Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have changed everything. Some managers fear their employees will waste entire days using online social media. Smart managers, though, understand that social media is a powerful tool for engaging customers and growing...

Adobe MAX is a conference sponsored by Adobe every year to bring together developers and designers who work with Adobe technologies and enable them to learn new techniques, network with one another, and, in general, get excited about the company and its products. Of course, the attendees of a conference like MAX are almost by...

Communities have built collections of information in a collaborative manner for centuries. Around 250 years ago, more than 140 people wrote l’Encyclopedie in 28 volumes with 70,000 articles. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how collaborative efforts can be a powerful method of building a massive data storage. It is...

What’s a spectacular entertainment device, runs thousands of apps, connects you to the Internet, lets you take high-resolution photos and videos, handles any email you can throw at it, is a wizard at Facebook and other social networking services, lets you videochat with people across the world, opens the world of electronic...

Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...

An open source content management system (CMS) like WordPress can be a great resource for anyone who would like to create a blog. It used to be that, to put content online, you had to manually assemble all the files and develop a fair amount of technical expertise; but a CMS can automate and significantly simplify many parts of the...

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Social media can be an incredibly powerful marketing tool that brings a company or organization huge rewards. But for beginners in this new world, the potential risks are also high. Consumers are particularly passionate in the online world; the most active social networkers are poised to be your brand's gushing fans—or your most...

From its beginnings, the Internet has fostered communication, collaboration and networking between users. However, the first boom at the turn of the millennium was mainly driven by a rather one-sided interaction: e-commerce, portal sites and the broadcast models of mainstream media were introduced to theWeb. Over the last six or seven...

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PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage...