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Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

O'Reilly, 2009

What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze...

iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore

O'Reilly, 2009

This practical book offers the knowledge and code you need to create cutting-edge mobile applications and games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using Apple's iPhone SDK. iPhone SDK Application Development introduces you to this development paradigm and the Objective-C language it uses with numerous examples, and also walks you through the many SDK...

EPSS Revisited: A Lifecycle for Developing Performance-Centered Systems

ISPI, 2003

EPSS Revisited is a compendium of articles gathered primarily from four special issues of ISPI's Performance Improvement (PI) journal between July 1999 and December 2002. These were issues for which I served as guest editor during a period when I was refining a performance-centered design...

The Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People (2 Volume Set)

Grey House Publishing, 2008

The Encyclopedia of Rural America is dedicated to the land and its people. Rural America is characterized by its vast expansiveness and its diversity. Of the nation's 1.9 billion acres, 1.8 billion acres are in rural areas or federal lands. It is a land of crop and pasture land, forests and wetlands, mountains and deserts, sea coasts and inland...

Collective Intelligence in Action

Manning Publications, 2008

There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob.

In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new...

Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2009

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new...

Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional

Apress, 2008

Office suites are one of the most popular types of software, and most computer users will, at some point, find themselves staring at the user interface of a word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation package. Traditionally, office suites have been quite expensive packages, but thanks to the generosity of Sun Microsystems and a massive community...

Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish

Focal Press, 2008

Blender is a free software animation tool with 2 million + users. This book covers animating with Blender and comes to us directly from the Blender Foundation's Roland Hess, noted Blender expert and author.

Blender has become one of the most popular 3D and animation tools on the market, with over 2 million users, and it is...

Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2008

Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming

Providing you with in-depth coverage of the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 development framework, this book shares step-by-step recipes and real-world examples to help you develop the skills you need to become a proficient WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 developer.

Code-walkthroughs and in-depth...

Linear Circuit Design Handbook

Newnes, 2008

This work is based on the work of many other individuals who have been involved with applications and Analog Devices since the company started in 1965. Much of the material that appears in this work is based on work that has appeared in other forms. My major job function in this case was one of editor. The list of people I would like to credit for...

Foundations of 3D Graphics Programming: Using JOGL and Java3D

Springer, 2008

"A good, concise computer graphics textbook covering 3D concepts, essential fundamentals theory, and easy-to-follow OpenGL practical programming in Java."

Dr. Jack Bresenham, Retired IBM Senior Technical Staff Member

Increasingly in the realms of science and industry,...

Basic NEC with Broadcast Applications

Focal Press, 2008

The development of computer programs for modeling antennas began in the 1960s when main-frame computers were making advancements. Modeling codes that could run on desktop computers made their appearance in the early 1980s. The design of directional antenna arrays for medium-frequency (MF) broadcasting stations has a much longer history, however,...

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