My Dear Reader,

This wretched war, the gravest threat humankind has ever faced, is not going well at all.We have suffered major setbacks, as our ruthless adversary has conquered vast territories, leaving little ground controlled by our ragtag band of rebels. Our few surviving generals blame the lack of skills in our fighting...

When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages, noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the information software...

Ten years ago, ASP.NET provided software developers with a means to write complex web applications with their existing Windows Forms skillsets. Today, it continues to be a robust framework for writing scalable applications, from small e-Commerce to enterprise-level CRM. But ten years later, with many business critical applications existing...

Thwart malicious network intrusion...

The need for this project was born of frustration while working towards my PhD. I was investigating optimization algorithms and was implementing a large number of them for a software platform called the Optimization Algorithm Toolkit (OAT)1. Each algorithm required considerable effort to locate the relevant source material (from...

JavaScript was never meant to be the most important programming language in the world. It was hacked together in ten days, with ideas from Scheme and Self packed into a C-like syntax. Even its name was an awkward fit, referring to a language with little in common besides a few keywords.1 But once JavaScript was released, there was no...

The Rhomobile Beginner's guide will speak to every developer's mind, and especially to the technocrats looking for a reliable cross-platform framework encouraging them to explore and try out these wonderful products by Rhomobile. This book guides you step by step to build an enterprise mobile application from scratch, through to...

Java is good stuff. I’ve been using it for years. I like Java because it’s very orderly. Almost everything follows simple rules. The rules can seem intimidating at times, but this book is here to help you figure them out. So, if you want to use Java and want an alternative to the traditional techie, softcover book, sit...

IN 1995, WHEN I WAS IN MY SECOND YEAR IN COLLEGE, I was introduced to UNIX network programming. In C, you could create sockets to open TCP connections to servers and code the servers that accepted these connections. I remember the excitement I felt the fi rst time I created a TCP server: I could accept connections and receive and send...