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Is Web scripting (finally) dead?
With my sincerest apologies to the PHP crowd, I’d like to pose a question: Can we finally bid a long-overdue farewell to the messy business of building applications by sprinkling script code among HTML? Can Web development finally move out of the dark ages and into the realm of compiled...
Tags: Channel management, .NET, OOA/OOD/OOP, Lamont Adams, Web, Microsoft ASP.NET
Technical articles 2003-04-18
Get your ASP.NET data binding education here
Back in the days of Visual Basic, data binding was a clunky outcast programming technique. DAO’s simplistic and slow data controls gave data binding a bad name, and many seasoned developers didn’t use it at all. The prevailing thinking seemed to be, “Real programmers don’t eat quiche, and they certainly...
Tags: .NET, Middleware, Listing C, Lamont Adams, Dataset, ListBox1, Microsoft ASP.NET, DataTextField, DataKeyField
Technical articles 2003-04-15
Take part in the latest Builder.com technology use survey
Tell us about the technologies you use every day and how you use them. Take our biannual technology use survey.Since we pride ourselves on being a truly community-driven site for enterprise developers, it’s often useful for us here at Builder.com to know what’s on our members’ minds. To that end,...
Tags: Marketing research, Lamont Adams, survey, technology use survey
Technical articles 2003-03-31
Firing up an old debate: Porting to .NET from J2EE
It’s been my experience that there are debates, and then there are debates. The question of whether to migrate from Java to .NET or vice versa definitely falls into the latter category. As we celebrate .NET vs. J2EE week here on Builder.com, I can’t escape a feeling of deja vu:...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Enterprise software, firing, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, J2EE, Java
Technical articles 2003-04-07
Builder.com top 10 for February
We kicked off February with a bang at Builder.com. We began the month with our .NET Certification Week and followed up with even more valuable articles on a variety of topics. Here are the top 10 Builder.com articles for the month of February, as compiled by the Builder.com editorial team:"Make...
Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Programming languages, Lamont Adams, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft .NET, Java
Technical articles 2003-03-21
Download Builder.com's Exploring J2ME series
When Sun revamped its Java technology a while back in an attempt to more closely match each developer’s target platform, the Java platform was split into three specialized platforms: the Standard, Enterprise, and Micro Editions. The Micro Edition, or J2ME as it has since become known, was intended to offer...
Tags: Lamont Adams, J2ME, Java
Technical articles 2003-03-25
Live from LA: Tales of the magic number
A friend of mine who is preparing for the MCAD exam recently noticed how heavily the .NET Framework relies on enumerated types, also known as enums. Wearing a puzzled look on his face, he knocked on my half-open office door the other day and asked, “What’s the big deal with...
Tags: Development tools, Lamont Adams, magic number, developer
Technical articles 2003-03-05
ASP.NET controls make client-side validation a snap
As programmers, we all know that users are funny creatures, just as likely to enter their password into the user ID field as they are to do things the other way around. So you’ve probably found that a lot of your programming time is spent validating or cleaning up the...
Tags: .NET, Lamont Adams, Microsoft ASP.NET
Technical articles 2003-02-25
The Builder.com top 10 for January
In January, Builder.com covered quite a few interesting topics. Here are the top 10 Builder.com articles for the month of January as compiled by the Builder.com editorial team:"Take advantage of advanced JavaScript functions""Easily configure Red Hat 8 and Apache""Why are so many Java developers frustrated with JCP?""Add logging to your...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Scripting languages, Lamont Adams, Set-up Web application, Microsoft .NET
Technical articles 2003-02-21
What will you find in the .NET Compact Framework?
Microsoft recently announced the release of a scaled-down version of the .NET runtime meant for mobile devices. This .NET Compact Framework opens up an entirely new world of devices for .NET developers, but is the environment at all like its big brother? Obviously, in shrinking a 23-MB runtime library into...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft development tools, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, Ed Kaim, Compact Framework, portability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
Technical articles 2003-01-29
Live from LA: The ultimate question of the development world
If I had to make a list of the questions I’ve been asked recently, ranked by number of occurrences, I think some form of this one would top the list:“If you were to build an application today, would you use VB6 or .NET?”This is sort of the development world’s version...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, ultimate question
Technical articles 2003-01-30
Poll results: Not yet for .NET?
