With the availability of chips offering constantly increasing computational performance and functionality, design of more and more complex applications becomes possible. This is particularly true for the domain of image processing, which is characterized by huge computation efforts. Unfortunately, this evolution risks to be stopped by...

The original (and key) innovation of Dashboard Design was to bring together the flexibility, power and ubiquity of Excel with the visualization of Flash. This meant that a whole new group of people (basically anyone who understood Excel formulas) could produce sophisticated Flash animations. Over the years, this has led to an incredible array...

The adage “knowledge is power” is widely accepted in corporate circles and tremendous amounts of data have and are being accumulated towards the goal of acquiring more knowledge. But corporations are increasingly realizing that there is a wide gap between “data” and “knowledge.” Data warehousing and data...

• A step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax.
• Uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradation (which makes sites usable in all browsers).
• Shows readers how to write their own Ajax...