Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with software development you need to adhere to a core set of database best practices. Below are a few of the best practices I try to [...]
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Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, [...]
Here is a list of great programming quotes from my readings over the last year. It is interesting to note that most of my reading material this year has been from blogs. There are just a great amount of programmer bloggers writing a lot of informative tutorials on every programming language, paradigm shift, [...]
If you are familiar with web application development you may already be familiar with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The MVC pattern aims to separate your server side business logic from your presentation code from your data model. The by-product of web applications are the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript pages generated and delivered [...]
A recent article, The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs, provided me with some new insight into how blog templates should be designed for optimal Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The advice is not restricted to blogs, but can be generalized for any web development. For my own benefit I will recap [...]
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Carson Workshops is working hard on the two day conference The Future of Web Apps in London. The summit is going to be held in London during February 20-21, 2007. I had the opportunity to attend the San Francisco, September 13-14 2006 conference for which I present the following notes… The Future [...]