GIVEN THAT YOU’RE READING the introduction to a Wrox book about Ektron, you likely have (or will soon have) some level of technical responsibility for a website powered by the Ektron Framework. Maybe you’re tasked with the duty of maintaining an existing site and are looking for information to help make that process more...

The 12th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2006) was held in Nantes, France, September 24–29, 2006. Information about the conference can be found on theWeb at http://www.sciences. univ-nantes.fr/cp06/. Information about past conferences in the series can be found at...

Autodesk Inventor was introduced in 1999 as an ambitious 3D parametric modeler based not on the familiar AutoCAD programming architecture but instead on a separate foundation that would provide the room needed to grow into the fully featured modeler it is now, a decade later. Inventor 2011 continues the development of Inventor with...

Audiovisual storytelling has a long, well-developed history. As far back as the earliest known prehistoric times, human beings have communicated the essence of story through the use of pictures and sound: whether it’s cave paintings of the hunt, a poet proclaiming the epic adventures of Odysseus, Greek actors performing tragedy...

Storage technologies have fundamentally changed the landscape of digital media in a profound way. Gone are the days of using a single hard disk drive on a workstation as the sole means to store digital content. Nearly vanished is the practice of capturing video and audio only on videotape. The practice of transferring videotape...

It feels like ages ago since I began the journey of writing this book. In its first year, more than 4500 copies were sold, and its reception exceeded my wildest expectations. I am thankful to all those who bought it and also to those who took the time to spread the word to others. Because technology develops at such an unrelenting...

Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the  iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality...

Arduino is a family of microcontrollers (tiny computers) and a software creation environment that makes it easy for you to create programs (called sketches) that can interact with the physical world. Things you...

That statement encapsulates the view of The MathWorks, Inc., the developer of MATLAB®. MATLAB 6 is an ambitious program. It contains hundreds of com- mands to do mathematics. You can use it to graph functions, solve equations, perform statistical tests, and do much more. It is a high-level programming language that can communicate...

In the fall of 2004, at a popular software conference I realized how all major component vendors were advertising their ASP.NET products using a new word—Ajax. Only a few weeks later, a brand new module in my popular ASP.NET master class made its debut—using Ajax to improve the user experience. At its core, Ajax is a little...

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At least some people reading the title of this book may wonder why there should be one more book on the topic of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD). The short answer to this question is that in our teaching of the subject for over a decade, we have not been able to find a suitable textbook on this topic at our respective...