Carrying a BlackBerry used to speak volumes about a person. When you saw someone tapping at that wide keyboard with both thumbs, you could safely assume that the owner was a businessperson, and that the person’s time was so valuable that he or she couldn’t afford to be out of touch from the office for even a moment. Today, you can...
Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2010) – one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2010).
FGCN brings together researchers from academia and industry as well...
As information technology (IT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics have common threads and because of this, advances in one subdiscipline may transmit to another. The presentation of results between different subdisciplines encourages this interchange for the advancement of IT as a whole.
Preparing for the CCNP® exam? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) exam you need in one handy resource. The CCNP ROUTE Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use...
Your CPU meter shows a problem. One core is running at 100 percent, but all the other cores are idle. Your application is CPU-bound, but you are using only a fraction of the computing power of your multicore system. Is there a way to get better performance?
The answer, in a nutshell, is parallel programming. Where you...
The 7th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2009) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications from a variety of fields. WAOA 2009 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, during September 10–11, 2009. The workshop...
MongoDB, a cross-platform NoSQL database, is the fastest-growing new database in the world. MongoDB provides a rich document-oriented structure with dynamic queries that you’ll recognize from RDBMS offerings such as MySQL. In other words, this is a book about a NoSQL database that does not require the SQL crowd to re-learn how the...
Do you want to take your Poser skills beyond the basics and put the new features of Poser 8 into practice right away? If so, you've come to the right place. "Practical Poser 8: The Official Guide" is an updated edition of this best-selling reference for intermediate to advanced Poser users. It teaches the tasks you want and need...
In 1963, Ivan Sutherland wrote Sketchpad [57], the world’s fi rst real-time
computer graphics application. In that breakthrough effort, he defi ned the
basic techniques for structuring scene data that are still present in today’s 3D
applications.
In one way, though, Sutherland had it easy. He didn’t have to...
This book sprang from years of delivering the Marakana Android Bootcamp training
class to thousands of software developers at some of the largest mobile companies
located on four continents around the world. Teaching this class, over time I saw what
works and what doesn’t. This book is a distilled version of the Android Bootcamp...
Not too long ago, the Web was a pretty boring place. Constructed from plain old
HTML, Web pages displayed information and not much else. Folks would click a
link and then wait for a new Web page to load—and that was about as interactive
as it got.
These days, most Web sites are almost as responsive as the...
The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest technologies
for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology.
All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can program
applications for all three platforms with...
