software engineering

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Save time and test software at your convenience with scheduled builds

Feb 2007

Most programmers have something better or more urgent to do than run the build file every few minutes. And even if everyone on the team could quickly run a full build, they might deliberately put...

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Read and write MP3 tags with Perl and manage your music files

Mar 2007

CPAN comes with an MP3::Tag module, which provides ready-made tools to read and extract metadata from MP3 files, making it a simple matter to identify the title, artist and genre of a particular...

Provided by Melonfire

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Practical application: Put XSLT 2.0 to work for you

Apr 2007

XSLT 2.0 is no longer just a theoretical standard. With some readily available free tools you can put the power of XSLT 2.0 to work for you in your normal application development. Edmond...

Provided by Edmond Woychowsky

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How do I... Use the .NET Framework to consume RSS feeds?

Apr 2007

Many Web sites are now offering their content via XML based RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. This allows automated processes to collect content from many sites and aggregate the data into a...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Apply object-oriented analysis and design to the problem of software complexity

Apr 2007

Failure to master the complexity of software often results in projects that are late, over budget, and deficient in their stated requirements. In this sample chapter from Object-Oriented Analysis...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Create ZIP archives dynamically and on the fly with Perl

May 2007

Perl has the ability to dynamically create and read compressed ZIP archives without relying on external tools and utilities, via its Archive::Zip module. This tutorial runs you through the basics,...

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How do I... Get started using the F# programming language

Jun 2007

F# (pronounced F Sharp) is a functional programming language based upon OCaml. It was developed by Microsoft's Microsoft Research department. F# runs within the .NET CLR, which means it can be...

Provided by Justin James

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Audit your code for security problems

Jun 2007

If you're a developer who has joined a development project already in progress or have decided to use third-party code, or if you're an administrator who is worried about the quality of code...

Provided by Syngress

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The architecture of a flexible .NET file processing system -- Part 2

Jun 2007

While Web services are taking the world by storm, and service oriented architecture is becoming the norm, some companies still rely on importing flat files to communicate with partners. BizTalk...

Provided by Zach Smith

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10 JSP tag libraries no programmer should be without

Jun 2007

One of JSP's most overlooked features is its ability to work with reusable code blocks, aka "tag libraries", to add new functionality to a JSP application. These tag libraries, declared using...

Provided by Melonfire

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Investigate how cascading failures occur across layers within your system architecture

Jul 2007

The standard system architecture for enterprise systems, including Web sites and Web services, comprises a collection of functionally distinct farms or clusters (often referred to as layers) that...

Provided by Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Develop a more agile and effective software development process with continuous integration (CI)

Jul 2007

Developing software requires planning for change, continuously observing the results, and incrementally course-correcting based on the results. This is how continuous integration (CI) operates....

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Test your software security with these powerful fuzzing frameworks

Jul 2007

The concept of fuzzing to test software security has been around for almost twenty years but only recently captured widespread attention. In 2006, a plague of vulnerabilities affected popular...

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Create more secure software: Apply static analysis to your code review process

Jul 2007

Network security, judicious administration, and wise use are all important, but ultimately, software security cannot be left to the system administrator or the end user. It is the responsibility...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Write automated tests in xUnit using Test Double patterns

Aug 2007

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile software development: an effective testing strategy delivers new functionality more aggressively, accelerates user feedback, and improves quality. In...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Represent the Fibonacci Sequence as a collection in the form of an STL sequence class

Oct 2007

Anyone who appreciates mathematical elegance will appreciate the Fibonacci sequence and its associated relationship, the Golden Ratio. In this chapter download from Extended STL: Collections and...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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10+ tips for getting your application into production

Jan 2008

Developers usually consider an application successful if it meets budget, delivery, and business requirements. But getting from development to final acceptance can be a sticky path to...

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10 non-monetary benefits to attract and retain top developers

Mar 2008

When recruiting developers, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that money is what brings in the best and the brightest. After all, developers tend to receive paychecks a bit beefier than...

Provided by Justin James

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Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview

Mar 2008

Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a...

