| The world of software development is experiencing dramatic growth and diversification, with a multitude of new languages and technologies continually being introduced and elaborated: XML, .Net, web services, mobile computing, etc. It therefore becomes increasingly difficult to keep up to date with even the technologies in one particular area.
At the same time, important steps towards unification and standardisation of notations and methods are taking place - the new UML 2.0 standard is the prime example of these, and provides a common notation and set of concepts which can be used in any object-oriented development for any kind of system. The MDA 1 (Model-driven Architecture) likewise provides a general strategy for separating platform-independent specifications of systems from their platformspecific implementations. |
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The Food Chemistry Laboratory: A Manual for Experimental Foods, Dietetics, and Food Scientists, Second EditionA popular book in its first edition, The Food Chemistry Laboratory: A Manual for Experimental Foods, Dietetics, and Food Scientists, Second Edition continues to provide students with practical knowledge of the fundamentals of designing, executing, and reporting the results of a research project. Presenting experiments that can be completed, in many... | | | | Markov Chains (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)In this rigorous account the author studies both discrete-time and continuous-time chains. A distinguishing feature is an introduction to more advanced topics such as martingales and potentials, in the established context of Markov chains. There are applications to simulation, economics, optimal control, genetics, queues and many other topics, and... |
HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11gThis guide demonstrates how to secure sensitive data and comply with internal and external audit regulations using Oracle 10g and 11g. It provides the hands-on guidance required to understand the complex options provided by Oracle and the know-how to choose the best option for a particular case. The book presents specific sequences of actions that... | | PHP: A Beginner’s Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)No matter which way you cut it, PHP is pretty amazing: a language strung together by volunteer programmers that today has the enviable distinction of being in use on more than a third of the planet’s Web servers. Flexible, scalable, extensible, stable, open—PHP is all of these and more, which is why it’s one of the most popular... | | Introducing Philosophy of ReligionDoes God exist? What about evil and suffering? How does faith relate to science? Is there life after death? These questions fascinate everyone and lie at the heart of philosophy of religion. Chad Meister offers an up-to-date introduction to the field, focussing not only on traditional debates but also on contemporary concepts such as the... |
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