Want to write a rock-solid, dependable application, but in record time? Code efficiency is the key! This article provides useful tools and ideas to speed up your database interactions in ASP, as well as a best-practice you just might be convinced to adapt for your database-driven applications. Read more…

The need to separate live code from development code cannot be stressed enough. However, depending on the project, the size of the company, or just plain old budgetary constraints, it may be fairly infeasible to have an entire server dedicated solely to developing and enhancing code. This article will show you how you can obtain [...]

Tired of hunting down mysterious bugs which users have reported (perhaps incorrectly) within your application? Having a problem with VBScript’s IsNumeric() function? These few tricks will serve to make your application more user-friendly, but more importantly help you prevent, locate, and fix errors even if no one reports the bug! Read more…

My first real exposure to Open Source software was in the summer of 2000. I was a student, wondering how I could afford an office suite for my desktop. My conscience quashed the possibility of piracy, but I still felt so morally opposed to paying hundreds of dollars for a word processor and spreadsheet, which [...]

ASP.Net has provided us with powerful mechanisms to separate code and functionality from design and the user interface, by such concepts as web controls and code-behind. With ASP.Net 2.0, Microsoft has taken it up a notch, allowing us to completely separate the templates of the entire site from any code in individual pages, through a [...]