The seed for this book was planted in 1993. I found myself frustrated by the obstinate, poorly documented, and woefully inadequate MIDI functions available to me as a Windows programmer. So, I set out to write a set of routines that would allow me to write music applications without sweating the MIDI details.
Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application...
If you believe that the answer no is but a request for more information and understand that the best closing questions are rhetorical, you understand the basic art of sales. If you can teach that art to others, you have the makings of a good sales manager. But not all good sales managers are equal; some are forward thinking enough to...
Most computer problems aren’t that violent or that dramatic, but the immediate result is often the same: you sit there in a state of shock, staring at the computer, saying to yourself, “What happened? What should I do now? It’s never done that before!” This book will tell you how to understand and fix...
This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide for using the Oracle Data Provider (ODP) version 11g on the .NET Framework. It also outlines the core GoF (Gang of Four) design patterns and coding techniques employed to build and deploy high-impact mission-critical applications using advanced Oracle database features through the...
Congratulations! You now own one of the most original and fun new phones to emerge on the scene in years. (But you knew that already, didn’t you?) Windows Phone 7 represents an exciting new direction for both Microsoft and the evolution of the smartphone, those magical do-everything devices that are part phone, part pocket computer.
The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet
have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of
multimedia information. As a result, the problem of copyright protection has attracted
the interest of the worldwide scientific and business communities. The most...
In contrast to existing books on immunoinformatics, this volume presents a cross-section of immunoinformatics research. The contributions highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the field and how collaborative efforts among bioinformaticians and bench scientists result in innovative strategies for understanding the immune system....
Too much mathematical rigor teaches rigor mortis: the fear of making
an unjustified leap even when it lands on a correct result. Instead of
paralysis, have courage—shoot first and ask questions later. Although
unwise as public policy, it is a valuable problem-solving philosophy, and
it is the theme of this book: how to...
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy was advocated in India in 1991 under the supervision of P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India. As a consequence, the tea plantation industry was largely affected. It has confronted difficult competition because of the simplification of tariff barriers and the...
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a new class library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in Java. Created as part of the Eclipse project, SWT allows developers to build efficient, portable applications that directly access the user-interface facilities of the operating systems it is implemented on. This...
The first release of the Composite UI Application Block took place in December of 2005, and the first release of the Smart Client Software Factory in July of 2006. This book might therefore seem to be appearing a bit late in the lifecycle of the software, at least compared to others that I've written. However, CAB and SCSF originally represented...
