Hibernate Search in Action
450 pages | Manning Publications (December 28, 2008) | 1933988649 | PDF | 4 Mb
Enterprise and web applications require full-featured, “Google-quality” search capabilities, but such features are notoriously difficult to implement and maintain. Hibernate Search builds on the Lucene feature set and offers an easyto- implement interface that integrates seamlessly with Hibernate-the leading data persistence solution for Java applications.

Hibernate Search in Action introduces both the principles of enterprise search and the implementation details a Java developer will need to use Hibernate Search effectively. This book blends the insights of the Hibernate Search lead developer with the practical techniques required to index and manipulate data, assemble and execute search queries, and create smart filters for better search results. Along the way, the reader masters performance-boosting concepts like using Hibernate Search in a clustered environment and integrating with the features already in your applications.

This book assumes you’re a competent Java developer with some experience using Hibernate and Lucene.

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Strategic Human Resource Management: A Guide to Action
256 pages | Kogan Page; 4th edition (October 28, 2008) | 0749453753 | PDF | 1 Mb
Strategic Human Resource Management provides practical guidance on putting complex HR strategies into practice. Presenting HRM strategies that have been formulated and developed by practitioners, academics and consultants, it demonstrates how these can be implemented in a real-world context and in line with business objectives to effect positive and productive change.

Substantially updated, the fourth edition includes new material which reflects important developments in HR strategies, including: human capital management, corporate social responsibility, organization development, engagement and talent management. A new feature, the Strategic HR Toolkit, provides guidance on developing HR strategy through a strategic review.

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M!cr0$0ft® SQL Server® 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals
688 pages | M!cr0$0ft Press (October 22, 2008) | 0735626014 | CHM | 2 Mb
This book walks you through your first steps in T-SQL (also known as Transact-SQL), which is M!cr0$0ft SQL Server s dialect of the standard ANSI-SQL language. You ll learn the theory behind T-SQL querying and programming, how to develop T-SQL code to query and modify data, and get an overview of programmable objects. Although this book is intended for beginners, it is not merely a step-by-step book. It goes beyond the syntactical elements of T-SQL and explains the logic behind the language and its elements. Many aspects of SQL are unique to the language, and are very different from other programming languages.

This book helps you adopt the right state of mind and gain a true understanding of the language elements. You learn how to think in terms of sets and follow good SQL programming practices. The book is not version-specific; it does, however, cover language elements that were introduced in recent versions of SQL Server, including SQL Server 2008. To complement the learning experience, the book provides exercises that enable you to practice what you ve learned. The book starts with a theoretical background to T-SQL querying and programming (Chapter 1) laying the foundations for the rest of the book, and also coverage of creating tables and defining data integrity. The book moves on to various aspects of querying and modifying data (Chapters 2 through 8), then to a discussion of concurrency and transactions (Chapter 9), and finally provides an overview of programmable objects (Chapter 10). This book features a companion Web site that makes available to you all the code used in the book, the errata, additional resources, and more.

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Software Architecture (Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China)
400 pages | Springer; 1 edition (April 28, 2008) | 3540743421 | PDF | 18 Mb
Part of the new series, Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China, this book aims to introduce the theoretical foundations, various sub-fields, current research, and practical methods of software architecture. Readers can acquire basic knowledge of software architecture, including why software architecture is necessary, how we can describe a system s architecture with formal language, what architecture styles are popular in practice, and how we can apply software architecture to the development of systems. Case studies, data, illustrations, and other materials released within the past 5 years will be used to show the latest developments in software architecture.

Dr. Qin Zheng is doctoral mentor of the computer science and technology departments at Tsinghua and Xi an Jiaotong Universities. He has been Associate Dean of the School of Software, Tsinghua University, and Chair of the Institute of E-commerce, Xi an Jiaotong University. He has been a visiting scholar at several universities in the United States.

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Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques And Strategies Of Top Trainers
344 pages | Information Today; 1 edition (October 29, 2006) | 1573872679 | PDF | 4 Mb
Educators, librarians, and others who teach Web searching will welcome this instructor’s guide from Notess, a leading trainer and search guru. In the book, Notess augments his personal advice with examples, approaches, and techniques from a virtual “who’s who” of the search training world: Joe Barker, Paul Barron, Phil Bradley, John Ferguson, Alice Fulbright, Ran Hock, Jeff Humphrey, Diane Kovacs, Gary Price, Danny Sullivan, Rita Vine, and Sheila Webber.

In addition to presenting expert training strategies, Teaching Web Search Skills demonstrates a variety of approaches to instructional design and methodology, recommends a range of essential resources, and features dozens of helpful figures, search screens, worksheets, handouts, and sample training materials.

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Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms: Challenges and Visions (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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To identify the emergent trends in software-intensive and distributed and decentralized computer systems and their impact on the Information Society in the next 10–15 years, the European Commission has established two Coordinated Actions: Initially the project `Beyond the Horizon’ and then, starting in 2006, the project `InterLink’.

This state-of-the-art survey presents the results of three workshops of the InterLink working group on software-intensive systems and novel computing paradigms. The objective was to imagine the landscape in which next generations of software-intensive systems will operate and the challenges they present to computing, software engineering, cognition and intelligence.

The volume starts with an overview of the current state of the art and the research missions in engineering software-intensive systems. The remainder of the book consists of 15 invited papers of the working group participants and is structured in three major parts: ensemble engineering, theory and formal methods, and novel computing paradigms. These papers cover a broad spectrum of relevant topics ranging from methods, languages and tools for ensemble engineering, socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, ensembles in urban environments, formal methods and mathematical foundations for ensembles, orchestration languages to disruptive paradigms such as molecular and chemical computing.

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