Table of Contents: “…Type extensibilityCaching; Wrapping up - why program in the server?; Performance; Ease of maintenance; Improved productivity; Simple ways to tighten security; Summary; Chapter 2: Server Programming Environments; Cost of acquisition; Availability of developers; Licensing; Predictability; Community; Procedural languages; Third-party tools; Platform compatibility; Application design; Databases are considered harmful; Encapsulation; What does PostgreSQL offer?…”

Table of Contents: “…Example of a PWM DC motor drivePWM power advantages; Brakeable and reversible PWM motor drive; Gears; Bibliography; 6 Inexpensive Ways to Perform Circuit Simulation; Circuit simulation history; Modern circuit simulation programs; TINA-TI; Simulations wrap-up; 7 Computer Logic; The birth of integrated circuits; The advent of logic; Boole; Shannon; Why is it called logic?…”

Table of Contents: “…IT Career Jumpstart; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Computer's Brain: Processors and Memory; Introduction to Processors; The Intel Processor Lineup; Stacking Up the Competition; Using Multiprocessor and Multicore Computers; Physical Memory; Bus Architecture; Terms to Know; Review Questions; Chapter 2: Storing Your Files: Data Storage; Keys to Data Storage; Understanding Hard Drive Basics; Performance with SDD Drives; Performance with SCSI Drives; Organizing Disks; Understanding Partition Types; A Primer on Disk Drive Configurations; Types of Offline Data Storage; Terms to Know; Review Questions…”

Table of Contents: “…Making Pig Fly; Writing Your Scripts to Perform Well; Filter Early and Often; Project Early and Often; Set Up Your Joins Properly; Use Multiquery When Possible; Choose the Right Data Type…”

Table of Contents: “…Optimizing an Application's PerformanceUsing Instrumentation for Code Optimization; Ensuring Responsiveness in Your Apps; Other Performance Considerations for iOS Apps; Chapter 11: Making Your App Reliable and Secure; Making Your App Reliable Through Testing; Adapting to Changes in the App's Environment; Considering Security in an iOS App; Looking at security holistically; Understanding the attack surface and developing a threat model for an app; Implementing authentication and access control; Protecting core data files with encryption; Adding auditing to your application…”

Table of Contents: “…; Sources of investment performance; Safe havens that provide different kinds of shelter; Which government bonds will perform best?…”

Table of Contents: “…Detailing the RecordGetting Help and Setting Up; Chapter 3: Personalizing Your System; Using the Personal Setup Menu; Modifying Your Personal Information; Working with Salesforce Remotely; Importing Your Contacts; Part II: Keeping Track of Customer Relationships; Chapter 4: Managing Accounts; Getting Familiar with the Account Record; Creating and Updating Your Accounts; Organizing Your Accounts; Performing Actions with Account Related Lists; Maintaining Your Account Database; Chapter 5: Developing Contacts; Understanding the Contact Record; Customizing Contact Information…”

Table of Contents: “…; The Bottom Line; Chapter 2 Planning and Installing VMware ESXi; Planning a VMware vSphere Deployment; Choosing a Server Platform; Determining a Storage Architecture; Integrating with the Network Infrastructure; Deploying VMware ESXi; Installing VMware ESXi Interactively; Performing an Unattended Installation of VMware ESXi…”

Table of Contents: “…Configuring hosts, host groups, and host group hierarchyHost groups; Host group hierarchy; Hosts; Host templates; Configuring service checks and service groups; Creating service checks; Active Plugin; SNMP polling; Passive; Using dependencies; Adding plugins to the system; Handling performance data; Creating and installing Opspacks; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Configuration; Using exceptions; Creating and using keywords; Using keyword views; Creating and using host-attributes; Using attributes to multiply service checks; Configuring notifications; Using shared notification profiles…”

Table of Contents: “…Custom SQL SubQueryCustom SQL and custom join conditions; Custom join conditions; Combining queries; The query log and exporting SQL; Summary; Chapter 5: Results and Tables; Results section; The Tables sections; Creating a table section; Duplicating a table; Removing Table sections; Removing Results sections; Adding and modifying content; Data layout; Auto-populating table columns; Moving columns; Hiding/showing columns; Identifying computed items; Removing columns; Filters; Creating filters; Filters on multiple sections; Status Bar; Filter performance; Sorting; Sorting performance…”

Table of Contents: “…AFTER WE ACHIEVE A TASK'S PRIMARY GOAL, WE OFTEN FORGET CLEANUP STEPS9 Recognition are Easy; Recall is Hard; RECOGNITION IS EASY; RECALL IS HARD; RECOGNITION VERSUS RECALL: IMPLICATIONS FOR UI DESIGN; 10 Learning from Experience and Performing Learned Actions are Easy; Problem Solving and Calculation are Hard; WE HAVE THREE BRAINS; LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE IS (USUALLY) EASY; PERFORMING LEARNED ACTIONS IS EASY; PROBLEM SOLVING AND CALCULATION ARE HARD; IMPLICATIONS FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN; ANSWERS TO PUZZLES ON PAGES 124 AND 125; 11 Many Factors Affect Learning…”

