Even leading organizations with sophisticated IT infrastructures and teams of lawyers can find themselves unprepared to deal with the range of issues that can arise in IT contracting. Written by two seasoned attorneys, A Guide to IT Contracting: Checklists, Tools, and Techniques distills the most critical business and legal...

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Visual Web Developer 2008 is a modern Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that makes it easier for developers to create pages that use Web services, controls, and data. With Visual Web Developer, you can use.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a platform to create Web pages with ASP.NET. Web controls in ASP.NET are powerful...

Programmers are inundated with information about application programming interfaces, or APIs. Yet, while most programmers use APIs and the libraries that implement them in almost every application they write, relatively few create and disseminate new, widely applicable, APIs. Indeed, programmers seem to prefer to “roll their own”...

Over the last few years, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology has emerged and matured as a standard platform for building enterprise applications. While the platform has matured into a solid offering for developing and deploying enterprise applications, it does offer its challenges. As developers, often we confuse learning the...

As responsive design evolves, we have a critical need to think about design challenges beyond mobile, tablet, and desktop. When properly designed and planned, design patterns-small, reusable modules-help your responsive layout reach more devices (and people) than ever before. Ethan Marcotte shows you just how that's done, focusing on...

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There is nothing simple about creating effective, cross-browser, JavaScript code. In addition to the normal challenge of writing clean code you have the added complexity of dealing with obtuse browser complexities. To counter-act this JavaScript developers frequently construct some set of common, reusable, functionality in the form of...

PowerShell is becoming the de facto administration tool for Microsoft Server products. The ability to script out reusable steps and code makes life easier for administrators, developers, and managers alike. With the latest release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PowerShell is the recommended administration...