Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, where the personal computing
era appears when technology recedes into the background of our lives. The widespread use
of new mobile technology implementing wireless communications such as personal digital
assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new type of advanced...
Writing this book has been like discovering RabbitMQ itself—encountering a problem
that needed solving, but not knowing what the solution looked like. Until May
2010, we didn’t even know each other. We both had been active in the RabbitMQ community
for the past two years, but we’d never actually...
We wrote this book to serve the needs of not just the MySQL application developer but also the MySQL database administrator. We assume that you are already relatively experienced with MySQL. We also assume some experience with general system administration, networking, and Unix-like operating systems.
Clojure is a powerful, general-purpose programming language. As such, this book is for experienced programmers looking for power and elegance. This book will be useful for anyone with experience in a modern programming language such as C#, Java, Python, or Ruby.
I have never owned a PalmPilot. But I have owned palmtops and smartphones.
I dived into writing software for a plethora of different devices but
never got very far. My problem was that the story of getting software onto
the phones was chaotic and I didn’t see how the marketing of software
for phones would lead to a...
Recycled Palette, a company in Oregon founded by Ean Nogella in
2006, sells 100 percent recycled latex paint to both individuals and
businesses in the area. The high-quality recycled paint is fi ltered to
industry standards and tested for performance and environmental
safety. The paint is available in both 1 gallon cans and 5...
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...
The ASP.NET MVC framework has come a long way over the last few years.
It was originally the vision of Scott Guthrie in early 2007, and with a subsequent
prototype demonstration in late 2007 and the hire of Phil Haack as a Senior Program
Manager, this vision became a reality. Several public previews...
Signal processing has been playing an increasingly important role in remote sensing,
though most remote sensing literatures are concerned with remote sensing images. Many
data received by remote sensors such as microwave and geophysical sensors, are signals or
waveforms, which can be processed by analog and digital signal...
TIBCO’s product suite comprises a diverse range of components. Each component is specialized for a particular functionality, ranging from basic messaging through services, service orchestration, the management of complex business processes, managing master data across...
As you start reading this book, I hope you are prepared to keep an open
mind and are willing to try some new approaches to your daily life.
My name is Dave Hendricksen, and I have the privilege of being a software
architect for Thomson Reuters, where the focus of my work is on producing
intelligent legal...
Computing is transforming our society in ways that are as profound as the changes wrought
by physics and chemistry in the previous two centuries. Indeed, there is hardly an aspect of
our lives that hasn't already been influenced, or even revolutionized, by digital technology.
Given the importance of computing to modern society,...
