Macromedia Flash's ancestor started out as a core component of the pen computer, a keyboardless machine that used a pen stylus for input, making it much more portable than traditional keyboard-based designs and ideal for handheld devices.

Macromedia Flash is fast becoming the Web's most widely used platform for creating rich media with animation and motion graphics, but mastering Flash isn't easy. Most entry-level books teach through simple examples that concentrate on either animatio...

ActionScript is the programming language that enables you to use Macromedia's popular Flash to create highly interactive multimedia-based websites, product demos, teaching materials, and more.

Although Halo 2 has been a phenomenal success, there comes a time in the life cycle of every game when gamers start to ask for more than the out-of-box experience.

Retro gaming isn't about clinging to the last remaining shreds of our fleeting youth. Well, it is, but not entirely.

With this easy-to-follow guide, you will learn how to use 3ds max to build 3D animations and special effects. The book also covers modeling, modifiers, mapping surfaces, rendering, lighting, and more.

If you're responsible for producing quality printed materials or creating great looking Web pages for your organization, this guide is just what you need. The book includes coverage of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, and GoLive.

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Whether you are looking for a new technique to include in your next project, a solution to a common problem, or just some insight into the digital video medium, my hope is you will find something new and exciting within these pages.

This reference covers the latest updates to Adobe Illustrator, including Web graphic tools and new effects you can apply to your images.

This handy guide demonstrates the fun and easy way to create and edit images like a pro, and provides tips on retouching photos, producing artistic effects, animating images, and much more.

This plain-English guide provides a comprehensive overview of Photoshop so you can customize your workspace, develop your own digital negatives, install plug-ins, download tool presets, and much more.

Understanding: Adobe Photoshop: Digital Imaging Concepts and Techniques

Photoshop CS2 offers many powerful features for handling image detail. But how do you know what to aim for?

The Digital Photography Book: The Step-By-Step Secrets for How to Make Your Photos Look Like the Pros'!

How would you like to create your own impressionist landscape, a van Gogh still life, or a surrealist Salvador Dali dream world? Or perhaps a classic Ansel Adams photograph of Yosemite or an authentic-looking 19th century Daguerrotype? You can do al...

Ready to take digital imaging to the professional level? This advanced strategy book offers expert advice to help you become more competent in your work routine, but it is not your ordinary workflow book. Through step-by-step procedures based on...

SQL for Dummies

A Real Guide to SQL Server 2005 Certification Skills

This painless test preparation tool begins with an introduction to basic electronics and numbering systems relevant to computer processing, then builds hardware knowledge from the bottom up, and finishes off by demonstrating how to work on computers.

The BlackBerry has come from relative obscurity to omnipresence in a very short amount of time.

The time for in-car computing has arrived. There are strong signs in every direction that personal computing technology will soon take over the car.

Pinning down the meaning of a word is devilishly difficult, particularly when it's used by a sideshow huckster, lawyer, or some other professional liar.

Two groups of people are essential to a successful design project: a design team and a verification team. Designers usually have formal training from schools.

Palm devices have evolved over the almost ten years since the first Palm Pilot.

More, better, faster, cheaper, easier, cooler, safer. All of these and more capture our desire to understand and get the most out of the investment we've made in our PCs.

Smartphones are not only our smallest computers, but also our most connected computers. They connect to the voice telephone network as well as to the short-and long-range digital data network, including the Internet itself.

Wireless networking technology has shown an explosive growth worldwide over the past few years, bucking the general downward economic trend in the telecommunications industry.

When the Internet was first born, most of us were so delighted with the ability to share information across great distances with relative ease that we gave little thought to critical analysis of how that information was being consumed.

Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You'll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms

Over the past decade, the Web has become completely integrated into the fabric of society. Most businesses have websites, and it's rare to see a commercial on television that doesn't display a URL. The simple fact that most people now know what a URL is speaks volumes.

"...lucid, in-depth descriptions of the behavior of every HTML tag on every major browser and platform, plus enough dry humor to make the book a pleasure to read." --Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine "When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding....

