(Emmanuel Kartmann) This article describes a conversion tool which takes an HTML document as input and generates a Microsoft Word document for printing.

(Clint Boulton) It’s a brave new world of software programming out there, and AJAX is the agent being used to deliver a clean look for more interactive, yet seamless desktop computing.

(Gez Lemon) The Wireless Markup Language (WML) is the markup language used to make sites suitable for viewing using a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) device. If you don’t have a WAP device to view the pages, you can get a simulator by downloading the Wireless Companion from YourWAP. The Wireless

(Vishwas Lele) I have three goals in this article. First, I want to provide a high-level overview of AJAX-style applications. My second goal is to provide a detailed description of asynchronous callback features of ASP.NET 2.0. Finally, I want to provide an insight into upcoming enhancements of tool

(Robert Anderson and Erik Hennum) In with the old, in with the new. How did IBM move forward with Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) without investing in a completely new system? This article describes the solution that allowed us to begin working with the new, topic-oriented DITA archite

(Max Voskob) Imagine that you’ve just finished building a database for another Web-based system. Now it’s time to start thinking about writing all that SQL to move the data in and out of the database. Being a security-conscious developer, you decide against building dynamic SQL in your data-tier cod

(Christian Hellsten) Acceptance, or functional, testing is designed to put manual tasks through their paces, but testing these tasks by hand can be time consuming and prone to human error. In this article, the author shows architects, developers, and testers how to use the Selenium testing tools to

(Alan Zeichick) The beta’s out! The technical beta of Microsoft Office “12” (where do they get those clever code names?) hit in mid-November. Unfortunately, many developers can’t have access to this very preliminary beta—Microsoft is only distributing it to a short list of customers and partners. (R

(Jason Levitt) Making requests to third-party web services from an AJAX application is a pain, but new web services that offer the option of returning JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) instead of XML can provide significant relief. In fact, if you make web services requests using the dynamic script

(Michael Kimsal) Web applications today are much more complex beasts than they were even just a few years ago. The largest sites may constitute thousands of files with complex directory structures, and migrating those between development, staging, and production environments can be difficult to say