Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications demonstrates that it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. The book walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications, and includes diagrams and screenshots as well as simple, practical explanations for each project. In this sample chapter, ...

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 controls either lose their positions or don’t compensate for the resized form. To alleviate this problem, the .NET Framework allows you to set ...

Developers often deal with information that is in no way user-friendly without really thinking about how a user would handle it. XML is a prime example — most users don’t know what to make of it. One way to present XML information to a user is by converting it to a file format the user ...

This report is a must-read if you’re an IT strategist who’s currently evaluating product information management (PIM) technologies. It explains why the as-yet-immature PIM market is evolving quickly and presents Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for this emerging tech sector. There are a variety of differences that separate the companies Gartner classifies as “Visionaries” from those it’s ...

Boost your understanding of networking basics and prepare for CCNA 1 course assessments with this chapter from Networking Basics CCNA 1 Labs and Study Guide, the revised and only authorized labs and study guide for the Cisco Networking Academy Program CCNA 1 curriculum. In the study guide section, test your knowledge of connecting to the ...

IP subnetting is a fundamental subject that’s critical for any IP network engineer to understand, yet students have traditionally had a difficult time grasping it. After years of watching confused students struggle through school and in practice when dealing with subnetting, TechRepublic’s George Ou created a simple, graphical approach that makes it easy to see ...

Healthcare processes require the cooperation of different organizational units and medical disciplines. In such an environment optimal process support becomes crucial. Though healthcare processes frequently change, and therefore the separation of the flow logic from the application code seems to be promising, workflow technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare environments. In this ...

Micro-aggregation is a clustering problem with minimum size constraints on the resulting clusters or groups; the number of groups is unconstrained and the within-group homogeneity should be maximized. In the context of privacy in statistical databases, micro-aggregation is a well-known approach to obtaining anonymized versions of confidential microdata. Optimally solving micro-aggregation on multivariate data sets ...

Organizations are adopting ITIL to provide a framework for best practices, and, many of these organizations are seeking out external partners who use complementary, compatible processes. These organizations want to share the same consistent, common language as they contract out and transition a specific area of their IT organization. Consequently, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are ...

This sample chapter, taken from McGraw-Hill’s Introduction to Help Desk Concepts and Skills, examines the different ways help desks are organized and structured. When determining a help desk’s optimal structure, IT managers must consider the number of supported users, the users’ geographic locations, the typical user’s level of computer experience and the number of supported ...

When it comes time to figure out what you can claim as a deduction on your tax return, it helps to have your records organized. Use this simple Excel spreadsheet to determine what you can claim on Schedule C of your U.S. tax return. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up to date ...