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dimanche 3 août 2014

صنع الأنضمة الوهمية أو الأسطح الوهمية و تشغيل أكثر من نضام تشغيل على نفس الحاسوب


 في تدوينة اليوم سوف نتطرق إلى طريقة صنع العديد من الإنضمة الوهمية على نفس الحاسوب و دون اللجوء للفرمتة حيث يمكنك أن يتواجد داخل حاسوبك العديد من أنضمة التشغيل مفتوحة في نوافذ يمكنك الإنتقال بينها بكل سهولة حيش يمكن أن تجد في نافذة windows 8 و في نافذة windows xp و في نافذة kali linux و يمكنك فعل ذلك بكل بساطة مع برنامج أكثر من رائع vmware workstation 10 حيث وجب عليكم تحميل أنضمة تشغيل بصيغة iso
رابط تحميل البرنامج
VMware workstation 10 
و أيضا أرفقت لكم مجموعة من أنضمة التشغيل بصيغة iso
windows 7iso
windows vista iso 
 windows xp iso 
 windows 8 iso  
backtrack iso
kali linux iso
و الان أترككم مع هذا الشرح الدقيق لبرنامج VMware workstation 10




vendredi 1 août 2014

أهم 5 أشياء يجب الإهتمام بها عند شراء حاسوب محمول laptop جديد

كل شخص منا عندما يفكر في شراء حاسوب محمول جديد يتبادر إلى ذهنه الأسئلة التالية أي من الماركات و الأنواع يجب أن أشتري ؟ من هي أفضل شركة مصنعة ؟ ما هو الثمن المناسب الذي يجب أم أدفعه لأجل شراء هذا الحاسوب ؟ و كيف أختار حاسوب يتلأئم مع احتياجاتي ؟ 
كل هاته الأسئلة و غيرها التي قد تتبادر إلى ذهنك سنحاول توضيحها في هاته التدوينة حتى تتمكن من اختيار حاسوب محمول ملأئم
1- الماوس و لوحة الفاتيح
كل حاسوب محمول يحمل معه ماوس يعمل باللمس و لوحة مفاتيح و بما أن شكلهم الخارجي لم يتطور كثيرا فنجد أن أغلب الأشخاص لا يهتمون بجودة لوحة المفاتيح و أيضا جودة الماوس و لكن هذا خطأ كبير فكل من الكيبورد و الماوس هو مهم جدا فهما اللذان ينفلان الأوامر للحاسوب و لهذا نجد شركة آبل تحقق مبيعات هائلة رغم ارتفاع ثمن أجهزتها و ذلك لكونها تهتم بهاته التفاصيل الدقيقة على حواسيبها الماك التي تعد نوعا ما تحفة إلكترونية لهذا احرص على اختيار ماوس و كيبورد احترافيتان لحاسوبك المحمول 
2- الحجم
عند التفكير في شراء لابتوب نسقط في حيرة حول الحجم هل سنختار حجم كبير صغير أم متوسط لهذا أنصحكم بالنوح الكبير في حالة إذا كنتم لا تتنقلون كثيرا أم إذا كنتم دائمي التنقل و السفر أنصحكم بحاسوب من الحجم الصغير أقل من 13.4 بوصة فهو مريح أثناء السفر و يمكنك حتى استخدامه في الماكن العامة فلن يشكل لكم مشكلة 
3- روعة عرض الشاشة 
نجد هاته الأيام العديد من الناس ينبهر بتلك الشاشات اللامعة التي تهتم بتحسين جودة الصورة و الألوان و لكن هذا خطأ فهذا ليس المهم بل المهم مدى قوة كارت الشاشة المغذي والمعالجالمعروضة عليها 
4- الإهتمام بالألعاب
قامت انتل بتطوير كروت الشاشة لكن الألعاب في تطور مستمر و سريع جدا حيث يعتبر الإصدار الخير لكروت الشاشة من إنتل intel HD 4000 والذي أصبح موجودًا ضمن مكونات أجهزة اللاب توب من الجيل الثالث intel Core Processor وهي اسرع بشكل مقبول منIntel HD 3000 و لكن مع ذلك ما زالت الألعاب في حاجة إلى ما هو أفضل من ذلك 
5- الذاكرة العشوائية RAM



يهتم المصنعين دائما بزيادة حجم RAM حيت كلما زاد حجمها كلما كانت البرامج تعمل بكفائة عالية لكن أنا شخصيا أنصح ب ram 4 Go فهي كافية أما إذا أردت ححم أكبر فيمكنك الحصول عليه لكن سوف يزيد ثمن الحاسوب 

كيف تحصل على VPN أمريكي مجاني و مدى الحياة

في تدوينة اليوم سوف نتطرق إلى طريقة الحصول على vpn أمريكي الذي من مميزاته أنه مجاني مدى الحياة و أيضا خفيف جدا بحيث لا يؤثر على صبيب الإنترنت كما أيضا بطريقة تثبيت سهلة و بسيطة جدا و أيضا يمكنك التعامل معه بكل سهولة و أترككم مع هذا الفيديو الذي أشرح فيه طريقة التحميا و التثبيت و أيضا التشغيل بالتفصيل 
فرجة ممتعة 

jeudi 31 juillet 2014

طريقة الحصول على نسخ لجميع درايفرات الحاسوب قبل الفرمتة

لا شك أن الجميع تصبه الحيرة عندما يعلم أنه مضطر أن يقوم بعملية فرمتة للحاسوب ليطرح على نفسه السؤال التالي:
كيف أحصل على الدرايفرات بعد الفرمتة كيف سأجدها كاملة و بإصدارها الأخير كما كانت في حاسوبي قبل الفرمتة لهذا جئت لكم اليوم ببرنامج جميل جدا يمكنكم من أخذ نسخة احتياطية من الدرايفرات مجتمعة على شكل setup يمكنكم وضعها في مفتاح usb و بعد الفرمتة يمكنكم تثبيتها و بهذا تستردون درايفراتكم التي كانت لديكم قبل فرمتة الجهاز يمكنكم تحميل هذا البرنامج من هنا
drivers genuis 
يمكنكم متابعة الشرح بالتفصيل في الفيديو أسفله


dimanche 15 juin 2014

نصائح من باولو كويلو للباحثين عن تحقيق أحلامهم

باولو كويلهو (بالإنجليزية: Paulo Coelho) روائي وقاص برازيلي. حاليا، يألف القصص المحررة من قبل العامة عن طريق الفيس بوك. تتميز رواياته بمعنى روحي يستطيع العامة تطبيقه مستعملاً شخصيات ذوات مواهب خاصة، لكن متواجدة عند الجميع. كما يعتمد على أحداث تاريخية واقعية لتمثيل أحداث قصصه.
و عين سنة 2007 رسول السلام التابع للأمم المتحدة


الكاتب البرازيلي صاحب الرواية الشهيرة الخيميائي معروف عنه الحكمة الرائعة من خلال كتاباته وهو صاحب أكثر كتاب مطبوع في العصر الحديث وواحدة من أكثر 10 روايات قراءة عبر التاريخ،  وسينصح أولئك الحالمين الباحثين عن تحقيق أهدافهم.