Table of Contents: “…Taking a Spin around Report BuilderDeveloping a Report; Displaying a report in SharePoint; Chapter 10: PerformancePoint Development with Dashboard Designer; Zooming in on PerformancePoint Services; Taking a Spin around Dashboard Designer; Developing a Dashboard; Part IV: Unleashing the Programmer Within; Chapter 11: SharePoint Development with Visual Studio; Introducing Visual Studio; Examining the .NET Framework; Installing the SharePoint Tools; Taking a Spin around Visual Studio; Organizing Your Visual Studio Solutions; Discover the SharePoint Software Development Kit…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Tools and Workflow -- The Core Workflow -- How Media Composer Works: Files and Relationships -- How Media Composer Works: System Hardware -- Starting the System -- Creating and Opening a Project -- Working in the Project Window -- Exploring the Editing Interface -- Loading and Marking Clips -- Making Your First Edit -- Saving Your Work -- Review Questions -- 2 Basic Editing -- Playing and Marking Clips -- Locating an Audio Edit Cue -- Creating a Sequence -- Removing Material from a Sequence -- Creating Subclips -- Creating Subsequences -- Creating a Storyboard -- Review Questions -- 3 Timeline Editing -- Extracting Top and Tail -- Working with Tracks -- Editing Segments in the Timeline Using Segment Mode -- Useful Editing Tools and Techniques -- Review Questions -- 4 Fine-Tuning the Sequence -- Understanding Trimming -- Trimming Types -- The Trimming Process -- Performing Trims -- Additional Methods for Adding and Removing Frames -- Slipping and Sliding Segments -- Review Questions -- 5 Basic Audio Editing -- Understanding Audio Level and Pan -- Adjusting Level and Pan in the Audio Mixer Tool -- Adjusting Audio Gain Using Keyframes -- Audio Gain Automation Real-Time Recording -- Review Questions -- 6 Customizing Settings -- Viewing and Changing Settings -- Mapping Buttons and Menu Items -- Configuring the Timeline -- Using Toolsets -- Review Questions -- 7 Introducing Effects -- Effect Types -- Accessing and Applying Effects -- Horizontal Effects -- Using Keyframes -- Direct Manipulation Handles -- Saving and Applying Effect Templates -- Creating Vertical Effects -- Nesting Effects -- Review Questions -- 8 Introducing Color Correction -- Getting Started with Color Correction -- Using Automatic Color Correction -- Color Correction Toolset -- Performing Automatic Color Corrections…”

Table of Contents: “…Latch " Spinning "Measuring the Cost of Latching a Shared Resource; Setting Up for the Test; Without Bind Variables; With Bind Variables; Performance/Scalability Comparison; Mutexes; Manual Locking and User-Defined Locks; Manual Locking; Creating Your Own Locks; Summary; Chapter 4: Concurrency and Multiversioning; What Are Concurrency Controls?…”

Table of Contents: “…The Right to Fire on Performance; 3. The Right to Control Operations; 4. …”

Table of Contents: “…Preparing and Understanding DataData Preprocessing and Feature Selection; Classification Model for Predicting Churn; Evaluating the Performance of the Customer Churn Models; Summary; Chapter 7: Customer Segmentation Models; Customer Segmentation Models in a Nutshell; Building and Deploying Your First K-Means Clustering Model; Feature Hashing; Identifying the Right Features; Properties of K-Means Clustering; Customer Segmentation of Wholesale Customers; Loading the Data from the UCI Machine Learning Repository; Using K-Means Clustering for Wholesale Customer Segmentation…”

Table of Contents: “…Selecting a Literal ValueRetrieving from a Table; Generating a Select-List; Mixing Literals and Column Names; Filtering Data; Adding a WHERE Clause; Using WHERE Clauses with Alternate Operators; Using BETWEEN; Using BETWEEN with NOT; Filtering on Date and Time; Using WHERE Clauses with Two Predicates; Using the IN Operator; Working with NULL; Sorting Data; Thinking About Performance; Taking Advantage of Indexes; Viewing Execution Plans; Summary; Answers to the Exercises; Solutions to Exercise 3-1: Using the SELECT Statement; Solutions to Exercise 3-2: Filtering Data…”

Table of Contents: “…Case 2.1: Computex CorporationCase 2.2: Johannes Van Den Bosch Sends An Email; Case 2.3: Carlos Ghosn: Leader Without Borders; Part 3: Training, Performance Management, Appraisal, And Compensation Issues For Global Managers; Reading 3.1: Changing Patterns Of Global Staffing In The Multinational Enterprise: Challenges To The Conventional Expatriate Assignment And Emerging Alternatives; Reading 3.2: Expatriate Performance Appraisal: Problems And Solutions; Reading 3.3: A Local Perspective To Expatriate Success: Executive Overview; Case 3.1: Fred Bailey: An Innocent Abroad…”

Table of Contents: “…Using Properties to Control TasksSetting Conditions; Performing Conditional Actions; Stopping Builds; Property-Setting Tasks; Availability of resources; Checking file modification dates; Using Property Files; Loading Text; Overriding Properties; Setting Properties Using Environment Variables; Handling Data Using Types; Path-Like Structures; Working with Groups of Files; Default excludes; Working with Groups of Directories; Creating Lists of Files; Working with Patterns; Selectors; File Filters; Using the filter task; Filtering and Modifying Text with FilterChains and FilterReaders…”

Table of Contents: “…CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORSHIP5 PRE-PRODUCTION; 10 HIRING CAST AND CREW-A LOT OF LAW TO WORRY ABOUT; FEDERAL AND STATE LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAWS - AN OVERVIEW; UNIONS; SERVICE AGREEMENTS; CHECKLIST: ELEMENTS OF A SERVICE AGREEMENT; 11 THE PRODUCER'S SERVICES AGREEMENT; MAJOR DEAL POINTS: PRODUCER'S SERVICES AGREEMENT; 12 THE DIRECTOR'S SERVICES AGREEMENT; MAJOR DEAL POINTS: DIRECTOR'S SERVICES AGREEMENT; 13 CREW SERVICES AGREEMENT; MAJOR DEAL POINTS: CREW'S SERVICES AGREEMENT; 14 PERFORMERS; THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG); THE PERFORMER'S SERVICES AGREEMENT…”