The total number of web pages today has been estimated at over 3 billion, spanning millions of individual websites. Not surprisingly, there is tremendous pressure on web developers and designers to remain current with the latest technologies. Th...

Design Patterns For Dummies

Firefox is the web browser that upholds the highest principles of the World Wide Web. It supports and defines the Web as a good place to bea place where all people can freely and safely participate, without having to tip their hat to anyone. Those are fighting words.

When Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on July 16, 1995, it was just one among several online booksellers. As Amazon embraced the technology to categorize and display millions of books in one space, people embraced the ability to search for and purchase books in a new way.

eBay is more than just a web site. It's a community of millions: people in all parts of the world, all of whom are buying and selling with varying degrees of experience, ingenuity, and, of course, intelligence.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has continued to grow in popularity since its inception way back in 1988. Millions of people all over the world now use IRC to chat with friends, discuss projects, and collaborate on research.

PayPal wasn't the first company to build an online payment system, but it might as well be the last. With over 50 million registered accounts, PayPal is rapidly becoming a household name.

Yahoo! is an impressive example of what can happen when a hobby takes on a life of its own. In 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo began publishing a personal list of sites they found interesting on the emerging World Wide Web.

This book is a reference to the cool stuff. It's about the interesting things you learn over the years.

This edition introduces new features added to the Java platform since the publication of the third edition (under release 1.3), such as a chapter on Generics and information on annotations.

With the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), development of Java enterprise applications has never been easier or faster. The aim of the Java EE 5 platform is to provide developers a powerful set of APIs while reducing development time, reducing application complexity, and improving application performance.

Java and XML, 3rd Edition, shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work. It teaches you how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications. The result is a new approach to managing inform...

Java 5.0 is a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications in Java, providing new higher-level components and additional low-level mechanisms that make it easier for novices and experts alike to build concurrent applications.

This comprehensive guide shows you how to master the most important changes to Java since it was first released. Generics and the greatly expanded collection libraries have tremendously increased the power of Java 5 and Java 6. But they have also c...

This book is about Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, the latest version of the Enterprise JavaBeans specification, and its counterpart, the new Java Persistence specification. Just as the Java platform has revolutionized the way we think about software development, the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and Java Persistence specifications have revolutionized the way we think about developing mission-critical enterprise software.

Software Developers/Architects Developers and architects can gain value from this book because it includes a high-level software development process, application design, and an in-depth and complete inspection of the Java and related files of a fully functional, sample enterprise web application.

Pro JSF and Ajax Building Rich Internet Components

This book is about GCC

This is a book about how to use an exciting and powerful technology, JavaServer Pages, (JSP) to create dynamic, interactive Web sites.

Microsoft Office Access 2007 is a powerful relational database application providing hundreds of tools that allow you to quickly start tracking, sharing, and reporting information, even if you are new to database development.

This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can start using this popular database program right away. You'll learn how to work with Access' most useful features to design databases, maintain them, search for valuable nugget...

For some time now, Microsoft Windows (in all its incarnations) has been the dominant desktop operating system for businesses small and large. But in recent years, the platform has also made significant inroads into the server side of the equation.

One of the first things you'll notice about Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is that the user interface has changed quite a bit.

Most People Don't Need Much Convincing To Use Excel, Microsoft's premier spreadsheet software.

Millions of Microsoft Excel users are busy creating and sharing spreadsheets every day. Indeed, the spreadsheet has grown from a powerful convenience to a transformative foundation for many businesses, driving decision-making around the planet.

Loaded with hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds, this information-packed complete reference shows you how to get the most out of Office Excel 2007.

The release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system is another milestone for Microsoft’s suite of business productivity software.

With easy numbered steps, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips, this book will help you master the fundamentals of working with the latest version of Office Outlook, including how to navigate the new user interface.

Featuring easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises, this guide will help you to learn the essentials for managing time, people, and budgets for projects large and small with Office Project 2007.

Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is the easiest way to efficiently create effective presentations. Need a slide show to convince management to invest in that new piece of equipment?

If you've never seen a powerpoint presentation, you're in a pretty select group. With legions of folks all over the world pounding out an estimated 30 million PowerPoint slides every day, PowerPoint's the runaway leader in the field of presentation programs, leaving competitors like Corel Presentations and Apple's Keynote in the dust.

Visual Basic for Applications is a mouthful to say (which is why I'll use the standard short form—VBA—from now on), but it also seems like it would be a real handful to learn. After all, this is a programming language we're talking about, right?

With Visio, you can show your audience what you mean by using easy-to-understand diagrams such as organization charts, flowcharts, and project timelines.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 is one of the most sophisticated word-processing programs available today.

Microsoft Word has been the world's most popular word processor for so long, it needs only one namelike Oprah or Madonna.

Word is a powerful word processor, but it offers a lot more. It is almost infinitely customizable, which means you don't have to settle for the features and interface that come out of the box.

There is something special about being out under the night sky. We look up and see the stars and constellations, just as our many-times-great grandparents did hundreds and thousands of years ago.

The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment. Take the processing involved in seeing, for instance.

And our finances seem to be the most demanding. People have to fend for themselves. Company-funded pension plans are as scarce as hens' teeth.

PDF has come a long way since it first appeared in the early '90s. When Adobe began offering its Acrobat Reader for free, PDF spread across the Web as a paginated alternative to HTML. PDF has replaced or supplemented Adobe's PostScript language files as a format for exchanging print-ready layouts, and evolving forms capabilities have made PDF a more interactive format over time.

This book explores two main podcasting themes: how to listen to a podcast, and how to produce one on your own.

Written by designers for designers, this friendly guide covers every quirk of Quark, from panes and palettes to prepress and production--all the major tools for layout, text editing, special effects, Web page development, and more.

This plain English guide on building complex architectures with UML 2 shows how to adjust to the UML 2 standard, extract key information from UML models, object modeling, case modeling and more.

"Since its original introduction in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language has revolutionized software development. Every integrated software development environment in the world--open-source, standards-based, and proprietary--now supports UML and, more...

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Frame...

Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of li...

Today, technology has become too much a part of overall corporate success for its effectiveness to be left to chance. The stakes are too high. Fortunately, the idea of 'quality management' is being reinvigorated. In the last decade process programs...

Like every other application in Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint is loaded with features. So many, in fact, that even veterans don't know where to find them all. Microsoft solved this problem in PowerPoint 2007 by redesigning the user interface...

The main thing is this: You want your software out soon and defect free, but more than that, you need a way to examine how your team is doing along the way.

Windows workflow foundation (WF) is a general-purpose programming framework for creating reactive programs that act in response to stimulus from external entities. The basic characteristic of reactive programs is that they pause during their execution, for unknown amounts of time, awaiting input.

Providing a proven set of procedures and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to their projects, this guide will help organizations achieve basic estimation proficiency.

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Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In Enterprise SOA: D...

Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 is intended for advanced computer professionals (both developers and system administrators) who want to understand how the core components of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better comprehend the rationale behind design choices when building applications specific to the Windows 2000 platform. Such knowledge can also help developers debug complex problems. System administrators can benefit from this information as well because understanding how the operating system works under the covers facilitates understanding the performance behavior of the system and makes it easier to troubleshoot system problems when things go wrong. After reading this book, you should have a better understanding of how Windows 2000 works and why it behaves as it does.

book is specifically designed to teach you how to quickly turn routine, repetitive, time-consuming, or complex administrative tasks into simple scripts. If you're like me, you probably don't have the time to spend thumbing through books filled with general examples that you'll never use. Because of its compact size, this book is free of generic filler material (a common trait of the larger scripting books) and comes packed with information and examples that you can actually use. Whether you're a basic Windows user or a network administrator in charge of a corporate infrastructure, this book will teach you how to use scripting to become more productive and recoup some free time from your busy schedule.

