.NET Web Services is the authoritative guide to designing and architecting better Web services using Microsoft technologies. Written by Keith Ballinger, a Program Manager for XML Web Services at Microsoft, this book explains what Web...

Going beyond mere theory and marketing hype, Eberhard Wolff presents all the knowledge you need to capture the full benefits of this emerging paradigm. He illuminates...

It's like a Web-site-in-a-book! First, there's some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it's into the nitty-gritty of making it happen — building with Dreamweaver, adding animation with Flash, enabling collaboration...

This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics, including architecting different application data tiers, memory caching paradigms, data...

• Stop writing scripts and start architecting programs
• Learn the latest Python syntax and libraries
• A practical, hands-on tutorial that teaches you all about abstract design patterns and how to implement them in Python...

Many enterprises unfortunately depend on software that is insecure, unreliable, and fragile. They compensate by investing heavily in workarounds and maintenance, and by employing hordes of...

Software architecture is emerging as a new discipline in response to the growing complexity of software systems and the problems they attempt to solve. Software is becoming the dominant component of many systems and it is necessary for the software development community to develop new practices, principles, and standards to manage the...

Component-based software development regards software construction in terms of conventional engineering disciplines where the assembly of systems from readily-available prefabricated parts is the norm. Because both component-based systems themselves and the stakeholders in component-based development projects are different from traditional...