Azure in Action is a fast-paced tutorial intended for architects and developers looking to develop cloud-based applications on the Windows Azure Platform. Written by two of Microsoft's leading Azure evangelists, it's designed both for readers new to cloud concepts and for those familiar with cloud development but new...
Photoshop compositing has really blown up over the last few years. You see composites everywhere
from magazine ads and covers, to movie posters, to athletic portraits, to, well, just about
any kind of portrait. It really is everywhere. Clients and customers are very aware of Photoshop
now and...
To put it in terms understandable to the many former English majors who now manage Windows networks: if Everyman were a system administrator, he'd run Windows 2000 Server. It supports pretty much any business requirement, yet it's user-friendly enough that anyone can learn to be an administrator with a bit of study. Mission Critical! Windows...
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 MacBook tasks. Each task-based...
"I commend this book to you as your springboard to the future of how to make the Net work." -from the Foreword by Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This hands-on developer's guide to Web services prepares you for the next level of distributed computing. The authors clearly show...
Eager to try this exciting new form of twenty-first century communication? This book makes it easy! A groundbreaking vlogger shows you what you need to get started, how to turn your text blog into a videoblog, how to make things easy for your adoring public, and even how to deal with little snags like stage...
Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing your...
In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most
Each chapter develops a different aspect of a Blender technique. The book is essentially a step-by-step tutorial, which builds up your knowledge throughout. It has practical examples such as lighting a tricycle in open space, lighting a wine bottle on a table, and lighting a room that has a lamp as well as sunlight coming in through the...
Flash Application Design Solutions shows you how to harness the power of ActionScript 2.0 and make the most of the improved design tools of Flash 8 to create usable, intuitive Flash interfaces.
In this book, you'll find a number of concrete Flash usability solutions that use elements such as navigation menus, data filtering, forms,...
