In a series of recent writings we have sought to re-open a debate over the economics of socialism. We have argued that the collapse of the Soviet system does not necessitate the conclusion that all forms of socialist economy are doomed to inefficiency. Updating and extending a line of reasoning found in Lange (1967) and Johansen (1977),1 we have claimed that modern information technology permit…
There was a time when by the "new economics" was meant the Keynesian economics, which was notable as a response to the depression of the 1930s. The new onomics that is struggling to grow today is something very different. It constitutes our response to a new set of problems which was only dimly perceived earlier, but has steadily grown in urgency over the last quarter of this century. It attem…
Modern web applications represent the new way to write software. Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia are some well-known examples of such applications. They run on servers, and users can access them with a browser via either desktop or mobile devices. We refer to these as “modern” applications because they combine a rich user interface with real-time interaction and the capability to connect w…
Building functional Oracle Application Express (APEX) application is relatively easy. APEX provides many features out-of-the-box that help developers build good applications. APEX also provides footholds that allow the developer to extend the product with third-party code, producing more polished applications that users feel confident using. A stand-out example of this extensibility are plug-in…
vCenter Operations Manager, also known as vC Ops, is a VMware product that allows IT administrators to monitor their virtual environments in the most efficient way. It also aids in design and capacity planning. vC Ops allows us administrators and IT managers to have visibility into our entire virtual infrastructure and goes beyond the simple alarms and performance charts offered in vCenter Serv…
The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applica- tions 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 pro…
If I wanted my server to accept many concurrent connections, the common solution was to use threads, and soon I had created my fi rst multi-threaded TCP server. This server accessed a shared data structure, which needed to synchronize the access to all the client threads that had been spawned. Getting the synchronization fi ne-grained (to maximize resources and time) and right (to avoid deadloc…