Alex Homer eBooks

This book is a phenomenal start for someone new to ASP.NET, as well as a complete guide to the new features of version 2.0 for programmers familiar with an earlier version. The beginning chapters detail concepts using a hypothetical company, examining the myriad sorts of requests and situations often requested by clients. The authors deal with these in an eloquent, realistic manner. They have clearly worked in the industry and have faced real-world challenges that programmers encounter daily. The content covers everything from the most basic tasks to the most complex, and is a comprehensive collection of information on ASP.NET 2.0. Every topic is well-referenced for additional information, but contains clear examples that work. The content is technic...

Cloud applications have a unique set of characteristics. They run on commodity hardware, provide services to untrusted users, and deal with unpredictable workloads. These factors impose a range of problems that you, as a designer or developer, need to resolve. Your applications must be resilient so that they can recover from failures, secure to protect services from malicious attacks, and elastic in order to respond to an ever changing workload. This guide demonstrates design patterns that can help you to solve the problems you might encounter in many different areas of cloud application development. Each pattern discusses design considerations, and explains how you can implement it using the features of Windows Azure. The patterns are grouped into ...

This Starter Kit serves as an entry-level introduction centered around prebuilt projects that developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sitesExplains how to build good basic Web sites, including design and architecture, for users who plan to build more complex sites in the futureDetails the key site features that beginners like to implement, including catalogs, shopping carts, images, and secure site sectionsThe authors use very little code, but where coding is needed, they feature the simple Visual Basic languageThe CD-ROM includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition...