ASP.NET has outstanding server control functions.. with horrifying parsing outputs to HTML.The Microsoft runtime engine (3.5) renders lists for Data / tree views / Menu Controls etc. inside a multitude of tables embeded inside of tables. This rendering makes CSS formatting very difficult, and your HTML source a web standards nightmare. A convenient measure for solving... [ more ]

The singleton pattern enables a set of methods throughout the program to be reuseable, while restricting the class instantiation to a single object. It works for securing system resources, and maintaining a clean method of programming your connections and disconnections. The FOR loop deminstrates this, since a program will need only a single connection to a single dat... [ more ]

For one reason or another my web host had no umbrella for server debugging. Miscoding a line would only lead to a no descriptive 500 page error. A pretty unhelpful option for reverse engineering a program or debugging a website. One measure for tracking errors through windows is in the 'GetLastError' method. This method returns an active server Object describing error... [ more ]

I find the function 'getimagesize' pretty useful with PHP. It allows more complex programming operations like image cropping, mapping and X/Y axis tracking to be preformed through less manual coding. A simple use is in creating a pop-up window. By establishing the 'getimagesize' function, we can pharse the binary image attributes using the APP13 marker, pull width / h... [ more ]

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a tool that offers developers a method of defining content and formatting separately. Making XML data simple to reuse, format and port to other device platforms. Most notably is how XML can provide basic syntaxes, of which can share information between different computers, networks, and applications without the drudgery of organizin... [ more ]

Creating dynamic drop downs on the basis of what's housed inside the database, can help your program remain independent of both the user and the developer. If a value is inserted inside a SET or ENUM type, the dropdown should reflect the database, without the need for manual updates. In the function below we call a specified field inside a specified table. That result... [ more ]