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- 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
- 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
- Share your holiday work horror story and win a prize
- Do your holiday seasons usually consist of gathering around the tree or being chained to your desk? Share your nightmare holiday work story and possibly win a Builder.com shirt!Ah, the holidays. A joyful time of revelry with family and friends, gift giving, eggnog, and—for some—long hours at work. Whether the...
- Tags: Lamont Adams, developer
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- Doxygen: A breath of fresh air for documentation
- Although it's part of your job, creating documentation isn't nearly as much fun as writing code. Check out this open source tool that automates the creation of your docs.Writing documentation is quite a chore. What other explanation could there be for the fact that some organizations have one or perhaps...
- Tags: C#, C/C++, Programming languages, PRODUCTIVITY, Lamont Adams, Doxygen
- Technical articles 2002-12-19
- 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
- Discovering the joy of SAX in VB6
- Microsoft's XML Core Services, known as MSXML2, provides a useful XML toolkit that VB and COM developers can use in their applications. Find out how easy it is to parse XML in VB6 using Microsoft's SAX implementation.Microsoft’s XML Core Services, affectionately known as MSXML2, provides a useful XML toolkit that...
- Tags: XML, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Lamont Adams, Microsoft Corp., MSXML, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, SAX, parser
- Technical articles 2002-12-17
- ADO.NET database access made easy
- ADO.NET and ADO are quite different in many areas, such as connection classes, commands, and data readers. But don't get them confused. This introduction to ADO.NET should help set you off on the right foot.Although ADO.NET and ADO share some common concepts, they are different enough in many areas to...
- Tags: .NET, Databases, System.Data, Lamont Adams, Microsoft .NET Framework, System.Data.SqlTypes, System.Data.OleDb, System.Data.SqlClient, Microsoft ADO.NET, connection class, Microsoft SQL Server, OLE-DB data source, SqlClient, OLEDB, database
- Technical articles 2002-12-16
- A member asks: What's the right database for my Web site?
- An important first step in a Web development project is choosing the right backend database. Help this Builder.com member make the right choice.When developing an interactive Web site, one of the most important design decisions is which database you'll use on the back end. This is the issue that faces...
- Tags: Databases, Storage, Lamont Adams, Web site, PostgreSQL, MySQL, database, Microsoft SQL Server, Web
- Technical articles 2002-12-13
- Is vendor lock-in universally bad?
- Is tying your application or your company to a single vendor a bad move, or do you gain efficiency in place of the lost flexibility? Join our discussion and share your opinion.A recent discussion on Builder.com raised some interesting questions about vendor lock-in, the situation that arises when an entire...
- Tags: Lamont Adams, Member Chadd, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2002-12-12
- Get the most from XML in .NET with these tips
- .NET's XML classes may not work quite like you expect. Check out these tips for using them more effectively and then share your own tricks with other members.Attempting to leverage the myriad classes found in the .NET Framework’s System.Xml namespace for use in your applications can be a daunting proposition....
- Tags: .NET, Lamont Adams, XML, XmlValidatingReader, MemoryStream, FileStream, Microsoft .NET
- Technical articles 2002-12-11
- You can spell Web services without .NET
- When was the last time you talked Web services with someone who didn't mention .NET? Brian Schenkenfelder says not only can you do one without the other, you most definitely should.For better or worse, the words "Web services" and ".NET" seem inseparable; it’s become hard to have a conversation about...
- Tags: Web services, .NET, Channel management, Middleware, Lamont Adams, Web service, Microsoft .NET, Web, open source
- Technical articles 2002-12-10
- Visio makes it easy to create database models from imported schemas
- Database developers will find the Enterprise Architect version of Vision 2002 to be very handy. Learn how to use Visio's new data modeling tools to document and make changes to your databases.Microsoft Visio has long been one of my favorite tools, even before it began sporting the Microsoft trademark badge....
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Lamont Adams, database, Microsoft Visio
- Technical articles 2002-12-09
- Learn to read and write XML with .NET's XML classes
- .NET's XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes provide an easy way to work with XML. Lamont Adams explains how to use these classes and demonstrates with sample code.The .NET Framework’s pull model for XML makes reading and writing XML files simple, thanks to the XmlReader and XmlWriter derived classes. Let’s take a...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft .NET Framework, Lamont Adams, XML, XmlTextReader, LoadBooks, Microsoft .NET
- Technical articles 2002-12-05
- Make COM and .NET play nice together with these articles
- We've compiled a list of several Builder.com articles to help you learn how to leverage your existing COM apps into new .NET programs.Even if your shop has been working with the .NET platform since its inception a year ago, you're probably still using some legacy COM applications. You may eventually...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Lamont Adams, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, COM
- Technical articles 2002-12-04
- Live from LA: In search of the perfect UI
- Lamont Adams takes issue with modern UI conventions, from the metaphorically challenged system tray to the interface that's implemented on his digital cable box. See if you share his frustrations over the sorry state of usability.I think it’s amazing that we’re more than 20 years into the “personal computer age”...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Cable, Lamont Adams, desktop, new app, computer, Microsoft Windows, system tray
- Technical articles 2002-12-04
- Get your grade for the Java Pop Quiz
- We recently challenged you to test your basic Java skills with a short pop quiz. Find out how you fared compared with other Builder.com members and learn why the correct answers are, in fact, correct.In October, we threw a Java basics Pop Quiz at all our Java neophytes. Quite a...
- Tags: Programming languages, Lamont Adams, Java, garbage collection, static method
- Technical articles 2002-11-26
- Live from LA: Free me from electronic documentation tyranny
- Lamont Adams is in a nostalgic mood. Return with him now to the days when software manuals were so massive, you needed a pack horse to transport them.One of the nice things about my job here at Builder.com is that I get a lot of free developer’s toys. Mostly these...
- Tags: Document management, Tools & Techniques, Lamont Adams
- Technical articles 2002-11-22
- It's quiz time again: Rate your VB6 expertise
- If you consider yourself a VB6 guru, it's time to test your mettle. Take our advanced VB6 quiz and see how you rate.Consider yourself a VB6 guru? Why not put your money where your mouth is and take our VB6 pop quiz to see how sharp you are. Consider yourself...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Development tools, Middleware, Lamont Adams, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, quiz, Microsoft Visual Basic
- Technical articles 2002-11-21
- Consider attending these developer conferences in 2003
- Now is the time to start planning to attend conferences scheduled for next year. Find out about some of the major developers' conferences planned for 2003.Traditionally, people look to the coming of the New Year as an opportunity to focus on self-improvement. What better way to do that than by...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Sun Microsystems Inc., Lamont Adams, JavaOne, Java, C#, VBITS, developer
- Technical articles 2002-11-21
- E-mail notifications made easy with SQL Server Notification Services
- See how Microsoft's new toolkit makes building e-mail notification into your applications as easy as editing an XML template.Have you ever bought something on eBay or put a price watch on a stock through an online trader? The e-mail notifications you get of price changes, sports scores, and auction bids...
- Tags: Databases, XML, e-mail, File System Watcher, Lamont Adams, Notification Service, Microsoft SQL Server
- Technical articles 2002-11-18
