he Help sections of your applications are probably never going to be particularly sexy—and rightly so—but that doesn’t mean that you’re stuck forever with a standard, text-heavy, and uninspired user
T managers once maintained a semblance of control over what types of operating systems were run in the data center, but they may as well relinquish all hope of doing
lmost everyone nowadays knows what the neologisms “bluescreen” and “general protection fault (gpf)” mean. That these terms are so familiar attests to the fact that computer users have come to
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