Do you like to tweet? Or follow other people’s tweets? Are you a heavy Facebook user? Do you like to follow your favorite entertainers on MySpace? Do you network with other business professionals on LinkedIn? If you engage in one or more of these activities, you know how time consuming the whole social networking thing can be. This is...

This book is intended to infect its readers with an interest and concern for game protection. My goal is not to preach to the ”security converted,” but to convince game designers, developers, programmers, managers, marketeers, and artists that they should care about the security of their games and give them confidence that there are...

In the progression from problem to idea to solution, the designer may describe what she does in commercial terms (business...

If you're like many users, you may have a digital camera, plenty of snapshots, and a copy of Photoshop Elements, Adobe's consumer-level image editing software. But as anyone who's just come back from vacation with hundreds of digital photos knows, getting all those photos printed and organized is another matter altogether. Many...

Every day, out in the various discussion boards devoted to Microsoft SQL Server, the same types of questions come up again and again: Why is this query running slow? Is my index getting used? Why does this query run faster than this query? My response is the same n in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? Execution plans provide a...