August 8, 2003

have been an actively employed developer for almost 15 years now. I started my career in Oregon as a developer for a small property management company. I later moved to

alidating the information entered by users is an essential part of developing a professional Web-based user interface. Data validation over the Web is performed in one of two locations: on

etween April 1998 and December 2001, I was granted a 1000-word monthly soapbox on the back page of a competitor’s magazine for Office developers. The chance to rant, complain, chastise,

obility is one of those fields which everybody knows is a definite part of our future, in 5 to 10 years or so. Think again. Amber steps out of her

rior to the .NET Framework, programming encryption was sort of an obstacle race. You first had to find the right algorithm, then set up the key, and finally struggle with

eb services are all about connecting businesses in a standard and secure manner. For a real-life Web service, security is intrinsic to every facet of operation and no party would

ast issue’s article, “Using GDI+ in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 1“, introduced basic concepts for generating images dynamically to use on Web pages. Keep in mind that the fundamental steps

he complex, component-style development that businesses expect out of modern software developers requires greater design flexibility than the design methodologies of the past. Microsoft’s .NET Framework makes extensive use of

rror handling, paying taxes, and root canals. Each one conjures up a number of negative mental images?some real, some imagined. While I cannot do much to ease the pain of