Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) introduces a new way to program robots in the Windows environment. It attempts to bring some order to the chaos that has marred the field of robotics, at least as far as Windows - based applications are concerned. If it meets its objectives, you will see the emergence of a common standard for robotics software in the next few years. This is potentially…
The multicore revolution is at hand. Parallel processing is no longer the exclusive domain of supercomputers or clusters. The entry - level server and even the basic developer workstation have the capacity for hardware - and software - level parallel processing. The question is what does this mean for the software developer and what impact will it have on the software development process? In t…
The life of the Oracle database programmer is in a state of flux. Oracle Corporation is advancing rapidly into the middle and presentation tiers of the enterprise application with an array of new products and technologies. Perhaps more significantly, with the launch of Oracle 8i, more and more enterprise features are being moved into the database, bringing with them a wealth of new programming …
Professional Oracle Programming is intended for application developers who use Oracle as their database. As such, this book does not devote much space to topics which are primarily of interest to database administrators, such as backup and recovery. Most importantly, this book is designed to help a programmer understand the database issues that can have a direct impact on the operation and perf…
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the nature of the web as a crucial channel for customer service, sales,…
XMPP Powers a w Ide range of applications including instant messaging, multi-user chat, voice and video conferencing, collaborative spaces, real-time gaming, data synchronization, and even search. Although XMPP started its life as an open, standardized alternative to proprietary instant messaging systems like ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger, it has matured into an extremely robust protocol for al…
This course reader has had an interesting evolutionary history that in some ways mirrors the genesis of the C++ language itself. Just as Bjarne Stroustup’s first version of C++ was implemented on top of a C language base, this reader began its life as Eric Roberts’s textbook Programming Abstractions in C (Addison-Wesley, 1998). In 2002-03, Julie Zelenski updated it for use with the C++ pr…
The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applications that go beyond the scope of small example applications. This book is for people coming to Android programming from a variety of backgrounds. If you have been programming iPhone or Mac OS applications in Objective-C, you will find coverage of Android tools and Java language features relevant to Android progr…
ArcGIS is an industry-standard geographic information system from ESRI. This book will show you how to use the Python programming language to create geoprocessing scripts, tools, and shortcuts for the ArcGIS Desktop environment. This book will make you a more effective and efficient GIS professional, by showing you how to use the Python programming language with ArcGIS Desktop to automate geopr…
This book is about ASP.NET AJAX (known in prerelease versions as “Atlas”), a collection of new Microsoft technologies that enables web developers—particularly ASP.NET 2.0 developers—to more easily create web sites with pages that use Ajax. Ajax-style pages provide a richer user interface. Such a page is also more responsive because it can respond immediately to users, and can interact m…
The web application landscape is vast and varied. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Framework— built on top of the mature and robust .NET Framework—is one of the most trusted platforms in the industry. ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s latest addition to the world of ASP.NET providing web developers with an alternative development approach that helps you build web applications with ease. The main goal of th…
On top of the .NET infrastructure sits a high-level abstraction of the operating system, designed to facilitate object-oriented software development. This top tier includes ASP.NET and Windows applications. ASP.NET (with AJAX) is one of the world’s most popular ways to create web applications. Although C# is a standalone programming language, it is my premise that the vast majority of the rea…
Microsoft unveiled the .NET Framework in 2000, and in the decade that followed, it became an extremely popular choice for developing software for Windows. While .NET supports many programming languages, it is most strongly associated with the language designed specifically for the platform: C#. C# has grown considerably since its launch. Each new version enabled new program- ming techniques—C…
The C# programming language (pronounced ‘see sharp’) can be used for many kinds of applications, including web sites, desktop applications, games, phone apps, and command line utilities. C# has been center stage for Windows developers for about a decade now, so when Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would introduce a new1 style of application, optimized for touch-based interaction on table…
Clojure is a dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), with a compelling combination of features: • Clojure is elegant. Clojure’s clean, careful design lets you write programs that get right to the essence of a problem, without a lot of clutter and ceremony. • Clojure is Lisp reloaded. Clojure has the power inherent in Lisp but is not constrained by the history of…
We will begin this chapter by briefly exploring the features that make Clojure compelling: • Elegant, expressive code • Lisp’s powerful notion that code is data • Easy, fast Java interoperability • A sequence library that unifies all kinds of data • Functional programming to encourage reusable, correct code • Concurrency without the pain of manual lock management This list of …
It’s simple, really: if you like Ruby and you like Macs and you want to put the two together, this book is for you. After you read through it...wait, scratch that—after you work through it, you’ll be able to build nice, Mac-like apps. You’ll have the memory of doing, at least once, many of the tasks that make up building a Mac app. Your life will have much less of the “What do I do no…