The combination of PHP and MySQL is the most convenient approach to dynamic,
database-driven web design, holding its own in the face of challenges from integrated
frameworks—such as Ruby on Rails—that are harder to learn. Due to its open source
roots (unlike the competing Microsoft .NET framework), it is...
Welcome to Adobe® InDesign® CS6, a powerful design and production application
that offers precision, control, and seamless integration with other Adobe professional
graphics software. Using InDesign, you can produce professional-quality, full-color
documents on high-volume color printing presses, or print to a range of...
Adobe Flash Professional CS6 provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating interactive and media-rich applications. Flash is widely used to create engaging projects integrating video, sound, graphics, and animation. You can create original content in Flash or import assets from other Adobe...
Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and
feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics with Joomla! and build a mobile website that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create...
2011 was a special year for C++. With the ratification of the new standard, C++11
empowers you to write better code using new keywords and constructs that increase your
programming efficiency. This book helps you learn C++11 in tiny steps. It has been
thoughtfully divided into lessons that teach you the fundamentals of this...
Electrotherapy is fast gaining mainstream acceptance, no doubt due to the growing mountain of clinical evidence demonstrating its effectiveness. To meet the growing demand for information, this scientifically rigorous guide gives healthcare professionals and engineers essential technical, biological, and clinical background together with...
When researching in preparation to write this book, we discovered that some Blender users
try to learn Blender three times and give up twice before they become comfortable with
Blender's effective, if unusual, interface. The editors at Packt and I decided that this was a
problem that could be solved. The answer is to explain...
And then there was light – a lightweight database! How often have we all wanted some
database that was "just a data store"? Sure, you can use it in many complex ways but in
the end, it's just a plain simple data store. Welcome MongoDB!
And then there was light – a lightweight language that...
Learn how to create beautiful, interactive, browser-based data visualizations with the D3 JavaScript library. This hands-on book shows you how to use a combination of JavaScript and SVG to build everything from simple bar charts to complex infographics. You’ll learn how to use basic D3 tools by building visualizations based on...
In this book, Dan Zambonini hasn’t written a silver bullet. What
he’s written – through years of research, commercial success and
failures – is a manual to help you know what’s involved. He’s been
there and done it. Learnt the mistakes, recorded them here so we
can benefit. If you’re a...
The Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician title of the Microsoft Official
Academic Course (MOAC) series includes two books: a textbook and a lab manual. The
exercises in the lab manual are designed either for a virtual machine environment or for
classroom use under the supervision of an instructor or lab aide. In an...
Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the...
