Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation—and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you’ll walk you through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine classic storytelling techniques...
Object tracking is a broad and important fi eld in computer science, addressing
the most different applications in the educational, entertainment, industrial,
and manufacturing areas. Since the early days of computer vision, the state of
the art of visual object tracking has evolved greatly, along with the available
imaging devices...
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is the fourth incarnation of the popular collaboration and
content management platform from Microsoft. With each release, the reach and capabilities
of SharePoint products and technologies have grown, offering new tools to organizations
and new opportunities to developers. With SharePoint 2010, you...
Recent trends in computer architecture make concurrency and parallelism an essential ingredient of efficient program execution. The actor model of concurrency allows you to express real-world concurrency in a natural way using concurrent processes that communicate via asynchronous messages.
Scala is a programming language for the Java...
This book serves as both a textbook and a reference for using Inkscape to produce high-quality drawings. It includes a series of tutorials followed by chapters that cover completely each facet of the Inkscape program. The book is full of tips and notes to enable the user to make the best use of the program.
Every organization, no matter what the business involved, to achieve efficiency
needs efficient people working for them. For a long time now, operating systems
and applications have represented important tools in the work of these people and
organizations. And if we are not capable of providing users with the proper tools,
gaining an...
Tags are used in HTML5 to place and organize content at a level
that is descriptive. This does not mean that the page will look
good. Presentation of content on the page is controlled using
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3, or CSS3, in HTML5.
There are times, however, when you need to present graphics,
too. Typically, HTML...
PowerShell is a scripting language built into Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. PowerShell is designed to help you perform routine and repetitive tasks in a scriptable fashion. PowerShell helps alleviate many of the time-consuming and tedious tasks administrators have had to do in the past. You may have used various scripting technologies over...
Stable and dependable IT services and infrastructures are nowadays of paramount
importance not only for modern enterprises but also for home users. However, as
distributed information infrastructures continue to spread and grow, resulting in
Internet-based, wireless and mobile systems, traditional solutions for managing and...
The development of Hypertext Markup Language stopped in 1999 with its final version, n.4, made by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Technology, however, has not stood still in the meantime: the W3C
also worked on interesting projects such as the generic Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
to XML, as well as on new markup...
PHP is mainstream. Wherever you look, you will see PHP meet - ups, job openings, and major companies
using this open source language to support their business. An open source language with such humble
beginnings is now heavily rooted in the enterprise world. PHP is brushing shoulders with the “ the big
kids ” now — the...