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…
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…
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…
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…
You’ve promised the boss that you’ll turn the new powerful multicore pro- cessor into a blazingly fast workhorse for your application. You’d love to exploit the power on hand and beat your competition with a faster, responsive application that provides great user experience. Those gleeful thoughts are interrupted by your colleague’s cry for help—he’s run into yet another syn- chroni…
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…