Blogging has been booming for years, and it shows no sign of slowing down. It is an easy and organized way to deliver news, tutorials, and podcasts;it’s even an easy way to share personal thoughts and stories. It was the social network before other social networks existed. Like blogging, WordPress has grown over the years to a mature...

Contextual computing has been around for several years with a variety of names such as pervasive computation and omnipresent computing. Recently there has been a drive toward making personal digital assistants (PDAs) more aware of their environment. For example, a cell phone may sense that it is in a conference room and reason that it should...

In Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4 Integration Unleashed, two leading experts present proven techniques, best practices, and example code for going far beyond the out-of-the-box capabilities of Dynamics CRM 4. Using these solutions and sample applications, you will enhance all of...

The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly in its quest to converge voice and data on high-performance multiservice networks that are designed to meet virtually any business and consumer need. These nextgeneration networks are being driven as much by the revenue-generating potential of new integrated applications as they are by the...

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Computing continues to become more and more personalized and accessible. Handheld devices have largely transformed into computing platforms. Mobile phones are no longer just for talking—they have been capable of carrying data and video for some time. Be it a phone or a tablet, the mobile device is now so capable of general-purpose...

Location-based services (LBS) are nally coming out of research labs and getting into the hands of nal users. It is fairly common to see cellular carriers and private companies oering LBS to locate your children, friends, and sites of interest, track assets, enhance the security of key personnel, help people with disabilities use...

Don’t be fooled. Although the .5 might give the impression that Dreamweaver CS5.5 is a point release, it’s anything but. Dreamweaver engineers have packed a stunning amount of new features into this version. To mention just a few, there’s code hinting for the popular jQuery JavaScript library, the ability to see what pages...

In the five months that I have been researching and writing Cloud Computing Bible, it has become clear to me that most people recognize that cloud computing is a big deal, even if they are not really clear why that is so. Every day newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV stories report on cloud computing. The phrase “in the...

The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...

One of the most important things an architect can do is reflection. That is, examine systems, organizations, people and ask “What alternatives were considered and why was that particular decision made?” Thinking about the response gives an architect insight into the motivations and decision processes that others have used...