http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/Safari Bookshelf - MSDNen-ushttp://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/images/logo.gifhttp://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/Safari Bookshelf - MSDNhttp://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9780321618337This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CS4 Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Illustrator and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn how to create artwork for illustrations, logos, stationery, page layouts, posters, and integrate with Adobe Flash® movies, Adobe InDesign® layouts, and more! “The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. 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Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.Adobe Press Adobe Creative Team IllustratorNovember 12, 2008http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9780321574381This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book is a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feature films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. 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If this is the case, please send an email to Peachpit in order to obtain the files at ask@peachpit.comPeachpit PressStu MaschwitzVideoDecember 22, 2006http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9780321620491The licensing of OpenGL to many leading computer companies, including Microsoft, has made it possible for graphics programmers to learn to write stunning 3D graphics programs using the industry graphics standard on the world's most popular operating system. And OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT is the key to the door of opportunity for those who see the tremendous potential for programmers who can produce high-quality 3D applications on these platforms.Using numerous examples, Microsoft's Visual C++ programming platform, the C++ programming language, and the Microsoft Foundation Classes, Fosner starts with a generic C application that can be compiled from any 32-bit C compiler and, step by step, covers the basics of creating an OpenGL program: Selecting the appropriate pixel format Arranging the device context and rendering contexts Enhancing OpenGL programs to achieve maximum speed Using display lists and texture maps Finding OpenGL enhancements hidden in your video driver Programming OpenGL's Modelview matrix to get the effects you want Providing rapid animation under Windows -- without bogging down the user interface. Most important, you'll absorb this knowledge within the context of developing a Windows application that you can experiment with and actually use in your Windows programs. You will gain hands-on experience in designing, creating, programming, measuring, and optimizing a real OpenGL 3D animation program. 0201407094B04062001Addison Wesley ProfessionalRon FosnerOpenGLOctober 29, 1996http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9780137149049This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Ask the Right Questions in the Right Ways...And Get the Answers You Need to Succeed!Discover the core questions that every manager needs to master...how to avoid the mistakes business questioners make most often...ten simple rules for asking every question more effectively. 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Chapter 5, “IIS and ASP.NET Fundamentals,” leads you through the most foundational server-side technology–Microsoft’s premier Web server. Clearly this is one technology that supports nearly all of the other .NET Web-based technologies, RESTful or otherwise, and understanding how it works is crucial to building effective REST services.Chapters 6 though 8 then use higher-order .NET technologies to implement RESTful services. Chapter 6, “Building REST Services using IIS and ASP.NET,” uses what you learned in Chapter 5 to create a Web blog service using only traditional ASP.NET constructs. Chapter 7, “Building REST Services using ASP.NET MVC Framework,” introduces you to the ASP.NET MVC framework and shows how implementing a RESTful service might differ from traditional ASP.NET when you have the MVC framework to rely on. Of course, no .NET book discussing RESTful technologies would be complete without digging into the nuts and bolts of WCF, and Chapter 8, “Building REST Services using WCF,” does just that.The final chapter, Chapter 9, “Building REST Services using .NET Services,” shows how you would combine cloud computing with RESTful services to accomplish tasks that otherwise would be nearly impossible. In this case the sample application shows you a collaborative whiteboard that you can execute from behind your firewall on your private network and yet still reach out and work with other people over the Internet who are working behind their firewalls as well.We then provide three appendices we hope you’ll find helpful. The first appendix, Appendix A, “.NET REST Architectural Considerations and Decisions,” discusses some of the architectural aspects and why you might or might not choose a particular .NET technology over another. 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Covering the latest Sun Web Server version 7.0, as well as 6.1, The Essential Guide presents task-oriented administration with numerous clear and concise How To or Cook Book style examples for real-world deployment scenarios such as setting up single-sign on, multi-hosting, secure reverse proxying of application servers as well as Web 2.0 age Wikis and Blogging sites. Additional coverage of developer tools make Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide an indispensable resource for the users of world's most scalable web server.Prentice HallBill NelsonArvind SrinivasanMurthy ChintalapatiJavaApril 10, 2009http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9780768686043This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.SAP is the number one enterprise resource planning vendor,  offering several ERP applications that are used by companies worldwide. 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McFarland has loaded the book with over 150 pages of hands-on tutorials to help you create database-enabled PHP pages, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for cutting-edge design, add XML-based news feeds, include dynamic effects with JavaScript and AJAX, and more. 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It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS4.O'Reilly Media, Inc.David Sawyer McFarlandSafari IT BooksDecember 3, 2008http://msdn.safaribooksonline.com/9781933671482MobileMe provides oodles of features, but are you making the most of your $99-per-year membership? MobileMe has become a Swiss-army knife of online services, offering not only a whizzy "push" data syncing service for tracking calendar, contact, and bookmark info on a variety of devices, but also email services, online storage and file sharing, Web hosting, and more. Take Control of MobileMe helps you understand the features and get set up, and then it dives into the details of real-life projects. The 112-page ebook covers syncing - what to expect, what kinds of data besides calendar and contact information sync, handling problems, and more. 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