Windows Communication Foundation simplifies the creation of transactional services.

If you're still deploying SharePoint solutions manually, find out how to automate the process and eliminate a major source of deployment problems.

Despite Java's support for multi-threading and concurrency constructs, developing applications that fare well on modern, multi-CPU hardware can be difficult. Alternate environments like NetKernel might be an easier path to harnessing extra processing elements.

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.

The author of Laconica, an open source tool that lets anyone set up their own Twitter clone, discusses the technical challenges of microblogging and why it's not a fad.

Data binding simplifies how you sync a data object's properties with their visual representations, and Beans Binding for Java (JSR 295) aims to deliver a default data-binding specification for the Java platform. Find out how to use Beans Binding and work around its onerous overhead.

IronPython is an easy-to-learn yet surprisingly powerful language for .NET development. Find out how it differs from C# and Visual Basic while still leveraging your existing .NET knowledge.

Find out how to automate PHP scripts so they run unattended at scheduled times on both Windows and Linux.

Not only does C++98 have four different syntactic forms for initializing class objects, POD aggregates, char arrays and scalar types, it doesn't let you initialize member arrays and dynamically allocated arrays at all. Learn how C++0x fixes these flaws with a uniform and intuitive initialization syntax.