The time that I spent working at Microsoft was an unexpectedly transforming experience. The first half
of my career regularly put me and the companies I worked with in competition with Microsoft, and I was
often surrounded by anti-Microsoft stories and propaganda. However, when I heard about .NET, I
decided I wanted to know more...
The tools for creating and broadcasting a professional-quality video have never
been as accessible as they are today, thanks to more affordable and powerful
recording equipment and computers, broadband Internet, and user-friendly
software.
The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected best
papers from the 6th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
(ICETE), which was held in July 2009, in Milan, Italy. This conference
reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research
results...
The 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining
(WISM 2011) was held during September 24–25, 2011 in Taiyuan, China. WISM
2011 received 472 submissions from 20 countries and regions. After rigorous
reviews, 112 high-quality papers were selected for publication in the WISM 2011
proceedings. The...
This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at MIRAGE 2011.
The MIRAGE conference is recognized internationally with presentations
coming from 19 countries despite the large worldwide economical crisis. Submissions
from Asia dropped compared with two years ago, and were fewer, than
those from Europe. France proved...
I first saw the web in my final year of university in 1993-94. All the cool
kids (bear in mind, this was a Computer Science department) were playing
with a strange bit of software called Mosaic on their Sun 4 workstations.
I had some fun with it and created my first web page (a guide to...
This 2nd volume on Emerging Web Services Technologies continues to follow the
current research activities in the areas of Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
By collecting the proceedings of the second Workshop of Emerging
Web Services Technology 2007 it contains many examples of promising research
activities...
GIMP for Absolute Beginners gives us an easy way to use the power of GIMP, and enjoy digital photography and graphics without worrying about application features.
GIMP is a powerful open source graphics and digital imaging application with almost all the features of its proprietary counterpart,...
Government agencies are increasingly being called upon to publish data as a means to
increase transparency, deliver government services more efficiently, and innovate busi
ness. Civic Apps Competitions (CACs) further these goals by providing incentives and
a platform for software programmers to build innovative...
You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn’t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small,...
Software engineering is a pessimistic discipline. The glass is always half empty
rather than half full. Not surprising really, we are hardened to the grind of improving
quality, painstakingly testing and, never quite, eliminating bugs. Critical review is
of the essence. We know there is “no silver bullet”.
