• ISBN13: 978-1-4302-4410-3
• 304 Pages
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: December 12, 2012
• Available eBook Formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF

“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘TheInnovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 ‘innovationkillers’ within your company.”  –Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1.23.2013 (http://www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation/)

“Are you unwittingly stifling your employees’ entrepreneurial spirit? ‘TheInnovative CIO’ discusses ‘innovation killers’ that could be holding back yoursmall business or startup.” –Paul Shread “TIME/Business & Money”, 1.29.2013 (http://business.time.com/2013/01/29/removing-barriers-to-innovation/#ixzz2JSrUlD3A)

The Chief Information Officer’s influence in the business organization has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has come to regard Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone, boring, and unresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds company leaders to the critical value IT can deliver and threatens the competitive health and long-term survival of their enterprise.

The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importance of technology to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department and level of the business from boardroom to mailroom. IT leaders must design, sell, and implement a vigorous culture of IT competence and innovation that pervades the enterprise. The culture must be rooted in bidirectional exchange across organizations and C-level policies that drive technology innovation as the engine of business innovation.

The authors, international IT strategists and innovators, quantify the benefits and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriad innovation opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies,and identify the organizational structures and processes that have been proven to deliver ongoing innovation. Buttressing their brief with dozens of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO shows you how to:

• Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities created by new and emerging technologies
• Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover in strategic business planning
• Inject IT into the dynamic core of your organization’s culture, training, structure, practice, and policy

What you’ll learn
* Grasp the business basics of new information technologies:

• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Consumer-Driven IT
• Bring-Your-Own-Device
• Personalization
• Process Automation
• Mobile Computing
• E-Commerce
• Big Data and Analytics
• Social Networking
• E-Collaboration

* Judge the business opportunities presented by new and emerging technologies.
* Deploy new technologies to create and release new products.
* Use new technologies to penetrate and capture new markets.
* Harness new technologies to accelerate M&A time-to-value and add shareholder value.
* Apply new technologies to improve staff retention and productivity.
Who this book is for

The Innovative CIO targets all IT leaders—not only CIOs, but also VPs and directors of IT and IT operations, datacenter managers, and all other IT leaders who aspire to advance their careers as IT-providers to business leaders. This book serves secondarily as a guide to non-IT business leaders who are alert to the ways that IT can boost their abilities to innovate, to turbocharge their products, services, and processes, and to compete nimbly in fast-changing markets.

Andi Mann is vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies. With over 20 years’ experience across four continents, Andi has deep expertise of enterprise software on cloud, mainframe, midrange, server and desktop systems. Andi has worked within IT departments for governments and corporations, from small businesses to global multi-nationals; with several large enterprise software vendors; and as a leading industry analyst advising enterprises, governments, and IT vendors – from startups to the worlds’ largest companies. He has been widely published including in the New York Times, USA Today, CIO, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, TechTarget, and more. He has presented around the world on virtualization, cloud, automation, and IT management, at events such as Gartner ITxpo, VMworld, CA World, Interop, Cloud Computing Expo, SAPPHIRE, Citrix Synergy, Cloud Slam, and others. Andi is a co-author of the popular handbook, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’; he blogs at ‘Andi Mann – Übergeek’ (http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann), and tweets as @AndiMann.

George Watt is VP of Corporate Strategy for the Cloud Computing organization at CA Technologies. For more than 25 years, George has been helping customers simplify and automate their complex IT infrastructures. Prior to his current role, George founded CA Technologies Engineering Services team, which is responsible for protecting the company’s intellectual property, managing the consolidated source code repository, and providing automation and development tools. In this role George led the development of CA Technologies own private cloud and enjoys sharing his lessons learned with customers who are now venturing on a similar journey. Formerly a CA customer, George joined the company in 1988, beginning as a Systems Engineer and later transitioning into many roles over the course of two decades, including leading R&D field teams in Canada and other technical SWAT Teams. In these roles George delivered several innovations such as a lightweight event management agent and a knowledge base for a neural network-based predictive performance management solution. Many of George’s innovations are now available to CA Technologies customers as product components or features.

Peter Matthews is a Research Staff Member in CA Labs the research arm of CA Technologies. After training as a teacher he retrained to make the transition into computer software and after over 30 years in IT, Peter has worked with software on systems ranging from Mainframe to Smart phones. Prior to joining CA 16 years ago he worked for Ingres first as a consultant and finally as a development manager for Secure Ingres. During his time at CA he has worked with databases, infrastructure management and neural networks with customers from major banks and industrials to soccer clubs and start-ups. Peter’s current research areas are; service oriented architecture in particular Cloud Services, social networking and IT value management. He is also CA Labs representative to the European Commission with respect to research projects and strategies. In previous years Peter was a contributor to CA strategy process and published several papers on SLA, SOA and Value. He has also published a book on Ingres database applications. Peter’s outside interests include field hockey, cooking and painting.

