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A guide to architecting, designing, and building distributed applications with Windows Communication Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run workflows. This guide enables developers to create state-of-the-art applications using this technology. Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs and WCF experts, this book explains how the pieces of WCF 4.0 build on each other to provide a comprehensive framework to support distributed enterprise applications. Experienced developers will learn both theory and practical application using the familiar Wrox approach. Windows Communication Foundation is used in a variety of service-oriented applications and will be used by almost every .NET developer This book is a comprehensive guide to architecting, designing, and building .NET applications with WCF 4 Shows how to design and build three sample WCF applications covering the most important communication scenarios Examines design principles and patterns, technology, implementation, and operational issues Covers both the technical aspects of the WCF 4 stack and the practical issues developers will encounter .NET developers will learn to design services, create a hosting environment with Dublin, build cloud-based integrations, and much more. |
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Offers step-based guidance readers need to make sure failure is not an option. This book shows you how to make sure you hit your target market before you spend a lot of money. It explains how to gather information on competitors, directly interview members of your target market, and figure out what the market really wants to buy. |
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Fixed-income securities traditionally promised fixed cash flows (like bonds), but there have been many newly-created fixed income securities for which the promised cash flows depend on the level of interest rates, making them hard to value. This revised book covers the most advanced thinking in the field and comprehensively shows how to value the complete universe of fixed income securities. Included are all the latest fixed income securities valuation models and techniques, and their applications in real world situations. The third edition will also include two new chapters dedicated to foreign exchange markets and corporate bonds and credit-default swaps. |
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Get empowered and take control of your personal finances with Mint.com! Mint.com is a free Web-based personal financial management service that helps you set up your day-to-day finances and track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions through a single Web site that is accessible anytime, anywhere in the world that you can access through the Internet. This fun and friendly guide arms you with expert advice for managing your bills, following where your money is going, developing a budget, paying off loans, saving for a house or car, maximizing investments, managing retirement savings, and more. The straightforward and easy-to-understand Dummies writing style shows you how to use Mint.com to get your finances organized—and keep them that way. Introduces you to Mint.com, the free personal online finance management service that helps you set up and track your day-to-day finances Walks you through the steps for creating a budget based on your current spending habits or creating a budget with goals in mind (saving for a new home or car, paying off college loans early, having a comfortable retirement, etc.) Tells you everything you need to do to track bank, credit card, investments, loan transactions and manage your bills Shows you how to import and export tax information from Mint.com, including the tax software packages that make it the easiest Includes handy checklists, expert tips, invaluable advice, and helpful warnings throughout Mint.com For Dummies helps you get your daily finances in mint condition! |
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«An excellent book for beginners as well as advanced 3ds Max users. A valuable reference that covers everything you'd want to know.» Andre Surya, Award-winning Digital Artist A favorite of 3ds Max artists from beginners to pros! Why is 3ds Max Bible a perennial bestselling favorite? Because whether you're a beginner looking for a tutorial to get you up to speed your first day or an expert needing a reference to Max's advanced features, it's all here. Loaded with advice, professional tips, and more than 150 step-by-step lessons, this is the most comprehensive reference-tutorial on 3ds Max on the market, and the one you'll turn to again and again. * Organize and blend sequences with the new Animation Layers feature * Explore Sun and Sky, Car Paint, and other new mental ray shaders * Combine and divide objects with ProBoolean and ProCutter * Create more accurate dynamic animations with updated reactor tools * Add greater realism with enhanced and integrated hair and fur tools * Reference objects, materials, and controllers with XRef Animate a dancing cartoon moose Isolate mapping surfaces with the Quick Planar map button Add realistic motion to your model's hairstyle What's on the DVD? You'll find before-and-after example files for every tutorial in the book. The DVD also includes: * Models and textures to customize for your own designs * Rendered AVI files of animations used in the tutorials * All the Max files for every tutorial * Adobe tryout versions of After Effects(r), Photoshop(r) CS2, Illustrator(r) CS2, and Premiere Pro System Requirements: See the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.» |
