The Linux operating system is not limited to just game or open source programming, but can be used to build the same applications as in any other commercial UNIX environment. This book provides information, techniques, and source code for developing commercial-grade applications on the Linux operating system. Backed by industry leaders like...
The new Tablet PC combines the latest incarnation of previous notebook computing technologies (i.e., digital ink and voice commands) with the power and reliability of Windows XP, possibly making it the most versatile PC ever. Developing Tablet PC Applications teaches programmers how to create applications for this exciting new...
"This book is an exceptional training manual to bring a web developer or flash designer with scripting skills into an entirely new world of coding."-Christopher Ian Smith, XML Developer, RespondTV.com
"This is a 'must-read' for any Flash developer."-John Paul Rawlins, Editor...
Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with ‘locative media’ technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile technologies to track their players’ location. This book traces the...
What does it take to successfully launch and scale a startup in Asia? While much of modern business literature covers Silicon Valley and its founders, building a company in Asia?a world center of technology and innovation?is a vastly different journey, and not nearly as widely covered. This book aims to change that.
Be proud of your scars. They’re signs that you survived whatever tried to break you.
For Devon Still, life has been a journey from one scar to the next. From one challenge to the next. His is a story of pushing through pain and overcoming obstacles of all shapes and sizes—of choosing to fight...
Practical, hands-on fiction writing fundamentals. Delve into the secrets of writing fiction, presented in clear language to make them easily-graspable and useable.
Lamplighter brings her years of writing and editing experience to this new approach to understanding storytelling and how...
Among all the technologies that have been flourishing in the
last decade, there is one that is becoming essential for our
society and it’s enhancing all the other tech fields as well as
every aspect of our life: Artificial Intelligence (AI). From
navigation systems to smart cars and from virtual assistants to
augmented...
The purpose of this book is to demystify the techniques associated with the field of artificial intelligence. It will cover a wide variety of techniques currently defined as "AI" and show how they can be useful in practical, everyday applications.
Many books on artificial intelligence provide tutorials for AI methods, but...
The world of 3D modeling and animation is a complex one. Lucky for you, with Inside 3ds max 7, you get not just one instructor but a team of expert developers and trainers who cover the newly revised program from every angle. Using case studies to uncover real-word solutions as well as hands-on tutorials to help you arrive at practical answers...
The aim of this book is to make people think about virtual world design. Whether you agree with any of it is not an issue, as long as you advance your own thoughts on the subject.
Too much virtual world design is derivative. Designers take one or more existing systems as...
This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is...
