Using eBooks

Build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently using Google App Engine and this book, even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development. App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google's own tutorial assumes significant experience, Using Google App Engine will help anyone get started with this platform. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build complete, interactive applications and deploy them to the cloud using the same servers that power Google applications. With this book, you will:Get an overview of the technologies necessary to use Google App EngineLearn how to use Python, HTML...

Planning to deploy and maintain a public, private, or hybrid cloud service? This cookbook';s handy how-to recipes help you quickly learn and install Apache CloudStack, along with several API clients, API wrappers, data architectures, and configuration management technologies that work as part of CloudStack';s ecosystem.You';ll learn how to use Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Fluentd, Libcloud, and several other open source tools that let you build and operate CloudStack better and faster. If you';re an experienced programmer, system administrator, or DevOps practitioner familiar with bash, Git, package management, and some Python, you';re ready to go.Learn basic CloudStack installation from source, including features such as DevCloud, the CloudStack sandboxG...

Research fuels innovation--and with this focused guide to Microsoft Word, you can help increase your team's collaborative power and effectiveness, and bring new research to life. Writing proposals, reports, journal articles, theses, and other technical documents as a team poses unique challenges, not the least of which is consistent presentation and voice. You must also manage the formatting and accuracy of figures, equations, and citations, and comply with the style rules of external publications. In this book you'll learn from the authors' extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of technical content, and gain specific practices and templates you can apply right away. Focuses on the unique challenges of writing and producing doc...

Imagery is powerful and evocative. It is one of the most important cornerstones of successful visual communication, and working with imagery is a vital skill for every designer. This authoritative book shows how successful sourcing, creation, and use of imagery can be applied to professional graphic design. As a new addition to the Design Elements series, this essential volume covers when, where, and how to use imagery and explores the unique power images have over an audience.In these pages, you'll learn:- How to choose the best photos and illustrations for a project- The most effective ways to alter images- Composition techniques- Strategies for sourcing images on a tight budget- And moreWith eye-opening examples of real-world projects, Design Elem...