If you are a designer who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can easily learn how to make native iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps—and distribute them worldwide via the App Store.
When combined with an Objective-C framework, web standards can be used to format and style content for iOS, using native controls and behaviors for an...
AS A CONSULTANT, I WORK WITH MANY DEVELOPERS. At each client I get to meet a new team and see how they develop software. I ’ ve seen great teams, and I ’ ve seen teams that are so broken they have never had a successful project. Over the years I ’ ve noticed that different teams along this success continuum have different...
With this book you'll have fun exploring the graphical and animation side of the Flex 4 SDK. There are other books out there on Flex, on Flex 4, and on RIA technologies in general, but they generally don't cover the techniques that help you write cooler applications. This book is specifically about the graphical and animation...
For today’s photographer, a clean, professional-looking website is a must. But for most, the thought of having a site that displays your work like a pro seems either too expensive or too hard to create. How can you develop an eye-catching website that looks professional, updates quickly, and even helps you make some money in the process...
With more than 500 million active users around the world and still growing steadily, Facebook is more than just another social media site. In the words of author Dave Awl, Facebook is “the new town square”—the place where people gather to discuss the news of the day as well as share what’s going on in their lives. And...
The web is all about action verbs. We click. We search. We navigate. We
make choices. Alone among other forms of media, we’re the ones who control
our experience.
When organizations try to connect with their customers online, one of the
first things they always want to know is “how can we get our users to do...
Flash is one of the most pervasive technologies
on the Web, delivering interactive
and immersive multimedia. Leading corporate
Web sites use its streamlined graphics
to communicate their brands, major motion
picture studios promote theatrical releases
with Flash video, and online news and educational
sites provide rich user...
Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been
encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries—
health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name
a few—have told...
The first edition of this textbook on software engineering was published more than
twenty years ago. That edition was wJitten using a dumb terminal attached to an early
minicomputer (a PDP-II) that probably cost about $50,000. I wrote this edition on
a wireless laptop that cost less than $2,000 and is many times more powerful than...
Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs shows you how to add the power of social networking to your mobile apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With this book as your guide, you can write apps that connect to Facebook and Twitter quickly, securely, and discreetly. Instead of starting from scratch, you will build on the...
AS A PROCES S IMPROVEMENT professional, I have experienced many team
challenges. Big challenges. It is not unusual to see teams that seem so perfectly
compatible start in excitement only to fizzle in different directions and
end up not working together. Products suffer, customers suffer, and ultimately...
I love that I’ve been able to write a book about projects in iMovie.
Editing video, after all, is a project in many ways. It often requires a
good deal of time and attention to detail. It’s something you elect to
do, probably in your spare time, because you want to document
what happened at an event, or preserve memories,...
