hanks to the driving technologies of the 90s?namely, the Internet and enterprise databases?data collection and storage have become easier and cheaper than ever before. This has caused many organizations to
ctive Directory is a common repository for information about objects that reside on the network, such as users and groups, computers and printers, and applications and files. The default Active
xperience suggests the working life of applications is enhanced if developers acknowledge the inherent requirements of standards-based development. For instance, if an application is based on emerging or evolving technology,
he authors show you how to design complex software to get the best from the UNIX operating system. Using short code snippets to illustrate how to use system calls, they
preadsheet programming is a natural evolution of component-oriented development. Its basic philosophy is to use MS Excel as a development environment for creating business logic components. These components can then
Introductionack in January of 2002, I was thumbing through the December issue of elementkjournal’s, “Inside Microsoft Access”, when I came across the MSDN article entitled, “Graphically Display Percentages on Forms
he core asset of any company is its business data. In a typical company, business data is stored in many formats and across many systems and databases throughout the organization.
“The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction” said Grady Booch in his talk “The Limits of Software.” Today, we’re at the beginning
revious articles in this series discussed ways of making development of Web services more efficient and the applications themselves highly manageable once deployed. But there is more that developers can