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Up Your Business! is written for leaders or aspiring leaders at all levels in an organization. Regardless of whether your goal is to fix, build, or stretch your organization, the principles herein will help you. They apply equally to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and to the home-based-business owner wanting to take his or her enterprise to a higher level. The strategies are presented in a step-bystep sequence and in easy-to-understand terms, and are ready for immediate application. You will be able to use the book as a blueprint to fix, build, or stretch your business. I’ve included numerous real-life examples that support the book’s key points. You’ll find the style nonacademic and politically incorrect. In fact, I’d rather offend you by being direct than affront you with fluff. I believe you’ll find the lack of sugarcoating and rationalizing refreshing. 

Adobe After Effects CS6 Classroom in a Book® is part of the official training series for Adobe graphics and publishing software, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. The lessons are designed to let you learn at your own pace. If you’re new to Adobe After Effects, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts and features you’ll need to master the program. And if you’ve been using Adobe After Effects for a while, you’ll find that Classroom in a Book teaches many advanced features, including tips and techniques for using the latest version.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book® is part of the official training series for Adobe graphics and publishing software, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. The lessons are designed to let you learn at your own pace. If you’re new to Adobe Photoshop, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts and features you’ll need to master the program. And if you’ve been using Adobe Photoshop for a while, you’ll find that Classroom in a Book teaches many advanced features, including tips and techniques for using the latest version of the application and preparing images for the web.

In this book you are going to learn a lot about working with iOS. The goal, of course, is to be able to build a game that runs on iOS. To do that, you must learn about a lot of different elements that a full game will incorporate, such as basic UI widgets, audio, complex touch input, Game Center, in-app purchases, and of course graphics. This book will explore these concepts and many others. Think of it as a guide to the building blocks that you will need to make a compelling game that is specific to iOS and Apple’s mobile devices. All iOS applications have one thing in common—the application Xcode—so it makes sense to start with that.

Android sits alongside a new wave of modern mobile operationg systems designed to support application developmwnt on increasingly powerful mobile hardware. Platforms like Microsoft's Windows Phoe and the Apple iPhone also provide a richer, simplified development environment for mobile applications; however, unlike Android, they're built on proprietary operationg systems. In some cases they prioritize native applications over those created by third parties, restrict communication among applications and native phone data, and restrict or control the distribution of third-party applications to their plaforms.

HTML5 mobile game development is currently a new technology that people aren’t sure what to make of yet, much like smartphone games were in 2008 when the Apple App Store launched. However, there are some serious heavyweights pushing for the success of HTML5 gaming. Facebook, which launched its App Center in May 2012, has made HTML5-based Web Apps first-class citizens on mobile and is looking for ways to monetize on mobile and get out from underneath the thumb of the 30% fee Apple takes for in-app purchases in its app store. Carriers such as AT&T similarly view web apps as a way to recapture revenue lost to Google and Apple.

Running on Google’s infrastructure means you never have to set up a server, replace a failed hard drive, or troubleshoot a network card. And you don’t have to be woken up in the middle of the night by a screaming pager because an ISP hiccup confused a service alarm. And with automatic scaling, you don’t have to scramble to set up new hardware as traffic increases.

Today, images and video are everywhere. Online photo-sharing sites and social networks have them in the billions. Search engines will produce images of just about anyconceivable query. Practically all phones and computers come with built-in cameras. It is not uncommon for people to have many gigabytes of photos and videos on their devices. Programming a computer and designing algorithms for understanding what is in these images is the field of computer vision. Computer vision powers applications like image search, robot navigation, medical image analysis, photo management, and many more. The idea behind this book is to give an easily accessible entry point to hands-on computer vision with enough understanding of the underlying theory and algorithms to be a foundation for students, researchers, and enthusiasts. The Python programming language, the language choice of this book, comes with many freely available, powerful modules for handling images, mathematical computing, and datami...

Proportional Integral (PI) and Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers have been at the heart of control engineering practice for seven decades. However, inspite of this, the PID controller has not received much attention from the academic research community until the past fifteen years, when work by K.J.Astrom, T.Hagglundand F.G. Shinskey, among others, has sparked a revival of interest in the use of this "workhorse" of controller implementation. 

