BEST OF THE BEST

 OMNITEKK just loves to help our technophile community thrive.

As such, we've compiled our best of the best "IT REFERENCE BOOKS EDITION", because who doesn't like the benefit of a good read doused in an array of "know how"...

And without further ado...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Charles Platt

Definitely OMNITEKK approved. This gem is seething with an array of I.T. and technical nomenclature, that all from the novice to the seasoned I.T. professional alike can make use of on their journey toward I.T. technophilia.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS

Harry Henderson

For all our electrical and hardware technicians needing to develop and sharpen their keen electronics jargon (pun intended), or even use this handy dandy book as a reference guide to their PC "know how" to troubleshoot common hardware anomalies, this book is for you.

MAKE ELECTRONICS 

Charles Platt

"Wowzers" to the makers of Make Electronics. This two - volume set is jam-packed with an array of nifty projects designed to help the twiddler, tinkerer, and creator of all things electronics on their way to innovation and creativity.

ARDUINO

Maik Schmidt

Everything from robotics to visual sensory machine projects can be created with this well-written and vividly crafted c-like Arduino reference book to help readers embark on an interesting journey of creativity and wherewithal.

POWERSHELL IN DEPTH

Don Jones

As the name implies, this reference book takes readers on an interesting journey of utilizing powershell command prompt directives to do just about anything in your windows environment, from database administration to simple, yet elegant task scheduling and more. Definitely a keeper and necessity amongst techies and I.T. administrators in the it field.

And there you have it - I.T. REFERENCE BOOKS SERVED.

So until our next I.T. adventure my friends, OMNITEKK says be well.

TWIDDLE ME THIS

 Time, or should we say clock ticks, are certainly of the essence where your programming tasks call for low-level rapid processing, such as in embedded and distributed systems tasks, along with all other performance critical software manufacturing projects.

As such, a sure-fire way to utilize or make use of your programming projects in the best way, is to use the omnipotence of bit twiddling hacks, along with a low-level language, like C++ or Assembly language.

This method of processing data within your programming tasks, allow for an array of integrated development environment (IDE) abstractions, that otherwise cause longer program run times to be constructed and run with significantly reduced instructions per cycle or instruction revolutions, making them cult favorites amongst industries ranging from Wall Street to the Artificial Intelligence boom alike.

Real-world bit twiddling applications can be found in cryptography projects, computer graphics, data compression algorithms, hash functions, and digital photo processing, as well as in aim of designing your very own low-level virtual machines.

So here OMNITEKK presents an array of useful bit-twiddling hacks to help you along the way.

 

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

Your Welcome...

And until our next IT Adventure my friends, OMNITEKK says be well.

BATTLE OF THE FLEXES

 Stacks Vs. Queues

To be or not to be, is the most pressing question when choosing a supporting data infrastructure as an accompanying module within your programming tasks.

And while both STACKS and QUEUES, certainly have their advantages and shortcomings, here are a few of OMNITEKK'S tips and tricks for utilizing either of them in your IT projects.

A few questions should be answered - namely

What Type Of Application Are You Designing?

While with a few tweaks here or there, either STACK or QUEUE data structure accompanyments can be used as possible solutions in your project's processing aim, each structure has its very own usage strengths.

For instance, we might use with efficiency, STACKS as a means of balancing symbols in infix to prefix conversions or vice versa, function call implementations, or in finding both spans or maxims within our projects or application. STACKS might even be used in page visited histories of web browser tasks.  

However, they aren't well suited to make the cut on auxiliary tasks such as in simulating first come first serve applications like job scheduling, ticket counter scenarios, or even the dreadful asynchronous data processes, tasked by most jaugernauts in IT, who use QUEUE data structures in such an aim.

Which Order Does Your Application Retrieve And Store Data?

STACK operation processes are used as LAST-IN-FIRST-OUT, or LIFO ( pronounced lye - fo) data structures by creating STACKS for processing, utilizing the infamous PUSH and POP operations, for such data tasks. 

So if your project or program is designed to retrieve the last file or process, or even program addresses stored within your coding tasks in reverse input order, then STACKS might serve you well to use.

However, if your application requires that information be processed in the same order placed, then QUEUES might prove best to use, as these are FIRST-IN-FIRST-OUT or FIFO (pronounced fy - fo) data structures, utilizing the ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE operations to store, handle and process information in sequential or priority of order.

And lastly, but certainly not the least - 

What Are The Performance Costs?

While both STACKS and QUEUES each have similar performance application processing times, they each of them present their unique sets of difficulties, given the program structure, along with all encompassing application factors as well.

Considerations such as the type of data being processed, or contingency of other nominal application factors, should all be factored within your program run times - which, while they mightn't necessarily increase the data structural run times for your application per say, they might certainly impact your overall program design within the culmination of context used within your application.

So do be sure to consider these facets when structuring your application, in determining whether to use either the LIFO structure of STACK operations, or those of QUEUES or FIFO  structures, when developing your next IT project.

And while you do, here's a few resources to help you along the way.

ALGS4.CS.PRINCETON.EDU/13STACKS

WEB.STANFORD.EDU/CLASS/ARCHIVE/CS/CS106B.1226/LECTURES/05-STACK-QUEUE/

And as always, until our next it adventure, my friends, OMNITEKK says be well.