The explosive growth of e-commerce and online environments has made the issue of information search and selection increasingly serious; users are overloaded by options to consider and they may not have the time or knowledge to personally evaluate these options. Recommender systems have proven to be a valuable way for online users to cope with...
Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down & Dirty Tricks series. Yes, this book is an insane collection of some of the most mind-blowing Photoshop effects you’ve ever seen in one place. Ever wonder how that movie...
Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins is your “go to” book on the groundbreaking plugin architecture introduced in Oracle Application Express 4.0. Using the new APEX functionality, you can create well-packaged, documented, reusable components and reliably leverage your coding investments across many applications....
Visual Basic is arguably the most popular application development programming
language in use today. Thousands, if not millions, of programmers use it
every day to build both commercial and scientific applications. The language
is also one of the most maligned programming languages, second perhaps
only to Cobol.
Over the last two years, Google’s Android operating system (OS) has gone from a virtually
unknown open source solution to the current mobile OS market leader among all mobile
handsets, with over one-third of the market share, and it’s still climbing rapidly. Android has even
started to dominate the tablet OS marketplace, 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...
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...
It is widely recognized that a professional engineer needs to be aware of a range of issues
much wider than the mere technical knowledge necessary to practice the chosen
engineering discipline. The Engineering Council, for example, requires that the formation
of a professional engineer should include, amongst other things,
This book is designed to accompany a final year undergraduate or masters level
course in pervasive computing, although it could serve well as a course for introducing
sensors or experiment design to students in earlier years at university with
some skimming over the research focus; or equally as a getting-started guide for
PhD level...
All students interested in researching the Internet are living in very interesting and
exciting times. From the Internet’s beginning in the 1960s up to the present day,
the Internet has grown to become a vast platform where there are now 2 billion
users of this global infrastructure.1 Predictions are that this number will rise to...
Tap into the power of the free and open source software package, vtiger CRM—the popular
alternative to commercial CRM tools. This powerful tool has enjoyed worldwide success and
is being utilized by small and large organizations alike. You, too, can add real, modern CRM
(customer relationship management) to your business model,...
More and more people are using the query language SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”) to pull data from a growing collection of public and private data. Whether this data is part of a semantic web project or an integration of two inventory databases on different platforms behind the same firewall, SPARQL is making it easier to access...
