Flash’s evolution is unique, even for the fast-changing computer software world.
First released in 1996 under the name FutureSplash, it was a tool for creating
web-based animations. It’s still the go-to application for that job; however,
along the way it’s acquired new capabilities. Today, Flash...
Hello and welcome to the fourth edition of Learning Web Design.
So much has happened since the previous edition! Just when it looked like
things were beginning to settle down with the adoption of web standards
by the browser creators and the development community, along comes the
“Mobile...
Penetration testing is one of the core aspects of network security in today's scenario. It involves a complete analysis of the system by implementing real-life security tests. It helps in identifying potential weaknesses in the system's major components which can occur either in its hardware or software. The reason which makes...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
