Cartografia tematica ed automatica

Cartografia tematica e automatica di Federica Migliaccio:

Il libro raccoglie ed espone in maniera molto chiaramente i concetti della cartografia moderna, partendo dai cenni storici, dal III secolo a.C. sino a giorni nostri, le difficoltà incontrate nel tempo, le proiezioni cartografiche, la cartografia ufficiale italiana IGM, la traduzione in formato digitale (raster e vettoriale) della cartografia esistente, le moderne tecniche di acquisizione, i gps, ed infine gli strumenti (GIS / SIT) che la tecnologia informatica ci offre.

Technorati tags: Cartografia, SIT, GIS

The BOOK experience (funny)

green-ology reborn???

source: Standardizzazione e interoperabilità per i libri.

Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)

Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) by Adam Nathan

Amazon.com:

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a key component of the .NET Framework 3.0, giving you the power to create richer and more compelling applications than you dreamed possible. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by .NET guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.
· Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
· Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more
· Features a chapter on 3D graphics by Daniel Lehenbauer, lead developer responsible for WPF 3D
· Delves into non-mainstream topics: speech, audio/video, documents, bitmap effects, and more
· Shows how to create popular UI elements, such as features introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Galleries, ScreenTips, custom control layouts, and more
· Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes
· Explains how to develop and deploy all types of applications, including navigation-based applications, applications hosted in a Web browser, and applications with great-looking non-rectangular windows
· Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF
· Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies
· Explains how to exploit new Windows Vista features in WPF applications

Technorati tags: WPF, Book

Scrum and XP from the trenches

Scrum and XP from the trenches by Henrik Kniberg:

[...] This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time.

Under the leadership of Henrik Kniberg they experimented with different team sizes, different sprint lengths, different ways of defining “done”, different formats for product backlogs and sprint backlogs, different testing strategies, different ways of doing demos, different ways of synchronizing multiple Scrum teams, etc. They also experimented with XP practices – different ways of doing continuous build, pair programming, test driven development, etc, and how to combine this with Scrum.[...]

Thanks to Antonio Lucca and Luca Minudel for italian translate (here).

Good job!

Technorati tags: Scrum, XP, Agile

Object Relational Mapping’s theory

What is object relational mapping goal?
What (N)Hibernate‘s goal ? and Entity Framework goal?
and Linq2SQL? .netTiers? CSLA.NET? …

It’s good to know what is the goal of the tool we are using, what it offers and how it relates with other tools.
The document “Foundations of O/R Mapping” by  Mark Fussel may help you to better understand what is the right tool for your application.

source: Hai voluto la bicicletta?

Technorati tags: ORM