Learn what is new in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, including the changes to support business process and the capturing and matching of business processes to the technology application.
Kirby Turner discusses key concepts from his book Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5. In this interview, he describes the target audience for the book, how his book differs from other books on similar topics, and what you can expect to gain from reading the book and learning what it teaches.
The end of 2011 brought new releases of both the C and C++ standards for the first time, with C11 sneaking in just before Christmas. David Chisnall takes a look at one of the more important features added to both standards: atomic operations.
Engineers in the 21st century will need to design for energy efficiency, mass efficiency, and low environmental emissions. Both near and long-term steps are needed reduce fossil resource consumption and approach zero waste generation from engineered processes and products.
This quick reference covers best practices for the deployment of Cisco Unified Communications Manager as well as an overview of compatible codecs and regions.
Rex Black and Capers Jones continue discussing Capers Jones' book The Economics of Software Quality. Watch this podcast to learn some surprising and motivating facts about software quality and how to improve it.
Did you ever spend a weekend working through some kooky idea for coding an app you'd had in mind for years? Like many of us, Dhanji R. Prasanna has carried concepts around in his mental pockets, and one day he decided to go ahead and try it. The goal was a working app in two days. Would he succeed or fail miserably? Some things he learned were to be expected, but others he could never have predicted.
Jez Humble, coauthor of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, urges teams to move away from the all-or-nothing design of traditional software delivery approaches. Following the practices outlined here, you can deliver single-feature or small-story batches that dramatically decrease the time needed to build a new product or new release, testing and moving forward on successful features and redesigning or dropping features that fail (or that users show they don't really want).
Google has changed more in the past year than it did in the 12 years prior to that. Most of the changes are good for honest marketers who just want the ranking their content deserves. But taken together, they radically change search engine marketing (SEM) best practices. James Mathewson (author of Audience, Relevance, and Search: Targeting Web Audiences with Relevant Content), won't go into every change, because they number in the dozens, but this article discusses three changes every SEM should care about.
To help you understand the steps involved in keying in a program and compiling and running it, this chapter shows you how to write your first simple Objective-C program.
This article takes a look at some of the most basic network verification commands that can be used on Cisco equipment and discusses the information that can be obtained from these commands.
Gary McGraw and Sammy Migues introduce a revised, compact version of the BSIMM for vendors called vBSIMM, which can be thought of as a foundational security control for vendor management of third-party software providers.
In this two-part interview, Rex Black talks with Capers Jones about his book The Economics of Software Quality, in which leading software quality experts Jones and Olivier Bonsignour show how to measure the economic impact of quality and how to use this data to deliver exceptional business value.