In this book, we'll look under the hood of Visual InterDev 6.0 and explore the unique features that make it such an exciting new product. The book is divided into six parts, which cover everything from getting started to more complex topics such as advanced database topics, three-tier architectures (incorporating Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 components and Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0), and the incorporation of digital certificates (using Microsoft Certificate Server).

Learn how to embed the popular search engine in a web site, create applications for optimizing complex searches, automatically monitor the web for specified information, develop custom applications to avoid objectionable material, and much more.

Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information. Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google...

Beginning Apache Struts From Novice to Professional

AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies

A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast

Radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design is an exciting area for research or product development...

RSS and Atom in Action

A Real Guide to SQL Server 2005 Certification Skills

Windows Administration at the Command Line for Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

Windows Server 2003: The Complete Reference

PHP has earned its place as one of the premiere web scripting languages and is used in everything from small utility scripts to object-oriented enterprise applications. This book covers that entire spectrum, offering hacks focusing on everything from HTML and Ajax to code generation and database-driven message queuing.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn...

The PHP scripting language and MySQL open-source database are quite effective independently, but together they make a simply unbeatable team. When working hand-in-hand, they serve as the standard for the rapid development of dynamic, database-driven...

This guide to keeping your data safe offers the latest security techniques and advice on choosing and using cryptography products. It covers terminology, specific encryption technologies, pros and cons of different implementations, and more.

This volume demonstrates effective methods for defending your servers and networks from a variety of devious and subtle attacks.

Organized by category, this book provides complete details on the latest and most critical security tools, explains their function, and demonstrates how to configure them to get the best results.

Written for programmers, developers, and IS professionals who want to learn about web application security and how to audit it, this book will help you become an effective penetrator in order to circumvent security features of Web applications.

In the fast-moving world of computers, things are always changing. Since the first edition of this strong-selling book appeared two years ago, network security techniques and tools have evolved rapidly to meet new and more sophisticated threats th...

Offering practical advice, hands-on guidance and code samples, this essential guide will help you to find, classify, and assess security bugs before your software is released.

Offering core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists, this book delivers immediate answers for the day-to-day administration of Windows Vista.

This pioneering guide to Internet and intranet security is the first to cover all of the relevant technologies in one comprehensive reference, and enhances your ability to create and deploy secure architectures.

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This is the must-have book for a must-know field. Today, general security knowledge is mandatory, and, if you who need to understand the fundamentals, Computer Security Basics 2nd Edition is the book to consult. The new edition builds on the...

Firewalls are a staple component of a secure network in today's Internet. This book provides network administrators who are more focused on the core network services and end users an opportunity to learn about modern firewall capabilities. This book is not an exhaustive reference on all possible firewalls nor is it a complete text on the firewalls that are mentioned in this book. Instead, this book provides a solid foundation of fundamental knowledge upon which readers can build their knowledge and skills in firewall administration and implementation (and security in general).

Windows Administration at the Command Line for Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

What was it about UNIX that won my heart? . . . UNIX is mysterious when you first approach. A little intimidating, too. But despite an unadorned and often plain presentation, the discerning suitor can tell there's lot going on under the surface

Welcome to the world of Fedora Linux!

As with so many great open source projects, Knoppix started because Klaus Knopper had an itch to scratch. Klaus wanted to take many of his favorite open source tools with him so he could work wherever he went and on any computer he had access to.

In short, Linux desktop environments and applications are no longer chasing the Windows desktop for usability and power. When it comes to choice, desktop usability, and features, Linux actually surpasses Windows in many ways.

Without question, Linux is rapidly becoming the operating system of choice in many core areas of business. It is transforming information technology in many exciting ways, from being used in products ranging from cell phones and PDAs to cars and mainframe computers.

If you ask most people to name the most powerful platform for multimedia, you probably won't hear Linux as their answer. Dealing with images, audio, and video, with all their different formats and requirements, is never easy.

