This volume presents papers from the Ninth International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2010) which took place in Riga, Latvia, in July 2010. Since this successful biennial series began in 1994, the Baltic DB&IS conferences have become an international forum of high scientific criteria for...
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Most security books on Java focus on cryptography and access control, but exclude key aspects such as coding practices, logging, and web application risk assessment. Encapsulating security requirements for web development with the Java programming platform, Secure Java: For Web Application Development covers secure...
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology,
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Do you know Java is being used worldwide? These days it is difficult to find a platform not running on Java. Their uses begin from commercial e-commerce website to Android apps, from desktop applications to games, from financial applications to scientific applications, from J2ME applications to open source library...
The ASP.NET MVC framework is designed from the ground up with certain core principles in mind-extensibility, testability, and separation of concerns. The framework adds various conventions into the mix to help drive developers into the "Pit of Success," providing for a streamlined development experience that fits the way the web works....
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you've probably heard of Bitcoin—the game-changing digital currency used by millions worldwide.
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Cryptography has made a peculiar journey to become a modern science. It had long been
associated with the military and with magic. The rst published work in the eld was
Steganographia, by an alchemist named Trithemius. Although written earlier, the book was
published in 1606. Cryptography has continued this connection with the arcane...
"Self-forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era. This is why we so readily give our assent to the absurd proposition that a computer can add two plus two, despite the obvious fact that it can do nothing of the sort--not if we have in mind anything remotely resembling what we do when we add numbers. In the computer's...