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• ISBN13: 978-1-4302-4548-3
• 280 Pages
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: December 10, 2012
• Available eBook Formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF

Tech Job Hunt Handbook is a career management book—just for technology professionals—that reflects today’s new economic realities. The world of work is constantly changing, and staying professionally relevant while competing for more specialized tech jobs in areas like cloud computing, mobile and social applications, and big data in a highly competitive global economy is critical. The world is churning out hungry programmers and developers in record numbers, making the global labor market highly competitive. It is now essential to plan a campaign to get a better job as well as your overall career. Retooling your skills and re-branding yourself is mandatory whether you’re seeking a new job or intent on retaining current employment.

Readers of the Tech Job Hunt Handbook will find tools, practical guidance, and recommendations on how to find the best new tech jobs, how to get noticed, how to ace interviews and get hired, and how to keep those new jobs—until it’s time for a better one. As you will learn, learning how to assess and then invest in career management skills leads to long-term competitive advantage and a happier working life.

Tech Job Hunt Handbook—for recent graduates, risk-taking innovators, and tech veterans alike—shows how to build a comprehensive online professional profile, identify the companies you’re interested in and who you know at those companies, approach interviews with confidence, uncover opportunities in your current company, and understand the new emerging technology markets that could lead to a career rebirth. This book will help you:

• Find a new or better tech job.
• Stay relevant and employable despite constant new developments.
• Manage your tech career for long-term success.

What you’ll learn

• Why it’s essential to adapt quickly in today’s job market.
• Why pursuing degrees, certifications, and new skills are more important than ever.
• How to create a comprehensive online profile, consistent across online networks, that shines a light on your skills and capabilities.
• How to spot the best-run companies, identify who you know in them, and grow networks that lead to new and better jobs.
• How to make the most of the latest technology–online assessments, interactive video interviews, etc.–to put your best foot forward at all times.
• How to win hearts and minds during the hiring interview.
• How to determine when it’s time to consider a career change and how to go about it effectively.
• How to find work in today’s emerging tech disciplines: cloud, social technologies, mobile, big data, and analytics.
• How to transform yourself into someone companies view as a great investment.

Who this book is for

Tech Job Hunt Handbook is for the technology professional seeking new employment or retaining current employment in today’s ever-changing, ever-more-competitive world of work. It’s for those just graduating from college, risk-taking innovators, and project-hardened developers with decades of experience alike. Tech Job Hunt Handbook is the right choice for technology professionals ready to retool and re-brand their workplace persona and their skills, get a much better job, and stay employed in satisfying positions no matter how the economy or job market changes.

Kevin W. Grossman is a human resource and recruiting B2B software and services marketplace evangelist, entrepreneur, analyst, advisor, manager, marketer, and writer. His passion for writing extends over 25 years of leadership experience in various capacities including marketing, HR and recruiting, technology and higher education. His thorough understanding of the human resource and recruiting marketplace has helped hundreds of B2B software and services companies grow their business. He’s been a prolific “HR business” blogger since 2004 at marcomhrsay.com, and he has authored multiple articles on marketing, business development, HR, recruiting, career management, and leadership. An HRExaminer “HR Industry Top 100 Influencer,” he also speaks at HR and recruiting industry events and moderates HR/recruiting/marketing related webinars and roundtables. Most importantly, Kevin is a proud father of two beautiful girls and writes regularly about fatherhood, responsible parenting and domestic violence awareness and prevention.

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• ISBN-13: 9781430244226
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 11/30/2012
• Edition description: New
• Edition number: 1
• Pages: 368
• Sales rank: 377,730
• Product dimensions: 7.40 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Overview

Game apps on iPhone and now The New iPad remain one of the most popular type of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store.Does Angry Birds ring a bell? Now, you can learn to build game apps for the iPhone 5 and The New iPad using the new iOS6 SDK.

Beginning iOS 6 Games Development provides a clear path for you to learn and create iPhone and iPad game apps using the iOS 6 SDK platform. You’ll learn how to use the core classes to create rich and dynamic games apps, including graphics, animations, and sound. The latest version of Xcode 4.5 will be used in parts of the book to guide you along the way of building your iPhone or iPad game apps.

