Slate-style computers have been around for a few years, but it took Apple to make them catch on with the general public in a big way when it introduced the iPad. This small, less than a pound-and-a-half wonder has sold millions of units in its first year for good reason: It’s well designed, feature rich, and opens up a world of...

Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax is the third in a series of books aimed at introducing designers and programmers to the process of developing browser-based interfaces. The first, Stylin’ with CSS, focuses on the structure and styling of content, and the second, Codin’ for the Web, focuses on the three-tier...

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I am excited to share my photographic knowledge of Yosemite National Park with all who seek it. In this book, I guide you to 29 of Yosemite’s most photogenic locations in alphabetical order. For each location, I tell you where the landmark is located, where to get the best image, when to get the best image, and what equipment...

Android is everywhere. Phones. Tablets. TVs and set-top boxes powered by Google TV. Soon, Android will be in cars and all sort of other places as well. However, the general theme of Android devices will be smaller screens and/or no hardware keyboard. And, by the numbers, Android will probably be associated mostly with smartphones for...

After over fifteen years of research and trial and error, micromap designs have evolved to the point where they are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull all of the work together into a book in order to introduce micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...

The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...

THE “CLOUD” IS ONE OF THE MOST tossed-around words these days in any IT conversation. But what does it mean? And what are the implications of the cloud for SharePoint? In fact, there are many implications for SharePoint with the cloud, ranging from extending existing solutions to use code or services that are deployed to the...

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In your hands is one of the most exciting devices to hit the market in quite some time: the iPhone 4S. This Quick Start Guide will help get you and your new iPhone 4S up and running in a hurry. You’ll learn all about the buttons, switches, and ports, and how to use the responsive touch screen, multitask and be introduced to Siri, the...

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When people speak of Ruby web development, it has historically been in reference to the opinionated juggernaut that is Rails. This is certainly not an unfounded association; Hulu, Yellow Pages, Twitter, and countless others have relied on Rails to power their (often massive) web presences, and Rails facilitates that process with zeal....