Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails...

• Learn how to build scalable, robust, and reliable web applications...

• Learn about the Spring testing framework, stubbing, mocking, and spying dependencies using the Mockito framework and explore its advanced features
• Create an automated...

• Learn about parallel computing by building your own system using...

• Learn about dependency injection with CDI
• Install JBoss Weld in your favorite container
• Develop your own extension to CDI
• Decouple code with CDI events
• Communicate...

• Learn how to create, retrieve, update, and delete the data in a relational database using .NET
• Choose from an array of examples in C# and VB.NET that showcase the key concepts of Entity Framework
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This volume collects almost two decades of joint work of Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell on game dynamics and equilibria. The starting point was the introduction of the adaptive strategy called regret-matching, which on the one hand is simple and natural, and on the other is shown to lead to correlated equilibria. This initial finding...

• Understand and develop using the entity paradigm and entity metadata wrappers
• Create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on all entities
• Programmatically attach fields to entities...

Write code that writes code with Elixir macros. Macros make metaprogramming possible and define the language itself. In this book, you'll learn how to use macros to extend the language with fast, maintainable code and share functionality in ways you never thought possible. You'll discover how to extend Elixir with your own first-class...

• Discover efficient, keyboard-driven text editing
• Recognize the latest...

• Learn the fundamental security models and motivations behind Linux, SELinux, and SE for Android.
• Build and enable current security enhancements from the SE for Android project...

Since the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1942), it has been assumed that innovations typically play a key role in firms’ competitiveness.  This assumption has been applied to firms in both developed and developing countries. However, the innovative capacities and business environments of firms in developing countries are...