Gone are the days when you could satisfy your clients with the creation of simple Flash effects using the timeline. Things have changed… a lot! Basic animated tweens aren’t enough any longer—people expect more now, from scalable and reusable scripted animation, to external data interaction.
Sass and Compass in Action is the definitive guide to stylesheet authoring using these two revolutionary tools. Written for both designers and developers, this book demonstrates the power of both Sass and Compass through a series of examples that address common pain points associated with...
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Nowadays, highly-detailed animations of live-actor performances are increasingly easier to acquire and 3D Video has reached considerable attentions in visual media production. In this book, we address the problem of extracting or acquiring and then reusing non-rigid parametrization for video-based animations. At first sight, a crucial...
Get up to speed in Visual C++ in a flash with these instant answers to your programming questions. Visual C++ 6 For Dummies Quick Reference is the fast and friendly way to get the most from your C++ programming for the Windows 95 and Windows 98 environments without having to spend hours on end poring through dense reference books....
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback - features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. However, Silverlight is a great (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business...
About 2 years ago, in the spring of 2010, Microsoft released Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 proved
to be a platform ready for Line-of-Business application development. Numerous developers
learned how to build great apps with it, which can run both within the browser and as a
stand-alone application on the user's machine....
As the size and complexity of software systems grows, so does the need for
effectivemodularity, abstraction and compositionmechanisms to improve the reuse
of software development assets during software systems engineering. This need
for reusability is dictated by pressures to minimise costs and shorten the time
to market....
Take Your Next Leap Forward as an iOS App Developer! Covers iOS 7 and Xcode 5
iOS Components and Frameworks will help you leverage iOS’s powerful components and frameworks to build apps with outstanding performance, reliability,...
Part of the fun of programming in Perl lies in tackling tedious tasks with short, efficient, and reusable code. Often, the perfect tool is the one-liner, a small but powerful program that fits in one line of code and does one thing really well.
In Perl One-Liners, author and impatient hacker Peteris...
Build server-side applications more efficiently—and improve your PHP programming skills in the process—by learning how to use design patterns in your code. This book shows you how to apply several object-oriented patterns through simple examples, and demonstrates many of them in full-fledged working applications.
