As we progress into the second decade of the 21st century, it’s becoming increasingly
obvious how the computers of the previous 30 years have begun to look not just old but archaic.
The massive CRT monitors of the 1980s and 1990s have given way to pencil-thin displays of the
2000s. The...
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that the
World Wide Web has to offer.
Our goal in developing the New Perspectives Series was to create books that give students
the software concepts...
In the current fast-paced and constantly changing business environment, it is more important than ever for organizations to be agile, monitor business performance, and meet with increasingly stringent compliance requirements. Written by pioneering consultants and bestselling authors with track records of international success, The...
Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs, first published in 1980, has become the classic introduction to the field. This new Annals edition continues to convey the message that intersection graph models are a necessary and important tool for solving real-world problems. It remains a stepping stone from which the reader may embark on one...
Nginx is an open source high-performance web server, which has gained quite some
popularity recently. Due to its modular architecture and small footprint, it has been the default
choice for a lot of smaller Web 2.0 companies to be used as a load-balancing proxy server. It
supports most of the existing backend web protocols such as FCGI,...
Open Source software efforts are organized in a variety of different ways. Some of them are driven primarily by a single commercial organization. Others, like Linux, are a result of a diverse contribution of many individuals and organizations and are often led by a "benevolent dictator". The Sakai community fits neither of these...
The term photorealistic is thrown around a lot and is often undefined. Although it seems obvious—photorealistic means something looks like a photo—the word requires a greater explanation. There are many facets to photorealism. This is true because as a CG artist, you have control over everything. Achieving 100 percent realism...
The world of enterprise routing with Juniper Networks devices is getting very
exciting—new technologies, products, and network developments are making the enterprise
network environment one of the most dynamic places to be. However, we, the
authors, hope to focus that energy by providing you with a detailed and practical...
Before you dive into this book, I would like to first extend my warm welcome to you
as you enter the world of XOOPS. XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented
Portal System. It is an open-source application platform and Content Management
System (CMS) written in PHP. It is built for developing a variety of solutions...
All students interested in researching the Internet are living in very interesting and
exciting times. From the Internet’s beginning in the 1960s up to the present day,
the Internet has grown to become a vast platform where there are now 2 billion
users of this global infrastructure.1 Predictions are that this number will rise to...
The main objective of a first course in operating systems is to develop an
understanding of the fundamental concepts and techniques of operating systems.
Most of the students are already exposed to diverse information on operating systems
as a result of practical exposure to operating systems and literature on the
Internet; such...
