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March 11, 1999

Distributed Client/Server Architecture

Question: What are the features of a distributed client/server architecture? Answer: The Web is an ideal environment to implement applications that take advantage of a distributed client/server architecture. In fact,

Internationalizing Currency Value Displays

As with dates, different countries and regions use different symbols and formats when displaying currency values. Java 1.1 provides a simple facility for displaying a currency value in a manner

The qq Function for Long Strings in Perl

If you write CGI programs in Perl, you probably find yourself using a lot of long print statements for outputting HTML. HTML uses a lot of double quotes, so it’s