When migrating to the new wave of cloud-based applications, we now think about business logic, we think about automating processes, and we think about how we can make the systems better. Force.com is a cloud-based platform that is used to build and deploy enterprise applications on the cloud with minimum coding. Demand for Force.com experts...
The Internet, and in particular the World Wide Web, have effectively leveled the playing field for
businesses and individuals around the world. Do you have a great idea for a web site or a service? Even
the more advanced ideas can be relatively easily and cheaply realized without much in the way of initial
outlay. You can get...
Mention the word audit to IT professionals and you will probably see their eyes glaze over as
they imagine frightening visions of auditors with pointy tails, pitchforks, and checklists run
ning around and pointing out all of the things they have done wrong to their manager. The
purpose of a security audit is not to place blame or pick...
The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which
integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions
of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...
The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which
integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions
of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...
The Unity Game Engine has been shaking things up. The engine is only a little
over five years old now and in 2010 they have earned Develop Magazine's
Grand Prix Award and surpassed 170,000 developers. The user base of
consuming Unity products has grown dynamically as well. There are over
30 million total Unity Web Player...
We are very pleased to present this fifth edition of Project Management for Information Systems. As with its predecessors, our ‘target audience’ fall into four groups:
IS project managers and systems developers who find themselves responsible for managing systems projects. Newcomers to this activity will find...
Determining the best way to pose a subject—a way that
is simultaneously flattering, appropriate, and visually
appealing—can be one of the biggest challenges in designing
a successful portrait. This is especially true when creating
portraits of brides, where the photographer may be called
on to create anything from a very...
I’m delighted that Cengage Learning invited me to write this third edition
of Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter. The earlier books,
for versions X (pronounced “ten”) and 11 (pronounced “eleven”) were
greeted with very positive responses from users and critics, not just my
friends and...
Welcome to RPG Maker for Teens! This book will help you learn a complete
computer game software application engineered toward creating one particular
game genre: role-playing games!
Role-playing games, also known as RPGs, are those sword-and-sorcery quest
games that feature turn-based combat, inventories full of unique...
The original (and key) innovation of Dashboard Design was to bring together the flexibility, power and ubiquity of Excel with the visualization of Flash. This meant that a whole new group of people (basically anyone who understood Excel formulas) could produce sophisticated Flash animations. Over the years, this has led to an incredible array...
Until recently, most prepress tasks—such as scanning color
photographs, trapping, imposition, color correction, and halftone
screening—were performed exclusively by skilled specialists
working manually or on expensive proprietary systems. Today
many of these tasks can be accomplished on the desktop.
