designing software : 61 results priced between £10.00 and £75.00

Stan Magee is president of Software Engineering Process Technology Company, Issaquah, Washington, and holds an M.B.A. in international business from the University of Puget Sound. Mr. Magee is Co-Convenor of WG 8 for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 Software Engineering standards group and has been a U.S. delegate to the International Plenary meeting for over 10 years. In 1995 he was elected to the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core of 500 people who have significantly served the IEEE Society in standards development...

Learn to combine security theory and code to produce secure systems Security is clearly a crucial issue to consider during the design and implementation of any distributed software architecture. Security patterns are increasingly being used by developers who take security into serious consideration from the creation of their work. Written by the authority on security patterns, this unique book examines the structure and purpose of security patterns, illustrating their use with the help of detailed...

Part one provides an introduction to ATILA FEM software, beginning with an overview of the software code. New capabilities and loss integration are discussed, before part two goes on to present case studies of finite element modelling using ATILA. The use of ATILA in finite element analysis, piezoelectric polarization, time domain analysis of piezoelectric devices and the design of ultrasonic motors is considered, before piezo-composite and photonic crystal applications are reviewed. The behaviour...

Dr. Aditya Tripathi is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His areas of interests are Multilingual Information Retrieval System, Design and Development of Digital Libraries, e-learning, Website designing. Automated Indexing Tools, Machine Readable Cataloguing, Metadata, Semantic Web, xEtensible Mark Up Language, Digital Preservation and archiving etc. He has organized several national level events. He did his Associateship...

Learn What Usability Really Is, Why to Strive for It, and How to Achieve It&quote;Highly useable&quote; software is easy to use. It does what you expect it to. And it does it well.It's not easy to build but as this book demonstrates, it's well worth the effort. Highly useable software is highly successful software—and everyone wins.Inside, an accomplished programmer who has made usability his business systematically explores the world of programming, showing you how every aspect of the work...

Whether calculating a net present value, assessing an internal rate of return, or considering the impact of debt on a transaction when analysing investments in property, it is very hard to get away from the need for cashflows. These cashflows range from the very simple to the extremely complex and can take anything from minutes to days to produce. Of course, valuation software exists that will produce these for you - but sometimes there are situations where you can't avoid having to do the job yourself...

Steven M. Sandler is the founder of AEi Systems, LLC, the world leader in SPICE modeling and worst case circuit analysis since 1995. He has developed and taught courses at Motorola University and has published many books and articles on circuit simulation for McGraw-Hill and Power Electronics, PCIM, and PEIN magazines. Charles Hymowitz is the Managing Director of AEi Systems, LLC, and has over 25 years of experience in the EDA software and analog simulation industries. From 1988 to 1998 he helped...

<b>Rebecca Tapl</b><b><b&g t;e</b>y </b>is an author, content management consultant, and jewelry designer in real life, and a virtual island developer in Second Life. Her career as a published writer covers business, graphic design, and Web site design software. Her consultancy client list includes Razorfish, Nexon USA, and Pearson Custom Publishing. Rebecca lives in metro Boston. Visit her blog at www.designingyoursecondlife.bl ogspot.com.

Aimed at improving a programmers ability for altering code to fit changing requirements and for detecting and correcting errors, this book argues for a new way of thinking about maintaining software. It proposes the use of a set of human factors principles that govern the programmer-software-event world interactions and form the core of the maintenance process. The book is thus highly valuable for systems analysts and programmers, managers seeking to reduce costs, researchers looking at solutions...

Quick Overview Eclipse is more than a state-of-the-art IDE: its Rich Client Platform (RCP) plug-ins form an outstanding foundation for any desktop application, from chat applications to enterprise software front-ends. This book shows how to leverage Eclipse for efficient, cross-platform desktop development.

Serving as a guide to sound design for animated films, this book explains audio software, free downloads, how sound works, the power of sound when wielded by an animation filmmaker. It also provides varieties of examples for how to use sound to enliven your films with professional sound.

"Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots" introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts of this complex field. The author addresses all the pertinent topics of the electronic hardware and software of mobile robot design, with particular emphasis on the more difficult problems of control, navigation, and sensor interfacing. Covering topics such as advanced sensor fusion, control systems for a wide array of application sensors and instrumentation, and fuzzy logic applications, this volume is essential...

A practical text suitable for an introductory or advanced course in formal methods, this book presents a mathematical approach to modelling and designing systems using an extension of the B formal method: Event-B. Based on the idea of refinement, the author's systematic approach allows the user to construct models gradually and to facilitate a systematic reasoning method by means of proofs. Readers will learn how to build models of programs and, more generally, discrete systems, but this is all done...

A one-of-a-kind integration of text, high-quality instructor-led training on DVD, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation, this system gives readers 100 percent coverage of the official Microsoft exam objectives plus test preparation software for the edge needed to pass the exam on the first try.

A practitioners guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software.

Not just another theory-heavy digital signal processing book, nor another dull build-a-generic-database programming book, Designing Audio Effect Plug-Ins in C++ gives you everything you everything you need to know to do just that, including fully worked, downloadable code for dozens of professional audio effect plug-ins and practically presented algorithms. With this book, you get access to a companion website where you can download the accompanying Rapid Plug-In Development software to compile and...

Explanations of knowledge, information, software development and technology and service strategy layers are provided as well as cultural considerations, reasons for resistance to change, leadership style and review criteria. A template outline is included for an IT strategy document and terms of reference for a sponsoring group, programme/project manager, business group, technical forum and IT steering committee are provided to help you get up and running in a professional manner.

