In order to deploy your application on Android devices (and on the Android Market), you need to sign it. Luckily, you can generate your own certificate and use it to sign your application. Find out how the process works.

Demand for multi-core/multi-processor applications is growing, but developing for a multi-threaded application does not require a steep learning curve or an understanding of complicated edge cases. Learn how to develop efficient multi-threaded applications without using synchronized blocks.

Why should an existing web application, such as CDMS, which currently stores its data in a relational database and presents this information as HTML and PDF documents, migrate to the semantic web?

A new version of Windows, new development platforms and tools, new and updated languages, and a new focus on cloud computing gave this PDC enough substance to satisfy even the most demanding developers.

Developing add-ons for Firefox can be tedious, but it's not hard.

As your projects grow more complicated, you'll need a build system to keep track of build results—and MSBuild is up to the task.

Although current databases limit XML processing to linear XPath or XQuery queries, existing hierarchical database techniques enable far more complex queries using standard SQL.

The callback approach to mapping from Java objects to XML solves many of the problems found with existing solutions. Find out how to "stream" objects in and out of XML—while still gaining all the benefits of object-to-XML mapping.

Read Chapter 11, "Using Owl in the Wild," from Allemang and Hendler's widely acclaimed book.

RDFa is a current W3C Candidate Recommendation, and large organizations such as Yahoo! are implementing RDF in their search engine technologies. Now is an excellent time to learn how to use this set of XHTML extensions to produce RSS news feeds.

Targeted toward both developers and designers, readers will find this book invaluable for gaining the familiarity and skills needed to build Windows Presentation Foundation visuals using Microsoft Expression Blend.

The XQuery language is the XML analogue of SQL, designed to augment XPath 2.0 by working with sets of values, not just with single scalar values.

Visual Basic 9 completely eliminates the barrier between the code you write and the XML you're trying to express. Creating, querying, and transforming XML is much more intuitive and productive than ever before.

You can generate XForms in OpenOffice from sample input—as long as you're aware of the technique's limitations.

Using the W3C OWL ontology standard lets you get more out of all kinds of data. Find out how this standard and some free software lets you query two databases as if they were one.

The current generation of search engines is severely limited in its understanding of the user's intent and the web's content. Find out how semantic search can address these limitations.

You can use Live Search on your site through the Live Search Box or by using the Windows Live Search API.

Learn about the three methods of persisting data and which is the right one for your device.

Discover the PHP libraries that help you generate statistics and reports that analyze data from text files, XML, or relational databases.

With Silverlight 2 now having a go-live license, you can begin to take advantage of all of its managed code features. In this application and walkthrough we show you how to utilize both a database and XML for your Silverlight 2 application.