses. Inside NAND Memories is a comprehensive guide of the NAND world: from circuits (analog and digital) to reliability (including radiation effects), from testing issues to high-performance (DDR) interface, from error correction codes to NAND applications like cards and SSDs. [Read more...]

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