The Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE ^TM) offers great promise for dramatically improving the way that enterprise applications are built, and organizations that have adopted the J2EE are gaining a competitive advantage. The industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) has helped countless organizations achieve software...

Foresight can be crucial in process and production control, production-and-resources planning and in management decision making generally. Although forecasting the future from accumulated historical data has become a standard and reliable method in production and financial engineering, as well as in business and management, the use of time...

If you have experience with C++ and DirectX and have always wanted to program your own game, this is the book for you. Programming a Multiplayer FPS in DirectX takes you from the basic game design to a fully functioning game! All of the source code, assets, and tools are included?you just work through the tutorial-based chapters and watch the...

Every web surfer knows a classy web site when he sees one, because it has eyecatching features that make the site outstanding among other sites on the web.

Developers of these sites leave web surfers in awe not by using fancy animation or provocative pictures, but by using subtle tricks such as fl oating menus and moveable...