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
Burlingame, CA?Mergers and acquisitions happen. IT environments expand as new applications are added to keep pace with business goals. New technologies spring up, as others that were once the latest,
eb services are more complex to deploy than Web sites or intranet applications. They are based on intricate platforms, or runtime environments that, like any software, can have their own
s companies begin to implement Web services, IT managers are being confronted with the long-term ramifications of their deployment. Namely, management and support of Web services will ensure that they