From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his...
This book is focused on providing the skills necessary to successfully configure authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services on Cisco devices using Cisco Secure Access Control Server/System 4.2 and 5.1. This book was motivated by a desire to provide a one-stop resource for AAA solutions on Cisco...
Use Social and Viral Technologies to Supercharge your Customer Service!
Using social media, you can deliver amazing customer service–and generate an army of fans who’ll promote you in good times, and rescue you from disaster....
Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) in .NET is a framework for designing and interacting with dynamic languages such as Python and Ruby. For the first time, the DLR places such languages on an equal footing in the .NET world with compiled languages such as C# and VB.NET. Chaur Wu’s book, Pro DLR in .NET 4,...
Many successful project managers are beginning to utilize Microsoft SharePoint to drive their projects and operational initiatives. SharePoint Server provides teams with a centralized location for project information and facilitates collaboration between project team members. The intention of this book is to provide a hands-on case study that...
Windows Phone 7 is a powerful mobile computing platform with huge potential for gaming. With "instant on" capabilities, the promise of gaming on the move is a reality with these devices. The platform is an ideal environment for .NET developers looking to create fun, sophisticated games.
Code re-use is the Holy Grail of software development. Countless hours of refactoring, countless books, countless software development tools, components, IDEs, and platforms have been dedicated to pursue this elusive quality.
Why is this? As software consumers, we are used to seeing very rapid advancements in technology. Every...
This book deals with a programming language, but it isn’t intended for programmers. This is a book for web designers. Specifically, this book is intended for standards-aware designers who are comfortable using CSS and HTML. If that sounds like you, read on.
This book is made up of equal parts code and concepts. Don’t be...
WPF and Silverlight are unlike any other user interface (UI) technologies. They have been built to a new paradigm that—if harnessed correctly—can yield unprecedented power and performance. This book shows you how to control that power to produce clean, testable, maintainable code.
Want to develop games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7? This hands-on book will get you started with Microsoft's XNA 4.0 development framework right away -- even if you have no experience developing games. Although XNA includes several key concepts that can be difficult for beginning web developers to grasp, Learning XNA...
The Official Joomla! Book is the authoritative and comprehensive Joomla! reference for every administrator, developer, designer, and content manager. Distilling the unsurpassed experience of two long-time Joomla! contributors, it teaches exactly what you need to know, through practical example sites and crystal-clear...
This is a book about algorithms for performing arithmetic, and their implementation
on modern computers. We are concerned with software more than
hardware – we do not cover computer architecture or the design of computer
hardware since good books are already available on these topics. Instead, we
focus on algorithms for...
