IT Architecture Toolkit or JavaScript for Dummies Quick Reference

IT Architecture Toolkit

Author: Jane Carbon

Enterprise IT architecture made practical--finally!

There's only one way to maximize legacy infrastructure while integrating new partners, technologies, applications, and data streams: begin with a coherent enterprise architecture. But most approaches to enterprise architecture have been far too complex and theoretical--until now. IT Architecture Toolkit is a breakthrough: a practical, simple, rapid, and complete approach to delivering on the promise of enterprise architecture.

Jane Carbone's approach has been proven in mid-market and Fortune 500 enterprises alike. Step by step, Carbone shows how to integrate business, architecture, implementation, and all key outputs: for data, applications, technology, and people. Whether you're an IT leader, architect, planner, or analyst, you'll learn how to:

• Create strong, auditable links with business drivers
• Model your architecture simply, easily, and quickly
• Translate your models to real, manageable projects.
• Define the value proposition for architecture and establish realistic metrics
• Achieve buy-in throughout your organization
• Manage the "soft" aspects of your architecture initiative, including processes, roles, responsibilities, and organizational structure

Carbone provides a "soup to nuts" collection of methods and examples. Using her exercises, you'll construct a complete draft architecture for your own business: one that will handle change, opportunity, growth, mergers, downsizing . . . whatever comes your way.

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JavaScript for Dummies Quick Reference

Author: Emily A Vander Veer

Tucking a few JavaScript statements in among the HTML code that makes up your Web pages makes a dramatic difference. Enhanced, more interactive navigation buttons, user input validation, and scrolling messages are but a few of the improvements that you can make with JavaScript.

Now, with JavaScript For Dummies Quick Reference, all the JavaScript statements and examples of how to use them are right at your fingertips. Internet technology expert Emily A. Vander Veer not only organizes all the relevant HTML and JavaScript topics for easy access but also points out potential pitfalls, offers neat tricks, and provides complete code for doing such things as interacting with cookies, displaying pop-up messages, and making your script compatible with JavaScript-challenged Web browsers.

Best of all, JavaScript For Dummies Quick Reference features handy cross-references to topics covered in greater depth in JavaScript For Dummies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: How to Use This Book.
Relating JavaScript to the World Wide Web.
The Internet.
The World Wide Web.
JavaScript the Magnificent.
Finding Exactly What You're Looking for in This Book.
Understanding the Conventions Used in This Book.
Figuring Out What the Icons Mean.
Where to Go from Here.
Part I: First Things First: Creating HTML Objects to Work within JavaScript.
Part II: JavaScript Basics.
Part III: HTML Objects: The Heart of It All.
Part IV: Data Types: Building Basic JavaScript Objects.
Part V: Functions.
Part VI: Methods: How an Object Behaves.
Part VII: Properties (Object Data).
Part VIII: Event Handlers.
Part IX: Cool Things You Can Do with JavaScript.
Appendix A: Reserved Words.
Appendix B: Color Values.
Glossary: Techie Talk.
Index.
Reader Response Card.