It's not an overstatement to say that handhelds have changed the world. What was, just 10
years ago, simply a phone is now the center of your online life and, for many users, their
primary Internet device. The power of the smart phone is shaking up the world from Main
Street and Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue and Downing...
One exciting aspect of software programming is that there are usually many ways
to accomplish the same goal. Unfortunately, this also presents software engineers
with unique challenges when trying to make the best design or implementation choice
for each situation. Experience plays a major role, and the learning...
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database....
At last researchers have an inexpensive library of Java-based numeric procedures for use in scientific computation. The first and only book of its kind, A Numeric Library in Java for Scientists and Engineers is a translation into Java of the library NUMAL (NUMerical procedures in ALgol 60).
Welcome to Construct Game Development Beginner's Guide. In this book, you will be
learning to use the free and open source software Construct Classic to make your own
video games from scratch.
Construct Classic is a DirectX 9-based game creation environment for Windows, designed for
making 2D games. Construct...
As you start to look at getting into mobile development, it can be overwhelming to try
and choose between all the different options and platforms available to you. Each platform
comes with its own set of tools, preferred languages, and overall way of doing
things. In many cases, you won’t want to restrict your...
The phone rings, and the networking guys tell you that you’ve been hacked and that your customers’ sensitive information is being stolen from your network. You begin your investigation by checking your logs to identify the hosts involved. You scan the hosts with antivirus software to find the malicious program, and catch a lucky...
Among open source e-commerce platforms, Magento has emerged in a relatively short period of time as the most popular, advanced e-commerce platform on the market. Since 2008, Magento has evolved to claim its own place as an advanced, extendable system.
Magento Inc. claims that people have downloaded the Magento software package over 2.5...
In the forty years since I started working in the field, and indeed for some years before that (almost since Calvin Mooers coined the term information storage and retrieval in the 1950s), there have been a significant number of books on information retrieval. Even if we ignore the more specialist research monographs and the...
In the first guide, Planning and Managing Drupal Projects, we walked through the process
of planning a site, figuring out the user experience, and working with content
architecture. In the second, Design and Prototyping in Drupal, we started looking at
how to create solid, user-centered design that works for a...
The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...
