Relationships matter. Ever since the dawn of time, when caveman Fred asked caveman Barney whether there was any work down at the quarry, human beings have always networked. We’re social creatures who like to reach out and talk to someone. As the Internet developed and grew in popularity, people rapidly took advantage of this new...
LET ’ S FACE IT: Shipping great software is diffi cult. Is it rewarding? Yes. Is it profi table? Yes. Does it
mix art and engineering? Yes. Is it easy? No.
Yet some companies and organizations do ship great software. They deliver products that their
customers love. They do it on time and on budget. They deliver solutions...
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is the fourth incarnation of the popular collaboration and
content management platform from Microsoft. With each release, the reach and capabilities
of SharePoint products and technologies have grown, offering new tools to organizations
and new opportunities to developers. With SharePoint 2010, you...
If you’re an application programmer you’ve probably run into a relational database at
some point in your professional career. Whether you’re writing enterprise client-server
applications or building the next Web 2.0 killer application, you need someplace to
put the persistent data for your application, and relational...
The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest technologies
for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology.
All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can program
applications for all three platforms with...
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the underlying markup language of the World Wide Web. It’s the common thread that ties together virtually every Web site, from largescale corporate sites such as Microsoft’s to single-page classroom projects at the local grade school.
Often computers are viewed as machines that run algorithms. This view of computers covers a vast range of devices, from simple computers that perform limited and specific computations (for example, a computer found in a wristwatch) to supercomputers, which are groups of computers linked together in homogeneous and heterogeneous clusters and...
This is the 2010 edition of Murach's best-selling C# book on developing Windows Forms applications. Here's what developers have said about earlier editions:
"I have to tell you that your C# book is far and away the best resource I have seen to date. It really does do what the learner needs. It is simple,...
E-mail is now an established and increasingly essential channel of business and personal communication. As such, safeguarding its operation and integrity is an issue of widespread significance. At the same time, e-mail has proven itself to represent a considerable threat vector, providing a route for a variety of attacks including malware,...
Imagine this scenario: You create a hunter character with random stats and hit points and enter the dungeon to begin exploring for treasure. You stumble upon a zombie pacing near a pile of gear and gold! You attack the zombie and it strikes back! You roll 1D20 and score a critical hit! The 20 point die plus dexterity, against the...
Although this book has a brand new title, it is really an updated and revised second edition to Windows XP: Under The Hood.The first edition’s automotive-themed title came about because of a certain nostalgia that I felt and I know many people share: Don’t you long for the good-old days when you could pop the hood of your car and...
Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second...