A while back, I reviewed the first edition of Real World Linux Security for Linux Magazine, so I was looking forward to the chance to review the second edition when it became available. I've spoken …

This book covers all aspects of programming threads in Win32 (including the Windows NT 4.0 API) except for security. It also provides practical examples of threads programming in applications, …

Humphreys book says, "These are the experiences of programmers. These methods reduced defects, reduced development time, and allowed programmers to predict when they would finish." A …

Lotus Notes and Domino R5 have arrived with a host of improvements. But can Lotus still compete in the market it largely created?

Mapping design problems to programming problems leads to software solutions that are easy to extend and reuse. Our authors explain how they resolved multithreaded porting problems using design …

The most recent compression techniques, algorithms, products, tools, and utilities. Edited by renown data compression expert Mark Nelson (author of "The Data Compression Book").

Point is, a well-formed XML document by itself simply provides a way to structure data. While the above single-book library documents are well-formed, there's nothing to say which elements have to be …

The book is entitled Ruminations on C++, and is coauthored by Barbara Moo, Koenig's colleague at AT&T. As the book's copyright page points out, the primary meaning of "ruminate" is to chew cud. In …

In the first of a two part series based on his book "Embedded Multitasking with small microcontrollers," author Keith Curtis explains how simple state machine constructs can simplify the programming of …

The book's first project creates a "skeleton" control that implements the basic functionality of a custom control. The skeleton is used in later chapters as a basis for creating more-interesting controls.