When local area networks (LANs) first appeared in the business world, their
primary functions were to share files and printers. These are still critical applications
for most business networks, but networks are able to provide many other
functions as well. Virtually all business owners want to provide their users with access
to the...
It is amusing that the first part of this book to be read is the last part to be written.
It provides, however, an opportunity to share with you a little about how writing
and editing this book has changed my thinking not just about enterprise architecture
(EA), or about the role of information technology (IT) and IT professionals in...
A constraint is a restriction on a space of possibilities; it is a piece of knowledge that
narrows the scope of this space. Because constraints arise naturally in most areas of
human endeavor, they are the most general means for formulating regularities that
govern our computational, physical, biological, and social worlds. Some...
It doesn't matter how much time you invest in Android design, or even how careful
you are when programming, mistakes are inevitable and bugs will appear. This
book will help you minimize the impact of these errors in your Android project and
increase your development productivity. It will show you the problems that are
easily...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS
2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011,
as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS 2011), whose...
In a modern home, it is no longer unusual for family members to own multiple computers
and network devices. In most houses, you can find at least a desktop computer, which
is generally used for more performance-intensive tasks such as gaming or professional
work of any kind. Parents bring home their work laptops or notebooks, which they...
I hate management books. I do. People give them to me all the time saying:
“You should read this one, it changed my life!” These books are all
about 150 pages. They have 14 point type, double-spaced. They have lots
of pictures. They have titles like: Open Locker Management, Management
by not Managing, First Clean All The...
What brought the five of us together to write a book on Apache Tuscany and Service
Component Architecture (SCA)? We all had practical experience of how difficult and
costly integration of applications and technologies can be, and we were excited about
how Tuscany and SCA can help solve these problems. Having been involved...
Standard advice for writing a preface tells the author to begin by answering the
question, “Why did you write this book?” The published answers almost always
include an explanation of how something is still missing in the already vast body of
existing literature, and how the book in question represents a valiant attempt to...
Welcome to the eighth edition of the Game Programming Gems series, started by Mark DeLoura in 2000. The first edition was inspired by Andrew Glassner‘s popular Graphics Gems series. Since then, other Gems series have started, including AI Gems and a new series focused on the capabilities of programmable graphics, the ShaderX series....
It feels like ages ago since I began the journey of writing this book.
In its first year, more than 4500 copies were sold, and its reception
exceeded my wildest expectations. I am thankful to all those who
bought it and also to those who took the time to spread the word
to others. Because technology develops at such an unrelenting...
Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality...
