I, like many of you, have been using Spring for a long, long time. I wasn’t initially convinced I needed Spring Roo (to be honest). It...

The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...

Real time 3D games have been around for well over ten years now. We’ve played them, created assets in the style of our favorites, and maybe even “mod”ed a few of them. But until recently, the cost of licensing one of the premier game engines has ranged from several hundred thousand to several million dollars per title...

Throughout these lessons you will not only record your own tracks, but you’ll also...

When I fi rst started using Photoshop, it was a much simpler program to get to grips with compared with what we see today. Since then Adobe Photoshop CS5 has evolved to supply photographers with all the tools they need. My aim is to provide you with a working photographer’s perspective of what Photoshop CS5 can do and how to...

Welcome to the Microsoft Office 2007 Fundamentals Projects Binder! The projects in this binder cover the primary features and commands of Office 2007 and provide valuable opportunities to apply or extend skills learned in an accompanying textbook. The 150 projects in this binder can be used with any Microsoft® Office 2007 textbook to...

The Blender 3D suite is probably one of the most used 3D creation and animation tools currently in existence. The reason for that popularity is both its tool set and the extraordinary fact that it can be downloaded free of charge. Blender has been around since 1998 but it was not until it entered the GNU General Public License, open source...

Magento is the fastest growing PHP-based eCommerce solution based on the Zend Framework. This robust CMS helps developers to enrich their store with more useful functionalities with custom modules. Developing a Magento store to get the desired look and feel is not as easy as you might believe, and may take hours due to the wealth of...

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site...

Explains technologies enabling the next generation transport...

InDesign CS5 opens the door to a new world: with the addition of exciting animation tools and deeper multimedia support. It's now a viable interactive authoring tool. Designers want to create engaging interactive content, but may resist making the transition from page layout to timeline-based thinking. But now it's much easier:...