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Pro Hadoop
Pro Hadoop
440 pages | Apress; 1 edition (June 22, 2009) | 1430219424 | PDF | 4 Mb
You’ve heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte–scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it’s been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it’s completely open source (thus free). But what exactly is it, and more importantly, how do you even get a Hadoop cluster up and running?
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Pro Android
Pro Android
464 pages | Apress; 1 edition (June 22, 2009) | 1430215968 | PDF | 9 Mb
Pro Android is the first book that includes coverage of the new Google Android 1.5 SDK (including the branch formerly called Cupcake). This essential book covers the fundamentals of building applications for embedded devices thru through to advanced concepts, such as, custom 3D components.
Takes a pragmatic approach to developing Google Android applications.
Examines the Android Virtual Device; the Input-Method Framework, special development considerations for touch screen vs. keyboard/traditional input, Voice Recognition, and Live Folders,
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Pro Linux System Administration
Pro Linux System Administration
1080 pages | Apress; 1 edition (June 22, 2009) | 1430219122 | PDF | 48 Mb
We can all be Linux experts, provided we invest the time in learning the craft of Linux administration. Pro Linux System Administration makes it easy for small to medium–sized businesses to enter the world of zero–cost software running on Linux and covers all the distros you might want to use, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS. Authors, and systems infrastructure experts James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, and Dennis Matotek take a layered, component–based approach to open source business systems, while training system administrators as the builders of business infrastructure.
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Network Science: Theory and Applications
Network Science: Theory and Applications
512 pages | Wiley (March 11, 2009) | 0470331887 | PDF | 5 Mb
The first comprehensive book on the emerging field of network science, Network Science: Theory and Applications is an exhaustive review of terms, ideas, and practices in the various areas of network science. In addition to introducing theory and application in easy-to-understand, topical chapters, this book describes the historical evolution of network science through the use of illustrations, tables, practice problems with solutions, case studies, and applications to related Java software. Researchers, professionals, and technicians in engineering, computing, and biology will benefit from this overview of new concepts in network science.
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Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis
Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet: Modeling and Analysis
290 pages | Wiley (August 17, 2009) | 0470770651 | PDF | 3 | Mb
Learn how to provide seamless, high quality multimedia for the wireless Internet
This book introduces the promising protocols for multimedia services and presents the analytical frameworks for measuring their performance in wireless networks. Furthermore, the book shows how to fine-tune the parameters for Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in order to illustrate the effect that QoS has upon the stability, integrity and growth of next generation wireless Internet. In addition, the authors provide the tools required to implement this understanding.
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Digital Signal Processing: World Class Designs
Digital Signal Processing: World Class Designs
456 pages | Newnes (March 12, 2009) | 1856176231 | PDF | 3 Mb
All the design and development inspiration and direction an digital engineer needs in one blockbuster book! Kenton Williston, author, columnist, and editor of DSP DesignLine has selected the very best digital signal processing design material from the Newnes portfolio and has compiled it into this volume. The result is a book covering the gamut of DSP design?from design fundamentals to optimized multimedia techniques?with a strong pragmatic emphasis.
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Theoretical Numerical Analysis: A Functional Analysis Framework
Theoretical Numerical Analysis: A Functional Analysis Framework
600 pages | Springer; 3rd ed. edition (June 5, 2009) | 1441904573 | PDF | 4 Mb
This textbook prepares graduate students for research in numerical analysis/computational mathematics by giving to them a mathematical framework embedded in functional analysis and focused on numerical analysis. This helps the student to move rapidly into a research program. The text covers basic results of functional analysis, approximation theory, Fourier analysis and wavelets, iteration methods for nonlinear equations, finite difference methods, Sobolev spaces and weak formulations of boundary value problems, finite element methods, elliptic variational inequalities and their numerical solution, numerical methods for solving integral equations of the second kind, and boundary integral equations for planar regions.
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Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers
Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers
480 pages | Wrox (April 6, 2009) | 0470374950 | PDF | 6 Mb
This definitive guide examines how to take advantage of the new Agile methodologies offered when using Ruby on Rails (RoR). You’ll quickly grasp the RoR methodology by focusing on the RoR development from the point of view of the beginner- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you’ll get a reliable roadmap for migrating your applications, skill set, and development processes to the newer, more agile programming platform that RoR offers.
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Ruby on Rails Bible
Ruby on Rails Bible
624 pages | Wiley (October 6, 2008) | 0470258225 | PDF | 6 Mb
Thanks to the explosive growth in popularity of the Rails framework, the equally popular Ruby programming language now has a great place to hang its hat. The powerful combination of the two provides the perfect toolset to create Web applications that feature concise code, clean syntax, and easy maintenance. This must-have book is your best guide on how to jump on the RoR bandwagon—from the basics of Ruby programming to advanced techniques for experienced Rails developers.
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Essential JavaFX
Essential JavaFX
360 pages | Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (June 11, 2009) | 0137042795 | PDF | 3 Mb
A complete introduction for beginners to Sun's powerful JavaFX scripting language
JavaFX is a scripting language which provides built-in properties for manipulating objects within a 2D coordinate system. A competing technology to Microsoft's Silverlight, JavaFX provides the tools to fill and pen stroke colors, and create special effects, shapes and lines. It also manipulates images and play videos and sound and defines animations that affect objects over time. This complete introduction for any level doesn't bury you with details.
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Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine
Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the
Java Virtual Machine
250 pages | Pragmatic Bookshelf (July 28, 2009) | 193435631X | PDF | 2 Mb
The increasing popularity and availability of multicore processors is creating a whole new set of challenges--although you can enjoy true concurrency, you're now faced with higher contention and synchronization issues.
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Problems on Algorithms
Problems on Algorithms
192 pages | Prentice Hall; 1st edition (February 8, 1995) | 0134335589 | PDF | 2 Mb
With approximately 600 problems and 35 worked examples, this supplement provides a collection of practical problems on the design, analysis and verification of algorithms.
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Confessions of an IT Manager
Confessions of an IT Manager
316 pages | Red gate books (April 6, 2009) | 1906434190 | PDF | 6 Mb
Phil Factor is a legend in his own runtime. Scurrilous, absurd, confessional and scathing by turns, Confessions of an IT Manager targets the idiocy, incompetence and overreach of the IT management industry from vantage point all the way up and down the greasy pole.
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Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
208 pages | Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (May 19, 2008) | 1598635158 | PDF | 10 Mb
Get ready to maximize all the dynamic features of Microsoft Office on your Mac with "Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac!"
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Classical Fourier Analysis
Classical Fourier Analysis
489 pages | Springer; 2nd ed. edition (October 6, 2008) | 0387094318 | PDF | 2 Mb
The primary goal of this text is to present the theoretical foundation of the field of Fourier analysis. This book is mainly addressed to graduate students in mathematics and is designed to serve for a three-course sequence on the subject.
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