Ingo Peters

With over 100,000 iPhone applications and 125,000 registered iPhone developers, is it still possible to create a top-selling app that stands apart from the six-figure crowd? Of course, but you'll need more than a great idea and flawless code—an eye-catching and functional user interface design is essential. With this book, you'll get practical advice on user interface design from 10 innovative developers who, like you, have sat wondering how to best utilize the iPhone's minimal screen real estate. Their stories illustrate precisely why, with more apps and more experienced, creative developers, no iPhone app can succeed without a great user interface. Whatever type of iPhone project you have in mind—social networking app, game, or reference tool—you'll benefit from the information presented in this book. More than just tips and pointers, you'll learn from the authors' hands-on experiences, including: Dave Barnard of App Cubby on how to use Apple's user interface conventions and test for usability to assure better results Joachim Bondo, creator of Deep Green Chess, beats a classic design problem of navigating large dataset results in the realm of the iPhone Former Apple employee Dan Burcaw tailors user interfaces and adds the power of CoreLocation, Address Book, and Camera to the social networking app, Brightkite David Kaneda takes his Basecamp project management client, Outpost, from a blank page (literally) to a model of dashboard clarity Craig Kemper focuses on the smallest details to create his award-winning puzzle games TanZen and Zentomino Tim Novikoff, a graduate student in applied math with no programming experience, reduces a complex problem to simplicity in Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Long-time Mac developer Chris Parrish goes into detail on thecreation of the digital postcard app, Postage, which won the 2009 Apple Design Award Flash developer Keith Peters provides solutions for bringing games that were designed for a desktop screen to the small, touch-sensitive world of the iPhone Jürgen Siebert, creator of FontShuffle, outlines the anatomy of letters and how to select the right fonts for maximum readability on the iPhone screen Eddie Wilson, an interactive designer, reveals the fine balance of excellent design and trial-by-fire programming used to create his successful app Snow Report Combined with Apress' best-selling Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll be prepared to match great code with striking design and create the app that everyone is talking about.

Die Arbeit zeigt, wie chinesisch-amerikanische Romanautoren durch einen besonderen Umgang mit den Themenfeldern Geschichte und Fortschritt gleichzeitig gegen zwei gegensatzliche Stereotype vorgehen: das der "model minority" und das der passiven Opfergestalten. Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Shawn Wong, Fae Myenne Ng, David Wong Louie, Sigrid Nunez und Alvin Lu prasentieren Geschichte zwar als schmerzhaft, als das, was zu betrauern ist, aber zugleich auch als Waffe, als das, was chinesische Amerikaner aktiv fur ihre Zwecke benutzen. Die Gegenwart wiederum erscheint stets als Krise und als Verweis auf eine goldene Zukunft, die es vorzubereiten gilt. Theoretische Bezugspunkte fur die Untersuchung dieser charakteristischen Verknupfung von Klage und Optimismus sind vor allem Walter Benjamins geschichtsphilosophische Thesen und die amerikanische Ausdrucksform der Jeremiade.

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a server-side component model for transaction aware, distributed enterprise applications written in the Java programming language. Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 details the architecture of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model. After an introduction to the component paradigm, the EJB architecture basics are introduced. Based on that, the different component types (Session-, Entity- and Message-Driven-Beans) are discussed in detail. An in-depth introduction to the Java Message Service (JMS) is provided to understand the ideas behind asynchronous and parallel processing provided through Message-Driven-Beans. Transactions, security, and the newly introduced timer service round up the book. Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 also discusses topics beyond the specification, e.g. inheritance, coupling of EJB components, quality assurance, and more. After reading this book, readers will know the benefits and the limits of EJB. The authors also impart the knowledge required for turning business requirements into EJB-based applications.

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