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Implementing Gestures and Touches in iOS 7: Apr 28, 2014; This chapter introduces direct manipulation interfaces that go far beyond prebuilt controls. By the time you finish reading this chapter, you’ll have read about many different ways you can implement gesture control in your own applications.

Implementing Parameters for Dynamic Reporting in Crystal Reports: Feb 23, 2007; Learn how parameter fields can be created and implemented in Crystal Reports XI.

Increasing Organizational Capability through the People CMM: Jul 9, 2009; Learn how to increase your organizational capability throught the People CMM, which applies the principles of the process maturity framework to the domain of workforce practices.

Init to Winit: Building Success with Swift Class Initializers: Sep 9, 2014; Work carefully with Swift class initializers. If Objective-C is a big, warm, fuzzy teddy bear when it comes to initializers, Swift is a bespectacled, whip-carrying, leather-clad librarian with an attitude. Learn how to use convenience methods from subclasses without enraging the Swift tiger.

Inserting Charts and Related Material in PowerPoint 2007: Jan 19, 2007; Seamlessly integrate information into your presentations using shared data.

Interface Lessons from "A Dark Room": Jun 18, 2014; "A Dark Room" is an enormous mess, visually. And yet, despite this it works with perhaps more appeal than if it had presented a gorgeous UI. There are lessons to be learned from this.

Internet Protocol Network Multipathing (Update): Feb 7, 2003; This article looks at the features of Internet Protocol network multipathing and the steps required to configure it for network adapter resilience, updated for Solaris Bug ID: 4710499.

Interoperable Naming Service: Sep 7, 2001; The CORBA naming service associates names with object references, and clients and servers use it to locate and advertise CORBA objects. Fintan Bolton describes the newer of the two major CORBA versions, the Interoperable Naming Service.

Introducing iOS Auto Layout: Dec 9, 2013; This chapter introduces the core concepts that underpin Auto Layout, Cocoa’s declarative constraint-based descriptive layout system.

Introducing Swift Syntax and Data Types: Dec 30, 2014; This chapter from Swift for the Really Impatient introduces the basic syntax and data types of Swift.

Introducing the Swift Development Environment: Dec 4, 2014; In this excerpt from Introducing the Swift Development Environment, BJ Miller explains what Swift is and where it came from, how to install Xcode 6 from the Mac App Store, navigate the Xcode Integrated Development Environment (IDE), use playgrounds, use Swift’s Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL), and write your first Swift app.

Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Functions in Swift: Feb 4, 2015; In this chapter from Swift for Programmers, you’ll create your own types in the form of classes. Each new class you create becomes a new type that can be used to define variables and create objects.

Introduction to OpenGL ES 3.0: Mar 7, 2014; The authors of OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide, 2nd Edition introduce this API for advanced 3D graphics targeted at handheld and embedded devices, including what's new in OpenGL ES 3.0, backward compatibility, EGL, EGL and OpenGL ES command syntax, error handling, and basic state management.

Introduction to Self-Handicapping Leadership: The Nine Behaviors Holding Back Employees, Managers, and Companies, and How to Overcome Them: Dec 18, 2015; Employees witness self-sabotage daily from their leaders—not confronting errant employees, inconsistent leadership, hiring the wrong people, blaming everyone, acting like a control freak, self-centered decision making, or not keeping their word. These can cause employees to be apathetic, unmotivated, and lack ownership; so why do leaders do these things? The authors of Self-Handicapping Leadership introduce their book, which will help you break the vicious cycle of self-handicapping leadership in your organization, stop the excuses, and unleash all the performance your team is capable of delivering.

Introduction to SunTone Clustered Database Platforms: May 17, 2002; This article details the benefits that can be derived from a clustered Oracle database software stack that has been integrated to best practices and is ready to deploy.

Introduction to the Solaris Cluster Grid - Part 2: Dec 20, 2002; In the second part of a two-part series, this article takes the next step in describing the Sun Cluster Grid design phase which includes information gathering, design decisions, installation and management considerations, and example implementations.

Introduction to the Sun Cluster Grid, Part 1: Sep 26, 2002; Part one of this two part series provides an introduction to grid architecture, and discusses how the architecture can be applied to existing compute environments using the Sun Cluster Grid software stack.