Is there a rational way to measure coder skills and contributions and the way that software teams fit together? Could metrics help you improve coder self-awareness, teamwork, mentoring, and goal-setting? Could more detailed data help you make better hiring decisions, help make performance reviews fairer, and help your software teams...

Too often I hear people say ‘ South Korea ’ and ‘ emerging market ’ in the same sentence, ” said Rich Wickham, the global head of Microsoft ’ s Windows games business. “ When it comes to gaming, Korea is the developed market, and it ’ s the rest of the world that ’ s playing...

In The Art and Science of Java, Stanford professor and well-known leader in Computer Science Education Eric Roberts emphasizes the reader-friendly exposition that led to the success of The Art and Science of C. By following the recommendations of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Java Task Force, this first edition...

Over the last two years, Google’s Android operating system (OS) has gone from a virtually unknown open source solution to the current mobile OS market leader among all mobile handsets, with over one-third of the market share, and it’s still climbing rapidly. Android has even started to dominate the tablet OS marketplace, and...

Software continues to become more and more complex, while software consumers’ expectations for performance, reliability, functionality, and speed-to-market are also growing exponentially. H. S. Lahman shows how...

Game consoles have evolved to become complex computer systems that may contain evidence to assist in a criminal investigation. From networking capabilities to chat, voicemail, streaming video and email, the game consoles of today are unrecognizable from complex computer systems. With over 10 million XBOX 360s sold in the United States the...

• IS project managers and systems developers who find themselves responsible for managing systems projects. Newcomers to this activity will find...

The Foundry’s Nuke is fast becoming the industry leader in compositing software for film and TV. Virtually all the leading visual effects studios—ILM, Digital Domain, Weta Digital, MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and Sony Pictures Imageworks—now use Nuke as their main compositing tool. This is not surprising, as Nuke offers...

Besides the “classical” fields of application in photography, graphics and web design, it plays an important role in 3-D modelling, both in the creation of textures and in the post-production of rendered...

People use databases to organize and to manage their data. Oracle Database is the leader in the relational database management systems market, with a broad adoption in many industries. Using the best tool is not enough to be sure that the results of our efforts will be satisfactory—driving the fastest car in a Formula 1...

This book is written for a wide variety of readers: the expert and the beginner in a design office; the project leader of a design team; the city engineer or chief engineer of a water or sewerage authority (or their subordinates) who may review plans and specifications; and manufacturers’ representatives who should know how their...