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Hibernate is a lightweight object/relational mapping service for Java. What does that mean? It's a way to easily and efficiently work with information from a relational database in the form of natural Java objects. But that description doesn't come close to conveying how useful and exciting the technology is. I'm not the only...
For two decades, the Internet has continued to prove itself a viable tool for building, managing, and growing a business. Little doubt remains that you can make money online and find success in doing so. In fact, since beginning our own online endeavors, we have had the privilege of meeting and working with a variety of entrepreneurs — people...
This text is for MongoDB users who are interested in sharding. It is a comprehensive look at how to set up and use a cluster.
This is not an introduction to MongoDB; I assume that you understand what a document, collection, and database are, how to read and write data, what an index is, and how and why to set up a...
Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.
In the second edition of this practical guide, UX...
With the release of Visual Basic 6, database development in Visual Basic moves to a new level of sophistication. With Visual Basic 6 Database How-To, readers can keep abreast of the new developments. It contains more than 120 step-by-step s -Visual Basic How-To has sold over 50,000 copies to date and won the Visual Basic Programmers Journal...
Bringing together the results of more than 300 new design studies, an understanding of people, knowledge of hardware and software capabilities, and the author’s practical experience gained from 45 years of work with display-based systems, this book addresses interface and screen design from the user’s perspective. You will learn how to...
Making Millions For Dummies lays out in simple, easy-to-understand steps the best ways to achieve wealth. Through a proven methodology of saving, building a successful business, smart investing, and carefully managing assets, this up-front, reliable guide shows readers how...
To this day, enterprise message queuing is a concept that is not well understood by
most software developers. Commercial message-oriented middleware (MOM) did not
help to encourage adoption of the process; most of the MOMs on the market were
closed source, were costly to buy and support, and required trained system administrators
for...
As Ruby and Rails continues to grow, and more and more jobs are coming online that require you to effectively develop Ruby and Rails in the web tier. Beyond the Rails framework, there are still very few proven tools and IDEs to get the job done, at least until now. The NetBeans Ruby and Rails IDE, according to some, is by far the best and...
It is hard to believe that nearly 15 years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Franchising & Licensing in 1991. The impact of technology and globalization has had a permanent effect on the dynamics of the franchise relationship. When the manuscript was being written for the first edition in the late...
So how do you build an application for the iPhone and iPad? Don’t you need to spend years learning complicated programming languages? What about Objective-C and Cocoa touch? The answer is that you don’t need to know any of those things! Anybody can start building simple apps for the iPhone and iPad, and this book will show you...