I have been working with Hyper-V since the beta release of it for Windows Server 2008. There
was a lot to learn with the brand new product. It quickly became evident that Hyper-V was just
a tiny piece of the entire puzzle. A Hyper-V project is much more than just a virtualization project.
It is a project that will change how your server...
It’s hard to recall, now, the world that greeted the fi rst edition of this book upon its publication seven years ago. The world has changed, of course, but perhaps more signifi cantly, information architecture itself, and its place within that world, has changed even more.
At that time, some pronounced information architecture a...
Want to stroll down the Champs Elysees in Paris? Feel like taking a personal look at the Great Wall of China? Or perhaps you’d like to explore the island of Tahiti on your lunch break? Thanks to Google Earth, you can.
With Google Earth, you can forget the Frequent Flyer miles. All you have to do is plop down in front of your...
Rails just keeps on changing. Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9 bring hundreds of improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements. The fourth edition of this award-winning classic has been reorganized and refocused so it's more useful than ever before for developers new to Ruby and Rails.
This book is aimed at freshman, sophomores, and juniors in college who
are even remotely interested in some of the current applications of
mathematics to the real world. The difficulty with most of the other linear
programming books on the market is that they are high end books, written
primarily in a fairly rigorous fashion...
The Internet has gone from an Internet of people to an Internet of Things (IoT). This has brought forth strong levels of complexity in handling interoperability that involves the integrating of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) into IoT. This book offers insights into the evolution, usage, challenges, and proposed countermeasures...
This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are...
It was the fall of 1989, and I was taking a computer animation class at UMass Amherst (I went to Hampshire College, another school in the Five Colleges consortium). We were using long-gone tools like Paracomp Swivel 3D to create a video about robots. This was well before After Effects, so we were using Macromind Director 1.0 as a very basic...
Welcome to Syngress Publishing’s Network+ Study Guide and Practice Exam.Within
these pages, you will learn much about the fundamentals of networking, as well as
hone and polish or initially create the skills and knowledge you need to know to pass
the CompTIA Network+ certification exam.
Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?
Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres...
Advanced API Security is a complete reference to the next wave of challenges in enterprise security--securing public and private APIs.
API adoption in both consumer and enterprises has gone beyond predictions. It has become the ‘coolest’ way of exposing business functionalities to the outside world....
