- An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- Mar 2, 2001
- Using crime-related applications as an example, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert Chris Storozuk describes basic GIS concepts and techniques.
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- An Introduction to Snort: A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System
- Jun 15, 2001
- In this first of a two-part series of articles on Snort, Joseph Dries introduces you to this Intrusion Detection System and tells you the advantages of deploying it.
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- An Introduction to the eCos World
- Feb 7, 2003
- Take a brief look at the origins of the Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos) and the people and company behind it. Get a glimpse of the configurable architecture of eCos, the core functionality, the different processors and evaluation platforms supported, and technical assistance options available.
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- An Introduction to the Rational Unified Process
- Mar 19, 2004
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- An Overview of Computer Security
- Jan 31, 2003
- Break down computer security into each of its components and see how each one contributes to a vulnerable system or network.
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- An Overview of Netsourcing
- Jun 21, 2002
- Netsourcing is the practice of renting access to centrally managed business applications — everything from credit card validation to human resources. Learn the 11 key benefits of netsourcing, as well as types of netsourcing suppliers and business applications available today.
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- An Overview of Strategies for Real-Time System Specification
- Aug 23, 2013
- The authors of Strategies for Real-Time System Specification introduce their book, which offers an indispensable guide for creating a systematic, formal methodology for large, real-time, software-based systems.
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- An Overview of the syslog Protocol
- Dec 1, 2005
- This chapter presents an overview of the syslog protocol and shows you how to deploy an end-to-end syslog system. You'll learn about the syslog architecture as well as the issues in deploying syslog servers in Linux and Windows OSs with a focus on their relevance in a Cisco environment.
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- Analog Electronics: Common-Source Amplifier Stage
- Feb 28, 2003
- Explore the world of amplifiers while looking at various aspects of the common-source stage with grounded source, circuit-linearity considerations, and the basics of the dual-power-supply amplifier.
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- Analysis for Continuous Delivery: Five Core Practices
- Jan 25, 2012
- Jez Humble, coauthor of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, urges teams to move away from the all-or-nothing design of traditional software delivery approaches. Following the practices outlined here, you can deliver single-feature or small-story batches that dramatically decrease the time needed to build a new product or new release, testing and moving forward on successful features and redesigning or dropping features that fail (or that users show they don't really want).
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- Analysis of Stress
- May 30, 2003
- Read a very technical and defined look at the sources and influences of stress on a body. This sample chapter gives detailed analyses and mathematical equations regarding pressure on an object.
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- Analysis: Defining Object Behavior
- May 7, 2004
- Behavior binds the structure of objects to their attributes and relationships, so that objects can meet their responsibilities. Ultimately, an object's operations implement its behavior.
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- Analyzing Performance-Testing Results to Correlate Performance Plateaus and Stress Areas
- Jul 8, 2005
- Mike Kelly builds on Scott Barber's work to show how you can combine performance-degradation curves and complex performance scenarios to help determine "good enough" quality for an application in terms of performance.
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- Analyzing, Configuring, and Monitoring Windows NT 4.0 Security
- Apr 5, 2002
- A wide variety of advanced topics from MCSE Exam 70-244 are covered in this article. The concept that binds them all together is that of security.
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- Anatomy of an Enterprise Software Delivery Project
- Jul 31, 2012
- This chapter focuses on a concrete example of an enterprise software delivery project exhibiting many properties that characterize today’s software delivery challenges: globally distributed delivery of core business capability in a mixed onshore–offshore team.
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- Ant User, Let Me Introduce Maven
- Jul 29, 2005
- Ant user? Meet the new kid on the block: Maven. Webster's Dictionary says that "maven" means "experienced or knowledgeable," and this product lives up to its moniker. In this introduction, Marcus Zarra walks you through a sample development project using Maven. See how using Maven can give consistency and ease of use to your Java development projects.
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- Ant: Building a Better Build File
- May 6, 2005
- Want to keep your build file lean, mean, and totally maintainable? Marcus Zarra tells you why Jakarta's Ant is a relatively easy-to-use way to build your projects (and how to avoid its common pitfalls).
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- Ant: Global Concepts
- Dec 6, 2002
- Joey Gibson, Kirk Pepperdine, Alan Williamson, and Andrew Wu study of a useful standard development directory tree, cover the basic targets of almost every Ant build file, data types, listeners and loggers, and the Ant command line.
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- Apache Ant Best Practices
- Aug 11, 2006
- This chapter looks in more detail at some best practices for using Ant on real projects. Included are discussions of the use of property files to enable configuration of the build process depending on a user's role and requirements, how best to integrate Ant with IBM Rational ClearCase, and some general best practices for supporting the build process on large projects.
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- Apache: Starting, Stopping, and Restarting
- Mar 29, 2002
- Apache provides a variety of ways to start, stop, and restart your server. Learn here how to automate these processes, and ensure that your server is always running when it needs to be.
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