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Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...
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Pixel Shaders are one of the more powerful graphic tools available for XAML programmers.
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When Gateway Design Automation, Inc. created Verilog in the mid-
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Wow, the success of the original edition of Electrical Engineering 101 has been
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