Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build & Manage XML Applications in Java, C, C++ & PL/SQL

The Complete Idiot's Guide to iPad and iPhone App Development

Alpha, 2010

One of the principles to keep in mind when developing iPad and iPhone apps is designing for short bursts of activity. Think about how you use your own mobile device. Likely, you open an app, use it for a spell, and close it. This book is written using the same philosophy. Each chapter is bite-size, and exercises never span more than one...

Understanding Consciousness: Second Edition

Routledge, 2009

Consciousness is personal. Indeed it is so close to the core of our being that it has puzzled thinkers from the beginnings of recorded history. What is it? What does it do? How does it relate to the physical world and to the workings of our bodies and brains? At the dawn of the new millennium answers to these questions are beginning to emerge....

Access Technologies: Dsl and Cable (Executive Briefings in Key Technologies)

McGraw-Hill, 2001

At the end of 2005, the Reporting Services development team had some tough decisions to make. Unlike most of the SQL Server development team, who had been working on the 2005 release for close to five years, it had only been a year and a half since we shipped the first version of Reporting Services. In that same timeframe, we shipped two service...

$Digital Typography Using LaTeX$

Digital Typography Using LaTeX

Springer, 2002

This book explores a great number of concepts, methods, technologies, and tools-in oneword resources-that apply to various domains of typeselling. These resources have been developed and are used by the members of a very special community of people, which is also a community of very special people: the TEX community. To understand the motivation...

A functional pattern system for object-oriented design (Schriftenreihe Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik)

Kovac, 1999

A number of people directly or indirectly influenced my work and I amgrateful for their contributions.

Norbert Ihrig made my early years in school a worthwhile experience and without him my way would have been much harder.

Gregor Snelting proposed an interesting master thesis to me and, thus, opened...

Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)

CRC Press, 2018

Imagine you’ve received a large spreadsheet with messy but important data, and you know it’s got a story to tell. You spend lots of time cutting and pasting, writing formulas, and data “cleaning.” One problem you’re fixing is multiple versions of the same company’s name: XYZ, XYZ Inc., X...