Drupal is a great content management system, a powerful framework for web applications, and a cutting edge social publishing platform. Above all, Drupal is more than software—it is a vibrant community of developers, designers, project managers, business innovators, technology strategists, user experience professionals, standards...

W elcome to yet another book on the great programming language of PHP. This book is unique in that it focuses on higher-end materials and more advanced, cutting-edge topics. We have kept it as modern as possible with the fast-paced world of the Internet. We take the reader from an intermediate level to a more advanced level of this...

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I used to think plug-ins were for people who could afford to buy creativity. Then I realized it was for those who had creativity, but were burdened and held back by the process, or lack of tools, for their creativity. After Effects plug-ins are not someone’s project files or templates for you to copy, but rather tools for...

You have just bought your new Windows Phone 7 device and would like to start developing applications. You need to know the device’s hardware characteristics such as screen resolution and memory capability—but also which sensors and services it provides. Finally, you need to understand what the Windows Phone 7 operating system...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) allows software development time to be shortened by the composition of existing services across the Internet. Further exploitation of this revolutionary trend is feasible through automation, thanks to the use of software agents and techniques from distributed artificial intelligence. This book provides an...

The main objective of a first course in operating systems is to develop an understanding of the fundamental concepts and techniques of operating systems. Most of the students are already exposed to diverse information on operating systems as a result of practical exposure to operating systems and literature on the Internet; such...

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The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, process and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and flexibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on...

Online auctions are an increasingly important marketplace, as the new mechanisms and formats underlying these auctions have enabled the capturing and recording of large amounts of bidding data that are used to make...