Photoshop CS6 can be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book help you in learning Photoshop by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day. Includes a guided tour of Photoshop’s new workspace.

Covers Windows Phone 7 design and architecture with best practices for building a variety of applications. Each chapter focuses on a single Windows Phone building block or feature and shows how to apply it in your applications. If you’re an experienced .NET developer familiar with Silverlight, you’ll gain deep insights into the Windows Phone platform.

Learn how to use PHP, MySQL, and Apache together to create dynamic, interactive websites and applications using the three leading open-source web development technologies using a straightforward, step-by-step approach in which each lesson builds on previous ones. Supplied CD includes complete starter kit for PC/Mac/Linux.

Mark Bates shows web developers why CoffeeScript is so useful and how it avoids the problems that often make JavaScript code buggy and unmanageable. He guides you through every feature and technique you need to write quality CoffeeScript code and shows how to take advantage of CoffeeScript’s increasingly robust toolset.

Organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition of a book widely known as the definitive reference on C# features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming - including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0’s new asynchronous functions.

A comprehensive tutorial designed to introduce developers to the world of business process modeling using Activiti. Before diving into the nuts and bolts of Activiti, this book presents a solid introduction to BPMN 2.0 from a developer's perspective.

Easy-to-follow instructions for five projects that use Microsoft’s rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. No soldering involved you simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy. Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to work with modules and other hardware in the Fez Spider Starter Kit, and how to program your with C#.

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. This comprehensive book on the subject tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who have tackled their challenges, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.

JRuby deployments have fewer moving parts and consume less memory than traditional Ruby deployments, but to deploy your apps on the JVM, you need to learn some new approaches. This book introduces you to three JRuby deployment strategies and, along the way, to Vagrant, Puppet, Warbler, the Trinidad web server, TorqueBox and Jenkins.

A comprehensive introduction to the role that cryptography plays in providing information security for technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones, payment cards, and wireless local area networks. Focusing on the fundamental principles, it is a self-contained and widely accessible introductory text.

Shows how to write code that takes full advantage of Go’s breakthrough features and idioms making comparisons that shows how it improves on older languages and pointing out Go's key innovations.

Subtitled "Vital techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming" this book starts with thorough coverage of Java 7 features like try-with-resources and NIO.2 and then explores a cross-section of emerging JVM-based languages, including Groovy, Scala, and Clojure.