... Every
week, the team commits to delivering four to ten stories. Throughout the week, they work on all phases
of development for each story. At the end of the week, they deploy their software for internal ... but
they are the people best qualified to determine what the software should do.
On-site customers are responsible for figuring out the requirements forthe software. To do so, they use
their ... requirements-gathering techniques.
When programmers need information, they simply ask. Customers are responsible for organizing their
work so they are ready when programmers ask for information. They figure...
... execution, the expression evaluates true, then the
code between the
then and the endif executes. If the expression evaluates
false, then the program skips over the code between the
then and the ...
Note that the
while loop, like its high-level-language counterpart, tests
for loop termination at the top of the loop. Therefore, it is quite possible
that the statements in the body of the loop ... take one of the forms
from the previous section. If the boolean expression is true, the code after
the
then executes; otherwise control transfers to the next elseif or else clause
in the statement....
... highlighted in the toolbar control the layout of the script
editor and the Console Panes. You can set these panes one above the other, side by
side, or as a full-screen Script Editor Pane.
In the lower-right ... assume you’re using the ISE forthe remainder of this book
and not some other scripting editor. For now, hide the Script Editor Pane
and (if you want to) the Commands pane. Set the font size to ... float the
Commands Explorer by clicking the next-to-last button in the toolbar. If you close the
Commands Explorer and want it back, the last button in the toolbar will bring it back.
The first...
... also Shift-drag the title
bar to move the palette around the perimeter of the screen, or to snap the palette
from one edge of the screen to the other. (This tip also works with the toolbox.)
Four ... groupings. The
crop tool, for example, now has its own apartment instead of sharing quarters
with the marquee tools. For a summary of these changes, read The tools,” later
in this chapter.
The bottom ... Controls formerly contained
in the palettes now appear on the Options bar, labeled in Figure 2-3.
For more information on the Options bar and other palettes, see the upcom-
ing section The floating...
... at the baseline and
outcome VARA visits; all other data used forthe analysis were from the administrative claims
data.
To test the performance of the effectiveness algorithm and to see whether ... compensated for these injections and other procedures and likely
under-reported them. For this reason, our effectiveness algorithm may perform better when
there is a financial incentive to code these ... for oral
glucocorticoids in the 6 months prior to the index date, the
cumulative glucocorticoid dose in the 6 months prior to the
outcome visit date must be similar (i.e. within 120%) to the...
...
the skin at the entry site. A guide wire is inserted
down to the facet joint and then secured into the joint
surface. A dilation system is inserted over the guide
wire and used to dilate the ... the direct visualization
of the joint allows better de-innervation of the joint
and removal of the entire end-plate receptors that
adhere to the bone and capsular tissue.
Limitations of the ... considering
the endoscopic option. The facet injections in these 72
patients gave 50 to 100% relief of their pain in 86% of
the patients with a median relief period of 3 months.
The range of...
... to whether the patients had prior revascularization. The boundaries of the box are Tukey’s
hinges. The median is identified by the line inside the box. The length of the box is the interquartile ... in-
cluded in the meta-analysis. The boundaries of the box are Tukey’s hinges. The median is identified by the line inside the box.
The length of the box is the interquartile range (IQR) computed ... that contains the deviations from
normal that are measured by the MCG device. The
resulting mathematically integrated patterns of the
abnormal indexes are then compared for their degree
of...
... possible
that they would have prevented the discovery of one of the most beautiful theories
in the whole of mathematics: the theory of elliptic functions, which leads naturally
to the theory of modular forms, ... both mathematics and software, the former being the theoret-
ical underpinnings of the latter. For those who have not previously used them, the
programs will likely be a revelation. Imagine the ... can do the job for
you. If there is a simple form, the algorithms will find it. If there isn’t, they will
prove that there isn’t.
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In the next...
... supply
chain or any other business process have real-time access to the data
they need, then they will steer toward their targets. If they are re-
warded when they achieve their targets, then they will ... Instead they are proving the
truth of the saying, ‘ The bigger they are, the harder they fall.’’
It’s not that companies can’t be big and grow revenue to many
billions of dollars. It’s that they ... that can then be used to
reward people forthe effort needed to achieve these targets. The
availability of real-time performance data plus people’s desire to
receive rewards is what brings the self-adjusting...
... peacefully. The students begin by predicting
the possible content of the story, based on the title,
and they record these predictions (and the reasons
for them) in their journals. The students ... representative
and the reporter and a tour of the water plant. After
reviewing all of the material gathered in their re-
search, the students work together to outline their
presentations. They divide their ... language and to use
these as a platform for motivating further learning
and strengthening of their competencies.
Perspectives Informing the English Language Arts Standards 13
DEVELOPMENT
The dimension...
... at ETSU saw the smoke, dumped them out of
the garbage cans I used for firing onto the 20° F concrete and hosed them off, while they were
red hot, with freezing water. They survived. The velvety ... and
philosophical intent, the
human figure, male and
female, has been the
primary subject matter for
the artist in Western art
since the ancient Greeks
and remains the central
object of study in art
schools ... work, the
work discussed here, touch and sight are the subjects. In five of my past exhibitions an original
audiotape on a continuous loop was a part of the experience. At the opening forthe work...
... Force.com
Platform, Second Edition
“When the first edition of this book came out, it was welcomed by everyone
working on the Force.com platform .The book did an excellent job of locating the
Force.com ... the
Force.com platform in the overall code development sphere. And it was the first
comprehensive guide to the platform. But that was 2009, before Chatter, before
the REST API, before releases 16 ... the Salesforce platform for a new developer and can also act
as a reference book for an experienced Salesforce developer .The book provides
depth as well as breadth on Apex,Visualforce, and other...
...
www.it-ebooks.info
ptg8286219
Praise for Learning Android Application
Programming forthe Kindle Fire
“Now is a great time to learn how to program forthe Kindle Fire, and this book is
the perfect companion for your ... that in the six weeks
the Amazon Kindle Fire was available for purchase at the end of 2011, 3.9 million units were
sold, accounting for over 14 percent of the tablet market, making it the #1-selling ... “Mastering the
Android Development Tools.”
The LogCat logging tool is displayed on both the DDMS perspective and the Debug perspective.
This tool displays logging information from the emulator or the...
... any of the performance tests that you run change the content of the data within the test
database then ideally—prior to each performance test execution the database should be
restored to the same ... another way, you need to plan forthe peaks rather than the troughs.
SPECTACULAR FAILURE: A REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
Some years ago, the U.K. government decided to make available the results of the ... the performance
expectations forthe site were too conservative.
You have to allow for those peaks in demand.
Performance Testing Is Still an Informal Discipline
As mentioned previously, performance...