Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important...
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple...
This is a book for developers of all kinds. However, it has
little to do with code. It doesn’t matter if you program in C#
or Ruby or Python or PHP or Java or JavaScript or Action-
Script. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working on
databases, writing server-side code, or scripting the...
Build Your Skills with Hundreds of Helpful Ideas from Two AutoCAD Superstars
Two AutoCAD experts distill years of combined experience into hundreds of the most useful AutoCAD tips and techniques you'll ever find. Fun, easy to read, and packed with information, this beautiful guide equips you with inside tricks on critical AutoCAD...
Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs
If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don't dream in computer code, take heart! Ruby on Rails was created for you, and this book will have...
This book provides the reader with an insight into which an activities an organization would be engaged and what the role of each level of management and the practitioners would be if their systems and software engineering processes were based onCMM®IntegrationSM. It captures the essence of each of the process areas by...
The growth of personal computing in the past two decades of the 20th century put a new emphasis on user interface design. As part of user interface design, companies began to focus on the usability of a product. The term usability has its roots in the 14th century, but as computing technology became prevalent in the 1980s, the definition...
HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad...
Parser building is a powerful programming technique that opens a world of opportunity for designing how users interact with applications. By creating mini-languages, you can precisely address the requirements of your application development domain. Writing your own parsers empowers you to access a database more effectively than SQL to efficiently...
If you’re like me, you use Google every day to find things—news, technical support,
events, tips, research documents, and more. Were you to master Google’s powerful
search refinement operators and lesser-known features, over a year’s time you could
save days scouring over irrelevant results.
