This poetry collection reflects the new poetry stemming from a major change in the author’s personal life. Parentheses were the perfect vehicle to combine two poems into one. Two worlds confronting each other, even at the language level – because English is not Daniela Marin’s native language. And yet, this wave of poetry crashed into her bearing these English words, with their particular sound, music, and flow. With or without sound, this certain rhythm transformed the poet’s previous sty...

As the future of software development in a global environment continues to be influenced by the areas of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing, many legacy applications will need to migrate these environments to take advantage of the benefits offered by the service environment. Migrating Legacy Applications: Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Environments presents a closer look at the partnership between service oriented architecture and cloud...

Home Remembers Me: Medicine Poems from em claireis a collection of over ninety, awe-inspiring poems selected specifically for anyone in need of comfort, courage, and most of all: hope. Aimed at facilitating deep healing, the poetry offers companionship in times of crisis, taking us by the hand and, poem by poem, leading us out of the darkness and into the light.Silently read or memorized and used as mantra; written down and carried as a personal talisman; given as a gift, or shared aloud, ...

Software Engineering provides the software engineering fundamentals, principles and skills needed to develop and maintain high quality software products. The software engineering processes and techniques covered include requirements specification, design, implementation, testing and management of software projects. This book is modeled on the recommendations and guidelines prescribed in the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) published by the IEEE ...

A long time ago, an emperor from China wanted to put on display in his palace the most beautiful painting in the world. He asked the best weaver-masters from the country to produce the finest silk fabric and mount it into a frame. Then, after a long and rigorous selection, he chose a young painter to create the masterpiece to be displayed in the throne room.The painter apologized, saying he wasn't ready for the assignment. He needed more time to improve his technique. So he left th...

The book “Handbook of Cloud Computing” provides the latest and in-depth information of this relatively new and another platform for scientific computing which has great possibilities and high future prospects to become ten folds in near future. The book covers in comprehensive manner all aspects and terminologies associated with cloud computing like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS and also elaborates almost every cloud computing service model.The book highlights several other aspects of cloud computin...

The light breaks down what we see into colour harmony and swept with joy and movement rhyme, the abstract becomes a matter of fact - a joy that we can see in colour memory that beckons us be wise to how our time in seasons flies.

Software testing is conducted to assist testers with information to improvise the quality of the product under testing. The book primarily aims to present testing concepts, principles, practices, methods cum approaches used in practice. The book will help the readers to learn and detect faults in software before delivering it to the end user. The book is a judicious mix of software testing concepts, principles, methodologies, and tools to undertake a professional course in software testing...

This practical and didactic text/reference discusses the leading edge of secure cloud computing, exploring the essential concepts and principles, tools, techniques and deployment models in this field. Enlightening perspectives are presented by an international collection of pre-eminent authorities in cloud security assurance from both academia and industry.Topics and features:· Describes the important general concepts and principles of security assurance in...

A journey into darkness and back to the light. The Moon makes it look so easy.Winner of the 2016 Royal Dragonfly Book Award, Moon Full of Moons is a collection of poetry about resilience, renewal, and creating a deep happiness in the midst of sadness and ongoing loss.The book is divided into nine chapters, each named after a phase of the moon. Moon Full of Moons describes a journey of survival, empowerment, and a determination to discover a light that has k...

This books is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book summarizes work being undertaken within the collaborative MODAClouds research project, which aims to facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous Cloud platforms and remove the constraints of deployment, portability, and reversibility for end users of Cloud services. Experts involved in the project provide a clear overview of the MODAClouds approach and explain how it operates in a variety of applications.Wh...

a profound and deeply metaphorical view of the day to day aspect of my life as I endure day in day out through the different challenges that life throws at me.