 - تأكد أن الظروف ستخدمك: وعن هذا يقول : " عندما تريد شيئاً بحق فالعالم كله يتآمر لتحققه."

 - حلمك ضروري كي تستمتع في الحياة فإياك التخلي عنه: حيث أكد باولو ذلك بقوله : " احتمالية أن تجعل حلمك حقيقة ... هو ما يجعل الحياة ممتعة." 

- لا تخشى الفشل فهو قاتل: وهذا نراه واضحاً من قوله : " الشيء الوحيد الذي يجعل الحلم مستحيلاً هو الخوف من الفشل." 

- إياك والخوف من الخطأ: فهو يقول : " كل شيء يخبرني أنني مقبل على صنع قرار خاطىء ، وليكن ! ... فالخطأ جزء من الحياة." 

- اهتم بشؤون نفسك وحلمك والإدارة من أجل تحقيقه: فيقول باولو : " كل شخص يعرف كيف يتوجب على الأخرين إدارة حياتهم ، لكن لا أحد يعرف عن حياته هو." 




- لا تستسلم مهما سقطت: فمن أجمل أقوال باولو كويلو : "  سر الحياة أن تسقط سبع مرات وتنهض ثمانية." 

- لا تعقد الأمور على نفسك : حيث قال البرازيلي بوضوح : " الأشياء البسيطة هي الأمور الخارقة للعادة ، ولا يراها إلا الحكماء." 

- لا تقل إن الوقت تأخر أبداً :  فمن أقواله الخالدة : " يستطيع الناس فعل ما يحلمون به في أي وقت كان مهما تقدم بهم العمر." 

- احلم أكبر .. تكن أكبر: وفي ذلك قال : "  أنت ستكون ما تؤمن به على أنه أنت!"

samedi 14 juin 2014

الشاب الذي ربح 250 الف دولار من فيديو على اليوتيوب لا يتجاوز 30 ثانية

أصبحت الإنترنت مصدر مهم من مصادر كسب المال والعمل  في القرن الواحد وعشرون ولم تعد فقط مصدر المعلومات كما كنا نعتقد . لكن في بعض الأحيان نشاهد بعض الحالات التي تؤكد لنا أن هذا العالم الجديد عالم مجنون بالفعل وكل شيء فيه ممكن.إذا كنت  تتساءل كثيرا لماذا يقوم بعض الناس بتسجيل ورفع فيديوهات خاص بهم لشبكة الأنترنت ، فاليوم يا صديقي ستعرف أن  هذا الأمر يمكن ان تحقق منه الآلاف من الدولارات بين ليلة وضحاها ودون أدنى مجهود يذكر !
 في الأيام الأخيرة انتشر فيديو منسوب لشاب اسمه "جاريد فرانك" البالغ من العمر 22 عاما، الفيديو يبدو عاديا. لكن المفاجئة الغير المتوقعة كانت أن هذا الشاب تلقى ضربة مبرحة على رأسه من طرف أحد سائقي قطار. لكن هذا الأمر شجع "جاريد فرانك" لرفع هذا الفيديو على موقع يوتيوب ، وبعد ساعات قليلة أصبح الفيديو ينتشر على شبكة الانترنت كانتشار النار في الهشيم ، هذا الانتشار الفيروسي حقق للفيديو نسبة زيارات ومشاهدات كبيرة تجاوزت 29 مليون مشاهدة من جميع أنحاء العالم
الحقيقة المؤكدة هي أن الفيديو بالفعل يقترب من 30 مليون مشاهدة قابلة للارتفاع،ولها السبب قام الشاب بالتواصل مع وكالة للدعاية مقرها كاليفورنيا لتساعده على كسب 2 دولار إلى 16 دولار لكل 1000 مشاهدة ، وسيحصل هو على 70 % من هذه الأرباح ،مما يعني أنه سيكسب $ 30،000 إلى 250،000 دولار، وهناك أيضا إمكانية زيادة هذه لإيرادات عن طريق إتفاقيات الترخيص !


dimanche 18 mai 2014

أشهر مقولات ستيف جوبز steve jobs

                    
العبقري ستيف جوبز ولد سنة 1955 و توفي سنة 2011 مؤسس شركة
آبل و هذه أشهر مقولاته : 
 
المقولة 1 : " التجديد هو ما يميز القائد عمن يتبعه " .

المقولة 2 : " كنت أملك أكثر من مليو دولار حين كان عمري 23 عاما، و 10 ملايين عندما كان عمري 24 عاما، و 100 مليون عندما كان عمري 25 عاما. لكن لم يكن لذلك أية أهمية لأنني لم أكن أفعلها لأجل المال " .

المقولة 3 : " لا تستمع أكثر من اللازم لما يقوله الزبائن " .

المقولة 4 : " للأسف الناس لا يتمردون على منتجات مايكروسوفت لأنهم لا يعلمون أن هناك أفضل منها " .

المقولة 5 : " إبدأ صغيرا ، فكر كبيرا ، لا تقلق على أشياء كثيرة في نفس الوقت ، إبدأ بالأشياء البسيطة أولا ثم تقدم إلى الأشياء الأكثر تعقيدا " .


المقولة 6 : " ساعد و حمس الأشخاص الذين يريدون أن يفعلوا شيئا مميزا في الحياة " .

المقولة 7 : " الأداة الجبارة التي تساعدني على اتختذ القرارات المصيرية في حياتي هي إدراكي بأنني سأموت " .

المقولة 8 : " اجعل البساطة هي التي تحكم " .

المقولة 9 : " لا يهمني أن أكون أغنى رجل ، قدر ما يهمني أن أعود للفراش في المساء و أنا أشعر أنني قمت بشيْ رائع " .

المقولة 10 : " علم شركتك الرؤيا الخاصة بك " .

المقولة 11 : " عملك سيشغل وقتا كبيرا من حياتك ، و أفضل طريقة لكي ترضي نفسك أن تقوم بما تعتقد أنه عمل عظيم " .

المقولة 12 : " احتفظ بذهنية المبتدئ " .

المقولة 14 : " تقع العديد من الأخطاء أثناء محاولة إعادة التجديد. من الأفضل الإعتراف بالخطأ و البحث عن مجالات أخرى للنشاط" .

المقولة 15 : " التصميم لا يتعلق بالمنضر الخارجي أو الإحساس . فالتصميم طريقة عمل هذه الأشياء " .


المقولة 16 : " إفعل الأشياء التي تحب  فعلها حقا ، إبحث دائما عن رغبنك الحقيقية ، اصنع الإختلاف و التميز . الطريقة الوحيدة لعمل أشياء عظيمة هي أن تحب ما تفعله " .

