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Foundation HTML5 with CSS3

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:39 AM PST

Foundation HTML5 with CSS3

Book Description

If you want to get into developing sites, the most important thing you’ll need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or —the most common language used to write site content. The most recent version of the language is , and it contains a whole host of new features to give you more power when creating websites.

Foundation with 3: A Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples to show how to structure data correctly using 5, along with styling and layout basics using the latest release of Cascading Style Sheets, 3.

This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards-compliant, and it demonstrate best practices—you won’t waste your time on outdated, bad techniques. Your pages will work properly in most browsers and be accessible to users with disabilities, easily located using popular search engines, and compact in file size.

Even if you already know HTML5 and basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables, so you can look up troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.

What you'll learn

  • Standards-compliant HTML5, not outdated techniques
  • Styling and layout basics using

Who this book is for
Web designers and developers who want to bring themselves up to speed in the correct usage of HTML5 and CSS3, or those starting out in modern web .

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started
  2. HTML and CSS Basics
  3. The Document
  4. Structuring Content
  5. Embedding Media
  6. Linking the Web
  7. Constructing Tables
  8. Building Forms
  9. Page Layout with CSS
  10. Putting it All Together

Book Details

  • Paperback: 430 pages
  • Publisher: friendsofED (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430238763
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430238768
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Practical AVR Microcontrollers

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:36 AM PST

Practical AVR Microcontrollers

Book Description

If you've heard of or even used it in your own projects, you probably know that the microcontroller is the brain of the . In Practical Microcontrollers, you'll learn how to use the AVR microcontroller to make your own nifty projects and gadgets.

You'll start off with the basics in part one: setting up your development environment and learning how the “naked” AVR differs from the Arduino. Then you'll gain experience by building a few simple gizmos and learning how everything can be interconnected.

In part two, we really get into the goodies: projects! Each will show you exactly what software and hardware you need, and will provide enough detail that you can adapt it to your own needs and parts availability. Some of the projects you'll make:

  • An illuminated secret panel
  • A hallway lighting system with a waterfall effect
  • A crazy lightshow
  • Visual effects gizmos like a Moire wheel and shadow puppets

In addition, you’ll design and implement some home automation projects, including working with wired and setups. Along the way, you’ll design a useable home automation and look at a variety of hardware setups.

Whether you're new to electronics, or you just want to see what you can do with an AVR outside of an Arduino, Practical AVR Microcontrollers is the book for you.

What you'll learn

  • How programming the AVR is different from programming an Arduino
  • How to use the Arduino IDE to program the AVR, and when to use AVR Studio
  • How to network your AVR devices and use them in home automation
  • How to add intelligence to your AVR devices
  • How to make games with AVR

Who this book is for
Beginning electronics enthusiasts as well as Arduino fans who want to go beyond the Arduino with the AVR microcontroller.

Table of Contents
Part I: The Basics
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Microcontrollers
Chapter 2. Building our AVR Test Bed
Chapter 3. Arduino and the Naked AVR
Chapter 4. Moving On!
Chapter 5. Smarten Up!
Chapter 6. Conversing Digitally

Part II: The Projects
Chapter 7. Introduction to the projects section
Chapter 8. Good Evening, Mr. Bond! Your Secret Panel
Chapter 9. Here Kitty, Kitty: Rainbow Beams to Drive Your Pets Crazy
Chapter 10. WordDune: How Much Do You Really See?
Chapter 11. A Waterfall of Lights: The Passageway Lighting System
Chapter 12. Moving to Mesmerize: Small Projects with Nifty Effects
Chapter 13. Home Automation: Small Projects using CAN Bus Controller Area Networks

Appendix A. Common Components
Appendix B. Electronics Basics
Appendix . Breadboards
Appendix D. Serial Communications Basics

Book Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430244461
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430244462
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Cloud Standards

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:30 AM PST

Cloud Standards

Book Description

is often described as providing resources the way electric utilities provide energy. In theory, anyone with an adequate connection to the should be able to tap into a provider and get exactly the resources they want when they want it, just like plugging into the electricity grid and getting exactly the energy you want when you want it. But to get that electricity, there are many standards: voltage, frequency, phase, motors constructed in standard ways—there is a long list; there is an equally long list for computing. Many of the standards are already in place. Others are being developed; some in contention.

