After a few years with Xcode 3, my first impressions of Xcode 4 were mixed. At first, I thought the redesign was unnecessarily rigid and proscriptive. I missed Interface Builder's floating windows and object palettes, and I couldn't find a convincing reason for the enforced three-way window split in the editor.
Welcome to the exciting world of Cisco certification! You have picked up this book because you want something better—namely, a better job with more satisfaction. Rest assured that you have made a good decision. Cisco certification can help you get your first networking job or more money and a...
With the introduction of multicore devices such as the iPad 2 and the quad-core Mac-
Book Pro, writing multithreaded apps that take advantage of multiple cores on a device
has become one of the biggest headaches for developers. Take, for instance, the introduction
of iPad 2. On the launch day, only a few applications, basically those...
"Modeling" has become one of the primary concerns in modern Software
Engineering. The reason is simple: starting development processes from clear
and succinct models has proven to foster not only quality but also productivity.
With the advance of modeling there also came a desire for automatic code
generation from models....
The stats tell us that people are switching from Windows to the Mac in record numbers,
but those stats don’t tell us why. Perhaps it’s because Windows users
would like to actually enjoy using a computer for a change. Perhaps it’s because Macs just work:
you take them out of the box, plug them in, and within minutes...
Our manuals facilitate your learning by providing structured interaction with the software itself. While we provide text to explain difficult concepts, the hands-on activities are the focus of our courses. By paying close attention as your instructor leads you through these activities, you will learn the skills and concepts effectively.
To explain the perspective from which this book was written, it will be helpful to define
the terms machine learning and hackers.
What is machine learning? At the highest level of abstraction, we can think of machine
learning as a set of tools and methods that attempt to infer patterns and extract insight
from a record of the...
Let's investigate the inner-workings of your Arduino. It appears to be a simple machine, but it is not. Much effort has been invested to make it easy to learn and use. Unfortunately, these good intentions can mask some of the Arduino's underlying capabilities. You suspected that there was more, much more, under the simplistic...
As Ruby pro David Copeland explains, writing a command-line application that is self-documenting, robust, adaptable and forever useful is easier than you might think. Ruby is particularly suited to this task, since it combines high-level abstractions with "close to the metal" system interaction wrapped up in a concise,...
PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...
Kernel development can be a daunting task and is very different from programming traditional user
applications. The kernel environment is more volatile and complex. Extraordinary care must be taken to
ensure that kernel code is free of bugs because any issue may have serious consequences to the stability,
security, and performance...
IS-IS has always been my favourite Interior Gateway Protocol. Its elegant simplicity, its
well-structured data formats, its flexibility and easy extensibility are all appealing – IS-IS
epitomizes link-state routing. Whether for this reason or others, IS-IS is the IGP of choice
in some of the world’s largest networks....
