books about: optimizing     books:       ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in ...7 reviews Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, ... Morgan Kaufmann, 2004 extremely useful This book covers many aspects of programming the ARM familiy, including a surprisingly thorough discussion on fixed-point DSP computation. Having come from another architecture, this book really got me going on ARM. It complements the documentation manufacturers usually provide for their ARM chips in that it covers the ARM core much more in-depth. The book discusses everything from ...             Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Solving Problems and Building Leaders in Real Time10 reviews Michael J. Marquardt Davies-Black Publishing, 2004 Uncover Leaders Who Develop Solutions Michael J. Marquardt has developed a problem-solving tool. His process, which can be adapted by organizations of any size not only provides solutions but also builds leaders and teams. Marquardt, a professor of HRD and Program Direction of Overseas Programs at The George Washington University, is an expert in action learning. His process has six components. 1. A problem - It must be ...             Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience13 reviews James Kalbach O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Your users will thank you for reading this... The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links down the left side of the screen... Contents: Part 1 - Foundations of Web Navigation: Introducing Web Navigation; Understanding ...             Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy23 reviews Anand Sanwal Wiley, 2007 Great resource for IT Portfolio Management & Project Portfolio Management I lead my company's IT portfolio management effort, and this is one of the most well-written strategy books I've ever come across. It does an amazingly good job of demystifying what can be a complex topic. Major pros of the book: - No jargon, acronyms and generally useless platitudes and overgeneralized frameworks like I've seen in other books on the topic. Straightforward, conversational ...             Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications24 reviews Cal Henderson O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Great resource, tells you what you need to know if you are just starting in this field The book introduces the tools, processes, and high level architectures used in building large websites like Flickr, Youtube, etc. It is short enough to give you the high level framework and send you to explore various other books, software tools, etc to get more depth as needed. I found it very valuable.             On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn (On Becoming. . .)11 reviews Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam Parent Wise Solutions, 2004 LIFE SAVER for 1st Time Mother I started reading this book when my son was 10 weeks.At that time, he was waking up every four hours to eat, he cried anywhere from 1 to 4 hours a day for unknown reasons, and I was exhausted. Two days after I put him on a schedule suggested in this book, he started sleeping the entire night and no more unexplained crying. As a matter of fact, family and friends comment on his happy nature. ...             MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-442): Designing and Optimizing Data Access by Using Microsoft SQL ...3 reviews Sara Morgan, Tobias Thernstrom Microsoft Press, 2007 Much More Than a Practice for the Test Book This book is the training manual for taking Microsofts 70-442 certification examination on SQL Server 2005. And like other training manuals, it gives an excellent introduction to the exam and provides the information that you'll need to pass the test. It includes sample tests, a time limited version of SQL Server 2005 to help with the examples, all the usual things. This book, however, goes ...             Mastering Perl8 reviews brian d foy O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 An excellent survey and a top pick for any Perl reference collection. MASTERING PERL is third in O'Reilly's series of Perl tutorials and is a top pick for collections strong in computer programming in general and Perl in particular. This is more than a collection of shortcuts and 'tricks': it covers the basics of using advanced expressions, avoiding common programming problems, fixing code without editing the original source, and more, and offers Perl users the ...             How to Make Money with Your Blog: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Building, Optimizing, and Monetizing Your ...3 reviews Duane Forrester, Gavin Powell McGraw-Hill, 2007 A great read Even if you're thinking of starting a blog or already have one you need to read this book. It takes you through every step in the blogging process, from picking a blog host to picking your categories. Very helpful resource.             MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-444): Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution ...20 reviews Orin Thomas, Ian McLean Microsoft Press, 2006 Nice book for this hard exam This book prepares you verry well for the exam. Its not a big book but its very concice and lets you practice most of the topics you read. The requirements to study for this book are to have a few virtual machines to setup up a local network with a server which has some server roles and few clients. Thats cool because in that way you practice like in the enterprise enviroment. The exercises are ...             Engine Management: Optimizing Modern Fuel and Ignition Systems (Haynes High-Performance Tuning Series)4 reviews Dave Walker Haynes Publishing, 2002 Good Foundational Book I just recently attended EFI University and was told by instructor to read this book. It had great information for beginning tuners. It even had section about tuning individual carburetors. The electronic fuel injection section was very informative but gave a slight bias to tuning british vehicles and individual throttle bodies. The book had many british words which I had to look up to ...             