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Working With X6

Richard Bittleston worked as a principal research scientist in the Computer Systems Lab at the GEC Research Group where he specialised in networking, compiler design, database technologies and...

Programming ASP .NET

Unless you've been on another planet, you can't have missed the talk of .NET as the next step forward in web application development. You may even have downloaded one of the development kits and...

Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Reference

Who better than the author of the Visual Basic 6 Programmer's Reference, Dan Rahmel, to write this handy paperback novel-sized reference providing essential programming information for the Visual...

Building Secure Software

Given the number of times we have to download and install YAP (yet another patch) for a security problem relating to n by way of just one example n buffer overflow issues, perhaps someone should...

Cisco Routers for IP Networking

I'm actually quite warming to the 'Black Book' series of reference works from Coriolis. They aren't cheap and they take up a fair whack of bookshelf (this tome weighs in at just under 800 pages),...

Building Oracle XML Applications

O'Reilly has a habit of signing up the leading authorities in their respective fields, and that's certainly the case with Building Oracle XML Applications. The author Steve Muench will be a...

Secure Electronic Commerce

Subtitled 'Building the Infrastructure for Digital Signatures and Encryption', you could be forgiven for thinking that you're in for a heavy-duty trip down the extremely complex road that is PKI...

Professional ColdFusion 5.0

In the wonderful world of Web application servers, there can be only one - well only one that manages to attract such a devoted following in the developer community - and that's ColdFusion. Since...

.NET Framework Essentials

Getting your head around the forthcoming .NET framework and development tools is something that can't be rushed. It's a monumental move forward for the traditional Visual Basic programmer, and the...

Managing NFS and NIS (2nd Edition)

It's still pretty much true to say that, at a great many sites at least, it's NFS (Network Filesystem) and NIS (Network Information Service) that remain the glue holding together a diverse and vast...

Internetworking Technologies Handbook

Before we go any further, it's probably just as well to point out that this 'essential reference for every networking professional', as the front cover shamelessly proclaims, is published by Cisco...

Instant Java Servlets

Previously, we've looked at books by Greg Buczek in the Osborne 'Instant' series of books, under the Application Development umbrella imprint. Now it's the turn of Phil Hanna, who moves away from...