Get ready to explore all that Poser has to offer! Giving you a firm foundation, "Poser 6 Revealed: The Official Guide" allows you to master concepts on both a technical and artistic level. Begin by examining the concept behind each task—the goal and the necessary features that are involved. Then go in-depth with the objective of your task as you study examples and learn the steps necessary to complete it. Working your way through comprehensive, step-by-step lessons, you’ll develop the confidence you need to create amazing graphics using Poser.

About the Author

Kelly Murdock has over 15 years experience in the computer graphics arena, especially in the area of 3D graphics. Included in the experience is a variety of tasks from high-end CAD product design and architectural pre-visualization to virtual reality and games. Kelly is best known for his international best-selling books on graphics including the 3ds max Bible, Illustrator Bible and Naked Maya. Kelly currently works as a freelance designer for Logical Paradox Design, a company that he founded with his brother.

Computational models can be found everywhere in present day science and engineering. In providing a logical framework and foundation for the specification and design of specification languages, Raymond Turner uses this framework to introduce and study computable models. In doing so he presents the first systematic attempt to provide computational models with a logical foundation.

Computable models have wide-ranging applications from programming language semantics and specification languages, through to knowledge representation languages and formalism for natural language semantics. They are also implicit in computer modelling in many areas of physical and social science.

This detailed investigation into the logical foundations of specification and specification languages and their application to the definition of programming languages, coupled with a clear exposition of theories of data and computable models as mathematical notions will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students.

With Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can master all aspects of using Share Point Designer in an Enterprise environment to enhance Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Review key integration points, how to use CSS editing tools to create and modify SharePoint themes, how to supplement SharePoint Designer functionality by using Microsoft Visual Studio, and how to create a rich interactive experience. If you need to connect SharePoint with other enterprise resources or create components to integrate into the SharePoint framework, this book will show you how to accomplish these tasks.

Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a versatile application that provides all the necessary tools to modify nearly every aspect of a SharePoint web site's look and feel. Yet, SharePoint Designer can do far more than just customize SharePoint sites and this book shows you how to maximize the potential of this fully featured web design tool.

Packed with step-by-step examples, sample code, and helpful screen shots, this resource begins with an overview of SharePoint Designer and SharePoint technology and then quickly moves on to teach you how to use SharePoint Designer to customize various aspects of your sites. The team of experienced authors demonstrates how SharePoint Designer is able to create powerful applications that would have normally required considerable programming effort, and they take you past the built-in features of SharePoint Designer with extensions, add-ins, migration, and conversion tools. With this book, you'll be able to perfectly match a SharePoint site to an enterprise's standards, connect SharePoint with other enterprise resources, or create something entirely new.

What you will learn from this book

• Ways to create extensions to SharePoint and SharePoint Designer, with examples in both C# and Visual Basic .NET

• Techniques for customizing lists, libraries, and more

• How to maximize your use of SharePoint Site Components

• The anatomy of SharePoint master pages and themes

• Methods for working with CSS editing tools in SharePoint Designer

• How to use Visual Studio and other tools to extend the capabilities of SharePoint and SharePoint Designer

• Things to consider when building SharePoint Designer workflows

• Considerations for governing the use of SharePoint Designer in your enterprise

Who this book is for

This book is for web designers and developers who are looking to modify or enhance SharePoint products and technologies or anyone upgrading from Microsoft FrontPage to SharePoint Designer. A basic knowledge of JavaScript and HTML tags is assumed.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author

Woodrow (Woody) Windischman is a technology trainer and consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles, allowing him to see problems holistically and come up with appropriate solutions. His SharePoint experience started even before SharePoint became a product, with predecessors such as Site Server, the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, and the earliest versions of Microsoft FrontPage. Since then Woody ’ s been deeply involved in the SharePoint community — first having been awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP from October 2005 through September 2007, and then working directly for the SharePoint product team. He ’ s active in several online SharePoint communities, including the TechNet forums.

Bryan Phillips is a software architect and senior partner with Composable Systems, LLC, specializing in service - oriented business solutions using the latest Microsoft technology. Bryan has worked professionally with Microsoft development technology since 1997 and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certifications. Bryan contributes regularly to the Microsoft development community by speaking on topics such as Smart Client, ASP.NET, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Mobile development; presenting DevCares courses; and blogging on topics of interest to developers. Bryan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Client Application Development.

Asif Rehmani has been a Trainer and a Consultant working out of the Chicago office of SharePoint Solutions ( http://sharepointsolutions.com/chicago ) since early 2005. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT.

