The modern wireless communication industry has put great demands on
circuit designers for smaller, cheaper transceivers in the gigahertz frequency
range. One tool which has assisted designers in satisfying these requirements is
the use of on-chip inductive elements (inductors and transformers) in silicon (Si)
radio-frequency...
It’s often difficult to predict which areas of a field will become rejuvenated and grow rapidly or spin off to fit with another to form something new. The field of electro-optics is also unpredictable, but currently it has numerous forces acting on it. First is the development of new optical sources such as ultrafast lasers and fiber...
Apple has a history of alternating its releases between user-focus and developer-focus. The good news about iOS 5 is that it's all about the developers. The
addition of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) alone is worth the upgrade for developers. In one move, Apple has eliminated the number one cause of
crashes in iOS applications,...
We saw our first iPad in a theater in Hollywood, California, in the
summer of 1968. It appeared in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey,
and the iPad (called a Newspad in the Arthur C. Clarke novel on
which the movie is based) made its debut when astronaut Dave
Bowman used it to view the news while having a horrific-looking
meal...
Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...
The purpose of this collection is to present some of the diversity of ideas
and studies about species that can be classifi ed as “ecosystem engineers.”
As with any developing concept, we fi nd disagreement about the
meaning and usefulness of this term in the literature and among ourselves.
The idea for the book...
Your website has just crashed, and you’re losing money. The application is
built on Rails, runs on MRI, and is served up with Mongrel and Apache.
Having this kind of infrastructure means that you’re managing more processes
than you can count on two hands.
Everyone cool seems to agree: Ruby on Rails is an amazing way to build web
applications. Ruby is a powerful and flexible programming language, and Rails takes
advantage of that flexibility to build a web application framework that takes care of a
tremendous amount of work for the developer. Everything sounds great!...
Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a color, or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. All designers have their own way of working and their own combinations of the thousands of techniques one can apply when planning a new...
Both of the first author’s (Jon’s) parents were artists. They each could draw fantastical pictures that resembled real life, and were shocked to see that their son could barely muster up a stick figure. If you’ve always felt that your inner artist was best expressed through what you could build with the help of a computer...
Expression Web is a powerful web development product, and there are plenty of books about it. That puts readers in a tight spot when trying to figure out which book to purchase to learn how to use Expression Web to its fullest. I’ve read a lot of technical books in my career, and the ones I value the most are the...
If you’re reading this book, you’re probably a web designer who has heard of Drupal,
wants to get started with it, and may have even tried it out a couple of times. And you
might be frustrated because even if you’re used to code, Drupal has thrown you a major
learning curve that you hadn’t...
