GUI bloopers Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web designers

GUI Bloopers looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you ...

 Internet QoS Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service

Guaranteeing performance across the Internet may seem nearlyimpossible, because of an even wider range of variables that can affect and undermine service. But if you're involved in developing and implementing streaming video or voice or other time-sensiti...

 The Art of Science of Digital Compositing Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics

Readership Developers, artists, and creative directors in film and computer graphics special effect, and students in these disciplines. Quotes 17 new case-studies provide in-depth looks at the compositing work done on films such as Chronicles of ...

 Fast SOA

Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expens...

 Effective Prototyping for Software Makers

Much as we hate to admit it, most prototyping practice lacks a sophisticated understanding of the broad concepts of prototyping-and its strategic position within the development process. Often we overwhelm with a high fidelity prototype that designs us in...

  Artificial Intelligence for Games

Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers. The commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI, yet the engineering of AI is often begun late in the development process and is ...

 Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

The field of multidimensional data structures is large and growing very quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of multidimensional point data, object and image-based representations, intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional...

  Computer Organization and Design The Hardware-Software Interface

In addition to thoroughly updating every aspect of the text to reflect the most current computing technology, the third edition *Uses standard 32-bit MIPS 32 as the primary teaching ISA. *Presents the assembler-to-HLL translations in both C and Java. Hi...

 Java Practical Guide for Programmers

If you're an experienced programmer, you already have a rock-solid foundation for learning Java. All you need is a resource that takes your experience into account and explains Java's key principles and techniques in an intelligent, efficient way. Java: ...

 Parallel Programming with MPI

This is the first introductory parallel programming text based on the new Message-Passing Interface (MPI) standard. After reading this book, students, scientists, and engineers should be able to program any parallel system, from networks of workstations t...

 Principles of Transaction Processing for the Systems Professional

Principles of Transaction Processing is a clear, concise guide for anyone involved in developing applications, evaluating products, designing systems, or engineering products. This book provides an understanding of the internals of transaction processing ...

 Jim Blinn's Corner Notation, Notation, Notation

The third entry in the Jim Blinn's Corner series, this is, like the others, a handy compilation of selected installments of his influential column. But here, for the first time, you get the "Director's Cut" of the articles: revised, expanded, and enhanced...

 Database Tuning Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques

Tuning your database for optimal performance means more than following a few short steps in a vendor-specific guide. For maximum improvement, you need a broad and deep knowledge of basic tuning principles, the ability to gather data in a systematic way, a...

 Joe Celko's SQL Puzzles and Answers

In this complete revision and expansion of his first SQL Puzzles book, Joe Celko challenges you with his trickiest puzzles-and then helps solve them with a variety of solutions and explanations. Joe demonstrates the thought processes that are involved in ...

 Developing e-business and architectures A manager's guide

Developing e-Business Systems and Architectures:A Manager's Guide Paul Harmon, Michael Rosen, Michael Guttman Wow-1 read the book on the plane last aight-it's the book lva always wanted to write. You'il want to keep it close at hand. lt is an eminentl...