This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated
development environment. It assumes you have some development experience
and are familiar with the Cocoa API. It won’t teach you how to write code or much
at all about Cocoa. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on...
Congratulations on your new Droid smartphone! You’re going to be amazed when you discover all the ways it enables you to connect with your contacts and stay in touch with the world. You can communicate via talk, text, email, social networking, and chatting with instant messaging, and on some newer Droid phones, you may even be able to...
If you thought your phone was smart, you should see the new Android tablets! Based on Android 3 Honeycomb, these tablets provide all the computing power you'll need on a device light enough to carry wherever you go.
Get the most out of your Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet with Android Tablets Made...
This book is about how to create interactive animations for the web using computer code and math. But
don't worry if you can't remember anything from your high school algebra class, you'll just need a minimal
understanding to get started. The purpose of this book is to give you the tools to create and express your...
Almost everyone has had the need at one point or another to keep a list of things that need to be
done. Many people pick up a piece of paper every day and write down the things they want to
attempt to accomplish that day. Such lists drive many people’s lives. Some people keep them in
their heads, but as we get older, we need to...
The Internet has had and will continue to have a profound effect
on society. It is hard to imagine life without such technologies as
computers, cell phones, gaming devices, and so on. The Internet,
World Wide Web, and their associated technologies have altered
our social and personal experience of the world. In no other time in...
In 2009, it is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people have access to the Internet, including
220 million in the U.S. alone. Throw in 338 million Chinese users, 55 million German users, 48
million British users, 38 million Russian users, and 67 million Brazilians, and you can see the
meaning of the word “world” in the...
In 1862, the gardener James Bateman sent several specimens of the Christmas
orchid to Charles Darwin. This orchid was first planted in Britain in 1855 and it did
not blossom until 1857. It had been discovered several decades before by the
French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars in Madagascar in 1822. The
most significant...
We are entering the golden age of GPU computing. Since the introduction of CUDA in 2007, more
than 100 million computers with CUDA-capable GPUs have been shipped to end users. Unlike the
previous GPGPU shader programming models, CUDA supports parallel programming in C. From my
own experience in teaching CUDA programming, C programmers...
Not too long ago, the Web was a pretty boring place. Constructed from plain old
HTML, Web pages displayed information and not much else. Folks would click a
link and then wait for a new Web page to load—and that was about as interactive
as it got.
These days, most Web sites are almost as responsive as the...
As depicted in David Lodge’s celebrated novel Small World, the perceived size of our world experienced a progressive decrease as jet airplanes became affordable to ever greater shares of the earth’s population. Yet, the really dramatic shrinking had to wait until the mid-1990s, when Internet became widespread and the information...
Web designers, web producers, and webmasters rely on one program above all others to design, build, and manage professional websites: Adobe Dreamweaver. It provides the tools you need to create everything from simple HTML pages to database-driven PHP pages. But what makes Dreamweaver so versatile is also what makes it difficult to...
