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Covers important concepts, issues, trends, methodologies, and technologies in quality assurance for model-driven software development.

YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching, no bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step beyond them by bringing our attention to the underlying illnesses that plague the software industry as a whole. Further, Software Exorcism discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging, gives optimization strategies that appeal to all levels of programmers, and presents in-depth treatments of technical issues with honest assessments that are not biased toward proprietary solutions.

This book presents four keynote speeches, eight invited papers and over a hundred papers selected from 180 submissions from more than 25 countries around the world. The contributions investigate applications of computational intelligence and multimedia in various areas, such as artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, evolutionary computations, logic synthesis, fuzzy logic, image processing, image retrieval, virtual reality, etc.

* Includes a complete QuickBasic compiler with source code. We cannot overstress that this is a huge marketing hook. Virtually every experienced programmer today started out with some version of Basic or QuickBasic and has at some point in their career wondered how it worked. The sheer nostalgia alone will generate sales. The idea of having QuickBasic for them to play with (or let their kids play with) will generate sales. * One of a kind book – nothing else comes close to this book. * Demystifies compiler technology for ordinary programmers – this is a subject usually covered by academic books in a manner too advanced for most developers. This book is pitched at a level accessible to all but beginners. * Teaches skills used in many other types of programming from creation of macro/scripting languages to file parsing.

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For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.

This is a special title that will be both technically useful and visually stimulating to the reader.

Cliffs of the Severn was a peaceful haven. It was a perfect setting for a writer like Alice until her friend, Syl, decided to call up an incubus. To make matters worse, Syl signed a contract with the demon's boss. Homicide detective Nick Shea also considered the Cliffs a quiet neighborhood until two dead eagles and a human heart in a take-out container were found in an unfinished septic pit.