Automating FileMaker Pro Scripting, Calculations and Data Transfer

Are you a FileMaker Pro developer? An administrator? A user? No matter what your role, no matter how you depend on FileMaker Pro, this is the book you need if you want to save time, money, and frustration by automating routine tasks and making your databa...

 A Practical Guide to SysML The Systems Modeling Language

Systems engineers and architects must understand how all the parts of a system work together to satisfy its requirements. SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, softwa...

 Network Processor Design Issues and Practice - volume 1

More than a proceedings, Network Processors 2002: Design Principles and Practices presents the results of this workshop. The workshop participants have enhanced and edited their original papers to address the comments they received from colleagues. The ke...

 Learning Processing A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

Key Features A friendly start-up guide to Processing, the visual artist's free, open-source alternative to expensive software and daunting programming languages. No previous experience required-this book is for the true programming beginner! Step-b...

 JDBC: Practical Guide for Java Programmers

JDBC: Practical Guide for Java Programmers is the quickest way to gain the skills required for connecting your Java application to a SQL database. Practical, tutorial-based coverage keeps you focused on the essential tasks and techniques, and incisive exp...

 Data Mining Concepts and Techniques

Here's the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques equips you with a sound understanding of data mining principles and teaches you proven me...

 GUI bloopers Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web designers

GUI Bloopers looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you ...

 Internet QoS Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service

Guaranteeing performance across the Internet may seem nearlyimpossible, because of an even wider range of variables that can affect and undermine service. But if you're involved in developing and implementing streaming video or voice or other time-sensiti...

 The Art of Science of Digital Compositing Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics

Readership Developers, artists, and creative directors in film and computer graphics special effect, and students in these disciplines. Quotes 17 new case-studies provide in-depth looks at the compositing work done on films such as Chronicles of ...

 Fast SOA

Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expens...

 Effective Prototyping for Software Makers

Much as we hate to admit it, most prototyping practice lacks a sophisticated understanding of the broad concepts of prototyping-and its strategic position within the development process. Often we overwhelm with a high fidelity prototype that designs us in...

  Artificial Intelligence for Games

Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers. The commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI, yet the engineering of AI is often begun late in the development process and is ...

 Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

The field of multidimensional data structures is large and growing very quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of multidimensional point data, object and image-based representations, intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional...

  Computer Organization and Design The Hardware-Software Interface

In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology, the third edition *Uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA. *Presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java. Hi...

 Java Practical Guide for Programmers

If you're an experienced programmer, you already have a rock-solid foundation for learning Java. All you need is a resource that takes your experience into account and explains Java's key principles and techniques in an intelligent, efficient way. Java: ...