- Core Python Applications Programming: Multithreaded Programming
- Mar 15, 2012
- Wesley J. Chun explores the different ways you can achieve more parallelism in your code, including the difference between processes and threads, some multithreaded programming features found in Python, and some examples of how to use the threading and Queue modules to accomplish multithreaded programming with Python.
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- Revisiting the Evernote/Microsoft OneNote Competitive Landscape
- Mar 9, 2012
- Peter O'Kelly highlights some of the differences between Evernote and Microsoft OneNote.
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- OneNote for iPad: Ample Room for Improvement
- Mar 8, 2012
- Peter O'Kelly explains how the limitations in the initial release of OneNote for iPad might frustrate people who have more elaborate information-management needs.
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- OneNote for iPad: A Hopeful Leading Indicator
- Mar 7, 2012
- Peter O'Kelly provides an overview of OneNote for iPad, along with some analysis of what Microsoft may do next with OneNote for Windows, iPad, and other platforms.
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- Tweeting To and From Your Evernote Account
- Mar 5, 2012
- Katherine Murray shows how you can follow people and subjects on Twitter that bring the information you're looking for right to your browser window. And, thanks to Evernote, you can send the tweets you want to keep directly to your Evernote notebook, too.
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- A Python Reading List by Wesley Chun
- Mar 4, 2012
- Wesley J. Chun, author of Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Edition, offers a list of his favorite Python books for everyone from complete beginners to experienced programmers.
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- Using Fuzzy Matching to Search by Sound with Python
- Mar 3, 2012
- When you're writing code to search a database, you can't rely on all those data entries being spelled correctly. Doug Hellmann, developer at DreamHost and author of The Python Standard Library by Example, reviews available options for searching databases by the sound of the target's name, rather than relying on the entry's accuracy.
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- Capturing Audio Notes in Evernote
- Mar 2, 2012
- Katherine Murray shows you how to record, save, and manage audio notes in Evernote, whether you’re using a desktop computer or a mobile device.
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- Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby: Interfaces
- Mar 2, 2012
- This chapter explores creating flexible interfaces in Ruby that allow applications to grow and change.
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- Programming in CoffeeScript: Functions and Arguments
- Mar 2, 2012
- In this chapter Mark Bates looks at one of the most essential parts of any language, the function. Functions allow us to encapsulate reusable and discreet code blocks. Without functions our code would be one long, unreadable and un-maintainable mess.
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- Improving Mobile Web Application Development with HTML5
- Dec 28, 2011
- Learn to build a simple HTML5 document and find out why HTML5 is the language you should know if you want to design and develop mobile applications.
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- New Structural Elements in HTML5
- Dec 12, 2011
- HTML5 is not just about interactive voodoo with JavaScript APIs and video coolness. There are more than 20 new elements you can use to author your web pages, adding semantics to deliver more accessible, reusable content.
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- Understanding Cascading Style Sheets
- Dec 7, 2011
- In this chapter, you will learn how to fine-tune the display of your web content using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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- Whose Job Is Content?
- Dec 5, 2011
- Strategizing, creating, assessing, disseminating, evaluating, and monetizing content doesn’t just happen by itself. Someone’s got to actually do it. This chapter explores an organization's options for content creation.
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- Creating Cross-Platform Java and JavaScript Games with Amino, Part 2
- Dec 1, 2011
- James Williams, author of Learning HTML5 Game Programming, continues his examination of how to use Amino to create cross-platform applications in JavaScript and Java. Learn how to use Amino to start and end a 'War.'
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- Get Started Using ASP.NET MVC for Your .NET Applications
- Nov 17, 2011
- Programming expert Jesse Smith shows you the easy way to get started with the popular ASP.NET MVC framework. Learn how to build a simple "Hello World" application with ASP.NET MVC in only a few steps.
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- Web Interface Design with SharePoint Designer 2010
- Nov 2, 2011
- This chapter provides an overview of SharePoint Designer 2010, covering the new user interface and using the product to access and work with existing SharePoint sites and create new SharePoint sites.
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- Content is Cash: SONAR in Action
- Oct 22, 2011
- This chapter includes case studies to illustrate the effectiveness of SONAR, a content distribution model designed to improve ROI on existing web content.
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- Creating Cross-Platform Java and JavaScript Games with Amino
- Oct 17, 2011
- James Williams, author of Learning HTML5 Game Programming, introduces the cross-platform Amino scene graph API, which allows you to create applications in JavaScript and Java. Follow along as he uses Amino to create a binary clock.
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- Introducing HTML5 for Building Online Games
- Oct 13, 2011
- There are many notable additions to HTML5, such as native drawing support and audiovisual elements. In this chapter, James Williams discusses the features added by HTML5 and the associated JavaScript APIs.
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