Most of my friends and acquaintances are seniors, as I am, and I have spent a fair amount of time helping them get comfortable with computers in general and Windows 7 in particular. This book is written for them in a voice without jargon using relevant examples in clear, step-by-step instructions. This book zeroes in on only the most...

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Welcome to Yahoo User Interface 2.x Cookbook, the RAW edition. A RAW (Read As we Write) book contains all the material written for the book so far, but available for you right now, before it’s finished. As the author writes more, you will be invited to download the new material and continue reading, and learning. Chapters in a RAW...

Doug and I have known each other online for many years. We both became Microsoft MVPs about 10 years ago, and have been friends ever since. Both of us had been writing for magazines for years. Although we’d been talking about writing a book together for about five years now, there had always been an impediment, usually work, and...

Get comfortable using Facebook to reconnect with old friends and loved ones, explore new interests, and express your views...instantly and safely! Don't just read about it: see it, hear it, with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars delivered through the free Web Edition that comes with every USING book. For the price...

If you’re interested in creating a Web site, chances are that you’ve at least seen the terms HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash floating around. Maybe your friends talk about their WordPress blogs or Facebook pages and you don’t know whether you should do the same or dive into using a more powerful tool, like...

Boring, boring, boring. Isn’t this what immediately comes to mind when one sees books on foundational concepts of information security? Monotonous coverage of theory, dry details of history, brief yet inadequate coverage of every topic known to man, even though you know that you’ll never be hired by the NSA as a...

When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and a host of other sites for buying products, searching...

I started the Drupal project in my dorm room in...

This book is the revised and extended version of a Pfr.D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. Many of the ideas presented in this book have their roots in discussions with Eugene Wong, my mentor and thesis advisor. I would like to thank Gene...

The IBM Vienna Laboratory has made a significant contribution to the work on the semantic description of computer systems. Both the operational semantics descriptions ("VDL") and the later work on denotational semantics ("Meta-IV", "VEM") contain interesting scientific ideas. Partly because of the large...