JUST PUBLISHED: Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition

January 30, 2012  [MK] Sloane

Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition by Joe Celko just published! I got my copy, which means it’s now available for purchase and should ship right away. The full Table of Contents is listed below.

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AUTHOR NEWS: Second Interview with Steve Smoot on ChannelProSMB.com

December 22, 2011  SteveH

ChannelPro SMB recently sat down with Steve Smoot, co-author of Private Cloud Computing. This time it was to discuss his thoughts on cloud-supporting networks and how to keep networks performing with cloud computing. Read the full interview here!

This book is available from Elsevier, Amazon.com in print or on the Kindle, or from your favorite bookseller!

Read the first interview he did with ChannelPro SMB, where he discussed his thoughts on private vs. hybrid or public clouds. You can read the first interview in its entirety here!

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JUST PUBLISHED: Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

December 19, 2011  SteveH

Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook by Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt & Bill Buxton just published!

Review the full Table of Contents below.

About the Book

In Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, you will learn, through step-by-step instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that will let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time. Collectively, these methods will be your sketching repertoire: a toolkit where you can choose the method most appropriate for developing your ideas, which will help you cultivate a culture of experience-based design and critique in your workplace.

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December 14, 2011  SteveH

Now available for download is the free sample chapter “Culture and UX” from Global UX by Whitney Quesenbery & Daniel Szuc. Here’s an excerpt from the chapter:

Chapter 3: CULTURE AND UX

How many cross-cultural slips and gaps does that small anecdote hold? Attitudes toward time, expectations about appropriate activities, communication style, just to name a few. Aaron Marcus told us that story to illustrate the sort of cultural differences that cause heartaches, conflicts, and misunderstandings all the time. What is acceptable in one culture can be unthinkable in another.
We talk about “cross-cultural design” or “bridging cultures” – what does that mean for UX? User experience is based on understanding users. And users can now seem more diverse than ever. The UX challenges for this new, connected world are based on its biggest benefit: we are more connected.

This chapter looks at questions about culture and what it
means for UX:
• What do we need to know about cultures to do good UX?
• Are differences or similarities between cultures more important
for UX design?
• Are there models that will help us understand culture and
apply it in our UX work?
• How much does language matter in design and other UX work?

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COMING SOON: It’s Our Research by Tomer Sharon

December 1, 2011  SteveH

Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of It’s Our Research:Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects by Tomer Sharon. The 304-page reference is due out in February 2012.

About the Book

It’s Our Research provides a strategic framework for people who practice UX researchers who wish to be heard by their stakeholders. It gives you the techniques needed to involve stakeholders throughout the process of planning, execution, analysis, and reporting UX research ensure that your research impacts stakeholders, by getting them to think, talk, question, learn, and interact with your findings. Dramatically increase the chances that product managers, engineers, and management agree to do research and act upon its results Prove to stakeholders that your UX research is relevant; follow Tomer Sharon’s techniques and methods detailed inside.

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