There’s no reason anyone with an Android handset and a good idea for a mobile application couldn’t put this book to use for fun and profit. Whether you’re a programmer looking to break into mobile technology or an entrepreneur with a cool app idea, this book is for you. We make ver y few assumptions about you as a reader of this book. You may have a basic understanding of the Java programming language (understanding classes, methods, basic inheritance, and so on), but Android makes a fantastic platform for learning Java as well. We have avoided using any fancy or confusing Java in this book, so if you’re just getting started with programming, you should be able to read the first few chapters of any introductory Java book or do an online tutorial and have enough Java knowledge to make it through this book alive.

2011 was a special year for C++. With the ratification of the new standard, C++11 empowers you to write better code using new keywords and constructs that increase your programming efficiency. This book helps you learn C++11 in tiny steps. It has been thoughtfully divided into lessons that teach you the fundamentals of this object-oriented programming language from a practical point of view. Depending on your proficiency level, you will be able to master C++11 one hour at a time.

“Innovator,” “leader,” “visionary”—just a few of the terms that describe Gregory D. Evans, and the extraordinary range of talents and expertise that distinguish this multi-faceted author and cyber-security expert. Gregory Evans is a man driven by two passions: technology and community, and he has made it his mission to use the former to serve the latter. It was this mission that led him to found LIGATT Security (LIGATTSECURITY.com) in 2004. Mr. Evans is a man of many sides, and wears many hats. The following is a brief look at some of the roles he plays in the course of his exceptional career.

Everything you find in this book is written simply and clearly, so you don’t have to wade through complicated technical help files or have to commit anything to memory. In each chapter, you’ll find detailed, step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions, along with helpful tips and links to pages on SmashingMagazine.com and other websites where you can download special custom brushes, patterns, fonts, and textures. As you work through the chapters, you’ll learn new ways to do familiar things like accessing commands, tools, and keyboard shortcuts, as well as gain new insight about how the program works to enhance your personal creative workflow.

In May 2011, Google held its annual developer conference, the Google IO, to present its newest technologies to approximately 5,000 attendees. In addition to improvements in its already well-known technologies such as the Google APIs or the core search technology, Google placed the focus on two major themes: Chrome and Android. As always, the newest advances in the Android Platform were presented and discussed, but what Google announced a bit later in the Android keynote was a bit of a surprise: Google’s first standard for Android devices to communicate with external hardware. The Android Open Accessory Standard and the Accessory Development Kit (ADK) will be the key for communicating with hardware and building externalaccessories for Android devices. To encourage development, Google handed out ADK hardware packages to interested attendees and showed some examples of ADK projects, such as a treadmill which transmitted data to a connected Android device and a huge tilt labyrinth, whic...

This book is a brief version of Introduction to Java Programming, Comprehensive Version, 8E. This version is designed for an introductory programming course, commonly known as CS1. This version contains the first twenty chapters in the comprehensive version. This book uses the fundamentals-first approach and teaches programming concepts and techniques in a problem-driven way. The fundamentals-first approach introduces basic programming concepts and techniques before objects and classes. My own experience, confirmed by the experiences of many colleagues, demonstrates that new programmers in order to succeed must learn basic logic and fundamental programming techniques such as loops and stepwise refinement. The fundamental concepts and techniques of loops, methods, and arrays are the foundation for programming. Building the foundation prepares students to learn object-oriented programming, GUI, database, and Web programming.

This book is for everyone who wants to program games. It's aimed at the total begingger and assumes no previous programming experience. If you're comfortable using your computer, then you can start your game programming odyssey right here. but just becayse this book is written for the beginner, that doesn't mean learning C++ and game programming will be easy. You'll have to read, work, and experiment. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid foundation in the game programming language of  the proffesionals.

