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The energy industry and its career opportunities are certainly
nothing new. Excavations in Britain suggest coal
was mined and used during the Stone Age. Natural gas
was produced and transported through bamboo pipelines
over 2,500 years ago in China. Petroleum was used by the
Babylonians in making asphalt for building their walls and
towers, and evidence suggests that petroleum wells were
drilled during the fourth century in China. It wasn’t until
the mid-19th century that petroleum wells were drilled in
North America, and a few decades later, Thomas Edison
developed a practical electric light that kicked off the electric
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Visual Basic Developer’s Guide to ASP and IISAs Visual Basic developers, we have seen a distinct move away from single, monolithic executables to distributed, component-based architectures. With this shift has come the need to think differently. We need to think of applications as a set of components working together to provide the needed solution. As technology... | | | | |
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