The history of database research over the past 30 years is one of exceptional
productivity that has led to the database system becoming arguably the most impor
tant development in the field of software engineering- The database is now the
underlying framework of the information system, and has fundamentally changed
the way many...
Modern corporations demand a high level of service from their IT environ-
ments. Today's successful datacenter architectures consist of multiple tiers
that use well-tuned and high-performance servers at every level.
Sun refers to this as the "end-to-end architecture." Typical tiers include
powerful database...
Windows Azure is the Microsoft cloud computing platform that lets developers leverage its
powerful, scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure to build successful applications.
Windows Azure Step by Step provides an organized walkthrough of the Windows Azure
platform and its related technologies. The text is...
This book is intended for anyone who wants to become a better Lisp programmer.
It assumes some familiarity with Lisp, but not necessarily extensive programming
experience. The first few chapters contain a fair amount of review. I hope that
these sections will be interesting to more experienced Lisp programmers as well,
because they...
The 14th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, HCI International
2011, was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9–14, 2011, jointly
with the Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2011, the 9th International
Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, the 6th International
Conference on...
What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences? All of these questions and more are...
Sams Teach Yourself Facebook® for Business in 10 Minutesgives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to profit from Facebook’s powerful new business tools: Facebook Pages, Places, Deals, Ads, and...
After over fifteen years of research and trial and error,
micromap designs have evolved to the point where they
are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical
visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull
all of the work together into a book in order to introduce
micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a powerful tool that enables you to automate operations
in the Microsoft Offi ce applications and in other applications that host VBA. By automating
operations using VBA, you can save yourself and your colleagues huge amounts of time and
effort. Getting more work done in less time is usually good...
In this book, the world's leading Apple platform development trainers offer a complete, practical, hands-on introduction to iPhone and iPad programming. The authors walk through all the Apple tools and technologies needed to build successful iPhone/iPad/iPod touch apps, including the iOS 4.3 SDK, the Objective-C language, Xcode 4,...
