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...
Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. There are many ways to take advantage of Excel's advanced capabilities without spending hours on advanced study. Excel Hacks provides more than 130 hacks -- clever tools, tips...
Expressions are tools. Just as you use the Rotation tool and the Pen tool, you can use Expressions to control animation and composition in After Effects (AE).
Whereas you use most tools by clicking on their icons (e.g., the pointer or the pen) and clicking or dragging with the mouse, you use Expressions by typing commands on the...
The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer
have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our
privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when,
sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell
phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...
Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages!
After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère...
Includes expert advice on annotating poems and prose!
Fine-tune reading comprehension skills with ease
Get up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner. Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English...
Many of the people responsible for a website don't have a clue what's required to build one and keep it up and running. The job of planning, launching, and managing a site often falls to people who have little or no experience in web design or development. Website Owner's Manual is for the thousands of marketers, IT managers, project leaders,...
The world’s most celebrated hacker delivers the lowdown on today’s most serious security weakness–human nature
"Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breaches–stupid humans … Mitnick … reveals clever tricks of the ‘social engineering’ trade and shows how to fend them...
What you hold in your hand or—this is the 21st century—view on screen
shouldn’t exist.
Let me explain. Mathematics is often taught by presenting students with a
broad concept, like linear independence, and then a set of tools for identifying,
using, or creating it. More rigorous courses might...
Improve your CiviCRM capabilities with this clever cookbook. Packed with recipes and screenshots, it's the natural way to dig deeper into the software and achieve more for your nonprofit or civic sector organization.
Overview
Take your CiviCRM skills to the next level and handle CiviCRM...
O'Reilly has done it again! This is my favorite book yet on writing CGI scripts with Perl (5.0). The extensive use of real world applications you can try while learning, and the great examples of how to have CGI interact with databases are especially useful. I suspect I shall order several copies for some of our staff who are new to CGI. Although...
