Web development has been rapidly evolving over the years. The features and functionality that today’s web developers are asked to produce are exponentially more involved and complex than they were just a few years ago. As the demands of today’s business and commercial software grow, so too must the power of the tools and...

Written by four experienced Nokia Telecommunications software developers, this practical book focuses on object-based and component-based software development. The authors concentrate on the most important issues in real-life software development, such as the development process itself, software architecture, the development of user...

The FPL'94 workshop was organized by the Czech Technical University and the University of Kaiserslautern, in co-operation with IEEE...

The integration of multi-million-gate configurable logic, pre-compiled heterogeneous hardware components, and on-chip processor subsystems offer high computation capability and exceptional design flexibility to modern reconfigurable hardware. Moshe Gavrielov, the recently appointed president and CEO of Xilinx, which is the largest...

I was first exposed to what would become the Internet way back in 1969, while I was still an undergraduate at Brandeis University working on ARPANet, the forerunner to the present Internet, which operated at the then blazing speed of 2,400 bps, ultimately increased to 50 Kbps (see http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/). I...

It’s been five years since the first edition of Introducing Character Animation with Blender came out, and a lot has changed in the world of Blender. Interest in Blender has exploded. When the first edition of this book came out, it was the only English-language book on Blender in print. Now, as this second edition of the book arrives,...

Operating systems are an essential part of any computer system. Similarly, a course on operating systems is an essential part of any computer-science education. This field is undergoing rapid change, as computers are now prevalent in virtually every application, from games for children through the most sophisticated planning tools for...

Since the 1960s, database systems have been playing a relevant role in the information technology field. By the mid-1960s, several systems were also available for commercial purposes. Hierarchical and network database systems provided two different perspectives and data models to organize data collections. In 1970, E. Codd wrote a...

Layout concerns the placement of text and image elements within a design. How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another and within the overall design scheme, will affect how the content is viewed and received by the readers, as well as their emotional reaction towards it. Layout can help or hinder the receipt of...

Programmers may spend a good part of their careers scripting code to conform to commercial statistics packages, visualization tools, and domain-specific third-party software. The same tasks can force end users to spend countless hours in copy-paste purgatory, each minor change necessitating another grueling round of formatting tabs and...

The field of machine perception concerns the building of machines that sense and interpret their environments. This book is about visual perception. Potential applications for such systems include tasks such as automation of industrial processes of inspection and assembly, automated medical x-ray diagnosis, vehicle guidance and...

JOOMLA! HAS NOT BEEN AROUND THAT LONG COMPARED to some of the other open source Content Management Systems (CMSs). But in the relatively short time that Joomla! has been available, it has made a huge impact in the world of CMS Websites. There are thousands of Joomlal-based Websites on the Internet today and the number is growing by...