With the dawn of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has offered us an easy way to create 3D mobile games. In this book, we will build a 3D game for Windows Phone 7 together, taking full advantage of the graphics and touch capabilities, along with the sensors of the platform.
A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.
In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills...
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years,...
Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devastating interruptions by building your own resilient and reliable applications in the public cloud. Guided by engineers from 9apps—an independent provider of Amazon Web Services and...
Leadership skills have now been universally recognised as
a key ingredient – some would say the key ingredient – in
management. A good manager is now by definition a leader.
Equally, a good leader will also be a manager.
But how do you become such a leader? Is it possible to
develop your own...
You have always dreamed of skydiving, imagining yourself in a free
fall, high above the earth, parachute ready to open with the pull of a
rip cord.
One day you decide to give it a try. You drive to the local airport
and quickly spot the skydiving center at the edge of a wide airfield,
far across a parking lot...
Welcome! This book is meant to launch you into the world of programming with the
open-source web content management system known as Drupal. Hopefully, with the
aid of this book, you will pass smoothly through the stage of being a novice Drupal
programmer, while avoiding making the mistakes that many expert Drupal...
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS6, the ability to work with XML content has
been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing
database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be
useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of...
This is the first book that provides a comprehensive review of the entire area of artificial cells. The author, a pioneer of the field, invented the first artificial cells some 50 years ago and has continued to carry out active research in this field. Since then, there have been explosive research activities around the world on artificial...
This is a no-nonsense principles book that emphasizes economic theory and applications. The book is a study tool for students and the pedagogical approach and in-text features were chosen to reinforce that theme. It provides students with a picture of economics as a unified discipline, a set of interrelated tools and ideas that can be used to...
DirectAccess, introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2, has been a ground breaking VPN-like connectivity solution, adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide. Allowing organizations to deploy without manually configuring every client and providing always-on connectivity has made this technology world-famous. Now, with Windows Server 2012,...
You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing...
