You’re no dummy, and neither am I. The tongue-in-cheek title of For Dummies used for this book franchise is one of the world’s most successful oxymorons, like military intelligence or boneless ribs. You are smart enough to pick up this book because you know there are gaps in your knowledge. The publisher was smart enough to pay me...
XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing
users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices
to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure
applications quickly to thousands of users.
Before you can really start your journey into Spring MVC, you need to make sure you have your
development environment set up right. This chapter will begin by walking you through that process.
Next, it will provide some details about the sample bookstore application that ships with this book. But
before going into either the...
Welcome to Adobe Muse on Demand, a visual quick reference book that shows you how to work efficiently with Muse. This book provides complete coverage of basic to advanced Muse skills.
Adobe® Muse™ on Demand
Need answers quickly? Adobe® Muse™ on Demand provides those answers in a visual...
Organizing things is an important human activity. Whether it is a child organizing toys in some way (by size, color, favorites, and so forth) or an adult piecing together a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, the desire to “make order out of chaos” (as one inveterate puzzler put it) reflects a sense that somehow if...
You’ve seen the TV ads in which happy,
purposeful people use iPads to type
messages, watch movies, play games,
video-chat with grandchildren, and surf
the Web from hammocks. On the cuttingroom
floor, however, is the footage where
those actors actually learned how to do
all that stuff. Despite its clean lines...
Rich client development remains one of the most popular forms of application
development, both from a user and a developer point of view. While nobody denies
the importance of thin-client interface technologies such as HTML(5), it is clear
that consumers and enterprises alike enjoy using applications that provide a rich,...
There is a curious symmetry to the way this book presents Acceptance Test-
Driven Development and the way software is developed with ATDD. Just as there
is an art to picking the specific examples of program behavior that will elicit the
correct general behavior for the system, there is an art to picking specific examples
of a...
Flash’s evolution is unique, even for the fast-changing computer software world.
First released in 1996 under the name FutureSplash, it was a tool for creating
web-based animations. It’s still the go-to application for that job; however,
along the way it’s acquired new capabilities. Today, Flash...
A lot has happened since Apple introduced OS X a decade ago (then
called “Mac OS X”). What started as an incomplete replacement for an
established operating system has become not only the backbone of
today’s powerful Mac computers, but also the foundation for the iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV. At one...
With the release of the iPad and the iOS 5, this latest release comes packed with some great new features and improvements to the various frameworks and contains over 1,500 new APIs. You will learn how to integrate iCloud storage and how to go about using the Facebook and the OpenGraph APIs, as well as applying the various image and...
Security Smarts for the Self-Guided IT Professional
“Get to know the hackers—or plan on getting hacked. Sullivan and Liu have created a savvy, essentials-based approach to web app security packed with immediately applicable tools for any information security practitioner sharpening his or her tools or just starting...
