Back in the old days, working in a chemical
darkroom, I could only have dreamed of a postprocessing
tool as wonderful as Photoshop. But
for me that’s exactly what Photoshop is—a tool.
It’s a tool that helps me as a professional image
creator. The image is what matters, not the tool.
This book was written to give beginning 3D artists a map
through the art and how to get involved in the 3D industry. You
can use this book by reading all the way through it cover to cover
with or without doing the tutorials, by picking and choosing
chapters based on gaps you want to fill, or as a quick reference to
a concept you...
Active Directory is a common repository for information about objects that reside on
the network, such as users, groups, computers, printers, applications, and files. The
default Active Directory schema supports numerous attributes for each object class that
can be used to store a variety of information. Access Control Lists (ACLs) are...
Parallel hardware has been ubiquitous for some time now. It’s difficult to find a laptop,
desktop, or server that doesn’t use a multicore processor. Beowulf clusters are
nearly as common today as high-powered workstations were during the 1990s, and
cloud computing could make distributed-memory systems as accessible as...
Welcome to Yahoo User Interface 2.x Cookbook, the RAW edition. A RAW (Read As we
Write) book contains all the material written for the book so far, but available for you right
now, before it’s finished. As the author writes more, you will be invited to download the
new material and continue reading, and learning. Chapters in a RAW...
This book is aimed primarily at application developers with a basic understanding of the C language
and object-orientation concepts such as encapsulation and polymorphism. You don’t need to be an
expert C coder to follow this book. All you need is a basic understanding of structures, pointers, and
functions. That said, you will...
Since you’ve decided to pick this book up, we’re guessing that you’re considering
taking the OCP Java SE 6 Programmer exam.
The OCP Java SE Programmer exam is considered one of the hardest in the
IT industry, and we can tell you from experience that a large percentage of exam
candidates go in to the test...
Named after the Monty Python comedy troupe, Python is an interpreted, open-source, object-oriented programming language. It's also free and runs portably on Windows, Mac OS, Unix, and other operating systems. Python can be used for all manner of programming...
The 12th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2006) was held in Nantes, France, September 24–29, 2006. Information
about the conference can be found on theWeb at http://www.sciences.
univ-nantes.fr/cp06/. Information about past conferences in the series can be
found at...
Take advantage of your computer's features and tools right away--the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do. Follow along and quickly learn how to navigate the Windows operating system; get online; use...
Welcome to the Brief Version of Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through
Objects, 6th edition. This book is intended for use in a one or two-semester C++ programming
course. Students new to programming, as well as those with prior course work in
other languages, will find this text beneficial. The fundamentals of...
The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems.
This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency,
scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), fi le systems,
and security. However, I also cover issues that come up...