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Xcode 4 is Apple’s newest version of the popular development suite for creating bleeding-edge OS X and iOS apps. Written by an experienced developer and Apple-focused journalist, this book not only covers developing for OS X but also for the entire family of iOS devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You’ll explore the newest tools for compiling, debugging, and finding and fixing common code errors so that you can look forward to improved, smooth-running code that is developed more efficiently than ever. Takes you step-by-step through the process of developing OS X and iOS applications using Xcode 4 Examines the benefits of Xcode 4, Apple’s updated, free, object oriented programming environment Helps you tame the complex Xcode environment so you can develop amazing apps This book gets you up to speed on all the remarkable new features and redesigned user interface of Xcode 4 so you can get started creating phenomenal apps today. |
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This job-hunter's resource is based on the inside secrets of executive search firms. Using the little-known techniques and strategies that executive search professionals use to ensure the success of their referrals, this book helps job seekers package their background and experience as positively and professionally as possible. Job candidates will learn to market themselves effectively, separate themselves from the competition, and eliminate the mistakes and miscues that could cost them the job. |
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В наше время миллиарды пользователей носят в кармане портативные устройства, и в половине из них установлена операционная система Android. Даже если вы никогда не разрабатывали приложения для мобильных устройств, прочитав эту книгу, вы сможете воплотить свои невероятные идеи в современные приложения для платформы Android. Здесь вы найдете подробные инструкции по загрузке и установке среды разработки и созданию приложений для Android. Прочитайте книгу и станьте настоящим профессионалом!• Добро пожаловать в Android! Научитесь создавать современные приложения для Android, использовать инструменты разработки, работать с экранами мобильных устройств и организовывать процесс разработки.• Ваше приложение должно понравиться пользователям. Научитесь делать графический интерфейс приложения эстетически привлекательным и удобным для использования.• Научитесь программировать приложения. Ознакомьтесь с жизненным циклом приложения и стандартными библиотечными классами Android. Научитесь пользоваться отладчиком Eclipse и эмулятором портативных устройств.• Важны не только основы. Узнайте, как создавать приложения, взаимодействующие с базами данных SQLite и отображающие информацию на многих экранах.• Назначьте цену и продайте свою разработку. Научитесь определять правильную цену собственных приложений и публиковать их в онлайн-магазине Android Market для продажи миллионам пользователей. |
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This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. The new preface demonstrates the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. It is a groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society. It includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy. It describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation. It is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. |
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Offers an explanation of Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault-tolerance, and fast response is essential. This book focuses on the language`s syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists, recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency. |
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Entirely brand-new, Frommer's Italian Islands clues you in to the region's best experiences, from enjoying secluded beaches or sophisticated nightlife to exploring towns and villages or unique archaeology. Think you've seen it all in Italy? Our author hits all the highlights, with the best of the islands, from the Tuscan archipelago to Siciliy and Sardinia, then moves off the beaten track to the dramatic and volcanic Aeolian Islands, beautiful and historic Aegadi Islands, the Tremiti Islands — aka the 'pearls of the Apulian Adriatic Sea', and many more. She's checked out all the best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find choices to suit your taste and budget, whether this is your first visit to Italy, or your twentieth. |
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This is a guide to finding a great job in any economy. After working at all three of the major career management and outplacement companies in the United States, Ford Myers knows firsthand what works, what doesn't, and why when it comes to finding a great job. In good times or bad, no matter what the economic news of the day is, job-hunters with the right skills and strategies can find the job they're looking for. In Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring, Myers offers job search strategies that work even when the economy isn't. These skills and tactics are well known to those inside the job placement industry, but little known to most job hunters. This practical guide includes the kind of insider advice and effective tactics that readers will find nowhere else. Ford R. Myers (Philadelphia, PA) is President of Career Potential, LLC, where he provides professional services in career counseling, executive coaching, and assessment. He frequently appears on screen and in print as a career expert. |
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There are many ways to make money in today's market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world. |
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A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve your job satisfaction and performance. In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: the causes of a miserable job. |
