Welcome to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials, based on the Revit Architecture 2012 release.
What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...
Up until the mid-1950s President Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that waging all-out war against an enemy
threatening to end your national existence was right, natural, and necessary. In the wake of World War Two
this was hardly a controversial position, as memories of Munich, Pearl Harbor, and Adolf Hitler had made the
notion of just...
Welcome to Computer Science Made Simple, a novice’s guide to one of the most
important fields today. I wrote this book with several kinds of readers in mind. For the
person curious about how computers work and what the computer terms used in
magazine advertisements mean, this book will provide the answers. For those considering...
Most anywhere in the developed world, I can use a small rectangular piece of plastic,
issued to me by a bank I have never visited, to obtain local currency or purchase
goods and services directly from a merchant. The cashier and I may not even speak a
common language, and the face of my card may look quite different from those carried...
A gadget freak I am not—let’s be clear about that from the outset—but in the
past couple of weeks our postman (a.k.a. the mailman) has arrived not once,
but twice, with a package containing one of the most ingeniously compact
bundles of consumer technology that exists today. The first was a long-overdue
necessity: a...
Language, like all forms of art and beauty, is about making connections and
enhancing life. Any human action, from writing a novel to taking a walk, can be
raised to the level of art. It can also be reduced to mechanics: functional, but
lifeless.
As you study Spanish, you can choose to approach it as an art form or as a...
The Unity Game Engine has been shaking things up. The engine is only a little
over five years old now and in 2010 they have earned Develop Magazine's
Grand Prix Award and surpassed 170,000 developers. The user base of
consuming Unity products has grown dynamically as well. There are over
30 million total Unity Web Player...
ANTS-IX was the ninth edition of the biennial International Symposium on
Algorithmic Number Theory. The first edition of this symposium was held at
Cornell University in 1994. ANTS-IX was held July 19-23, 2010 at INRIA in
Nancy, France.
The ANTS-IX Program Committee consisted of 12 members whose names
are listed on the next...
Looking at the past years of application development, as a developer you might have noticed
a significant shift from desktop applications to web applications. The Web has evolved as the
major platform for applications and is going to take over many facets—not only in development
but also in everyday life, resulting in this shift...
Studying the history of consumer electronics is nothing short of fascinating. The landscape is filled
with countless stories of product successes and failures— fickle consumer adoptions, clever marketing
campaigns that outsmart the best technologies, better packaging winning over better technology,
and products that are simply...
JavaScript has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1995 as part of the Netscape browser, to the high-performance JIT interpreters of today. Even just five years ago developers were blown away by Ajax and the yellow fade technique; now, complex JavaScript apps run into the hundreds of thousands of lines.