Product Description Updated for Java 6.0, this coherent third edition of Java Software Structures: Designing and Using Data Structures, third edition allows readers to develop high-quality software systems using well-designed collections and algorithms. KEY TOPICS: Analysis of Algorithms; Collections; Linked Structures; Queues; Lists; Recursion; Sorting and Searching; Trees; Binary Search Trees; Priority Queues & Heaps; Multi-way Search Trees; Graphs; Hash Tables; Sets & Maps; Optional online case...

The most prominent Web applications in use today are data-intensive. Scores of database management systems across the Internet access and maintain large amounts of structured data for e-commerce, on-line trading, banking, digital libraries, and other high-volume sites. Developing and maintaining these data-intensive applications is an especially complex, multi-disciplinary activity, requiring all the tools and techniques that software engineering can provide. This book represents a breakthrough for...

Take your idea from concept to production with this unique guide. Whether it's called physical computing, ubiquitous computing, or the Internet of Things, it's a hot topic in technology: how to channel your inner Steve Jobs and successfully combine hardware, embedded software, web services, electronics, and cool design to create cutting-edge devices that are fun, interactive, and practical. If you'd like to create the next must-have product, this unique book is the perfect place to start. Both a...

Software architects and developers face many decisions when designing a new product or application, and success often depends on the proper design and use of the right technologies. Some applications require a rich user interface, some must run on mobile devices, while others might incorporate server-to-server communication. Software Architecture Strategies for Internet Applications discusses the architectures of different systems that successfully employ multiple technologies, and provides the foundations...

One hidden factor powerfully influences the way users react to their software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or Web applications: how those systems utilize users' time. Drawing on 40 years of human-computer interaction research, Dr. Seow presents state-of-the-art best practices for reflecting users' subjective perceptions of time in applications and hardware.

The 7 Qualities of Highly Secure Software provides a framework for designing, developing, and deploying hacker-resilient software. It uses engaging anecdotes and analogies-ranging from Aesop's fables, athletics, architecture, biology, nursery rhymes, and video games-to illustrate the qualities that are essential for the development of highly secure software. Each chapter details one of the seven qualities that can make your software highly secure and less susceptible to hacker threats. Leveraging...

Details In this guide to Apple's revolutionary motion graphics software, commercial artists Damian Allen, Bryce Button, and Mark Spencer teach you to create cutting-edge animations, show opens, promos, logos, and effects while you learn Motion 3. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, each chapter represents a complete lesson with a commercial-quality project to work through as you learn. The authors begin with generators and quickly move on to Motion's behavior-based animations...

Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty. These principles include building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and...

Later, in South Africa, Rafe designed and built houses in the beautiful Drakensberg Mountains, before designing and building the remarkable ‘Batesmobile’ in which he won the incredibly tough long-distance mountain road race – the ‘Roof of Africa’. After this achievement he moved to Cape Town with his family, where he conceived and built the 16M aluminium alloy schooner ‘Long John Silver’ in which they sailed away from Africa for good. This period of his life changed when he sold his beloved yacht...

Serving as a guide to sound design for animated films, this book explains audio software, free downloads, how sound works, the power of sound when wielded by an animation filmmaker. It also provides varieties of examples for how to use sound to enliven your films with professional sound.

Quick Overview Computer consultants Glenn and Simpson offer a training kit for information technology professionals who wish to take the Microsoft Certified Professional Exam 70-297, which shares the same title as the text. They describe the design and management of computer networks using Microsoft's software, i

The only classroom-based training and self-assessment system! Osborne's MCSE Designing a Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure Study Guide provides 100% complete coverage of all official Microsoft objectives for exam 70-219. Based on 200,000+ hours of IT training experience, the book contains hundreds of practice exam questions and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full CertTrainer CBT software with interactive tutorials and lab simulations, plus the new ExamSim adaptive test engine.

Discusses the current status of portals in higher education by providing insight into the role portals play in an institution's business and educational strategy, by taking the reader through the processes of conceptualization, design, and implementation of the portals (in different stages of development) at major universities and by offering insight from three producers of portal software systems in use at institutions of higher learning and elsewhere. Portals present strategic challenges in the...

Focusing on the architecture centric design method (ACDM), this book provides deep insight into designing software architectures for systems and how to effectively use architectural design artifacts once created. The text describes how to integrate ACDM with existing organizational structures and processes. The author demonstrates how to tailor defined software process frameworks and methodologies to ACDM in order to design the architecture for a software intensive system. The chapters offer practical...

Scott Roberts is a Senior Development Lead on the InfoPath team at Microsoft Corporation, and has been involved with InfoPath since its inception. He leads development on features ranging from controls and template parts to the Word/Excel importers. Scott is also the author of "Programming Microsoft Internet Explorer 5" (Microsoft Press) and numerous technical articles and publications. <P>Hagen Green is a Software Design Engineer in Test II at Microsoft Corporation, and has been a member of the...

This book describes how to build and implement an automated testing regime for software development. It presents a detailed account of the principles of automated testing, practical techniques for designing a good automated testing regime, and advice on choosing and applying off-the-shelf testing tools to specific needs. This sound and practical introduction to automated testing comes from two authors well known for their seminars, consultancy and training in the field.

Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals. This book presents an approach to interaction design for complex problem solving applications. It features case studies, and explores strategies for analyzing, modeling, and designing for exploratory inquiries.

The core of scientific computing is designing, writing, testing, debugging and modifying numerical software for application to a vast range of areas: from graphics, meteorology and chemistry to engineering, biology and finance. Scientists, engineers and computer scientists need to write good code, for speed, clarity, flexibility and ease of re-use. Oliveira and Stewart's style guide for numerical software points out good practices to follow, and pitfalls to avoid. By following their advice, readers...