Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, where the personal computing
era appears when technology recedes into the background of our lives. The widespread use
of new mobile technology implementing wireless communications such as personal digital
assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new type of advanced...
I would like to welcome the reader lo this Matlab® book, which is the companion to the
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Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down & Dirty Tricks series. Yes, this book is an insane collection of some of the most mind-blowing Photoshop effects you’ve ever seen in one place. Ever wonder how that movie...
A Packt Compendium is a book formed by drawing existing content from several related Packt titles. In other words, it is a mash-up of published Packt content – Professional Expertise Distilled in the true sense. Such a compendium of Packt's content allows you to learn from each of the chapters' unique styles and Packt does its...
Ajax is the necessary paradigm in Web 2.0 sites. Most Web 2.0 sites are built with PHP and Ajax. Extending Ajax is about delivering front-end services for accessing back-end services in PHP in a quick and easy manner. With this book in hand, you will learn how to use the necessary tools for Ajaxification of websites and iPhones.
Themes are among the most powerful and flexible features available when it comes to the
presentation of a website. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design, which, when done
correctly, allows developers and designers to customize and micromanage each and every
aspect of the site. Furthermore, the Drupal theming system and its...
This guide was written for those who will manage or fund technology
projects with budgets between $25,000 and $500,000. Our goal is to
provide a quick-start guide for professional, smart, competent people
who are new to web project management, or who need some
guidance on how to manage a web project.
The number of research topics covered in recent approaches to Information Extraction
(IE) is continually growing as new facts are being considered. In fact,
while the user’s interest in extracting information from texts deals mainly with
the success of the entire process of locating, in document collections, facts of
interest,...
Swarm Intelligence is a collection of nature-inspired algorithms under the big umbrella
of evolutionary computation. They are population based algorithms. A population
of individuals (potential candidate solutions) cooperating among themselves and
statistically becoming better and better over generations and eventually finding (a)...
The problem of turbulence and coherent structures is of key importance in
many fields of science and engineering. It is an area which is vigorously
researched across a diverse range of disciplines such as theoretical physics,
oceanography, atmospheric science, magnetically confined plasma, nonlinear
optics, etc. Modern studies...
Welcome to the exciting, empowering world of home automation! If you have ever wanted your home to do more than just protect you against the outside elements and want to interface it to the digital domain, this book will show you how. By demonstrating several easy-to-build projects, you will be able to take the skills you learned from this...
SEE IT DONE. DO IT YOURSELF. It’s that Easy! Easy Mac OS X Lion teaches you the fundamentals of working with the Mac operating system as well as how to use many of the applications that come with your Mac. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through each task, building the...
