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The Encyclopedia of Entomology brings together the expertise of more than 450 distinguished entomologists from 40 countries to provide a worldwide overview of insects and their close relatives. Combining the basic science of an introductory text with accurate, comprehensive detail, the Encyclopedia is a reliable...

Step inside the studios of some of today's top artists, illustrators, designers, and photographers working with digital art tools. Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities allows you one-on-one access to the creative and technical process of professional artists who use Painter in...

The versatile offspring of an extended family of multiple chip companies, today's MIPS chips are everywhere. They power everything from videogames, network routers, laser printers, set-top boxes, and high-performance workstations. This book brings together this extraordinary proliferation of form and functionality, offering embedded...

This volume of Annals of Information Systems will acknowledge the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) by documenting some of the current best practices in teaching and research and envisioning the next twenty years in the decision support systems field. The volume is intended...

The disorganised array of modules available for Moodle are brought together in ways you can relate to. Reviews include details that will help you decide if a module is worth testing. There are illustrated, step-by-step guides to installing and configuring modules. If you are involved in teaching using Moodle, be it at relatively small...

The First International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI) was held in Athens, Greece during October 13–14, 2009, hosted by the National Technical University of Athens. Through what we hope will be a long-lasting series of events, this new international conference aims at bringing together top researchers,...

In 2004, I got involved with BizTalk Server, which pushed me even more into the world of services and XML. I worked with...

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Hi there, and welcome to BlackBerry All-in-One For Dummies. If you already have a BlackBerry, this is a great book to have around when you want to discover new features or need something to use as a reference. If you don’t have a BlackBerry yet and have some basic questions (such as “What is a BlackBerry?” or “How can...

GWT 2 radically improves web experience for users by using existing Java tools to build no-compromise AJAX for any modern browser. It provides a solid platform so that other great libraries can be built on top of GWT. Creating web applications efficiently and making them impressive, however, is not as easy as it sounds. Writing web...

Let’s just look it right in the eye and call it out. We in the IT industries have been barraged with the buzzwords over and over again since we rolled into the new millennium: the transition to utility computing, or grid computing, or cloud computing (depending on the source/exact month/position of the stars in the sky). We’ve...