It’s been about a year since Microsoft released the much-ballyhooed .NET development platform. However, many industry observers say that .NET still hasn't gained widespread acceptance within the industry. In a recent Builder.com poll, we asked whether your organization planned to begin working with .NET sometime in 2003. The results, shown...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, respondent
Technical articles 2003-01-24
An introductory look at accessing data with ADO.NET DataSets
One of the more startling moments that an ADO developer experiences when learning about ADO.NET comes when you realize that there’s no Recordset in the latter’s object hierarchy. Instead, ADO.NET makes use of a new and significantly more powerful component to provide the functionality provided by ADO’s Recordset: the DataSet....
Tags: .NET, Databases, Microsoft ADO.NET, DataAdapter class, Lamont Adams, Dataset
Technical articles 2003-01-23
What's in store in 2003? Take our Emerging Trends survey
Although some analysts appear to make a healthy living predicting which technologies will be the next big thing, it's far from an exact science. We at Builder.com don’t intend to let that stop us from trying, but we need your help. What technologies do you expect your organization to adopt...
Tags: Application servers, Middleware, Marketing research, .NET, Lamont Adams, survey, J2EE, Emerging Trends survey, Microsoft .NET
Technical articles 2003-01-21
Easily create Web services clients with Visual Studio .NET
Visual Studio .NET includes a wizard that makes creating a Web services client easy, using an “add a reference” metaphor that will be familiar to many programmers. To see how this is done, we'll build a Web services client in C# for XMethods’ sample temperature service. This service provides the...
Tags: Microsoft development tools, Web browsers, Channel management, Web services, .NET, Lamont Adams, Add Web Reference, temperature service, Web Services client, Web service, Web browser, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, wizard, Web, Microsoft Visual Studio
Technical articles 2003-01-21
Talk for techies: The .NET Show
Although I’m of the opinion that self-education is best accomplished with books, there’s something to be said for the audio-visual format of a television show for delivering information. That’s essentially what you get with MSDN Online’s The .NET Show, a Webcast series hosted by Robert Hess that features the people...
Tags: .NET, Application servers, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, Compact Framework
Technical articles 2003-01-08
Live from LA: Top tech resolutions for 2003
The New Year’s holiday is still a good two weeks away as I write this, but due to a strange time travel side effect of living in the publishing world, you won’t actually be reading my words until after that holiday has come and gone. I have to wonder sometimes...
Tags: Programming languages, Application servers, Lamont Adams, New Year
Technical articles 2003-01-09
Learn the security ropes for .NET with this book
In today’s world, security is a very serious issue, one that developers all too often view as being SEP—someone else’s problem. I’d ascribe this state of affairs to, among other things, the fact that security very often deals with specific, rather rarified skills like cryptography that many of us on...
Tags: .NET, Digital security, Application servers, Middleware, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET, cryptography, security
Technical articles 2003-01-09
ASP.NET: Huge improvement or big hassle?
A recent Builder.com poll asked members whether they thought ASP.NET was an improvement over previous incarnations. Check out the results here.Much has been written and said about the changes .NET poses for Visual Basic programmers, but what about ASP programmers? Certainly ASP.NET brings changes, but are they worth the trouble...
Tags: .NET, Middleware, Scripting languages, Lamont Adams, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft ASP
Technical articles 2002-12-18
Get to the core of J2ME with this excellent book
If you're interested at all in mobile Java development and J2ME, then you owe it to yourself to take a long look at this new book from Sun Press/Prentice Hall. Both Java pros and newcomers will find useful information.Depending on whom you ask, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) is either...
Tags: Lamont Adams, J2ME, MIDP, Java, Java 2, mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Technical articles 2002-12-23


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