(Alejandro Gervasio) As a PHP developer, you’ve probably developed database-driven applications that deliver their contents in (X)HTML format to the end user. If so, you know that when you work directly with hard-coded (X)HTML files, you risk forgetting to close tags and DTD headers, making the proc

(Scott Mitchell) As discussed in previous articles in this article series, ASP.NET 2.0’s Health Monitoring system is designed to monitor the health of a running ASP.NET application in a production environment by recording event information to a specified log source. The Health Monitoring system incl

(Saurabh Vartak) This utility is used to send emails to multiple users by using the Mail Merge functionality and SMTP. The prerequisite for the same is that the DataGrid should be populated with the list of the desired recipient’s email addresses.

(Madhu Zode) Computers are now ubiquitous. Frequently, the power of these computers is underused, but rather than harnessing their unused capacity to carry out our business or leisure activities, we buy additional, more powerful machines. Many businesses require large amounts of computing power only

(Bill Xie) Compared to classic ASP, ASP.NET makes a big leap forward in bringing you the advantages of object-oriented programming. However, some aspects like the SQL and .NET data type mismatch, lack of useful common interfaces for all data types, data access, and data binding in Web forms seem to

(Serioja Sidorov) Any developer should be a big fan of unit testing for a multitude of reasons. If a good set of unit tests are written for a software unit, it is possible to verify at any time if the code still behaves as assumed by the developer who has written the unit tests. It allows you, as th

(Kevin Hoffman) Recently I’ve been doing a little bit of thinking about concurrency and multi-threading. Multi-threading is a fantastic tool, but it’s also a really big gun with which to shoot your foot. In other words: It’s a powerful tool and if it gets into the wrong (read: unprepared) hands, it

(Alejandro Gervasio) If you need to create multiple objects that belong to the same family, you probably want to use the factory pattern. This three-part series takes a close look at using the factory pattern in PHP.

(Jim Mischel) Most .NET programs I’ve worked with don’t have to take into account their memory footprint. As long as the programmer isn’t doing totally crazy things like trying to buffer the results of a huge database query, there is usually plenty of memory on the computer for whatever the .NET pro

(Ged Mead) Sometimes you may want to hide a TabPage from the user’s view, but you don’t want to permanently remove it. Now, if you’ve checked out the TabPage’s methods you will see that it does have a "Hide" method in VB 2005. That’s great, but the trouble is if you try using it, it doesn’t work!