I start the book with an overview of Keynote, move on to creating your first presentation, and...

The word "render" isn't unique to the vocabulary of computer graphics. We can talk about a "watercolor rendering," a "musical rendering" or a "poetic rendering." In each of these, there is a transformation from one domain to another: from the landscape before the painter to color on paper, from...

Welcome to the wild, wacky, and wonderful possibilities of the World Wide Web, or more simply, the Web. In this book, we reveal the ins and outs of the markup languages that are the Web’s lifeblood — the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its cousin, XHTML, along with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language used to make...

Welcome to Android Application Development For Dummies, the first For Dummies book that covers Android application development. When I was contacted to write this book, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to spread the wealth of knowledge that I’d picked up over the past year and a half of Android development. I hope you enjoy...

The story of software engineering has been the story of increasing the level of abstraction at which we as programmers work, from logic encoded in hardware to toggle switches representing binary digits, through machine code, assembly language, low-level languages, and high-level languages both procedural and functional. More recently,...

Do you know why experienced Ruby programmers tend to reach for basic collections and hashes while programmers from other languages go for more specialized classes? Do you know the difference between strip, chop, and chomp, and why there are three such similar methods when apparently one might suffice? (Not to mention lstrip and...

I knew the Internet before it got famous. There were places but no paths, no maps, no search engines. Entry required a key in the form of an IP address and an incantation in the language of UNIX. It was a small world that felt big because it was so easy to get lost in the shadowy realm of texts and data, completely devoid of color....

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...

What’s this book all about? Well, it’s about how to develop software, from a personal perspective. We’ll look at what it means for you to take a problem and produce a program to solve it from beginning to end. That said, this book focuses a lot on design. How do you design software? What things do you take into...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2011, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2011. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 230 submissions. The volume also contains the abstract of one invited talk. The papers are organized...

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the 8th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2011). Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel security research....

I, like many of you, have been using Spring for a long, long time. I wasn’t initially convinced I needed Spring Roo (to be honest). It...