Welcome to the Home Technology Integrator (HTI+) Exam Cram 2! This book is designed to help you prepare to take—and pass—the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) certification exams HT0-101, "Residential Systems," and HT0-102, "Systems Infrastructure and Integration." This...
My interest in this subject started when I joined the broadcast equipment manufacturer,
Chyron. For a few years I was the product manager for their playout automation and
asset management product lines. These were one of the first applications that gave
television broadcasters the means to manage the ingest, storage, archiving, and...
In your hands is one of the most exciting devices to hit the market in quite some time: the iPhone 4S. This Quick Start Guide will help get you and your new iPhone 4S up and running in a hurry. You’ll learn all about the buttons, switches, and ports, and how to use the responsive touch screen, multitask and be introduced to Siri, the...
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook will help you learn the tools necessary for the development of Essbase databases in Oracle Essbase version 11.1.2.1. Here you will find over 90 recipes that explain everything from how to use a relational data model to building and loading an Essbase database in Essbase Studio. The book also goes over...
Let's investigate the inner-workings of your Arduino. It appears to be a simple machine, but it is not. Much effort has been invested to make it easy to learn and use. Unfortunately, these good intentions can mask some of the Arduino's underlying capabilities. You suspected that there was more, much more, under the simplistic...
Cucumber is a friendly tool. It wants to be part of your team, and it doesn’t mind being the nitpicky nerd who can remember every single little detail about what your system can and can’t do. Every team needs someone like that. Even better than that, Cucumber will volunteer to do all the boring repetitive checks that you need to...
The emerging Second-Generation Web is based entirely on XML and related technologies. It is
intended to result in the creation of the Semantic Web, on which computers will be able to deal with
the meaning (“semantics”) of Web data and hence to process them in a more effective and autonomous
way. This new version of the...
Back in 1995, the central computing services at Cambridge University were running
a variety of mail transfer agents, including Sendmail, Smail 3, and PP. Some
years before, I had converted the systems whose mail I managed from Sendmail to
Smail to make it easier to handle the special requir ements of the early 1990s...
This book is dedicated to Professor Leonard Bole on the occasion of his 75th
birthday, and contains essays written by his friends, former students and col-
leagues to celebrate his scientific career. For many years Leonard Bole has played
an important role in the Polish computer science community. He was especially
known for...
PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension
language for SQL and the Oracle relational database. Server-side PL/SQL is stored and compiled in the Oracle Database and runs within the Oracle executable. With this guide Oracle developers can work towards...
D atabases have become an integral part of our modern day life. We are an information -
driven society. Database technology has a direct impact on our daily lives. Decisions are
routinely made by organizations based on the information collected and stored in databases.
A record company may decide to market certain albums in...
Parallelism, the capability of a computer to execute operations concurrently, has been a constant throughout the
history of computing. It impacts hardware, software, theory, and applications. The fastest machines of the past few
decades, the supercomputers, owe their performance advantage to parallelism. Today, physical limitations...