Optimizing Strength Training: Designing Nonlinear Periodization Workouts2 reviews William J. Kraemer, Steven J. Fleck Human Kinetics Publishers, 2007 The power of dynamic systems This is an interesting book with a different approach on strength training. Its authors are attempting to integrate the concept of dynamic systems to the one of periodization of strength. Somehow, all professionals of strength training know that nowadays the use of old patterns of periodization does not come about as many benefits in terms of strength improvement as a more varied approach does. ...             Apple Pro Training Series: Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System (Apple Pro Training)2 reviews Sean Cullen, Matthew Geller, ... Peachpit Press, 2005 How to cram years of experience in 888 pages First off, finding everything contained in this book will take you on a very long surfing safari, plus many trips to your friendly neighborhood post facility. Save yourself some time and money, learn how to be an expert in your field, and spend more time doing what you love. Second, this is Apple-certified courseware, which means that it comes in the regular APTS lesson-based format, ...             Master VISUALLY Optimizing PC Performance (Master VISUALLY)2 reviews Joe Kraynak Visual, 2005 Great Book for the average Joe! Another good book in the Master Visually series. Even as a computer tech I found this book very informative. The average non-geek computer user out there will find plenty of ways to tune and tweak their machine without doing any harm to the computer or themselves. Just follow basic instructions. Most high end techies will find this book pretty basic but it is a book I can recommend to my ...             Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance11 reviews Vee Narayan Industrial Press, Inc., 2004 The Essence of " Effective Maintenance Management, Risk & Reliability Strategies for optimizing performance" By Mr. V.Narayan. Since the inception of sensible maintenance work culture which had been a refined terminology of repair for years together and which used to be considered as unwanted event being a cost center, no effort was made by industrial bigwigs to reform the approach to a structured, value added universal maintenance management system as focus was somewhere on market capturing by monopolized products ...             RSM Simplified: Optimizing Processes Using Response Surface Methods for Design of Experiments Mark J. Anderson, Patrick J. Whitcomb Productivity Press, 2005 RSM Simplified completely demystifies response surface methods (RSM) a practical tool for design of experiments. Anyone with a minimum of technical training can understand and appreciate this book, and the authors continue where they left off in DOE Simplified . Their approach is simple and fun, for people who desire knowledge on response surface methods but are put off by the academic nature of other books on the topic. Preface Chapter ...             Optimizing Oracle Performance27 reviews Cary Millsap, Jeffrey Holt O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003 Excellent performance book I purchased this book and did not open it for about 4 months. After reading the first 25 pages or so I became motivated to read more and finish it. It took me about 2 weeks to read through the entire book. The author does a really good job of detailing how to use Oracle tracing to troubleshoot performance related issues. With no shortage of Oracle performance tuning books this is definitely ...             PSA: Professional Services Automation: Optimizing Project and Service Oriented Organizations11 reviews Rudolf Melik, Ludwig Melik, ... Wiley, 2002 Optimized and Specialized ERP for White Collar PSORGs "The primary focus of traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is the blue-collar world of factory automation and the world of accounting systems, where the raw data tends to be rolled up and summarized into the organizational structures that were built to conform to the accounting view of the enterprise. These accounting views are useful in the production of general ledgers and ...             CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks (ONT 642-845) Lab Portfolio (Cisco Networking Academy) (Lab Companion) David Kotfila, Joshua Moorhouse, ... Cisco Press, 2008 CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks(ONT 642-845) Lab Portfolio David Kotfila • Joshua Moorhouse • Ross G. Wolfson, CCIE® No. 16696 CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks (ONT 642-845) Lab Portfolio provides you with opportunities for hands-on practice with optimizing and providing effective QoS techniques in converged networks operating voice, wireless, and security applications. Topics also include implementing a VoIP ...             Optimizing the Medical Office Visit Eric M. Perry MD PublishAmerica, 2008 Have you ever been to the doctor’s office and felt like you had no control over what happened at the appointment? Did you intend to have a certain symptom checked out but found yourself talking about unrelated concerns and were then told to follow advice that you neither remembered nor understood? Many patients and their caregivers find themselves in this situation and feel frustrated and out of control over their health.              search for books administration, applications, architecture, automation, certification, educational, experience, experiments, generation, high-performance, investment, maintaining, maintenance, management, mastering, monetizing, navigation, networking, optimizing, organizational, organizations, performance, periodization, preschoolers, pro-certification, professional, reliability, self-paced, simplified, strategies books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Dr Strangelove Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox