Imagine that you are the CEO of a software company. You know you compete in an environment that does not permit you to treat innovation as a secondary issue. But how should you manage your software innovation to get the most out of it? This book will provide you with the answer. Software innovation is multifaceted and the approaches used by companies can be very different. The team of authors that wrote this book took the assumption that there is no such thing as a universal software engineering process or innovation process.

Software Development and Professional Practice reveals how to design and code great software. What factors do you take into account? What makes a good design? What methods and processes are out there for designing software? Is designing small programs different than designing large ones? How can you tell a good design from a bad one? You'll learn the principles of good software design, and how to turn those principles back into great code.

With 30,000 installations and 20 years of experience, Dentrix is the undisputed leader in practice management solutions. You can trust Dentrix to help you use the latest advances in technology to build a digital practice and improve your productivity and profitability... Dentrix also offers powerful integrated eServices to boost your front office productivity by allowing your team to get more done in less time. Time-consuming tasks, such as submitting patient insurance claims, sending appointment reminders, processing patient payments and entering patient data, can be done faster or automatically in Dentrix.

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and applicability, as well as in its scientific knowledge and technological methods. Software developers and researchers in the area of scientific and technical computing, high performance database systems, optimized compilers, high performance systems software, and low-power computing will find this book to be an invaluable reference to this powerful new paradigm.

The “Complete Collection” combines the video tutorials for six powerful Nik software plug-ins: Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete, Silver Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3.0, and HDR Efex Pro. These enhancements for Photoshop, Aperture, and other programs are easy to install and use, enabling you quickly optimize your images without complicated selections and layer masks. In the tutorials trainer and product specialist Richard West shows you how to use the plug-ins to create HDR and black-and-white images, reduce noise, apply sharpening and filters, and much more.

Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It's a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun projects and achieve impressive results quickly.

This book covers the complete spectrum of nonlinear optics and all solid state lasers.The book integrates theory, calculations and practical design, technology, experimental schemes and applications. With the expansion and further development of Laser technology, the wavelength spectrum of Lasers had to be enlarged, even to be tunable which requires the use of nonlinear optical and Laser tunable technology. It systematically summarizes and integrates the analysis of international achievements within the last 20 years in this field. It will be helpful for university teachers, graduate students as well as engineers.