If a tree falls in the forest, and there s nobody there to hear, does it make a sound? This classic conundrum was coined by George Berkeley (1685-1753), the Bishop and influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective id ...
C in A Nutshell
Learning a language--any language--involves a process wherein you learn to rely less and less on instruction and more increasingly on the aspects of the language you ve mastered. Whether you re learning French, Java, or C, at some point you ll set aside the tutorial and attempt to co ...
Overview of component creation
This chapter provides an overview of component design and the process of writing
components for Delphi applications. The material here assumes that you are familiar
with Delphi and its standard components.
• Class library
• Components and classes
• Cr ...
Imagine that you are a web developer (which is probably not a stretch if you are reading
this book) and you are being encouraged to add some Ajax features to a site you’re
working on. Maybe the originator of this request is your boss or your boss’s boss, who is
not even sure what Ajax is, let alon ...
The all mighty mouse: you can have more memory, you can have blue-ray discs but you are still using the mouse (and the keyboard) to control your computer.
The mouse pointer lets you select objects on the screen and operate on them. What and how you operate with the mouse is pretty simple: there s a ...
Because WDM networks are circuit switched loss networks blocking may occur because of lack of resources. Also in circuit switched networks many paths use the same links. This toolbox answers the question how different paths with different loads influence on each other and what is the blocking on eac ...
This article discusses some issues that a typical Windows C++ programmer will encounter when approaching
Symbian OS for the first time. Our experience in developing for three successive versions of Symbian OS has
given us considerable perspective on what can be difficult when working in this otherwi ...
Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition, sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements with an eye toward today s agile development environments. In this total update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer want ...
The Kalman filter is an efficient recursive filter that estimates the state of a linear dynamic system from a series of noisy measurements. It is used in a wide range of engineering applications from radar to computer vision, and is an important topic in control theory and control systems engineerin ...
This is a book about a revolution that quietly began a few years ago.
It is about change in a function that you may not have given much
thought to: your payment function. It may not be very different
today from what it was 5 or 10 years ago. But here’s a guarantee:
It will be very different 5 or 10 ...
