The Only Windows Server Resource You Need. The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi’s award-winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft’s Windows Server products. This book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.

Welcome to Windows Architecture Training for Developers. This book presents the architectures and related services of the Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. By completing the lessons and associated exercises, you will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop solutions for the Windows 95 and Windows NT® operating systems.
This book addresses the objectives of the Microsoft Windows Architecture I (70-160) and Microsoft Windows Architecture II (70-161) exams. This self-paced course provides topical content that supports the skills measured by these exams.

COM (Component Object Model) is Microsoft’s specification for building distributed applications that work across networks and the Internet. It is a highly complex and mysterious topic, which ties in to everything Microsoft is doing with Windows. In this book aimed at experienced programmers, Ash Rofail unlocks the secrets of programming COM, writing in the classic Mastering style. This is no theoretical treatise but a practical exploration of how to do real things with COM, including creating COM objects, working with the Registry, reusing components, and getting the most out of ActiveX controls. Includes coverage of DCOM and COM+, Microsoft’s latest version of the standard for Windows 2000.

An excellent successor to Hennessy and Patterson’s Computer Organization and Design, this book presents computer architecture and design as something quantitative that can be studied in the context of real running systems rather than in an abstract format. The concepts are again grounded in real machine architectures and many of the examples are contemporary architectures, such as PowerPC chips and Intel 80×86. Computer Architecture follows the same outline as its predecessor, but covers information in more depth, moving rapidly from introductory discussions to issues just shy of computer design research. The format again includes an excellent mix of exercises and historical background. This book is recommended for people with some experience in digital design–or people who have read and understood the authors’ first text.

Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development such as mis-understanding customers' requirements, missing deadlines, over-budget, conflicts between customers and developers and poor maintainability of legacy systems.
However, it is so difficult to teach the skills needed to be agile. In 2002, we, the Macau Productivity and Technology Center (CPTTM), started to hold courses on XP and Object Oriented design to teach the skills by hiring a well known software training and consulting company to do the teaching...

Delphi developer Julian Bucknall provides fellow developers a comprehensive overview of using algorithms and data structures from a practical perspective. Bucknall begins with a discussion of algorithm performance, and provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, linked lists, and binary trees. The book focuses on search algorithms—such as sequential and binary search—and sort algorithms—including bubble, insertion, Shell sort, quicksort, merge sort, and heapsort—along with techniques for optimization. Additionally, the author presents hashing and hash tables, priority queues, state machines and regular expressions, and data compression techniques such as Huffman and LZ77.

Изложены базовые сведения по интерфейсу USB для ПК: примеры USB-устройств и советы по их выбору, правила установки и конфигурирования устройств, методы решения возникающих проблем. Описаны кабели, разъемы, принципы питания устройств и другое аппаратное обеспечение. Приведено внутреннее устройство USB и его физическая реализация, обсуждены общие вопросы написания драйверов для операционной системы Microsoft Windws 2000/XP с примерами на языке Borland Pascal и в среде Delphi. Рассмотрен процесс создания USB-устройства: от выбора микросхем и схемотехники до написания программы микроконтроллера и WDM-драйвера. В книге содержится большое количество практических советов и примеров программ.

Starting with a detailed description of Delphi and C++ languages, this book covers the essential topics such as conditions, loops, strings and arrays, procedures and functions, file I/O, and pointers and gives an introduction to OOP before venturing into