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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Author Martin Kleppmann
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational data....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Author Christina Banou
Re-Inventing the Book: Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry chronicles the significant changes that have taken place in the publishing industry in the past few decades and how they have altered the publishing value chain and the structure of the ind....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Apek Mulay
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in "Cramming more components onto Integrated Circuits" in Electronics Magazine (April 19, 1965), made the observation that, in the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approx....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Chris Fehily
This essential companion to Apple's third-generation iPad will take you from setting up the trim tablet to reading ebooks to streaming videos to your TV. You'll learn how to set up a Wi-Fi and 4G connection, chat with family and friends with iMessage, read your fa....
Release Date 2012/05 -
A Librarian’s Guide on How to Publish
Author Ivanka Stricevic , Srecko Jelusic
A Librarian’s Guide on How to Publish discusses the publishing strategies needed for the development of skills that are essential for successful job requirements and the production of quality print and electronic publications. The book serves as a useful guide indic....
Release Date 2011/03 -
EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders
Author Elizabeth Castro
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with f....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ iPad™
Author Lonzell Watson
An ideal, visual guide for the image-driven iPadWhether your interests veer towards movies, games, books, or music—the iPad is the computing device for dazzling graphics, crisp and clear audio, and effortless portability. If ever there existed a device that demanded....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Wallace Wang
My New iPad guides you through dozens of simple projects that will have you doing useful things with your iPad right away—like surfing the Internet, sending email, listening to music, taking notes, reading ebooks, using iWork, and playing with digital photos. Since ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
A Practical Guide to Testing Wireless Smartphone Applications
Author Julian Harty
Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively. Many people have limited their testing efforts to hands-on testing of an application on a few physical handsets, and they have to repeat the process every time a new ver....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Author Robert C. Martin
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Rober....
Release Date 2008/08 -
Author Kathy Sierra , Bert Bates , Elisabeth Robson , Eric Freeman
What’s so special about design patterns?At any given moment, someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. And, chances are, someone else has already solved your problem. This edition of Head First Design Patterns—now updated for Java 8—shows yo....
Release Date 2004/10