Got a great game idea? This complete do-it-yourself guide shows you how to make your game idea a reality for the iPhone and iPad. By developing a real game hands-on through the course of this book, you?ll get a thorough introduction to Xcode and Objective-C, while learning how to implement game logic, sophisticated graphics, game physics, sounds, and computer AI.

Author Todd Moore taught himself how to create an iPhone game in a week, with no previous knowledge of Apple?s development tools. Now he develops smartphone games and apps full time. With this book, any coder can turn game ideas into real products, ready for the App Store.

• Get started by writing a simple game in only 20 lines of code
• Build a complete air hockey game from scratch
• Learn best practices for tracking multiple screen touches
• Use animation loops and create collision functions
• Get the tools you need to build your own stunning game graphics
• Apply game physics to give your game a sense of realism
• Record and edit lifelike sound effects, and create your own background music
• Design a computer player with different levels of difficulty

Todd Moore founded TMSOFT to create unique smart phone applications and games. His most popular game title, Card Counter, was featured by Engadget, the Los Angeles Times, and CNET TV. Todd?s most popular application, White Noise, was featured by iTunes, Health Magazine, The Washington Post, PC Magazine, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

This book is an integrated introduction to the mathematics of coding, that is, replacing information expressed in symbols, such as a natural language or a sequence of bits, by another message using (possibly) different symbols. There are three main reasons for doing this: economy, reliability, and security, and each is covered in detail. Only a modest mathematical background is assumed, the mathematical theory being introduced at a level that enables the basic problems to be stated carefully, but without unnecessary abstraction. Other features include: clear and careful exposition of fundamental concepts, including optimal coding, data compression, and public-key cryptography; concise but complete proofs of results; coverage of recent advances of practical interest, for example in encryption standards, authentication schemes, and elliptic curve cryptography; numerous examples and exercises, and a full solutions manual available to lecturers from www.springer.com.

Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You?ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data.

Although building maps with Drupal can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system?s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with Drupal today.

• Get up to speed on map projections, the ethics of making maps, and the challenges of building them online
• Learn how spatial data is stored, input by users, manipulated, and queried
• Use the OpenLayers or GMap modules to display maps with lists, tables, and data feeds
• Create rich, custom interactions by applying geolocation
• Customize your map?s look and feel with personalized markers, map tiles, and map popups
• Build modules that add imaginative and engaging interactions

A Hands-On Guide to Equinox and the OSGi Framework

?In OSGI and Equinox: Creating Highly Modular Java? Systems, three leading experts show developers--for the first time--exactly how to make the most of these breakthrough technologies for building highly modular dynamic systems.


You'll quickly get started with Eclipse bundle tooling, create your first OSGi-based system, and move rapidly to sophisticated production development. Next, you'll master best practices and techniques for creating systems with exceptional modularity and maintainability. You'll learn all about OSGi's Declarative Services and how to use them to solve a wide variety of real-world problems. Finally, you'll see everything that you've learned implemented in a complete case study project that takes you from early prototype through application delivery.
For every Eclipse developer, regardless of previous experience, this book

• Combines a complete hands-on tutorial, online sample code at every step, and deep technical dives for working developers
• Covers the OSGi programming model, component development, OSGi services, Eclipse bundle tooling, server-side Equinox, and much more
• Offers knowledge, guidance, and best practices for overcoming the complexities of building modular systems
• Addresses practical issues ranging from integrating third-party code libraries to server-side programming
• Includes a comprehensive case study that goes beyond prototyping to deliver a fully refined
  and refactored production system

Whatever your application, industry, or problem domain, if you want to build state-of-the-art software systems with OSGi and Equinox, you will find this book to be an essential resource.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2011, held in Changsha, China, in July 2011. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The volume also contains extended abstracts of the three invited papers. The topics covered are aggregation operators and decision making; clustering and similarity; computational intelligence; and data privacy.

Gain hands-on experience with PureMVC, the popular open source framework for developing maintainable applications with a Model-View-Controller architecture. In this concise guide, PureMVC creator Cliff Hall teaches the fundamentals of PureMVC development by walking you through the construction of a complete non-trivial Adobe AIR application.

Through clear explanations and numerous ActionScript code examples, you?ll learn best practices for using the framework?s classes in your day-to-day work. Discover how PureMVC enables you to focus on the purpose and scope of your application, while the framework takes care of the plumbing in a maintainable and portable way.

• Get a detailed overview of the PureMVC process for developing your application
• Model the domain by designing the schema and creating framework-agnostic value objects
• Implement framework-agnostic View components that expose an API of events and properties
• Use the Proxy pattern to keep track of value objects and hide service interaction
• Facilitate two-way communication between a View component and the rest of the application
• Stitch the Model and View tiers together with command objects in the Controller
• Manage problematic View component life cycles, and learn how to reuse the Model tier

Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You?ll learn how to manage Drupal?s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.

In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system?s project and code management details.

• Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
• Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
• Understand Drupal?s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
• Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
• Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
• Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently

Professional-level prep for the professional-level exam.

Prepare for MCPD Exam 70-518?and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows application design and development with .NET Framework 4. Designed for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status?Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCPD level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Designing the Layers of a Solution
• Designing the Presentation Layer
• Designing the Data Access Layer
• Planning a Solution Deployment
• Designing for Stability and Maintenance

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2010, held in Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, in September 2010. The 9 revised full papers, 6 revised short papers, and 4 poster papers presented together with 1 PhD paper, 2 system descriptions and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers address all current topics in Web reasoning, Web-based knowledge, and rule systems such as representation techniques; rules and ontologies; reasoning languages; efficiency and benchmarking,; ontology languages; querying and optimization; reasoning with uncertainty, under inconsistency, and with constraints; rule languages and systems; rule interchange formats and markup languages; scalability; approximate reasoning; statistical methods and symbolic reasoning; as well as semantic Web services modeling and applications.