Using Fedora Core Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux examples, this guide offers many step-by-step procedures and tools to resolve Linux hardware incompatibilities and system conflicts commonly found in workstation, server and networking environments.

Mac OS X is a marvelous confluence of the user-friendly and highly customizable Macintosh of yesteryear and the power and flexibility of Unix under the hood.

Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!

Designed for Linux newcomers, this book will teach you how to get your system up and running, including verifying proper installation, connecting to the Internet, and reproducing common Windows tasks, such as multimedia playback and office functions.

If you are new to Unix or just want to learn more about it, you have undoubtedly chosen the perfect companion for your journey

This guide presents thorough coverage of how to handle Unix installation, file management, software, utilities, networks, Internet access, GNOME and KDE desktops, common problems, and more.

"Neither a "Starting Linux" book nor a dry reference manual, this book has a lot to offer to those coming to Fedora from other operating systems or distros." -- Behdad Esfahbod, Fedora developer This book will get you up to speed quickly...

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TU...

Linux for Dummies

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial

Windows Vista is the latest and greatest in the illustrious line of Windows operating systems from Microsoft.

You'll find Windows Vista Plain and Simple to be a straightforward, easy-to-read reference tool.

Because Microsoft has always focused on developers, providing high-quality documentation and high-quality development tools has been a high priority for them from the beginning. Visual Studio is the culmination of more than 20 years of development tools.

For some time now, Microsoft Windows (in all its incarnations) has been the dominant desktop operating system for businesses small and large. But in recent years, the platform has also made significant inroads into the server side of the equation.

Windows XP marks the biggest change to the Windows OS since the advent of Windows 95. It combines the stability of the NT/2000 operating system with the user-friendliness and hardware support of the consumer Windows lineand it does so literally because those two operating systems have been combined for the first time in XP.

It is difficult to get a consistent answer from different people on what WCF is. To the web service developer, it is the ultimate interoperability solution, an implementation of a long list of industry standards. To the distributed application developer, it is the easiest way of making remote calls and even queued calls.

With C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition, you'll be able to learn and improve your mastery of both the C# language and the .NET platform. This updated bestseller has been completely revised to account for C# 2.0, the latest version of this popular object-orien...

If you're a novice programmer and you want to learn C#, there aren't many books that will guide you. Most C# books are written for experienced C++ and Java programmers. That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books Programming C# and Pro...

This book provides a framework for making design decisions and a technical vocabulary for discussing domain design. It is a synthesis of widely accepted best practices along with my own insights and experiences. Software development teams facing complex domains can use this framework to approach domain-driven design systematically.

This is a book about design in the .NET world, driven in an agile manner and infused with the products of the enterprise patterns community.

This book deals with C# thoroughly, rather than skimming over the whole .NET framework

In fact, the .NET developer community has embraced Windows Forms to a degree that defies the early .NET focus on web-based applications. Based on talking to my friends in the training industry and on the sales of the first edition of this book, I conclude that a large and growing number of developers write Windows Forms applications. It's for those developers that we've written this book.

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 includes several enhancements to earlier versions of the language. If you want to learn the new features of the language, Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language offers detailed explanations of each improvement. One of the most awaited additions to the .NET environment is generics. Other additions include anonymous methods, static classes, and new classes that affect garbage collection. This book introduces these new features, provides context, and displays sample code.

With Microsoft's introduction of the .NET platform, a new, exciting programming language was born. Visual C# is now the language of choice for developing on the .NET platform, and Microsoft has even written a majority of the .NET Framework using Visual C#.

The release of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team Systems marks a major revision to the .NET development experience. The languages have many improvements, the Framework has a number of additions, but most of all, the tools have been significantly enhanced.

The Windows Communication Foundation, which was code-named Indigo, is a technology by which pieces of software can communicate with one another.

For developers experienced with Microsoft or Java platforms who want to program with the .NET Framework and CLR, this book looks at the underlying platform commonalities developers can use, regardless of language choice or development tools.