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How is ADO.NET affected by the .NET data provider interface, and how can extending its classes improve your projects?
Mike James delves deep into the topic of exception handling.
David Conrad looks at the Flash development environment to see how it compares to Silverlight and .NET.
With Silverlight 4’s convergence with .NET becoming a reality, the scope for powerful development is broadened.
Ruby and IronRuby are fashionable at the moment, which raises the question of what makes them so interesting. Mike James paints a picture of the essential Ruby.
It can be difficult to appreciate alien technology even if it’s doing exactly the same job as something familiar and well understood. Sing Li makes it easy for .NET enthusiasts to comprehend JSP by comparing it with ASP.NET.
Have you ever wanted to open a console in the middle of an application that doesn’t usually support one? Harry Fairhead explains exactly how to master the console.
Is it a dead parrot or does it fly? Mike James looks at IronPython and asks if it really is something completely different.
Who designs the interface? Dave Wheeler explains that the task can easily be split between a designer and a developer using the parts and states model.
Ian Elliot clarifies the confusion surrounding objects in JavaScript.
Testing should be an integral part of your design, and Kevin Jones explains just how to make it so.
Joydip Kanjilal looks at the problems caused by concurrency when accessing data, both online and offline, and how to overcome them.
Mike James discusses pointers, and concludes that they are often unsafe and generally best avoided.
If you need to create an application that fully exploits the facilities of a BlackBerry handheld device you need to move to creating Java ME applications from scratch. Mike James describes just how easy it can be.
Kevin Jones explains how ActiveRecord works in Rails, and in a standalone Ruby application.
Of course you want to document your code, but how many of us do? Mike James thinks that coding and documenting can go hand-in-hand.
Testing web applications is a problem, but Sing Li thinks the solution might be easier than you think with Selenium.
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