Microsoft’s principal data access technology, ADO.NET Entity Framework, has had two major releases as part of the .NET Framework. NET 3.5 brought us the first version of Entity Framework, which is covered in the first edition of Programming Entity Framework. In 2010, Microsoft .NET 4 was released; it contained the next version of...

Unless you have been off on a digital-free holiday, you’ve heard a lot of chatter about HTML5. As a web professional, it is apparent that having an understanding of HTML5 is not only beneficial—it’s essential. The future of the Web has radically changed course in the last few years from XHTML to HTML5, which means...

Over the years, as the Mac got bigger and more powerful, The Little Mac Book got bigger and...

Did you ever imagine yourself writing a computer game and being able to make money selling it? With Apple’s iTunes App Store and the accompanying mobile devices iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, it’s now easier than ever. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy— there’s still a lot to learn about game...

At first glance, Google+ (or Plus, the terms are interchangeable) seems awfully familiar. You can make Posts, like on...

What is machine learning? At the highest level of abstraction, we can think of machine learning as a set of tools and methods that attempt to infer patterns and extract insight from a record of the...

The web has completely revolutionized the way we live our lives—the average person in the UK now does an average of six Google searches a day. Within the lifetime of one generation, our entire society has changed, and it continues to be catalyzed by technology in a very fundamental way. For me, this is the most fascinating thing...

We can understand the multimedia technology as a digital integration of texts, graphics, audio, animation, still images and motion video in a way that provides a high level of personal interaction and control to individual users. The evolution of multimedia is a convergence of the mentioned media types to a unique system. Before the...

Welcome to Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5— Illustrated. The unique page design of the book makes it a great learning tool for both new and experienced users. Each skill is presented on two facing pages so that you don’t have to turn the page to find a screen shot or finish a paragraph. See the illustration on the right to learn...