Category Archives: General

Today I came across something I never heard of before, the Microsoft Universal Data Link (UDL) file type. It is used for database connections. I tried to look it up on Wikipedia but they did not have a page on … Continue reading →

Tonight I installed two more web applications on my Mandrake 8.2 Linux server. These web applications finally give me a reason to use my Linux system. And I am gaining experience in installing the types of web applications that are … Continue reading →

Last night I installed Dot Net Nuke 4.0.2 on my system. It gave me almost as much trouble as a Linux web application install. The two aspects I found tricky were renaming the release.config file to web.config and then updating … Continue reading →

Tonight I finished reading Blogging For Dummies by Brad Hill. Amazon recently added it’s very own version of the blog called the plog which allows writers to have a blog on Amazon targeted to their readers. If you have bought … Continue reading →

I’ve found it easier to install web applications on my Mandrake 8.2 Linux system which is running Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.23 and PHP 4.1.2. I recently installed phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.3 with only a few minor problems, mostly in editing the config.inc.php file and then … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I tried to upgrade my Corel Linux system for PHP 4.0. Unfortunately I was unable to accomplish this because Corel Linux is so obsolete. All I managed to do was upgrade Apache from 1.3.3 to 1.3.35 and … Continue reading →

The XBM image format is a simple image file format that can only be used for black and white line art. But the cool thing about XBM files is that you can create them through JavaScript. This means you can … Continue reading →

Yesterday I blogged about how to document a MySQL database by a rather involved process of importing the database into SQL Server and then Microsoft Access. Actually you could simply use phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 to display the same information by clicking … Continue reading →

My blog software is WordPress which is using a MySQL database. My task is to document the database design. Let us see how I accomplish this goal. My first step is to back up the database because I need a … Continue reading →

Tonight I started learning the Object-Oriented Programming aspects of C#. I’m reading the free online chapter of Microsoft Visual C#.NET 2003 Kick Start by Steven Holzner at http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=101373&seqNum=6 Web development is based on scripting languages, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, Perl so … Continue reading →

Today I download the MySQL Connector/Net, an ADO.NET driver for MySQL, and wrote a C# ASP.NET page to connect to my books database. I now have 13 topics on C# in my Notes.chm compiled help file. An extensive language reference … Continue reading →

Yesterday I received my Pennsylvania College of Technology transcript which I obtained in case any prospective employers want documentation of my academic record. My grade point averages by semester were 3.82, 3.90, 3.93, and 3.95 for the Fall of 1985 … Continue reading →

Today I wrote a script to generate the SQL for a stored procedure based on an Access database table design. Creating a stored procedure is a tedious chore that usually requires a lot of copy and paste of the field … Continue reading →

Cascading Style Sheets have been giving me some problems lately because our web designer is encouraging us to use CSS to position web page elements rather than tables. I was given a design that used a lot of heights specified … Continue reading →

Today I used the SQLDataReader of the SQLClient namespace to create a new Merchant Tools page for StoreFront 6.0. A client wanted to know how many customers were getting the weekly mailings and I was suprised to learn that StoreFront … Continue reading →

Today I managed to convert some of my ASP.NET sample code written in VB.NET into Eiffel. There are a few problems with using Eiffel for ASP.NET for web applications. First, it takes a ridiculously long time to compile, even longer … Continue reading →

I was offered another job developing web applications using ASP.NET but the language requirement was for C Sharp instead of Visual Basic. I don’t think this was a good job offer because it came from an employment agency. I have … Continue reading →

Today I used AJAX, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, for the first time in a web application project. I just modified my AJAX example code slightly for an Active Server Pages script with data coming from a SQL Server database. I … Continue reading →

I’m not recommending Web Position Gold as a SEO tool anymore. I think businesses are wasting their time using that software. I’m tired of wasting my time setting up submission missions, generating ranking reports, and running the page critic. It … Continue reading →

I manage the Froogle product feed for http://www.caraccessories.com. I have to upload a CSV file every month to keep their products in the Froogle product search engine. None of our clients at work are using Froogle product feeds. We don’t … Continue reading →