Modern society is driven by data. Whether it is at a personal level, like a notebook containing scribbled notes; or at a countrywide level like Census data, it has permeated all our workflows. There is always a growing need to efficiently store and organize it so that meaningful information can be extracted out of raw data.

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My interest in this subject started when I joined the broadcast equipment manufacturer, Chyron. For a few years I was the product manager for their playout automation and asset management product lines. These were one of the first applications that gave television broadcasters the means to manage the ingest, storage, archiving, and...

Finally, there is a top-notch, beginner-level book on Autodesk's Inventor 3D mechanical design software that helps you quickly master the essentials and start designing with confidence. With the skilled instruction of Inventor expert and veteran trainer Thom Tremblay, you'll learn Inventor 2009 in the...

• Create eight different games using HTML5
• Learn essential games development techniques, such as game loop, animations, and browser storage
• Follow the project-based approach to build games from start...

Select Perspective, from Select Business Solutions, is a set of best practices for software development that has evolved over a decade into a world-class component-based development (CBD) process. It is a blend of approaches from several object-oriented methods, improved and adapted to meet the new demands of CBD and Web...

Windows Communication Foundation is the .NET technology that is used to build service-oriented applications, exchange messages in various communication scenarios, and run workflows. This guide enables developers to...

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The...

Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web, desktop, and mobile applications. Integrating Silverlight RIAs in SharePoint 2010 offers amazing opportunities to combine the power and flexibility offered by SharePoint. It is easy to create great user experiences when you have a...