When SIAM contacted me about the preparation of a second edition of this
booklet, it became clear almost immediately that any attempt to rewrite the booklet
would invite the danger of spoiling its purpose. The booklet had served me well as a
skeleton and draft outline for my subsequent book Robust Statistics (Wiley, 1981). I...
WINDOWS SERVER 2012 is the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s successful server platform. Included
is a new version of IIS, now in its eighth incarnation.
IIS 8.0 isn’t the revolutionary change in architecture that IIS 7.0 was. However it offers much new
functionality, absorbing many of the standalone...
When SitePoint asked me to write the fourth edition of this book, I initially thought
it would take the same format of other editions—adding new techniques, removing
content that had become outdated, and updating solutions to a more modern approach.
As I started to work through the table of contents, however,...
This book is about how to create interactive animations for the web using computer code and math. But
don't worry if you can't remember anything from your high school algebra class, you'll just need a minimal
understanding to get started. The purpose of this book is to give you the tools to create and express your...
Rewriting is a form of inference, and one that interacts in several ways
with other forms of inference such as decision procedures and proof search. We
discuss a range of issues at the intersection of rewriting and inference. How can
other inference procedures be combined with rewriting? Can rewriting be used to
describe...
Cognitive spatial concepts are qualitative in nature, i.e., they are based not so
much on exact quantities but on comparisons between perceived magnitudes.
We develop a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge (in
particular, of positional information about 2-dimensional projections) that is
based only on locative...
At the instigation of the Iron and Steel Federation, the late Bernard Godfrey began
work in 1952 on the first edition of the Steel Designers’ Manual. As principal author
he worked on the manuscript almost continuously for a period of two years. On
many Friday evenings he would meet with his co-authors, Charles Gray, Lewis Kent...
In the fall of 2004, at a popular software conference I realized how all major component
vendors were advertising their ASP.NET products using a new word—Ajax. Only a few weeks
later, a brand new module in my popular ASP.NET master class made its debut—using Ajax
to improve the user experience. At its core, Ajax is a little...
After completing my master’s degree, I moved from Poland to Germany and began working as a .NET developer for a company full of experts in … Clarion. The Clarion folks were developing the company’s flagship—very successful leasing software—and I was left to do “the rest”: a bit of...
By the time you’re reading this in a bookstore, BizTalk will have celebrated its tenth birthday. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft’s enterprise integration server, and it has become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology in the industry, with over 10,000 customers worldwide....
Scala is a relatively new programming language that was designed by Martin Odersky and released in 2003. The distinguishing features of Scala include a seamless integration of functional programming features into an otherwise objectoriented language. Scala owes its name to its ability to scale, that is, it is a language that can grow by...
