When first exposed to the Extensible Markup Language (XML), you might ask yourself how it fits in the overall picture of Web-related items. This is the same question developers, managers, and presidents ask, not only of their peers, but of themselves as well. Ironically, this is the same question people in those roles asked themselves years ago...

This pocket-sized reference is the Web application developer’s fast-answers guide to...

Why, you might ask, did I decide to write an entire book about Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and enterprise development? After all, enterprise development usually conjures up pictures of industrial strength computer systems, something Visual Basic has not traditionally been associated with. First of all, Visual Basic .NET is more...

In the late 1990s, the widespread availability of low-cost computers and access to global connectivity have fueled the demand for a new kind of application: the highly distributed application. Highly distributed applications are used by extremely large numbers of people around the world who are connected to many application and data servers...

From the author of Software Requirements, Second Edition, this...

Welcome to the MCSE Training Kit—Designing Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Security. This kit prepares you to analyze an organization's business and technical requirements and design security for a Windows 2000 network. You will learn how to design security for all aspects of Windows 2000, from authentication strategies to...

Ten years ago the average computer user spent most of his or her time using a productivity application such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. In the ensuing decade, users have become more sophisticated, network implementations have become the rule rather than the exception, and collaboration has become a key facet of a successful business...

The terms client, server, and client/server can be used to refer to very general concepts or to specific...