Thinking in terms of facts and rules is perhaps one of the most common
ways of approaching problem definition and problem solving both in everyday
life and under more formal circumstances. The best known set of rules, the
Ten Commandments have been accompanying us since the times of Moses;
the Decalogue proved to be simple but...
The idea of a writing a book about Android development can be somewhat futile at
times, considering the pace at which Android continues to expand, morph, and
change. What started out as a book project a few years ago has now become a series of
updates to the original work with the page count nearly double the original project—...
Under mandate of Section 253, Study and Report on
Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology
Program Changes, of the Fiscal Year 2002 National
Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 107-107; U.S.
Congress, 2001), the U.S. Air Force contracted with
the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct the
present study. In response,...
Unless you have been off on a digital-free holiday, you’ve heard a lot of chatter about HTML5. As a web
professional, it is apparent that having an understanding of HTML5 is not only beneficial—it’s essential.
The future of the Web has radically changed course in the last few years from XHTML to HTML5, which
means...
KINEMATICS is a branch of dynamics that studies aspects of motion apart from considerations of masses and forces. Essentially, Kinematics is a collection of vector/matrix methods to describe positions, velocities and accelerations of particles and rigid bodies, as viewed from various reference frames. The sub- eld of Particle Kinematics...
Google AdWords is a huge opportunity for businesses and other organizations
to improve their results from Google search, to increase sales, to try
out new business ideas, and in general to make the Web friendlier.
However, it’s also a way to spend money without realizing much return.
Helping you to use AdWords effectively from...
Few technical lerms have gained such rapid notoriety as the appela
tion "NP-complete." In the short lime since its introduction in the early
1970's, this term has come to symbolize the abyss of inherent intractability
that algorithm designers increasingly face as they seek to solve larger and
more complex problems. A...
Smashing WordPress Themes is all about making your WordPress site look beautiful. But, the beautiful part is a very personal thing, because we all have different preferences. So in essence, my book isn’t on Web design, but rather about giving you, dear reader, the tools to build the kind of site that you want to create, using WordPress...
Welcome to the second edition of Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible. Like all books in the Bible series, you can expect to find both hands-on tutorials and real-world information, as well as reference and background information that provides a context for what you are learning. This book is a fairly comprehensive resource on the...
The so-called “green wave”, triggered by a growing ecological awareness, has resulted in
an increased interest in herbal formulations throughout the world, particularly in the last
decade. The consumption of medicinal plants has almost doubled in the West during that
period. The efficacy of a number of herbal formulations...
Given Apple’s advertising budget and ubiquitous ads, plus an enormous amount of media attention, it’s still difficult to determine just what an iPad is. Is it a media player or a business machine? Does it replace a laptop? There are other tablet computers on the market, as well as “netbooks” that act like...
With all the fantastic Cisco documentation available online, why does the world of
UCCE need this book? UCCE is such a big topic that it would be easy to think that it is
possible to try and cover absolutely everything. Unfortunately, this would turn this book
into nothing more than a product reference manual that could potentially be...
