Mary Jo Frederich and Peter Andrews describe First-of-a-Kind FOAK Program which promotes innovation that delivers real profitable business value....

This chapter defines the process of production acceptance and describes many of the benefits this process provides to a variety of groups both inside and outside of IT....

brian d foy shows you how to use HTML TreeBuilder so you end up using a natural easy-to-follow interface that your maintenance programmers can understand. Now effective Perl....

Ask yourself this question I want to feel proud of what I Most people would answer yes. But if you really mean it you need to set personal standards and strive to meet them....

This chapter shows you how to troubleshoot principles and approaches implement troubleshooting processes and integrate troubleshooting into the network maintenance process....

Coding conventions are a common source of controversy. David Chisnall looks at some of the common style rules why they exist and provides some advice for people writing style guidelines....

Wi-Fi networks in businesses should be using the Enterprise mode of WPA or WPA2 encryption. Eric Geier shows you how to move from the Personal PSK mode to the Enterprise RADIUS mode....

Aaron Hillegas and Linda Leung discuss the Apple phenomena what we can expect next from Steve Jobs co. Big Nerd monastic retreat and thoughts on Android....

Is your development process actually adding bugs to your custom code If your testing and change processes are manual Aaron Erickson points out that you might be adding as many defects as you think eliminating....

Hal Fulton interviews Shay Friedman about writing code at the age of 8 why IronRuby is much more than a bridge between .NET and Ruby and why both Rubyists and .NET developers should use IronRuby....

In this transcript of an oral history Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In part 7 Humphrey discusses his role as Director of Programming at IBM including how he got a handle on the volume of mail he received a problem even in the 1960s standing up to his boss and introducing the concept of planning to the entire programming division...

Learn about the process of design where been with regard to manufacturing and engineering and where going. Included is an outline for a typical design process....

In this transcript of an oral history Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In part 6 Humphrey discusses the IBM 360 announcement battling GE and MIT for market share and marketing the IBM Model 67....

In preparation for the SCEA for Java EE exam this chapter covers the area of presentation in the JEE platform and focuses on presentation technologies designed to render in a standards-compliant HTML browser....

The Event-Driven Messaging design pattern attempts to address the inefficiencies related to the use of the traditional polling based model by suggesting a publisher-subscriber based model whereby a service interaction occurs only when an event occurs within the boundary of the service provider....