As Eric S. Raymond reminds us, Open Source Software will continue to shape the
dynamics of the computer software industry for the next long while, just as it has for the
last decade. Coined and perpetuated by hackers, the term “Open Source Software” refers
to software in which the source code is freely available to...
When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning
at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow
year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting
submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on
Principles of Data Mining...
With every successive release of iOS and its related hardware products, Apple and journalists the world over spout hyperbolic statements about “revolutionary” features, “insanely great” devices, and “unbelievable” sales. The numbers don’t disappoint, with hundreds of millions of iOS devices having...
In setting out to produce a book on any given subject, the primary questions to be
answered are: "What should we write about?" and "Who's going to buy it?".
These questions are obviously interlinked.
The subject area of this book is well defined in the title: membrane technology
and its...
The SQL Server product has been around since the late 1980s. Back then, Microsoft worked together with Sybase to create a database on the OS/2 platform. Shortly after this effort was completed, Microsoft realized it wanted to tightly couple SQL Server with Windows. By 1993, Microsoft had released Windows NT 3.1, and with it came the option of...
Smartphone, tablet, and e-reader statistics are showing an unprecedented adoption rate, making the mobile web a very hot topic and requiring a new set of skills from web developers and designers. Mobile device usage is skyrocketing; according to Nielsen’s third-quarter 2011 Mobile Media Report, “44 percent of...
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s platform for developing web applications. Using ASP.NET, you can create e-commerce
shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you don’t
need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can...
Welcome to another book about web design! Well, actually, this one’s different. This book will also
delve into the creative side of designing for theWeb, including a look at art history and some sources
of inspiration for the intrepid web designer. In the main, we’ll be discussing the phases of the design...
XPages is a truly groundbreaking technology. Its initial release in 2009 revolutionized web application
development on Notes®/Domino® and brought new life and vibrancy to the developer community.
As a runtime framework built on top of standards-based technologies and open source
libraries, it greatly simplified the art of...
The web application landscape is vast and varied. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Framework—
built on top of the mature and robust .NET Framework—is one of the most trusted
platforms in the industry. ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s latest addition to the world of
ASP.NET providing web developers with an...
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s platform for developing web applications. Using ASP.NET, you can create e-commerce
shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you don’t
need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can...
Calculus has a deservedly central role in higher education. It is not only the key to the full range of scientific and engineering disciplines; it is also a crucial component in a student’s intellectual development. I hope my text will help to open up this multifaceted world of ideas for the student. Like a great...
