But long before AS3, Flash developers were experimenting with 3D. And applications like Papervision3D formalized...

Need fast, reliable, easy-to-implement solutions for Microsoft Active Directory 2008? This book delivers exactly what you’re looking for. You’ll find nearly 250 tested, step-by-step procedures for planning, installing, customizing, and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in any production...

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This is not a book about algorithms . Certainly, it is full of algorithms , but that 's not what this book is about . This book is about possibilities . Its purpose is to present you not only with the prerequisite mandatory knowledge of the available problem-solving techniques , but more importantly to expand your ability to frame...

Smashing WordPress Themes is all about making your WordPress site look beautiful. But, the beautiful part is a very personal thing, because we all have different preferences. So in essence, my book isn’t on Web design, but rather about giving you, dear reader, the tools to build the kind of site that you want to create, using WordPress...

The art of compiler construction is a fascinating subject- It integrates the mathe matical foundations of formal languages, a wealth of well-established techniques for syntactic analysis, semantic analysis and optimization, and a tremendous amount of practical experience accumulated over the past four decades in designing and us ing...

One of the most important things an architect can do is reflection. That is, examine systems, organizations, people and ask “What alternatives were considered and why was that particular decision made?” Thinking about the response gives an architect insight into the motivations and decision processes that others have used...

Service-Oriented Architecture is becoming the leading architecture for IT, and it is changing the way organisations work. IT is slowly but steadily gaining maturity, and becoming the flexible yet stable and reliable support for business it should be. At the same time, IT is regaining its potential to create real business innovation. SOA will...

This earliest recorded attempt to regulate the engineering profession reminds us, in the bluntest way possible, that the paramount purpose of engineering and engineering design is to serve the user. One would assume that the engineer’s responsibility to users is so self evident that it goes without saying. Various professional...

Non-photorealistic computer graphics is a multidisciplinary field in the research community, involving computer arts, computer graphics, computer vision, digital image/video processing and visual cognitive psychology. It aims at the computer generation of images and animations that are made in part “by hand” in appearance,...

Adigital flood is upon us. Content inundates us. It begins as bits of content swirling everywhere—a document, an image, a written corporate procedure, a web page, or an email. The binary mist mixes, combines, and rains down on us. It pools in laptops, on desktops, and in server farms. Creeks and streams meander to corporate reservoirs....

Audiovisual storytelling has a long, well-developed history. As far back as the earliest known prehistoric times, human beings have communicated the essence of story through the use of pictures and sound: whether it’s cave paintings of the hunt, a poet proclaiming the epic adventures of Odysseus, Greek actors performing tragedy...