المقولة 17 : " عمرك في هذه الدنيا محدود فلا تبدده في محاولات العيش على طريقة الاخرين " .

المقولة 18 :" ضع قائمة بالأفكار و الأشياء التي يحتاج عملها سرعة في الوقت و سرعة في اتخاذ القرار ، ثم اقفز فورا من النافذة لتعملها و تبدأ بها " .

المقولة 19 : " من غير الممكن ان تسأل المستهلك مذا يحتاج كي تنتج له ذلك ، لأنك عندما تنتهي تلبية احتياجه يكون المستهلك قد أصبح بحاجة لشئ آخر مختلف " .

المقولة 20 : "  إذا لم تكن تحب منافسيك ، تعلم كيف تحبهم ، و تثني عليهم ، و تستفيد منهم ، انتقد أعدائك بشكل راقي ، و صريح لكن بأمانة " . 

المقولة 21 : " قل لا ألف مرة لألف سيْ يشتت انتباهك و يعرقل تفكيرك ، و ركز جيدا على عمل الأشياء بطريقة ابتكارية مختلفة عن المعتاد " .


المقولة 22 : " في بعض الأحيان الخطوة الولى هي الخطوة الأصعب تقدم و أخطوها فقط ، و ليكن لديك الشجاعة الكافية لأن تتبع احساسك و حاستك السادسة " . 

المقولة 23 : " ابتكر ، فالإبتكار يصنع منا شخصية القائد و ليس شخصية التابع فقط . كن ذكيا في توزيع مهامك ، دع الموضفين الأكفاء يقومون ب 50 في المئة من الأعمال الروتينية " .

المقولة 24 : " الناس تحكم عليك من خلال أدائك ، لذلك ركز على مخرجاتك ، إجعل الجودة و الإتقان هي مقياس أعمالك و لا تنضر إلى الكم و لكن إلى الكيف " .


mardi 11 mars 2014

Review: FutureHype: The Myths Of Technology

Author: Bob Seidensticker

ISBN: 1576753700

In an age where there is considerable hype about the wonders of modern technology, Bob Seidensticker prods us to take a step back and put everything into a more realistic perspective or as he most aptly states, we should vaccinate ourselves against hype.

Seidensticker's principal theme in FutureHype: The Myths Of Technology Change is that the pace of technological change does not increase exponentially. According to Seidensticker, although we may be living in an era of fast change, this does not imply that we are the only ones to have experienced this phenomenon. In earlier times people had their own examples of fast change and to discover if our times are really unique, it is necessary that today's social change be compared to that of the past. In fact, as Seidensticker warns us, "the popular perception of modern technology is inflated and out of step with reality."

Divided into two parts, the book first illustrates how we fall into the trap of incorrectly and myopically seeing technology. Seidensticker underlines his contentions with several concrete examples that are elaborated upon throughout this first section.

As an example, we are reminded that a technology might be innovative, but the product that we build from that technology does not necessarily have to be revolutionary, particularly if our predictions are off the mark. It is to be remembered that predictions are often more of a picture of the present rather than the future and there is often a danger of careless extrapolation.

The Internet may be able to provide us with a great deal of information, however, will this lead us to being better informed. Probably not, as the downside is that much of the information is unreliable and pure garbage!

One of the hypes we are all bombarded with daily is that we should blindly trust modern technology and put all of our eggs in one basket. This is all great until the basket breaks, as we become increasingly dependent on software that sometimes is filled with bugs or where we have fragile and brittle technology. No doubt, all of this has created much of the insecurity we feel today in our modern world.

The second part of the book takes a look at the constancy of change in a broad spectrum of areas-popular culture, health and safety, fear and anxiety, personal technologies, and business. We are provided with an excellent survey of the history of technology that is illustrated with stories from thousands of years of human advance proving to us that technological change is not unique to our day.

FutureHype: The Myths Of Technology Change immerses readers with a challenging study wherein technology is to be considered neither good, nor bad nor neutral. As Seidensticker states: "a technology isn't inherently good or bad, but it will have an impact." It is the impact that is important, as it will have a good side and a bad side.

Bob Seidensticker has spent twenty-five years in the technology industry and he holds thirteen software patents. His broad experience is quite in evidence with his insightful and compelling study, as he alerts his readers to the dangers of technology infatuation. He also cautions us that we should never lose sight of the myths that surround technology and the unexpected ways it evolves and affects our lives, while at the same time examining its downsides. As he concludes his book, he leaves us with a very important warning, "don't be bullied into buying a particular technology because a vendor, an advertisement, or your nephew you tells you to." Ask yourself if the product is right for you?

Norm Goldman is editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site http://www.bookpleasures.com and the travel site http://www.sketchandtravel.com
 
Bookpleasures is a global Internet book reviewing and author interviewing village. Reviewers come from all over the globe and review all genre. There are over 6500 sites that link to Bookpleasures and many of the reviews are listed within the first 3 pages of the Google Search Engine.

Norm also offers his own personalized express review service where you can have a quick review within 15 business days from the receipt of your book. To learn more about this service go to bookpleasures.com

Norm is ranked among the top 1000 Amazon reviewers and he contributes his reviews to several other Internet sites.

In addition, Norm and his artist wife Lily meld words with art focusing on romantic and wedding destinations, inns, and other hospitality properties. You can read Norm's travel articles and view Lily's art work that is always for sale at sketchandtravel.com

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Who Moved My Blackberry

I've just finished reading "Who Moved My Blackberry" by Martin Lukes with Lucy Kellaway which is a hugely funny dig at the corporate world and electronic communication.

It shows the fallout of sending delicate emails to the wrong people, what can happen when you align yourself to the wrong side even when you suspect all is not as it should be, and the perils of letting your Blackberry get into mischievous hands. Totally unlike the book "Who Moved My Cheese" by Dr Spencer Johnson (www.amazon.co.uk - oe3.99), which could do with falling into more hands!

I know there's lots of negativity around communicating by email but I love it. I haven't got a Blackberry but I do have wireless internet so I can do all my emails in bed if the fancy takes me - yes, OK, sometimes it does! As I see it, it's all about how you use it. It's great for setting up meetings, keeping in touch with people when you haven't always got time to phone, or even making arrangements for a verbal chat.

I think the negative publicity kicks in when it's used as a distraction. It can aid procrastination and stop you from making decisions. It can help you put off jobs that you should be dealing with. It can become an obsession when you can't stop checking your email to see if you have new messages, or it can make you feel driven as you feel you can't switch off from it.

Like many people, I use email to aid my business but have become a bit obsessed with it on occasions instead of sorting out the real issue. When you realise how much time can be wasted without achieving anything it's quite a shock, and time to take stock.

Only checking emails at certain times, having a "must do" list of other things, and adopting a more relaxed attitude to it are all strategies that are good for keeping it under control. After all, if someone wants to contact you in a hurry, they'll use the phone.

