In Pro JavaFX 2: A Definitive Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology, Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, and Johan Vos show you how you can use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications. You'll see how JavaFX provides a powerful Java-based UI platform capable...
Since the publication of Malware Forensics: Investigating and
Analyzing Malicious Code in 2008, the number and
complexity of programs developed for malicious and illegal
purposes has grown substantially. The 2011 Symantec Internet
Security Threat Report announced that over 286 million new
threats emerged in the past year....
The phone rings, and the networking guys tell you that you’ve been hacked and that your customers’ sensitive information is being stolen from your network. You begin your investigation by checking your logs to identify the hosts involved. You scan the hosts with antivirus software to find the malicious program, and catch a lucky...
Computer Science is a very young discipline compared to most others. Alan Turing
published the seminal paper of the field in 1936. Around the same time, the militaries in
Germany, UK, and US commissioned the first digital electronic computer projects. One of
these, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in the UK, was used to break the...
CCNP Security IPS 642-627 Official Cert Guide is a best-of-breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security IPS exam. Senior security engineers David Burns,...
In recent years, federal oversight of public expenditures
has sought to integrate performance and budgeting. Notably,
the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was
passed in 1993 “in response to questions about the value
and effectiveness of federal programs” (GAO, 1997, p. 11).
GPRA and other mandates...
SQL SERVER 2012 REPRESENTS A SIZABLE jump forward in scalability, performance, and usability for the DBA, developer, and business intelligence (BI) developer. It is no longer unheard of to have 40-terabyte databases running on a SQL Server. SQL Server administration used to just be the job of a database administrator (DBA), but as SQL Server...
Biology is based on the fundamental laws of nature embodied in chemistry and physics, but the origin and evolution of life on earth were historical events. This makes biology more like astronomy than like chemistry and physics. Neither the organization of the universe nor life as we know it had to evolve as it did. Chance played a central...
The modern wireless communication industry has put great demands on
circuit designers for smaller, cheaper transceivers in the gigahertz frequency
range. One tool which has assisted designers in satisfying these requirements is
the use of on-chip inductive elements (inductors and transformers) in silicon (Si)
radio-frequency...
This book results from a meeting that took place in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in
March 2002. The meeting was about new ideas that could lead us to better use
of the solar spectrum with the ultimate goal of achieving superior photovoltaic
devices and, consequently, a reduction in their price. The meeting, despite being
short,...
There has never been a better time to have a keen interest in commerce. The Web has
truly accelerated globalization and connected us all through a common network. Information
can now be shared at mind-boggling rates, and entrepreneurs everywhere
can truly reach a global audience if they’re clever (and...
Industry imposes stringent requirements on the quality of powder materials used in many areas of technology. To satisfy these requirements, it is necessary to overcome technical problems and find solutions of the problems, in most cases by the application of highly efficient separation processes.
