(Scott) When sitting down to write an ASP.NET application the designer in Visual Studio.NET gives us a toolbox window full of controls. Two of the areas on the toolbox seem to overlap: the Web Form controls tab and the HTML controls tab. Both sections have a button control we can drag onto a form, f
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(Uche Ogbuji) In a previous tutorial, the author showed how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic techniques. However, as anyone who has tried to master CSS even in the world of HTML and Javascript can attest, there are numerous tricks, traps and nuances. Th
Zend Core for IBM technical roadmap
(Stewart Nickolas and John Steinbacher) The Zend Core for IBM provides a seamless out-of-the-box PHP development and production environment, supported by Zend and integrated with IBM’s Cloudscape and DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) database programs. The product includes native support for XML and
FIX: SQL Server 2000 stops listening for new TCP/IP Socket connections unexpectedly after error message 17882 is written to the SQL Server 2000 error log
In SQL Server 2000, you may notice that SQL Server 2000 stops listening for a new TCP/IP Socket connection unexpectedly after you receive error 17882 in the SQL Server 2000 error log. This behavior occurs even though the 17882 error message states “Execution continuing.” The following is the complet
UML for the Software Developer, Part 3: Aggregating
(Mark Goetsch) Part 3 of this series on UML tackles aggregation, which is a special form of association. Part 2 showed you how associations related one class to another, but this article shows that associations are not strong enough when you need to specify ownership.
The Google Wake-Up Call
(Micah Dubinko) This week I’ll be looking at some broad developments in the XML world and on the web. Especially in the software realm, new and useful technologies have a way of quietly developing under the guidance of one or a few stewards, sometimes for years, without being widely noticed. Even wi
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(Rob Walters) This document provides an overview of new features for the SQL Server Agent job scheduling service for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2.
An Indepth coverage on Stored-Procedure Part – 1
(vijaya Krishna) A Stored procedure is a database object that contains one or more SQL statements. In this article you will get an idea on how to create and use stored procedures and also highlighted on how to use stored procedure.
PHP Cryptography
(Robert Peake) This article will define two-way key cryptography and explain how it differs from other well known PHP functions, like md5 and rot13, and when it is appropriate to use one-way hashing or two-way encryption. Then we will step through installing mcrypt as a dynamically loadable extensio
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(Ed Tittel) Developers who work with multiple kinds of data in any kind of volume typically find they must use databases to access relational data and XML to access document data. For example, report generators, or enterprise resource planning applications, work mostly with relational databases, yet