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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.