Multimedia Making It Work

Author: Tay Vaughan
ISBN: 9780071748469 / 0071748466
©2011 | 8th Edition | 560 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: NOV-10
Price: US$ 63.00
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This thoroughly revised and updated full-color text covers the most current multimedia tools, techniques, and technologies, including Web and mobile content design and delivery

Multimedia: Making It Work, Eighth Edition teaches fundamental multimedia concepts and shows you the process of managing multimedia production. Beginning with the essential multimedia building blocks of text, images, sound, animation, and video, the book educates you on the business of making multimedia. Project planning, costs, design, production, talent acquisition, testing, and delivery are also covered.

Discussions of the most up-to-date technologies run throughout the chapters, with coverage of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the architecture for multimedia content delivery used in mobile devices. Lab projects have been updated with applications of multimedia on the Web, such as shooting videos on a cell phone and uploading the results to websites. Both Windows and Mac environments are covered. Starting with this edition, software tools will be drawn from Open Source and shareware. Each chapter of the text focuses on highlighted learning objectives and includes chapter summaries, key term lists, end-of-chapter quizzes, and lab projects.

Multimedia: Making It Work, Eighth Edition features:

• New coverage of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the architecture for multimedia content delivery to mobile devices
• Updated lab projects that feature multimedia Web applications
• A focus on open source software tools
• Free Online Learning Center with two user interfaces: student interface includes objectives and links to chapter quizzes; instructor interface hosts instructor’s guide, course syllabus, end-of-chapter question solutions, PowerPoint slides, and a link to an EZ Test test bank.
• CD-ROM with all the chapter review questions from the book in a practice test application and trial versions of different multimedia software

About the Author

Tay Vaughan (Appleton, ME), a recognized authority and pioneer in the area of multimedia, is President of Timestream, Inc., a cross-platform, multiformat CD-ROM and Internet design and development company. He has developed and produced award-winning projects for clients such as Apple, Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, and Sun and was one of the founders of the Computer Press Association.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. What is Multimedia
Chapter 2. Text
Chapter 3. Images
Chapter 4. Sound
Chapter 5. Animation
Chapter 6. Video
Chapter 7. Making Multimedia
Chapter 8. Multimedia Skills
Chapter 9. Planning and Costing
Chapter 10. Design and Production
Chapter 11. Content and Talent
Chapter 12. The Internet and Multimedia
Chapter 13. Designing for the Web
Chapter 14. Delivering

Zend Framework, A Beginner’s Guide

Authors: Vaswani, Vikram
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-163939-2
ISBN-10: 007163939X
©2010 | 1st Edition | 464 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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A Zend Technologies columnist and bestselling PHP author provides practical information on today’s most popular PHP framework—with more than 7 million downloads.

Aimed squarely at real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide teaches developers how to work smarter, by using the most popular open-source framework for PHP. Feature-rich, robust and mature, Zend Framework can simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, improve quality, and provide the developer with the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed in today’s competitive, rapidly-changing environment. This book shows how to maximize all the features of Zend Framework.

Zend Framework is to PHP what JavaServer Faces is to Java. Just as Java Server Faces: The Complete Reference is popular and useful for Java developers, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide will be the best guide for open source developers looking to develop web applications using PHP and the new Zend Framework.

Key Selling Features

• Author is has been a well-known featured columnist with Zend Technologies since 2006. His columns are among the most popular on the Zend Technology community site.
• Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework
• Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory
• Provides numerous projects and code examples
• Companion website includes all of the code in the book

About the Author

Vikram Vaswani (Bombay, India) is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference (all McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles) and XML and PHP (New Riders Publishing) He is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users.

He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn’t looked back since. He is regular columnist with Zend Technologies (creators of PHP), as well as with IBM DeveloperWorks, CNET Builder.com, DevX.com and other OSS sites

Articles by Vikram Vaswani

Article 01: Zend Developer Zone on April 21, 2010
Build an Enterprise – Grade PHP Stack with Zend Server
5.0 and Oracle 11g
To read, please click HERE

Article 02: IBM on May 11, 2010
Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework
To read, please click HERE

Titles by the Vikram Vaswani:

9780071549011      PHP: A Beginner’s Guide

9780071487450      PHP Programming Solutions

9780072257953      How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL

9780072224771      MySQL: The Complete Reference

9780071605496      MySQL Database Usage & Administration 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the Zend Framework
Chapter 2 Working with Models, Views, Controllers and Routes
Chapter 3 Working with Forms
Chapter 4 Working with Models
Chapter 5 Handling CRUD Operations
Chapter 6 Indexing, Searching and Formatting Data
Chapter 7 Paging, Sorting and Uploading Data
Chapter 8 Logging and Debugging Exceptions
Chapter 9 Understanding Application Localization
Chapter 10 Working with News Feeds and Web Services
Chapter 11 Working with User Interface Elements
Chapter 12 Optimizing Performance
Appendix Installing and Configuring Required Software

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.

Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.

After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.

With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.

Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.

Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.

Books by Robin Nixon

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166659-6
ISBN-10: 0071666591
©2010 | 1st Edition | 384 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: February 2010 
Price: US$ 39.99
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Plug-In JavaScript 100 Power Solutions

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-173861-3
ISBN-10: 0071738614
©2011 | 1st Edition | 400 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: May 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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Filled with ready-to-use JavaScript solutions for creating dynamic web content, this practical guide is will save hundreds of hours of programming time!

Plug-in JavaScript is aimed at people who have learned basic HTML (and perhaps a little CSS) but are interested in doing more. For example, they may wish to create more dynamic menu systems, provide mouse hover effects, and support Ajax functionality. This practical guide shows readers how to do all of these things and much more using very simple JavaScript.

Readers are taken through each example step by step. All explanations are included so there is no need to look up anything elsewhere. Every solution is complete and applicable immediately. The book can be dipped into as required with each chapter being self-contained.

Features

• 100 ready-to-use JavaScript solutions—saves over 500 hours of programming time
• Author based in the UK and writes for several UK-based computing magazines
• Each chapter solves a single problem or set of problems, is self-contained, and features the entire solution in JavaScript code
• Companion website includes all the book’s ready-to-run examples available for download
• While not a programming tutorial, the book fully explains all solutions should readers want to know how they work

Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions

Authors: Nixon, Robin
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166659-6
ISBN-10: 0071666591
©2010 | 1st Edition | 384 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: March 2010
Price: US$ 39.99

100 PHP power solutions in one handy guide

This practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run PHP plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. The book begins by showing you how to install, configure, and use a powerful web development environment. Then, each chapter in Plug-In PHP offers complete, working examples for specific end results you can achieve right away. In this time-saving tool, all of the code is extensively documented along with tips for adapting it for your own requirements.

Get ready-made PHP plug-ins for:

• Text processing
• Image handling
• Content management
• Forms and user input
• Internet integration
• Chat and messaging
• MySQL, sessions, and cookies
• APIs, RSS, and XML
• JavaScript and Ajax
• Geo-location
• Spelling and language translation
• And much more

Download all of the book’s plug-ins at www.pluginphp.com

About the Author

Robin Nixon (UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in magazines such as PC Plus, PCW, Web User, .net, PC Advisor, and PC Answers. He is the author of 3 computing books, including the upcoming Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (O’Reilly).

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