The Missing Tech Manual

What it does

I created this book so I could give these people a quick overview of the IT landscape so that they would be able to understand better what was happening with IT, why things happened, why things were taking so long, or who was responsible for what.

This book is aimed at non-technical people who want to start their own s or people already running a tech business. It'll also be useful for people who want to learn tech to get a job in the industry. In this book I will go over the following topics:Understanding the technology. Here I will go through Programming languages, databases, hosting options, and testing methodologies. For each of these,

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