Oh, and maybe not taking your laptop and/or Blackberry to bed with you is also a good strategy!
Dammit! I'm still saying maybe -

Pam Stokes is a Business & Personal Development Coach. Besides coaching, she provides interactive online programmes for busy people, supervises newly qualified and trainee coaches, runs workshops in stress management and a Diploma Course in NLP. Free downloads www.pamstokesassociates.co.uk [http://www.pamstokesassociates.co.uk]

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The Minimum You Need to know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer - Book Review

Do you want to be an OpenVMS Application Developer? If you don't know what that is, then you probably don't need this book, but if you do, you've found the seemingly most comprehensive and readable guide to doing so. Roland Hughes' offering, "The Minimum You Need to know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer" is an abundance of information that you cannot afford to be without.

Here's some background: "OpenVMS (Open Virtual Memory System) is a high-end computer server operating system. As a multi-user, multiprocessing virtual memory-based operating system (OS), it is designed for use in time-sharing, batch processing, real time, and transaction processing. It offers high system availability through clustering and distributes the system over many machines." In other words, you need to know this!

This isn't a beginner's guide, to be sure. However, those in the IT industry will be thankful to Hughes as he describes uses of: the MMS and CMS tools from the widely used DECSET OpenVMS software development toolkit CDD FMS the RDB and MySQL databases. He describes other tools found in OpenVMS application development such as VMSMAIL, and PHONE. The book works readers through and around a single application which is developed in each of DEC BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C and C++ using a variety of tools. On the accompanying CD, full source code is provided.
Hughes' language is easy to understand. He doesn't speak over the heads of the readers, nor talk down, and his tome is not the dry textbook form you may be used to. He uses humor and easy going guidance, making this likely one of the most readable IT guides out there.

Drawing on his vast experience and knowledge, Hughes rewards himself and the reader with a final chapter on the IT field. His guidance here is not so technical but rather personal when deciding where a developer wishes to work. His attention to company restrooms is something I did not expect to read about but is likely very valuable information. If you want to be an OpenVMS Application Developer, this is the book you need.

"The Minimum You Need to know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer"

By Roland Hughes

ISBN-10: 0977086607

Review by Heather Froeschl

Heather Froeschl is an author, award winning editor, and book reviewer, at [http://www.Quilldipper.com] and http://www.Bookideas.com

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The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS - Book Review

The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS

By Roland Hughes

ISBN 0-9770866-1-5

Stop right there. If you haven't read Roland Hughes' first book in this series, "The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer" you'll need to do so. Think of it as the prerequisite of a college course. Now, you are ready for the second book, "The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS." Why two books? Java wasn't covered so thoroughly in the first. Believe me; you'll be glad you have both.

The concept of this book is "how to convert your existing core business application to use Java, yet still preserve your investment in the most stable platform on earth." In other words, Hughes shows programmers how to create all the tools you need to make Java a usable language on OpenVMS. Java is an object-oriented programming language somewhat similar to C and C++ but really very different. Hughes goes into great comparison. Java has classes, but has a unique class called an Array with no defined constructor. This means values can be stored anywhere and in no specific order. You're going to learn to build the tools you need to build the tools you want. Pretty simple, right?

As in the first book, Hughes uses the same application to demonstrate each new tool, in this book, using Java with FMS and RDB. He shows how to develop a generic class that will be usable by Indexed Files, also how to use JNI to access RMS, FMS, system services, and operating system provided libraries. Programmers learn to create an infrastructure MMS Procedure and how to use the supporting classes the procedure creates. Hughes also shows how to access RDB via the JDBC driver, demonstrating the importance of SQL. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the Class source.
This isn't just flat textbook reading though. Hughes uses humor and casual language to engage his readers. He comfortably refers to things like geek books and nerd attitude. He knows that this work is on the intense side of life. The information within the book is very professionally presented, with detailed analysis and explanations, troubleshooting and error experiencing tips, and exercise quizzes that test your knowledge. You have to know these things!

The final chapter examines the future of IT and the choices you make going into it. So you want to be a computer programmer huh? Are you sure? Don't listen to your guidance counselor without reading this book (and the first) first. Triple digit hourly rates, six figure salaries...maybe not. Downsizing, layoffs, feast or famine? Maybe so. When looking for sage advice on IT, go to the guru, Roland Hughes.

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The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT - Book Review

If you are an IT college student, you are likely being gypped. Logic is no longer taught and it really is something you need. According to Roland Hughes, in his book, "The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT," "Logic is the fundamental tool of IT."

This book has nothing to do with Leonard Nimoy and Spock's form of Logic, but I'll bet that character would have had knowledge of it! This is where you will be taught what you should still be getting from college professors. So, what's it all about? Yes, there are the basics of flowcharting and pseudocode, and there are chapters on fundamental data types, searching and sorting, decision order (with multiple exercises to work on), and even more on linked lists, hash, and relational databases. And what happens during a major disaster? Surviving the Fire is a must read chapter.

Hughes' familiar style permeates the book. His wit and humor make for interesting reading of what could be bone dry material. His decades of experience shine through, leaving readers thankful and wishing he were a college professor at their local university. If this is your first introduction to Roland Hughes, be sure to check out his other works, such as, "The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer," and "The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS." If you are going into the IT field, Roland Hughes should, and will, become a familiar name to you.

The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to work in IT

By Roland Hughes

ISBN 0-9770866-2-3

Heather Froeschl is an author, award winning editor, and book reviewer, at [http://www.Quilldipper.com] and http://www.Bookideas.com

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lundi 10 mars 2014

"The Minimum You Need to Know about Java on OpenVMS" by Roland Hughes - Book Review

Logikal Solutions (2006)

ISBN 9780977086610

Reviewed by Regan Windsor for Reader Views (8/07)

While Java has exploded in the world of the Web and high tech toys, "The Minimum You Need to Know about Java on OpenVMS," focuses on "converting existing core business applications to use Java, yet still preserving your investment on the most stable platform on earth." For maximum understanding and success, this book should be read as a companion to "The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer."

In true "tell it like it is" Hughes' fashion you realize early on in this book that the author is not a big fan of Java. To a seasoned C/ C++ user, the similarities and yet vast differences of Java and C++ can make it a cumbersome (if not extremely frustrating) language to work with. The good news is this is not a sugar-coated book on Java; Hughes confronts the biggest setbacks of working with Java and what you need to do to work through them.

"The Minimum You Need To Know about Java on OpenVMS" covers basic code for using RTL and SYS functions, tips and tools for accessing RMS indexed files, the why's and how's of interfacing with FMS, details (including code) on creating a sample application (Mega Zillionare, as used in "The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer"), as well as some additional knowledge transfer and insights from the author.

As with the first book in "The Minimum You Need to Know" series, "The Minimum You Need to Know about Java and OpenVMS" provides the reader with invaluable tips and tricks, includes a CD full of code, hands-on-programming exercises, and questions for review. The book reads as though you are being coached through the process of using Java on OpenVMS, as well as being provided with a few insights (and opinions!) along the way.

