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A Developer Looks at Panther
When application developers open the stark black box containing the four CDs of Apple Computer Inc.’s “Panther” OS, they’ll get more than the newly polished end-user experience of what’s already the world’s most widely used version of workstation Unix. That fourth CD contains Xcode 1.0, Apple’s integrated development workbench for AppleScript, Java, and native C/C++/Objective-C…
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Survey Says Developers Believe Linux Is More Secure
Is Linux built more securely than Windows? According to a new survey, Windows and Linux developers both say yes—and for the first time, ranked it ahead of Windows XP. The September 2003 study from market-research firm Evans Data Corp. surveyed more than 500 North American participants, including VARs, ISVs, OEMs and corporate developers, according to…
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Wireless Security: WPA Step by Step
Even if you’ve enabled WEP (Wired Equivalency Protocol) encryption on wireless networks, odds are that they’re still not secure. WEP’s flaws are well documented. Hackers can break WEP easily. What you need is WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), a far stronger protocol that fixes the weaknesses in WEP. Here we’ll take you through the process of…
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Microsoft: Opportunities Abound for Office Partners
Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.’s group vice president of productivity and business services highlight the opportunities the Office System family of products represents to Microsoft’s partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Raikes stressed that there is a great number of opportunities available to the several thousand attendees, especially now that Office is no…
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Quiz: Can XQuery Help Your Clients?
1. The company has a lot of data stored in the XML format. TRUE FALSE 1. 2. 2. They currently store XML data in relational databases. TRUE FALSE 1. 2. 3. They have business or compliance requirements that require them to produce, on demand, documents that rely on many types of data. TRUE FALSE 1.…
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Primer: XQuery 1.0
What is it? A language that allows users to search for and extract information from databases as well as documents in which content is identified by tags based on the Internet’s eXtensible Markup Language (XML). What does it do? XQuery makes it possible to pull data from multiple sources and merge it on screen at…
