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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition - Free 207 Page Preview!
The PHP Anthology will save you time--and eliminate the frustration of completing PHP tasks--with a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions. If you're building web applications with PHP you'll never let this book out of your site!
Beth BrindleThe Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Most companies have a well-defined strategy that is intended to align the actions of all individuals, teams, and business units to achieve corporate goals. But when it comes time to execute, they can run into trouble. To close the gap between strategy and execution, companies need to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities across the organization.
Best practices include:- Define strategy & align initiatives with corporate goals
- Clearly communicate strategies and plans
- Use incentives to drive employee behaviors needed to meet objectives
- Measure performance using key performance indicators
Explore how businesses can implement best practices using strategy management software.
Beth BrindleImproving Customer Support and HelpDesk Efficiencies with On-Demand Remote Support
Now you can sit at your desk and solve the toughest support problems remotely. Why visit all your employees or customers and solve their support issues at their desks when you can save time and solve them all from your desk?
NTRsupport puts the power of remote screen-sharing at your fingertips. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can take control of employees' or customers' PCs or Macs, quickly diagnose their problems, and solve them, all without leaving your desk.
But don't take NTR Global's word for it, try a fully-functional 15-day free trial and find out first-hand how remote support can make your life a lot easier!
With NTRsupport, you'll provide instant, easy-to-use, remote support to all your customers and employees – no matter where they are, no matter what platform or device they are using.
Beth BrindleAre You Wasting Your .NET Developer Training Budget?
If you want your software team to stay abreast of the latest software technologies while also developing new applications and supporting an existing code base, you cannot afford to rely on outmoded training methods.
This white paper explores the limitations of conventional training methods for developers, and presents 6 elements of a truly effective learning program for your development organization.
Beth BrindleDo's and Don'ts of Search Engine Optimization
The world of Search Engine Optimization has a colorful past, including both good techniques and poor techniques, known as search engine spam. Search Engine Optimizers are frequently categorized as White Hat or Black Hat. White Hat techniques embrace a "Best Practices" approach to SEO, working for both the good of the Web site and the good of the Search Engines, while Black Hat techniques can actually harm results and devalue a web site.
This white paper examines the proper techniques of Search Engine Optimization, as well as which ones to avoid.
Beth BrindleSmart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization
SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks or services. But pursuing SOA on an ad hoc basis can drastically reduce its benefits.
This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles.
Beth BrindleInfoWorld's Java IDE Comparison Strategy Guide
If you're looking for a Java IDE, you want one based on Eclipse. But which offering do you want? Download the Infoworld Java IDE Comparison Strategy Guide and go deep into the details, comparing Technology of the Year winner JBuilder 2007, IBM's IRAD, MyEclipse and the free open-source Eclipse platform.
This Java IDE Strategy Guide closes with a look at an advanced concept in Java development: Application Factories. This innovative development metaphor and associated collection of tools allows developers to focus more on the nature and purpose of the application, and less on the underlying platform, framework, and technologies being used.
Beth BrindleProspecting Guide: What Every VAR Should Expect From a Software Vendor
Almost any solution provider will tell you the same story: prospecting for new clients is one of the top impediments to serious success. So, ask yourself this: What is my software supplier doing to help make prospecting easier and less painful? This guide tells you what Sage Software believes every solution provider should expect from their supplier.
Beth BrindleThe Top 3 Right Ways to Go Green
Going green isn't just about saving the planet or hopping on the latest bandwagon, it's about the bottom line: saving the environment while saving money.
Eco-conscious companies are tasked with the challenge of finding solutions that control and manage information created from disparate sources and stored in many different forms. These forms often include paper files, archived information, document images, digital application files, computer print files, emails, faxes, Web site input, and many others. Download this free overview to learn the top three right ways to get started with your green initiative.
Beth BrindleThe 5 Essentials of Effective Software Development Metrics
Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. Why? In large part, it's because of a profound lack of visibility and transparency into development processes, and this lack of visibility only increases with the complexity of projects and physical distribution of teams. This means that projects that are sent offshore are even more challenged when it comes to visibility, transparency and control.
This white paper discusses the five essential elements of software development metrics success, providing a framework for planning a metrics-driven software development program within your organization.
Beth BrindleBetter Software
Better Software is the magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Delivering in-depth articles on testing, tools, defect tracking, metrics, and management, as well as techniques for improving results throughout software development, Better Software magazine is exclusively dedicated to software professionals.
Beth BrindleFirst Data Accelerates .NET Developer Learning with InnerWorkings
In most software organizations today, developer training is seldom aligned with business strategy and corporate objectives. The majority of developers are left alone to learn new skills in a fairly ad-hoc manner, through mentoring, the occasional instructor-led class, and books.
This case study explores how First Data Corp adopted a more hands-on approach to .NET developer training by implementing a .NET learning tool that is 100% practice based. Using it, the development team worked together to enhance their .NET skills, starting with Object Oriented Design & Development and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Development. They designed and shared a consistent learning experience that led to stronger collaboration across multiple software teams and locations.
Read the case study to learn more about First Data's implementation, critical success factors, and tangible business results.
Beth BrindleThe Business Benefits of Software-as-a-Service: Making the Most of the On-Demand Advantag
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a growing phenomenon in worldwide business. From the original ideas of outsourcing the data center and having third parties manage the software (the ASP movement of the turn of the century) to true SaaS today, the tsunami of outsourced IT and new methods of accessing business software solutions has created a multi-billion dollar market.
Explore the business advantages and considerations in moving to "on-demand" and running your business via Software-as-a-Service.
Beth BrindleSmart SOA Tutorial
Learn how the adoption of SOA can provide the agility organizations need to ensure adaptability and enable change.
This animated tutorial explains how IBM's Smart SOA approach provides basic to advanced guidance for pursuing SOA projects, allowing you to align your company's efforts with its primary objectives.
Beth BrindleSD Times: The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers
BZ Media's twice-monthly trade newspaper, SD Times, offers news analysis in a field that includes dozens of dense technical journals. SD Times is written for top-level software and application development managers with a need for a wide-angle view of what's happening in the software development industry, including news, analysis, opinions, and new products and services. The editorial focus and format is geared toward high-level management--the movers and shakers across the software development community.
Beth Brindle
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