Should you care about search? The answer is “Yes!” However, the reason you should
care constantly changes. Back in 1997 when FAST was founded, most people
viewed search as a mature and commoditized technology. AltaVista was the leader
in web search and Verity had won the enterprise search race. Internet...
The decision to write a book about this content management system was an easy one. At the time of this writing, WordPress powers more than 15 percent of all websites online. That's a considerable bite out of the Internet. Unfortunately, that also meant a lot of books had already been published on WordPress. After a couple of weeks, mulling...
The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...
The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone 4 Development is back again for Beginning iOS 5 Development, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple's latest and greatest iOS SDK, as well as with the latest version of Xcode.
As a graduate student at Ohio State in the mid-1970s, I inherited a unique computer
vision laboratory from the doctoral research of previous students. They had
designed and built an early frame-grabber to deliver digitized color video from a
(very large) electronic video camera on a tripod to a mini-computer (sic) with a...
Microelectronics: Circuit Analysis and Design is intended as a core text in electronics
for undergraduate electrical and computer engineering students. The purpose of
the fourth edition of the book is to continue to provide a foundation for analyzing and
designing both analog and digital electronic circuits. A goal is to make this...
Due to the rapid advances in computer technology, intelligent computer software and
multimedia have become essential parts of engineering education. Software integration with
various media such as graphics, sound, video and animation is providing efficient tools for
teaching and learning. A modern textbook should contain both the...
Students graduating today face a tough job market—making
it important that they develop the expertise and critical
thinking skills that give them a competitive edge.
Information Technology for Management, 8th edition is
designed to give students an edge when they face the
challenges and opportunities that business...
As far back as 1999, some smart guys predicted that mobile would become the primary focus of development in only a few years. Although it has taken a bit more time than expected, the era of mobile software has arrived at last. Why did it take so long? The answer is surprisingly simple: mobile software needed a critical mass of users...
When I first started working on Enterprise projects in early 2000, I was initially lost in
the jungles of Enterprise messaging. It was (and is still, to some extent) a formidable
challenge to start an Enterprise messaging project. There used to be a variety of...
In this chapter you’ll unbox a new Kinect—or if you have one already, you’ll disconnect it from your Xbox. Then you’ll install some software, plug the Kinect into a computer, and take a look at what all of the fuss is about with this unique device. You’ll learn what the different components of the Kinect are and...
As soon as I heard about Griffon in Action, I was eager to get it into my hands. What I
expected was a typical Manning In Action book: providing an easy jump start, working
from actionable examples, and providing lots of insight about the technology at hand.
It turned out that this book not only lived up to my...
