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Good books on digital photography
There are many good digital photography books available in the market today. Not only are there updated versions of traditional classics (like Bryan Peterson's Learning to See Creatively ), but there are a mountain of books from people who grew up with Adobe Photoshop and waited, sometimes impatiently, for digital cameras to come of age. Two books that I have found to be especially good are Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book ($20, Peachpit Press), and Complete Digital Photography , from Ben Long ($40, Charles River Media). If you're looking for a different type of book on the topic, however, it's worth seeking out Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography ($40, O'Reilly), which recently made it to the top of my reading pile. The book is part history, part photographic philosophy, and part tutorial, all delivered in Stephen's inimitable style. More>>
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General Facebook Guest post: John Potter, ZDNet's chief of development, explains the significance of Facebook releasing a JavaScript Client Library.
At 5 PM PST on Friday night, Facebook announced the release of a JavaScript Client Library. As the press release notes:
[This] allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site and makes it easy to create Ajax Facebook applications. Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any web site that serves static HTML without any server site scripting. More>>
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Lloyd M. Robeson
It has been well-recognized that polymer blends offer a key option in solving emerging application requirements. The ability to combine existing polymers into new compositions with commercializable properties offers the advantage of reduced research and development expense compared to the development of new monomers and polymers to yield a similar property profile. An additional advantage is the much lower capital expense involved with scale-up and commercialization. Another specific advantage of polymer blends versus new monomer/polymer compositions is that blends often offer property profile combinations not easily obtained with new polymeric structures. In the rapidly emerging technology landscape, polymer blend technology can quickly respond to developing needs.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of this important field, in particular a unique and extensive literature research on all aspects of this technology. More>>