Maximizing the performance of your algorithms and applications is extremely important and can give you a competitive advantage, a lower cost of ownership, and happier users. Pro .NET Performance explains the internals of Windows, the CLR, and the physical hardware that affect the performance of your applications, and gives you the...
A signifi cant portion of your work as a 3D artist will involve sketching and drawing throughout
the design process. Not only will these visual explorations help convey your ideas to others, but
they will help you see problems within a design and help you refi ne your ideas. 3D computer
modeling and animation take design...
You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn’t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small,...
Carpentry is an exacting craft, and people can spend their entire lives learning how to do it well.
But carpentry is not architecture: if we step back from pitch boards and miter joints, buildings as a
whole must be designed, and doing that is as much an art as it is a craft or science.
Welcome to Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics. This book brings you concise and focused information on key topics about Oracle BPM Suite, in a small, easy to digest format.
Being about advanced topics, we assume that you are already familiar with Oracle BPM Suite and with BPMN in general. We will not take time to...
There’s something about cards. Cards
can turn the drab and mundane into
something strangely exciting. Recipe
cards, for example, have a peculiar allure
that cookbooks lack. A book full of tables
of baseball statistics? Dull as dishwater. Put
those same stats on the backs of trading cards,
however, and now...
OpenStack is an open source software for building public and private clouds, born from
Rackspace and NASA. It is now a global success and is developed and supported by scores
of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space
today. This book is specifically designed to quickly help you get up...
I got my start with HBase in the fall of 2008. It was a young project then, released only in the preceding year. As early releases go, it was quite capable, although not without its fair share of embarrassing warts. Not bad for an Apache subproject with fewer than 10 active committers to its name! That was the height of the NoSQL...
Cloud computing is often described as providing computing resources the way electric utilities provide energy. In theory, anyone with an adequate connection to the Internet should be able to tap into a cloud provider and get exactly the computing resources they want when they want it, just like plugging into the electricity grid and...
This book covers the design of next generation microprocessors in deep submicron CMOS technologies. The chapters in Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits were written by some of the world's leading technologists, designers, and researchers. All levels of system abstraction are covered, but the emphasis rests squarely...
Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt—and...
