Any organization that has a searchable web site or intranet is sitting on top of hugely valuable and usually under-exploited data: logs that capture what users are searching for, how often each query was searched, and how many results each query retrieved. Search queries are gold: they are real data that show us exactly what users are...
Have you ever been in a hurry and pounded in a nail using something other than a
hammer? Or perhaps settled an argument concerning distances with “the length of my
arm is about 20 inches, and that’s about two arm lengths...”? You might not be willing
to fall for such obviously flawed shortcuts, but...
The Beginner's Guide to Sony Vegas Pro 11 is a great education and revision tool for the
users of this powerful video editing software package. By working through the tutorial
projects, the reader will gain a strong understanding of how the software works and the
processes for creating exciting video projects. For the...
From the birth of photography in the 19th century with the work of Frenchmen
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Englishman
William Fox Talbot, and American John Locke, until today, at the beginning of
the 21st century, the ultimate goal of photographers has always been to show their
best...
OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS I’VE WRITTEN 18 BOOKS on various programming topics. You might wonder,
why so many…? Didn’t I get it right the fi rst time? Well, no, I didn’t…not really. When I wrote
my fi rst book more than 30 years ago, object-oriented programming (OOP) was obscure at best
and unknown to...
Accounting for Non-Accountants is the perfect accounting guide for anyone who has never taken an accounting class, and has no idea what a balance sheet, income statement, or statement of cash flow is.
Dr. Wayne Label covers it all, in a style that's easy to understand and apply. This guide will help you get your...
I’ve been fascinated by computer games for years. Some of my first experiences date back to
the late 1960s when I was in junior high school. I was allowed to skip math class once a
week to use an old teletype terminal. I spent hours punching a tic-tac-toe game written in
BASIC onto paper tape so that I could play it when I...
Iam a music lover. Big time. My wife and I try to catch at least one or two major shows a month, and I’m an “A Train” member of and frequent visitor to our local jazz club. (That’s the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, one of the best in the nation.) I have more than 1,700 albums in my music collection, or more than...
Now updated—your expert guide to twenty-first century information security
Information security is a rapidly evolving field. As businesses and consumers become increasingly dependent on complex multinational information systems, it is more imperative than ever to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data....
Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleties of this layout would be lost when converted to ePub, so we have chosen to offer this ebook only in PDF format, which keeps the page...
Language has magical properties. The word “glamour”—which was originally a synonym for magic or spell-casting—has its origins in the word “grammar.” Of all the capabilities of language, the act of naming is the most magical and powerful of all.
CoffeeScript is “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.”1 It aims to smooth over some of JavaScript’s rougher edges while highlighting and augmenting the impressive flexibility at the core of the JavaScript language. It’s clean, concise, and maintainable, and makes writing client-side code really, really...
