Advanced Crime Scene Photography developed over time and out of my experiences as a crime scene investigator with a large metropolitan police department. Like any major city, violent crime is prevalent, offering numerous opportunities to utilize the different skills and techniques learned and evolved through numerous schools, scene...

On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. As with many things, the test was purely accidental. Graham spilled acid on his leg, and Watson, his assistant, heard his call for help through the telephone. So, what has changed over the last 129 years? It would be easier to discuss what hasn’t...

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...

 SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA...

Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain...

Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look...

This radical first course on complex analysis brings a beautiful and powerful subject to life by consistently using geometry (not calculation) as the means of explanation. Aimed at undergraduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering, the book's intuitive explanations, lack of advanced prerequisites, and consciously...

This book is for anyone who wants to implement large-scale software reuse through object-oriented (00) application frameworks. Its purpose is to help the reader understand one of the hottest technologies related to software reuse-frameworks-and provide guidelines for making decisions about this technology. Decision makers such as...

Welcome to BlackBerry Development Fundamentals. I hope you enjoy reading this book and keep it on your bookshelf for a long time. After working for Research In Motion (RIM) and helping its customers understand their options for building custom applications for the BlackBerry platform, I knew the time was right for a book like this....

The jQuery Mobile framework is jQuery’s latest rabbit out of the hat project. The jQuery Mobile framework is open source and is supported by all the big players: iOS, Android, Bada, BlackBerry, Nokia, Adobe, and so, covering all the names behind the project. It is a truly cross platform framework and porting applications made in...