Our students are the last generation of people who will have lived before the internet. For the next generation, there will be no concept of ‘going online’. Being always connected will be (in the developed world) everyday life. Equally, social media is increasingly competing with – or even replacing – ‘command...
In preparation for the creation of this book I spent a weekend at my home in Massachusetts setting up one of my personal computers to be a testing server. My home is serviced by AT&T and we have a high-speed modem with a fixed IP number.This, combined with the installation of some new software, made for a very fun weekend of tweaking and...
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is a platform that extends corporate messaging and collaboration services to BlackBerry devices. It supports management and administration of devices, and also supports deployment of third-party applications on the BlackBerry device platform. The basics of installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server are familiar for...
PHP is mainstream. Wherever you look, you will see PHP meet - ups, job openings, and major companies
using this open source language to support their business. An open source language with such humble
beginnings is now heavily rooted in the enterprise world. PHP is brushing shoulders with the “ the big
kids ” now — the...
We are pleased to present the 2012 edition of Ubuntu Unleashed. Ubuntu is a Linuxbased computer operating system that has taken the world by storm. From its humble beginning in 2004, Ubuntu has risen to be the vanguard of desktop Linux, as well as a popular choice for servers.
As far as I know, the systematic study on chalcogenide glasses as semiconductors was initiated
around the 1950s by a research group headed by B.T. Kolomiets of the Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute. During the half-century that followed, amorphous semiconductors have acquired
their own citizenship as an unchallenged, independent area of...
Data mining and knowledge discovery can today be considered as stable fields with
numerous efficient methods and studies that have been proposed to extract knowledge
from data. Nevertheless, the famous golden nugget is still challenging. Actually, the
context evolved since the first definition of the KDD process and knowledge has now...
PHP has changed the world: no other language has influenced and spurred web development
so strongly. From simple home pages to social software and business applications
to the largest global websites, PHP has played a leading role for years. Simultaneously,
Microsoft and its Windows operating system has made computers available to all...
This book will prove to be a practical resource for anyone who is considering
using, building, or securing a cloud implementation. Security professionals may
refer to this book as a source of detailed information for evaluating and verifying
cloud security policy and requirements. Cloud infrastructure engineers, cloud services...
Service-Oriented Architecture is becoming the leading architecture for IT, and it is changing the way organisations work. IT is slowly but steadily gaining maturity, and becoming the flexible yet stable and reliable support for business it should be. At the same time, IT is regaining its potential to create real business innovation. SOA will...
Stable and dependable IT services and infrastructures are nowadays of paramount
importance not only for modern enterprises but also for home users. However, as
distributed information infrastructures continue to spread and grow, resulting in
Internet-based, wireless and mobile systems, traditional solutions for managing and...
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is the fourth incarnation of the popular collaboration and
content management platform from Microsoft. With each release, the reach and capabilities
of SharePoint products and technologies have grown, offering new tools to organizations
and new opportunities to developers. With SharePoint 2010, you...
