(Alex Homer) One unfortunate by-product of the rapid move away from standalone and client/server applications to the Web-based environment is the disconnected nature of the HTTP protocol. Web servers and clients briefly exchange data, and then (by default) each forgets about the other entirely until

(Andi Gutmans) In the wake of improvements in PHP tools, new administration and even fresh investor money from SAP and Intel, 2005 is shaping up to be a milestone year for PHP. Co-creator of PHP and founder of Zend Andi Gutmans, shares his views with Open Enterprise Trends on why enterprise IT manag

(Scott Mitchell) One of Microsoft’s efforts over the past couple of years has been to provide developers with useful code libraries that illustrate best practices. I discussed Microsoft’s latest foray into this arena in an earlier article, An Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Library. The

(Peter Coffee) Supporting collaborative software efforts requires skill and effort in identifying relationships, avoiding misunderstandings and building a sense of shared commitment to mutual goals—what some might call, popularly if not rigorously, “right-brain” tasks.

(Alan Zeichick) Nobody beats the sheer productivity of developers targeting the Microsoft Office System. Whether you’re building applications for Word or Excel, well-established platforms like Visual Basic for Applications let you hit the ground running—and solve many real-world business problems qu

(Saravana Kumar) During application development, you might come across a situation where you need to write the same code repeatedly with just a few changes. For example, you may write code to fetch data from the database many times in your application. In this case, you will open a text file, wh

(Keith Brown) New to Windows Server 2003, Protocol Transition allows you to establish logon sessions with valid Kerberos credentials for an arbitrary domain user without knowing that user’s password. This chapter discusses this new tool and its implications for network security.

(Peter Wainwright) This chapter is an introduction to both Apache and the concepts that underlie it; that is, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the basics of networking and the Internet. It’s aimed at those totally new to Apache and Web servers in general. This chapter is introductory in na

(Robert Peake) I firmly believe that the biggest obstacle to PHP becoming widely accepted in the Enterprise is not a lack of useful features, obscure faults within the PHP4 parser, or any other esoteric technical detail. One of the main reasons PHP projects get a bad repuation is that often PHP proj

(Todd Schraml) When creating a star schema, the most important concept is fashioning each fact to contain a single grain. Without an enforced single grain, the fact will need to support measures that twinkle in and out of existence as data from the fact is summarized to varying levels. The grain