Functional programming is perhaps the next big wave in application development. As experienced developers know, functional programming makes its mark by allowing application builders to develop solutions to complicated programming situations cleanly and efficiently. A rich history of functional languages, including Erlang and OCaml, leads the...
Photographing landscape with a film camera is different than with a digital camera. There are several books on the market that cover landscape photography but few of them are specifically for the digital photographer. This book is what you are looking for!
Digital Landscape Photography covers:
* equipment such as...
The first book to completely demystify leading-edge component development with the Adobe Flex 3 platform - How to build components for Flex and AIR applications using ActionScript 3.0 and Adobe's powerful MXML user interface markup language - Covers expert techniques most books ignore, including component metadata, error handling,...
If there is anything we have learned from our 25 years of writing computer
concepts books, it is this: the landscape of computer education can change
quickly, and it's our responsibility to try to anticipate it.
The third edition of this text retains its comprehensive coverage, while decreasing the length, adding a separate...
For cloud users and providers alike, security is an everyday concern, yet there are very few books covering cloud security as a main subject. This book will help address this information gap from an Information Technology solution and usage-centric view of cloud infrastructure security. The book highlights the...
Statistical methods are a key part of of data science, yet very few data scientists have any formal statistics training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. This practical guide explains how to apply various statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their...
The overall aim of the book is to introduce students to the typical course followed by a data analysis project in earth sciences. A project usually involves searching relevant literature, reviewing and ranking published books and journal articles, extracting relevant information from the literature in the form of text, data, or...
Of all the British monarchs who have claimed they ruled the seas, just one, King William IV, has been a truly professional seafarer.
Known as the ‘Sailor King’ in his own lifetime, he saw himself as a naval officer who happened to become the sovereign, rather than a monarch who had been a naval...
The Start-to-Finish Patch Management Guide for Every Linux® Environment
To keep your Linux systems secure, reliable, and productive, you must stay current with patches and updates. But, until now, it has been difficult to find usable,...
In late 1999, a Republican congressman held a party in Washington to celebrate the passing of new legislation destined to have a profound effect on Wall Street and the entire financial industry in the United States. Despite the date on the law, the principle upon which it was based actually had been a cornerstone of the...
Almost five years ago, when I completed my sixth book, Scot Hillier’sCOM+ Programming with Visual Basic (SAMS, 2000), I thought I was done with technical writing. Since then, I have seen some new technologies emerge, but...
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