Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or...

Author Darryl Gove covers the leading...

For many types of organization, the ultimate information handling aspiration is to have an integrated database system so that common files can be consulted by various sections of the organization, in an efficient and effective manner. However, database systems are not just pertinent to organizations or even large sections of enterprises. Many...

Taking a practical approach, this modern introduction to the theory of computation focuses on the study of...

This book presents a systematic treatment of the formal theory of the relational model of data, which is the foundation of current database management systems. It can be used as a text for a graduate course in database theory, or as an additional reference for an undergraduate course on data management. It will also be useful to researchers...

Database design is the process of determining the organization of a database, including its structure, contents, and the applications to be run. For a long time, database design was considered a task for experts, and was regarded as more of an art than a science. However, much progress has been made in database design, and it is now...

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As IT systems have grown increasingly complex and mission-critical, effective configuration management (CM) has become critical to an...

Since the launch of the App Store, games have been the hottest category of apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. That means your best chance of tapping into the iPhone/iPad “Gold Rush”...

Ruby on Rails deployments are growing, and Rails is increasingly being adopted in larger environments. Today, Rails developers and architects need better ways to interface with legacy systems, move into the cloud, and...

Build Breakthrough Performance into Any SOA or Advanced Computing Application

To meet unprecedented demand, IT organizations must improve application performance by an order of magnitude. Improving performance is even more crucial in SOA environments, which demand far more computing power than older architectures....