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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You've seen the promises in the advertising: Microsoft's free Movie Maker 2 will make it simple to capture, edit and share your home movies. We agree, but how do you know where to start, or where you're going The answer is Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero to Hero, which will take you from filming your movie (with useful tips to improve the quality) through editing and adding effects, to premiering your masterpiece to your friends and family.Zero to Hero is more than a catchy slogan and an opportunity for puns and graphical representations of tights, capes, and phone booths. It's a style of learning designed by friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and dusty old authors who don't know how it is for real users and wouldn't know good design if it slapped them round the face with a wet fish. With a Zero to Hero book you can choose how you learn. You can choose to learn everything you need to know about Windows Movie Maker 2 by working through the first section of the book from start to finish. Alternatively, you can dive straight in to the inspirational 'Hero' chapters and refer back as and when you need. Then later, when you're a hero yourself, the book is easily used as a reference tool. When you're done, you'll be ready to wear your underwear on the outside-metaphorically speaking, of course.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos) takes a satirical look at the increasingly-hyped extreme programming (XP) methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach quotes such as, 'XPers are not afraid of oral documentation,' 'Schedule is the customer's problem,' 'Dependencies between requirements are more a matter of fear than reality' and 'Concentration is the enemy.'In between the chuckles, though, there is a serious analysis of XP's many flaws. The authors also examine C3, the first XP project, whose team (most of whom went on to get XP book deals shortly before C3's cancellation) described themselves as 'the best team on the face of the Earth.' (In a later chapter, the authors also note that one problem which can affect pair programmers is overconfidence-or is that 'eXcessive courage' ). The authors examine whether the problems that led to C3's 'inexplicable' cancellation could also afflict present-day XP projects.In the final chapter, Refactoring XP, Matt and Doug suggest some ways of achieving the agile goals of XP using some XP practices (used in moderation) combined with other, less risk-laden methods.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PHP is an open source, server-side, HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Not only browser-independent, PHP offers simple cross-platform solutions for e-commerce, and web and database-driven applications.Enter Professional PHP4. This book will show you exactly how to create fantastic web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also teaches PHP by coding FTP and e-mail clients, advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IS USUALLY faced with several critical factors: time to market, ever-increasing quality, and cost of development. Time to market is critical in that any project that an individual or company may have in mind is probably already in the works elsewhere. When that is the case, everything comes down to being the first to deliver . . . even if it falls short. A Gartner Research study showed that competing products offering similar features will take the most mar ket share if released sooner. The study further added that the product released first, even with fewer features, typically builds market share faster. The lesson of that study is that it is important to release a 1. 0 version of a new product concept as quickly as possible and then follow up with feature add-ons over time. Product consistency and quality are also critical to the success of products making their debut. Applications with modules that look differently can under mine the application user's confidence in the product. The lower their confidence in the application, the less they use the product and come to depend upon it. The same can be said at the code level. The more modules that are implemented con sistently, the easier different developers can step in to investigate and resolve problems. Cost of development is often measured by productivity, or how much code is created to accomplish specific application tasks.