Flash, Silverlight and the Open Web
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Brad Neuberg, of the Gears team, took a stab at defining the “Open Web”. We at SitePen are very strongly in favor of the Open Web concept, because... more »
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Dynamic Language Runtime: What is it?
Its not the CLR, its DLR. On many blog entries around the world, specially from the bloggers from Microsoft, one would find a numerous mention about... more »
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Why not PHP for Google’s App Engine?
TechCrunch is announcing Google’s new “App Engine” service being launched this evening. The basic service is a full app stack hosted and managed by... more »
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Stop hackers from launching cross-site scripting attacks
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the most common application-level attacks that hackers use to sneak into Web applications. Learn how hackers... more »
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How to Impress at Your Next Interview
While at Intergen I have had the opportunity to interview a lot of prospective developers. In that time I have come to understand more clearly what it... more »
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PHP Weekly Reader - March 23th 2008
I'm a little late with the Weekly Reader, I spent some time with my family on Sunday and a hectic day at work on Monday. Luckily there wasn't much... more »
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Debugging D Unit Tests
Digital Mars' D language has built-in support for unit tests. Debugging them may be a bit tricky.
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How do I write my UI specs?
bloid via blogs.sun.com
And for my fellow designers who do like to write (and are probably good at it), I have some bad news: no one likes to read specification documents.... more »
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Symfony 1.1 Beta 2 released - What's new?
We've just released a new beta version of symfony 1.1. This is the first true beta release, meaning that the API of the new features is not subject to... more »
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Software Quality and the (Lack Of) Testing Death Spiral
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At PyCon '08, I gave a talk on testing and the OLPC project where I referred to the "Testing Death Spiral". My accompanying slide, which aimed to be... more »
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Watch Your POST: Save PHP POST Data as XML
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One of my main goals when creating PHP web forms is to keep them secure and protected from spammers and automated bots. With the amount of spam that... more »
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Postgres Plus and GridSQL
For the last 5 years, I've been harassing all of the commercial PostgreSQL vendors -- including the one I work for -- to put together a serious... more »
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Four Lines of Code
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For kicks, I decided to write it in Haskell. If I'm clever enough, I thought, I should be able to write the code without any edge conditions. I can... more »
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My New Favorite IDE for Compiled JavaFX Script Development
As you may know, in order to develop compiled JavaFX Script applications, it has been necessary to compile and run from the command line. That is no... more »
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Agility meets the Waterfall
You've got an agile mind stuck in a traditional shop? No problem! There are plenty of ways to fit automated builds, continuous integration, and test... more »
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Building Web apps with the ASP.NET MVC Framework
The ASP.NET team has been listening to developers' needs and started development of a new Web application framework that sits side-by-side with the... more »
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Introduction to ADO.Net Data Services (Part 2: Reading and Manipulating results in the browser)
My last blog was an Introduction to ADO.Net Data Services - Part 1: Creating a Data Service. This blog will be an continuation of that blog, thus you... more »
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Free graphing libraries for .NET - my thoughts
I've not really looked around until today, but I really wanted to include graphing as part of some tooling for CPUSS and I found two libraries...
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Part of being a good programmer is learning not to trust yourself
... and to actively guard against yourself. Over the years I've found that I can be my own worst enemy when I code. Part of the problem stems from... more »
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Complete ListView in ASP.NET 3.5
ASP.NET 3.5 introduces a new data binding control named the ListView. ASP.NET already has a lot data bind control; it should be more than 10. But the... more »
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Stop Reinventing the Login - Getting Started with the .Net 3.5 Client Application Services
ASP.NET provides the following ready-to-use features that are required by every access-controlled web site: Membership/Authentication Management:... more »
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Google's Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes
Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it's loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons? We show you the best of the bunch.
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ASP.NET Internals: Viewstate and Page Life Cycle.
In my previous article I explained in detail the ASP.NET request processing architecture. If you recall, the article traced a request for an ASP.NET... more »
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ASP.NET Internals: Request Architecture.
Most developers are familiar with the high level abstractions that ASP.NET provides for them such as Web Forms and Web Services. However, underneath... more »
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Why Alt.Net?
So this alt.net thing has been around for almost a year now (as a named concept anyway), and with the upcoming Seattle event, I've been wondering what... more »
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