"The Minimum You Need to Know about Java on OpenVMS" is an essential tool for anyone tasked with using Java on OpenVMS.

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Interview with Roland Hughes, Author of "The Minimum You Need to Know" Series

Today, Tyler R. Tichelaar of Reader Views is pleased to be joined by Roland Hughes, who is here to talk about his "The Minimum You Need to Know" series, which includes "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an Open VMS Application Developer," 1st Impression Publishing (2006), "The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT," Logikal Solutions (2007), and "The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS," Logikal Solutions (2006).

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in VMS platforms. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation (now owned by Hewlett-Packard).

With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on OpenVMS systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of OpenVMS in industry.

Mr. Hughes's technical skill sets include the following tools that enable him to master and improve OpenVMS applications: DEC/VAX C, DEC/VAX C++, DEC BASIC, DCL, ACMS, MQ Series, DEC COBOL, RDB, POWERHOUSE, SQL, CMS/MMS, Oracle 8i, FORTRAN, FMS, and Java, among others. Being fluent in so many technical languages enables Hughes to share his knowledge more easily with other programmers. This book series is an effort to pass along some of his insights and skills to the next generation.

Tyler: Thank you for joining me today, Roland. Would you tell us first what makes your books stand out from other books about Java and VMS?

Roland: For OpenVMS, that's easy. There are no other application development books currently in print for it. There are quite a few systems management and integration books out there for it, but none focusing on application development or even language usage.

As to Java, I did not drink the kool-aid in Java Town, and you won't find my body stacked in one of the piles being discovered there. I work with Java when I have to. It is not, and should never be the language of choice for anyone serious about application development. My book on Java dives right into the hard stuff: Calling system services, using run-time libraries, reading and writing RMS indexed files, interacting with the user on a VT-320 terminal. You don't find any other Java books talking about such things because their authors don't grasp enough about the language to accomplish it.

Tyler: You said Java "should never be the language of choice for anyone serious about application development." Why is that, and why do you think other authors have difficulty grasping it?

Roland: One has to define first "serious application development." While the WEB may become a serious portion of income for many businesses, it should never be serious application development. All of the serious application development occurs on the back end. We now call this SOA. You put a tiny little WEB service up which makes a secure call to a back end process that actually does all of the work.

Java is unfit for back end server development for the same reason almost all 4GL tools were unfit. They are interpreted. OK, they are p-compiled and that is interpreted. You cannot get enough performance, robustness, and security from an interpreted tool set.

If you look at most SOA implementations now, they are putting little WEB services up which communicate via some proprietary messaging system to a pre-existing back end which was written in COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, or some other language the trade press has long forgotten about.

Your question is its own answer: "Why do you think other authors have difficulty grasping it?" They are authors, not professional software developers. They are paid by a marketing war chest that has funneled money to one of the large publishers. The large publisher gives them a $4k-$5k advance and tells them to drink the Kool-aid with this book. They also tell them they have to put out 5 additional books this year per their contract. Exactly how much skill, knowledge, and research goes into any technology book put out by a large publishing house? Zero. They are busy churning out oatmeal for the masses.

When I wrote "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" I took an unpaid year off to write that book. Had I been working for a publisher, that book never would have been printed. Assuming I was allowed to write it, the book would have been split into 9 different books, each one a watered down shadow of what the book I put out myself currently is.

Tyler: What do you think should be the language for application development and why?

Roland: That answer really depends upon your platform and the tool set you are working with. If you decide you only want to work with RMS indexed files, then hands-down DEC BASIC is the tool of choice. You must be aware that you have limited the size of both your application and your company by choosing to use RMS Indexed files rather than a relational database. Once a single indexed file starts spanning multiple disk drives it becomes very slow to access.

You decide, for whatever reason, a primitive relational database will be your data storage method of choice. You choose MySQL because it is free. You are limited to C/C++ as your development language on most platforms when using that database.

If you decide to use the best of the best in database technology, RDB on an OpenVMS cluster with fully distributed databases, you can literally choose any language supported on the platform, even Java as the Java book in this series shows.

In today's world, you choose your tools first: screen management, database/storage, messaging. Then you pick one of the languages that work with the tools you have chosen on the OS you choose to run.
Tyler: For the layperson, would you tell us a bit about OpenVMS and its role in the computer industry?

Roland: OpenVMS was and still is the most advanced operating system ever created by mankind. In the 1980's VMS gave the business world clustering and set the standard so high no other operating system has even come close to the implementation. There are a lot of OS's and vendors of OS's who will claim they have "clustering" but it is untrue. They have to spin a new definition of clustering, in most cases down to "we can spell the word clustering therefore we must have it." No version of Unix or Linux actually clusters. This is something Oracle is finding out the hard way with their RAC10 product and some much publicized travel site outages.

Were OpenVMS re-introduced today as a brand new operating system it would set the entire IT industry on its ear. Most of the IT industry is waking up to the fact that no matter how many $800 PC's you stick on blades, it is not a stable enough platform to run your company on.

Tyler: Roland, I must admit, I am not overly computer-savvy, and I find it difficult to communicate with IT people because of the jargon and the technicalities of technology. Therefore, I am surprised and pleased to meet someone who writes books about computers. What made you decide to be an author about technology?

Roland: It's the field I work in, and it is highly misunderstood. The industry has been reduced to 4-color glossies and MBA's making knee-jerk decisions based upon which product seems to have the most 4-color glossies in the press this week. We have to change that. There is a very troubling mindset in upper management that IT workers are just like the box stackers on an assembly line. This has led to a mad rush to off-shore IT and to flood this country with H1-B workers. Besides decimating the economy, these decisions are decimating business. From the 1970's through the 1980's a company's business edge was its IT department. This defined how your business ran and let you outrun your competitors. Now there is a trend to use the exact same software as everyone else. You no longer have a business edge, so MBA's enter a price war to outdistance their competitors. All a non-IT person needs to do is read the announcements from the SEC investigating accounting practices, stock options, and the rash of other scandals to see where price war mentality puts you.

Doomsday type people have been preaching we will eventually fight a world war in the Middle East over oil. If present trends do not change, we will fight a world war to get our source code and technology back long before we go to war for oil. Someone needs to put what we will need to recover from that war in writing long before it happens. They also need to point out that it is coming.

Despite what the off-shoring contracts say, many corporations no longer own their software. The data centers it is hosted in are in another country. If the owners of that center cut the network links, how does that company continue to function?

Tyler: Wow, Roland. I never thought about technology in that global of a way. What do you think is the solution to this situation? Is the situation something that companies need to solve for themselves or is government intervention required?

Roland: Businesses will not solve it for themselves. They have run headlong off this cliff and are too busy looking for another profitable scam that will let them avoid prison (like back dated stock options did for years).

