For many IT departments, especially those of larger companies
and organisations, finding a practical way of dealing with the myriad of change management issues is a daunting task. Get it wrong and the business consequences can be severe. Tony Stevenson balances up the options.
MadCap Flare does much more than allow you to produce help documentation, in either print or online format. Thanks to its flexibility, along with the functions that have been incorporated into it, the documentation created by MadCap Flare can be used in all sorts of innovative ways within your company too Tony Stevenson explains how.
Before you too quickly dismiss Microsoft’s Expression Web as simply being another gimmicky design tool amongst lots of other such tools on the market, I recommend that you first take it for a test drive by downloading the trial version that’s available. Tony Stevenson explains why.
Administrators, as well as a lot of developers, will readily tell you that one of the most frustrating aspects of their job revolves around the ongoing management of passwords. Tony Stevenson feels the pain for us.
“Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath” has been written specifically for those developers who want to fully capitalise on Office development using managed code. The content of this largish book – over 1100 pages in length – has been divided into four major parts.
If you’re a database developer, or maybe a database administrator with a keen interest in programming, and you’ve been looking for ways to fully exploit the new features and functionality that have been incorporated into SQL Server 2005, grab yourself a copy of the book “Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer’s Guide”. You won’t be disappointed with what you find.
Many companies and organisations are now rushing to create their own unique online community presence.
The ability to successfully test software applications is becoming increasingly difficult as modern software applications themselves continue to grow in complexity, diversity and functionality. Tony Stevenson looks for a solution.
In my experience, it’s usually the tools and utilities that are multi-functional that are the most invaluable to have stored away in your programming “war chest”. An example of such software is PrimalScript.
For any experienced .NET developer, the book, “The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming”, represents an excellent introduction to programming directory services. Both the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of the .NET Framework are covered in the book. The book’s content has been divided into three major parts.