This work teaches readers how to implement visual basic .NET fundamentals with in-depth, real-world projects and examples. It explains the integrated development environment (IDE) and how it decreases the development cycle, and introduces the basics of object-oriented programming (OOP). The book also provides steps on how to build Web-based applications with Web forms and Web services and shows how to avoid development delays by implementing essential visual basic .NET debugging techniques.

This text focuses on the key essentials that a Web host and those who work for that Web host must have to gain and keep the competitive edge. It covers key essentials involving people skills, marketing dynamics, and specialization. As well as addressing a range of services from security and support to outsourcing speciality services, the book covers different types of Web hosts and how to implement the technology needed to offer customers a high quality of service. Blueprints outline the various ways in which Web hosts can structure their technology and services.

This guide provides an introduction to DSL, DSL set-up, and working with and troubleshooting DSL networks. DSL network concepts, technology, and solutions are explained in easy-to-understand language, while illustrations, photographs and screen shots include explanations of network acronyms and terminology. Coverage of VPNs, Palm Handheld devices, Apple AirPort and Base Station products, and other wireless technologies that can be connected to DSL networks is also included.

Network your computers to your printer, share Internet access, connect your PC to your stereo equipment - the possibilities are endless with the Home Networking Survival Guide. Providing practical, step-by-step instruction to setting up your first home network, it provides specific advice in clear, simple language, without all the technical jargon.

This volume provides network professionals the tools they need to begin understanding, designing and implementing broadband networks.

This text covers how to use JDBC programs with the Oracle8i and 9i databases, including details on the Oracle extensions to JDBC. It demonstrates accessing a database from JDBC using examples and introduces JDeveloper, which provides a productive environment for developing Java programs.

This advanced resource provides in-depth coverage of the Java Servlet API and explains how to design and build real-world server applications.

This comprehensive introduction to creating and exporting graphics for the Web with Fireworks, covers: changes to the tool panel; the Properties Inspector feature; the use of fills, strokes and gradients; integrating Fireworks with Photoshop, Flash and other programs; and the automated features.

This work shows beginning to intermediate Dreamweaver users how to design, develop, and maintain Web sites. It covers working with Fireworks and Flash, as well as late-breaking technologies like SiteSpring, Macromedia's new online Web project collaboration/management server.

In the years before the battles of Lexington and Concord, local people took control over their own destinies, overturning British authority and declaring themselves free from colonial oppression, with acts of rebellion that long predated the Boston Tea Party. In rural towns such as Worcester, Massachusetts, local democracy set down roots well before the Boston patriots made their moves in the fight for independence. Until now, few of these true founding fathers have made it into the historical record.