Joomla! is one of the most popular open source content management systems. It's powerful, it's relatively easy to learn, and it's freely available, which explains why over the last few years it's become the engine behind millions and millions of websites worldwide. In January 2011, the much awaited version 1.6 was released....

This book is about computer facial models, computer-generated facial images, and facial animation. In particular, it addresses the principles of creating face models and the manipulation or control of computer-generated facial attributes. In addition, various sections in the book describe and explain the development of specific computer...

Welcome to CompTIA A+ Practice Questions Exam Cram. The sole purpose of this book is to provide you with practice questions that are complete with answers and explanations to help you learn, drill, and review for the CompTIA A+ certification exam. The book offers many questions that will help you practice each exam objective and will help you...

Producing on-line, digitized information is no longer a problem. Ever more of our...

I use the term logical and relational learning to refer to the subfield of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining that is concerned with learning in expressive logical or relational representations. It is the union of inductive logic programming, (statistical) relational learning and multi-relational data mining, which all...

Apache Wicket is one of the most famous Java web application frameworks. Wicket simplifies web development and makes it fun. Are you bored of going through countless pages of theory to find out how to get your web development done? With this book in hand, you don't need to go through hundreds of pages to figure out how you will actually...

The visual guide to...

OVER THE PAST DECADE, Microsoft has been creating development tools that have been designed for the ever - growing engineering teams of software developers, testers, architects, project managers, designers, and database administrators. In the Visual Studio 2010 line of products, there are tools for each team member to use to contribute...

Throughout the book, Windows and Xbox 360 game development are mentioned within the context of the material presented. But make no mistake — this is a book about Windows Phone 7, fi rst and...

A few years ago, I was teaching a workshop on advanced SketchUp techniques to a group of extremely bright middle and high school (or so I thought) students in Hot Springs, Arkansas. As subject matter went, I wasn’t pulling any punches — we were breezing through material I wouldn’t think of introducing to most groups...

Scala is an object-oriented...