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled presents a direct trouble–shooting methodology for identifying poorly performing stored procedures and queries, isolating the causes of that poor performance, and fixing the underlying problems. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the top causes of poorly performing queries and shows methods for identifying and dealing with the problems in that chapter’s domain. Emphasis is always put upon or placed upon practical methods that you can put to immediate use in your day–to–day work. SQL Server 2008 functionality, tips, and tricks are emphasized in each subject area.

• Emphasizes the practical. Does not bury readers in theory.
• Gives readers practical techniques to immediately apply in their daily work.
• Dedicates a chapter to each of the most common, performance–related problem areas.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and fix poorly performing queries that are hurting your business.
• Read query execution plans and identify bottlenecks in performance.
• Record system performance metrics for trend analysis.
• Learn to design databases and write Transact–SQL code to avoid common problems.
• Understand what an index is, what it does, and how to build one.
• Use industry accepted best practices and understand how to develop your own to arrive at optimal database performance.

Who is this book for

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled is aimed at anyone writing business–critical Transact–SQL queries, and also at those responsible for the continued good performance of those queries. Developers, database administrators, business intelligence analysts, and any others who develop Transact–SQL queries will find this book an indispensible resource for getting the most out of what SQL Server 2008 has to offer.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces new geography and geometry spatial datatypes that enable the storage of structured data describing the shape and position of objects in space. This is an interesting and exciting new feature, with many potentially useful applications.

Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008 covers everything you need to know to begin using these new spatial datatypes, and explains how to apply them in practical situations involving the spatial relationships of people, places, and things on the earth.

• All of the spatial concepts introduced are explained from the ground up, so you need not have any previous knowledge of working with spatial data.
• Every section is illustrated with code examples that you can use directly in SQL Server.
• All of the topics covered in this book apply to all versions of SQL Server 2008, including the freely available SQL Server 2008 Express.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the fundamental concepts involved in working with spatial data, including spatial references and coordinate systems.
• Apply these concepts in the collection and storage of spatial data in SQL Server 2008, using the new geometry and geography field types.
• Create different types of spatial data objects—points, lines, and polygons—and use these to describe real–world objects.
• Learn how to analyze spatial data using a range of supported methods, and be aware of a number of different practical applications for these methods.
• Be shown how to integrate SQL Server with other tools, such as Microsoft Virtual Earth, to display a visual representation of spatial data.
• Know how to ensure the performance of spatially enabled databases by creating appropriate spatial indexes.

Who is this book for?

SQL Server developers who wish to use spatial data in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

About the Author

Alastair Aitchison has over eight years of experience as a management information consultant, specializing in the design and deployment of online reporting systems. For the last three years, he has been employed as a reporting and analysis manager at Aviva, the world’s fifth largest insurance group. In this role, he has championed the use of spatial data in corporate applications including the geographic analysis of risk patterns, plotting the success of regional marketing campaigns, and understanding the impact of major weather incidents. Alastair is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and has delivered numerous training courses to individuals and small groups on a range of software packages.

Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field. Derived from select chapters of this groundbreaking and authoritative resource, Human-Computer Interaction Fundamentals emphasizes emerging topics such as sensor based interactions, tangible interfaces, augmented cognition, cognition under stress, ubiquitous and wearable computing, and privacy and security. It puts the spotlight not only on the fundamental issues involved in the technology of human-computer interactions and but also on the users themselves. The book features visionary perspectives and developments that fundamentally transform the way in which researchers and practitioners view this discipline.

About the Author

UMBC, Baltimore, USA UMBC, Baltimore Department of Information, USA

This manual describes how to use GNU diff and patch to compare and merge files.

GNU diff and patch are free software. The term "free software" is sometimes misunderstood — it has nothing to do with price. It is about freedom. It refers to your freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With GNU diff and patch you have all these freedoms.

GNU diff and patch are part of the GNU Project. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. It was conceived as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the computing community in earlier days. Its goal is to make cooperation possible once again by removing the obstacles to cooperation imposed by the owners of proprietary software. Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux”, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.

The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project. It is dedicated to promoting computer users’ right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. You can support the Free Software Foundation by becoming an associate member — for more information visit the website www.gnu.org.

This book covers its subject very thoroughly. The framework the authors have established is very elegant and, if it catches on, this book could be the primary reference for this approach. I don't know of any other book that covers this set of topics.
(Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology )

This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of tools for understanding coordination algorithms, determining their correctness, and assessing their complexity; and it analyzes various cooperative strategies for tasks such as consensus, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, deployment, and boundary estimation. The unifying theme is a formal model for robotic networks that explicitly incorporates their communication, sensing, control, and processing capabilities--a model that in turn leads to a common formal language to describe and analyze coordination algorithms.