Standards is a broad discussion of important existing and future standards. For existing standards, the discussion focuses on how they are used, providing practical advice to engineers constructing clouds and services to be deployed on clouds. For future standards, the discussion is on why a standard is needed, what the benefits will be, and what is being done now to fill the gap. No current book provides this information in the depth and detail necessary for an engineer in his work, an architect in designing cloud systems, a product manager collecting and evaluating products, or an executive evaluating the feasibility of a project. A second benefit from this book is that it provides insight into cloud implementations. Cloud implementations can be seen as the culmination of many trends in software and hardware engineering. Much of the foundation for these developments have been crystallized in the form of standards like /IP (Transmission Control / ) and (Hypertext Transmission Protocol). The book leads readers to understand how these contribute to and affect cloud implementations.

Unfortunately, emerging standards are often messy. Cloud implementers may need to choose between competing proposed standards. Sometimes it is better to reject the standard entirely and “roll your own.” This book provides background for intelligent decisions.

Keeping a cloud, or an application implemented on a cloud, running well requires careful tuning of the implementation. Tuning often involves adjusting controls that are in the standard or applying the standard in less well-known ways. This book is an aid in tuning cloud systems for maximum benefits.

What you'll learn

  • A reader should take away the ability to identify the appropriate standards to apply in all aspects of cloud implementations and the design and construction of software to be deployed on the cloud.
  • Users will learn how to apply the standards once they are identified, and the strengths of specific standards.
  • Since standards are at the foundation of many aspects of cloud computing, readers will also gain a greater understanding of how the cloud works, as well as its strengths and vulnerabilities.

Who this book is for
Cloud Standards is aimed at trained software engineers, architects, product managers, and knowledgeable executives who are accustomed to working in an enterprise IT environment. Readers will be aided by familiarity with basic practices and common software engineering tools like and , although this knowledge is not required.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting the Scene, Some Cloud Scenarios
  2. What are Standards? Why do they exist?
  3. What is cloud?
  4. Cloud Related Technologies and Services
  5. Types of standards that go into the cloud and how they interact
  6. Network Standards
  7. Internet Standards
  8. Standards
  9. Security Standards
  10. Cloud Specific Standards (This chapter will be long. Break it up?-marv)
  11. Standards and Best Practices
  12. Summing Up

Book Details

  • Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241101
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241102
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The JOBS Act

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:26 AM PST

The JOBS Act

Book Description

On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Startups Act, better known as the JOBS Act. The act is designed to "reopen American capital markets to small companies," defined in the act as Emerging Growth Companies. This is one of the most significant legislative initiatives in since the Securities and Exchange Acts of 1933 and 1934, and it opens up funding to a slew of companies previously shut out of the capital markets.

Here's the good news: Small businesses and startups will be able to raise up to $1 million in equity (or debt) funding online via what are called Crowdfunding Platforms—online communities and websites. Imagine an eBay-like site that allows you to post your idea for a commercial venture online and then allows investors to purchase equity shares or stakes in it. As one journalist put it, it's " media meets venture capital."

How can you get in on the new funding opportunities? That's what The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups is all about. Investment expert William

Michael Cunningham shows how the new law will enable you to use the to raise significant amounts of capital funding for your startup. After discussing briefly the and implementation of the law, what it means, and how it will impact the startup marketplace, he delivers the nuts and bolts of how to take advantage of the JOBS Act to access new sources of capital for your small or startup. As you'll see, the act has the power to unleash a new wave of innovation, increase employment, and set many more average entrepreneurs and investors on the road to wealth.

Not just for entrepreneurs, The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups will benefit investors, securities lawyers, community specialists, educators, venture capitalists, and those offering services in the new crowdfunding arena. It is, simply, the most current and most comprehensive compendium of information on the law and its impact on this new market.

