In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores thecomplex interaction between human thought and the technology itcreates, arguing for the development of machines that fit ourminds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine. Humanshave always worked with objects to extend our cognitive powers,from counting on our fingers to designing massive supercomputers.But advanced technology does more than merely assist with thoughtand memorythe machines we create begin to shape how we think and,at times, even what we value. Norman, in exploring this complexrelationship between humans and machines, gives us the first stepstowards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines thatsurround our lives.
An effective Web site is the key to success for every venturefrom class reunions to major corporations. And since Web technologychanges rapidly, Building a Web Site For Dummies, 4th Edition isfully updated for the cutting-edge tools and trends. If you need to build and maintain a Web site, even if yourexperience is severely limited, this book makes it easy and fun.You'll learn to plan, design, create, launch, and maintain yoursite using the most up-to-date tools. A quality Web presence is essential in today's marketplace, andmany individuals charged with creating one are unaware of thechallenges This guide gives novice Web designers the tools and know-how toplan, design, and build effective Web sites Provides a nuts-and-bolts guide to site-building, includingcoverage of HTML, WYSIWYG construction software, CSS, andnavigation plans Shows how to spruce up your site with topnotch graphics, video,and great content Guides you through getting your site online, promoting it, ande
This exceptional, full-color Autodesk Maya Press title -- produced by Autodesk, the software's creators -- uses an award-winning movie short as the basis for the book's all-new hands-on tutorials. The book provides clear step-by-step projects to help you understand the modeling and animation stages of production. You'll learn how to build models with a variety of surface types and then make them move with a wide range of animation techniques as well as how to make sound decisions from the beginning to save unnecessary challenges further down the pipeline. As a bonus feature, this book also introduces some animation techniques using Alias MotionBuilder.
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Get the comprehensive reference for extending Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Many knowledge workers rely on Office Outlook to help them structure their days managing e-mail messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks. Now, with new extensibility features in Office Outlook 2007, developers can create add-ins that allow data from other tools and applications to be hosted within Outlook 2007. By gathering more information together in one application and one so familiar users can experience increased levels of productivity. This complete guide shows developers how to exploit the new features in Office Outlook 2007 to extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop. Includes code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# . Delivers authoritative platform guidance to inform developers when add-in and form customizations are appropriate Provides add-in templates and extensive code samples in Visual Basic and Visual C# (with additional information about Visual C++) Featu
In this first volume of the "Mac OS and *OS Internals" trilogy, Jonathan Levin takes on the user mode components of Apple's operating systems. Starting with an introduction as to their layered architecture, touring private frameworks and libraries, and then delving into the internals of applications, process, thread and memory management, Mach messaging, launchd and XPC internals, and wrapping up with advanced debugging and tracing techniques using the most powerful APIs that were hitherto unknown and unused outside Apple's own applications. As with the other books in this series, the approach taken is that of deep reverse engineering, with plenty of hands-on examples, illustrations, pointers to Apple's open sources (when available) and decompilation of code (when not). The book's companion website (NewOSXBook.com) is full of tools, samples and other bonus material for this book. Due to print run issues, NOTE FIRST COPIES WILL SHIP DECEMBER. Read more
Large Refactorings looks at methods of establish design improvements as an important and independent activity during development of software，and will help to ensure that software continues to adapt，improve and remain easy to read and modify without altering its observable behaviour。 It provides real-world experience from real refactored projects and shows how to refactor software to ensure that it is efficient，fresh and adaptable。 作者简介： Stefan Roock works as a consultant and coach for it-agile GmbH （located in Germany）。 His areas of expertise include agile software development，refactoring techniques and agile project management and among his special interests are refactoring，incremental design and agile customer coaching。 Stefan also is frequently a speaker at technical conferences and has published a number of papers and articles。 He is co-author of the book "Extreme Programming in Action"。 You can contact him at stefan@stefanroock。de or http://www。stefanroock。d
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《深入Linux内核架构》讨论了Linux内核的概念、结构和实现。主要内容包括多任务、调度和进程管理，物理内存的管理以及内核与相关硬件的交互，用户空间的进程如何访问虚拟内存，如何编写设备驱动程序，模块机制以及虚拟文件系统，Ext文件系统属性和访问控制表的实现方式，内核中网络的实现，系统调用的实现方式，内核对时间相关功能的处理，页面回收和页交换的相关机制以及审计的实现等。此外，《深入Linux内核架构》借助内核源代码中关键的部分进行讲解，帮助读者掌握重要的知识点，从而在运用中充分展现Linux系统的魅力。《深入Linux内核架构》适合Linux内核爱好者阅读。 Find an introduction to the architecture, concepts andalgorithms of the Linux kernel in Professional Linux KernelArchitecture, a guide to the kernel sources and large number ofconnections among subsystems. Find an introduction to
Designing application and middleware software to run inconcurrent and networked environments is a significant challenge tosoftware developers. The patterns catalogued in this second volumeof Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) form the basis ofa pattern language that addresses issues associated withconcurrency and networking. The book presents 17 interrelatedpatterns ranging from idioms through architectural designs. Theycover core elements of building concurrent and network systems:service access and configuration, event handling, synchronization,and concurrency. All patterns present extensive examples and knownuses in multiple programming languages, including C++, C, and Java.The book can be used to tackle specific software developmentproblems or read from cover to cover to provide a fundamentalunderstanding of the best practices for constructing concurrent andnetworked applications and middleware.
Whether you're a professional Character TD or just like tocreate 3D characters, this detailed guide reveals the techniquesyou need to create sophisticated 3D character rigs that range frombasic to breathtaking. Packed with step-by-step instructions andfull-color illustrations, Body Language walks you through riggingtechniques for all the body parts to help you create realistic andbelievable movements in every character you design. You'll learnadvanced rigging concepts that involve MEL *ing and advanceddeformation techniques and even how to set up a characterpipeline.
