Determining the best way to pose a subject—a way that
is simultaneously flattering, appropriate, and visually
appealing—can be one of the biggest challenges in designing
a successful portrait. This is especially true when creating
portraits of brides, where the photographer may be called
on to create anything from a very...
A recent CBS poll revealed that, as a result of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom,
Adelphia Communications, and others, a whopping two-thirds of Americans believe that
corporate executives are dishonest. This overall assessment is even worse now than during
the last financial crises, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s....
Just so you’re clear: it was not my idea to give a talk to Microsoft Research. I had learned embarrassingly little about computer science in my 18 years of life, and the last thing I wanted to do is to have that exposed in front of a bunch of genius PhDs in MSR. But my manager thought it’d be a great...
This book is for anyone who wants to implement large-scale software reuse through
object-oriented (00) application frameworks. Its purpose is to help the reader understand
one of the hottest technologies related to software reuse-frameworks-and provide
guidelines for making decisions about this technology. Decision makers such as...
Welcome to the world of
Microsoft Word 2010. This new Picture
Yourself book from Cengage Learning will
help you use the many and varied features of one
of Microsoft’s most popular products—Microsoft
Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Microsoft Word 2010 is a powerful word processing
program that will take your...
With the overall complexity involved in creating games becoming exceedingly difficult and
expensive with every successive console generation, many game developers have turned
to middleware engines, such as the CryENGINE, that offer a complete pipeline for the game
development process. CryENGINE is a perfect fit for most developers as it...
Android is hot, and many people are developing Android applications (apps for short).
Perhaps you would also like to develop apps, but are unsure about how to get started.
Although you could study Google’s online Android Developer’s Guide
(http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html) to acquire the needed knowledge,
you...
With ever increasing frequency, financial studies in business are acquiring greater importance in the field of management as a consequence of the complexity of the problems arising in present day society. The old treaties that included certain aspects on the raising and placing of payment means have been relegated to history, leaving the way...
Welcome to BlackBerry Development Fundamentals. I hope you enjoy reading
this book and keep it on your bookshelf for a long time. After working for
Research In Motion (RIM) and helping its customers understand their options
for building custom applications for the BlackBerry platform, I knew the time
was right for a book like this....
This book provides a foundation in digital design for students in computer
engineering, electrical engineering and computer science courses. It deals
with digital design as an activity in a larger systems design context. Instead
of focusing on gate-level design and aspects of digital design that have
diminishing relevance in a...
This book is for anyone using or considering Puppet as a systems automation tool.
Readers of this book should be familiar with Linux systems administration and basic
Ruby. I’ll cover the basics of using Puppet manifests for configuration management and
techniques for executing and managing those configurations with...
In my position at IBM, I regularly brief executives, managers, and computer
professionals on data mining and neural network technology. In my briefings,
I cover the fundamentals of data mining and neural networks, and I
also discuss specific applications relevant to the customers' businesses.
Since time is usually limited, my goal...
