Sun refers to this as the "end-to-end architecture." Typical tiers include powerful database...

Welcome to Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript! This book teaches you how to program using the UnrealScript language so you can create your own game projects using the UDK. Instead of using dry, hypothetical code you will use the topics learned in each chapter to build an actual working game. By the end of the book, you...

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Pro .NET Best Practices is a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steering clear of unproven, idealistic, and impractical...

The workshop attracted a record number of 148 submissions from 29 countries, of which the...

To this day, enterprise message queuing is a concept that is not well understood by most software developers. Commercial message-oriented middleware (MOM) did not help to encourage adoption of the process; most of the MOMs on the market were closed source, were costly to buy and support, and required trained system administrators for...

This book is meant as a handbook and resource guide for chemists (and other scientists) who either find themselves working alongside chemical engineers or who are undertaking chemical engineering-type projects and who wish to communicate with their colleagues and understand chemical engineering principles. The book has arisen out of...

This book is about "threads" and how to use them. Thread" is just a name for a basic software "thing" that can do work on a computer. A thread is smaller, faster, and more maneuverable than a traditional process. In fact, once threads have been added to an operating system, a "process" becomes just...

Milwaukee -not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles- was the scene of a number of television firsts: Here the very first application for a commercial TV license was filed with the FCC in 1938. The first female program director and news director in a major market were both at Milwaukee stations. Milwaukee was a major battleground in the VHF...

Environmental remote sensing is the measurement, from a distance, of the spectral features of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. These measurements are normally made by instruments carried by satellites or aircraft, and are used to infer the nature and characteristics of the land or sea surface, or of the atmosphere, at the...