Audiovisual storytelling has a long, well-developed history. As far back as
the earliest known prehistoric times, human beings have communicated the
essence of story through the use of pictures and sound: whether it’s cave paintings
of the hunt, a poet proclaiming the epic adventures of Odysseus, Greek
actors performing tragedy...
Active Directory is a common repository for information about objects that reside on
the network, such as users, groups, computers, printers, applications, and files. The
default Active Directory schema supports numerous attributes for each object class that
can be used to store a variety of information. Access Control Lists (ACLs) are...
This book is a practical guide to testing in Moodle. You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as True/False, multiple choice, short answer, and so on. After you have learned how to create questions you will follow a step-by-step process to create complete tests by tweaking various options. Once you have gone...
Response to the iPhone, the iPod touch, and now the iPad has been nothing short of overwhelming. The App Store has captured the hobbyist’s imagination like no other platform in recent memory. Hobbyists have made—and will continue to make—money from their creations sold on the App Store. And we aren’t necessarily...
SharePoint 2010 enables businesses to set up collaboration with, and for, many types of entities (employees, vendors, customers, and so on) while integrating disparate technologies. It has proved so valuable a tool at many organizations that its growth has led it to become a mission-critical application. As SharePoint has grown through each...
In early 2004, DTrace remained nascent; while Mike Shapiro, Adam Leventhal, and I had completed our initial implementation in late 2003, it still had substantial gaps (for example, we had not yet completed user-level instrumentation on x86), many missing providers, and many features yet to...
In this section you will learn to build a Flex application. You will discover that Macromedia Flex Markup Language (MXML) is a great markup language to quickly create a working application. The application will load data from RSS and will display information accordingly. To get to this result, we need some theory about the Flex framework and...
This book is written for those who need to create professionalquality
web video or podcasts. We set out to write a book that
would offer expert-level advice on all aspects of web video. We
realize most of you reading this will have diverse backgrounds, so
we will attempt to deliver information at two levels.
Doing business online is no longer an oddity, but the norm, and
companies desiring to remain competitive have to maintain
some form of online presence. Doing business online means a
company has to be able to efficiently, reliably, and securely take payments
from consumers and other merchants. This book is written to
provide the...
This book is about a state of the art tool, Flowcode[registered], and how you can use Flowcode to develop microcontroller applications. The book starts very simply with a tutorial project and step-by-step instructions. As you go along the projects increase in difficulty and the new concepts are explained. Each project has a clear description...
Linux is truly amazing when you consider how it originated and how it continues to evolve. From its modest beginning as the hobby of one person — Linus Torvalds of Finland — Linux has grown into a full-fledged operating system with features that rival those of any commercial UNIX operating system. To top it off, Linux — with...
There are many students and professionals in science and engineering, other than those specifically
interested in fields such as computer science or computer engineering, who need to
know how to solve computational problems on computers. There are basically two approaches
to meeting the needs of such people. One is to rely on software...
