SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010

The goal of this book is to allow you to be productive in SharePoint development by relying on Visual Studio—it won’t require you to have a deep understanding of everything going on behind the scenes in Share- Point because Visual Studio takes care of a lot of this for you. Visual Studio really makes SharePoint development much more accessible to a new developer, similar to how MFC and Visual Basic made Windows development
accessible to a broader range of developers. Continue Reading »
SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010

Professional Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4, the fourth iteration of the Silverlight platform, continues to deliver on the promise of Adobe Flash–like and Flex-like rich Internet applications (RIAs) built using a standardsbased, open approach with HTML and XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) using tools like Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Expression Blend. Silverlight 4 continues to add excitement to RIA development with the expansion of the capabilities of the Base Class Libraries (BCLs) from the .NET Framework, new user interface (UI) controls, and new libraries for building line-of-business applications. Continue Reading »
Professional Silverlight 4

MOSS 2010 Web Applications

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a large and complex product that serves many audiences and provides a range of functionality covering areas such as search, document management, and business intelligence. Each of the many specialist areas that make up SharePoint 2010 warrants a book in its own right to cover the functionality exposed from the perspective of all audiences. This book takes a comprehensive look at the entire platform as it relates to a specific audience. Continue Reading »
MOSS 2010 Web Applications

Professional iPhone and iPad Database Database Programming

WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE IPHONE, Apple revolutionized the mobile computing market. The iPhone transformed the mobile phone from a device that you could use to make calls, check e – mail, and look up movie times into a computer that could run almost any type of application that you can think of. Since the iPhone ’ s release in 2007, developers have written over 200,000 applications for the device. These “ apps ” encompass many categories including games, utilities, social networking, reference, navigation, and business among many others.
The trend in the fi eld of computing is moving toward mobility and mobile platforms like the iPhone and away from a desktop – based environment. Particularly in business and corporate environments, decision makers want convenient access to their data at all times. The iPhone is an ideal platform for mobile computing because of its small form factor and extensive set of libraries and APIs, and its general popularity as a mobile phone. Continue Reading »
Professional iPhone and iPad Database Database Programming

IP Telephony

In IP Telephony, we will also assume, like the pioneers of VoIP, that it is possible to carry multimedia data flows over an IP network with an appropriate quality (i.e. low latency and low packet loss), and we will focus only on the functional aspects of VoIP. Voice coding technology is presented as a ‘black box’, with enough information for an engineer who wants to use an existing coder in an application, but without describing the technology in detail. IP Telephony will be useful mainly in the lab (development platforms, validation platforms), when designing and troubleshooting new interactive multimedia applications. Continue Reading »
IP Telephony

Leaning Into Six Sigma

The Six Sigma concept and Total Cycle Time (Lean Enterprise) were two of the key initiatives undertaken by Motorola back in the mid-1980s that I was fortunate enough to be a part of. This continuous improvement methodology works, as evidenced by the fact that many companies and quality consultants are deploying it
correctly. Even the worldwide organization of the American Society for Quality will be establishing a new certification exam for Six Sigma Black Belts, which truly demonstrates how institutionalized the Six
Sigma process has become. Continue Reading »
Leaning Into Six Sigma

Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services is a revised edition of its predecessor, which was based around SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. I have taken the opportunity to enhance the content wherever I felt could benefit readers more. The feedback I have received on the previous edition has been instrumental to these enhancements. Though not many new features have been packed in this release of Integration Services, I think this book has gone steps beyond its previous release. Not only does it contain improved content and lots of relevant examples and exercises, now it has two new chapters to cover topics such as programming and scripting SSIS and data warehouse practices. These chapters enable readers to extend their SSIS packages with programming and scripting and also show how SSIS can be put to use in large-scale data warehouse implementations, thus extending the reach of the tool and the developer. Continue Reading »
Hands-On Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

Essential Sharepoint 2010

All of these tasks are supported by SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. The products all work well individually, and together they form a comprehensive collaboration, communication, and knowledge management platform. This chapter provides an overview of this collection of technologies, the corresponding architecture, and what is new about this version of the SharePoint Products and Technologies. The platform includes core technologies such as the Office 2010 client, SharePoint Foundation 2010 (formerly known as Windows SharePoint Services), SharePoint Server 2010, Exchange Server 2010, and Office Communications Server
2010. Figure 2-1 and Figure 2-2 highlight the core products and technologies in the overall Microsoft communications and collaboration platform. Continue Reading »
Essential Sharepoint 2010

Building Websites with Expression Engine 2

ExpressionEngine makes it easy to separate the HTML code from the content of your website. Once the design of your website is built, you can add new content to the website simply by filling in a web form, which then automatically saves the content to your database. It is easy enough that anyone can learn to do it. Continue Reading »
Building Websites with Expression Engine 2

Apple Script

One issue that keeps coming up in the AppleScript world is the place of scripting when it comes to recording macros and programming from scratch. Is scripting more like programming with C++ or more like creating Adobe Photoshop actions or FileMaker Pro scripts? This question doesn’t have one answer, but it does raise some interesting issues. Let’s establish some facts: AppleScript is an object-oriented programming language that has both depth and beauty in its own right and unlimited potential for expandability by scriptable applications and scripting additions. Although you can use AppleScript for more straightforward tasks such as applying one or two transformations to a mass of files, it shines brightest when taken to a higher level. You really start to tap into the power of AppleScript when you start branching and looping. Continue Reading »
Apple Script