In this book, we attempt to bring together the best practices around using Entity Framework in a test-first manner, focusing on the architectural separation of concerns, and testability at all times. Throughout the book, we focus on ways to ensure the best quality of performance from your data layer, providing you with measurable ways to test...
One of the most gripping yet improbable stories spawned by the computer revolution, Hacker Crocker is a classic American-dream success story set on the razor edge of high technology. Ejovi Nuwere takes the reader on the roller-coaster ride of his extraordinary life, from the bullet-riddled, drugged-out streets of one of America's...
YOU CAN BUILD HIGH-QUALITY MOBILE APPS using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And you
can use JavaScript to build the cloud services that support those apps. You don’t need to learn
Objective-C or Java to deliver production-quality iPhone and Android mobile apps.
This book shows you how to use the web development...
Wel come to the Pragmatic Guide to Sass. Sass (Syntactically
Awes o me Style Sheets) enables you to do amazing things
with your style sheets, helping you describe how HTML is
laid out on a web page. Sass is an alternative way of writing
CSS.
In recent times, we have seen increased interest in the direct time domain methods to calculate
electromagnetic scattering/interaction phenomenon. This may be due to the surge in activities
in the areas of EMP, short-pulse radar, or other related applications. It may also be due to the
fact that the time domain methods have several...
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media
on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend
the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing
value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the...
The book is intended to give an introduction to architectural science, to provide
an understanding of the physical phenomena we are to deal with and to provide
the tools for realizing the many good intentions. Many projects in recent
times are claimed to constitute sustainable development, to be sustainable
architecture. But...
This book takes a novel approach to the presentation and understanding of a controversial topic in
modern-day society: hacking. The term hacker was originally used to denote positively-motivated individuals
wanting to stretch the capabilities of computers and networks. In contrast, the term cracker was
a later version of the term,...
I am glad that Richard Siddaway decided to sit down and write a book on WMI. I have
had the privilege of working with Richard over the last several years since becoming
the Microsoft Scripting Guy, and I have long been impressed by his technical prowess.
Whether Richard is speaking at a user group or conference or...
GRAPHS AND GRAPH algorithms are pervasive in modern computing applications. This book describes the most important known methods for solving the graph-processing problems that arise in practice. Its primary aim is to make these methods and the basic principles behind them accessible to the growing number of people in need of knowing them. The...
Line of Business applications. Think about this term for a moment—Line of
Business. Yes, Business. Business means change. Changes are happening faster
than we usually think it is possible. How can we deal with it? With the right set
of knowledge and tools, of course!
For a variety of reasons, the MATLAB®-Java interface was never fully documented. This is really quite unfortunate: Java is one of the most widely used programming languages, having many times the number of programmers and programming resources as MATLAB. Also unfortunate is the popular claim that while MATLAB is a fine...
