Welcome to Android Application Development For Dummies, the first For
Dummies book that covers Android application development. When
I was contacted to write this book, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to
spread the wealth of knowledge that I’d picked up over the past year and a
half of Android development. I hope you enjoy...
This book is intended for IT administrators to get a handle on SharePoint Foundation and is an
update of Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It is meant to be used both as a reference
for overworked network administrators who don’t have a lot of time to spare slogging through
articles and forums, and as a cover-to-cover...
Over the years as power costs have soared and data center space has become scarce and expensive
to acquire, enterprises and small businesses have been looking for ways to decrease their data center
footprints as well as reduce the overall costs of operating an IT infrastructure. As the number of
different applications being deployed in...
We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical...
Over the past decade or so, Extensible Markup Language (XML) has
become more widely used than ever before as a means of transferring data
between applications and even between organizations. XML provides a
standard protocol with which these applications and organizations can
communicate. Using XML Schema, a company can define a...
With more than 500 million active users around the world and still growing steadily, Facebook is more than just another social media site. In the words of author Dave Awl, Facebook is “the new town square”—the place where people gather to discuss the news of the day as well as share what’s going on in their lives. And...
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies...
Images are all around us. We see them in color and in high resolution. In fact, the
natural images we see with our eyes seem perfectly smooth, with no jagged edges and
no graininess. Computer graphics, on the other hand, deals with images that consist
of small dots, pixels. When we first hear of this feature of computer graphics, we...
One of the consequences of the information revolution is the ever-growing amount of
information we are surrounded with and the need to process this information
efficiently and extract meaningful knowledge. This phenomenon was termed “digital
obesity” or “information obesity” by Toshiba Ltd. One...
Since the late 1990s, Internet marketing has taken off as a dynamic
marketing channel because of its accuracy and ease of tracking. The
Internet has come a long way in a short time: As it grew, finding the sites
you were looking for with a directory became impossible. Search engines
appeared as the way forward, offering a way to have...
In the last few years SharePoint has taken the world by storm. In fact,
the product is one of the fastest growing products in the history of
Microsoft. Companies of all sizes are rapidly implementing SharePoint and
moving it to the center of their organization. The interesting thing about
SharePoint, however, is that if you ask ten...
Microsoft has recently changed its certification program to contain three primary series:
Technology, Professional, and Architect. The Technology Series of certifications are intended
to allow candidates to target specific technologies and are the basis for obtaining the Profes
sional Series and Architect Series of certifications. The...
