The modern world offers lots of readily available online resources for learning. Wikipedia,
Google, news sources, millions of Web sites and blogs, even YouTube, offer access to
information in nearly any subject that triggers your curiosity and interest. Nonetheless, I
continue to believe that for deep understanding of something, nothing...
Launched on October 23, 2001, the iPod has become the icon of the decade.
You don’t need much imagination to see why. Imagine no longer needing
to take CDs or DVDs with you when you travel — your favorite music and
videos fit right in your pocket and you can leave your precious content library
at home. With the iPhone and...
When I first discovered DMVs, I was enthralled because they made many difficult
things so easy. It was simple to identify, typically within seconds, the core performance
problems that affect SQL Server databases. For example, I could quickly
discover which queries were taking the longest time to run, which indexes were missing,
and...
You are holding the proceedings of FSE 2011, the 18th International Workshop
on Fast Software Encryption. This workshop was organized in cooperation with
the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It was held in Lyngby,
Denmark, during February 13–16, 2011.
The FSE 2011 Program Committee (PC) consisted of...
What’s a spectacular entertainment device, runs thousands of
apps, connects you to the Internet, lets you take high-resolution
photos and videos, handles any email you can throw at it, is a
wizard at Facebook and other social networking services, lets you videochat
with people across the world, opens the world of electronic...
Take the book you’re holding in your hands right now, and resize it so that
it’s easier to read.
Don’t feel bad—I’ve given you an impossible exercise, but I promise the
book will be filled with practical instead of ridiculous exercises from here on
out. That’s because we’re going to...
Welcome to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials, based on the Revit Architecture 2012 release.
What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...
Maybe you've heard the story—or probably urban legend—about the university that didn't lay any grass or pour any concrete when it first opened, leaving the campus grounds as solid dirt. Then, as students began to traverse the campus from one class to the next, campus planners mapped the common paths they took, and then...
The decision to write a book about this content management system was an easy one. At the time of this writing, WordPress powers more than 15 percent of all websites online. That's a considerable bite out of the Internet. Unfortunately, that also meant a lot of books had already been published on WordPress. After a couple of weeks, mulling...
For hundreds of years, the field of game design has drifted along under the radar of culture, producing
timeless masterpieces and masterful time-wasters without drawing much attention to itself-without, in fact,
behaving like a "field" at all. Suddenly, powered by the big bang of computer technology, game design has...
A dobe Photoshop is one of the most important computer programs of our age. It’s made photo editing a commonplace thing, something for the everyperson. Still, Photoshop can be a scary thing (especially that first purchase price!), comprising a jungle of menus and panels and tools and options and shortcuts as well as a bewildering...
The annual Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference (TSD), which originated in 1998, is
now starting its second decade. So far more than 1,000 authors from 45 countries have
contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognized platform for the presentation
and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in...
