A detailed look at how Warren Buffett really invests
In this engaging new book, author Prem Jain extracts Warren Buffett's wisdom from his writings, Berkshire Hathaway financial statements, and his letters to shareholders and partners in his partnership firms-thousands of pages written over the last fifty years. Jain uncovers...
Plan, Manage, and Architect Multiple Web Sites for Maximum Efficiency and Business Value
For many companies, one Web site is no longer enough. Business strategy requires multiple Web sites, each with carefully targeted audiences and marketing...
A large number of screenshots will guide the reader through the process of setting up a community site with the Drupal 5 or 6 framework. A number of popular topics, such as pro?les, picture and video galleries, maps, messaging, groups, friends etc are discussed. Drupal is one of the best content management systems (CMS) around. In fact, it...
This book provides insight and enhanced appreciation of analysis, modeling and control of dynamic systems. The reader is assumed to be familiar with calculus, physics and some programming skills. It might develop the reader’s ability to interpret physical significance of mathematical results in system analysis. The book also prepares...
The word "render" isn't unique to the vocabulary of computer graphics. We can talk about a "watercolor rendering," a "musical rendering" or a "poetic rendering." In each of these, there is a transformation from one domain to another: from the landscape before the painter to color on paper, from...
This book explores the role of Martin-Lof s constructive type theory in computer programming. The main focus of the book is how the theory can be successfully applied in practice. Introductory sections provide the necessary background in logic, lambda calculus and constructive mathematics, and exercises and chapter summaries are included to...
Both the editors of this book were exposed to human-in-the-loop simulations while
pursuing their doctoral degrees in the Center for Human-Machine Systems at
Georgia Tech. In fact, S. Narayanan served as Ling Rothrock’s teaching assistant
for the simulation course taught by Prof. Christine Mitchell. It has been over 15
years...
This book is intended for individuals who are interested in the iPhone and other
iOS devices and, more importantly, in the type of data that is stored and can be
recovered from these devices. The demand for mobile forensics has grown tremendously
with the release of smart phones. Communication on these devices is now
documented...
Welcome to ActionScript. Over the next several chapters, you’ll be introduced to one of the most versatile programming languages to create web applications for the browser, desktop applications, and mobile apps for multiple platforms. For years the Flash Platform has provided people with the most powerful set of...
Reading this wonderful book by Rahul brought back early memories of my career. It was nearly 15 years ago that I became a manager, almost by accident. Back then I had always prided myself in my creativeness and technical ability. I had this wonderful opportunity working for an exciting startup in the Silicon Valley with three other code...
This is the second of three “Best of the Perl Journal” O’Reilly
books, containing the crème de la crème of the 247 articles
published during the Perl Journal’s 5-year existence as a
standalone magazine. This particular book contains 39 articles
covering the web, graphics,...
Over the past decade, regular expressions have experienced a remarkable rise in popularity.
Today, all the popular programming languages include a powerful regular expression
library, or even have regular expression support built right into the language.
Many developers have taken advantage of these regular...
