Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe’s creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. If Adobe InDesign is the one app in the suite that makes you feel like you’re entering a foreign country where you don’t speak the language,...
By now, you have written an iOS application or two. You have also learned that making
a great app is hard work. From spontaneous crashes to memory leaks and bugs that
create other bugs, the simplest of apps can quickly become a nightmare. Fortunately,
these issues are easy to diagnose with the tools at our disposal.
PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...
If you’re reading this book, you’re probably a web designer who has heard of Drupal,
wants to get started with it, and may have even tried it out a couple of times. And you
might be frustrated because even if you’re used to code, Drupal has thrown you a major
learning curve that you hadn’t expected....
When people speak of Ruby web development, it has historically been in reference to
the opinionated juggernaut that is Rails. This is certainly not an unfounded association;
Hulu, Yellow Pages, Twitter, and countless others have relied on Rails to power their
(often massive) web presences, and Rails facilitates that process with zeal....
Smashing WordPress Themes is all about making your WordPress site look beautiful. But, the beautiful part is a very personal thing, because we all have different preferences. So in essence, my book isn’t on Web design, but rather about giving you, dear reader, the tools to build the kind of site that you want to create, using WordPress...
Most anywhere in the developed world, I can use a small rectangular piece of plastic,
issued to me by a bank I have never visited, to obtain local currency or purchase
goods and services directly from a merchant. The cashier and I may not even speak a
common language, and the face of my card may look quite different from those carried...
Late last year, in 2008, I was fi nishing work on another book called Electricity
for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician when Danielle Monroe, one of
the many wonderful people at Focal Press, sent me an email. Almost as an
afterthought—one of those oh-by-the-ways—she mentioned that we should
start work on...
I am not an expert. I have never claimed to be an expert at anything
(at least not seriously done so), least of all an expert in forensic
analysis. I am not an expert in Windows Registry analysis. I am
simply, by profession, a responder and analyst with some work
and research experience in this area. I have also performed a
number...
Interests between broadcasters and telecom people are blurring. Technical operations and design engineers in one field are increasingly required to deal with practices and techniques in the other. The problem is expectations and terminology differences aren't recognized until...
