As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical...
Gain a fundamental understanding of Python’s syntax and features with the second edition of Beginning Python, an up–to–date introduction and practical reference. Covering a wide array of Python–related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web...
The world stood on its toes as Steve Jobs announced the iPad in January
2010 as “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary
device at an unbelievable price.”
Do you believe in magic? The iPad has that magical quality of disappearing
into your hands as you explore content with it. You have to hold...
You are holding the proceedings of FSE 2011, the 18th International Workshop
on Fast Software Encryption. This workshop was organized in cooperation with
the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It was held in Lyngby,
Denmark, during February 13–16, 2011.
The FSE 2011 Program Committee (PC) consisted of...
Warp speed universe. Warp speed financial markets. The 8th Edition of this
classic book appeared when it seemed that the millennium and paradise had
been achieved and that, like McKay’s tulipomania, the price of stocks would
rise forever and men would rush from the world over and pay whatever
price was asked for...
As a serious Web designer or developer, you'll want to do one thing and one thing only when you lay your hands on the latest version of Dreamweaver: Start tinkering with all its new features. Problem is that's hard to do on someone else's dime. With Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic, you don't have to! In these pages, Dreamweaver wizards Mossimo...
The web has completely revolutionized the way we live our lives—the average person
in the UK now does an average of six Google searches a day. Within the lifetime of one
generation, our entire society has changed, and it continues to be catalyzed by technology
in a very fundamental way. For me, this is the most fascinating thing...
O'Reilly has done it again! This is my favorite book yet on writing CGI scripts with Perl (5.0). The extensive use of real world applications you can try while learning, and the great examples of how to have CGI interact with databases are especially useful. I suspect I shall order several copies for some of our staff who are new to CGI. Although...
Today DBAs are expected to deploy and manage large databases with quality service and little to no downtime. The DBA's main focus is on increasing productivity and eliminating idle redundancy throughout the enterprise. However, there is no magic set of best practices or hard and fast rules that DBAs need to follow, and this can make life...
Hello App Inventor! introduces creative young readers to the world of mobile programming—no experience required! Featuring more than 30 fun invent-it-yourself projects, this full-color, fun-to-read book starts with the building blocks you need to create a few practice apps. Then you'll...