Provided by Joe Goss

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Improve your UI by expressing time effectively

Jul 2008

Your user interface may convey time for various reasons, such as through progress indicators that tell users how long they have to wait for an operation to complete. This chapter from Designing...

Provided by Addison-Wesley

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Interview with HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson about features, pain points, and more

Aug 2008

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He...

Provided by Justin James

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Part 1: Developing an object oriented database in less than 140 lines of C#

Jan 2007

One of the best benefits of the .NET Framework over lower level programming is that it enables developers to create very complex, custom solutions, without writing low-level code. This speeds up...

Provided by Zach Smith

Book chapters

Why software sucks and what you can do about it

Nov 2006

It's no secret that software applications often suck. Unsafe, unreliable, and hard to use, they leave users feeling frustrated and inadequate. Why do programmers design applications that make...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Use the QtSql module to build Qt applications that work with various relational database management systems

Jul 2007

Nowadays, it's difficult to imagine many applications being able to function without relational databases to back them up. For this reason, Qt provides a range of classes in the QtSql module that...

Provided by No Starch Press

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Use Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition to develop custom applications that link to an SQL Server Express database

Nov 2006

SQL Server Express is an innovative database product that combines power, flexibility, ease of use, and no cost, as well as the ability to develop custom applications using Visual Basic Express....

Provided by Sybex

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Visual Basic Resource Guide- ISO

Mar 2005

Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's Visual Basic Resource Guide. This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. This CD-ROM is loaded with...

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Use the advantages of custom attributes in your C# applications

Apr 2007

In the .NET Framework attributes are used for many different reasons -- from defining which classes are serializable to choosing which methods are exposed in a Web service. Attributes allow...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Get complete development tools for free with Express Editions

Apr 2007

Microsoft offers Express Editions of both Visual Studio .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005. This gives developers all the tools they need to create .NET applications and could create a generation of...

Provided by Edmond Woychowsky

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Use Microsoft Message Queuing in C# for inter-process communication

Mar 2007

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is a way to send messages to a queue for later processing. The messages are sent to the queue by a "Producer" application, and retrieved from the queue by a...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Read and write MP3 tags with Perl and manage your music files

Mar 2007

CPAN comes with an MP3::Tag module, which provides ready-made tools to read and extract metadata from MP3 files, making it a simple matter to identify the title, artist and genre of a particular...

Provided by Melonfire

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Use open source Subversion for personal document management

Mar 2007

The open source version control system Subversion has rapidly become a developer favorite. It enjoys an excellent reputation and a wealth of free, online documentation, as well as a growing body...

Provided by Chad Perrin

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Manage WinForm controls using the Anchor and Dock properties

Mar 2007

Many beginning WinForms developers have trouble keeping the controls on their forms uniform and organized. Often the controls look fine at design time, but when the form is resized at runtime the...

Provided by Zach Smith

Book chapters

Save time and test software at your convenience with scheduled builds

Feb 2007

Most programmers have something better or more urgent to do than run the build file every few minutes. And even if everyone on the team could quickly run a full build, they might deliberately put...

Provided by Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Master the QObject class

Jan 2007

Developers new to C, C++, objects, or patterns receive a comprehensive tutorial in An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 that walks them through every core concept, step by step,...

Provided by Prentice Hall PTR

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Part 1: Developing an object oriented database in less than 140 lines of C#

Jan 2007

One of the best benefits of the .NET Framework over lower level programming is that it enables developers to create very complex, custom solutions, without writing low-level code. This speeds up...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Dynamic XML document construction with the PHP DOM

Dec 2006

When working with XML-based applications, developers often find themselves facing the requirement to generate XML-encoded data structures on the fly. Although this task might seem intimidating,...

Provided by Melonfire

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Investigate an agile, lightweight, "value-up" approach to software engineering

Nov 2006

Most accepted project management wisdom comes from the world of roads and bridges, where design risks are low, design cost is small relative to build cost, and the opportunity to to deliver...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

Book chapters

Use Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition to develop custom applications that link to an SQL Server Express database

Nov 2006

SQL Server Express is an innovative database product that combines power, flexibility, ease of use, and no cost, as well as the ability to develop custom applications using Visual Basic Express....

