“jason t roff”

The architecture of ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), Microsoft's newest form of database communication, is simple, concise, and efficient. This indispensable reference takes a comprehensive look at every object, collection, method, and property of ADO for developers who want to get a leg up on this techn... More

Providing investors with techniques based more on long-term performance than short-term hysteria, the author explores topics including major themes that will move markets in the coming decade; the hidden but all-too-real dangers of passive management and index funds; where and how to find stocks a... More

UML: A Beginner's Guide......With this learning tool, you can read, model and use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for software design, analysis and development. Follow the proven Beginner's Guide pedagogy and learn to graphically represent your software ideas in order to create a well-structured... More

Essential Skills--Made Easy!. With this learning tool, you can read, model, and use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for software design, analysis, and development. Follow the proven Beginner's Guide pedagogy and learn to graphically represent your software ideas in order to create a well-structu... More

A practical guide to planning and implementing SOA Integration and Re-architecting to an Oracle platform Much has been written about legacy modernization in the past few years. Most of the books, analysts' reports, and white papers focus on why you should mo... More

This unique, twelve-book series provides some of the most cutting-edge information about technology and Internet careers available today. Designed in a readable and dynamic format, this series is a must-read for high-low audiences interested in learning about the future world of e-commerce and the I... More

In this kit, an Emmy Award-winning director reveals the tricks and secrets of making a quality movie for under $2,000. The book is a complete and heavily illustrated guide that's a blueprint for making a low-budget film or video, and a DVD with behind-the-scenes demonstrations and tutorials on direc... More

Five-and-ten stores were immensely popular during the middle fifty years of the twentieth century, selling cheap, dependable goods to people from all walks of life. Now the product of a bygone era, these stores were revolutionary in their time, but few today appreciate how important they were in cre... More

A go-to resource for manga fans, this indispensable guide contains comprehensive reviews of more than 900 different manga series released in the United States. It also features a detailed Bibliography and resource section for readers who want to explore a particular series.- Reviews of more than 900... More

"Strange Cases" is the story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe's "Roxana" to James's "The Turn of the Screw" sand case histories form George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found narrative impetus in... More