Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

Preparing a network is no easy task, which is why it makes perfect sense for network designers to use tools to get started. Creating a diagram makes it easier to get a fully functional network off of ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

166 pp., $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-201-70851-5. With few exceptions (and this is not one of them) in computing, the word, "simple" should only be applied with some form of a "relative-to" qualification.

Microsoft Visio is one program that best suits everyone’s needs for drawing, preparing charts, and creating flowcharts. The industry-standard program lets you display complex diagrams quickly and ...