Gradle is a flexible yet model-driven JVM-based build tool. Gradle acknowledges and improves on the very best ideas from Make, Ant, Ivy, Maven, Rake, Gant, Scons, SBT, Leinengen, and Buildr. The best-of-breed features previously...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011, as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2011), whose...

It doesn't matter how much time you invest in Android design, or even how careful you are when programming, mistakes are inevitable and bugs will appear. This book will help you minimize the impact of these errors in your Android project and increase your development productivity. It will show you the problems that are easily...

Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...

The intention of this book is to provide a thorough reference for those considering a migration into the virtualized world. The majority of our target readers will likely be seasoned system administrators and engineers who grew up in and still manage primarily a hardware-based server environment containing a large assortment of both...

Mention the word audit to IT professionals and you will probably see their eyes glaze over as they imagine frightening visions of auditors with pointy tails, pitchforks, and checklists run ning around and pointing out all of the things they have done wrong to their manager. The purpose of a security audit is not to place blame or pick...

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On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. As with many things, the test was purely accidental. Graham spilled acid on his leg, and Watson, his assistant, heard his call for help through the telephone. So, what has changed over the last 129 years? It would be easier to discuss what hasn’t...

Milwaukee -not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles- was the scene of a number of television firsts: Here the very first application for a commercial TV license was filed with the FCC in 1938. The first female program director and news director in a major market were both at Milwaukee stations. Milwaukee was a major battleground in the VHF...

In the early days of pattern recognition and statistical data analysis life was rather simple: datasets were relatively small, collected from well-designed experiments, analyzed using a few methods that had good theoretical background. Explosive growth of the use of computers led to the creation of huge amounts of data of all kinds,...

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Standard is an affordable, all-in-one solution that reduces complexity and increases manageability of server technology in a small business environment. Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) is the certification exam for information technology (IT)...