Most people know that quality of service (QoS) in telecommunications has
grown in importance over the past decade. This is thanks to the new competitive
environment which has followed as a direct result of privatization and
de-regulation, forcing companies to increase the quality of their networks and
services. Yet QoS means...
Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down & Dirty Tricks series. Yes, this book is an insane collection of some of the most mind-blowing Photoshop effects you’ve ever seen in one place. Ever wonder how that movie...
Art or science?Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization?
This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years of
experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to helping people
understand them and take action. When we look at beautiful hand-drawn pictures
of...
This book is the result of two people’s interest in both PHP and cloud computing. It
explains to PHP developerswhat they need to knowto not only understand the cloud
concept, but to be able to put it to good use.To accomplish this, wemix explanations
of cloud concepts with practical examples. All of the code snippets in this...
IF YOU’VE PICKED UP THIS BOOK, SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer, you’ve decided to jump into one of the most dynamic areas of Business Intelligence: the exciting visualizations,
collaboration, and data service capabilities built into SharePoint 2010 through its new service
application...
This is a book about designing computer hardware and specifically about designing small machines for embedded applications. It is intentionally hardware specific. There are plenty of books out there on writing code for embedded systems (such as Michael Barr's excellent Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, another...
SEE IT DONE. DO IT YOURSELF. It’s that Easy! Easy Mac OS X Lion teaches you the fundamentals of working with the Mac operating system as well as how to use many of the applications that come with your Mac. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through each task, building the...
When I wrote Practical Oracle 8i, there was a three-week lag between publication and the first e-mail asking me when I was going to produce a 9i version of the book—thanks to Larry Ellison’s timing of the
launch of 9i. That question has been repeated many times (with changes in version number) over the
last 12...
With the first Apple ][ it was very important for me to have a manual that would
lead others to success and learning right from the get-go, even if the user had no
relevant experience. That’s how we learn. We start entering code others wrote to
see how it works and then over time we learn variations.
You can use the Drupal 7 content management framework to build a small business
website rapidly. You may add blogs; images and image galleries; maps, e-commerce
and shopping carts; social application integration including Twitter and Flickr,
and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money
from your...
At its heart, jQuery does something that sounds pretty dull: it lets you modify the contents of HTML
documents by manipulating the model that the browser creates when it processes the HTML (known as
DOM manipulation, as I’ll explain later). If you are reading this, you have probably already done some
DOM manipulation, either using...
