Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom or Adobe After Effects 7 Hands On Training

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom: Developer's Guide to Syndicating News and Blogs

Author: Ben Hammersley

Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the pasttwo years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's beenreported that the number of blogs during that time has grownfrom 100,000 to 4.8 million-with no end to this growth insight.

What's the technology that makes blogging tick? The answeris RSS—a format that allows bloggers to offer XML-basedfeeds of their content. It's also the same technologythat's incorporated into the websites of media outlets sothey can offer material (headlines, links, articles, etc.)syndicated by other sites.

As the main technology behind this rapidly growing field ofcontent syndication, RSS is constantly evolving to keep pacewith worldwide demand. That's where Developing Feeds withRSS and Atom, 2nd Edition steps in. It provides bloggers,web developers, and programmers with a thorough explanationof syndication in general and the most popular technologiesused to develop feeds.

This book not only highlights all the new features of RSS2.0-the most recent RSS specification-but also offerscomplete coverage of its close second in the XML-feed arena,Atom. The book has been exhaustively revised to explain:metadata interpretationthe different forms of content syndication the increasing use of web services how to use popular RSS news aggregators on the marketAfter an introduction that examines Internet contentsyndication in general (its purpose, limitations, andtraditions), this step-by-step guide tackles various RSS andAtom vocabularies, as well as techniques for applyingsyndication to problems beyond news feeds. Mostimportantly, it gives you a firm handle on how to createyour own feeds, and consume or combine other feeds.

If you'reinterested in producing your own content feed,Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom is the one book you'llwant in hand.

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Adobe After Effects 7 Hands-On Training

Author: Chad Fahs

Learn Adobe After Effects 7.0 with hands-on exercises and demo movies. Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this is the book for you. These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed color illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for creating motion graphics and special effects for film, video, and the Web. You'll learn to animate text and images, integrate sound, and publish the results to a variety of formats. You'll also learn to use the new project management enhancements, how to fine-tune animations, use animation blending and freeze frame options, convert alpha channels to masks with Auto-Trace, use the new Script Editor, and more.

Table of Contents:

1	Getting started	2
2	Understanding the workspace	10
3	Beginning a new project	26
4	Creating a composition	40
5	Creating keyframes and animation in the timeline	60
6	Playing with time	106
7	Previewing movies	126
8	Working with layers	148
9	Working with text layers	206
10	Applying effects	250
11	Parenting layers	274
12	Painting on layers	296
13	Creating masks	322
14	Creating track mattes	346
15	Working with color keys	364
16	Working with 3D layers	380
17	Using expressions	410
18	Tracking motion and stabilizing footage	426
19	Working with audio	438
20	Rendering final movies	450