New GUIs: XML Is the Heir Apparent
here’s no brawl like the brawl over a GUI technology. XML is the new entrant into this particular pit-fight, and it looks like the ultimate winner to me. XML is
here’s no brawl like the brawl over a GUI technology. XML is the new entrant into this particular pit-fight, and it looks like the ultimate winner to me. XML is
emember the movie, ‘Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?‘ This B-film was released in the late 70’s and its plot parallels the current trend in IT today. No,
eductionism is an ongoing attempt to explain complex ideas in terms of a relatively few simple or primitive ones. As such, reductionism is the heart of programming. Over the past
atching the effects of economic deterioration on IT departments over the last two years has been incredibly depressing. But such observance has provided moments of clarity, among them this sad
few years ago, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4, which changed the course of Web client-side development. Not only was it ubiquitous, delivered with every version of Windows, but it also
Certifiable NonsenseYou don’t need a certification to know that you’re good at what you do and neither does the rest of                         the world. I once had the misfortune to make
hen AT&T assessed the performance of their engineering teams, they discovered that their top-ranking software developers were as much as 10 times more productive than their colleagues. There are several
evelopers have been requesting that Microsoft add more threading functionality to VB for some time?it will finally happen with VB.NET. VB6 does have support for building multithreaded EXEs, DLLs, and
ne of the more common questions here at Ask the VB Pro has always been how to automatically handle the resizing of forms and controls. Unfortunately, the short answer is