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Do you have what it takes to become a game developer? With this hands-on book, you’ll learn quickly and easily how to develop computer games with Microsoft’s XNA 3.0 framework-not just for your PC, but for Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune as well. Written by an experienced university-level game development instructor, Learning XNA 3.0 walks you through the framework in a clear and understandable step-by-step format. Each chapter offers a self-contained lesson with lots of illustrations and annotated examples to help you master key concepts. Once you finish the book, you’ll know how to develop sophisticated games from start to finish. Learn game development concepts from 2D animation to 3D cameras and effectsDelve into high-level shader language (HLSL) and introductory artificial intelligence conceptsDevelop three complete and exciting games using 2D,3D and multiplayer conceptsDevelop and deploy games to the Xbox 360 and the Microsoft ZuneWhile teaching XNA to beginning game developers, author Aaron Reed noticed that several key concepts were difficult for students to grasp. Learning XNA 3.0 was written specifically to address those issues. With this book, you can test your understanding and practice new skills as you go with unique "Test Your Knowledge" exercises and review questions in each chapter. Why wait? Amaze your family and friends by building your own games for the PC, Xbox 360, and Zune-with Learning XNA 3.0. "An outstanding book! Teaches you XNA development in a smart way, starting from 2D basics and going into 3D and shader development. What I really like is the ‘peeling the onion’ approach the author takes, which builds up knowledge from previous chapters." –David "LetsKillDave" Weller, CEO, Cogito Ergonomics, LLC, and former XNA program manager
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This groundbreaking book provides the skills and resources you need to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running explains how each part of Twitter’s API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You’ll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it’s inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and games. With the book’s Twitter application directory, you can explore the most interesting and useful programs built so far, and get ideas for creating your own Twitter applications. Twitter API: Up and Running will help you: Learn why an understanding of Twitter culture is as important as knowing API syntaxExplore the building blocks of a Twitter application: how they work and the types of responses the API sends backGet the PHP and MySQL code necessary to make Twitter tools work, with explanations for how these ingredients functionExamine sample applications on the companion website, including notes that direct you to specific references in the bookTwitter API: Up and Running is still in progress, but you can get going on this technology through our Rough Cuts edition, which lets you read the manuscript as it evolves, either online or via PDF. Twitter represents an evolution in Internet participation — not just the way it drives content, but with a development platform that lets new programmers build their own tools. With Twitter API: Up and Running, you’ll go right to heart of this technology.
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This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z10™ Enterprise Class server, which is based on z/Architecture® . It builds on the inherent strengths of the System z® platform, delivering new technologies and virtualization that are designed to offer improvements in price and performance for key workloads, as well as enabling a new range of hybrid solutions. The z10 EC™ further extends System z’s leadership in key capabilities with the delivery of expanded scalability for growth and large-scale consolidation, availability to help reduce risk and improve flexibility to respond to changing business requirements, and improved security. The z10 EC is at the core of the enhanced System z platform that is designed to deliver technologies that businesses need today along with a foundation to drive future business growth. This document provides basic information about z10 EC capabilities, hardware functions and features, and its associated software support. It is intended for IT managers, architects, consultants, and anyone else who wants to understand the new elements of the z10 EC. The changes in this second edition are based on the IBM Hardware Announcement 108-794, dated October 21, 2008. This book is intended as an introduction to the z10 EC mainframe. Readers are not expected to be generally familiar with current IBM System z technology and terminology.
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The IBM® WebSphere® Dynamic Process Edition is a comprehensive set of role-based, SOA-enabled product capabilities providing customers the ability to continuously optimize processes and adapt them to rapidly changing needs. This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses the configuration, administration, and security of the key runtime environments in WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition: IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, and WebSphere Business Monitor. Through a series of step-by-step instructions you will learn how to select and create a production topology environment based on WebSphere Process Server deployment environment patterns. You will learn how to secure this environment and administer it. This book also contains a chapter on extending existing production topologies to add components such as additional clusters. This Redbooks publication also provides practical examples demonstrating how to incorporate WebSphere Business Services Fabric and WebSphere Business Monitor into existing topologies. The book contains extensive examples of working with all of these products in distributed environments. A separate publication covering z/OS® is forthcoming.
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Network and resource availability is critical to business and service assurance, but organizations can lose millions of dollars per year as a result of malware that brings down corporate resources. Thus, information security is one of the top concerns of every CIO. To maximize resource and service availability and to protect valuable information, information security teams must be able to recognize and handle security incidents quickly, enforce security policies, and support audit and compliance initiatives. The problem is that each of these activities involves security data that resides throughout the organization. Enterprises and service providers must access and analyze time sensitive data quickly and efficiently. In today’s complex multi-vendor environment, you must take advantage of an automated and integrated solution. In response to these challenges, the IBM® Tivoli® Security Operations Manager, a SIEM platform improves the effectiveness, efficiency, and visibility of security operations and information risk management. This IBM Redbooks® publication helps you design and create a solution. This book is a valuable resource for security officers, administrators, and architects who want to understand and implement a SIEM system.
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Today more and more companies are embracing the principles of on demand business by integrating business processes end-to-end across the company and with key partners, enabling them to respond flexibly and rapidly to new circumstances. The move to an on demand business environment requires technical transformation, moving the focus from discrete applications to connected, interdependent information technology components. Open standards such as Web services enable these components to be hosted in the environments most appropriate to their requirements, while still being able to interact easily, independent of hardware, run-time environment, and programming language. The Web services support in CICS® Transaction Server Version 3 enables your CICS programs to be Web service providers and requesters. CICS supports a number of specifications including SOAP Version 1.1 and Version 1.2, and Web services distributed transactions (WS-Atomic Transaction). This IBM® Redbooks publication describes how to configure CICS Web services support for HTTP-based and WebSphere® MQ-based solutions, and demonstrates how Web services can be used to integrate J2EE™ applications running in WebSphere Application Server with COBOL programs running in CICS. The book begins with an overview of Web services standards and the Web services support provided by CICS TS V3. Complete details for configuring CICS Web services using both HTTP and WebSphere MQ are provided next. We concentrate on the implementation specifics such as security, transactions, and availability.
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The x3950 M2 server is the System x™ flagship server and implements the fourth generation of the IBM® X-Architecture®. It delivers innovation with enhanced reliability and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The x3950 M2 features make the server ideal for handling complex, business-critical On Demand Business applications such as database serving, business intelligence, transaction processing, enterprise resource planning, collaboration applications, and server consolidation. Up to four x3950 M2 servers can be connected to form a single-system image comprising of up to 16 six-core processors, up to 1 TB of high speed memory and support for up to 28 PCI Express adapters. The capacity gives you the ultimate in processing power, ideally suited for very large relational databases. This IBM Redbooks® publication describes the technical details of the x3950 M2 scalable server as well as the x3850 M2 server. We explain the configuration options, how 2-node, 3-node and 4-node complexes are cabled and implemented, how to install key server operating systems, and the management tools available to systems administrators.
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Master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign with One-on-One, Deke McClelland’s unique and effective learning system. Abode InDesign CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than four hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it’s done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. Whether you’re new to InDesign or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features of CS4, Deke’s conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you easily through the program’s fundamental and advanced concepts and techniques. More than 900 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots illustrate every key step. With this book, you will: Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorialsCreate professional-looking documents with InDesign’s powerful text and graphic toolsDiscover how to create, import, and modify artworkApply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operationCompose a fully interactive document with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and moviesTest your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapterAnd more. Written and produced by a Photoshop expert with well over 20 years of experience, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You’ll learn to use InDesign faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.
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