Provided by Sybex

Book chapters

Why software sucks and what you can do about it

Nov 2006

It's no secret that software applications often suck. Unsafe, unreliable, and hard to use, they leave users feeling frustrated and inadequate. Why do programmers design applications that make...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

Book chapters

Build mobile applications for wireless devices with ASP.NET mobile controls

Oct 2006

Developing mobile applications for wireless devices such as cell phones, pagers, pocket PCs, and other personal digital assistants (PDAs) like Palm and Blackberry devices can be a complex task...

Provided by Microsoft Press

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More effective requirements gathering with Microsoft OneNote

Oct 2006

The requirements gathering process is very difficult. Getting the information from the subject matter experts and packaging it into a coherent set of thoughts that the architect and developers can...

Provided by Robert L. Bogue

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Applied reflection: Write 80 percent less access code when interacting with a database

Sep 2006

With databases behind virtually every application, quite a bit of time is spent by application developers writing code to interact with databases. Zach Smith explains how to combine the Microsoft...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Create your first application in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition

Sep 2006

Take a quick-start, project-based approach to building your programming skills in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition in this sample chapter from Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express...

Provided by Microsoft Press

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12 Questions a developer must answer in a contract winning RFP response

Jul 2006

With rising competition, vendor selection is becoming increasingly complex and more and more clients are using the RFP response as a basis for comparison between different vendors to evaluate the...

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Capture the right user requirements with these best practices for writing software specifications

Jul 2006

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Visual Basic Resource Guide- ISO

Mar 2005

Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's Visual Basic Resource Guide. This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. This CD-ROM is loaded with...

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Software skills evaluation form

Apr 2003

Consultants who find themselves helping a client's users acclimate to new applications need a way to assess how comfortable users are with the new software. This evaluation form can give you an...

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6 steps to better software documentation

May 2005

Well-written documentation plays a far more important role than it is often given credit for. By answering common user questions, support documentation like a user manual or technical cheat sheet...

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Firewall failure plan checklist

May 2005

Whether your firewall is hardware- or software-based it's a terrific target for experienced hackers and at some point it will fail. How you prepare for that failure and the actions you take...

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Generate software development documentation with the inclusion by reference method

Mar 2006

One technique for generating software development documentation which deserves more attention is the idea of including documentation by reference. Generating the necessary documentation in a...

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Empty Folder Tracker

Aug 2003

You don't want empty folders to waste resources on your Windows machines--but you also don't want to waste time locating them and deleting them manually. Use this handy VBS utility to quickly find...

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Streamline your organization's process with this software installation checklist

Jan 2006

To help your IT support department effectively manage the testing, approval, and installation of client software, we've created this software installation checklist. Download the form and...

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A sample app to monitor performance counters and send alerts

Aug 2007

Nearly every system level application or component publishes data via performance counters. In addition to that, the .NET Framework provides functionality to both read and write to performance...

Provided by Zach Smith

Book chapters

Write automated tests in xUnit using Test Double patterns

Aug 2007

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile software development: an effective testing strategy delivers new functionality more aggressively, accelerates user feedback, and improves quality. In...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

Book chapters

Represent the Fibonacci Sequence as a collection in the form of an STL sequence class

Oct 2007

Anyone who appreciates mathematical elegance will appreciate the Fibonacci sequence and its associated relationship, the Golden Ratio. In this chapter download from Extended STL: Collections and...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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10+ tips for getting your application into production

Jan 2008

Developers usually consider an application successful if it meets budget, delivery, and business requirements. But getting from development to final acceptance can be a sticky path to...

Provided by TechRepublic

Downloads

10 non-monetary benefits to attract and retain top developers

Mar 2008

When recruiting developers, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that money is what brings in the best and the brightest. After all, developers tend to receive paychecks a bit beefier than...

Provided by Justin James

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Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview

Mar 2008

Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a...

Provided by Joe Goss

Book chapters

Improve your UI by expressing time effectively

Jul 2008

Your user interface may convey time for various reasons, such as through progress indicators that tell users how long they have to wait for an operation to complete. This chapter from Designing...

