BECAUSE YOU ARE READING THIS, I assume that you share my interest for Microsoft SharePoint. In
my case it is more than an interest, it is a passion! For more than 30 years, I have been working with
computers, from assembler programming to complex software solutions. For more than 10 years my
whole world was e - mail (my personal car...
Back in 1997, when I began my career as a professional web developer, I started working with
Classic ASP. After a brief training period in a few different programming languages such as C++
and Java, I was thrown in at the deep end and assigned to a project to build an Intranet application
for a large consultancy firm in the Netherlands...
SOME CLAIM THAT JAVASCRIPT is now the most popular programming language in the world, running
any number of complex web applications that the world relies on to do business, make purchases,
manage processes, and more.
JavaScript is very loosely based on Java, an object-oriented programming language popularized
for...
PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...
APPLE FIRST OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED the iOS 5 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
in June 2011. After 7 betas and with much anticipation, Apple finally rolled out iOS 5 with the
vastly improved iPhone 4S. With 200 new features added to the iOS, Apple is set to reign as the
king of the mobile platform for the foreseeable...
Wit h roughly half a mi llion active apps available for download and a current
pace of 20,000 new apps approved every month (according to 148apps.biz), the
iOS App Store has been without doubt a phenomenal success. From its launch in
2008, it’s seen exponential growth both in revenue generated and apps created,
and it...
SharePoint workfl ow comes in many shapes and fl avors, yet to the average SharePoint user it
is a master magician’s art learned through a formidable journey. Why is it that one of the most
important aspects of SharePoint is also one of the hardest to comprehend and learn? SharePoint
default workfl ows, SharePoint Designer...
OUT OF EVERY ENDING COMES the beginning of something new. This title has been Rob Vieira’s
for many years, and now he’s wrapping up that chapter of his life while I begin a new chapter of
my own — and the fi rst chapter of this text. Likewise, you, as a reader, are also entering something
of a transition; you know...
This book is about data analysis and the programming language called R. This is rapidly becoming the de facto standard among professionals, and is used in every conceivable discipline from science and medicine to business and engineering.
R is more than just a computer program; it is a statistical programming environment and...
SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION IN THE FALL of 2008, Android has grown and matured to the point
where it is currently the number one smartphone platform in terms of shipments worldwide. Along
with that growth is an interest in writing applications that run natively on the device and that take
advantage of the device’s features, such...
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media
on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend
the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing
value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the...
Reporting Services is a report design and enterprise-class information delivery tool that has aged and matured for more than nine years now. And this book has grown along with the product. We fi rst started writing Professional Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services before the product was released, back in 2003. After four new versions of...
