Authoring a book on mobile development with a title that starts with “Pro” is a daunting task. Put in too
much introductory material and you lose the knowledgeable developer looking to take his application to
the next level. Breeze through key concepts and the cross-platform professional mobile developer may
struggle...
New Orleans should come with a warning label. No,
no, not about hurricanes. Forget that. That’s like
solely identifying San Francisco and Los Angeles
with earthquakes. No, this is about the city itself. See,
there’s this group of residents whom locals call the “never
lefts.” They are the people who...
This text is for MongoDB users who are interested in sharding. It is a comprehensive look at how to set up and use a cluster.
This is not an introduction to MongoDB; I assume that you understand what a document, collection, and database are, how to read and write data, what an index is, and how and why to set up a...
I never got a chance to meet the inventors of Notes®, but these guys were true visionaries. Their
concepts and ideas of 20 years ago still feed today’s buzz. They invented a robust “NO SQL” data
store, provided a social platform with collaboration features, and made the deployment and replication
of applications...
The original goal of the AI field was the construction of “thinking machines”
– that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. Due to the
difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have
focused on what has been called “narrow AI” – the production...
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...
THERE’S A GREAT DEMAND TODAY for mobile content and applications. Many of the leading device
manufacturers and platforms are supporting Adobe Flash Player, and since many of them are also
integrating Adobe AIR directly into the mobile device’s OS, there has never been a better time for
getting to know how to author...
This book is the third in a set of books that address the trading markets. We use the term “trading markets” because that is the most general term we can find for the portion of the financial markets sometimes imprecisely referred to as the securities markets. (We explained these distinctions in Book 1, An Introduction to Trading...
This market-leading text provides a comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics for engineering students in all specialties. Proven, accurate, and lauded for its excellent examples, Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences evidences Jay Devore's reputation as an outstanding author and leader in the...
This book provides an overview of the rapidly growing and developing field of nanotechnology, focusing on key essentials and structured around a robust anatomy of the subject. The newcomer to nanotechnology, who may well have a strong background in one of the traditional disciplines such as physics, mechanical or electrical engineering,...
Since the first edition of "E-learning by Design", e-learning has evolved rapidly and fringe techniques have moved into the mainstream. Underlying and underwriting these changes in e learning are advances in technology and changes in society. The second edition of the bestselling book "E-Learning by Design" offers a...
You see it in every business paper or magazine. You hear it on every financial talk show. You are deluged with “facts” presented as certainty: China will be the number one economy. The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) will continue to outstrip the developed world in growth for decades to come. Emerging markets are...
