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Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years.

Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the...

Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food

Greenwood Press, 2006

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly...

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) (GOAL Series)

Prentice Hall, 2007

A presentation of the basics of both distributed and single-processor computer systems, this book reflects real-world experience that provides practical, hands- on information in constructing and understanding modern operating systems. This book discusses the key principles of both kinds of systems — including MS- DOS, UNIX, Amoeba, and...

Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing

Addison Wesley, 1998

Your book fills the gap which all of us felt existed too long. Congratulations on this excellent contribution to our field."

--Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University

"This is an impressive book. The subject has been thoroughly researched and carefully presented. All the machine models central to the modern theory of...

Laptops and Tablet PCs with Microsoft Windows XP Step by Step: Keep in Touch and Stay Productive--At Work, At Home, and On the Go!

Microsoft Press, 2004

The easiest way to go mobile with Windows XPone step at a time! Teach yourself exactly what you need to know about using your laptop, notebook, or Tablet PC to stay connected and productive at the office, at home, and on the road. With Step by Step, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice files on CD. For the office,...

Software Studies: A Lexicon (Leonardo Books)

MIT Press, 2008

This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impact of software. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live, and much has been said about their influence. But the very material of software has often been left invisible. In...

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

O'Reilly, 2008

Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on the...

Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users

Focal Press, 2005

Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users, by Andrew Rodney, addresses the difficult subject of color management in a way that can help you get real work accomplished. This is the first book that moves beyond esoteric color management theory and detailed explanations of how things work to explain how to achieve a...

SQL: A Beginner's Guide Third Edition (Osborne Mcgraw Hill)

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Written to the SQL:2006 ANSI/ISO standard, this easy-to-follow guide will get you started programming in SQL right away. You will learn how to retrieve, insert, update, and delete database data, and perform management and administrative functions. SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Third...

Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems

IGI Global, 2007

Information systems have five main areas of research and practice in which humans relate to information and communications technology. Typically isolated from one another, these areas are: the nature of computers and information, the creation of information technologies, the development of artifacts for human use, the usage of information systems,...

Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2009

Sybex, 2008

Create Full-Featured Digital Prototypes—the Inventor Way

Whether you're designing airplanes, appliances, or industrial machinery, this complete guide to Autodesk Inventor 2009 shows you how to produce and manage build-worthy 3D virtual prototypes. A team of industry professionals and Autodesk developers combines years...

From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities (Computer Communications and Networks)

Springer, 2008

From the reviews:

"Provides rich background information to beginners entering this subject area. … The diagrams … are clear-cut, as are the snippets of codes. There are hardly any errors throughout the book. … covers a broad and coherent range of distributed-computing techniques … . People with different...

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