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Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Voices That Matter)

New Riders Publishing, 2012

This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what...

Oracle8i Internal Services for Waits, Latches, Locks, and Memory

O'Reilly, 1999

This concise book contains detailed information about Oracle internals -- information that's not readily available to Oracle customers. It lays a foundation for advanced performance tuning of the Oracle database. Based on Oracle8i release 8.1, the book describes many of the secrets of Oracle's internal services: data structures, algorithms, and...

The Best Damn Exchange, SQL and IIS Book Period

Syngress Publishing, 2007

Exchange, SQL and IIS are at the core of most Microsoft enterprise servers. The 2007 releases of these products, along with the release of Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server, represents the biggest overhaul of Windows enterprise products since Windows 2000. The dramatic changes to security tools and the addition of features that support...

Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework

O'Reilly, 2010

With its support for dynamic programming, C# 4.0 continues to evolve as a versatile language on its own. But when C# is used with .NET Framework 4, the combination is incredibly powerful. This bestselling tutorial shows you how to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications using C# 4.0 with .NET's database capabilities,...

Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

New Riders Publishing, 2003

How do you turn a great idea into a game design? What makes one design better than another? Why does a good design document matter, and how do you write one? This book answers these questions and stimulates your creativity!

Game design consists of four essential tasks: imagining a game, defining the...

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

Knopf, 2021

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers--once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian and the author of Untapped:...

Pro .NET 2.0 Code and Design Standards in C#

Apress, 2005

This is not a book that tells you what you should or shouldn’t do! So, in the immortal words
of Douglas Adams (www.douglasadams.com): “Don’t Panic!” Yes, it is a book on standards, but
the standards are not presented as a set of rules; rather, they are presented and explained as
a catalog of standard practices...

Digital Photography Lighting For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

For Dummies, 2010

Improve your lighting technique to produce better quality photographs

Digital Photography Lighting For Dummies features the tools, concepts, and steps you need to give your subjects a high-quality look and feel. Everyone from advanced beginners to aspiring professional photographers will improve their understanding of...

Digital Photography Hacks : 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

O'Reilly, 2004

Going beyond the standard fare of most digital photography books, Digital Photography Hacks shares the knowledge that professional photographers have learned through thousands of shots' worth of experience and years of experimentation. With exquisite, full-color photos throughout, the book presents 100 proven...

Advanced Animation with DirectX

Course Technology PTR, 2003

Welcome to Advanced Animation with DirectX® ! This book is your guide to getting past the basics of DirectX graphics and into the bigger world of advanced animation! Take the information you already know and learn how to expand it into a vast array of various eyepopping graphical effects.

Keep...

Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint)

Apress, 2007

Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2007 takes a practical problem/solution approach to common business challenges. You'll not only encounter interesting code samples, but also see how to combine these examples with the Microsoft collaboration platform's services. The book's solutions focus on using...

Docker Orchestration

Packt Publishing, 2017

Key Features

Explore the new features added to the core Docker Engine to make multi-container orchestration easy

Leverage tools such as Docker Machine, Swarm, Compose, and third-party tools such as Kubernetes, Mesosphere, and CoreOS to orchestrate containers

Use Docker Compose with Swarm and...

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