Active Server Pages (ASP) allow Web designers to leverage the vast set of tools and resources afforded by the Microsoft universe. Through the Microsoft COM world, ASP provides a hassle-free way to give a Web application all the power and freedom of a windows application. Written by authors who utilize the technologies for a living, this book teaches skills as opposed to components, taking an average programmer and making him or her a better programmer.
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Charles Phillips (b. 1962) is an established writer of popular history, a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain as well as to the Chronicle of Britain and several illustrated stories.
He has a keen interest in the mythology and history of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series. Phillips is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds an MA from the University of Westminster.