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rom 1981 through 1986, I taught high school. I was fresh out of college (OK, a semester of engineering grad school which “didn’t take”), didn’t really know what to do,
icrosoft has officially entered the space of rich interactive browser development with a new product called Silverlight. To better understand what Silverlight is you simply need to take a look
s a kid/teen, I wrote short stories and read tons of magazines: Boy’s Life, Baseball Digest, Twilight Zone, and MAD Magazine. My parents knew how to keep me occupied on
rom basic, static HTML pages to totally data-driven and data-centric Web applications, the demands on a Web developer are much more complex and demanding than they were just a few
orking with value types was sometimes awkward in .NET 1.x, because they could cause serious problems in applications that retrieved data from database tables containing columns that can have null
xplicit typecasting is considered are an abomination in object-oriented programming. However, prudery won’t change the fact that casts are still a widely-used feature in C++ programming. Therefore, knowing exactly which
I have always been fascinated by informational graphics. Mathematicians aside, most people find properly rendered information graphics easier to assimilate and quicker to understand than raw data, in whatever form
here’s something about sitting down to write a Brew application in C that makes me go back to basics: the very basics, like writing my own linked list each time
There are many ways to start a new web application in Tomcat, but this tip is for the developers who want to do so by modifying the /conf/server.xml file. An
The System.Windows.Form class’s UseWaitCursor property sets the window’s cursor to an hourglass. It is a Boolean property. The Application class also contains a UseWaitCursor property, which sets the UseWaitCursor property
Did you know you can determine if a number is prime by calling an XQuery query? Here’s the code: <prime_numbers> { for $a in (1 to 50) return( if(not(some $counter
rior to SQL Server 2005, Microsoft’s SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) offered the most efficient way to manage SQL Server programmatically. SQL-DMO supported a COM-based interface that you could use
any developers have adopted AJAX as a way to develop rich web applications that are almost as interactive and responsive as desktop applications. AJAX works by dividing the web UI
The AWTEventListener class’ sole purpose is to view events. All you have to do is to implement the eventDispatched method. The following application demonstrates how: import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;public class EventTest
While converting to Excel 2007, I had to update the column-number-to-string code in my program to handle columns of 703 and above (AAA). I found Yassine Moe’s code and simplified
Checking for Daylight Savings Time is one of the most common date checks developers perform. .NET provides an easy method to do this. In .NET 1.1, use the Timezone class’
f you have ever dreamed of being a game developer (honestly, who among us has not toyed with the idea at least a little?), this is your time in the
echnologies such as the xUnit framework, combined with Maven, BuildBot, or CruiseControl, enable unit testing under continuous integration, which gives developer productivity a huge boost. However, writing true unit tests
pple’s iPhone has taken the nation by storm. An alleged half million moved from the shelves into people’s pockets in the first weekend it went on sale. Safari, the iPhone’s
hope you’ve been following the growing interest in semantic technology and reading the articles on DevX’s Semantic Zone, and feel ready to try out semantic technologies in your own applications.
hen you want to build a simple form—something with a set of fields and perhaps a table of repeating fields—it’s easy to pick up InfoPath and bang out a form
ource code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their way to testing. As security
ASP.NET AJAX (formerly called Atlas) is a new free framework from Microsoft designed to let developers add Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) features to ASP.NET applications easily, simplifying the process
To call an SAP function module from a Java application, you first need SAP JCo (Java Connector); you can download it from SAP’s site, though you need an account to
Use the following code to insert an XML Schema into an XQuery query. The following code assumes that the XML Schema is: file:///C://Data_Local//xml//docs//AirWings_xslt_xmlschema.xsd and the XML file is: file:///C://Data_Local//xml//docs//AirWings_xpath_xslt.xml Import
The form class’ ShowDialog method functions differently than its Show method. Here’s how: ShowDialog‘s returned value can be used to determine how the user closed the form (using the DialogResult
ow many software tasks DON’T involve querying data? Answer: very few. Developers work all the time with database data, XML data, .NET DataSets, collections, lists, and arrays?and each requires a
isual Studio provides convenient design-time wizards to define static database connection strings that you can store in your settings files. Storing connection strings in configuration files means you can update
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is not the world’s most beloved standard. That it is used most often in fairly obscure applications for handling such fundamental concepts as meaning, topicality, and
tandard C++ offers a rather limited number of functions for accurate time measurement: clock() gives you a granularity of up to a thousandth of a second at best, and difftime()
