Books written by Matt Stephens

Foundation Dreamweaver MX

So here's what we need to do to arrive at our layout: s Create the main table to hold all the page elements. s Deal with the navigation area which is ...
Foundation Dreamweaver MX

What this book covers: Site design and layout principles Using templates and Cascading Style Sheets to create advanced site designs Adding interactivity to pages with script Setting up PHP and MySQL to create powerful dynamic database ...
Foundation Dreamweaver MX

What this book covers: Site design and layout principles Using templates and Cascading Style Sheets to create advanced site designs Adding interactivity to pages with script Setting up PHP and MySQL to create powerful dynamic database ...
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Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of ...
Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost

From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn’t possible to accelerate software projects by simply adding staff. This is sometimes known as the “nine women can’t make a baby in one month” problem.
Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

Stephens and Rosenberg examine XP in the context of existing methodologies and processes such as RUP, ICONIX, Spiral, RAD, DSDM, etc – and show how XP goals can be achieved using these existing processes.
The Lostkind

It is a place of wonder, beauty and danger ... It is an invisible community where all those that the world has cast off, ignored or forgotten can thrive and become something far grander. They are the lostkind."--Back cover.
Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice: Theory and Practice

Diagramming and process are important topics in today’s software development world, as the UML diagramming language has come to be almost universally accepted.
Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism

*Describes an agile process that works on large projects *Ideal for hurried developers who want to develop software in teams *Incorporates real-life C#/.NET web project; can compare this with cases in book
Revolution in a Heartbeat: Using Emotional Insights to Drive Better Business Performance

If, as the cliché goes, people are a company's greatest asset, then ensuring their engagement is essential for any company's success. Revolution in a Heartbeat argues powerfully for a radical new approach to employee engagement.
Agritourism: A Manual for Diversifying Your Farm Income

Coverage Includes: Determining whether agritourism is right for you and your farm Types of agritourism operations, including off-farm and on-farm experiences Ideas for product and experience scenarios, including one-time, seasonal, and ...
The Jake Colbert Testimony

My notes and annotations are included. If you need more; I will come to testify in person; but this should be sufficient to tell my part in the story. What's left of my family need me here. The story I have written in these pages is true.
Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man
Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of ...
Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP
The Engagement Revolution: Using Emotional Insights to Drive Better Business Performance

This book argues powerfully for a radical new approach to employee engagement, based on understanding the minds and emotions of the people who work in organizations.
Use Case Driven Object Modeling With Uml: Theory And Practice

In addition to a comprehensive explanation of the foundations of the approach, the book makes extensive use of examples and provides exercises at the back of each chapter.· Introduction to ICONIX Process· Domain Modeling· Use Case ...
Read To Me (And Other Stories)

Four Short Stories of the Speculative and Wild.
The Ark-Hive

But when the surface probes report that the Surface is liveable again, Cora unexpectedly becomes the most important player in a brewing conflict over where Humanity belongs: Above, or Below.WHAT THE READERS ARE SAYING:"The Ark-Hive story ...