Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to...
This resource-packed guide delivers pragmatic solutions for real-world Linux development needs—all using open-source software tools. Viewing Linux as a well-stocked toolbox, Multitool Linux shows programmers and sophisticated users how to create a wide variety of exciting and useful applications for business and...
Oracle Performance Survival Guide offers a structured, systematic, start-to-finish methodology for optimizing Oracle performance as efficiently as possible. Leading Oracle expert Guy Harrison shows how to maximize your tuning investment by focusing on causes rather than symptoms, and by quickly identifying the areas...
Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.
Overview
Learn to leverage the power of Selenium WebDriver with...
An excellent companion to our popular sendmail, Third Edition, this book documents the improvements in V8.13 in parallel with its release. Highlighting the important changes V8.13, the book points out not just what is handy or nice to have, but what's critical in getting the best behavior from sendmail. For a...
The use of modular and parallel programming languages, and the development of distributed architectures is having a profound influence on computer programming and systems design; hardware and performance can now conspire to produce much higher operating speeds than could previously be achieved through sequential processing. Executing...
"The present volume is the second one of a trilogy on formal development of large scale systems. Each topic is presented by means of many examples . The end of each chapter includes several exercises that demonstrate the topics in a more realistic setting. The quite large spectrum of modelling and specification...
Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications.
David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform...
Current graphics software and hardware combine to allow multiple-level functionality and open up new application areas for scientists of all disciplines, and for computer scientists and engineers in particular.
This thoroughly revised edition of this integrated guide explains and lists readily available graphics software tools and their...
In 2007, Microsoft released the fi rst Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework. The old .NET Framework multithreading programming model was too complex and heavyweight for the forthcoming multicore and manycore CPUs. I had been researching parallel programming, multiprocessor, and multicore since 1997,...
Parallel programming truly redefines the programming model for multicore architecture,
which has become commonplace. For this reason, parallel programming has been elevated to
a core technology in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. In this version of the .NET Framework,
the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and the System.Threading.Tasks...
Have you ever been in a hurry and pounded in a nail using something other than a
hammer? Or perhaps settled an argument concerning distances with “the length of my
arm is about 20 inches, and that’s about two arm lengths...”? You might not be willing
to fall for such obviously flawed shortcuts, but...
