What will data management technologies look like in ten years? While the future's difficult to predict, this book provides students, researchers and professionals alike with a brief and engaging look at one prescient trend: the convergence of search and database technologies. This convergence has given rise to a new breed of...
On a weekly basis, some poor IT workers — both IT pros and developers — are saddled with new
projects and or technology they know nothing about and are asked to run with them. They ’ re
expected to be successful with little guidance, direction, or training. They ’ re also expected to pull
off these tremendous...
There is probably no invention in the history of mankind that had such a profound
impact on our lives in such a short time as the World Wide Web. Twenty years ago,
Tim Berners-Lee has developed the first versions of HTML which allowed to weave
documents into the large hypertext document that we know today. It was soon realized
that...
It was a real pleasure to have taken part in organizing the 10th International Conference
on Cryptography and Network Security (CANS 2011). It was held during
December 10–12, 2011, at the International Asia Pacific Convention Center in
Sanya, on the subtropical island of Hainan (China). CANS 2011 was sponsored
by the National...
This book covers a vast array of information related to packetC. It is a complete language reference and contains background information on many unique parts of packetC. As packetC shares much of its grammar with C, the book focuses on being an instructional language reference and not a general C programming introduction, since extensive...
This book is about programming-in-the-large, a term coined by DeRemer and
Kron [2] to distinguish the assembly of large applications from components, from
the task of implementing those components themselves. Many of the principles of
programming-in-the-large were earlier elucidated by Parnas in two articles [3, 4].
It is...
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is the backbone of messaging and application integration
in a service oriented architecture. An Application Administrator is responsible for end-to-end administration and management of this infrastructure. The role extends to other areas such as architecting an SOA infrastructure, troubleshooting, monitoring,...
I started my professional development career in 1999, when I first was paid a salary to be a
developer. (I don’t count the few years before that when I was just having fun playing around
on the Web.) In 1999 the Web was a scary place. HTML files were loaded down with font
and table tags....
A lot has happened since Apple introduced OS X a decade ago (then
called “Mac OS X”). What started as an incomplete replacement for an
established operating system has become not only the backbone of
today’s powerful Mac computers, but also the foundation for the iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV. At one...
EVE Online is a popular sci-fi MMORPG with the reputation of being one of, if not the most complex and unforgiving MMO on the market. There are many players with years of experience playing EVE without ever fully understanding the game
or achieving any kind of notable success.
It was not long ago that database systems were revolutionized through the birth of
the relational concepts and theory, which are now materialized in most commercial
database management systems. It was then thought that data should be structured
in a rather simple way to support the day-to-day business operations. This
has...
Discover the Django web application framework and get started building Python-based web applications. This book takes you from the basics of Django all the way through to cutting-edge topics such as creating RESTful applications. Beginning Django also covers ancillary, but essential, development topics, including...
