Which is better: .Net v Java v PHP? I finally give the ultimate answer I’ve been programming since the 1980’s. Ever since then we’ve had endless discussions...

There’s a number of Javascript UI frameworks around at the moment and KnockoutJS is one of the leaders. It features event driven MVVM (Model View...

ASP.NET 4.5 is available and has a pile of new features! ASP.NET Web Forms gets a load of new additions and improvements as has MVC....

Often you need to display a grid with a list of text items stored as nText. Some of these items may run into thousands of...

After adding a nice white-on-black theme to Eclipse for my PHP work, I decided I wanted a similar theme in Visual Studio 2010 for my...

When you drop a .NET control on a page and give it an ID, you may expect that the ID will be the same on...

Sometimes I have existing customers who need their database upgrading to a newer version – new tables or columns need to be added. I always provide...

by Les Kendall. Many of my IT friends keep asking me to show a little information inside my apps so that they can see if...

Is Hand-Coding Becoming Obsolete? By : Alan Fisher Increasingly, IT managers, CIOs and software developers are turning to a new approach for rapidly building robust...

by Les Kendall. I had a strange problem where a simple jQuery expression worked once only on an ASP.NET page. Turned out that .NET UpdateProgress...