Someday most business applications will be able to read and write XML files. Until that happens, you are probably going to need techniques and utilities like those presented in this book. This book is for people who use business applications that don't currently support XML and for people who develop those applications and want to build XML support into them.

The goal of Extreme Programming (XP) is outstanding software development. Software can be developed at lower cost, with fewer defects, with higher productivity, and with much higher return on investment. The same teams that are struggling today can achieve these results by careful attention to and refinement of how they work, by pushing ordinary development practices to the extreme.

There is something special about being out under the night sky. We look up and see the stars and constellations, just as our many-times-great grandparents did hundreds and thousands of years ago.

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PDF has come a long way since it first appeared in the early '90s. When Adobe began offering its Acrobat Reader for free, PDF spread across the Web as a paginated alternative to HTML. PDF has replaced or supplemented Adobe's PostScript language files as a format for exchanging print-ready layouts, and evolving forms capabilities have made PDF a more interactive format over time.

This book explores two main podcasting themes: how to listen to a podcast, and how to produce one on your own.

Written by designers for designers, this friendly guide covers every quirk of Quark, from panes and palettes to prepress and production--all the major tools for layout, text editing, special effects, Web page development, and more.

This plain English guide on building complex architectures with UML 2 shows how to adjust to the UML 2 standard, extract key information from UML models, object modeling, case modeling and more.

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Like every other application in Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint is loaded with features. So many, in fact, that even veterans don't know where to find them all. Microsoft solved this problem in PowerPoint 2007 by redesigning the user interface...

The main thing is this: You want your software out soon and defect free, but more than that, you need a way to examine how your team is doing along the way.

Windows workflow foundation (WF) is a general-purpose programming framework for creating reactive programs that act in response to stimulus from external entities. The basic characteristic of reactive programs is that they pause during their execution, for unknown amounts of time, awaiting input.

Providing a proven set of procedures and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to their projects, this guide will help organizations achieve basic estimation proficiency.

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Information Technology professionals can use this book o move beyond the excitement of web services and service riented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding ctionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In nterprise SOA: D...

Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 is intended for advanced computer professionals (both developers and system administrators) who want to understand how the core components of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better comprehend the rationale behind design choices when building applications specific to the Windows 2000 platform. Such knowledge can also help developers debug complex problems. System administrators can benefit from this information as well because understanding how the operating system works under the covers facilitates understanding the performance behavior of the system and makes it easier to troubleshoot system problems when things go wrong. After reading this book, you should have a better understanding of how Windows 2000 works and why it behaves as it does.

book is specifically designed to teach you how to quickly turn routine, repetitive, time-consuming, or complex administrative tasks into simple scripts. If you're like me, you probably don't have the time to spend thumbing through books filled with general examples that you'll never use. Because of its compact size, this book is free of generic filler material (a common trait of the larger scripting books) and comes packed with information and examples that you can actually use. Whether you're a basic Windows user or a network administrator in charge of a corporate infrastructure, this book will teach you how to use scripting to become more productive and recoup some free time from your busy schedule.

In this book, we'll look under the hood of Visual InterDev 6.0 and explore the unique features that make it such an exciting new product. The book is divided into six parts, which cover everything from getting started to more complex topics such as advanced database topics, three-tier architectures (incorporating Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 components and Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0), and the incorporation of digital certificates (using Microsoft Certificate Server).

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