Foreword

Something significant takes place in the software industry every time we see a paradigm shift in the way software is put forward. From mainframes to minis to PCs to client-server to Internet to wireless, the fault line continues to shift underneath our feet. As a professional software engineer/consultant, your gross value in the industry as well as the impact of your work shifts along this fault line. In the last few years, nothing has affected your work more powerfully than the significant paradigm shift that is taking place with Internet solutions: applications that use the Internet as the foundation, as the community, as the fabric.

As a technologist reading this book, you are witnessing the convergence of several elements that, ...

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