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May 10, 2003

We Are Our Environment

n case you haven’t noticed, programmers are sort of funny people to work with. I was talking with a friend the other day and he said that some of the

A Better Way to Stop an IP Address From Accessing Your Site

A more elegant approach: use an associative array. If you have more addresses to block, put them together (in this example, using CGI and Perl): #!perlmy %block_ip=(‘172.56.260.71’=>’bad.org’,’172.56.260.72’=>’evil.org’,);my $remote = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}

The Two Faces of .NET

he .NET platform has a new and fresh feel to it. Prior to .NET we had reached a point of technology and tools mish-mash that has been almost prohibitive to

Getting Started with ASP.NET

efore we can dive in and begin building Web pages with ASP.NET, I want to introduce a few topics and new terminology. .NET FrameworkMicrosoft designed classes in the .NET Framework

What’s New in Visual Studio .NET 1.1?

his article assumes you are familiar with Visual Studio .NET 1.0 and it presents only the new features of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) of Visual Studio .NET 1.1, for

Five Practical XQuery Applications

hat’s the latest sleeper technology that promises to make your life easier? It’s XQuery (short for XML Query) and it’s the ‘Ginsu knife’ of XML standards. XML can represent almost