Recently I set out to start writing a Adobe Flex application, which uses ActionScript3 as the native language. I looked for advice on where to start and a few people…
.NET offers some very useful classes that allow you to monitor the workings of your program without having to constantly pop up message boxes or handle file output yourself. Both…
Modularity and loose coupling are indications of good software design. In fact, breaking complex problems into sets of more easily solved subproblems is a a strategy that good computer scientists…
The internet has become our future, becoming such a huge part of your lives. You wouldn’t be here reading this without it, as well as many other things that we…
Interoperability is becoming a quality of greater importance for software or IT products in today’s market. Interoperability is the ability of systems or products to exchange services so as to…
As a follow-up to my last blog post about HTML 5 being on the horizon, it looks like we may have taken one step back with regards to a standard…
The Problem While many well-intentioned people tend to think of software development as a mechanical process—a mere transcription between thought and code—this is so far from the truth as to…
When you work in a field that deals with clients outside of your company, there is always one issue that you need to look out for: requirement creep. Everybody has…
One of the flagship features in SQL Server 2005 is the ability to write stored procedures using any language supported in .NET. This feature provides greater flexibility for developers to…