This book covers the CherryPy library for Python web development from its history and installation through its main features and core concepts to its integration with Python and other products to construct, test, and deploy a sample photoblog application. The author Sylvain Hellegouarch is dedicated to the development of free software projects and has been coordinating and administrating the community efforts around the CherryPy project since 2004. The approach based on an example application introduces many other common Python libraries, providing transferable skills also relevant for non-we more...

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Get the expert's view on marketing and communications for the Web. Learn insiders' tips for developing and implementing a business plan that works in the online community, then follow through by learning how to build a great project team and manage clients, workers, and technology to achieve your goals.

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With its state-of-the-art capabilities for rapidly processing and retrieving huge quantities of data, Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 is quickly growing in popularity among large corporations. But learning how to take advantage of the powerful, built-in data-mining services in SQL Server to turn all that data into meaningful information takes time and effort. Data Mining with SQL Server 2000 Technical Reference is the ideal, in-depth reference guide for any database developer, administrator, or IT professional who needs comprehensive information about these powerful new data-mining services. In pa more...

One of the most significant features of Visual Basic .NET is the full support of object-oriented programming. For years, developers have been asking for it, but you may not be quite sure how it can help to create and maintain scalable .NET applications. VB.NET is a language that facilitates object-oriented programming, but does not guarantee good object-oriented code. That's where Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET comes in. It will show you how to think about similarities in your application logic and how to design and create objects that maximize the benefit and power the .N more...

If you are a Python programmer who wants to incorporate XML into your skill set, this is the book for you. Python has attracted a wide variety of developers, who use it either as glue to connect critical programming tasks together, or as a complete cross-platform application development language. Yet, because it is object-oriented and has powerful text manipulation abilities, Python is an ideal language for manipulating XML. Python & XML gives you a solid foundation for using these two languages together. Loaded with practical examples, this new volume highlights common applic more...

"Drawing upon the author's experience, this book looks at how to create, develop and manage the process of change whether it be in one-to-one situations, team based or within organizations. It examines how change happens, both at the individual and organizational level and why, despite a desire to change, some people and organizations find it difficult to achieve." Illustrated with case studies Coaching for Change is designed to help convert theory to practice and provides an essential guide to how coaching can assist organizations react successfully to change.more...

Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems. Whether you're using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent confusion about the precise meaning of database-related terms (e.g., attribute, 3NF, one-to-many correspondence, predicate, repeating group, join dependency), helping to ensure the success of your database projects. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this authoritative and comprehensive quick-reference contains more than 600 terms, many with examples, covering i more...

Python Essential Reference, Second Edition, concisely describes the Python Programming language and its large library of standard modules, collectively known as the Python programming environment. It is arranged into four major parts. First, a brief tutorial and introduction is presented, then an informal language reference will cover lexical conventions, functions, statements, control flow, datatypes, classes, and execution models. The third section covers the Python library, and the final section covers the Python C API that is used to write Python extensions.

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Between the time a team is launched and the time it delivers results, managers need to know that the team is on course. Whether they have launched a team to achieve a business objective or have inherited a team, they need to monitor effectiveness on an ongoing basis and make course corrections that keep small problems from becoming major disasters.

Monitoring and maintaining team performance is a key element of leading a team. You can provide that leadership by paying attention to four important dimensions: team member effort, team member knowledge and skills, team tactics, and group dynam more...

Data Mining ’99: Technology Report is an essential guide. Before your staff spends hours gathering information from vendors — and before you hire a consultant — save money by using this report to focus on the products and approaches best suited for your organization’s needs.

Data Mining ’99: Technology Report contains a clear, non-technical overview of data mining techniques and their role in knowledge discovery, PLUS detailed vendor specifications and feature descriptions for over two dozen data mining products (check our website for the complete list). It also comes with CD-ROMs that con more...