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Hurst, Angas
Monash University
Clayton, Australia
 
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  Version control with Subversion
Pilato C., Collins-Sussman B., Fitzpatrick B.,  O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008. 430 pp. Type: Book, Reviews: (2 of 2)

I like this book. It is written in a down-to-earth, direct, and helpful style, and it’s just what you need to get going with Subversion (SVN). If you have been putting off learning this latest tool in a long line of version control systems...

Jan 20 2009  
   Dual syntax for XML languages
Brabrand C., Møller A., Schwartzbach M.  Information Systems 33(4-5): 385-406, 2008. Type: Article

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become the lingua franca for many applications requiring platform independent data exchange, as it has the advantage of being both machine parsable and human readable. However, it has been criticized for being ...

Nov 24 2008  
  Building Impress and PowerPoint slides with LaTeX and Perl
Barry P.  Linux Journal 2005(132): 32005. Type: Article

If you’ve ever had to try to convert a document from one form to another, then you will find this paper of interest. The issue addressed here is one of automatically extracting PowerPoint presentation slides from a LaTeX-based source text,...

Sep 20 2005  
  Logical Structure Analysis and Generation for Structured Documents: A Syntactic Approach
Lee K., Choy Y., Cho S.  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15(5): 1277-1294, 2003. Type: Article

Lee, Choy, and Cho describe a system for recovering document structure from document presentation. Given an optically scanned representation of a journal paper, or similar, their system builds a Standard Generalized Markup Language/Extensible...

Sep 13 2004  
  Developing Web Services for C and C++
van Engelen R., Gupta G., Pant S.  IEEE Internet Computing 7(2): 53-61, 2003. Type: Article

The Internet and Web systems in particular have prompted a burgeoning development in software paradigms. Foremost among these is Extensible Markup Language (XML). While XML delivers a number of advantages, it is its use as a message exchange...

Nov 12 2003  
  Perl for Oracle DBAs
Duncan A., Still J.,  O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002. 750 pp. Type: Book

First, a disclaimer. I’m not a database administrator. But if I were, this would have to be my number one choice for a no-nonsense guide. O’Reilly has a strong reputation for books that have a high signal-to-noise ratio, and this is ...

Feb 4 2003  
  Parameter-Free Geometric Document Layout Analysis
Lee S., Ryu D.  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 23(11): 1240-1256, 2001. Type: Article

There are a large number of documents for which electronic form is desirable, but for which no electronic representation is available. While optical character recognition systems have been available for many years, they are generally restricted...

Jul 26 2002  
  An overview of Motorola’s PowerPC simulator family
Anderson W.  Communications of the ACM 37(6): 64-69, 1994. Type: Article

The motivation and design of three simulators built to support the development of the Motorola PowerPC 603 and 604 microprocessors are discussed. Two of these simulators are standalone simulators: one is designed to provide architectural...

Aug 1 1995  
  Solutions Relating Static and Dynamic Machine Code Measurements
Davidson J., Rabung J., Whalley D.  IEEE Transactions on Computers 41(4): 444-454, 1992. Type: Article

The authors give a well-written account of a new perspective on the traditional problem of understanding the nature and behavior of instruction sets. They advance the thesis that static and dynamic frequency counts of instructions are related,...

Mar 1 1994  
  Benchmark Characterization
Conte T., Hwu W.  Computer 24(1): 48-56, 1991. Type: Article

The underlying philosophy of this paper is that benchmarks may be characterized by their performance on an abstract processor model. This abstract model is chosen here to be the architecture defined by the instruction set of the intermediate code ...

Feb 1 1992  
 
 
 
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