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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud By: Jason Ouellette Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 10-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 18-JUN-2009 | Overview: Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud Learn how Force.com -- Salesforce.com’s developers
platform -- can replace complex, heavyweight LAMP, .NET, or J2EE
application server stacks for your business applications. Stop
wasting time reinventing common infrastructure and focus on
innovation as you leverage Force.com to create new custom
applications. Impress your boss with how quickly you can develop
applications that can scale, both in terms of number of users and
features....
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2. |  Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 29-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide This is the Safari online edition of the printed book. “In this book, David Linthicum does that rarest
of things: he manages to combine showing why SOA and Cloud
Computing complement one another with a lucid game plan of how a
business can take advantage of the synergies between them in
concrete ways that will contribute to the bottom
line.”—Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair, Cloud Computing Conference and Expo series
Sr. VP, SYS-CON Media and Events
Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software as a Service
(SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of
age. Now, one...
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3. |  By: Christopher Burgess; Richard Power Publisher: Syngress Publication Date: 08-FEB-2008 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP)
theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common.
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to
top $250 billion annually and also costs the United States
approximately 750,000 jobs. The International Chamber of Commerce
puts the global fiscal loss at more than $600 billion a year.
Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost offers both a fascinating journey
into the underside of the Information Age, geopolitics, and global
economy, shedding new light on corporate hacking, industrial
espionage,...
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4. |  Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering By: David Douglas; Greg Papadopoulos; John Boutelle Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 28-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Being an engineer today means being far more
than an engineer. You need to consider not only the design
requirements of your projects but the full impact of your
work–from an ecological perspective, an intellectual property
perspective, a business perspective, and a sociological
perspective. And you must coordinate your efforts with many other
engineers, sometimes hundreds of them. In short, we’ve
entered an age that demands socially responsible engineering on a
whole new scale: The era of the Citizen Engineer.
This engaging and...
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5. |  Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online By: Michael Miller Publisher: Que Publication Date: 11-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 27-JUN-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That
Change the Way You Work and Collaborate On-Line
Computing as you know it has changed. No
longer are you tied to using expensive programs stored on your
computer. No longer will you be able to only access your data from
one computer. No longer will you be tied to doing work only from
your work computer or playing only from your personal computer.
Enter cloud computing–an exciting new
way to work with programs and data, collaborate with friends and
family, share ideas with coworkers and...
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6. |  Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion By: Hal Abelson; Ken Ledeen; Harry Lewis Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 06-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 02-JUN-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
“If you want to understand the future
before it happens, you’ll love this book. If you want to
change the future before it happens to you, this book is required
reading.”
–Reed Hundt, former Chairman of
the Federal Communications Commission
“There is no simpler or clearer
statement of the radical change that digital technologies will
bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the
next steps.”
–Lawrence
Lessig,
Stanford Law School and Author of Code and Other Laws of
Cyberspace
“Blown to Bits will blow...
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7. |  Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide, 1st Edition By: Amy Shuen Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-APR-2008 Insert Date: 08-APR-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide, 1st Edition
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise
guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those
differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're
an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking
to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A
Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how
businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on
today's Web.
This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology,
the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that
creating a...
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8. |  Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing By: Adam Greenfield Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 11-APR-2006 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible,
but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will
it change us? how can we shape its emergence?
Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart
clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street signs and
self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in
Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything
from credit cards to the family pet.
All of these are facets of the ubiquitous
computing author Adam Greenfield calls "everyware." In a series of
brief, thoughtful meditations, Greenfield explains how everyware...
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9. |  By: Andy Hertzfeld Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 06-DEC-2004 Insert Date: 28-SEP-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Revolution In The Valley
There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and
notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a
vision. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to
its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the
groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born. The book traces the
development of the Macintosh, from its inception as an underground
skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984
and beyond. The stories in Revolution in the Valley come on
extremely good authority. That's because author Andy Hertzfeld was
a core member...
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10. |  By: John Gantz; Jack B. Rochester Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 20-SEP-2004 Insert Date: 03-JUN-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun.
Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All
of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs.
content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations,
law enforcement vs. organized crime. John Gantz and Jack Rochester
cover every side and all the implications. Economics. Law. Ethics.
Culture. The players. And above all, the realities -- including the
exclusive new findings of a 57-country digital piracy research
project. The media universe is shaking to its very foundations.
This book helps you make...
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