Each year, Windows XP is pre-installed on 30 million PCs sold in the U.S.--and 90 million worldwide--making it the world's most popular operating system, and proving to frustrated users everywhere that preponderance does not equate to ease of use. There are literally thousands of programs, tools, commands, screens, scripts,...
This comprehensive guide focuses on utilizing XML technologies within Oracle's XML-enabled products, with emphasis on XML standards, their usage and best practices.
Written by members of the Oracle XML group, this is a must-have reference for...
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Third Edition updates a classic Linux title from O'Reilly. This refreshed resource takes an in-depth look at everything you need to know to join a network. Topics covered include all of the essential networking software that comes with the Linux...
From Concept to Wall Street is the definitive guide to the new realities of venture capital. Two leading experts in venture-backed entrepreneurship offer start-to-finish coverage of the entire process: planning, teambuilding, protecting intellectual property, identifying and negotiating funding, and managing to...
This book discusses some ways of thinking about, designing, and implementing concurrent programs in the JavaT programming language. Most presentations in this book assume that you are an experienced developer familiar with object-oriented (OO) programming, but have little exposure to concurrency. Readers with the opposite background - experience...
Wouldn’t you like to automate the tedious daily tasks of system administration? Automating UNIX and Linux Administration will show you how, by exploring existing tools and offering real-world examples. Parts of the book are Linux-specific, but most of it applies to a UNIX system, including multiple variants of UNIX. Author...
As Visual Basic developers, we have seen a distinct move away from single, monolithic executables to distributed, component-based architectures. With this shift has come the need to think differently. We need to think of applications as a set of components working together to provide the needed solution.
If you're like most Acrobat users--creative, business, and engineering pros who work with complex electronic documents--you can ill afford to miss a beat in your production workflow. Then again, you can ill afford being left behind when it comes to mastering the newest version of the important tool on your desktop, Adobe...
The new software management classic: in-the-trenches wisdom from legendary project leader Joe Marasco
Over the course of a distinguished career, Joe Marasco earned a reputation as the go-to software project manager: the one to call when you were facing a brutally...
Organized for rapid access, focused on productivity, Eclipse Distilled brings together all the answers you need to make the most of today's most powerful Java development environment. David Carlson introduces proven best practices for working with Eclipse, and shows exactly how to integrate Eclipse into any Agile development...
The book every Internet application developer working with Microsoft development tools needs to retool their knowledge of the new .NET techniques used to build Windows applications.
Unbiased, in-depth commentary on the efficacy of the various technologies that comprise .NET as they...
This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is...