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The Principles of Project Management
Jun 9th
So that is what the first section of the book does: provides a definition that can be summed up as applying tools and skills to complete a project. That then leads to what exactly is a “project”: a set of tasks with a time-frame and goal of somehow adding value. So yes, the introduction does involve a fair bit of terminology that isn’t going to be familiar to many readers coming from a coder’s background, but there’s a helpful appendix that lays out many of the terms. Just as important, the introduction explains what project management is not, some of More >
Google Apps Hacks
May 19th
I expected a book on the core GoogleApps suite like gMail and the office applications (not to be confused with the recent Google App Engine programming environment), but App Hacks goes further into not only other Google properties like Bogger, YouTube and GoogleEarth. At the same time, they don’t avoid mentioning non-Google applications, such as Zoho office or some of the other on-line RSS feed readers in the Google Reader chapter.
It took me a bit of time to decide who this book is for - it has some hacks aimed at web developers, others are useful for anyone, but that More >
Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working
Mar 2nd
“Digital Bedouin” was one of the new styles of Internet company that grew up after the DotCom crash in 2000, it grew out of the availability then-new of mobile technologies like smart-phones, powerful laptops and wireless high-speed Internet as well as changes in work culture, and a growing host of businesses designed to service the mobile worker. Taken together, these advances made it unnecessary for many people to operate out of a traditional office space. Fast forward to 2008 and the term itself might not have caught on- but the ideas have. This book then looks at how to apply More >
