A concise introduction to IMT-Advanced Systems, including LTE-Advanced and WiMAX
There exists a strong demand for fully extending emerging Internet services, including collaborative applications and social networking, to the mobile and wireless domain. Delivering such services can be possible only through realizing broadband...
Fortran is one of the oldest high-level languages and remains the premier language for writing code for science and engineering applications. Modern Fortran: Style and Usage is a book for anyone who uses Fortran, from the novice learner to the advanced expert. It describes best practices for programmers, scientists, engineers, computer...
Explores and analyzes past and current technologies and trends in multimedia communication
Digital natives—those persons born in the digital age—have an ever-widening range of wireless-enabled devices at their disposal. They are the drivers of multimedia communications, continually seeking out the technologies...
Ruby on Rails has taken the web application development world by storm.
Those of us who have been writing web apps for a few years remember the
good ol’ days when the leading contenders for web programming languages
were PHP and Java, with Perl, Smalltalk, and even C++ as fringe choices.
Either PHP or...
A few years ago, I wrote a book with a colleague about open source ESBs (Enterprise
Service Buses), Open Source ESBs in Action (Manning, 2008). In that book we wrote
about using open source tools to integrate applications and expose legacy systems as
services. In the years that followed, ESBs were seen as one of the...
The city of Athens has played a leading role in the development of European civilization.
When we look back through time to the origins of so many of the institutions and activities
which thrive or are valued today, we are led to ancient Greece and, most often, to
Athens in the Classical period (480–323 B.C.). Time and again...
Nearly all the computers sold today have a multi-core processor, but only a small number of applications are written to take advantage of the extra cores. Most programmers are playing catch-up. A recent consultation with a group of senior programming engineers revealed the top three hurdles in adopting parallelism: the challenges of porting...
That was the subtitle for this book that was sadly, but wisely, rejected. However, it conveys two
things about this book that I’ve tried to focus on: getting a job and having fun while learning the
skills you need. Well, as much fun as you can reasonably have while learning how to program.
Although many books aren’t...
Windows Server 2012 is not only the most significant update to the Windows Server
operating system in recent years, but it is also all about cloud computing and the underlying
technology for building clouds: virtualization.
Many features familiar to administrators of Server 2008 R2 and other legacy...
This book is the third in a set of books that address the trading markets. We use the term “trading markets” because that is the most general term we can find for the portion of the financial markets sometimes imprecisely referred to as the securities markets. (We explained these distinctions in Book 1, An Introduction to Trading...
