This essay deals with contemporary theory of conservation. Perhaps the boldest thesis in the text is the very idea that a contemporary theory of conservation actually exists. No one doubts that there are a number of schemes, ideas and opinions – of theories or fragments of theories that differ to a greater or lesser...
Over the last few years, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology has emerged and matured as a standard platform for building enterprise applications. While the platform has matured into a solid offering for developing and deploying enterprise applications, it does offer its challenges. As developers, often we confuse learning the...
DESIGNING OBJECT ORIENTED software is difficult, but there are reoccurring patterns that have been documented [1]. These patterns specify how interacting classes and objects can combine to solve very general problems. It is up to the designer to recognize when a pattern can be employed and then to implement the domain specific classes and objects...
The best way to improve what you do is to find someone who will do it for you better than you could have done yourself. I’ve seen this principle in action over and over again. For example, it was fine designing the NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform on my own. Now, however, it is much better, since there are far more talented developers...
On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the
proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Product-Focused Software
Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), held in Torre Canne, Italy. Since 1999
PROFES has grown in the software engineering community and has become a
premium conference that brings together...
Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial
data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit
spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns
from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...
As responsive design evolves, we have a critical need to think about design challenges beyond mobile, tablet, and desktop. When properly designed and planned, design patterns-small, reusable modules-help your responsive layout reach more devices (and people) than ever before. Ethan Marcotte shows you just how that's done, focusing on...
Practical, hands-on techniques for testing the design, globalization, performance, and security of Web applications
Whether you’re a novice or experienced Web tester, this hands-on guide provides you with the practical steps you’ll need to follow to rigorously test across multiple platforms and browsers. Written by one of...
This book carries forward recent work on visual patterns and structures in digital images and introduces a near set-based a topology of digital images. Visual patterns arise naturally in digital images viewed as sets of non-abstract points endowed with some form of proximity (nearness) relation. Proximity relations make it possible to...
Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript. You will move from point-and-click components to fully customized features. You need no prior programming knowledge or any experience with other design tools such as PhotoShop or Illustrator - you can...
