(Harish Kamath) This article will show you how to use the different API methods of yaapi, which is an API tool useful for managing content. It will explain how to retrieve a list of articles, display an article on a web page, retrieve a list of categories, and more.

(Andy Clark) Graphics Server .NET provides an outstanding set of tools for adding graphs to your VS.NET applications. These tools work within both WinForms and ASP.NET, and they support a large variety of graphs with an object-oriented API that is both powerful and easy to use. Version 2.5 adds supp

(Scott Mitchell) In any non-trivial database design, there are related entities within the system. Some entities may share a one-to-many relationship, others a many-to-many relationship. For example, a student database may have a Faculty table that lists its teachers, along with a Students table tha

(Tony Patton) I’ve been working with junior and entry-level developers lately, and I’ve noticed some common misconceptions that all developers (even veterans) can fall victim to if they aren’t careful. These range from ideas about what tool to use to the appropriate use of Web services. Below I addr

This white paper provides guidelines and suggested best practices for independent software vendor (ISV) developers on how to integrate with the new security infrastructure of User Account Protection (UAP) on Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1. By following these guidelines, developers will be able to ga

(Brian Vaughn) As a web programmer, a wide variety of scripting languages are available for you to use. Each language has limitations, but by using more than one in conjunction many of those limitations may be overcome. This article will discuss the benefits of using two such languages, PHP and Java

(James Markarian) Hardware and networks are getting faster all the time – but, as you have probably discovered, that doesn’t guarantee high performance for your IT environment. That is because real-world performance is more complex than a measurement of raw processing power. It is made up of four ba

(Lin Merritt, Bill Jouris, Mike Salsburg and Margaret Greenberg) From December 4 – 9, 2005 you can attend the conference with content in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who have yet started to work on budget approvals, now is the time to plan for the best return on your company’s education dollar

(Gary Cokins) One of the most ambiguous terms in discussions about business and government is value. Everybody wants value in return for whatever they exchanged to get value. But whose value is more important and who is entitled to claim it? Customers conclude that they receive value if the bene

(Mark Goetsch) In my last article, I introduced XMI, an incredibly useful XML standard for interchanging models. Because XMI uses XML and XML is just text, using a schema or standard, it is perfectly suited for storing the model information in a database. As companies start managing IT as portfolios