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Software War Stories

Author : Donald J. Reifer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118650743
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Software War Stories written by Donald J. Reifer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, practical book on software management that dispels real-world issues through relevant case studies Software managers inevitably will meet obstacles while trying to deliver quality products and provide value to customers, often with tight time restrictions. The result: Software War Stories. This book provides readers with practical advice on how to handle the many issues that can arise as a software project unfolds. It utilizes case studies that focus on what can be done to establish and meet reasonable expectations as they occur in government, industrial, and academic settings. The book also offers important discussions on both traditional and agile methods as well as lean development concepts. Software War Stories: Covers the basics of management as applied to situations ranging from agile projects to large IT projects with infrastructure problems Includes coverage of topics ranging from planning, estimating, and organizing to risk and opportunity management Uses twelve case studies to communicate lessons learned by the author in practice Offers end-of-chapter exercises, sample solutions, and a blog for providing updates and answers to readers' questions Software War Stories: Case Studies in Software Management mentors practitioners, software engineers, students and more, providing relevant situational examples encountered when managing software projects and organizations.

The Practice of Programming

Author : Brian W. Kernighan
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0133133419
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Programming written by Brian W. Kernighan and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1999-02-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same insight and authority that made their book The Unix Programming Environment a classic, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike have written The Practice of Programming to help make individual programmers more effective and productive. The practice of programming is more than just writing code. Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves and others. At the same time, they must be concerned with issues like compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications. The Practice of Programming covers all these topics, and more. This book is full of practical advice and real-world examples in C, C++, Java, and a variety of special-purpose languages. It includes chapters on: debugging: finding bugs quickly and methodically testing: guaranteeing that software works correctly and reliably performance: making programs faster and more compact portability: ensuring that programs run everywhere without change design: balancing goals and constraints to decide which algorithms and data structures are best interfaces: using abstraction and information hiding to control the interactions between components style: writing code that works well and is a pleasure to read notation: choosing languages and tools that let the machine do more of the work Kernighan and Pike have distilled years of experience writing programs, teaching, and working with other programmers to create this book. Anyone who writes software will profit from the principles and guidance in The Practice of Programming.

Software Runaways

Author : Robert L. Glass
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Software Runaways written by Robert L. Glass and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Software runaway war stories. Software runaway remedies. Conclusions.

The Agile Samurai

Author : Jonathan Rasmusson
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN 13 : 1680504940
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Agile Samurai written by Jonathan Rasmusson and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in full color. Faced with a software project of epic proportions? Tired of over-committing and under-delivering? Enter the dojo of the agile samurai, where agile expert Jonathan Rasmusson shows you how to kick-start, execute, and deliver your agile projects. Combining cutting-edge tools with classic agile practices, The Agile Samurai gives you everything you need to deliver something of value every week and make rolling your software into production a non-event. Get ready to kick some software project butt. By learning the ways of the agile samurai you will discover: how to create plans and schedules your customer and your team can believe in what characteristics make a good agile team and how to form your own how to gather requirements in a fraction of the time using agile user stories what to do when you discover your schedule is wrong, and how to look like a pro correcting it how to execute fiercely by leveraging the power of agile software engineering practices By the end of this book you will know everything you need to set up, execute, and successfully deliver agile projects, and have fun along the way. If you're a project lead, this book gives you the tools to set up and lead your agile project from start to finish. If you are an analyst, programmer, tester, usability designer, or project manager, this book gives you the insight and foundation necessary to become a valuable agile team member. The Agile Samurai slices away the fluff and theory that make other books less-than-agile. It's packed with best practices, war stories, plenty of humor and hands-on tutorial exercises that will get you doing the right things, the right way. This book will make a difference.

Going to War

Author : Jason Darby
Publisher : Muska/Lipman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going to War written by Jason Darby and published by Muska/Lipman. This book was released on 2009 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn how to create computer war games, but don't know how to get started or don't have any experience with game programming? "Going to War: Creating Computer War Games" shows you how to use the drag-and-drop game engine, Multimedia Fusion 2, to make your very own computer war games to play and share. After an introduction to the Multimedia Fusion 2 interface and the basics of how to use it, you'll get started on the game that you'll create throughout the course of the book. You'll begin by making your game map, using a system of hexagon tiles to create the terrain and the different units you want to include in your game such as soldiers and tanks. Then you'll learn how to set rules for player movement, different types of terrain, and combat. You'll even find more advanced techniques such as how to implement officers, fortifications, and even a simple monetary system in your games. The book even discusses how to track and find bugs in your games and how to create an editor that allows you to easily apply data you've already created to new games. Everything you need to build your own war games is included with the book, and by the time you've worked your way through it you'll have designed your very own working and playable war game.

