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Publisher: Auerbach Publishing
Author: Judith M. Myerson
ISBN: 0849330181
Release Date: 20 November 2006

eBook Description

Helping readers bring their organizations into the future, this book explains RFID technology, its applications, data storage and retrieval, business processes, operational and implementation problems, risks, security and privacy, facility layout, handling systems and methods, and transportation costs. The book’s soup-to-nuts coverage ensures that RFID implementation’s are is successful and cost effective. The book includes selection guidelines and implementation examples, discusses the implementation of a business process model, and highlights the separate but equal concerns that business and IT executives have about the implementation of RFID applications.

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RFID in the Supply Chain: A Guide to Selection and Implementation

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Bernd Held
ISBN: 159822011X
Release Date: 25 November 2006

eBook Description
Equipped with a variety of functions and easy to use, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice when it comes to crunching numbers, building charts, and analyzing tables. But most users only scratch the surface of the program’s functionality, especially the built-in formulas designed to make everyday operations and real-world tasks more efficient. Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas demonstrates the secrets of Excel functions through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. Topics include logical, text, date and time, basic statistical, mathematical, financial, database, and reference functions as well as conditional formatting with formulas, array formulas, and user-defined functions.

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Microsoft Excel Functions and Formulas: Excel 97–Excel 2003 (Wordware Applications Library)

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Author: Paul Thurrott
ISBN: 0764577042
Release Date: 10 January 2007

eBook Description
“If one book can help you master Vista, this is it.” –Fred Langa, former editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine

“These two know more about Windows than Microsoft does.” –Chris Pirillo, editor of Lockergnome.com

Go beyond Microsoft’s Help guide and discover the true secrets of Windows Vista that are essential to power users. Written by two of the most recognized Windows authorities, this resource provides you with numerous tips, tricks, and undocumented features that aren’t available anywhere else. You’ll find extensive screenshots, tables, and illustrations that clearly show how to achieve optimal performance, fix desktop problems, and take advantage of the robust features of Windows Vista.

The Insider’s Guide to

• Installing and upgrading your system (see Chapter 2)
• Quickly finding and organizing all of your files (see Chapter 5)
• Taking advantage of new security features (see Chapter
• Creating your own movies and DVDs (see Chapter 12)
• Playing state-of-the-art games with amazing effects (see Chapter 14)
• Going wireless using Windows Vista mobility features (see Chapter 15)
• Managing your schedule with Windows® Calendar (see Chapter 20)

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Windows Vista Secrets

Publisher: Apress
Author: Ahmed Metwally
ISBN: 1590596994
Release Date: 20 October 2006

eBook Description

Pro BizTalk 2006 is a high-end resource that is based on real feedback from BizTalk developers. Authors George Dunphy and Ahmed Metwally are well known within the BizTalk community, and here they cover topics not discussed in other books, like performance tuning, scalability, and administration. This book also features examples of specific, real-world implementations.

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Pro BizTalk 2006 (Pro)

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Christian Chang
ISBN: 1556228708
Release Date: 25 November 2006

eBook Description
This book is all meat and cuts right to the point - modeling and texturing game weapons like a professional. Written by Christian Chang, weapons modeler on America’s Army and now at EA, this book delivers what the reader wants. Starting with a discussion on customizing your modeling application for ease of use, the book emphasizes the importance of employing professional techniques when setting up your project. From there, the chapters concentrate on creating specific weapons - from a samurai sword to a modern high-velocity, fully-automatic machine gun - in a step-by-step progression from simple to complex. Each weapon is modeled, UV mapped, optimized, and finally textured for realism.

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Modeling, UV Mapping, and Texturing 3D Game Weapons (Wordware Game Developer’s Library)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Jarkko Laine
ISBN: 1590597362
Release Date: 06 November 2006

eBook Description

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails–the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You’ll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You’ll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout.

You will begin by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a product catalog interfaced with your choice of database technologies. Then you’ll discover how to build modern, Ajax-powered shopping carts and add useful features like customer feedback modules. Next you’ll learn how to integrate your application with open source packages like the Ferret full-text search engine, and how to interface with back-end electronic payment systems. You’ll also learn how to make your application work flawlessly with existing production systems using web services, and then ultimately deploy and tune your application for production use.

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Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (Rails)

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Char James-Tanny
ISBN: 1598220284
Release Date: 25 February 2007

eBook Description
Virtual collaborative team environments face unique challenges because their communication is not face-to-face. Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools provides practical advice for managers of distributed teams who must design the internal systems and meet deadlines with a diverse team, and for team members who want to develop and maintain professional relationships. To address these needs, this book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses team dynamics, project management and development, and forms of communication. Part II covers the types of tools currently available for collaboration such as wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, and more, and describes the different feature sets of each. Part III explains the various features of the book’s companion wiki.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools (Wordware Applications Library)

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Gary Oliverio
ISBN: 1598220209
Release Date: 25 October 2006

eBook Description
This Maya modeling book is unique in its approach to modeling a high-resolution character model. Where other books take a grueling approach that often leaves readers confused, Maya 8 Character Modeling breaks down the character into an easy-to-follow formula. Readers learn that modeling a character can be accomplished without the fear of being in over their heads. In addition, the author takes a light-hearted approach to the subject matter, making the learning process easier to digest. This allows the reader to look at the modeling process as an enjoyable undertaking as opposed to dealing with the steep learning curve of other modeling books.

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Maya 8 Character Modeling (Wordware Applications Library)

Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Christopher G. Lasater
ISBN: 1598220314
Release Date: 25 November 2006

eBook Description
Design patterns books have been gaining popularity since languages like Java and C first became widely used. Since Microsoft released its first truly object-oriented language, .NET, software designers from an even broader range of business and programming spheres have been looking for ways to refine and write better code. Many have turned toward design patterns, iterative and AGILE design methodologies, and other more defined ways to improve performance, maintainability, portability, and scalability of code as well as design processes. This book fits into that need in that it can teach people who write software new skills and techniques for improving their existing and new coding efforts.

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Design Patterns (Wordware Applications Library)

Publisher: Apress
Author: Jr., Carl Ganz
ISBN: 1590597591
Release Date: 30 October 2006

eBook Description

Pro Crystal Enterprise/BusinessObjects XI Programming shows you how to create customized solutions using the Business Objects/Crystal Enterprise object model. Here you’ll see the object model utilized to create professional-quality tools like on-demand web services, report metadata extraction, scheduling, security, and user management.

Author Carl Ganz explains in detail how to build advanced reporting solutions for Crystal Enterprise/Business Objects XI. He shows how to integrate CE/BO XI with .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio to create more flexible, tailored, and responsive reporting solutions than have previously been possible. In short, you’ll surpass what you thought you could achieve, and learn to create almost any imaginable reporting solution that Business Objects XI can handle.

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Pro Crystal Enterprise / BusinessObjects XI Programming (Pro)