Open Source Books
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Beginning Blender: Open Source 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design
Published 10 years ago
by Lance Flavell, Apress
A new world of creative possibilities is opened by Blender, the most popular and powerful open source 3D and animation tool. Blender is not just free software; it is also an important professional tool used in animated shorts, television commercials, and shows, as well as in production for films like Spiderman 2. Lance Flavell's Beginning Blender will give you the skills to start shaping new worlds and virtual characters, and perhaps lead you down a new professional path.
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Learning MySQL
Published 14 years ago
by Seyed M.M. Saied Tahaghoghi, Hugh Williams, O'Reilly Media
Whether you're running a business, keeping track of members and meetings for a club, or just trying to organize a large and diverse collection of information, you'll find the MySQL database engine useful for answering questions such as: Which are my top ten fastest-selling products? How frequently does this person come to our facility? What was the highest, lowest, and average score of the team last season?
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Linux Networking Cookbook
Published 13 years ago
by Carla Schroder, O'Reilly Media
This soup-to-nuts collection of recipes covers everything you need to know to perform your job as a Linux network administrator, whether you're new to the job or have years of experience. With Linux Networking Cookbook, you'll dive straight into the gnarly hands-on work of building and maintaining a computer network. Running a network doesn't mean you have all the answers. Networking is a complex subject with reams of reference material that's difficult to keep straight, much less remember.
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wxPython in Action
Published 14 years ago
by Noel Rappin, Robin Dunn, Manning Publications
Because they are often large and complex, GUI programming tool kits can be hard to use. wxPython is a combination of the Python programming language and the wxWidgets toolkit, which allows programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. wxPython combines the power of an exceptionally complete user interface toolkit with an exceptionally flexible programming language.
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The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Published 13 years ago
by Obie Fernandez, Addison-Wesley Professional
The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to building production-quality software with Rails.
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Understanding IPv6, Second Edition
Published 13 years ago
by Joseph Davies, Microsoft Press
Now updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this guide delivers in-depth technical information on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 greatly improves on IPv4, the current protocol, by vastly increasing the number of available addresses and by adding enhancements for security, multimedia traffic management, routing, and network configuration.
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform (2nd Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Jeff McAffer, JeanMichel Lemieux, Chris Aniszczyk, Addison-Wesley Professional
In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition, three Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) project leaders show how to use Eclipse 3.5 (“Galileo”) to rapidly deliver cross-platform applications with rich, native-feel GUIs.The authors fully reveal the power of Eclipse as a desktop application development platform; introduce important new improvements in Eclipse 3.
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Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Editi
Published 10 years ago
by Thomas Kyte, Apress
Now in its second edition, this best-selling book by Tom Kyte of Ask Tom fame continues to bring you some of the best thinking on how to apply Oracle Database to produce scalable applications that perform well and deliver correct results. Tom has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment.
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Foundation Rails 2
Published 12 years ago
by Eldon Alameda, friends of ED
You've heard about this amazing web framework called Ruby on Rails that's taken the world by storm but thought it was way too complex for you? Think again. Foundation Rails 2 takes you through your first steps in Rails, explaining in plain English how to start building dynamic web applications. And there's never been a better time to jump in to the Rails world, as the release of Rails 2 is a major evolutionary leap forward from previous versions.
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Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition
Published 11 years ago
by Stephen Marsland, Chapman & Hall/CRC
Traditional books on machine learning can be divided into two groups â those aimed at advanced undergraduates or early postgraduates with reasonable mathematical knowledge and those that are primers on how to code algorithms. The field is ready for a text that not only demonstrates how to use the algorithms that make up machine learning methods, but also provides the background needed to understand how and why these algorithms work. Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective is that text.