With the rapid proliferation of distance learning, schools confront the difficult problem of choosing and managing an appropriate technological environment that fits their budget, technical resources, curriculum, pedagogy, and profile of the student body.
Learning Management System Technologies and Software Solutions for Online...
This book takes a novel approach to the presentation and understanding of a controversial topic in
modern-day society: hacking. The term hacker was originally used to denote positively-motivated individuals
wanting to stretch the capabilities of computers and networks. In contrast, the term cracker was
a later version of the term,...
This book aims to help web designers and developers come to grips with building exciting, accessible, and usable web sites/applications with HTML5. The book looks at using HTML5 to serve the needs of the widest possible audience, including people with disabilities using assistive technology (AT) and older people. It aims to be a useful go-to...
In 2008 I was searching for a new programming platform for making websites. This was more than wanting a new language; indeed, the details of the language mattered very little to me. Rather, I was concerned about the ability to program advanced push features into the website like I had seen in Gmail—the ability for the server to push...
PhoneGap is a library that allows developers to interface directly with a mobile device
through the use of its JavaScript libraries. With the multitude of mobile platforms it is
very difficult and expensive to create multiple applications in Java, Objective-C, or
other native languages. Through the PhoneGap library,...
Clojure is a practical, general-purpose language that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, while seamlessly taking advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem. This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages...
Business intelligence is made possible by the existence of Information Technology. Business intelligence
aims to support better business decision-making. To use agile methodologies and to develop Information
Technology faster and cheaper is to put an icing on the cake. I doubt that Hans Peter Luhn was aware
of the consequences of...
Welcome to Advanced Android 4 Games. This book will help you create great games for the
Android platform. There are plenty of books out there that tackle this subject, but only this book
gives you a unique perspective by showing you how easy it is to bring native PC games to the
platform with minimum effort. This is done using...
In Pro JavaFX 2: A Definitive Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology, Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, and Johan Vos show you how you can use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications. You'll see how JavaFX provides a powerful Java-based UI platform capable...
What gives you access to the world’s greatest literature, today’s bestsellers,
tomorrow’s up-and-coming authors, the world’s top newspapers and magazines,
TV shows and movies, great games, email, and more?
It’s the NOOK Tablet—a great combo eReader and Android...
The book before you is designed to be a complete and thorough education on search engine
optimization for SEO practitioners at all levels. This second edition has been completely
revamped and updated from the first edition, taking into account the changes in the search
engine industry and the rising influence of...
