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Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer Faces View Definition Framework (Firstpress)

Apress, 2008

Facelets is a templating language developed from the ground up with JavaServer™ Faces (JSF™) in mind. Because Facelets has come about as aresult of many of the concerns with JavaServer™ Pages (JSP™) API when building JSF views, it steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSF-centric view...

Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites (Voices That Matter)

New Riders Publishing, 2007

After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web...

Adaptive and Multilevel Metaheuristics (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2008

One of the keystones in practical metaheuristic problem-solving is the fact that tuning the optimization technique to the problem under consideration is crucial for achieving top performance. This tuning/customization is usually in the hands of the algorithm designer, and despite some methodological attempts, it largely remains a scientific art....

Making Scorecards Actionable: Balancing Strategy and Control

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"The attraction of balanced scorecards is to help translate strategy into the stories, business logic and tasks that grab people's imaginations and so result in purposeful action. Yet, too often, it hasn't worked that way. In a refreshingly honest and pragmatic way, the authors analyse both the successes and failures of companies using...

Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Learn how to transform XP theory into concrete Java® development techniques!

Software developers live by the mantra "evolve or die." Adhering to that philosophy, Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki present you with an innovative book about Extreme Programming (XP)–– a development methodology that...

Mac OS X Leopard Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Get up to speed on Mac OS X Leopard with this in-depth guide

The beauty of Leopard is that there is so much more than meets the eye, including over 300 new enhancements and its ability to run on both Intel PCs and PowerPC Macs. This comprehensive reference is your best guide on how to tame this powerful new cat. You'll find...

Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Apress, 2008

The year 2005 was a traumatic year for the Java web application development community. It was under fire for the unnecessary “fat” architecture of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) systems compared to the new kids on the block like Ruby on Rails and Django. The search began for Java’s answer to these frameworks. I had an...

ExamInsight For CompTIA A+ Operating System Technology Exam 220-232

Total Recall Publications, 2003

Use this compact study guide to pass the interim CompTIA A+ Operating System Technologies exam (220-232), which starts September 12, 2003 and retires once the new 2003 upgrade exam is released. The interim exam scores 2001 objectives and also provides a chance to practice against upcoming 2003 objectives without being scored on them. Throughout...

Computer Sound Design: Synthesis Techniques and Programming (Music Technology)

Focal Press, 2002

This comprehensive introduction to software synthesis techniques and programming is intended for students, researchers, musicians, sound artists and enthusiasts in the field of music technology.

The art of sound synthesis is as important for the electronic musician as the art of orchestration is important for symphonic music...

Java 2D Graphics

O'Reilly, 1999

One weakness of Java has been its graphics capabilities. Java 1.0 and 1.1 only included simple primitives for line drawing: lines could only be one pixel wide, they could only be solid, and there wasn't any good way to draw curves. Font management and color management were also weak. Java 2D (collectively called the "2D API") signals...

Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers (Popular Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

"An excellent, ground breaking book, highly recommended."--Books-On-Line

The American ENIAC is customarily regarded as having been the starting point of electronic computation. This book rewrites the history of computer science, arguing that in reality Colossus--the giant computer built by the British secret service during...

Marketing Through Search Optimization, Second Edition: How People Search and How to be found on the web

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

How to use the Web successfully

This book guides readers through proven techniques for achieving and measuring success in search engine marketing (i.e. how to be the top of the rank), along with a review of the most important search engines and directories.

Explains why and how marketers can and must optimize...

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