Authored by a member of the Tcl/Tk development team, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk is the most comprehensive, practical guide to Tcl and Tk available. Beginners can rely on this book for a thorough, well-organized...

This book presents an integrated technology, Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS), to address software quality issues upstream such that the goal of software...

This book brings together indispensable knowledge for building efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products: information that has never been assembled in one place before. Drawing on years of experience as an...

1. message passing (pipes, FIFOs, and message queues),
2. synchronization (mutexes, condition variables, read-write locks, file and record locks, and semaphores),
3. shared memory (anonymous and named), and
4. remote...

VM's behavior affects every Linux kernel subsystem and dramatically impacts overall performance. But until now, there was only one way to understand VM: study the poorly documented source one line at a time. Now there's an easier, faster alternative. This book describes VM in unprecedented...

• Experienced programmers: Quickly come up to speed on the new, powerful Visual Basic .NET
• Practical, hands-on coverage of the .NET Framework, CLR, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Web services, security, interoperability, and more
• Running case study:...

• The most in-depth guide to .NET/COM interoperability ever published!
• Covers every .NET/COM interop option, "gotcha," and workaround
• Offers practical strategies for .NET migration and long-term .NET/COM...

Tcl/Tk 8.2 is the first scripting language that can handle enterprise-wide integration tasks that encompass Windows, Solaris, Macintosh, and other key platforms. Now, in this fully updated Third Edition, Tcl/Tk development team member and best-selling...