Linux developer who wants to study and develop client-server programming skill into the developed application can rely on book of “The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming” for guidance. The guide book is suitable for Windows developer expanding to Linux world, as the book offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux shell operating system, covering design, implementation, debugging and security aspects necessary when developing for Linux platform.

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is one of the most important programming language that is used to describe the presentation of a document in a markup language, especially for web pages written in HTML and XHTML. Mastering CSS is pivotal in designing a beautiful, elegant and functioning web layout. “The Art & Science of CSS” is a book for intermediate to advanced CSS coders to further enhance their skills.

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Microsoft’s key R&D division, Microsoft Research (MSR), has released an initial release of its experimental operating system, Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) version 2. Singularity operating system is a microkernel research operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.

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LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a Microsoft .NET Framework extension component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET C# and Visual Basic programming languages using a native syntax reminiscent of SQL, and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. LINQ defines a set of query operators that can be used to query, set, transform, project and filter data in arrays, enumerable classes, XML, relational database, and third party data sources.

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Color (or colour) can be defined and encoded in HTML web pages by using hexadecimal (HEX) code to denote an RGB (combination of Red, Green and Blue) color value, or by using a standard color name. For user who wants to translate between the RGB color HEX code and color name, the following color table with color names with their corresponding RGB HEX value can be used as reference.

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Microsoft has released the trial version of its flagship software development product for software developers, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 includes Visual Basic (.Net), Visual C#, Visual C++ and ASP.NET. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. Microsoft has offered a 90-Day trial period for this new package and allows users for evaluation.

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Most websites and web pages will be compatible and work fine on iPhone and Blackberry. However, it’s still possible to make the web sites more supportive, ready and friendly to Apple iPhone by giving more information to iPhone about how the webpage should be displayed on the iPhone browser. Beside, for web sites that try to emulate the functionality of the built-in iPhone applications such as webapps that use Canvas, AJAX functionality and limit the size of the page to 320×480px (or 480×320px), it’s best to ensure iPhone and Blackberry compatibility to ensure that the page is rendered and formatted correctly and avoid problem such as web page or application not scaling properly when rotate and Safari browser zooming out.

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Ever wonder how your mouse connects to the cursor and moves it around your screen? Believe it or not, I found a website that explains this technical process clearly thanks to a giant digital magnifying glass.

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