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...

• In-depth coverage of key exam topics
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Learn by doing! Follow along, step-by-step, as you upgrade a static HTML site that uses obsolete code to an XML standard-compliant, CSS-formatted dynamic site using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Macromedia ColdFusion, or the open source PHP. Create several integrated applications for a fictional travel tour operator,...

AS LARRY WALL, creator of Perl, puts it, "Perl makes easy jobs easy and hard jobs possible." This is a large part of what makes Perl such a great language—most jobs really are easy in Perl. But that still leaves the hard ones—database access, GUI development, Web clients, and so on. While...

The first book to fully reflect the new ASP.NET 2.0 Beta, ASP.NET v. 2.0—The Beta Version...

XML and SQL Server 2000 is the ideal resource for SQL developers who need to learn about the new XML capabilities of SQL Server 2000. If you're a web developer who wants to utilize XML in your projects but are worried about the complexities of the standard or its implementation-this book will...

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Two issues make debugging in the Microsoft Windows environment difficult and time consuming. The first issue is that debugging has always been a self-taught skill—you've basically been on your own to figure it out. Even if you have a computer science degree, I'm willing to bet that you never took a single college class dedicated to...

Do you consider yourself to be an “idiot” or a “dummy”? I certainly hope not! So why do some programming books treat you as if you are? They start from scratch and explain in excruciating detail how to make comments, declare variables, and build For loops. That may make sense if you’ve never programmed before,...

Oracle9IR2 Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest versions of Oracle—Oracle9i Release 1 and Release 2. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code, this updated and expanded edition provides an insider’s view of how the Oracle9i Release 2...