This book is not intended to be a deep-dive on security, programming, reporting, configuration, etc. but more of a high-level overview on salesforce.com, Force.com development, tools, methodology and other resources. We will not cover all aspects of salesforce.com. We wrote this book to (hopefully) become an invaluable resource for anyone new...
This book covers public-key cryptography, describing in depth all major public-key cryptosystems in current use, including ElGamal, RSA, Elliptic Curve, and digital signature schemes. It explains the underlying mathematics needed to build these schemes, and examines the most common techniques used in attacking them. Illustrated with many...
Extend your C# skills to F#—and create data-rich computational and parallel software components faster and more efficiently. Focusing on F# 3.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, you’ll learn how to exploit F# features to solve both computationally-complex problems as well as everyday programming tasks.
Welcome to the workshop program of the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010), held in San Francisco, December 2010. These workshop proceedings represent high-quality research and industry papers that showcase recent and new working developments in service-oriented computing and related fields.
Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has
its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases.
The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In
corporate...
In the field of IT, the markets, business activities, needs and requirements of internal and external service
providers and customers are changing in ever-shortening cycles. This forces companies to increase their
organizational flexibility not only as far as their structure is concerned but also with regard to established
business...
You may know When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth as a goofy humans-coexisting-withdinosaurs
movie from the 1970s. However, in technology circles, “When Dinosaurs
Ruled the Earth” refers to a grim humans-coexisting-with-mainframes story from
the 1970s. I refer, of course, to IBM and its brontosaurus-size computers (called...
Parallel hardware has been ubiquitous for some time now. It’s difficult to find a laptop,
desktop, or server that doesn’t use a multicore processor. Beowulf clusters are
nearly as common today as high-powered workstations were during the 1990s, and
cloud computing could make distributed-memory systems as accessible as...
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK is to get you up to speed and excited about making games for
Windows Phone 7 with XNA Game Studio 4.0.
Throughout the book, Windows and Xbox 360 game development are mentioned within the context
of the material presented. But make no mistake — this is a book about Windows Phone 7, fi rst and...
The 2010 Asian Conference on Computer Vision took place in the southern hemisphere, in “The Land of the Long White Cloud” in Maori language, also known as New Zealand, in the beautiful town of Queenstown. If we try to segment the world we realize that New Zealand does not belong officially to any continent. Similarly, in computer...
By the time you’re reading this in a bookstore, BizTalk will have celebrated its tenth birthday. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft’s enterprise integration server, and it has become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology in the industry, with over 10,000 customers worldwide....
