(Ben Nadel) In the past, I’ve use Java’s BigInteger class (java.math.BigInteger) when dealing with HTTP requests that need to be digitally signed. I’ve used this class based on other examples that I’ve seen; but, I’ve never really taken the time to understand what it does. As such, I thought I would

(Ged Mead) There are lots of data binding options in WPF. Which one you use will depend, among other things, on the source of your data. if the source happens to be a collection of .NET objects then you may be interested in the ObjectDataProvider that is available in WPF.

(Scott Guthrie) The jQuery library has a passionate community of developers, and it is now the most widely used JavaScript library on the web today.

(Dan Mabbutt) In the beginning, there was Input-Process-Output. Everything since then is just more details.

(John Charles Olamendy) Business Intelligence has become a buzzword in recent years as a support to decision making. Today we can find several database systems which include data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining technologies. Data warehousing provides an efficient st

(Mike Snell and Lars Powers) Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 introduce many new features to an already full-featured toolset. This latest version is about increasing developer productivity while providing developers with choices and flexibility when building their solutions. If you’ve

(Bruce Armstrong) When Sybase originally released PowerBuilder 10.0, one of the new features they added with that version was the PowerDesigner plug-in. There had been a number of IDE "add-in" third-party products for PowerBuilder before (e.g, SmartPaste, SmartJump), but this was the first time that

(Scott Mitchell) A ZIP file is a popular, decades-old file format used for file compression and archiving. Commonly, such files have a .zip extension and are used to reduce the size of one or more files and/or to archive multiple files and folders into a single file. Additionally, the contents of a

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I was having a conversation with Matt about the way in which ColdFusion prevents any content from being flushed to the browser during the execution of a ColdFusion custom tag. Matt wanted to be able to report updates to the client during the creation of an Excel document being

(Brian Mains) ASP.NET web forms chose the option of communicating with web services as its mode for communication between client-side JavaScript and server-side code. A web service, using the ScriptService attribute, can render a client-side proxy to call these web methods, provided that it doesn’t