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Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Desktop GIS explores the world of Open Source GIS software and provides a guide to navigate the many options available. Discover what kind of GIS user you are and lay the foundation to evaluate the options and decide what software is best for you.

Desktop GIS examines the challenges associated with assembling and using an...

Django 1.0 Website Development

Packt Publishing, 2009

Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django...

Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Water Resources Development and Management)

Springer, 2009

Water is intertwined in the daily life of humans in countless ways. The importance of water as a driver for health, food security, and quality of life and as a pillar for economic development is unique. As water affects human lives, the mankind also effects the hydrological cycle, in all dimensions from the local to the global scale. Food...

Agile Coaching

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

To lead change, you need to expand your toolkit, and this book gives you the tools you need to make the transition from agile practitioner to agile coach.

Agile Coaching is all about working with people to create great agile teams. You'll learn how to build a team that produces great software and has fun doing it. In the...

Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa (The Facets of Ruby Series)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

This is a book for the Ruby programmer who's never written a Mac app before. Through this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn all about the Cocoa framework for programming on Mac OS X. Join the author's journey as this experienced Ruby programmer delves into the Cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same...

Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Consider that 80 percent of the information within most organizations is unstructured: word processing files, e-mail, spreadsheets, Web content, images, graphics, and all the other digital assets that organizations create and use as part of their business processes. Fully 90 percent of this unstructured information remains unmanaged within most...

Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It's inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices.

Getting started developing with Android is easy....

Core Data: Apple's API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

Whether you are targeting Mac OS X or the iPhone, at some point your Cocoa application is probably going to need to persist data. You could struggle with SQLite, generate XML, or create your own binary format. Or, you can save time and energy by taking advantage of Apple's Core Data API instead.

Core Data makes it easy...

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

I’ve always been mystified why so few books are available on debugging. You can buy any number on every other aspect of software engineering such as design, code construction, requirements capture, methodologies... the list is endless. And yet, for some reason, debugging has been almost (not quite but very nearly) ignored by authors and...

Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing

Springer, 2009

This is the first uniform description of all key levels of communication in the organismic kingdoms of plants, fungi, animals and bacteria based on the most recent empirical data. Biocommunication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular, (B) interorganismic, between the same or related species and (C)...

Reference and Computation: An Essay in Applied Philosophy of Language (Studies in Natural Language Processing)

Cambridge University Press, 1990

This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that we hardly ever tell each other explicitly what object we mean, although we expect our interlocutor to discern it. Amichai Kronfeld provides an answer...

Learning with Digital Games: A Practical Guide to Engage Students in Higher Education

Routledge, 2009

Written for Higher Education teaching and learning professionals, Learning with Digital Games provides an accessible, straightforward introduction to the field of computer game-based learning. Up to date with current trends and the changing learning needs of today’s students, this text offers friendly guidance, and is unique in...

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