Abstract Bringing maps to users has been made much easier with the World Wide
Web. Millions of maps now make their way through a world-wide network of
computers. A major change occurred in 2005 in how those maps were delivered
when Google Maps implemented a tile-based mapping system based on AJAX that
facilitated interactive...
Software engineering is a pessimistic discipline. The glass is always half empty
rather than half full. Not surprising really, we are hardened to the grind of improving
quality, painstakingly testing and, never quite, eliminating bugs. Critical review is
of the essence. We know there is “no silver bullet”.
Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common website problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be applied to improve your website. You will learn how to create fully standards-compliant websites and provide search engine-optimized Web documents with...
In less than half a decade, the iOS platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. Only a few years ago, we were thrilled by phones with postage-stamp-sized screens, tinny audio, built-in tip calculators, and text-based web browsing. Times have indeed...
The history of digital filters essentially began in the mid - 1970s, concurrent with the
advent of the fi eld of study called digital signal processing (DSP). Over the ensuing
30 something years, digital filters have become both a facilitating and enabling
technology. They serve as analog replacements as well as serving in unique...
This is a book about designing computer hardware and specifically about designing small machines for embedded applications. It is intentionally hardware specific. There are plenty of books out there on writing code for embedded systems (such as Michael Barr's excellent Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, another...
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...
The Complete Business Guide to Google+, Today’s Hottest New Social Network!
Every week, millions more people sign up for Google+: Suddenly, it’s today’s hottest new social network. Google+ for Business reveals why Google+ offers...
Simulation has made possible systems that would otherwise be impracticable. The sophisticated controls in modern aircraft and automobiles, the powerful microprocessors in desktop computers, and space-faring robots are possible because simulations reduce substantially the need for expensive prototypes. These complicated systems are designed...
Micropropagation has become a reliable and routine approach for large-scale rapid plant multiplication, which is based on plant cell, tissue and organ culture on well defined tissue culture media under aseptic conditions. A lot of research efforts are being made to develop and refine micropropagation methods and culture media for large-scale...
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is Microsoft’s first cloud-ready information platform. It gives organizations effective tools to protect, unlock, and scale the power of their data, and it works across a variety of devices and data sources, from desktops, phones, and tablets, to datacenters and both private and public clouds. Our purpose in...
