Are you nervous? Intimidated? Befuddled and confused beyond all recourse? What did they do to Word? Just when you thought you finally had a leg up on the program, just as you finally remembered that the Sort command is on the Tables menu, they’ve gone and changed . . . everything! What a headache!
At its heart, jQuery does something that sounds pretty dull: it lets you modify the contents of HTML
documents by manipulating the model that the browser creates when it processes the HTML (known as
DOM manipulation, as I’ll explain later). If you are reading this, you have probably already done some
DOM manipulation, either using...
Welcome to Practical Shader Development. This book is intended to be the gentlest introduction possible to the theory and practice of writing shaders for video games. Shader writing is a very large topic, and I can remember feeling very lost when I was starting out. My hope is that this book will help you avoid that same feeling and allow you...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, AOIS 2005, held in Utrecht, Netherlands, in July 2005 and in Klagenfurt, Austria, in October 2005.
The 19 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement...
We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Office proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Office 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office...
After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web...
Hollywood is under attack from videogames. Movies defined the 20th century but games are now pushing them aside as the medium that captures our time, fascination and money. Generation Xbox digs into the love-hate relationship between games and cinema that has led us to this point. It's a story of disaster, triumph and Angelia Jolie in hot...
Objective-C is a wonderful language that has received far less attention than it deserves. It has suddenly become (more) popular with the success of Apple’s Mac OS X and iPhone, where it is the supreme development language. If you’re going to learn a language to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, Objective-C is the language...
An excellent beginners' guide to the basics you'll need to know in order to get through the rest of the MCSE/MCSA exams, Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment should be the first book you buy--and it'll continue to come in handy with the rest of the exams you'll take.
Essentially, this book is the absolute minimum you...
BlackBerry Planet is a new tribe of people who simply cannot get along without their favorite device, Research in Motion’s innovative electronic organizer, the BlackBerry. This omnipresent device has gone beyond being the world’s foremost mobile business tool and entered the consumer mainstream as the Swiss Army Knife of smart...
If your household harbors more than one computer, you’ve probably wondered about home networking. Maybe you’ve gone so far as to start setting up a network and given up in frustration. Well, now you can relax. Home Networking All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies has come to the rescue!
I was first introduced to Balsamiq while working as the Director of User Experience
for a software company in Chicago. Until that point in my career, I had been
designing user interfaces and clickable prototypes using Photoshop, handcoding
layouts in HTML and CSS, and spending a lot of time learning prototype software
like...
