Nearly all the computers sold today have a multi-core processor, but only a small number of applications are written to take advantage of the extra cores. Most programmers are playing catch-up. A recent consultation with a group of senior programming engineers revealed the top three hurdles in adopting parallelism: the challenges of porting...

The first major update to Microsoft's state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of...

THE PAST DECADE has seen an increased interest in website performance, with businesses of all sizes realizing that even modest changes in page loading times can have a signifi cant effect on their profi ts. The move toward a faster web has been driven largely by Yahoo! and Google, which have both carried out extensive research on the subject...

The MCSD 70-483 exam is the entry-level Microsoft certification exam for C# developers and this must-have resource offers essential coverage of the exam that will test your competency in C# programming. Each chapter covers one of the core subject domains...

A cloud application platform, Heroku is currently the only approved platform for creating apps within Facebook, and its number of users is growing at rapid pace. However, there are very few books on the market that offer professional-level coverage of this...

Microsoft SharePoint is taking the world by storm. More and more, web designers are being blown along with it — whether they want to be or not. SharePoint is a large, complicated web application. There is a lot of confl icting, confusing (and sometimes just plain bad) advice fl oating around with regard to how to go about customizing...

With more than 90 percent of mobile phones sold in recent years using ARM-based processors, developers are eager to master this embedded technology. If you know the basics of C programming, this guide will ease you into the world of embedded ARM technology. With...