Windows 7 100 Most Ask Questions

Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7, has been getting a lot of buzz over the Internet. In fact, Microsoft was forced to deploy additional servers just to accommodate the millions of users who wanted to download the beta version of Windows 7.
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Windows 7 100 Most Ask Questions

Professional Cairngorm

What Is Cairngorm?
Depending on what source you go to, you will find varying descriptions of what Cairngorm is. The Adobe Labs web site (the current home of the Cairngorm project) describes it as follows: Cairngorm is the lightweight micro – architecture for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR. A collaboration of recognized design patterns, Cairngorm exemplifies and encourages best – practices for RIA development advocated by Adobe Consulting [and] encourages best – practice leverage of the underlying Flex framework, while making it easier for medium to large teams of software engineers [to] deliver medium to large scale, mission – critical Rich Internet Applications ( http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Cairngorm ).

High Performance JavaScript

When JavaScript was first introduced as part of Netscape Navigator in 1996, performance wasn’t that important. The Internet was in its infancy and it was, in all ways, slow. From dial-up connections to underpowered home computers, surfing the Web was more often a lesson in patience than anything else. Users expected to wait for web pages to load, and when the page successfully loaded, it was a cause for celebration.

Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008

SQLServ er® database software is one of the most powerful database engines used today. Microsoft’s latest release of SQLServ er, SQLServ er® 2008, is a comprehensive database platform that provides secure and reliable storage for both relational and structured data, enabling one to build and manage high-performance data applications. SQLServ er 2008’s close integration with Microsoft® Visual Studio® development system, Microsoft® Office® system, and a suite of new development tools sets it apart from previous versions and from other database engines.
This system allows one to build, debug, and operate applications faster than ever before. SQLServ er 2008 can be installed on small machines using the Microsoft ® Windows® operating system as well as large servers. In recent years, the computer industry has seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of relational databases and multiuser databases, and there is a great need for application developers and people who can write SQLco de efficiently and correctly for relational and multiuser databases.

Enterprise Development with Flex

Whenever the subject of third-party architectural frameworks is raised at a gathering of Flex developers, the developers are quick to start explaining how they use and like a particular framework. But a simple question like, “Why do you use this framework?” often catches them off guard. Many enterprise developers, especially those who came to Flex after spending some time developing Java EE applications, just know that using
these frameworks is the right thing to do. Is it so?
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Enterprise Development with Flex

DBA Survivor - Become a Rock Star DBA

Another thing you need to know about being a DBA is that you will have fewer friends at work than when you started. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing. See, you have been placed into a position of responsibility, and with this responsibility you will need to make some decisions, and those decisions will not always be popular. Thus, you may lose some friends at work, but these losses will be more than offset by the gains you have in the overall DBA community. So you have that going for you, which is nice.
With that responsibility, you will also find that you start getting more blame than credit for your work. I promise you this: no one will ever stop by your desk in the morning and thank you for the fact that everything ran smoothly last night. But you better believe if a batch load took five minutes longer than expected, you will have four different people asking you “WTF?”

Cross Platform Game Development

Browsing the web one cold evening while writing this book led me to a technical web site featuring the following quote, attributed to Herbert Mayer:
“No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single
best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps
poorly suited for particular purposes.”
This kind of contextual philosophy — that everything is defined by context, that languages are not in themselves either good or bad, or one thing or another — need not apply only to programming languages.
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Cross Platform Game Development