The days of Web pages that have nothing more than text and a picture or two are long gone. To be competitive in today’s Internet landscape, you need pages that pop. This Mini Missing Manual shows you how to add interactive elements to your pages: menus that expand when a visitor clicks on them, images that change with a mouse roll, and...

Once you do that, you’ll...

Once upon a time, Unix came with only a few standard utilities. If you were lucky, it included a C compiler. When setting up a new Unix system, you’d have to crawl the Net looking for important software: Perl, gcc, bison, flex, less, Emacs, and other utilities and languages. That was a lot of software to download through a 28.8-Kbps...

Packed with practical examples, this book looks at a different aspect of performance tuning in each chapter and shows the reader how to apply them to their existing Java applications. Written to version 5.1, this book also has information about the upcoming 6.0 release and how you can upgrade your existing applications. This book is for Java...

In 2004, I got involved with BizTalk Server, which pushed me even more into the world of services and XML. I worked with...

You don’t have to be an Apple fanboy or fangirl to give Apple Inc. credit for redefining mobile gadgetry and its surrounding industries. First the company used the iPod to reshape the music industry and strongly influence how we acquire and consume tunes. Just count the number of people wearing iPod-connected earbuds in a subway car....

Automated instrumentation can be found in a wide variety of settings,...