February 24, 2000

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Julian (Ordinal) Date

Question: Is there an easy function to get the Julian (Ordinal) date of a date? For example 015 from 01/15/2000. Answer: Try subtracting December 31st of the previous year from

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Assign Zero or NULL to a Pointer

Question: To initialize a pointer after deleting it, should I assign a NULL to it or zero? Are they the same in C++? I know strictly speaking, I should assign

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Netscape Does Not Support VBScript

Question: I recently rewrote my entire Web site using frames and VBScript to load the appropriate pages into the proper frame. My Web site looked fine in Internet Explorer, but

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Which Scripting Language Should We Use?

Question: We are in the process of putting up two service portals, which may have business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. We are confused as to which scripting language we should use. We

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Visual Basic 6.0 Versus Visual InterDev 6.0

Question: How does Web development with Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual InterDev 6.0 differ? Which tool is better for Web development and why? Answer: Both products can help you arrive