Have you ever set foot in the kitchen with a certain hunger and found that you had no clue
as to how to make that dish? At such a time a cookbook is a wonderful thing. That's why I
appreciate this concept of a cookbook for workflows and services. At Microsoft when we build
products they are often chocked full of little known...
Over the past decade, regular expressions have experienced a remarkable rise in popularity.
Today, all the popular programming languages include a powerful regular expression
library, or even have regular expression support built right into the language.
Many developers have taken advantage of these regular...
My professional coding career has gone from large to small in a variety of ways. I
started on 3279 terminals at IBM, and with each professional move (from Ericsson to
Travelocity and others) I went to smaller machines and smaller companies. Now I
work on computers you can fit in your pocket and at a company of one:...
Social media is one of the most remarkable developments of the Internet revolution. One need look no further than Egypt, the United Kingdom, the United States, Syria, or Libya to view the influence that online communities have had in the political sphere. Now, this power has come to the business world, specifically the marketplace for equity...
Compared to many clinical methods and procedures,
electrocardiography is not particularly
new. The first human electrocardiogram was
recorded by Dr Augustus Desiré Waller in 1887.
Since that time, the development of electrocardiography
was not uniform. Several waves of
advancement of the physiologic understanding...
Brachytherapy is the clinical use of radioactive isotopes to provide a highly conformal image-guided radiation therapy that takes advantage of the steep fall off dose characteristics and different energetic emanations to improve the therapeutic ratio. Historically it was the first mode of radiation therapy. The last...
Examine the challenges of 4G in the light of impending and crucial future communication needs, and review the lessons learned from an implementation and system operation perspective with an eye towards the next generation – 5G. You'll investigate key changes and additions to 5G in terms of use cases. You'll also learn about the...
Ignoring the big data hype and diving right into the value proposition, Big Data, Big Innovation takes a long, hard look at making sure that businesses don't stray off course when chasing innovation. It focuses on real-world goals, strategies...
Demonstrates the advantages of catalytic cascade reactionsfor synthesizing natural products and pharmaceuticals
Riding the wave of green chemistry, catalytic cascade reactionshave become one of the most active research areas in organicsynthesis. During a cascade reaction, just one reaction solvent,one workup procedure, and...
Enter a world of hardcore back-end, server-side enterprise programming on the .NET platform. This book presents some of the important aspects of the C++/CLI language that often become a barrier preventing programmers from exploring further. The C++/CLI Primer is a powerful but compact book that will guide you through that...
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...
