This book is a field guide for .NET developers exploring the foreign world of native iOS programming. It explains the iOS development platform by comparing and contrasting it with tools, APIs, and concepts familiar to .NET developers. The author, Josh Smith, was a Microsoft MVP for four years thanks to his technical and written contributions in the Client Application Development community. He has worked on enterprise iOS applications since 2010. This is the book he wished had existed when he started learning iOS.

This book is for WPF and Silverlight developers looking to take their Model-View-ViewModel skills to the next level. It reviews how the MVVM design pattern was used to create a fun and addictive game that provides an elegant user experience. Read this book to gain insights from Josh Smith, an industry recognized expert in WPF, Silverlight, and MVVM, on how to properly design complex View and ViewModel architectures. Learn how to support unlimited undo, coordinate animated transitions, control modal dialog boxes from a ViewModel, and much more.

I'm interested in using the "real world" as a material and a force within my process. I like how these materials take some control away from me, allowing for a more uncertain future and yet a more finished piece. These materials come with a history, not one I necessarily know, but a history for sure. There is an infinity in "real-world objects" that, no matter how much I try, I couldn't paint or sculpt into being. --Dan Colen
This visually lush artist's book, showing Dan Colen's Trash series, makes visible and palpable how Colen's studio has learned to work with abject things and...

Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways to build the life that you want to have. By establishing your own business you are in control of your earnings, the time you spend working and how your business is run. You are in charge of every controllable aspect of your life. Don't worry if you have to start out small. Just get started because you can build and expand as you go. Countless multi-million dollar empires began on a shoestring budget. The trick is to find the best suppliers of the products or services that you intend to market. Once you have a reliable product source at prices...

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior. This book will be useful for students and scholars interested in political behavior, political sociology, policy, and quality of life studies, as well as policymakers interested in incorporating quality of life studies in their work.