This book is concerned with concepts in programming languages, issues in their implementation, and how language design affects program development. It is aimed at upper-level undergraduate students and beginning graduate students with some experience in procedural and OO programming. Functional programming experience is claimed to be helpful but non-essential. As a teaching text, it competes with a similarly-named book by Sebesta, a book by (Wilson and) Clark, and others.
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Often a shape looks great on screen using max, but if you want to actually make it in 3d then it’s a bit tricky seeing as we don’t have access to a rapid prototyping machine or a CNC mill, but we do have a laser cutter. So this explains how to turn a 3d studio model into a real thing made up of laminates of card, paper, ply, Perspex whatever you want. This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of 3DS Max an AutoCAD.
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Presenting compelling search results depends critically on understanding what is there to be presented on the first place. Given that the current generation of search engines have a very limited understanding of the query entered by the user, the content returned as a result and the relationship of the two, the opportunities for customizing search results have been limited.
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In this chapter, you’ll learn about OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and how it relates to JavaScript. As an ASP.NET developer, you probably have some experience working with objects, and you may even be familiar with concepts such as inheritance. However, unless you’re already an experienced JavaScript programmer, you probably aren’t familiar with the way JavaScript objects and functions really work. This knowledge is necessary in order to understand how the Microsoft AJAX Library works, and this chapter will teach you the necessary foundations. More specifically, you will learn:
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Blogs are one of Web 2.0’s most interesting and sticky developments; they’ve changed the way users find and interact with content and brands. The online experience was changed when blogs first started becoming popular, and now they’re fast becoming an integral part of many companies’ online marketing initiatives and web presence.
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O MNI B ROKER is an Object Request Broker (ORB) that is compliant to the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification, revision 2.0, as defined in [1] and [2] by the Object Management Group (OMG).
Some highlights of O MNI B ROKER
are:
Full CORBA IDL support
Complete CORBA IDL–to–C++ mapping
Complete CORBA IDL–to–Java mapping
Uses IIOP as native protocol
Dynamic Invocation Interface
Dynamic Skeleton Interface
Interface Repository
Peer–to–Peer communication with nested method invocations
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Since the beginning of the 90’s, organizations had been growing in a rapid way, becoming each more difficult to manage. The organization business cycle changed from 7 years in 1970-1980 to 12-18 months in the 90’s, and is even shorter nowadays. This change, transformed the organization world in a new and complex reality.

To be able to deal with this reality, organizations put a big pressure in the information access and information became the organization most valuable asset. But this asset, information object, as some main characteristics: exists in larges quantities, as many different ways, is very volatile, must have confidentially, must have integrity, must have availability, in resume, can be very difficult to handle.
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Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a ‘second phase’—a new, ‘improved’ Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?
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