Mobile and wireless design essentials

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Stephen L. Nelson

One of the principles of good business and good money management is to make the most of what you have. QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies helps you make the most of QuickBooks business accounting software. Updated to cover changes and enhancements to the software, it combines eight quick reference guides: An Accounting Primer that covers basic principles, double-entry bookkeeping, and special accounting problems Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks with information on setting up QuickBooks, loading the master file lists, and fine-tuning QuickBooks Bookkeeping Chores, covering invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, and more Accounting Chores including financial statements, reports, and budgets, using activity-based costing, and setting up project and job costing systems Financial Management such as ratio analysis, economic value-added analysis, and capital budgeting Business Plans, featuring profit-volume-cost analysis, forecasting, and writing a business plan Care and Maintenance, with information on protecting data, troubleshooting, and more Additional Business Resources including a crash course in Excel, a glossary, and more Written by veteran Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, and author of more than 100 books with more than four million copies in print, QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies goes beyond the basics of how to use QuickBooks and provides expert advice on accounting chores, financial management, business planning, and much more. With a comprehensive index, it's your instant, at-your-fingertips reference for everything from how to handle everyday accounting tasks to long-term planning for your business. Fine-tune QuickBooks for your business and your accounting systems Calculate breakeven points Budget for capital expenditures Take advantage of online banking There's even a companion Web site where you can take advantage of a sample business plan workbook and download a profit-volume cost analysis workbook. You won't find a more comprehensive, authoritative, yet understandable guide to QuickBooks.

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Vijay K. Vaishnavi, William Kuechler Jr

Design research promotes understanding of advanced, cutting-edge information systems through the construction and evaluation of these systems and their components. Since this method of research can produce rigorous, meaningful results in the absence of a strong theory base, it excels in investigating new and even speculative technologies, offering the potential to advance accepted practice. Design Science Research Methods and Patterns presents innovative research methods that help break new ground by applying patterns, reuse, and design science to research. The book relies on familiar patterns to provide the solid fundamentals of various research philosophies and techniques as touchstones that demonstrate how to innovate research methods. Filled with practical examples of applying patterns to IT research with an emphasis on reusing research activities to save time and money, this book describes design science research in relation to other information systems research paradigms such as positivist and interpretivist research.

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Szabolcs Michael de Gyurky

A groundbreaking, unifying theory of computer science for low-cost, high-quality software The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science represents the culmination of more than thirty years of the author's hands-on experience in software development, which has resulted in a remarkable and sensible philosophy and practice of software development. It provides a groundbreaking ontology of computer science, while describing the processes, methodologies, and constructs needed to build high-quality, large-scale computer software systems on schedule and on budget. Based on his own experience in developing successful, low-cost software projects, the author makes a persuasive argument for developers to understand the philosophical underpinnings of software. He asserts that software in reality is an abstraction of the human thought system. The author draws from the seminal works of the great German philosophers--Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer--and recasts their theories of human mind and thought to create a unifying theory of computer science, cognitive dynamics, that opens the door to the next generation of computer science and forms the basic architecture for total autonomy. Four detailed cases studies effectively demonstrate how philosophy and practice merge to meet the objective of high-quality, low-cost software. The Autonomous Cognitive System chapter sets forth a model for a completely autonomous computer system, using the human thought system as the model for functional architecture and the human thought process as the model for the functional data process. Although rooted in philosophy, this book is practical, addressing all the key areas that software professionals need to master in order to remain competitive and minimize costs, such as leadership, management, communication, and organization. This thought-provoking work will change the way students and professionals in computer science and software development conceptualize and perform their work. It provides them with both a philosophy and a set of practical tools to produce high-quality, low-cost software.

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Anil Desai

Protect your organization's most valuable asset--its data. Develop and implement a thorough data protection solution for your SQL Server 7 database environment. SQL Server 7 Backup & Recovery is your one-stop resource for planning, developing, implementing, and managing backup and restore procedures. Learn to execute data protection strategies, implement a backup solution, and handle data recovery before potentially disastrous data loss occurs. You'll get details on the latest methods for increasing database uptime and improving performance. The case studies included show you how to apply the techniques described in the book in your own environment. Evaluate business requirements and develop a data protection strategy. Configure Windows NT/2000 for the secure and efficient use of SQL Server 7. Select the best hardware, software, and network technologies for your backup plan. Handle SQL Server 7 backup procedures involving files and filegroups, transaction logs, concurrency, locking, and other database issues. Increase database uptime and optimize performance. Develop and practice restore plans for various scenarios--from minor data loss to complete hardware failures. Increase reliability, availability, and performance through the use of standby servers and clustering. Distribute data throughout your enterprise with SQL Server 7's replication features. Follow case studies to learn about the application of data protection best practices in various environments.