This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to program,...

The deluge of data observed throughout research and industry has turned the analysis of the resulting information into the primary limiting factor for the rapid progress of science, engineering, and medicine. The field of visualization strives to tackle this data analysis challenge by devising visual representations that afford users an...

Apache Wicket is one of the most famous Java web application frameworks. Wicket simplifies web development and makes it fun. Are you bored of going through countless pages of theory to find out how to get your web development done? With this book in hand, you don't need to go through hundreds of pages to figure out how you will actually...

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AS A CONSULTANT, I WORK WITH MANY DEVELOPERS. At each client I get to meet a new team and see how they develop software. I ’ ve seen great teams, and I ’ ve seen teams that are so broken they have never had a successful project. Over the years I ’ ve noticed that different teams along this success continuum have different...

Calvin Hollywood is a photo artist from Heidelberg, Germany who combines photography and image editing in a most imaginative way. His personal style is characterized by the hyper sharpness, high contrasts, and almost painted look of his photos (http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com/portfolio/). Digital editing plays an important role in his...

The aim of software engineering is to find methods for developing high quahty software products at a reasonable cost. As more and more computers are being used in areas in which a malfunction of the system can be a source of serious losses or disturbances to the functioning of the society, the quality of software becomes more and more...

It feels like ages ago since I began the journey of writing this book. In its first year, more than 4500 copies were sold, and its reception exceeded my wildest expectations. I am thankful to all those who bought it and also to those who took the time to spread the word to others. Because technology develops at such an unrelenting...

This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to program and build a variety of projects with the Arduino microcontroller development system. Covering Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius gets you up to speed with the simplified C...

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Do you believe in magic? The iPad has that magical quality of disappearing into your hands as you explore content with it. You have to hold...

Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases. The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In corporate...