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Breakthrough!: A 7-Step System for Developing Unexpected and Profitable Ideas

AMACOM, 2010

Consider some big ideas that have become business and cultural phenomena: how Starbucks transformed a declining coffee market by combining an experience destination with a premium product. Or how the established notion that "dolls are for girls" was shattered by a toy line called G.I. Joe. Most people mistakenly think breakthrough...

Windows Game Programming with Visual Basic and DirectX

Que, 2001

I’ve been fascinated by computer games for years. Some of my first experiences date back to the late 1960s when I was in junior high school. I was allowed to skip math class once a week to use an old teletype terminal. I spent hours punching a tic-tac-toe game written in BASIC onto paper tape so that I could play it when I...

Mudbox 2013 Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

Sculpting software has changed the face of the 3D industry. Whether you are creating a character for the next Avatar movie or adding details to a post apocalyptic city in The Last of Us, 3D sculpting has become an essential tool for creating a level of realism in digital art that was much harder to achieve in the past. A couple of...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

Sams Publishing, 2012

You are about to embark on a fantastic journey! System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is an exciting, new version of the Configuration Manager product line. While each release of Configuration Manager, or the predecessor product—Systems Management Server—has been a great improvement over the previous version, we...

Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

About 2 years ago, in the spring of 2010, Microsoft released Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 proved to be a platform ready for Line-of-Business application development. Numerous developers learned how to build great apps with it, which can run both within the browser and as a stand-alone application on the user's machine....

The Architecture Of Open Source Applications

Lulu.com, 2012

Carpentry is an exacting craft, and people can spend their entire lives learning how to do it well. But carpentry is not architecture: if we step back from pitch boards and miter joints, buildings as a whole must be designed, and doing that is as much an art as it is a craft or science.

Programming is also an exacting...

Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design (Voices That Matter)

New Riders Publishing, 2012

This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what...

Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement (Series on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering)

World Scientific Publishing, 2011

The expansion of our reliance on software in many aspects of modern society has coincided with a number of incidents in aeronautics, astronautics, transportation, medical devices, energy generation, banking and finance. Failures caused by software have introduced more than just inconvenience, but significant property damage,...

Digital Privacy: PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe

Springer, 2011

Information technologies are becoming pervasive and powerful to the point that the privacy of citizens is now at risk. Indeed, more and more of our daily transactions are conducted electronically and require us to transmit personal information. Examples include using an electronic identity card to prove one’s age in a...

Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz

O'Reilly, 2012

This book began life as a comparatively short chapter in a book called Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners (O’Reilly, 2005). That book was superseded by SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code (O’Reilly, 2009), where the design material, since it was somewhat tangential to...

SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

PowerShell is Microsoft's new command-line shell and scripting language that promises to simplify automation and integration across different Microsoft applications and components. Database professionals can leverage PowerShell by utilizing its numerous built-in cmdlets, or using any of the readily available .NET classes, to automate...

Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

ESRI Press, 2000

All geographic information systems (GIS) are built using formal models that describe how things are located in space. A formal model is an abstract and well-defined system of concepts. It defines the vocabulary that we can use to describe and reason about things. A geographic data model defines the vocabulary for describing and reasoning...

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