To all appearances, the business of cinema goes on as usual. Yes, movies are being made. The production lines in the studios keep churning out their images. The digital effects specialists stay up late at night to meet endless deadlines. Films open in Berlin or Cannes. Critics write their reviews. People talk about the latest releases at work or...
Managing Time in Relational Databases shows how to make the rich information content of bi-temporal data available to business users, while simplifying the design, maintenance and retrieval of that data. Metadata declarations eliminate the need to directly model temporal data. Temporal data maintenance is isolated in code that...
Programmers are inundated with information about application programming interfaces, or APIs. Yet, while most programmers use APIs and the libraries that implement them in almost every application they write, relatively few create and disseminate new, widely applicable, APIs. Indeed, programmers seem to prefer to “roll their own”...
Computer users spend a lot of time doing simple, mechanical data manipulation
- changing the format of data, checking its validity, finding items with
some property, adding up numbers, printing reports, and the like. All of these
jobs ought to be mechanized, but it's a real nuisance to have to write a specialpurpose
program in a...
Oracle Database Transactions and Locking Revealed provides much-needed information for building scalable, high-concurrency applications and deploy them against the Oracle Database. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Expert Oracle Database Architecture to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how locking...
Learn to design and create video games using the Java programming language and the LibGDX software library. Working through the examples in this book, you will create 12 game prototypes in a variety of popular genres, from collection-based and shoot-em-up arcade games to side-scrolling platformers and sword-fighting adventure games....
Sql server 2005 contains features that constitute the biggest change since the internal server rewrite of SQL Server 7. This is true from both programmability and data model viewpoints. This chapter describes SQL Server 2005 in terms of .NET programmability, SQL:1999 compliance, user-defined types (UDTs), and XML integration to...
This book covers all that is needed to write professional-level cryptographic code. An expanded and improved version of the very well received first edition, it includes approximately 100 pages of new material as well as numerous improvements in the original text.
Text focusing on the practical aspects of cryptography in C and C++,...
Over 50,000 photographers cant be wrong! John and Barbara Gerlach finally write the book their workshop attendees have been asking for!
Digital Nature Photography is a how-to guide for photographers who want to take their work to the next level. Written by professionals with over 20 years experience, the Gerlachs reveal enlightening...
