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Hankley, William
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
 
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  Design patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Olsen R., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007. 384 pp.  Type: Book

I generally avoid reviewing a book for which there are already adequate reviews online--such as on Amazon--but this book warrants additional recognition. As other reviewers have noted, the book is not just a reference...

Nov 20 2008  
   Visual representation of Web design patterns for end-users
Díaz P., Aedo I., Rosson M.  Advanced visual interfaces (Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Napoli, Italy, May 28-30, 2008) 408-411, 2008.  Type: Proceedings

The major contribution of this paper is in providing references to background works on patterns for user interaction, and on related work by the authors....

Aug 29 2008  
   Learning patterns of application architecture by looking at code
Sousa P.  Computers (Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, Agios Nikolaos, Crete Island, Greece, Jul 26-28, 2007) 577-582, 2007.  Type: Proceedings

The author, an educator, presents an aid for educators in teaching software patterns. By way of background, he notes that many resources for software patterns present a catalog of patterns. Such catalogs tend to be too abstract and too...

May 15 2008  
  Model-driven architecture in practice: a software production environment based on conceptual modeling
Pastor O., Molina J., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2007. 302 pp.  Type: Book (9783540718673)

The authors of this book seem to assume that the reader knows about model-driven architecture (MDA); they do not directly define this concept. In a general sense, MDA is merely any software architecture that results from starting with ...

May 1 2008  
  Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition
Myatt A., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2007. 472 pp.  Type: Book (9781590597880)

NetBeans is a Java development tool with support for enterprise applications (including Web access, Web services, and database persistence). It can be configured to include common enterprise components (visual components, servers, and ...

Feb 14 2008  
  Development of component-based information systems (Advances in Management Information Systems)
de Cesare S. (ed), Lycett M. (ed), Macredie R. (ed), M.E.Sharpe, 2005. 239 pp.  Type: Book (9780765612489)

This collection provides an overview of the research on, and practical issues of, component-based information systems. It is the second book in the series--not a second volume on components....

Oct 25 2007  
   Distributed middleware architectures for scalable media services
Kalogeraki V., Zeinalipour-Yazti D., Gunopulos D., Delis A. Journal of Network and Computer Applications 30(1): 209-243, 2007.  Type: Article

Even though it does not cover media services, this paper presents an excellent tour of architectures for distributed services. The authors explain and provide appropriate references (52 in total) for four network architectures: a basel...

Jun 12 2007  
   Model checking for design and assurance of e-business processes
Anderson B., Hansen J., Lowry P., Summers S. Decision Support Systems 39(3): 333-344, 2005.  Type: Article

Those dealing with models of business processes, particularly with processes that may be represented as an interaction protocol, are the intended readers of this paper. According to the authors, “the objective of this paper i...

Feb 23 2007  
  Web application security engineering
Meier J. IEEE Security and Privacy 4(4): 16-24, 2006.  Type: Article

The focus of this article, which is written in an informal, conversational style, is on “integrating security throughout the lifecycle.” As such, the paper presents a collection of common suggestions, heuris...

Dec 28 2006  
   Formalizing and validating UML architecture description of Web systems
Fu Y., Dong Z., He X.  Web engineering (Workshop Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Web Engineering, Palo Alto, California, Jul 10-14, 2006) 8-es, 2006.  Type: Proceedings

This paper is from the recent workshop on model-driven Web engineering, which was part of the International Conference on Web Engineering. The paper discusses the concept of mapping an extended unified modeling language (UML) model of ...

Nov 20 2006  
 
 
 
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