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In Bailout, John Waggoner answers the essential questions surrounding recent market catastrophes-from the failure of Bear Stearns to the credit crisis-and reveals how you can protect your portfolio during these turbulent times. Waggoner offers a wide range of strategies to help your portfolio weather this storm, including rebalancing and using foreign currencies, and discusses how Treasury bonds, gold, commodities, and real estate can solidify your financial standing. With the expert advice found here, you'll quickly discover what it takes to achieve safety and success in today's volatile market. |
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Karl Albrecht defines social intelligence (SI) as the ability to get along well with others while winning their cooperation. SI is a combination of sensitivity to the needs and interests of others, sometimes called your social radar, an attitude of generosity and consideration, and a set of practical skills for interacting successfully with people in any setting. Social Intelligence provides a highly accessible and comprehensive model for describing, assessing, and developing social intelligence at a personal level. This book is filled with intriguing concepts, enlightening examples, stories, cases, situational strategies, and a self-assessment tool — all designed to help you learn to navigate social situations more successfully. |
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Издательство: Wiley, 2011 Жанр: Wiley Страниц: 288 страниц Загрузил: vitalysev, 14 августа 2014
«Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow′s enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don′t yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation . Co–created by 470 «Business Model Canvas» practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4–color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game–changing business model––or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you′ll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you′re ready to change the rules, you belong to «the business model generation!» |
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Angela Merkel was already unique when she became German chancellor: the first female leader of Europe's biggest economy, the first from former communist East Germany and the first born after World War II. Since 2010, the debt crisis that spread from Greece to the euro region and the world economy has propelled her to center-stage, making Merkel the dominant politician in the struggle to preserve Europe's economic model and its single currency. Yet the Protestant pastor's daughter is often viewed as enigmatic and hard-to-predict, a misreading that took hold as she resisted global pressure for grand gestures to counter the crisis. Having turned the fall of the Berlin Wall to her advantage, Merkel is trying to get history on her side again after reaching the fundamental decision to save the euro, the crowning achievement of post-war European unity. Merkel has brought Europe to a crossroads. Germany's economic might gives her unprecedented power to set the direction for the European Union's 500 million people. What's at stake is whether she will persuade them to follow the German lead. Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis is the definitive new biography of the world's most powerful woman. Delving into Merkel's past, the authors explain the motives behind her drive to remake Europe for the age of globalization, her economic role models and the experiences under communism that color her decisions. For the first time in English, Merkel is fully placed in her European context. Through exclusive interviews with leading policy makers and Merkel confidants, the book reveals the behind-the-scenes drama of the crisis that came to dominate her chancellorship, her prickly relationship with the U.S. and admiration for Eastern Europe. Written by two long-standing Merkel watchers, the book documents how her decisions and vision — both works in progress — are shaping a pivotal moment in European history. This is a most interesting read of how Angela Merkel has dealt with the Euro crisis, reflecting on her own unique upbringing and background, and how it may have influenced her decisions. An important read for anyone trying to understand the German leadership through the crisis. (Jim O'Neill, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (coined the term BRICs to describe the group of major emerging nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China)). |
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«The world′s most infamous hacker offers an insider′s view of the low–tech threats to high–tech security Kevin Mitnick′s exploits as a cyber–desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought–after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world′s most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, «It takes a thief to catch a thief.» Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked–down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true–crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.» |
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Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain's career. It captures his authentic and unsuppressed voice, speaking clearly from the grave and brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions. The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across the contemporary scene. He shares his views on writing and speaking, his preoccupation with money, and his contempt for the politics and politicians of his day. Affectionate and scathing by turns, his intractable curiosity and candor are everywhere on view. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick. |
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