In the fall of 2004, at a popular software conference I realized how all major component vendors were advertising their ASP.NET products using a new word—Ajax. Only a few weeks later, a brand new module in my popular ASP.NET master class made its debut—using Ajax to improve the user experience. At its core, Ajax is a little...

In early 2004, DTrace remained nascent; while Mike Shapiro, Adam Leventhal, and I had completed our initial implementation in late 2003, it still had substantial gaps (for example, we had not yet completed user-level instrumentation on x86), many missing providers, and many features yet to...

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One of the main strengths of UNIX is that it comes with a...

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...

The history of shells goes back some 30 years. In the early...

Welcome to JavaScript! Using this easyto- learn programming language, you’ll be able to add pizzazz to your Web pages and make them more useful for you and for your site’s visitors. We’ve written this book as a painless introduction to JavaScript, so you don’t have to be a geek or a nerd to write a...

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook will help you learn the tools necessary for the development of Essbase databases in Oracle Essbase version 11.1.2.1. Here you will find over 90 recipes that explain everything from how to use a relational data model to building and loading an Essbase database in Essbase Studio. The book also goes over...