The 13th IMA Conference on Cryptography and Coding was held at the Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK, during December 12–15, 2011. This event was a 25th anniversary celebration of the very successful biennial IMA conference series. Traditionally, the conference has taken place at the Royal Agricultural College,...

Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...

Complete guides give the comprehensive overview of their destinations to give travellers the maximum variety of choices and need-to-know local information in their chosen city or country, without glossing over any of the details. Through itineraries, regions and areas are broken down to allow for detailed guides to each of the areas and...

Written by experienced process improvement professionals who have developed and implemented systems in organizations around the world, Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach provides you with specific techniques for performing process improvement using the CMMI and the family of CMMI models. Kulpa and Johnson describe the...

Great code doesn’t just function: it clearly and consistently communicates your intentions, allowing other programmers to understand your code, rely on it, and modify...

Start programming in Visual C# 2005 right away -- even if you don't have formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Visual C# 2005 Demystified, programming instructor Jeff Kent provides an effective, illuminating, and entertaining way to learn to use this...

From document type definitions and XQuery to Web services and form development, this book takes you through all of the XML capabilities that companies want to implement today. It not only covers the basics of XML and the XML specification, but also shows you the XML-based applications that are driving the tech industry forward, such as blogging...