This volume is the last of three volumes devoted to the work of one of the most prominent 20th century mathematicians. Throughout his mathematical work, A.N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987) showed great creativity and versatility and his wide-ranging studies in many different areas, led to the solution of conceptual and fundamental problems and the...
Since you picked this book, the odds will be that you are already familiar with Joomla! VirtueMart. You will agree that this open source e-commerce solution is definitely amazing and feature-rich. That's why you want to stick with it. However, you still find there are some things here and there that don't quite fit your requirements....
Thousands of developers have discovered that JavaServer Pages represent the optimal solution for cross-platform web-based development. Now that they've mastered the basics of JSP, many are seeking to deepen and strengthen their expertise. In Advanced JavaServer Pages, best-selling Java author and former JavaSoft developer David Geary...
For several years now, there has been a constant increase in the number of works
on UML and object modelling. However, my practical experience of training (more
than a thousand or so people trained in OMT, then UML since 1993…) convinced
me that there is still another need that is not tended to by the multitude of books...
The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating the legal fiction of 'technical effect'. This...
The development of network technologies and networked services has been
tremendous the last decade and is expected to be more intensive in the near
future with the technological progress in the field of radio communications,
data communication, protocols, software engineering, applications and so on.
In this plethora of technologies,...
On a weekly basis, some poor IT workers — both IT pros and developers — are saddled with new
projects and or technology they know nothing about and are asked to run with them. They ’ re
expected to be successful with little guidance, direction, or training. They ’ re also expected to pull
off these tremendous...
In the first edition of this book, we focused on what we called the "High Availability Database Administrator." However, that term led G to the question of just what is meant by High Availability? As a term bandied about among database administrators, this can have different meanings depending on who is interpreting it, who has to...
In 2010, Pixologic celebrated the 10th anniversary of the debut of ZBrush.
ZBrush was introduced to the world as an experimental art application with a unique
technology that allowed users to create illustrations in two and a half dimensions. I
remember seeing the Pixologic booth at a Macworld in New York in the summer of 2000.
The...
The story of software engineering has been the story of increasing the
level of abstraction at which we as programmers work, from logic encoded
in hardware to toggle switches representing binary digits, through machine
code, assembly language, low-level languages, and high-level languages
both procedural and functional. More recently,...
Flash is one of the most pervasive technologies
on the Web, delivering interactive
and immersive multimedia. Leading corporate
Web sites use its streamlined graphics
to communicate their brands, major motion
picture studios promote theatrical releases
with Flash video, and online news and educational
sites provide rich user...
