Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases introduces you to the world of building data-driven Web sites using ASP.NET, ADO.NET and the Entity Framework using C#. Since ASP.NET developers need to access databases quickly and efficiently, this book teaches the best practices and methods to help developers achieve professional ASP.NET and...
Model-Driven Development (MDD) has become an important paradigm in software
development. The approach claims to provide a solution for systematic and
efficient software development for the highly complex systems developed nowadays.
It uses models, i.e. abstract representations of certain aspects of a system,
as primary artifacts...
Puppet is a configuration management tool that has enjoyed phenomenal growth over
the last few years. Propelled by increasing demands on sysadmins, and the continuous
growth of infrastructure (both physical and virtual), Puppet has been one of the key
technology components of the DevOps movement. This cultural shift...
Securing ERP is the main issue nowadays; it is not only about bits and bytes of network traffic, but also about business transactions, users' privileges and access rights. Hackers raise their awareness to hack and attack ERP systems as the information becomes the vital weapon these days. So securing your ERP is not only about internal...
The OPC Foundation provides specifications for data exchange in industrial automation.
There is a long history of COM/DCOM-based specifications, most prominent
OPC Data Access (DA), OPC Alarms and Events (A&E), and OPC Historical
Data Access (HDA), which are widely accepted in the industry and implemented
by almost every...
Expression Web is a powerful web development product, and there are plenty of books about it. That puts readers in a tight spot when trying to figure out which book to purchase to learn how to use Expression Web to its fullest. I’ve read a lot of technical books in my career, and the ones I value the most are the...
Carpentry is an exacting craft, and people can spend their entire lives learning how to do it well.
But carpentry is not architecture: if we step back from pitch boards and miter joints, buildings as a
whole must be designed, and doing that is as much an art as it is a craft or science.
THIS IS THE FIFTH EDITION OF A BOOK that has proven popular with professional developers and academic institutions. It strives to impart knowledge on a subject that at fi rst was seen by some as just another fad, but that instead has come to maturity and is now often just taken for granted. Almost six years have passed since the previous...
OpenVPN is one of the world's most popular packages for setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN). OpenVPN provides an extensible VPN framework which has been designed to ease site-specific customization, such as providing the capability to distribute a customized installation package to clients, or supporting alternative authentication...
The Extensible Markup Language is one of the most controversial technologies to come into vogue in recent years. Starting with humble roots with the desire to create a simple subset of SGML, XML burst onto the scene to a fantastic fanfare from developers and hype from the press. As more people have started to adopt XML, more...
The foundations of XML are found in two World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) recommendations: Extensible Markup Language and Namespaces
in XML. Using just these foundations, it is very simple and straightforward
to express a set of information in a labeled hierarchy. The hierarchy has
simple parent, child, and sibling relationships,...
