Essential Business Process Modeling
by Mike Havey
Amazon
Product Description
Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow
of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means
more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process
Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer,
and monitor complex network-based business processes.
BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with
a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that
allows it converse with other services, systems, and users.
Product Details
# Paperback: 350 pages
# Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition (August 18, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0596008430
Oracle PL/SQL Programming
by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Amazon
Product Description
If you're doing database application development in the Oracle environment, you're
going to have to know PL/SQL, the company's extended query and update language.
If you want your programs to exploit the special capabilities of Oracle software,
you'll need to know the language well. That's where the third edition of Oracle
PL/SQL Programming comes into play. It's an absolutely comprehensive reference
(as well as a rather extensive tutorial) on PL/SQL, ideally suited to answering
your questions about how to perform some programming tasks and reminding you of
the characteristics of functions, triggers, and other elements of the database
programmer's toolkit. The new edition covers calls to Java methods from within
PL/SQL programs, autonomous transactions, object type inheritance, and the new
Timestamp and XMLType data types. There's also more information about server
internals--the way PL/SQL programs are run--than before, better enabling readers
to optimize their code for fast and safe execution.
Product Details
# Paperback: 1198 pages
# Publisher: O'Reilly; 4 edition (August 22, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0596009771
Bulletproof Web Design : Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
by Dan Cederholm
Amazon
Product Description
No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding
if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it
will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire
Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility,
readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out
with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a
traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its
downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter,
you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS. The
guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior
chapters into a single page template.
Product Details
# Paperback: 280 pages
# Publisher: New Riders Press (July 28, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0321346939
