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Pro Windows Server AppFabric (Beginning)

Apress, 2010

This book will teach you all about Windows Server AppFabric (code-named “Dublin”),a set of extensions to Windows Server that allow it to function as a lightweight, application server. The combination of Windows Server and AppFabric provides an easy-to-manage platform for developing, deploying, and reliably hosting middle-tier...

Statistical Field Theory: An Introduction to Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Physics (Oxford Graduate Texts)

Oxford University Press, 2009

This book provides a thorough introduction to the fascinating world of phase transitions as well as many related topics, including random walks, combinatorial problems, quantum field theory and S-matrix. Fundamental concepts of phase transitions, such as order parameters, spontaneous symmetry breaking, scaling transformations, conformal...

The Merb Way

Addison Wesley, 2009

“Foy is a gifted writer and his descriptions of the philosophies that( impacted the design and implementation of Merb are definitely useful to( everyone affected by the changes in Rails 3.”

–Obie Fernandez, Series Editor

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Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook

Addison Wesley, 2010

The Cocoa programming environment—Apple’s powerful set of clean, object-oriented APIs—is increasingly becoming the basis of almost all contemporary Mac OS X development. With its long history of constant refinement and improvement, Cocoa has matured into a sophisticated programming environment that can make...

Beginning F#

Apress, 2009

Functional programming is perhaps the next big wave in application development. As experienced developers know, functional programming makes its mark by allowing application builders to develop solutions to complicated programming situations cleanly and efficiently. A rich history of functional languages, including Erlang and OCaml, leads the...

Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Regardless of the branch of science or engineering, theoreticians have always been enamored with the notion of expressing their results in the form of closed-form expressions. Quite often, the elegance of the closed-form solution is overshadowed by the complexity of its form and the difficulty in evaluating it numerically. In such instances, one...

Object-Oriented Design Using Java

McGraw-Hill, 2008

This text is an introduction to object-oriented (OO) design for second-year or higher undergraduate computer science students. It discusses software design and implementation in terms of “elegance,” which is defined in Chapter 1. It reviews the concepts of object-oriented programming and then covers fundamental software...

IronPython in Action

Manning Publications, 2009

In 2005, Microsoft quietly announced an initiative to bring dynamic languages to the .NET platform. The starting point for this project was a .NET implementation of Python, dubbed IronPython. After a couple years of incubation, IronPython is ready for real-world use. It blends the simplicity, elegance, and dynamism of Python with the power of the...

The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers

Prometheus Books, 2007

"...delightful...accessible to anyone who enjoys or enjoyed high school mathematics. Mathematics teachers from middle school through college will find this book fun to read and useful in the classroom. The authors consider more properties, relationships, and applications of the Fibonacci numbers than most other sources do...I enjoyed reading...

Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques

Prentice Hall, 1994

An excellent introduction to the design theories involved in the creation of user interfaces. Instead of the usual examples and pictures of computer screens and application menus, Mullet approaches the concept of UI from its "outside world" roots. With examples ranging from street signs to corporate logos to the map of the London...

Glass Construction Manual

Birkhauser, 1999

Visually rich A-to-Z...with the clarity, lightness, and elegance of glass, the book takes on a complex topic. -- Architectural Record, April 2000

The distinguishing feature of the construction manuals from Edition Detail and the internationally renowned journal Detail is the exceptional quality of the information...

Proof, Language, and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner (Foundations of Computing)

MIT Press, 2000

This volume is a Festschrift to honour the scientilfiifce and achievemento f Robin Milner. Robin’s contributions have been both profound and varied, ovneorw ,a o pfs eormioed , thirty years. They range througthhe semantic foundationso f programming languages, computerassisted theorem-proving, programming language design, andth e theory of...

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