Government intervention will happen, but not for any of the reasons you might think. Some incredibly large and stupid company (think Oracle or Microsoft) will have 70-80% of its source hosted on off-shore services (both of these companies have close to that in off-shore work now if you can believe the numbers floating around). At some point an entity or party with a fanatical national policy will take control of the government in that country and nationalize all of that source code. (Cuba did this when Castro took over, and other countries have done the same, so I'm not really stretching anything here).

Imagine what happens when those multi-million dollar Oracle products are no being sold as Alah-DB or some other radical name for $50.00/copy. Massive amounts of campaign funds get deposited to the re-election campaigns of all federal officials and congress declares war on the country that did this to protect Oracle (or Microsoft). Tens of thousands of your sons and daughters come home in body bags because corporations were both too stupid and too greedy to realize this off-shoring thing was a bad idea.

Take a look at GM and the other large companies off-shoring all of the software required for day-to-day operations. What happens when the third world country they off-shore to has the same thing happen? Unless GM forks over billions to "license" the now nationalized software, all of its plants and sales idle, putting hundreds of thousands out of work all at once. Same thing happens. Campaign contributions change hands and your children start coming home in body bags.

What scares me the most is that the off-shore companies themselves are going to force this to happen. Infokall, USTech, and the other large off-shore companies are built on a model of what amounts to slave labor. You are seeing articles in the business magazines about them complaining of talent sniping and a shortage of skilled developers willing to work for what they are willing to pay. Most of them are now opening offices in Korea and other countries which appear third world to Indian standards. These guys will pull out of their home countries overnight and open the door for some radical group to be backed by millions of now unemployed IT workers.

The move to Korea was really scary to hear about. U.S. troops have spilled blood there before.
Tyler: Roland, let's go back to your books. On your website, you state, "These books give IT people the information we actually need rather than the information the magazines say we need." What do magazines say IT people need that they don't, and why do the magazines have it wrong?

Roland: You have to understand how the "Industry Analyst" and trade magazine industry have operated for the past two decades to understand why neither are a good source of information. Both are funded by advertising dollars; both will deny it, but there it is. When a new product comes out and a vendor opens up its war chest, its first item of business is to become a paying subscriber to one or more of the "Industry Analyst" firms. This gets their product pitched to those in the IT industry subscribing to the service. It also gets Big-X consulting firms pitching the new product as well. Tons of articles appear in the weekly trade press stating how this new product is a Mega-Trend and the greatest thing to hit the industry since the semi-conductor.

This leads to knee-jerk decisions that launch countless "pilot projects" at various companies. These pilot projects all require some form of licensing for the product. The vendor then publishes this massive number of licenses being purchased (even if they are short term 120 day things) and suddenly it really looks like this is a train coming down the mountain at you. It's not. Until the new product replaces the actual core bread and butter systems at the company, it is nothing more than a flash in the pan. It takes a minimum of seven years to replace a core business system and have it settle in.

A core business system is defined as the complete flow: Order Entry, Customer Management, Inventory, Warehousing, Picking, Shipping, and Invoicing.

Let me put it to you another way. The language with the largest installed base in the world is COBOL. This is the language of many core business systems. There are millions of new lines of COBOL code written today and added to the billions of lines in production already. Exactly how many weekly or monthly IT magazines do you see writing articles about COBOL? None. It is a mature technology and doesn't have vast quantities of cash being dumped into its marketing.
Here is an interesting question for you to research on your own. Exactly how many college IT courses have COBOL as a mandatory course?

Tyler: Roland, I'm especially intrigued by your book "The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT." Your website suggests that logic isn't taught in college courses anymore, and consequently most IT people are unemployable. What do you see is the problem with IT college courses?

Roland: College courses are hamstrung by a lot of things, most of them fall into two categories: funding and tenure. I honestly thought that Y2K was going to fix college courses. There was evidence of it. Two years prior to Y2K hitting, a couple of forward thinking companies bought an IBM mainframe for a local junior college. They installed it and provided instructors. The governing body of the college was informed it would teach this course and actively recruit students for it. These companies knew that even graduating 50 students per term, they couldn't satisfy the need they were about to have inside of two years.

Tenure is a dangerous trap. It opens the door to some really lazy behavior. If you take a look at the college text market, the only books professors consider come completely packaged with test, scantron answer cards, overheads, and lecture notes. The instructor needs to add almost nothing to the course and in many cases doesn't.

Colleges don't have massive amounts of funding; even many of the private colleges only teach what they get for free when it comes to technology. Supporting a mainframe or midrange computer requires quite a bit of cash and special computer rooms. It is cheaper to scatter donated PC's around the campus and teach only what will run on them for free.

Colleges got trapped into trying to chase a market funded by a vendor war chest. When businesses said they needed IT professionals with WEB skills, colleges taught only the WEB skills. All of the other knowledge IT professionals were assumed to have didn't get taught. What you ended up with was someone who could design a really pretty WEB page, but couldn't communicate with the back end business systems or understand them. Why pay $65K/yr starting salary to a graduate like that when you can get the same unskilled person in a third world country for $10/day?

I have found very few colleges today that teach logic to IT people. The reason is that you can't make them understand how logic helps them if you aren't going to teach them the 3GL business system languages like COBOL, BASIC, C, etc. Logic is hard to understand in a point and click WEB world.
Tyler: Roland, when I introduced you, I mentioned that you are the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in VMS platforms. As a business consultant, if you were asked by a university that wanted to start an IT student program, to assist them, what would you do to make sure the students are prepared for the future?

Roland: They need to have the students spend their first three weeks (before committing to the program) studying the growth of off-shore companies, the labor rates being paid in those countries, and the unemployment rate among IT workers in the US. They need also to be informed of all the other career opportunities that are out there. They need to read the articles that have appeared in business and IT publications stating that IT workers are now "labor" and not knowledge workers as we were classified in the 70-80's.

Once the candidates have gone through that...assuming they start with 3-4000 for those first three weeks, they need to tell the one student that still wants to learn IT after all of that to go to another school.

Honestly, given the situation management has created in this country and globally, I cannot ethically recommend ANY college student to go into the field of IT. Until a tragedy of massive proportions happens, IT will not be a rewarding or well paying field. IT is currently not even respected by corporations anymore. MBA's sit through a one-day training course on how to create a contact manager using Microsoft Access, then get their certificate to manage IT projects. This is how we got where we are.

Personally, I do not think you will find an IT curriculum being offered at US colleges in fewer than five years. The last I read is that enrollment is down over 80% in IT programs nationwide. MBA's have themselves to thank. Some colleges have completely closed the curriculum and now only offer a few courses in WEB page design and Java coding for the WEB.

Tyler: What advice would you give today to students interested in pursuing an IT or programming career?

