In the fall of 2004, at a popular software conference I realized how all major component vendors were advertising their ASP.NET products using a new word—Ajax. Only a few weeks later, a brand new module in my popular ASP.NET master class made its debut—using Ajax to improve the user experience. At its core, Ajax is a little...

The objective of the second edition of this book is to introduce statistical data mining concepts, describe methods in statistical data mining from sampling to decision trees, demonstrate the features of user-friendly data mining SAS tools and, above all, allow the book users to download compiled data mining SAS (Version 9.0 and...

This book sprang from years of delivering the Marakana Android Bootcamp training class to thousands of software developers at some of the largest mobile companies located on four continents around the world. Teaching this class, over time I saw what works and what doesn’t. This book is a distilled version of the Android Bootcamp...

That’s a big deal, because over the years, home movies have developed a bad name. You know what it’s like watching other people’s camcorder footage....

Don’t let the phrase “markup...

Munich s Visual Basic 2010 is designed to teach you everything you need to know for developing Windows Forms applications with Visual Basic 2010. When you finish this book, you'll be able to develop and deploy object-oriented applications the way the best professionals do. And then, this book will become the on-the-job reference that...

When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge...

If you have this book in your hands, you’re a person who enjoys photography and wants to get more out of your photographs. You’re also probably at least somewhat familiar with Apple’s iPhoto application; maybe you’ve played around with it, but getting to know everything it can do seems daunting. Not to worry, this book...

Do you want to take your Poser skills beyond the basics and put the new features of Poser 8 into practice right away? If so, you've come to the right place. "Practical Poser 8: The Official Guide" is an updated edition of this best-selling reference for intermediate to advanced Poser users. It teaches the tasks you want and need...

Version 9 of PowerBuilder introduces many features designed specifically to blend the traditional strength of...

Adobe InDesign CS5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Complete coverage of InDesign CS5's new features includes: tools for interactive documents, including the new animation panel; simplified object...