Most books about specifications still assume that requirements can be known up front and won’t change much during your project. In today’s “real world,” however, you must specify and build software in the face of high and continuing uncertainty. Scrum and other agile methods have evolved to reflect this reality. Now,...

The Pocket PC is the fastest growing platform for building handheld-based enterprise applications. Free from the memory limitations and underpowered processors of other handheld platforms, Pocket Access and eMbedded Visual Basic are providing the Pocket PC with the same one-two punch that Microsoft Access and Visual Basic gave Windows...

• Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka
• Explore log processing and machine learning using Storm
• Step-by-step and easy-to-understand guide to...

• Implement pathfinding, pathfollowing, and use navigation mesh generation to move your AI characters within the game environment
• Use behaviour trees to design logic...

Beginning Android C++ Game Development introduces general and Android game developers like you to Android's powerful Native Development Kit (NDK). The Android NDK platform allows you to build the most sophisticated, complex and best performing game apps that leverage C++.  In short, you learn to build professional looking...