Microsoft DirectX is an advanced suite of multimedia APIs built directly into Microsoft Windows operating systems. DirectX provides a standard development platform for Windows-based PCs by enabling software developers to access specialized hardware features without having to write hardware-specific code. DirectX was first introduced in 1995 and is the recognized standard for multimedia application development […]

The C# programming language is a powerful, relatively new descendant of the earlier C, C++, and Java languages. Programming with it is a lot of fun, as you’re about to find out in this book.
The goal of this book is to explain C# to you, but to write actual programs you need a specific coding […]

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you
through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build
all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and
professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional,
enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,
digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you’ll be […]

The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them?
If you need […]

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0–enabled community-based social networking site using Ruby on Rails.
You will learn how […]