Other topics include iOS6 game appsdevelopment with the newest iOS Game Center update, persisting user data, and designing a compelling user experience. After readingthis book, you’llcome away with the skills and techniques for building a game app, top to bottom, that could perhaps even be sold on the Apple iTunes App Store.

*** NOTE: This book is an update of Beginning iOS 5 Games Development (ISBN-13: 978-1430237105)and Beginning iPhone Games Development (ISBN-10: 1430225998).

What you’ll learn

• What to learn and how to build iPhone and iPad game apps using iOS 6 SDK
• How to use UIViews to display game assets
• How to leverage Core Animation to simplify animations
• How to create frame-by-frame animations for action games
• How to play sound using media classes
• How to integrate with Game Center and other social media services
• How to use Core Data to persist game state

Who this book is for

This book is for new iPhone and iPad app developers who want to create game apps, using the iOS SDK. A basic understanding of Xcode and Objective-C is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. A Simple First Game
2. Setting Up Your Game Project
3. Explore the Game Application Lifecycle
4. Quickly Build an Input-Driven Game
5. Quickly Build a Frame-byFrame Game
6. Create Your Characters: Game Engine, Image Actors, and Behaviors
7. Build Your Game: Vector Actors and Particles
8. Build Your Game: UnderstandingGesturesand Movements
9. Game Center and Social Media
10. Monetizing via the Apple App Store
11. Add Sound to your Game
12. A Completed Game: Belt Commander
13. Physics!
14. Appendix A: Designing and Creating Graphics

Lucas L. Jordan is a lifelong computer enthusiast and has worked for many years as a Java developer, focusing on user interface. He has previously written JavaFX Special Effects: Taking Java™ RIA to the Extreme with Animation, Multimedia, and Game Elements. Lucas is interested in mobile application development in its many forms.

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• ISBN-13: 9781430245995
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 11/30/2012
• Edition description: New
• Edition number: 1
• Pages: 696
• Sales rank: 592,631
• Product dimensions: 7.60 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.50 (d)

iOS6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your code reference and guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS6 SDKdevices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You’ll find numerous examples of real-world cases that will enable you to build fully functional applications quickly and efficiently.

The recipes included in this book are wide in scope, and have been geared toward the professional developer. You’ll find clear and concise code samples accompanying each recipe, and will be presented with cutting-edge solutions that bring forth the best that the iOS6 SDK has to offer. The recipes include:

• Working with Autolayout to build flexible user interfaces that adapts to different screen sizes
• Building applications that incorporate multimedia
• Building location-aware apps
• Understanding best practices for application design and development

You’ll find iOS6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach to be an indispensable reference for all of your iOS development.

What you’ll learn

• How to make your apps truly stand out with multimedia
• How to integrate social network services like Twitter and Facebook into you apps
• How to enhance your game apps with GameCenter
• How to develop powerful apps with the latest Xcode
• How to use Table Views and Collection Views in combination with Core Data to build powerful data-driven apps
• How to build beautiful location-based apps with the new map engine

Who this book is for

This book is intended for developers familiar with the Objective-C programming language and with an interest in developing apps for the iPhone and iPad. While a basic knowledge of Objective-C is expected, developers at all levels of app development will benefit from this book.

Table of Contents

1. Application Recipes
2. Layout Recipes
3. Table and Collection View Recipes
4. Location Recipes
5. Motion Recipes
6. Map Recipes
7. Social Network Recipes
8. Camera Recipes
9. Multimedia Recipes
10. Image Recipes
11. User Data Recipes
12. Data Storage Recipes
13. Data Transmission Recipes
14. Game Kit Recipes

Colin Francis is an iOS developer from Gaithersburg, Maryland. After studying C++ and Java, he trained himself in iOS development and worked with Shawn Grimes of Shawnsbits, LLC in Baltimore. Now he lives in Miami, developing iOS apps independently with a focus on utilities and audio-focused software applications. He also works as an audio designer and sound technician, with experience on productions in both Miami and Washington, D.C.

Hans-Eric Grönlund is an active iOS and other app/applicationssoftware developer who took his first coding steps on his Sord M5 home computerback in 1985, playing with Basic and Assembler, and of course the fantastic game Guttang Gottong. He received his first programming job 1990 and have stayed in the business ever since, as a developer and a manager of software projects. Creating software and writing about it is both work and hobby for him. For more about him, visit http://www.hans-eric.com/.

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