Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code, Second Edition

Essential Skills for Agile Development

Macau Productivity & Tech, 2004

Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development such as mis-understanding customers' requirements, missing deadlines, over-budget, conflicts between customers and developers and poor maintainability of legacy systems....

Web Information Systems

Idea Group Publishing, 2004

The chapters of this book provide an excellent overview of current research
and development activities in the area of web information systems.
They supply an in-depth description of different issues in web information
systems areas, including web-based information modeling, migration between
different media types, web...

Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce

IGI Global, 2007

Nowadays, mobile communication, mobile devices, and mobile computing are widely available. Everywhere people are carrying mobile devices, such as mobile phones. The availability of mobile communication networks has made a huge impact to various applications, including commerce. Consequently, there is a strong relationship between mobile computing...

Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

MIT Press, 2002

"If you're a technical communicator who works with the World Wide Web (WWW) and would like a glimpse into the Web's future, this collection of articles by Web gurus is for you."

As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search...

The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies

Routledge, 2008

The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In...

Design of Steel Structures to Eurocodes (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)

Springer, 2018

This textbook describes the rules for the design of steel and composite building structures according to Eurocodes, covering the structure as a whole, as well as the design of individual structural components and connections. It addresses the following topics: the basis of design in the Eurocodes framework; the loads applied to...