A Comprehensive, Thorough Introduction to High-Speed Networking Technologies and Protocols.
Network Infrastructure and Architecture: Designing High-Availability Networks takes a unique approach to the subject by covering the ideas underlying networks, the architecture of the network elements, and the implementation of these elements in optical and VLSI technologies. Additionally, it focuses on areas not widely covered in existing books: physical transport and switching, the process and technique of building networking hardware, and new technologies being deployed in the marketplace, such as Metro Wave Division Multiplexing (MWDM), Resilient Packet Rings (RPR), Optical Ethernet, and more.

Improve Planning and Management on Any Construction Project with Powerful BIM Tools

Building information modeling (BIM) integrates 3D drawings and 4D animations to dramatically improve the communication, coordination, and planning of construction projects, while reducing risks, errors, and costs. Building Information Modeling is an in-depth resource that shows architects and building professionals how to capitalize on BIM concepts, tools, and techniques for their own building projects.

• An in-depth explanation of BIM concepts, tools, and techniques
• Guidance on applying BIM to new and retrofit construction projects
• More than 200 photos, charts, diagrams, and details of the BIM process
• Detailed case studies

If you’re a photographer using a Mac and why wouldn’t you be? then you need this guide to optimizing OS X for your photography workflow.
Macs are still the hardware of choice for the cream of digital imaging experts over two million registered Mac users of Adobe Photoshop can’t be wrong. Let the expert advice of Rod Wynne-Powell help you to:
* Configure your Mac for a trouble-free life from capture to output
* Speed up your photography workflow using Photoshop, Bridge and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite
* Optimize your color management system and ensure the highest quality image results
* Save time through effective storage and retrieval of images

Years of experience dealing with digital image makers queries on a day-to-day basis means he also knows that problems can and do happen even on a Mac so this book is also packed full of vital troubleshooting advice and ways to avoid the pitfalls in the first place.

How to Cheat in Elements 6 is an invaluable resource for all users of Photoshop Elements and shows you how to ‘cheat’ by sharing insider secrets from clever and cunning Elements gurus, David Asch and series forerunner, Steve Caplin.

Compatible with previous releases of Elements, this is jam packed with dazzling tips and tricks, unearthed secrets, and creative techniques that challenge and inspire.

Work through each section to build up your Photoshop Elements skills, creating everything from basic layer and masking effects right up to advanced manipulation. Or just dip right into a project to learn a new technique:
* turn day into night
* add snow, shadows and water to your scenes
* make fire and smoke
* give your car a respray
…if you can imagine it, we can show you how to do it in Photoshop Elements!

This is one of the few books to cover integration and workflow in depth between Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat, and Version Cue

• Graphic design firms, ad agencies, and publishing houses typically use a collection of programs to build their designs for print or the Web, and this book shows readers how to effectively manage that workflow among applications
• Provides solutions for issues that working designers or design students face every day, including developing consistent color-managed workflows, moving files among the CS3 applications, preparing files for print or the Web, repurposing documents, using CS3 with Office documents, and more

Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years.

Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the Rails development community. Yesterday’s best practices yield to today’s latest and greatest techniques, as the state of the art is continually refined in kitchens all across the Internet. Indeed, these are times of great progress.

At the same time, it’s easy to get left behind in the wake of progress. Advanced Rails Recipes keeps you on the cutting edge of Rails development and, more importantly, continues to turn this fast-paced framework to your advantage.

Advanced Rails Recipes is filled with pragmatic recipes you’ll use on every Rails project. And by taking the code in these recipes and slipping it into your application you’ll not only deliver your application quicker, you’ll do so with the confidence that it’s done right.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and tools available for programming multiprocessor machines. It is of immediate use to programmers working with the new architectures. For example, the next generation of computer game consoles will all be multiprocessor-based, and the game industry is currently struggling to understand how to address the programming challenges presented by these machines.
This change in the industry is so fundamental that it is certain to require a significant response by universities, and courses on multicore programming will become a staple of computer science curriculums.
The authors are well known and respected in this community and both teach and conduct research in this area. Prof. Maurice Herlihy is on the faculty of Brown University. He is the recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing. Prof. Nir Shavit is on the faculty of Tel-Aviv University and a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. In 2004 they shared the Gödel Prize, the highest award in theoretical computer science.

This book for business people with a medium level of technical skill is a fast and easy-to-read primer on how to implement a cash-generating! website, taking the reader from the inception of an idea to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla!. Joomla! is an award-winning freely available open-source Content Management System (CMS) that helps you build websites and other powerful online applications. Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications and includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, searching, and internationalization. The emphasis of this book is on Using Joomla! for e-commerce; it gives the reader a valuable knowledge base on search-engine ranking, website layout and design, shopping cart setup using VirtueMart, marketing the website, affiliate marketing with the iDevAffiliate system, and more.

Amazon quotes for previous editions:

"… a compellingly written exploration of the advanced techniques that can be accomplished with Photoshop Elements."
-Mike Leavy, Engineering Manager for Photoshop Elements, Adobe

"This book is detailed, comprehensive and inspirational, making it the perfect accessory for those who've recently invested in the fifth instalment of the Elements program"
-What Digital Camera April 07

"Philip's friendly style makes learning Photoshop Elements a breeze. This book gives you everything you need to feel like a digital pro in no time at all."
-Richard Coencas, Photoshop Elements Quality Engineer Lead, Adobe Systems

"With Philip as your guide, youll be using Elements like a pro and making great images in no time."
-Nigel Atherton, Chief Editor, What Digital Camera and Better Digital Photography

“Using crafty work-arounds to achieve remarkable results, Mark Galer pushes Elements’ capabilities to new levels.” Christy Brandt, Director of Engineering, Photoshop Elements, Adobe Systems, Inc.

“Elements 5.0 Maximum Performance has great techniques to get the most out of Elements. If you are a digital photographer using Elements for your image editing, this book is a great addition to your library.” Richard Coencas, Photoshop Elements Quality Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc.

“Well written, well illustrated, with a good knack for explaining complex issues in a non-threatening and comprehensible manner.” Steve Caplin, digital artist and author of “How to Cheat in Photoshop”.

“Truly Maximum Performance! This book has propelled my knowledge of Photoshop Elements to a very high competent professional level. I cannot express my absolute delight with my new skills.”
Richard McWhorter, author, USA