January 2006
15 Seconds : A Step-by-Step Guide To Using MySQL with ASP.NET - Part 1
Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.
November 2005
Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
by 1 otherVisual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rather than augmenting it? This talk dissects the code generated by Visual Studio
October 2005
Extending AJAX with the Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit
by 1 otherWant more control over the user experience? Because Flash makes graphical programming quick, easy, and attractive, and because JavaScript is very effective at manipulating HTML, they can be leveraged to focus on their strengths. Kris Hadlock shows you how to extend AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) by cross-communicating between Flash and JavaScript. Discover how this technique enables technologies to focus on specialized tasks, and helps create the ultimate user experience.
Jeni's XSLT Pages: Grouping Using the Muenchian Method
Grouping is a common problem in XSLT stylesheets: how do you take a list of elements and arrange them into groups.
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