(David Hall) The Task Scheduler is a component delivered with Internet Explorer since version 4.0, and is made up of a set of COM objects. The user can interact with tasks through the “Scheduled Tasks” entry in the Control Panel. The Task Scheduler objects provide an excellent means of scheduling ev

(John Charles Olamendy) PostgreSQL is one of the most important relational database systems in the open source world. It is released under a BSD style license. I’ve seen a few documents talking about the development of .NET application with PostgreSQL as the back-end server. That’s why I’m writing t

(Scott Mitchell) Expiring passwords are a common technique used for improving the security of a computer system. In a nutshell, the system specifies a number of days for which a given password is valid, be it 30 days, 90 days, 120 days, or longer. Once this validity window passes, a user must change

(Kendall Miller) By implementing a single instance string store, you can significantly reduce the memory footprint of your application. The overhead in processor time is minimal, and the memory improvement tends to increase as your application manages more data, which can significantly improve your

(Subodh Sohoni) In this article we will take an overview of diagrams, features and tools provided in Team System 2010 for Architects. Although we will not cover the concepts of UML and other architectural concepts in details, we will refer to them time to time.

(Charlotte Foust and Susan Sales Harkins) Visual Basic Express (VB Express) wizards make it easy to connect to a remote data source and start manipulating data. However, the results aren’t always flexible enough for a development environment. Most of the time, you are better off foregoing the wizard

(Robert Pattinson) There are 2 methods commonly used for declaring arrays. While both have their place and usage, most programmers prefer the dynamic array that is declared at run-time to provide the most flexibility. The static array is great if you have a set structure that will never change. F

(Gil Shabat) Many web application firms spend substantial time and effort doing market research, analyzing requirements and coming up with sophisticated ways to provide their users with more value than their competitors. But business value alone doesn’t guarantee a high adoption rate. Your app needs

(Michael Reingruber and Tim Rinaman) The data model is a valuable enterprise tool. In addition to helping enterprises understand information assets and analyze data requirements, data models support decision-making, enable information sharing, guide data quality initiatives and form the cornerstones

(mendhak) At some point in the past few years you will have heard of REST services. You will have seen various articles talking about the merits of REST and how it’s going to save the planet from global warming in addition to being an architecture meant specifically for the web, the way it was meant