Lightweight methodologies are exploding in popularity because their flexibility is ideal for today's fast-changing development environments. In Agile Software Development, legendary software expert Alistair Cockburn reviews the advantages and disadvantages of lightweight methods, synthesizing the field's key lessons into a simplified approach that allows developers to focus on building quality software rapidly, cost-effectively, and without burnout.KEY TOPICS:Ideal for managers seeking to transcend yesterday's failed approaches, the agile movement views software development as a cooperative game. As players move throughout the game, they use markers and props to inform, remind, and inspire themselves and each other. The goal of the game: to deliver a working software system -- and to use the lessons of each project to build a new, smarter "game" for the next project.MARKET:For every IT executive and manager, software developer, team leader, team member, and client concerned with building robust, cost-effective software.

The experts predict that the opening of broadband internet connections and 3G wireless capabilities will drive the adoption of streaming media to 75% of all broadcasting and e-commerce firms by the end of 2003.Author Michael Topic offers the fast, relible, and painless way to get the lowdown on the streaming of video over the internet (both wired and wireless)--he thoroughly examines the technologies, protocols, and business models on this next giant happening in the world of video and telecom.
* Internet protocols for delivering streaming media
* Audio and video compression schemes
* Covers MPEG-4 and MPEG-7
* Discusses digital rights management
* Details Metadata

As e-business continues to grab market share, you're continually challenged to create faster, cheaper, and more reliable e-commerce Web applications. ColdFusion MX offers the quickest, most reliable way to build and deploy them, and this comprehensive reference guides you from writing your first application all the way through the complexities of integrating with Web services, Flash, Java, COM, and XML. From installation to database connection configuration, from tag and function usage to code reuse, it's like having your personal team of experts on call. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of ColdFusion MX:

# Create highly interactive, database-driven Web sites with ColdFusion's intuitive, tag-based programming language
# Build and deploy content publishing systems, online stores, business reporting applications, self-service solutions, and more
# Easily create and use Web services and ColdFusion Components
# Integrate applications with other technologies like Java, COM, and XML
# Learn how -- and why -- to document your code, handle source version control, and integrate security, testing, and performance
# Discover how to use ColdFusion with databases, Web services, and Flash Remoting
# Extend ColdFusion applications with features like task scheduling, file operations, Verity text searching, and charting

World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS – from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.

* Get creative with text on a path
* Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
* Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
* Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter

Book Excerpt from Chapter One
Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born under a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about six thousand in southwest Arkansas, thirty-three miles east of the Texas border at Texarkana. My mother named me William Jefferson Blythe III after my father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr., one of nine children of a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, who died when my father was seventeen. According to his sisters, my father always tried to take care of them, and he grew up to be a handsome, hardworking, fun-loving man. He met my mother at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1943, when she was training to be a nurse. Many times when I was growing up, I asked Mother to tell me the story of their meeting, courting, and marriage. He brought a date with some kind of medical emergency into the ward where she was working, and they talked and flirted while the other woman was being treated. On his way out of the hospital, he touched the finger on which she was wearing her boyfriend's ring and asked her if she was married. She stammered "no"—she was single. The next day he sent the other woman flowers and her heart sank. Then he called Mother for a date, explaining that he always sent flowers when he ended a relationship.