Visual Basic 2008 is a development tool that you can use to build software applications that perform useful work and look great within a variety of settings. Using Visual Basic 2008, you can create applications for the Windows operating system, the Web, hand-held devices, and a host of other environments and settings. The most important advantage of Visual Basic is that it has been designed to increase productivity in your daily development work—especially if you need to use information in databases or create solutions for the Internet—but an important additional benefi t is that once you become comfortable with the development environment in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, you can use the same tools to write programs for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008, and other third-party tools and compilers.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, is an open source programming language that is used for developing interactive Web sites. More specifically, PHP is a scripting language that is executed from a Web server. Created in 1995, PHP is one of the fastest-growing programming languages today. Th e TIOBE Programming Community Index ranked PHP as the third most popular programming language in the world. One of the primary reasons for PHP’s popularity is its simplicity. The language is relatively easy to learn, allowing new programmers to quickly incorporate PHP functionality into a Web site. MySQL is an open source relational database that is often used with PHP. Together, PHP and MySQL are becoming one of the most popular technology combinations for Web site development. PHP is a dynamic, growing language with new functionality added on a regular basis. PHP is supported by a community of developers and users who add features and contribute updates that expand the functionality of the...

The Myth of 2022 and Why It Doesn’t Matter  The HTML5 specification that we see today has been published as a working draft—it is not yet final. So when does it get cast in stone? Here are the key dates that you need to know. The first is 2012, which is the target date for the candidate recommendation. The second date is 2022, which is the proposed recommendation. Wait! Not so fast! Don’t close this book to set it aside for ten years before you consider what these two dates actually mean.  The first and nearest date is arguably the most important one, because once we reach that stage, HTML5 will be complete. That’s just around the corner. The significance of the proposed recommendation (which we can all agree is a bit distant) is that there will then be two interoperable implementations. In other words, two browsers equipped with completely interoperable implementations of the entire specifications—a lofty goal that actually makes the 2022 deadline seem ambitious. Aft...

This book provides a clear and concise introduction to TCP/IP for newcomers, and also for users who have worked with TCP/IP but would like a little more of the inside story. The fourth edition includes new material on recent developments in TCP/IP and offers a closer look at topics such as : Firewalls Streaming Web services You’ll find new chapters on casting and streaming, web services, and the new Web, as well as several new sections throughout the book on recent developments in TCP/IP.

This book teaches Java programming from the ground up. It introduces the concepts in English instead of jargon with step-by-step examples of working programs you will create. Spend 24 hours with this book and you’ll be writing your own Java programs, confident in your ability to use the language and learn more about it. You also will have skills that are becoming increasingly important—such as network computing, graphical user interface design, and object-oriented programming. These terms might not mean much to you now. In fact, they’re probably the kind of thing that makes programming seem intimidating and difficult. However, if you can use a computer to balance your checkbook, or create a photo album on Facebook, you can write computer programs by reading Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours.

The computing world has undergone a revolution since the publication of The C Programming Language in 1978. Big computers are much bigger, and personal computers have capabilities that rival mainframes of a decade ago. During this time, C has changed too, although only modestly, and it has spread far beyond its origins as the language of the UNIX operating system.  The growing popularity of C, the changes in the language over the years, and the creation of compilers by groups not involved in its design, combined to demonstrate a need for a more precise and more contemporary definition of the language than the first edition of this book provided. In 1983, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established a committee whose goal was to produce ``an unambiguous and machine-independent definition of the language C'', while still retaining its spirit. The result is the ANSI standard for C.  The standard formalizes constructions that were hinted but not described ...

Book's Preface : I have been teaching web development for ten years. I started with Perl. I can still remember the behemoth programs that contained all the logic and HTML. I remember using a text editor to write the program. Debugging consisted of a lot of print statements. It was a fun time, full of exploration, but I do not miss them. Five years ago, I made the move to Java and Java servlets. Life became much simpler with the use of NetBeans. It has been a critical component in developing Web applications using Java. Debugging a web application in NetBeans is just as easy as debugging any Java application. This book is meant for students who have a solid background in programming, but who do not have any database training. Until two years ago, my students used a glorified HashMap to save data. Then a former student gave me the word: Hibernate. For anyone with a programming background in Java, using Hibernate to save data to a relational database is a simple task. ...