May 2007 Entries
The world is on Google Gears, I know that you know that Google is the inventor of what we need and they have done it again. All we need are web applications that can be switched to offline mode to take down hard software applications and Google has provided the means to do just that. Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. According to google there are three modules (LocalServer, Database & WorkerPool) that are required in making your web applications work offline. The LocalServer module enables you...
As famous as the word generics is among .Net developers, I was amazed when I found out that a huge percentage of .Net developers have only heard of it but have never actually used it or know of any reason why they should use it. If you have read my past articles, you would know that my philosophy is to code simple and efficiently, there is no need to write complex code that could have been done with simple techniques. Therefore, this article will be no different than any other, I'll briefly talk about generics and give simple examples...
One of the cool new features of SQL Server 2K5 is the ability to use a variable as the top count value. In the days of SQL Server 2K, your stored procs had to hold the hard coded value, so it was a pain if you wanted your application to dynamically pass the number of rows to return. Here is an example using SQL Server 2000. SELECT TOP 15 * FROM TableName
...with SQL Server 2005 we can use a variable: DECLARE @TopRows INT
SET @TopRows = 15SELECT TOP ( @TopRows ) * FROM TableName
It's amazing the amount of tools out there that some of us developers don't know about, as for me I have a set tools that I live by and I simply can't do without them - well I can but it will be a very painful day. This list is by no means a completed list, I'll update them as I use, test and love new or old tools. Majority of these tools are free.. Development Environments (IDE) Microsoft Visual Web Developer Microsoft C# Express Microsoft Sql Server Management Studio Express Databases Sql Server 2005 Express - SQL Server 2005 Express...
I have updated my Rss feed to use feedburner - please update all feeds. The old link will still continue to work if you rather not deal with feedburner.
While performing my daily routine to Google. I was stunned by the new design, apparently Google has redesigned their home page and other sites such as images, video, news and more with a toolbar look-a-like menu on the top. I do like the new menu, however, people are already getting lost and confused - I guess that comes with any change in design. It takes a while to get used to and some people just don't like changes. Link to Google
The sparky new internet explorer developer toolbar is now available - provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings. View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys. Outline tables, table...
The sparky new internet explorer developer toolbar is now available - provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings. View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys. Outline tables, table...
I spent a few hours yesterday trying to copy nodes from one xml document to another. The problem is this - there is a transport tool that transport XML documents from one server to the other and it works well, however, if the XML document(s) is large say over 15mb the transport tool fails. While trying not to rewrite the code, I decided that the most efficient way to solve the problem is to split the xml file in multiple files (chunks). The format of the document should remain the same and the 7 headers should be included in all chunks...
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