OpenGL ES technology underlies the user interface and graphical capabilities exhibited by Apple’s iOS devices, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The “ES” stands for Embedded Systems, and the same technology applies to video game consoles and aircraft cockpit displays, as well as a wide range of cell phones...

The Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the most exciting and popular new Android devices available to consumers and application developers alike. It‘s so popular, in fact, that in the six weeks the Amazon Kindle Fire was available for purchase at the end of 2011, 3.9 million units were sold, accounting for over 14 percent of the tablet...

Audio can affect the human brain in the most powerful and profound ways. Using Apple’s Core Audio, you can leverage all that power in your own Mac and iOS software, implementing features ranging from audio capture to real-time effects, MP3 playback to virtual instruments, web radio to VoIP support. The most sophisticated audio...

This book is designed to be a textbook and reference for programming in the C++ language. Although it does include programming techniques, it is organized around the features of the C++ language, rather than any particular curriculum of techniques. The main audience I had in mind is undergraduate students...

Welcome to Learning Quartz Composer! We guarantee this will be the most fun geek book you have read, and by the end your digital world will be a better-looking place. Whether you dream of live visuals, interactive installations, Cocoa apps, dashboard widgets, or extra awesomeness for your film and motion...

The C++ standard library provides a set of common classes and interfaces that greatly extend the core C++ language. The library, however, is not self-explanatory. To make full...

In Enterprise Software Delivery, IBM Distinguished Engineer Alan W. Brown guides...

Today’s most exciting new programming language, Go, is designed from the ground up to help you easily leverage...