More Joel on Software

Author : Avram Joel Spolsky
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430209887
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book More Joel on Software written by Avram Joel Spolsky and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-09-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel, Apress, Blogs, and Blooks ...I was learning the hard way about how to be a publisher and probably spending way too much time looking at web sites and programming than I should have in response to that. Anyway, one day I came across this web site called , which was run by a guy with strong opinions and an unusual, clever writing style, along with a willingness to take on the conventional wisdom. In particular, he was writing this ongoing series about how bad most user interfaces were—mostly because programmers by and large knew, as Joel and I would say, using the same Yiddish–derived NYC vernacular that we both share, “bupkis” about what users really want. And I, like many, was hooked both by the series and the occasional random essay that Joel wrote. And then I had this epiphany: I'm a publisher, I like reading his stuff, why not turn it into a book?... Read the complete Foreword — Gary Cornell, Cofounder, Apress Since the release of the bestselling title Joel on Software in 2004, requests for a sequel have been relentless. So, we went back to the famed JoelonSoftware.com archives and pulled out a new batch of favorites, many of which have been downloaded over one million times. With Joel's newest book, More Joel on Software, you'll get an even better (not to mention updated) feast of Joel's opinions and impressions on software development, software design, running a software business, and so much more. This is a new selection of essays from the author's web site, http://www.joelonsoftware.com. Joel Spolsky started his weblog in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. This weblog has become infamous among the programming world, and is linked to more than 600 other web sites and translated into 30+ languages! Spolsky's extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. With the success of Joel on Software, there has been a strong demand for additional gems and advice, and this book is the answer to those requests. Containing a collection of all–new articles from the original, More Joel on Software has even more of an edge than the original, and the tips for running a business or managing people have far broader application than the software industry. We feel it is safe to say that this is the most useful book you will buy this year.

ComputingFailure.com

Author : Robert L. Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ComputingFailure.com written by Robert L. Glass and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking back, it was a time of madness: an era when billions of dollars - and even more faith - was placed in dotcom startups with inexperienced management and "Swiss cheese" business plans. Robert Glass's ComputingFailure.com is a powerful chronicle of those years, and something more: a cautionary "worst practices" guide for every entrepreneur and e-Business professional." "Glass carefully chooses his case studies for the insights they impart. The executives quoted and profiled in this book have learned hard, expensive lessons - about building compelling business models, about building compelling business models, about managing growth, and about when to ignore the venture capitalists. They've learned surprising lessons about integrating with bricks-and-mortar parent companies and about what it takes to get marketing, tech, and everyone else on the same page."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Information Technology and Military Power

Author : Jon R. Lindsay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749579
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology and Military Power written by Jon R. Lindsay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militaries with state-of-the-art information technology sometimes bog down in confusing conflicts. To understand why, it is important to understand the micro-foundations of military power in the information age, and this is exactly what Jon R. Lindsay's Information Technology and Military Power gives us. As Lindsay shows, digital systems now mediate almost every effort to gather, store, display, analyze, and communicate information in military organizations. He highlights how personnel now struggle with their own information systems as much as with the enemy. Throughout this foray into networked technology in military operations, we see how information practice—the ways in which practitioners use technology in actual operations—shapes the effectiveness of military performance. The quality of information practice depends on the interaction between strategic problems and organizational solutions. Information Technology and Military Power explores information practice through a series of detailed historical cases and ethnographic studies of military organizations at war. Lindsay explains why the US military, despite all its technological advantages, has struggled for so long in unconventional conflicts against weaker adversaries. This same perspective suggests that the US retains important advantages against advanced competitors like China that are less prepared to cope with the complexity of information systems in wartime. Lindsay argues convincingly that a better understanding of how personnel actually use technology can inform the design of command and control, improve the net assessment of military power, and promote reforms to improve military performance. Warfighting problems and technical solutions keep on changing, but information practice is always stuck in between.

Statistical Software Development

Author : Peter Dalgaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Software Development written by Peter Dalgaard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Software Project Survival Guide

Author : Steve McConnell
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 1572316217
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Software Project Survival Guide written by Steve McConnell and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to be sure your first important project isnþt your last.

Software Rights

Author : Gerardo Con Diaz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249322
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Software Rights written by Gerardo Con Diaz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age. Software patents, he argues, facilitated the emergence of software as a product and a technology, enabled firms to challenge each other’s place in the computing industry, and expanded the range of creations for which American intellectual property law provides protection. Powerful market forces, aggressive litigation strategies, and new cultures of computing usage and development transformed software into one of the most controversial technologies ever to encounter the American patent system.

Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs

Author : Tomasz Lelek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638350620
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs written by Tomasz Lelek and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimize the decisions that define your code by exploring the common mistakes and intentional tradeoffs made by expert developers. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs you will learn how to: Reason about your systems to make intuitive and better design decisions Understand consequences and how to balance tradeoffs Pick the right library for your problem Thoroughly analyze all of your service’s dependencies Understand delivery semantics and how they influence distributed architecture Design and execute performance tests to detect code hot paths and validate a system’s SLA Detect and optimize hot paths in your code to focus optimization efforts on root causes Decide on a suitable data model for date/time handling to avoid common (but subtle) mistakes Reason about compatibility and versioning to prevent unexpected problems for API clients Understand tight/loose coupling and how it influences coordination of work between teams Clarify requirements until they are precise, easily implemented, and easily tested Optimize your APIs for friendly user experience Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintainability—every decision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs you’ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You’ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs lead to major problems down the road, so you can pre-empt your own mistakes with a more thoughtful approach to decision making. Learn how code duplication impacts the coupling and evolution speed of your systems, and how simple-sounding requirements can have hidden nuances with respect to date and time information. Discover how to efficiently narrow your optimization scope according to 80/20 Pareto principles, and ensure consistency in your distributed systems. You’ll soon have built up the kind of knowledge base that only comes from years of experience. About the technology Every step in a software project involves making tradeoffs. When you’re balancing speed, security, cost, delivery time, features, and more, reasonable design choices may prove problematic in production. The expert insights and relatable war stories in this book will help you make good choices as you design and build applications. About the book Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs explores real-world scenarios where the wrong tradeoff decisions were made and illuminates what could have been done differently. In it, authors Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet share wisdom based on decades of software engineering experience, including some delightfully instructive mistakes. You’ll appreciate the specific tips and practical techniques that accompany each example, along with evergreen patterns that will change the way you approach your next projects. What's inside How to reason about your software systematically How to pick tools, libraries, and frameworks How tight and loose coupling affect team coordination Requirements that are precise, easy to implement, and easy to test About the reader For mid- and senior-level developers and architects who make decisions about software design and implementation. About the author Tomasz Lelek works daily with a wide range of production services, architectures, and JVM languages. A Google engineer and author of C# in Depth, Jon Skeet is famous for his many practical contributions to Stack Overflow.

Ship That Pig

Author : Devin Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449989859
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Ship That Pig written by Devin Moore and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship That Pig: Software Horrors. Learning from real-life software development horror storiesThis book has two main sections of war stories: the back stories, from before I started to keep a regular log of things that happened, and the stories after that. All of the war stories are based on true events. I hope that this book both provides for numerous new ideas in computing, as well as to provide some insight as to how it is that the mind of a typical IT person reacts in response to stressful work situations. I believe it will be of interest to anyone who has encountered a stressful event in their life and had the urge to tell people about how they thought things should be done in light of that event. I also chronicle my experiences and thoughts to show how I came to develop some of the computer ideas that are noted in this text. I see myself as the average IT worker. I often rehash old situations and scenarios in my mind, playing through all the details. I look for things I can learn from, and things that didn't make any sense. I produce tons of ideas every day, many are repeats of other ideas but some are brand new. I feel that I should write them all down, no matter how insignificant, because I believe that even the simplest idea can really help the right person. What I hope to illustrate is that even by attempting to avoid conflict, it still finds us because of how poorly managed these projects are. Something has to be done, and I suggest various ways that these issues could be resolved. However, I don't imagine a true solution is coming anytime soon, so long as the forces that are creating these conflicts are still around. My own grandmother recently recounted to me a story that, aside from the technology used, almost exactly matched the scenarios I have encountered... but her story dates to the 1940's! From this fact alone, it is clear that the same mistakes have been repeated for long enough.

Software

Author : Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380701773
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Software written by Rudy von Bitter Rucker and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the first robots with real brains, Cobb Anderson finds himself another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, and when he is offered immortality by his creations, he risks his body and his world. Reissue.

War in 2080

Author : David Langford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780726950353
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book War in 2080 written by David Langford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Territory

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476763275
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Dark Territory written by Fred Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer. In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the “information warfare” squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to reveal the details of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning—and (more often than people know) fighting—these wars for decades. “An eye-opening history of our government’s efforts to effectively manage our national security in the face of the largely open global communications network established by the World Wide Web….Dark Territory is a page-turner [and] consistently surprising” (The New York Times).

War Virtually

Author : Roberto J. González
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520402170
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book War Virtually written by Roberto J. González and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.