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Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

Course Technology PTR, 2007

Ruby on Rails is a feature-rich, easy to learn, and powerful web application framework that makes creating sophisticated, full featured web applications a snap. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, anyone can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if they're new to web...

Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

National Academy Press, 2007

Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this...

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals

MIT Press, 2003

For hundreds of years, the field of game design has drifted along under the radar of culture, producing timeless masterpieces and masterful time-wasters without drawing much attention to itself-without, in fact, behaving like a "field" at all. Suddenly, powered by the big bang of computer technology, game design has...

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)

Praeger Publishers, 2010

This book is an outstanding contribution to the interdisciplinary series on Crime, Media, and Popular Culture from Praeger Publishers. Because of the pervasiveness of media in our lives and the salience of crime and criminal justice issues, we feel it is especially important to provide a home for scholars who are engaged in innovative and...

Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists (SpringerBriefs in Linguistics)

Springer, 2020

This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory. This is followed by a description of how cognitive linguistics has been (and continues to...

Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Process Systems (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)

Springer, 2004

Almost all process systems are nonlinear in nature. Nonlinear control is traditionally an area of interest in process systems engineering which is of great practical importance. These facts notwithstanding, many process engineers have difficulty with the paradigms and results of modern nonlinear control theory because they lack the mathematical...

Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges From Ancient Times To The Present

ABC Clio, 2001

Civilization began with the creation of cities, the congregation of people for mutual support. By their very decision to assemble and collect resources, cities became targets for raiding populations that found taking someone else’s possessions easier than producing their own. The need for defense meant that the towns soon built walls around...

Designing for Small Screens: Mobile Phones, Smart Phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, Navigation Systems, MP3 Players, Game Consoles

Fairchild Books, 2006

The design of interactive applications or presentations on small screens can be challenging for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on larger screens can be implemented on the small screen. A multitude of different devices with dissimilar technical specifications fall under the category of small- screen interfaces. Devices in...

IRC Hacks

O'Reilly, 2004

While IRC is easy to get into and many people are happy to use it without being aware of what's happening under the hood, there are those who hunger for more knowledge, and this book is for them. IRC Hacks is a collection of tips and tools that cover just about everything needed to become a true IRC master,...

Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications and Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has great potential for applications in wireless communications, radar and location. It has many benefits due to its ultra-wideband nature, which include high data rate, less path loss and better immunity to multipath propagation, availability of low-cost transceivers, low transmit power and low interference. Despite...

Uncertainty and Intelligent Information Systems

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Intelligent systems are necessary to handle modern computer-based technologies managing information and knowledge. This book discusses the theories required to help provide solutions to difficult problems in the construction of intelligent systems. Particular attention is paid to situations in which the available information and data may be...

Mac Kung Fu: Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011

Mac OS X Lion represents the pinnacle of software engineering. I confidently assert this as somebody who’s not only used every operating system on practically every type of computer but also written entire magazines and books about them.

Put simply, OS X “just works,” and like millions of others, I value...

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