What you'll learn

  • What the JOBS Act is and why it's needed
  • The JOBS Act's definition of "crowdfunding," "crowdfunding platforms," and  "emerging growth companies"
  • How to get up to $1 million through crowdfunding
  • The risks and rewards of taking advantage of JOBS Act
  • How to stay on the right side of the law when soliciting funds
  • How to identify and deal with reliable crowdfunding platforms and companies
  • How businesses owned by women and minorities can raise new capital, as well as those now shut out of the capital markets (restaurants, day-care centers and others ignored by finicky venture capitalists and skittish bankers)
  • How investors can identify opportunities, avoid fraud, perform due diligence, and then make an intelligent investment

Who this book is for
The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups is for people who are wondering how the JOBS Act can help them their dreams, for the small-business executive seeking capital, for the community development executive seeking to community businesses, and for executives at large companies wondering about the impact the act might have on their firm. It's also for investors who need to understand the risks involved in buying equity in small firms, angels and venture capitalists who must understand the nature of the new kid on the funding block, and securities lawyers and other advisors and consultants to start ups. The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups is an excellent choice for people who need to understand the nuts and bolts of new business opportunities that will be generated by the Act.

Table of Contents
Part I: Summary of the JOBS Act
Chapter 1. The Act: Summary and Definitions
Chapter 2. The Startup Financing Environment: Why Now?

Part II: Disclosure
Chapter 3. Emerging Growth Companies
Chapter 4. and Other Standards
Chapter 5. Crowdfunding
Chapter 6. Funding Portals

Part III: The Act, by Title
Chapter 7. Title I – Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies
Chapter 8. Title II – Access to Capital for Job Creators
Chapter 9. Title III – Crowdfunding
Chapter 10. Title IV – Small Company Capital Formation
Chapter 11. Title V – Private Company Flexibility and Growth
Chapter 12. Title VI – Capital Expansion
Chapter 13. Title VII – Outreach

Book Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143024755X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430247555
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Inventors at Work

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:21 AM PST

Inventors at Work

Book Description

Inventors : The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions is a collection of interviews with inventors of famous products, innovations, and technologies that have made life easier or even changed the way we live. All of these scientists, engineers, wild-eyed geniuses, and amateur technologists have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of that singular Eureka! moment in their laboratories or garages. Each has altered the modern world as we know it in some significant way.

The conversations will show budding tinkerers, professional inventors,  educators, and onlookers how the top minds in the field come up with ideas and manage the first steps of inspiration, how they experiment productively, how they "sell" ideas to others and funding, how they execute the final product, and how they commercialize and  their work. All inventors will learn from these conversations, whether they are exploring new chemical compounds in million-dollar labs or perfecting a household gadget or toy in a basement workshop.

Author Brett Stern, an inventor himself, explores with each inventor the nature of creativity and intuition, the skill set needed, and the force, motivation, or desire that must be summoned to spend endless hours searching for an answer to a question that no one else has asked or solving a problem most think has no . The book is required reading for all technical and creative individuals to better understand the innovation process and the logistics of following through on an idea that has the potential to change society. This book offers:

  • Interviews with inventors of world-changing products and technologies
  • An outline of the steps required in the creative/inventing process whether the goal is a civilization-changing process or a device meant to impress friends and family and perhaps earn license fees.
  • An instructive overview of how to solve problems in innovation—and how to use failures as stepping stones to successful inventions

What you'll learn

  • Problem-solving techniques for the inventive mind
  • Sources of inspiration/motivation for innovation
  • The nature of creativity and the role of serendipity
  • Tools for ideation, including 2D sketching and 3D modeling
  • Using failure as pathway to success
  • Benefits of documenting all ideas
  • The commercialization process for inventions
  • Using intellectual property law to ideas

