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- Download not working anymore?
- Dear Tech Republic,Why We can not do any download your whitepaper pdf file? always have message "Continue to view" Green color button, and if we click that green color button, nothing happen?In the past that all are easy to download?Many ThanksPohI too am having issues but Techrepublic says it works...
- Tags: Web browsers, Click Here, Blue
- Q&A 2006-07-27
- Know your network monitoring options
- There are several ways to monitor your network. Take a look at three of your monitoring options: ICMP, SNMP, and Agents. Network monitoring can be as simple as pinging devices using Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP to ensure they're alive or polling devices through Simple...
- Tags: SNMP, NETWORKING, Network administration, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, Click Here, network, monitoring, network monitoring, monitored.device, monitor, Security Solutions Newsletter, Device, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2005-06-29
- VB6 Tip: Selecting all text when a Text Box gets the focus
- This article originallyappeared in the Builder.com Visual Basice-newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.When the focus moves to a Text Box that contains text,Visual Basic 6's default is to position the caret editing cursor at the startof the text. In some applications, it might be more appropriate to have all ofthe control's...
- Tags: Box, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Peter Aitken, SelLength, SelStart, Text, Text Box
- Technical articles 2004-12-10
- Play WAV files from a VB program to improve user interaction
- This articleoriginally appeared in the Builder.comVisual Basic e-newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.You can improve a program's user interface by using shortsounds to signal certain events such as the completion of a download or theselection of a command. With the right Windows Multimedia function, playing WAVfiles from a VB program is...
- Tags: Â Â Â FileExists, Microsoft Visual Basic, Peter Aitken, VB program, WAV
- Technical articles 2004-10-29
- Analyzing a Web design survey
- This article originallyappeared in the Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.Francois Briatte's recent Web design survey isgenerating quite a buzz. The survey looks at the Web sites of 10 famousdesigners and compares how the designers handle 25 common design elements. Italso includes a detailed analysis of the...
- Tags: Channel management, footer, Web design, Michael Meadhra, survey, Web, Francois Briatte
- Technical articles 2004-08-18
- Oracle Tip: Understand the difference between star and snowflake schemas in OLAP
- This article originally appeared in the Oracle e-newsletter. Click here to subscribe automatically. At the core of data warehouse applicationsand OLAP online analytical processing is a specialized schemathat relaxes the rules of Third Normal Form RDBMS schemas in favorof faster analysis and processing of large amounts of data. It'simportant to...
- Tags: Data mining, Databases, Storage, OLAP, Scott Stephens, Oracle Corp., schema, foreign key, primary key, id number
- Technical articles 2004-05-27
- Cannot Download PDF - Programming error on your site?
- I am trying to download a PDf file "Business Strategies for Accelerating Growth: The Value of Making Better Decisions through CRM". Each time I attempt this, it asks me to fill in missing account info. I do so and it keps asking me to fill it in. How can I...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Cha, Click Here, Download PDF, programming, PROGRAMMING ERROR, reference@...
- Q&A 2005-04-29
- Designing a CSS layout with an interesting header treatment
- This articleoriginally appeared in the Design & Usability Tactics newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically. Developing attractive and effectivepage layouts with CSS is an ongoing challenge. A recent project required aninteresting combination of techniques in order to achieve the designobjectives, and combining those techniques in the same layout presented somechallenges. The...
- Tags: CSS, Michael Meadhra, Click Here, id, footer, body area, navbar
- Technical articles 2004-10-20
- VB6 Tip: Making the most of user defined types (UDT)
- This article originallyappeared in the Builder.com Visual Basice-newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.A user defined type, or UDT, is a VB technique for defininga data type that exactly meets the needs of your program. A UDT can contain twoor more individual data items that can be of different types, such as...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Peter Aitken, user defined type
- Technical articles 2004-12-17
- Create hybrid graphical/CSS buttons
- This article originally appeared in the Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter. Click here to subscribe automatically. Traditional graphic buttons and the newerbuttons you can create with pure CSS-styled text each have theiradvantages and disadvantages. However, a hybrid technique that usesCSS-styled text over a background image may be the best...
- Tags: Michael Meadhra, Click Here, CSS, image, background image
- Technical articles 2004-09-02
- VB6 Tip: Create global properties to gain control over data storage
- This article originally appearedin the Builder.com Visual Basice-newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.Most programmers know that properties are the primary methodby which objects store data and make it available to the program. In VisualBasic, you add properties to a class definition by using Property Get and Property Letprocedures. But relatively few...
