OUT OF EVERY ENDING COMES the beginning of something new. This title has been Rob Vieira’s
for many years, and now he’s wrapping up that chapter of his life while I begin a new chapter of
my own — and the fi rst chapter of this text. Likewise, you, as a reader, are also entering something
of a transition; you know...
WELCOME TO Game and Graphics Programming for iOS and Android with OpenGL ES 2.0. This book is not your usual “OpenGL Hello Triangle” book — it’s not meant to explain the “why” (Google is there for that), but rather, to show you the “how.” This book will strictly teach you...
This book is about data analysis and the programming language called R. This is rapidly becoming the de facto standard among professionals, and is used in every conceivable discipline from science and medicine to business and engineering.
R is more than just a computer program; it is a statistical programming environment and...
SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION IN THE FALL of 2008, Android has grown and matured to the point
where it is currently the number one smartphone platform in terms of shipments worldwide. Along
with that growth is an interest in writing applications that run natively on the device and that take
advantage of the device’s features, such...
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media
on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend
the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing
value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the...
Reporting Services is a report design and enterprise-class information delivery tool that has aged and matured for more than nine years now. And this book has grown along with the product. We fi rst started writing Professional Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services before the product was released, back in 2003. After four new versions of...
WELCOME TO BEGINNING CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Third Edition.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the tool that web designers and developers use alongside markup
languages such as HTML and XHTML to build websites. CSS provides web browsers with the
information they need to control the visual aspect of a web...
This book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solutions, so understanding what each has to offer...
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS JAVASCRIPT has undergone a remarkable transformation. Where
once it was a “toy” language relegated to secondary status it’s now one of the most important
programming languages in the world. With the ongoing importance of Ajax-based development and
the rise of full-featured JavaScript...
SHAREPOINT IS ONE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL products in Microsoft’s history. It can be found in
small businesses, universities, and Fortune 500 companies. SharePoint 2010, the latest release, contains
many new areas for existing and new SharePoint server administrators and site administrators.
This book will help you meet the new...
THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE IPHONE and iPad over the past four years has proven that
application developers are now smack deep in a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional
mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos.
Instead, mobile web-based applications can bring...
Hands-on solutions for common SharePoint 2010 challenges
Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions. A team of authors encourages you to customize SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box...
