June 30, 2011
Oil Sands Debate – Is Development Ultimately Irreconcilable with the Environment?
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From Idea to Web Start-Up in 21 Days (Paperback) $19.3 Once upon a Time, Starting a Business meant months of researching, refining business goals and writing business plans, talking to investors and banks, negotiating for loans, and raising money. But today, agile web development practices mean that you ca… |
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The Complete Idiot`s Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Paperback) $16.31 ? New content on developing social media and web strategies ? More than 120 documents-available at idiotsguides.com-offer time- saving ideas as well as bonus chapters |
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Web Development Recipes (Paperback) $21.72 You`ll see a full spectrum of cutting-edge web development techniques, from UI and eye candy recipes to solutions for data analysis, testing, and web hosting. Make buttons and content stand out with simple cross-browser styles; do animations that work on mobile devices without plugins; build and test HTML emails; and build a flexible layout that works on desktops and mobile devices. You`ll use the Backbone and Knockout JavaScript frameworks to build responsive user interfaces, and you`ll learn how tools like CoffeeScript and Sass offer better ways to develop and maintain your client-side code. You`ll write tests for your code that run in multiple web browsers, use Git to keep track of your work, and even get a little one-on-one time with the Apache web server. Whether you`re new to front-end development, or you`ve got a few years of experience, you`ll become a more versatile developer by finding out how–and why–to use these solutions in your next web development project.What You Need: Your favorite text editor, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or higher, Google Chrome or Safari, and a working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. |
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Agile Web Development With Rails (Paperback) $23.87 Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It`s a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that`s recommended by the Rails core team. If you`re new to Rails, you`ll get step-by-step guidance. If you`re an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need. Rails has evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. We still start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. This edition now gives new Ruby and Rails users more information on the Ruby language and takes more time to explain key concepts throughout. Best practices on how to apply Rails continue to change, and this edition keeps up. Examples use cookie backed sessions, HTTP authentication, and Active Record-based forms, and the book focuses throughout on the right way to use Rails. Additionally, this edition now reflects Ruby 1.9, a new release of Ruby with substantial functional and performance improvements. |
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Software Measurement And Estimation $97.2 Practical Estimation in Software Engineering is a practical guide to metrics and quantitative software estimation. The book begins with the foundations of measurement and metrics, and then focuses on techniques and tools for estimation of the required effort and the resulting quality of a software project. The factors that impact the estimations are also examined, so that readers can continually improve their estimations, based upon adjusting the characteristics of a project, to complete a project on-time, on budget, and with the required quality. The book includes numerous examples to illustrate how to use the tools and methodologies to solve real problems. |
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Exploring the Web $57.45 Exploring the Web presents a unique, comprehensible treatment of the Web, from its foundations to cutting-edge technologies and applications. The work goes beyond a major web development by demonstrating how the Semantic Web facilitates joint interaction between human beings and machines. In a well-written, user-friendly, and systematic exposition, motivated by numerous easy-to-understand diagrams and hands-on examples, the four parts of the book examine the principles underlying web design, the technologies that support its operations, and a host of web applications. Starting with web fundamentals and XML explained in terms of objects and processes, the reader is then introduced to Web Services and its supporting standards. Later chapters are devoted to the Semantic Web: Resource Description Language (RDF), Web Ontology Language, (OWL), and the Visual Semantic Web (ViSWeb). The concluding chapters treat an array of applications, interactively intertwining theory and practice.Additional Features:Provides a comprehensive view of the Web using the expressive power of Object-Process Methodology (OPM) and its freely downloadable tool from www.ObjectProcess.org Enables readers to construct intuitive diagrams that translate to natural language in real time Covers such applications as e-commerce, biotechnology, bioinformatics, medicine, and e-government Contains a comprehensive bibliography and index Offers a wealth of supplementary enhancements and resources at the author`s website: http://ie.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/dori.phtml This work targets researchers and professionals working in web areas that affect software engineering, systems architecture, analysis and design methods, and modeling and simulation, making the book relevant to developers of various domains. It is also designed www.ObjectProcess.org for advanced undergraduates and graduates in courses such as Web Services, Web technologies, Semantic Web, Analysis and Design of Web-based Systems, and Modeling |
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Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory $100.82 The respected classic, now in a handy paperback edition Originally published in 1968, Harry Van Trees’s Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part III is one of the great time-tested classics in the field of signal processing. Highly readable and practically organized, it is as imperative today for professionals, researchers, and students in optimum signal processing as it was over thirty years ago.Part III focuses on radar-sonar signal processing and Gaussian signals in noise. The following topics are covered in detail: Detection of Gaussian signals in white Gaussian noise General binary detection: Gaussian processes Estimation of the parameters of a random process The radar-sonar problem Parameter estimation: slowly fluctuating point targets Doppler-spread targets and channels Range-spread targets and channels Doubly-spread targets and channels The results are still largely applicable to current systems.For students in signal processing or professionals looking for a reliable refresher course, Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part III provides authoritative, practical coverage by one of the most renowned figures in the field. Part III also provides necessary background for Optimum Array Processing, Part IV of Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory. |
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Bayesian Estimation and Tracking (Hardcover) $108.2 This book presents a practical approach to estimation methods that are designed to provide a clear path to programming all algorithms. Readers are provided with a firm understanding of Bayesian estimation methods and their interrelatedness. Starting with fundamental principles of Bayesian theory, the book shows how each tracking filter is derived from a slight modification to a previous filter. Such a development gives readers a broader understanding of the hierarchy of Bayesian estimation and tracking. Following the discussions about each tracking filter, the filter is put into block diagram form for ease in future recall and reference. The book presents a completely unified approach to Bayesian estimation and tracking, and this is accomplished by showing that the current posterior density for a state vector can be linked to its previous posterior density through the use of Bayes` Law and the Chapman-Kolmogorov integral. Predictive point estimates are then shown to be density-weighted integrals of nonlinear functions. The book also presents a methodology that makes implementation of the estimation methods simple (or, rather, simpler than they have been in the past). Each algorithm is accompanied by a block diagram that illustrates how all parts of the tracking filter are linked in a never-ending chain, from initialization to the loss of track. These filter block diagrams provide a ready picture for implementing the algorithms into programmable code. In addition, four completely worked out case studies give readers examples of implementation, from simulation models that generate noisy observations to worked-out applications for all tracking algorithms. This book also presents the development and application of track performance metrics, including how to generate error ellipses when implementing in real-world applications, how to calculate RMS errors in simulation environments, and how to calculate Cramer-Rao lower bounds for the RMS errors. These a |
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