Given Apple’s advertising budget and ubiquitous ads, plus an enormous amount of media attention, it’s still difficult to determine just what an iPad is. Is it a media player or a business machine? Does it replace a laptop? There are other tablet computers on the market, as well as “netbooks” that act like...
I can tell you how much I enjoy being a geek. I can tell you how fascinated I was with
the punch-cards my dad showed me back in 1985. I can tell you how I got my first computer
when I was seven. And I can tell you that I’ve loved programming since 1989. I can
tell you a great many things about all that, but I’m not sure how...
Movies Made for Television in 2004 celebrates 40 full television seasons. As I wrote in the introduction in 1980 to the
original (single) volume that chronicled the genre, the range was as esthetically and technically wide at the time as it
would remain through the years since as any theatrical offerings – within its restricted...
THE ROLE OF a user experience consultant, and specifi cally the user-centered design process,
is to help guide and shape the development of products and services based on what the
user understands and requires. To do this, the consultant needs to be a facilitator and communicator,
ensuring that the right user information is...
One could say that motion capture technology hasn’t evolved
much in the past twenty years. It still relies mostly on cameras,
electromagnetics, or mechanics. Of course, the components
are much better and we are now able to obtain superior
measurements. Data that took weeks to process in the early days
can now be...
Since being selected as an AdWords Seminar Leader by Google in 2006, I’ve had the
opportunity to teach thousands of businesses and organizations how to use AdWords,
Google’s advertising platform. I believe in the product; if used appropriately, it offers
vast online exposure for advertisers....
This is a book about maintaining the single most complex, unfathomable, and overhyped
appliance you will ever own. Upgrading and maintaining your computer is a
difficult and bewildering task, and yet you are the most qualified person to handle it.
The main reason is because you are perhaps the only person you can trust entirely to...
In the late 1990s I began my career in Web development by making simple Web
pages while studying at college. My degree in science and the environment combined
with my summer jobs of Web site building landed me a job as a project manager at a
firm making Web sites for environmental organizations. The in-house programmer
would...
The decision to write a book about this content management system was an easy one. At the time of this writing, WordPress powers more than 15 percent of all websites online. That's a considerable bite out of the Internet. Unfortunately, that also meant a lot of books had already been published on WordPress. After a couple of weeks, mulling...
With the rapid proliferation of distance learning, schools confront the difficult problem of choosing and managing an appropriate technological environment that fits their budget, technical resources, curriculum, pedagogy, and profile of the student body.
Learning Management System Technologies and Software Solutions for Online...
Microsensors and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) are revolutionising the semiconductor industry. A microsystem or the so-called "system-on-a-chip" combines microelectronic circuitry with microsensors and microactuators. This emergent field has seen the development of applications ranging from the electronic nose and...
The objective of this book is to give an introduction to the software process improvement
field to computer science students. The well-known Capability Maturity Model Integration
(CMMI1) is used as the vehicle for software process improvement as it has become the
de facto standard2 for implementing best practice in software...
