This book serves as both a textbook and a reference for using Inkscape to produce high-quality drawings. It includes a series of tutorials followed by chapters that cover completely each facet of the Inkscape program. The book is full of tips and notes to enable the user to make the best use of the program.
The release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services is the beginning
of a new, more accessible era for master data management. Because of price
and complexity, most solutions on the market today are geared toward large
corporations and require dedicated consulting teams to implement. MDS, a feature of
SQL Server Enterprise Edition,...
Autodesk Inventor was introduced in 1999 as an ambitious 3D parametric modeler based not on
the familiar AutoCAD programming architecture but instead on a separate foundation that would
provide the room needed to grow into the fully featured modeler it is now, a decade later. Inventor
2011 continues the development of Inventor with...
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...
The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international
online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. This
WSC 2008 is the thirteenth conference in this series and it has been a great
success.
We received a lot of excellent paper submissions which were peer-reviewed
by an international...
When computer software succeeds—when it meets the needs of the people who use
it, when it performs flawlessly over a long period of time, when it is easy to modify
and even easier to use—it can and does change things for the better. But when software
fails—when its users are dissatisfied, when it is error prone, when...
This preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special
challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book.
The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable
arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for creating
human-machine...
Databases are designed to support data storage, processing, and retrieval activities related to data management. The use of databases in various applications has resulted in an enormous wealth of data, which populates many types of databases around the world.
The study of minimum paths on or around polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space is
of growing importance in robotics. This work presents new algorithms
based on extensions of the Voronoi diagram. Since experience with new algo-
rithms is also important, this work also describes a workbench to allow
experimentation.
Cisco® Nexus switches and the new NX-OS operating system are rapidly becoming the new de facto standards for data center distribution/aggregation layer networking. NX-OS builds on Cisco IOS to provide advanced features that will be increasingly crucial to efficient data center operations. NX-OS and Cisco...
JavaScript has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1995 as part of the Netscape browser, to the high-performance JIT interpreters of today. Even just five years ago developers were blown away by Ajax and the yellow fade technique; now, complex JavaScript apps run into the hundreds of thousands of lines.
Architect IBM® WebSphere® Applications for Maximum Performance, Security, Flexibility, Usability, and Value Successful, high-value WebSphere applications begin with effective architecture. Now, one of IBM’s leading WebSphere and WebSphere Portal architects offers a hands-on,...
