Once you know how to use Flash, you can create everything from simple animations to high-end desktop applications, but it's a complex tool that can be difficult to master. This Missing Manual will help you learn all you need to know about Flash CS5 to create animations that bring your ideas to life.

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Starting from the basic behavior of light, the first section of the book introduces the most useful techniques for global and local illumination using geometric descriptions of an environment. The second section describes image-based techniques that rely on captured data to do their magic. The final section covers the synthesis of these two complementary approaches and what they mean for the future of computer graphics.

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This book/CD package is the Self-Paced Training Kit for MCITP Exam 70-647 shows you how to plan network and application services; design core identity and access management components; design support identity and access management components and design for business continuity and data availability.

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Intended for web developers and designers seeking practical advice on making HTML5 sites work, provides a collection of solutions to the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

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Subtitled "50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites" is a   primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager with clear, proven scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them. Presnts a set of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in  both frontend and backend systems.

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Flash for the everyday developer; helps bridge the gap those used to C++, Java, or C# who want to move over to Flash. This 2nd edition is updated for Flash CS5, Flash Player 10.1, and AIR 2.0 and has new examples on more advanced topics like 3D; more robust physics and collision detection; and Android platform development for phones and tablets.

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Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this book closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This 6th edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14. If you're just getting started with Perl, this is a suitable choice whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Our mega-review is in preparation.

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Using the new OpenCL (Open Computing Language) standard, you can write applications that access all available programming resources: CPUs, GPUs, and other processors such as DSPs and the Cell/B.E. processor. This is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and practical guide to OpenCL 1.1 specifically for working developers and software architects.

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Begins by demystifying digital cameras, explaining their functions and capabilities and guides you in buying the right camera for your purpose.Covering areas such as exposure, shutter speed, aperture, lighting and focusing, the book shows how you can harness this technical knowledge with a digital SLR to produce images of which you'll be proud.

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Starts with the basics of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. Goes step-by-step through the development process as you build and deploy a working application plus instructions on selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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Build new social applications with the latest versions of the Twitter API. One step at a time, in 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build Twitter clients and extend them; to use advanced features like streaming and geotagging and build mobile Twitter apps for iPhone and Android. Lesson builds into a fully functional Twitter application.

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A task-based guide that shows how to create, customize, and maintain a dynamic Joomla 1.6 website. Covers not only the functions of Joomla, such as adding content and structure, creating menus, using components, modules, plug-ins, and templates, but also how each function integrates as a whole. Each chapter ends with increasingly advanced topics.

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