All students interested in researching the Internet are living in very interesting and
exciting times. From the Internet’s beginning in the 1960s up to the present day,
the Internet has grown to become a vast platform where there are now 2 billion
users of this global infrastructure.1 Predictions are that this number will rise to...
This book is about plugins for JIRA, the popular issue tracker from Atlassian. An issue
tracker lets people collaborate better when there are things to be done. You can use an
issue tracker for everything from tracking bugs in software, to customer support requests,
and beyond. Plugins extend what JIRA can do and can be developed...
Welcome to the world of
Microsoft Word 2010. This new Picture
Yourself book from Cengage Learning will
help you use the many and varied features of one
of Microsoft’s most popular products—Microsoft
Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Microsoft Word 2010 is a powerful word processing
program that will take your...
Gaining access to the interactive learning activities on this Online Companion is
easy—all you need to do is create a user profile. This simple, one-time process
establishes you as a user in the CoursePort authentication system. By utilizing the
Online Companion, students and instructors can reinforce the concepts they’re...
VueScan is the world's most widely used software interface for digitizing film and prints on flatbed and film scanners. This powerful yet affordable program supports over 1500 scanners and 321 digital camera RAW file types, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Much more than a simple scanner program, VueScan...
SolidWorks as a topic of learning is a huge, sprawling expanse. There is a lot to know, and a lot to write about. While I have made every effort to be complete in this book, I'm sure there are some niche topics that have gone untreated. New in 2011, I have taken this book from a single volume of an immense scope to two individual volumes,...
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an exceptional programming language and
environment. The language has grown out of a need to have a programming language that
would allow more business-focused individuals to write programs, but equally support the
programming features that developers look for in a product. The...
In 2009, it is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people have access to the Internet, including
220 million in the U.S. alone. Throw in 338 million Chinese users, 55 million German users, 48
million British users, 38 million Russian users, and 67 million Brazilians, and you can see the
meaning of the word “world” in the...
This book on the Twitter API is geared to the programmer who is just a bit past
beginner—who knows the basics of LAMP, including how to set up a basic server,
PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You do not have to be an expert programmer to
use this book, but you should know how to look things up. In writing this book, we
have tried...
Don’t be fooled. Although the .5 might give the impression that Dreamweaver CS5.5 is a point release, it’s anything but. Dreamweaver engineers have packed a stunning amount of new features into this version. To mention just a few, there’s code hinting for the popular jQuery JavaScript library, the ability to see what pages...
This text is an introduction to object-oriented (OO) design for second-year or higher
undergraduate computer science students. It discusses software design and implementation
in terms of “elegance,” which is defined in Chapter 1. It reviews the concepts
of object-oriented programming and then covers fundamental software...
With the Fedora Linux operating system and the instructions in this book, you can transform your PC into a safe, powerful, and free computer system. Starting with Fedora, you can easily replace (or coexist with) Microsoft Windows on your everyday desktop computer. You can also configure your computer to share your files, printers, Web pages,...
