Nothing spices up a website like a cool sound effect (think ker-thunk as a visitor presses a button) or an embedded video. In this Mini Missing Manual, you’ll learn how to add several kinds of media files to your site: background music, a MIDI player, sound effects, and videos.
The first book to completely demystify leading-edge component development with the Adobe Flex 3 platform - How to build components for Flex and AIR applications using ActionScript 3.0 and Adobe's powerful MXML user interface markup language - Covers expert techniques most books ignore, including component metadata, error handling,...
In early 2004, DTrace remained nascent; while Mike Shapiro, Adam Leventhal, and I had completed our initial implementation in late 2003, it still had substantial gaps (for example, we had not yet completed user-level instrumentation on x86), many missing providers, and many features yet to...
SECURITY AND PRIVACY issues with computers and computer networks
are constantly in the news these days, and everyone seems to be concerned
about them to some degree. Businesses everywhere are worried about
having
sensitive customer information such as credit card numbers or email
addresses
stolen,...
Developers continuously strive to achieve higher levels of source code quality. It
is the holy grail in the software development industry. Sonar is an all-out platform
confronting quality from numerous aspects as it covers quality on seven axes,
provides an abundance of hunting tools to pinpoint code defects, and continuously...
This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay. You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the way, you’ll practice what...
We built Zendesk back in 2007 because we were frustrated with the quality of the customer
service applications that existed at the time. The vast majority of these “solutions”
were big, clunky, on-premise enterprise applications, distributed on CDs, and took forever
to deploy. Even proof-of-concept projects...
The field of iminosugars is a very exciting area of research. These carbohydrate mimetics
were first imagined and synthesized by chemists in the 1960s before being isolated from
Nature a few years later. Since the discovery of their biological activity as potent glycosidase
inhibitors in the 1970s, iminosugars have been the subject...
Although research in curve shortening flow has been very active for nearly 20 years, the results of those efforts have remained scattered throughout the literature. For the first time, The Curve Shortening Problem collects and illuminates those results in a comprehensive, rigorous, and self-contained account of the fundamental results. ...
As clear, concise, and concrete as its subject, Patrick Riley‘s The One–Page Proposal promises to be the definitive business guide to getting your best ideas fully understood in the least amount of time.
Today more than ever, business decisions are made on the fly?d first impressions can make all the...
"In today's marketplace it is critical that you stand out in a crowd."
--Eric Winegardener, Vice President, Monster Worldwide
In today's tightening job market, the interview is a key stage. But too often in job interviews, candidates freeze and can't find the words they need to make...
SOQL plays a vital role in the development of Salesforce.com and administration tasks. As a developer or as an administrator in Salesforce.com, we write many SOQL statements to fetch and validate the data present in the objects. If we know all the features in SOQL, we can easily write optimized SOQL statements to filter the data and fetch...
