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Murach's Java SE 6: Training & Reference

Mike Murach & Associates, 2007

Since its release in 1996. the Java language has established itself as one of the leading languages for object-oriented programming. Today, despite competition from Microsoft's .NET Platform, Java continues to be one of the leading languages for application development, especially for web applications. And that's going to continue for...

Future Generation Information Technology: Second International Conference, FGIT 2010

Springer, 2011

As information technology (IT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics have common threads and because of this, advances in one subdiscipline may transmit to another. The presentation of results between different subdisciplines encourages this interchange for the advancement of IT as a whole.

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Introducing Microsoft® Silverlight(TM) 3

Microsoft Press, 2009

As the Web grows and evolves, so do the expectations of the Web user. When the first Web browser was developed, it was created to provide a relatively simple way to allow hyperlinking between documents. Then these early browsers were coupled with the cross-machine protocols encompassing the Internet, and suddenly documents stored on...

Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Microsoft Press, 2012

Windows Internals, Sixth Edition is intended for advanced computer professionals (both developers and system administrators) who want to understand how the core components of the Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better...

Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004: 4th Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Methods, Calgary, Canada, August

Springer, 2008

It was 1999 when Extreme Programming Explained was first published, making this year’s event arguably the fifth anniversary of the birth of the XP/Agile movement in software development. Our fourth conference reflected the evolution and the learning that have occurred in these exciting five years as agile practices have become...

The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia

Cambridge University Press, 2003

The aim of this book is to weave together the diverse threads of epidemiological research in schizophrenia into a single volume that captures the new and exciting themes that have been emerging over recent years. Diverse topics are juxtaposed to expose synergy and to reveal new avenues of work, while the power of the epidemiological...

Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology (Volume 10)

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Psychology at the beginning of the twenty-first century has become a highly diverse field of scientific study and applied technology. Psychologists commonly regard their discipline as the science of behavior, and the American Psychological Association has formally designated 2000 to 2010 as the “Decade of...

Deploying with JRuby: Deliver Scalable Web Apps using the JVM (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

Your website has just crashed, and you’re losing money. The application is built on Rails, runs on MRI, and is served up with Mongrel and Apache. Having this kind of infrastructure means that you’re managing more processes than you can count on two hands.

The background jobs are run...

Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X: with ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and Blocks (Professional Apress)

Apress, 2012

OSX Lion and iOS5 now offer an application memory management mechanism called Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). In short, ARC makes memory management the job of the compiler rather than the programmer, which quite often increases performance significantly.

In Chapters 2 and 3, you see just how powerful ARC is....

Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services: Lessons from Asia (Advances in Agroforestry)

Springer, 2008

Recent history reveals that both the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20^th century have often been less successful than anticipated, and that tree growing by smallholders as an alternative means to combat deforestation and promote sustainable land use has received relatively little attention from the scientific and...

Web Workers: Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript

O'Reilly, 2012

Web Workers is a powerful feature of HTML5 that hasn’t received very much attention. It provides an API that allows you to run JavaScript in a separate thread that doesn’t interfere with the user interface of your web application. This JavaScript runs in parallel with the main renderer and any of your...

Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

The standard second course in computer science has traditionally covered the fun- damental data structures and algorithms, but more recently these topics have been included in the broader topic of abstract data types. This book is no exception, with the main focus on the design, use, and implementation of abstract data types. The...

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