Who this book is for
Inventors is a book for the professional scientist/engineer/inventor, the aspiring inventor/entrepreneur, product developers/innovators, and the backyard mechanic/maker. The book offers insights into the process of inventing, and the motivation and drive required for creating something novel. It will present a narrative of the inventing process and examples of how brilliant minds work, and how they often fail and sometimes succeed. The book is a blueprint for all of us who dream of creating the next new thing.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Gene Frantz: DSP chips
Chapter 2. Eric Fossum: Image sensors
Chapter 3. Robert Dennard: Computer memory
Chapter 4. Ron Popeil: Housewares
Chapter 5. Gary Michelson: Spinal implants
Chapter 6. Al Maurice: Polymers
Chapter 7. Helen Greiner: Robotics
Chapter 8. Glen Merfled: Batteries
Chapter 9. Steve Gass: Table saws
Chapter 10. Karen Swider-Lyons: Fuel cells
Chapter 11. Don Keck: Fiber optics
Chapter 12. Bob Loce: Imaging systems
Chapter 13. Lonnie Johnson: Energy systems
Chapter 14. Tim Leatherman: Folding hand tools
Chapter 15. Reyn Guyer: Toys
Chapter 16. Bernhard van Lengerich: Food manufacturing
Chapter 17. Curt Croley, Graham Marshall, Shane MacGregor: Mobile devices
Chapter 18. Matthew Scholz: Healthcare products
Chapter 19. Daria Mochly-Rosen: Drugs
Chapter 20. Martin Keen: Footwear
Chapter 21. Kevin Deppermann: Seed genomes
Chapter 22. John Calvert, Elizabeth Dougherty: USPTO
Chapter 23. Steve Wozniak: Personal computers

Book Details

  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430245069
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430245063
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Health Care Reform Simplified, 2nd Edition

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:16 AM PST

Health Care Reform Simplified, 2nd Edition

Book Description

Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in , Government, Insurance, and Need to Know describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key parts of the law—what must busy healthcare professionals, insurance industry professionals, and HR managers, and policymakers do?

First, read this book. It translates the law's complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to implement it. This brand-new second edition also updates all the provisions and explains the myriad ways the ACA is already being put into practice.

Health Care Reform Simplified, Second Edition, outlines the financial impact of the law and how it affects businesses, insurers, hospitals and doctors, and state and local governments. Most important, this book gives consumers and employers critical information for making informed choices about new options for private and public health insurance coverage. It also describes how the law interacts with Medicare and Medicaid. Finally, it looks at the potential roadblocks—political, judicial, and —that may yet derail some of the provisions. But with more than half of the Act’s provisions in force already, and the Supreme Court’s landmark decision upholding the law, there is no time to lose in understanding how the legislation affects you whether you are a consumer or deliverer of health care in the U.S. This book:

  • Explains health reform in easy-to-understand terms
  • Shows how the law is playing out in the
  • Explains the ways the law or parts of it yet may be repealed by the 2012 election and the implications for readers
  • Provides HR professionals and managers options for covering employees while explaining costs and benefits
  • Details the impact on medical professionals and insurers and steps they must take now to comply with the law
  • Shows policymakers the way forward now that legal challenges have abated

This edition, completely updated to incorporate the newest regulations and the practices that have been put into place in various states, will prove an indispensable guide for those implementing the law, as well as those receiving health care, in the coming years.

What you'll learn

  • The provisions of the health care law, updated to take into account new regulatory guidelines, as well as models and processes developed at the state level.
  • Options for families and individuals, and how to decide whether to keep existing insurance, switch to a different plan, or get new coverage at an exchange or co-op
  • New government subsidies and tax breaks for health care, and who qualifies for them
  • What government agencies, insurers, and healthcare providers must do to comply with the law
  • Options for businesses, and how employers can decide whether to keep existing plans, purchase plans through exchanges, or provide vouchers to employees
  • The impact of health care reform on hospitals, doctors, insurers, and patient care
  • The potential for a new Congress with a new President to repeal provisions of the law

Who this book is for
Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in , Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know is an excellent resource for managers who make decisions about insurance coverage for employees, healthcare professionals and those working in the insurance industry who must understand and comply with the law’s provisions, and policymakers who must implement the law at the state and local level. Individuals wondering about such things as the “individual mandate” will also find the book a useful overview of the changes that have occurred and those yet to come.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. History of Health Care in the U.S.
Chapter 2. Early Changes
Chapter 3. New Personal Insurance Options
Chapter 4. Insurance Options for Businesses
Chapter 5. Changes in Insurance Market Rules, Regulations
Chapter 6. Changes to Medical Practices
Chapter 7. Medicare Outlook
Chapter 8. Medicaid Outlook
Chapter 9. Communicating Changes to the Public
Chapter 10. The Cost and Who Pays
Chapter 11. Efforts to Repeal Reform

Book Details

  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 2nd Edition (October 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430248963
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430248965
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