This is a comprehensive book covering the essentials of troubleshooting and problem solving of industrial data communications systems including areas such as RS-232, RS-485, industrial protocols such as Modbus, fiber optics, industrial Ethernet, TCP/IP, DeviceNet and Fieldbus protocols such as Profibus and Foundation Fieldbus. It can...
Pro J2ME Polish: Open Source Wireless Java Tools Suite is written for wireless and other mobile Java programmers who want to "polish" their efficiency and acquire in-depth knowledge about programming real-world J2ME applications. It also uncovers all common device limitations and quirks, and explains how these can be...
In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a...
Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a new development platform designed to make the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) far easier than has previously been possible. Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise addresses the question of how you can bring Silverlight 2 to your company to provide rich Internet experiences that will interface...
Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and are becoming an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. In general, automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors include the number of issues, dependency between...
The convergence of computing and communication has produced a society that feeds
on information. Yet most of the information is in its raw form: data. If data is characterized
as recorded facts, then information is the set of patterns, or expectations,
that underlie the data. There is a huge amount of information locked up in...
PowerShell is becoming the de facto administration tool for Microsoft
Server products. The ability to script out reusable steps and code makes life
easier for administrators, developers, and managers alike. With the latest
release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PowerShell is the recommended
administration...
A complete guide to Pentaho Kettle, the Pentaho Data lntegration toolset for ETL
This practical book is a complete guide to installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’re a database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speed on Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETL...
The concepts and ideas of elementary particle physics
are abstract, and they are typically expressed in the
language of mathematics. However, the goal of elementary
particle physics is very simple, and all the efforts
of elementary particle physicists are directed
toward that simple goal: to identify the basic building...
If you’re looking for a book that focuses on just the most important, most useful, and most fun stuff about your iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, or iPhone 3GS–you’ve found it.There are basically two types of iPhone books out there: (1) The “tell-me-all-about-it” kind, which includes in-depth discussions on...