- Tags: data storage, global property, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Peter Aitken, Property, Property Let, storage
- Technical articles 2004-12-03
- Oracle Tip: Build generics with ANYDATA and global temporary tables
- This article originally appeared in the Oracle e-newsletter. Click here to subscribe automatically. Oracle developers often avoid objects becausethey don't seem to fit cleanly into PL/SQL or SQL domains. Thereare many operations on objects that you can't do through purePL/SQL (e.g., dealing with reference pointers), and there areoperations that you...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, Scott Stephens, Click Here, vector, PL/SQL, Oracle Corp.
- Technical articles 2004-07-23
- Getting equal-height columns in a three-column layout
- This article originallyappeared in the Design & Usability Tactics newsletter. Clickhere to subscribe automatically.Many Web sites use some variation ofa basic three-column page layout. A typical layout often includes a full-widthheader at the top of the page, then the three-column section, which is composedof a center column for the main...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Michael Meadhra, Click Here
- Technical articles 2004-07-21
- Raise text relevance by rearranging a three-column layout
- This article originally appeared in the Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter. Click here to subscribe automatically. Last week'scolumn showed how to rearrange the page code in a two-columnlayout to move the main text content closer to the top of the fileand move supporting elements to a less prominent position furtherdown...
- Tags: CSS, PRODUCTIVITY, Michael Meadhra, Click Here
- Technical articles 2004-07-07
- Stupid Web Tricks: Let visitors make your site their default home page
- Click here for our complete list of Stupid Web Tricks.By Lauren Guzak and Patrick Joseph(1/26/99, updated 6/22/01)Microsoft and Netscape have both set the default home page in their browsers to their own sites, which has helped earned them considerable traffic. But why should they get all the glory? Why shouldn't...
- Tags: Web browsers, Make CNET Builder.com, default home page, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Lauren Guzak
- Technical articles 2003-10-06
- Stupid Web Tricks: Create your own slide show with DHTML and CSS
- Click here for our complete list of Stupid Web Tricks.By Lauren Guzak and Patrick Joseph(1/26/99, updated 6/22/01)Anybody can put their vacation pictures on their Web site, but only the coolest Web builders will have them set up as a slide show. And not just a simple one-picture-per-HTML-page slide show, either,...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, captionTxt, slideshow, numSlides, CSS, DHTML
- Technical articles 2003-10-06
- Stupid Web Tricks: Automatic content refresh
- Click here for our complete list of Stupid Web Tricks.By Holly Cunningham(3/9/01)You've fought a mighty battle to keep your site fresh with ever changing content and the latest bells and whistles. Now you're tired and afraid that your fatigue is starting to show. So why not avail yourself of the...
- Tags: Scripting languages, theHour, theDay, timeColor, timeMsg
- Technical articles 2003-10-02
- Create an organizational chart with HTML, VML, and XML
- This article originally appeared as a Web Development Zone e-newsletter.By Phillip PerkinsWhen you consider combining Vector MarkupLanguage VML, XML, and HTML to create an organizational chart, itonly seems logical. Think about it: VML provides a simple way tocreate graphical objects in IE; XML provides an inherenthierarchical structure for data; HTML...
- Tags: rectangle, XSL, Vector Markup Language, organizational chart, XML, HTML
- Technical articles 2003-10-01
- Create XML solutions for Macromedia Flash MX
- This article originally appeared as a Web Development Zone e-newsletter.By Phillip PerkinsMacromedia is moving into the applicationdevelopment arena with many of the new features available in Flash5.0 and MX. One of these features is the XML integration in Flash.Even if you're not a Flash designer, you can take your knowledge...
- Tags: ActionScript, Macromedia Inc., Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash MX, XML, Flash Movie, movie
- Technical articles 2003-10-01
- Transform XML with PHP and XSL stylesheets
- This article originally appeared as an XML e-newsletter.By Brian SchaffnerPHP is the weapon of choice for many Webwarriors. Because of its intuitive language, robust functionality,cross-platform compatibility, and free availability, it's seen veryfrequently in both small shops and large enterprises. One feature that's often overlooked in PHP isits...
- Tags: XML, XSL, PHP
- Technical articles 2003-10-01