Provided by Addison-Wesley

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Interview with HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson about features, pain points, and more

Aug 2008

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He...

Provided by Justin James

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Part 1: Developing an object oriented database in less than 140 lines of C#

Jan 2007

One of the best benefits of the .NET Framework over lower level programming is that it enables developers to create very complex, custom solutions, without writing low-level code. This speeds up...

Provided by Zach Smith

Book chapters

Why software sucks and what you can do about it

Nov 2006

It's no secret that software applications often suck. Unsafe, unreliable, and hard to use, they leave users feeling frustrated and inadequate. Why do programmers design applications that make...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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How Lean Six Sigma affirms agile programming practices

Feb 2010

Joe Goss examines how the Define Measure Analyze Improve Control and the agile software development methodologies address the eight areas of waste defined by Lean Six Sigma.This download is also...

Provided by Joe Goss

Book chapters

Use the QtSql module to build Qt applications that work with various relational database management systems

Jul 2007

Nowadays, it's difficult to imagine many applications being able to function without relational databases to back them up. For this reason, Qt provides a range of classes in the QtSql module that...

Provided by No Starch Press

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Empty Folder Tracker

Aug 2003

You don't want empty folders to waste resources on your Windows machines--but you also don't want to waste time locating them and deleting them manually. Use this handy VBS utility to quickly find...

Provided by TechRepublic

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Dynamic XML document construction with the PHP DOM

Dec 2006

When working with XML-based applications, developers often find themselves facing the requirement to generate XML-encoded data structures on the fly. Although this task might seem intimidating,...

Provided by Melonfire

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Perfect your software by applying these critical testing processes

Aug 2007

The quality of any software project is unknown until the development team starts pounding on it, looking for ways to push the system under test as far out of control and away from the expected as...

Provided by Addison Wesley Professional

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Manage WinForm controls using the Anchor and Dock properties

Mar 2007

Many beginning WinForms developers have trouble keeping the controls on their forms uniform and organized. Often the controls look fine at design time, but when the form is resized at runtime the...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Hands-on programming: Create a function library from an external configuration

Jan 2010

Developer Justin James shows you how to create a generic class that can be retrieved by name and a class that inherits from the generic class and pre-loads itself with functions stored in an...

Provided by Justin James

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Applied reflection: Write 80 percent less access code when interacting with a database

Sep 2006

With databases behind virtually every application, quite a bit of time is spent by application developers writing code to interact with databases. Zach Smith explains how to combine the Microsoft...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Use the advantages of custom attributes in your C# applications

Apr 2007

In the .NET Framework attributes are used for many different reasons -- from defining which classes are serializable to choosing which methods are exposed in a Web service. Attributes allow...

Provided by Zach Smith

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Job snapshot: Programmer

Feb 2010

This is the first installment of a series devoted to the various roles of IT pros. Here, Justin James, describes his job as a programmer.

Provided by Toni Bowers

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Capture the right user requirements with these best practices for writing software specifications

Jul 2006

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6 steps to better software documentation

May 2005

Well-written documentation plays a far more important role than it is often given credit for. By answering common user questions, support documentation like a user manual or technical cheat sheet...

Provided by TechRepublic

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A pragmatic approach to training programmers

Jul 2009

Justin James believes there should be two educational tracks for software programmers: a true computer science program that focuses on a very mathematical, theoretical approach to programming, and...

Provided by Justin James

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10 reasons why use cases are indispensable to your software development project

Nov 2007

Well-written use case narratives (or simply "use cases") offer the analysis, development, and testing teams an invaluable guidebook. A use case is a formalized story that describes how someone...

Provided by Joe Goss

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Visual Basic Resource Guide- ISO

Mar 2005

Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's Visual Basic Resource Guide. This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. This CD-ROM is loaded with...

Provided by TechRepublic Pro

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Streamline your organization's process with this software installation checklist

Jan 2006

To help your IT support department effectively manage the testing, approval, and installation of client software, we've created this software installation checklist. Download the form and...

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