(Paul Glavich) There has been a lot of interest in the web-facing community lately about a new useability feature that goes by a number of different names—XMLHTTP, AJAX, out-of-band requests, and asynchronous client script callbacks, to name a few.

(Alejandro Gervasio) With websites now featuring full-blown dynamic applications that link to databases, data accessing has become a critical process. Often, an object-oriented solution is wanted to manage the data access operations. This works well — except when certain statements are hard-cod

(Iqbal M. Khan) Domain objects in an application represent the core data and business validation rules relating to it. And, domain objects are usually central to the entire application and used by most subsystems. Therefore, their good design is critical for a good application design that is robust,

(Michael Libby) One web accelerator stands alone offering better performance than any other: caching. This article is the first in a series created to show you how to leverage caching to boost your application performance! Other articles in this series will show the basics in overcoming caching limi

(Eric Besserer) In Part 2 of our PHP Web Blog tutorial, we will create the administration page that will allow us to add, edit or delete the contents of our blog. If you haven’t worked through part 1, you’ll want to start by reading the first part of this article.

(Omar AL Zabir) All Microsoft Office applications are built on top of an object model that supports automation. Any developer can use the 0bject model to drive the application UI and add, edit, and delete content, just as a real user interacts with the application. The rich object model, togethe

Have you ever used a VB app where when you made changes, it then asks you to stop and restart the application in order for the changes to be applied. I hate that, here’s some code I used to update configuration information for a VB.Net application I wrote.

(Karl Moore) At times, you may want to very simply encrypt a small piece of text to store in the registry, a database, or file, but you don’t want the overhead or complexity of a government-standard encryption technique.

(Roger Deng) Do you know what kind of architecture your ETL system is built on? Do you feel pain in maintaining a constantly growing and very complex ETL system? Do you share and reuse existing ETL code for your different projects? Making ETL applications efficient, maintainable and reusable i

(John deVadoss) Many business applications require the user interface (UI) to be extensible as the requirements vary from one customer to another and from one end user to another. Client-side business logic for the UI may also need customization based on individual user need. A screen layout for