This book serves as both a textbook and a reference for using Inkscape to produce high-quality drawings. It includes a series of tutorials followed by chapters that cover completely each facet of the Inkscape program. The book is full of tips and notes to enable the user to make the best use of the program.
This hands-on guide cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point – actually creating graphs, instead of just theoretical learning. Each recipe is specifically tailored to fulfill your appetite for visually representing you data in the best way possible. This book is for readers already familiar with the basics of R who want to...
This book is a practical guide with a very user-friendly approach. It aims to speed up the reader in Java EE 6 development. All major Java EE 6 APIs and the details of the GlassFish 3 server are covered followed by examples of its use. If you are a Java developer and wish to become proficient with Java EE 6, then this book is for you. You are...
This book is aimed primarily at application developers with a basic understanding of the C language
and object-orientation concepts such as encapsulation and polymorphism. You don’t need to be an
expert C coder to follow this book. All you need is a basic understanding of structures, pointers, and
functions. That said, you will...
The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international
online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. This
WSC 2008 is the thirteenth conference in this series and it has been a great
success.
We received a lot of excellent paper submissions which were peer-reviewed
by an international...
Yippie! I am thrilled that you picked up this book because it’s loaded with 100 creative and
innovative ideas to help jumpstart your creativity and teach you to do more with your designs
and photographs, faster and better, with Photoshop. Aft er fl ipping through the pages, you’ll
soon discover how valuable an addition this...
QoS, short for "quality of service," is one of the most important goals a network designer or administrator will have. Ensuring that the network runs at optimal precision with data remaining accurate, traveling fast, and to the correct user are the main objectives of QoS. The various media that fly across the network including...
You are holding the first comprehensive book covering the Oracle Exadata
Database Machine. You might be holding this book because of your desire
to know more about exactly what this technology can do for you, but you
and your fellow readers have come to this place from different starting
points. You could be investigating the Exadata...
The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management. A considerable research effort has led to the development of new technologies that make it possible to use the Internet for supervision and control of industrial processes.
This book is about the use of techniques and tools for the design and implementation
of computer systems and software that are free from logical or functional flaws
(in the sense of functional requirements). The word rigorous in the title of this book
is justified by the fact that the arguments for such fault freeness have their roots...
When I started playing with the first-generation iPhone back in 2008, I was amazed by
the simplicity and versatility of the smart phone. With the iPhone in hand, I could
take pictures, navigate with GPS, tell time, and of course, play games—especially when
I was bored while waiting in line at the DMV for my license plate....
I have spent the past ten years getting to know After Effects like a
good friend; using it for my own creative work as animator, visual
effects and motion graphic designer for television and film. I have
used many software applications in my time but none of them
compare, in terms of creative flexibility and sheer depth to Adobe...
