Digital Sci-Fi Art - A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Stunning Futuristic Image
by Michael Burns
Visions of future worlds have always exercised a powerful fascination. From the pulp artists of the '30s, through the airbrush artists of the '70s and '80s, to today's CGI animators, science-fiction has always provided the artist with a blank canvas on which their imagination could run wild. Today, as more artists enter the digital arena, these alien vistas, towering cityscapes, vast spacecraft and strange lifeforms are becoming breathtakingly realistic. With the right tools, you can bring your...
Intheworldweliveinconcurrencyisthenorm.Forexample,thehumanbody isamassivelyconcurrentsystem,comprisingahugenumberofcells,allsim- taneously evolving and independently engaging in their individual biological processing.Inaddition,inthebiologicalworld,trulysequentialsystemsrarely arise. However, they are more common when manmade artefacts are cons- ered. In particular, computer systems are often developed from a sequential perspective. Why is this? The simple reason is that it is easier for us to t...
Developments in Language Theory (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2295)
DLT 2001 was the ?fth Conference on Developments in Language Theory. It was a broadly based conference covering all aspects of Language Theory: grammars and - ceptorsforstrings,graphs,arrays,etc.;ef?cientalgorithmsforlanguages;combinatorial andalgebraicpropertiesoflanguages;decisionproblems;relationstocomplexitytheory; logic; picture description and analysis; DNA computing; cryptography; concurrency. DLT 2001 was held at Technische Universitat .. Wien from July 16 to July 21, 2001. The Organizin...
This first book on the MET++ multimedia application framework provides an in-depth look at the concepts and techniques applied in an object-oriented class library to support multimedia application development. It is a reference for software designers interested in applying object-oriented technologies to multimedia programming, and for developers who want to build multimedia applications by reusing components of the MET++ framework. MET++ provides a seamlessly integrated architecture which handl...
Java in the Small
Android Hacker's Handbook
by Joshua J Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Pau Oliva Fora, Stephen A Ridley, and Georg Wicherski
The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing attacks on the Android OS As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture...
Not your typical computer tutorial, this book aspires to discuss more than how to simply use the software it targets the uses of blogging, specifically among teen users, and how this technology is used in the definition of an online personality. In other words, this book doesn't just show readers how to build a blog; this title focuses on how to effectively use a blog, all under the auspices of, again, a younger audience. Teens account for the majority of blogs currently in use on the Web. Th...
Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3
by Hampton Lintorn Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin
Design websites faster than ever using Sass--the most mature and popular CSS meta-language. On any platform, integrate Sass into your project, create a reusable style guide, and use maps to drastically reduce duplication in your stylesheets. You'll see how to code the right way in Sass with short, clear examples on two-page spreads that show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. This ultimate guide to using Sass, written by its creator, is updated and expanded with all the...
Lean Mobile App Development
by Mike van Drongelen, Adam Dennis, Richard Garabedian, Alberto Gonzalez, and Aravind Krishnaswamy
Develop lean iOS and Android apps using industry standard techniques and lean development practices. About This Book • Build ready-to-deploy apps with less iterations and shorter development times • Adopt the lean startup methodologies to develop iOS and Android apps that shine in the App Store • This hands-on guide puts continuous innovation into practice to develop successful mobile apps Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, CTOs, and architects working for a startup or another...
Linux Programming (Slackware S.)
by Patrick Volkerding, Eric F Johnson, and Kevin Reichard
This text describes the latest release of Slackware, along with programming tools needed by any programmer interested in UNIX, Linux and C. The accompanying CD contains the complete Slackware Linux operating system, as well as everything needed to compile, interpret and debug C, C++, Perl, Tcl and Java programs under Linux.
Multidatabase Systems
A tutorial comprising reprinted papers that explore issues associated with multidatabases and present the current status of work in the field. It covers a wide range of theoretical, conceptual, and practical topics and addresses the needs of a broad audience, including researchers, database designer
A definitive guide for accurate state-of-the-art modelling of free surface flows Understanding the dynamics of free surface flows is the starting point of many environmental studies, impact studies, and waterworks design. Typical applications, once the flows are known, are water quality, dam impact and safety, pollutant control, and sediment transport. These studies used to be done in the past with scale models, but these are now being replaced by numerical simulation performed by software suite...
If you are a Java developer who is familiar with the Eclipse plug-in environment, this book covers the advanced concepts that you need to know to achieve true expertise. Prior experience in creating Eclipse plug-ins is assumed for this book.
Object-oriented programming is revolutionizing the world of software development. This revised and updated roadmap is designed to guide the many who are attracted to the power and versatility of OOP, but unfamiliar with its core logic and confusing terminology. Includes practical code examples in popular languages--C++ and Turbo Pascal.
Premium Website -- Bind-in Component Card -- for Absolute Java
by Walter J. Savitch and Kenrick Mock
This package includes MyProgrammingLab (R). Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects provides a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java. Gaddis covers procedural programming-control structures and methods-before introducing object-oriented programming, ensuring that students understand fundamental programming and problem-solving concepts. As with all Gaddis texts, every chapter contains clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world example...
Die Simulation von Flugzuständen. Ein mediendidaktisches Konzept
by Fred-Oliver Jury
Virtualisierung. Theorie und Praxis am Beispiel der Servervirtualisierung
by Sven Schulter