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Source: Security DevCenter This is a free live event. Scheduled for approximately 90 minutes. No prior experience with digitization is assumed in this friendly and accessible overview of the conversion process. We'll start from the beginning: what's XML and do you need it? What's the cost-benefit analysis versus PDF or other formats? From there we'll tell you what you need to look for in selecting a vendor and how to watch out for hidden costs. We'll tackle issues of control and lock-in versus cost savings: should you partner with Google, Amazon, or a centralized platform, or go on your own? Finally, we'll brainstorm some ideas on how to monetize your digital offerings, from opening up your backlist to syndicating content on the Web. About Liza Daly Liza Daly is a consultant and software engineer serving the publishing industry. She has been developing web applications for more than ten years and has been a lead engineer on major XML-driven online products for Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, O'Reilly Media and other publishers. Currently she is an independent consultant and the founder of Threepress, developer of the Bookworm EPUB e-reading application. She writes frequently for several blogs related to publishing and technology and is on the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC 2008 and O'Reilly Tools of Change 2009 conferences. About TOC Driven by the Internet, technology is fundamentally transforming publishing. Creation, development, production, distribution, and consumption have all been touched by the changes and challenges that have accompanied the greatest shifts in publishing since the printing press. Which technologies are important? Which provide exciting business opportunities? And what are the strategic questions you need to consider in adopting new models? O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing division seeks to connect the people, companies, and organizations asking and answering the questions that will define the future of publishing. (TOC is a nod to the term publishing vets will recognize as referring to the Table of Contents of a book -- a deliberate choice signaling our intent to set the agenda for the future of publishing.) Sponsored by
Source: Security DevCenter Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the original author of Ruby Reports, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive, and much more. It's a perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language.
Source: Security DevCenter OSCON Program Chair Allison Randal will be presenting "Parrot" to the San Francisco PHP Meetup Group Please RSVP online.
Source: Security DevCenter Stay Competitive. Regroup, retrain, rebuild. Financial markets are in a tailspin. Jobless rates are at a 7-year high. Budgets are shrinking. The good news is that the shifting economic landscape is creating new opportunities for those with the right skills. Do you have what it takes to tackle tough technical problems? To offer bold solutions? To provide businesses with the expertise they need? Learn more.
Source: Security DevCenter I feel I have to temper the hype over how the Internet has changed
elections. There's no doubt that the Internet provides enormous
potential, and that people have been using it in burgeoning numbers
over the past four years to search for information, share ideas with
friends, and form online coalitions. But several key observations show
that the tipping point hasn't arrived.
Source: Security DevCenter If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Programming Flex 3: Chapter 20, Embedding Flex Applications in a Browser. This chapter examines the options available to you for embedding a Flex application in HTML and how a Flex application can interact with the web browser environment.
Source: Security DevCenter If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Programming Flex 3: Chapter 18, Application Debugging. In this chapter, learn about runtime errors, debugging applications using FDB, debugging applications using the Flex Builder debugger, remote debugging, and tracing and logging.
Source: Security DevCenter Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the Flash language and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Learning ActionScript 3.0: Chapter 7, Motion. From your very first experiment to the umpteenth time you've performed a familiar task, moving assets with code can be a gratifying experience. In addition to creating more dynamic work by freeing yourself from the permanency of the timeline, there is something very immediate and pleasing about controlling the motion of a symbol instance purely with ActionScript. This chapter examines basic movement, geometry and trigonometry, physics and programmatic tweening.
Source: Security DevCenter Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the Flash language and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Learning ActionScript 3.0: Chapter 4, The Display List. ActionScript 3.0 brings with it an entirely new way of handling visual assets. It's called the display list. It's a hierarchical list of all visual elements in your file. It includes common objects such as movie clips, but also objects such as shapes and sprites that either didn't previously exist or could not be created programmatically.
Source: Security DevCenter Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the Flash language and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Learning ActionScript 3.0: Chapter 1, ActionScript Overview. While you likely know what ActionScript is and are eager to begin working with the new version, a brief overview of its development will give you some insight into its use—particularly related to Flash Player and how it handles different versions of ActionScript. This brief introductory chapter will give you a quick look at where ActionScript 3.0 fits into your workflow.
Source: Security DevCenter This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Flex 3 Cookbook: Chapter 21, Compiling and Debugging. Compiling Flex applications is most often done through Flex Builder or through invoking the MXML compiler (mxmlc) on the command line, but there are many other tools that let you compile an application, move files, or invoke applications. Debugging in Flex is done through the debug version of the Flash Player, which enables you to see the results of trace statements. This chapter examines compiling and debugging in depth.
Source: Security DevCenter This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Flex 3 Cookbook: Chapter 20, Browser Communication. This chapter focuses on the functionality contained within the core Flex Framework, though there are other tools to assist with integration of the browser and the Flash Player—the Adobe Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge), and Joe Berkovitz's UrlKit among them.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from Flex 3 Cookbook: Chapter 8. Images, bitmaps, videos, and sounds is a mouthful and a far wider range of topics than could be adequately covered in a single chapter, so this one concentrates on answering the most common questions. As Flash becomes the primary method of delivering video over the Internet and the use of the Flex Framework in creating photo and MP3 applications increases, understanding how to work with all of these elements becomes more and more important.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 5, Arrays. This chapter discusses working with indexed collections of data called arrays: from adding and removing elements to sorting.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from Action Script 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 2. Classes are absolutely essential to ActionScript 3.0. This is truer in ActionScript 3.0 than in any earlier release of the language. ActionScript 3.0 shifts the core focus of ActionScript so that the basic building block is that of the class. If you are using ActionScript 3.0 with Flex, and the introduction of the minor exception of code being placed within tags, all ActionScript code must appear within a class. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of writing custom classes in ActionScript 3.0.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 6. This chapter explains using display objects to display visual data on the screen.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from Action Script 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 3. This chapter’s subject matter examines the ability to work with the context menu with more detail and precision than was allowed in previous versions of the Flash player.
Source: Security DevCenter Excerpt from ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 1. This chapter addresses the frequent tasks and problems that relate to core ActionScript knowledge. Whether you are a beginner or master—or somewhere in between—these recipes help you handle situations that arise in every ActionScript project.
Source: Security DevCenter Web 2.0 Summit is underway in San Francisco, CA. The Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together in one place at one time. What business models are working? What's next on the horizon? How will all of this will affect your own business? Check out all the highlights from the summit.
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Source: Security DevCenter It would be a stretch to say that Twitter helped Obama win the presidency. But there's no question that the messaging service played an important role in this year's elections. To wit: * Obama signed up early and has by far the most followers of anyone on Twitter. He and his campaign sent messages regularly from the trail. * Twitter
Source: Security DevCenter If you’ve seen an episode of the original Star Trek, you’re no doubt familiar with the show’s main character, Captain Kirk, and his eternal blurry-eyed fascination with women. Every time he came in sight of a love interest, she appea
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