In today's impersonal, arms-length marketplace, customer loyalty is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Customer Relationship Management brings it back to the foreground, providing easy-to-apply solutions and...

If you are dealing with large projects on a daily basis, you know that the most difficult task is to deliver products on time and within a budget. However, many factors can influence those variables, including the...

With its flexibility, readability, and mature code libraries, Python is a natural choice for developing agile and maintainable web applications. Several frameworks have emerged in the last few years that share ideas with Ruby on Rails and leverage the expressive nature of Python. This Short Cut will tell you what you need to...

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Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to...

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You haven't experienced the full potential of Xbox 360 or Windows until you've created your own homebrewed games for these innovative systems. With Microsoft's new XNA Framework, the only thing limiting you is your imagination. Now professional game developer and Microsoft DirectX MVP Benjamin Nitschke shows you how to take advantage of the XNA...

Unlocking Microsoft C# v2.0 Programming Secrets provides a guide for working with the Visual C# compiler. From discussions of the IDE and the basics of code placement in C# to the creation of message boxes and menus, this book details how to insert common algorithmic functions in C#...