Written for first- and second-year graduate students in control and robotics, the book will also be useful to researchers in control theory, robotics, distributed algorithms, and automata theory. The book provides explanations of the basic concepts and main results, as well as numerous examples and exercises.

• Self-contained exposition of graph-theoretic concepts, distributed algorithms, and complexity measures for processor networks with fixed interconnection topology and for robotic networks with position-dependent interconnection topology
• Detailed treatment of averaging and consensus algorithms interpreted as linear iterations on synchronous networks
• Introduction of geometric notions such as partitions, proximity graphs, and multicenter functions
• Detailed treatment of motion coordination algorithms for deployment, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, and boundary estimation

About the Author

Francesco Bullo is professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Jorge Cortes is associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Sonia Martinez is associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

The PalmOS is the most widely-distributed operating system for handheld computers, with tens of millions of devices in use worldwide. Palm has a thriving developer community, with over 350,000 registered developers and countless hobbyist developers. The new edition of PalmOS Programming introduces the many updates to the PalmOS operating system in the past 24 months, including wirelss, color, and the Visor devices. In addition, this book looks forward at the next generation of Palm development and the new OS 5 slated for release in late 2002.

About the Author

Glenn Bachmann is president and founder of Bachmann Software (http://www.bachmannsoftware.com), a leading provider of software products and professional software development services for the mobile computing and wireless communications industries. Bachmann Software's popular PrintBoy mobile printing software and FilePoint Pro file management suite are available through major retail stores and online software channels, and are in everyday use on Palm OS and Windows CE PDAs worldwide.

Frank Ableson is an expert in computer hardware and software communications, network programming and image processing, and he relishes solving problems in general. Frank is a contributing author for chapters on infrared communications, serial communications, and network programming. Franks runs his own consulting firm CFG Solutions, and his contributions to Bachmann Software over the years have earned him the title of resident communications guru. His biggest fans are his wife Nikki, and children, Julia, Tristan, and Natalie.

Greg Winton is the author of Palm OS Network Programming (O'Reilly & Associates, 2001) and a regular contributor to several technical magazines. He provides application development consulting for Palm OS, Linux, and a wide variety of handheld and wireless networking platforms. For more information, visit him on the Web at http://www.gregsprogrammingworks.com.

The Microsoft Excel 2000 Functions in Practice provides in-depth information on the functions that will maximize your use of the analytical tools within Excel 2000. Packed with examples and detailed insight into both the functions and their uses, this reference includes more than just discussions of the functions—it offers practical, real-world usage of them with chapters on crucial topics such as using Excel's functions in your job, database and list-management functions, date and time functions, engineering functions, financial functions, information and logical functions, lookup and reference functions, math and trigonometry functions, and statistical and text functions.

About the Author

Patrick Blattner currently works for the Walt Disney Company. The author of Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft Excel 2000, Patrick has been using Excel for more than 12 years in corporate and private business. After graduating from Northeast Louisiana University, he started out in the contracting and gold mining industry. He then branched off into product development where he received a United States Utility Patent (5,031,865), and set up manufacturing in China with international distribution. He's spent the last four years in interactive software development and is a member of The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don't understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how machine learning techniques can improve statistical machine translation, currently at the forefront of research in the field.

The book looks first at enabling technologies—technologies that solve problems that are not machine translation proper but are linked closely to the development of a machine translation system. These include the acquisition of bilingual sentence-aligned data from comparable corpora, automatic construction of multilingual name dictionaries, and word alignment. The book then presents new or improved statistical machine translation techniques, including a discriminative training framework for leveraging syntactic information, the use of semi-supervised and kernel-based learning methods, and the combination of multiple machine translation outputs in order to improve overall translation quality.

Contributors: Srinivas Bangalore, Nicola Cancedda, Josep M. Crego, Marc Dymetman, Jakob Elming, George Foster, Jesús Giménez, Cyril Goutte, Nizar Habash, Gholamreza Haffari, Patrick Haffner, Hitoshi Isahara, Stephan Kanthak, Alexandre Klementiev, Gregor Leusch, Pierre Mahé, Lluís Màrquez, Evgeny Matusov, I. Dan Melamed, Ion Muslea, Hermann Ney, Bruno Pouliquen, Dan Roth, Anoop Sarkar, John Shawe-Taylor, Ralf Steinberger, Joseph Turian, Nicola Ueffing, Masao Utiyama, Zhuoran Wang, Benjamin Wellington, Kenji Yamada

Neural Information Processing series

About the Author

Cyril Goutte is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology.

Nicola Cancedda is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.

Marc Dymetman is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.

George Foster is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology.