In the early days, embedded systems were built primarily by engineers in a
pretty exclusive club. Embedded devices and software tools were expensive,
and building a functional prototype required significant software engineering and electrical engineering experience.
With the arrival of Arduino, the open source electronics...
It’s simple. To make it to the top of the pay scale, you must make yourself invaluable to your employer. Unfortunately, most programmers or aspiring programmers lack that critical “it” factor, the savvy that makes employers and clients stand up and take notice. This book will show you how to stand out from the pack, how to...
OCS Inventory NG is a cross-platform, open-source inventory and asset management solution. It brings more than plentiful features to the table to satisfy the business needs of small-to-large organizations with up to tens of thousands of computers. However, to put this inventory solution to optimum use requires a lot of skill.
In an age when so much communication is tethered to
technology, delivering messages face-to-face has paradoxically
become even more vital to professional success. We all have ready
access to more information than any of our ancestors did. At the
click of a few keys, we can locate reams of facts on any topic under
the sun. But...
Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Windows XP 101 is a valuable resource for all readers, especially those who are looking to further enhance their XP experience. Clear, step-by-step instructions walk you through each operation from beginning to end. Comprehensive topic introductions and useful tips...
HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the...
Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today's mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets.
The implementation of a TMS solution is a highly complex and mission critical project. If executed correctly a good TMS can deliver a number of benefits to the organization in terms of optimization, greater efficiency, reduced errors and improved revenue through accurate invoicing. However a number of projects fail to realize these...
Go under the hood of an operating Voice over IP network, and build your knowledge of the protocols and architectures used by this Internet telephony technology. With this concise guide, you’ll learn about services involved in VoIP and get a first-hand view of network data packets from the time the phones boot through calls and...
Knowing how to install, configure, and troubleshoot a computer network is a highly marketable and exciting skill. This book first introduces the fundamental building blocks that form a modern network, such as protocols, topologies, hardware, and network operating systems. It then provides in-depth coverage of the most important...
Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason--to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be constructed and then manipulated by reasoning...
