Until late 2008, I was happy enough with Web Forms. I did recognize its weak points
and could nicely work around them with discipline and systematic application
of design principles. But a new thing called ASP.NET MVC was receiving enthusiastic
reviews by a growing subset of the ASP.NET community. So I started to...
TIBCO’s product suite comprises a diverse range of components. Each component is specialized for a particular functionality, ranging from basic messaging through services, service orchestration, the management of complex business processes, managing master data across...
Payment systems are the indispensable infrastructure for financial markets and business activities. Every commercial trade and financial transaction is finalized only when the final settlement is made through a payment system. If operational failures would occur in a payment system, preventing smooth transfers of funds, national economies and...
In 2008 I was searching for a new programming platform for making websites. This was more than wanting a new language; indeed, the details of the language mattered very little to me. Rather, I was concerned about the ability to program advanced push features into the website like I had seen in Gmail—the ability for the server to push...
This book offers a relatively large overview of modeling families which exist in
spatial analysis and of the different mindsets that went into them. Models presented are
related to space organization principles, localization logic, the form of spatial
interactions1 and their role in space dynamics. The expertise of the authors is...
Everything that surrounds us is matter. The origin of the word matter
is mater (Latin) or matri (Sanskrit), for mother. In this sense, human
beings anthropomorphized that which made them possible – that
which gave them nourishment. Every scientific discipline concerns
itself with matter. Of all matter surrounding us, a...
Modern German Grammar. A Practical Guide is an innovative reference grammar designed
to be used with modern approaches to teaching and learning German as a foreign
language. The book addresses learners’ practical needs by combining a detailed
description of the grammatical structures of German with a ‘functional’...
In just under a decade, Facebook has gone from a Harvard prodigy's dorm-room experiment to an essential part of the social life of hundreds of millions of children, teens, and adults across the globe. It's no surprise, then, that the company has been the subject of countless magazine articles, books, and even movies. But despite the...
Joomla! is one of the best known Open Source content management systems with many hundreds of thousands of applications in the most varied areas of use. It offers the best possible conditions for implementing a comprehensive and accessible Web presence. Thousands of extensions for almost any purpose are freely available. The developer and...
This 2nd volume on Emerging Web Services Technologies continues to follow the
current research activities in the areas of Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
By collecting the proceedings of the second Workshop of Emerging
Web Services Technology 2007 it contains many examples of promising research
activities...
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise
resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly
changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on
open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new
components and meet new...
