Few entrepreneurs succeed in raising Angel or Venture Capital f i n a n c e . M a n y b u s i n e s s o w n e r s d o n ’ t b o t h e r t o a p p l y knowing that they won’t be successful. Others simply don’t need it and have an operation capable of generating the free cash flow they need to grow their business. Only a very few are able to meet the requirements of the Angel or Ventur…
Flex is a collection of technologies that enables you to rapidly build applications deployed to Flash Player, a run time environment for delivering sophisticated user interfaces and interactivity. Flex leverages existing, matured technologies and standards such as XML, web services, HTTP, Flash Player, and ActionScript. Even though Flex allows you to create complete rich Internet applications, …
The Java platform is arguably one of the most powerful and widely adopted ecosystems today. It has three significant pieces: • The Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which has become increasingly powerful and more performant over the years • The Java Development Kit (JDK), the rich set of third-party libraries and frameworks that help us effectively leverage the power of the platform • The se…
As a busy Java developer, you’re constantly looking for ways to be more productive, right? You’re probably willing to take all the help you can get from the platform and tools available to you. When I wax poetic about the “strength of Java,” I’m not talking about the language or its syntax. It’s the Java platform that has become more capable and more performant. To reap the benefit…
HTML5 makes the Web a first-class environment for creating real applications. It reinforces JavaScript’s existing tool set with key extensions to the browser APIs that make it easier to create applications that feel (and can be) complete in themselves, not just views on some distant server process. The Web began as a way to share files, stored on a web server, that changed only occasionally. …
I started my professional development career in 1999, when I first was paid a salary to be a developer. (I don’t count the few years before that when I was just having fun playing around on the Web.) In 1999 the Web was a scary place. HTML files were loaded down with font and table tags. CSS was just coming on the scene. JavaScript1 was only a few years old, and a battlefield of various imple…
The purpose of this book is to teach solid idiomatic Go programming using all the features the language provides, as well as the most commonly used Go packages from Go’s standard library. The book is also designed to serve as a useful reference once the language is learned. To meet both of these goals the book isquite comprehensiveand triestocover every topic in just one place—and with forw…
Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Laboratories pioneered the C programming language in the early 1970s. However, this programming language did not begin to gain widespread popularity and support until the late 1970s. This was because, until that time, C compilers were not readily available for commercial use outside of Bell Laboratories. Initially, this growth in popularity was also partly spurred by…
Python is probably the easiest-to-learn and nicest-to-use programming language in widespread use. Python code is clear to read and write, and it is con- cise without being cryptic. Python isa very expressive language,which means that we can usually write far fewer lines of Python code than would be required for an equivalent application written in, say, C++ or Java. Python isa cross-platform l…
Harald Ganzinger’s research career spanned over 3 decades during which he made numerous contributions to many areas of computer science, ranging from fundamental theory to low-level implementation techniques. During this time period, he also powerfully influenced many researchers’ lives. He had publications with more than 35 different coauthors from many different countries. In this arti…
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce you to the Mac OS X environment, providing a foundation for understanding the origins of the operating system, how it is structured, and what components it contains. The first two chapters explain how to use and navigate Mac OS X, and introduce you to technologies you will use throughout the book.
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services is an enterprise-ready platform for developing data integration solutions. SQL Server Integration Services provides the ability to extract and load from and to heterogeneous data sources and destina- tions. In addition, it provides the ability for you to easily deploy, manage, and configure these data integration solutions. If you are a data integration…
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) makes the World Wide Web possible. Every website uses HTML to render content, and much of HTML’s popularity derives from its simplicity: with knowledge of just a few concepts, anyone can publish content to the Web. HTML may be a way of life for web developers, but when it comes to creating dynamic, data-driven websites, most developers turn to some kind of too…
Welcome to the exciting, empowering world of home automation! If you have ever wanted your home to do more than just protect you against the outside elements and want to interface it to the digital domain, this book will show you how. By demonstrating several easy-to-build projects, you will be able to take the skills you learned from this book and expand upon and apply them toward custom home …