Roland: Right now, I would tell them not to pursue it. Become a water well driller or a diesel engine mechanic. IT is headed for a train wreck and we are less than five years away from it. The mad rush to treat IT workers like warehouse box stackers has lead to the beating down of IT salaries and massive amounts of fraud in the H1-B program. A small backlash against the off-shoring has already started with some high profile contract cancellations. The big hammer will fall when more H1-B workers get arrested by Homeland Security for acts of terrorism. After that happens, the H1-B visa will be abolished. Off-shoring companies will find themselves tightly restricted. You won't see thousands of IT workers slipping over here on vacation visas to work many months tax-free. IT workers will once again be respected as knowledge workers and salaries will reward those who know.
Tyler: Roland, what makes your books stand out and fulfill a need college courses have missed?

Roland: Logic is the fundamental tool of IT. If you do not understand logic, then you do not understand the fundamental principals behind IT. You didn't earn a degree; you were given one.

Tyler: Roland, I was surprised to learn your book "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" is the first book in ten years on the subject. With the way technology is so rapidly changing, how is it possible ten years have elapsed without a book being written on the subject?

Roland: That's easy. HP is the third owner of OpenVMS. It started out with Digital Equipment Corporation who created an OS that was 30 years ahead of its time. Compaq then bought DEC, and being a PC company, had no idea what to do with a midrange system. Finally HP bought Compaq. HP has had a really sad excuse for a mid-range OS for many years. You might have heard of it: HP-UX. They sink vast amounts of money into marketing that lesser product. If that money were put into marketing OpenVMS, the HP-UX product would disappear inside of three years. HP is able to perform only maintenance on OpenVMS and have the OS add millions if not billions to its bottom line.

The installed base for OpenVMS is large. Companies that use it know what quality is. They also know the up-time for an OpenVMS cluster is measured in decades, not hours like it is for a PC network. Some of you may have read the article in "ComputerWorld" some time back. When the twin towers fell, the trading companies which were using clustered OpenVMS systems in multiple locations continued to trade until the end of the trading day. They had an outage of less than 15 minutes while the cluster verified the other nodes were not going to respond, then recovered their transactions and continued on. No other OS provides that level of "Survive the Fire" design.

Put yourself in the shoes of upper management at HP. You've sunk billions into this HP-UX thing over the years. OpenVMS has a large and loyal installed base despite every company that has tried to eliminate it over the years. Doing almost nothing for OpenVMS still has it adding millions if not billions to your annual bottom line. If you push OpenVMS, your flagship HP-UX will vanish from the market place. Do you tell the world you were wrong or do you continue sinking millions into HP-UX hoping against hope that it will one day catch up to OpenVMS?

Tyler: In "The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS," your first chapter is "Why Java?" Will you answer that question for us?

Roland: That question is best answered by reading the book.

Tyler: Roland, overall, what do you think makes your series of books stand out from all the other books on Java and programming?

Roland: I wasn't paid to write them. I wrote these books on my own time and published them with my own money. I wasn't paid by some publisher to crank out six books per year aimed at the least common denominator of the marketplace. This left me free to cover the topics I wanted and knew needed covering.

Tyler: Roland, what do you find most rewarding about programming and writing about our ever-changing technologies?

Roland: Technology really isn't "ever-changing." That's a phrase the trade press has been cramming down our throats for decades. Technology is forever rehashing old and sometimes bad ideas. The most rewarding part about writing is being able to point out just what idea is being rehashed this week by the trade press and "industry analysts."

Tyler: Roland, you have been involved with computers and programming for twenty years, back to when computers were just becoming common items in households. You have seen a lot of changes in that time. What have you found to be the biggest learning curve in keeping up with technology?
Roland: Convincing MBA's that what they are seeing in a 4-color glossy isn't new technology, it is a rehash of technology that either didn't survive or shouldn't be rehashed.

When you read through this series of books you will find a section where I cover how PC's rehashed mistakes mainframes and midrange computers made a decade before. You will also find a section talking about how all of these "new technologies" which let developers link directly to databases from WEB pages is a one way ticket to prison just waiting to be punched.

Tyler: Roland, you seem to have a bleak outlook for technology in the next few years. If you had a crystal ball, what would be your prediction for what technology and computers will be like in fifty more years?

Roland: Fifty is a really long number to look out. DEC had the best minds in the industry working for it and they only looked 30 years out. There are really three potential outcomes.

Outcome 1: Greed and corruption win. There are absolutely no IT jobs in the US, Western Europe, or England. Only a handful exist in Russia. All IT work is done by what was once third world nations. They bleed us dry. The former technology leaders now have a culture that exists of two classes, MBA's and those making less than $30K/yr no matter whether they build houses or work at 7/11. The domino effect caused by losing the IT workers caused a complete obliteration of the middle class by wiping out the industries which relied on them spending money (expensive homes, $70,000 SUV's, movie and music industry, etc.). It's the second dark ages.

Outcome 2: The SEC saves the world. During a brief respite between industry wide financial scandals the SEC stumbles into an accounting cover up of off-shore project failures by a blue chip company. They begin a very deep and public investigation. Heads of the company go to prison and the gory story of how papering over off-shore failures was common practice rattles the investing community. A cursory inspection of all publicly traded companies turns up that the practice was wide spread. In a massive plea bargain, all listed companies end their off-shore contracts within a month, then begin an examination of what systems they have still actually working. The mainframe and midrange systems still running their core business systems even after the company publicly declared they had converted everything to $800 pc's running Windows or Linux turn out to be the only system still running. A decade of purging happens during which, students are paid to go to college for core IT skills: Logic, 3GLs, and relational databases.

Outcome 3: Greed alone wins. The off-shore companies working in India faced with having to pay real wages and unionized programmers flash cut their operations over to Korea and other companies in a week's span of time. Millions of disgruntled IT workers take to the streets. Extremist groups move in and recruit them. These are educated people with a little bit of money, not the usual extremist fair. One or more large US companies finds all of their software nationalized by a new extremist government. We end up in a massive war with the outcome uncertain. Everything we want can be destroyed by a bombing raid or simply deleted by the current government of the country.
Tyler: Roland, would you tell our readers your web site and what further information they can find there about your books?

Roland: There are actually two sites. For information about the current books they can visit http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com. For information about other books or my company in general they can visit http://www.logikalsolutions.com.

Tyler: Thank you, Roland, for joining me today. It has been a real education. I hope your books become popular and lead to wiser and better IT decisions and work.

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"The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT" by Roland Hughes - Book Review

Logikal Solutions (2007)

ISBN 9780977086627

Reviewed by Regan Windsor for Reader Views (8/07)

Roland Hughes' passion for the IT Industry is obvious. If you have read the first two books in "The Minimum You Need to Know" series, "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Developer" and "The Minimum You Need to Know about Java on OpenVMS," you will figure that out very quickly. So imagine his horror when he found out that Logic, the very foundation of application and system design, had been tossed out of college curriculum. To remedy this he has provided the market and, with high hopes, the classroom a short, concise guide to "The Minimum You Need to Know about Logic to Work in IT."

