If you’re new to APEX development, prepare yourself for one of the most productive tools available for
Oracle application development. The speed with which you can create fully functional, secure, webbased
applications is truly astounding, especially when compared to using a tool like Java. If you are
used to writing procedural or...
This is the second edition of this book. We wanted to improve upon the first edition and become the
market leader in providing practical knowledge on the fast-coming, latest-and-greatest technology of
Windows Phone.
While this second edition was being written, Microsoft and Nokia formally announced their
partnership and...
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that
HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have to offer.
In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give...
MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember...
This book is about directing diverse forces toward a unifi ed goal: the completion of a web project.
While the goal in this case is very specifi c — a Drupal website — in many ways, it outlines successful
steps for completing any life project, including Drupal itself.
I started the Drupal project in my dorm room in...
This volume was primarily intended to present selected papers from the workshop on Theory and Applications of Nested Relations and Complex Objects, held in Darmstadt, FRG, from April 6-8, 1987. Other papers were solicited in order to provide a picture of the field as general as possible. Research on nested relations and complex objects...
Expert PL/SQL Practices is a book of collected wisdom on PL/SQL programming from some of the best and the brightest in the field. Each chapter is a deep-dive into a specific problem, technology, or feature set that you’ll face as a PL/SQL programmer. Each author has chosen their topic out of the strong belief that what they...
Welcome to Drawing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, a book that focuses on
the basics of drawing for beginning artists but also includes plenly of
challenges for more experienced artists.
Most people begin to draw as soon as Ihcy can hold a crayon and then ÑÑлÑ
tinue drawing enthusiastically throughout childhood. Some...
Welcome to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials, based on the Revit Architecture 2012 release.
What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...
In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience,
William Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art
of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the
methods and approaches used to model the brain at many di erent levels,
ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and...
The field of machine perception concerns the building of machines
that sense and interpret their environments. This book is about visual
perception. Potential applications for such systems include tasks such as
automation of industrial processes of inspection and assembly,
automated medical x-ray diagnosis, vehicle guidance and...
It has been my experience as a .Net trainer and lead programmer that most people do not have trouble
picking up the syntax of the language. What perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level
concepts of object-oriented programming methodology and design. To compound the problem, most
introductory programming books and...