Hughes begins with what he loves best - an analysis of the IT industry and what perils have resulted from abandoning the teaching of logic. I found this chapter extremely interesting as it outlines a trend that is impacting a wide span of industries. While explaining that the basic tools of logic, such as flowcharts and pseudocode, may not be seen in the workplace as something that is done by seasoned IT professionals, nor is it a deliverable of a project, Hughes highlights that it is the ability to use this logic when developing applications and systems that makes an IT professional successful. Therefore, it is key that students, and those starting out in the industry, be trained in the ability to think through projects in this way -- and for more complex problems realize the advantages of mapping it out using logical tools. This training should be the foundation of college educations, however since these classes do not produce marketable skills (in the way that training in languages does) the pressure to replace them with classes that do has broken down the holistic approach to education.

Along with the basics of flowcharting and pseudocode, "The Minimum You Need to Know about Logic to Work in IT" provides a basic understanding of fundamental data types, common sorts and searches, the importance of decision order, linked lists, using a hash, and the basics of relational databases. It's chapter on 'Knowing What Questions to Ask' provides a glimpse into the situations IT professionals may encounter and the importance of asking questions, understanding what the user requires, and most importantly ensuring that what they are asking for is legal!

While Hughes has moved more toward a textbook format in regards to the delivery of questions and case studies, his writing style and advice still mimic that of a mentor who has much knowledge to offer those just entering the field of IT. As with his other books in this series, "The Minimum You Need to Know about Logic to Work in IT" provides the reader with essential information, knowledge transfer in the form of tips and tricks, and much to ponder about the IT industry and its many challenges!

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"The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" by Roland Hughes - Book Review

1st Impression Publishing (2006)

ISBN 9780977086603

Reviewed by Regan Windsor for Reader Views (8/07)

While at first glance "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" may look like a classroom textbook, you don't need to read very far into it to realize it is much, much more. Roland Hughes has managed to write a comprehensive guide on the OpenVMS operating system and a variety of the tools, languages, and databases used, as though he was standing over your shoulder mentoring you through the process. In addition to source code, best practices, and tips and tricks, aimed at saving the novice developer hours of frustration, Roland also includes critical historical information on various applications. This information transfer is critical to the success of the IT industry and consequently the success of all companies whose systems are impacted by the historical trends in application development!

"The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" covers the fundamentals of OpenVMS, including hardware and software, as well as some tips on choosing an editor, and then starts the reader off with some hands-on exercises that build throughout the book. Also included are some end-of-chapter exercises (with answers included at the end of the book) to ensure the reader has grasped the key elements of the chapter.

The chapters that follow cover various tools, languages, and databases for developing applications on the OpenVMS platform. Beginning with DCL and Utilities, moving through DEC, FMS, CMS, CDD, FORTRAN, COBOL, C/ C++, covering Object and Text libraries, as well as Message Utility, Mail and Phone, describing MySQL and RDB databases, and ending with a chapter on the authors observations on the IT industry. Each chapter includes an overview, a discussion of functionality, and other relevant historical information, tips, tricks, best practices, and much more, and then works through several programming examples and exercises (source code provided). Many of the exercises walk the reader through the same process with the various languages, providing an appreciation of the trade-offs between them. Where more advanced functionality is available, Hughes provides a high level overview of what the additional functionality can provide.

"The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" should be on the desktop of anyone new to the OpenVMS platform and on the bookshelf of those seasoned veterans looking for a comprehensive reference book. Hands-on programming throughout the book provides a highly effective learning tool, and the best practices, advice, and knowledge transfer from the author gives the reader the unique feeling that they are sitting down next to a mentor, being coached through the tricks of the trade!

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The Ultimate Book on Microsoft Vista Computer Operating System - Book Review

So, you have purchased the most advanced operating system ever created in the history of humankind, but perhaps you did so reluctantly and because, well that's what your computer came with. But, if you will purchase this book you will learn just how powerful Microsoft Vista is and how many cool new things that it does.

The search features in this Vista Operating System are unbelievable and that is something you will definitely notice, but there are too great features in the email programs, browser and things like drawing and speech recognition, yep, all there. But, before you can use this stuff you need to learn how it all works. So, I recommend this book:

"Plain & Simple - Windows Vista" by Jerry Joyce and Marianne Moon - 2007 (an authentic Microsoft Press Book)

The sub-title of this book is very apropos; "Your Easy, Colorful, SEE-HOW Guide!" indeed, that is exactly what this book is, it's simply fabulous, illustrated and easy to use. And, did you know that a portion of this book's profits go to Smile Train, a non-profit group that helps with fixing cleft lips and palates.

Now then, this book has taken out the buzz-words and everything is in laymen's terms, for people like you and I. If you are into games, making movies or working with your associates while networking; then you are going to love this operating system once you learn how to use all this stuff. Best of all the price of this book is not that expensive at all, about $22.00 is all and I must say it is totally worth it, as this one book will hyperspace your productivity almost immediately.

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dimanche 9 mars 2014

A Review - Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One

As the title implies, Deke McClelland gives the reader a one-on-one approach to the wonders of Adobe Photoshop CS. The book provides a comprehensive walk through of the features of Photoshop in a classroom setting where the reader is the lone student and McClelland the teacher.

Deke McClelland is an Adobe Certified Expert and a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team. He was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop Professionals' Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2002.

This full-color book includes two hours of video tutorials in CD. It features a step by step presentation of real-world projects that are sure to help the reader gain proficiency with Photoshop. The reader is give a rich amount of graphics theory, best practices, and tips for avoiding Photoshop disasters. McClelland's approach to learning Photoshop bridges the gap among available literature on the subject and provides a unique educational experience.

The book is created with the intention of making the seemingly monumental task of mastering Photoshop look like a walk in the park. Inside are twelve lessons, each made up of three to six exercises, illustrated with more than 600 photos, diagrams, and screen shots. Each book-based lesson comes with a corresponding video lesson, included on a companion CD. The exercises are project-based, culminating in real-world projects that readers can show off when they've finished.

The book also contains "Extra Credit" sections that show readers how to tap into Photoshop's powerful features to give their projects a professional polish. Multiple choice quizzes follow each lesson, providing a great teaching tool for educators and a way for new users to test their knowledge.
Rich with "Pearls of Wisdom" gained from McClelland's years of experience, "Photoshop CS One-on-One" is accessible to complete beginners while still offering tips and secrets that even the most experienced Photoshop users are unaware of. Readers are sure to find that the combination of step-by-step lessons and video introduction provide the best learning experience of any Photoshop resource on the market.

The exercises included with each lesson are interesting and fun to do. The end result is almost always something you can be proud to say you created.

Because of its comprehensive approach, understanding this book fully will take some time. Take it slowly and at your own pace. McClelland's wit, literary allusions and breezy writing style help turn a cumbersome, complicated and sometimes mysterious computer application into a user-friendly tool.
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