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Visual Basic: What’s a subroutine / Difference between Subroutine and Function?

Ben — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:34:46 +0000

Subroutines are another word for methods, and they’re code blocks that will be executed by your application as you call them elsewhere in your applications. To call a subroutine, just call it by the subroutine’s name (for instance, if you created your own subroutines). The Public, Private and Protected keywords are incase you create multiple [...]

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Visual Basic: What’s a subroutine / Difference between Subroutine and Function?

How to dynamically resize controls in Code (Visual Basic)

Ben — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:16:39 +0000

Novices to Visual Basic may appreciate that you can visually build your application via the Visual Studio (or Visual Basic Express) interface, but what about when you create applications where you want the controls to dynamically resize to fit the size of the window. First, we need to logically think how this will be done: [...]

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How to dynamically resize controls in Code (Visual Basic)

Scripting Languages: What are they?

Ben — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:53:04 +0000

Scripting languages are a type of programming language that controls a specific software application. One example is JavaScript, that controls slight behaviour of a Web browser. For example, JavaScript in a particular fashion is an event-driven scripting language, so in this way, upon an event taking place, JavaScript “springs into action”. One JavaScript code could [...]

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Scripting Languages: What are they?

Creating an RSS Feed

josh — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:35:00 +0000

RSS feeds are xml files updated on a regular basis which people subscribe to within RSS readers. The information carried on them is normally up to date and they are normally found on news sites and blogs, basically sites which are updated regularly and which people might like to be up to date with. In [...]

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Creating an RSS Feed

Future of On Demand Service

Bob — Sat, 12 May 2007 06:26:55 +0000

On demand service is very young on this stage but I am sure it will take a big place in forthcoming business environment as today’s business environment is fast-moving and become notorious and unpredictable. On demand integration and services can give the organization the flexibility to dart obstacles and grab opportunity without losing rapidity and [...]

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Future of On Demand Service

SQL syntax error in phpMyAdmin while create table ?

Abhi — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:40:31 +0000

If you are getting errors when you try to create a table like: CREATE TABLE `foo` ( `bar` VARCHAR NOT NULL ) And get a MySQL error: MySQL said: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘NOT NULL)’ at line 1 Then this probably means that you have forgotten to specify a length [...]

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SQL syntax error in phpMyAdmin while create table ?

Lynx Browser

peter — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:24:33 +0000

Lynx is a text-only web browser used by people to navigate the World Wide Web. Lynx was used by many before the web gained its graphical face, although it is still used extensively today by the visually impaired poeple, people with limited physical abilities and those people with slow Internet connections who don’t want to [...]

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Lynx Browser

Key Process Area- How To Enhance Process Capability

Web Hosting — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:08:37 +0000

Key process areas identify the issues that must be addressed to achieve a maturity level. “Each key process area identifies a cluster of related activities that when performed collectively- achieve a set of goals and enhance the process capability”( (The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process. Addison-Wesley. p. 32.). The KPA areas [...]

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Key Process Area- How To Enhance Process Capability

Are you thinking of Windows Vista ?

Dave White — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:10:47 +0000

It took five long years for Microsoft (MS) to launch their new product named Vista. A lay man may think that MS doesn’t have that expertise with them to provide people with newer versions within a shorter span of time. Also controversy after the release of IE7 instead of its multi-year development, IE 7 offered [...]

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Are you thinking of Windows Vista ?

Software Development Related Classic Mistake-Part I

Web Hosting — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:23:04 +0000

Some projects need to meet a performance result, more often than needed, this can dramatically increase the length of the project’s schedule. Users are more interested in the marketing and development side of a project, and not the more complex features; if you shift your focus more towards complex features, you will end up with [...]

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Software Development Related Classic Mistake-Part I

Robustness Testing In Difficult Test Conditions

Web Hosting — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:55:36 +0000

Robustness testing is when a system is tested to see how robust it is; a typical example of this would be testing a system in difficult conditions. There is the fact that software is only one element of a system, there are many other elemens which need to be tested, such as hardware. When an [...]

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Robustness Testing In Difficult Test Conditions

Data Protection

Web Hosting — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:58:01 +0000

Before you prepare for data protection, it is crucial to markup the level of risk and to comprehend what data types are being protected. Depending on your organization’s IT security standards, you need to create and codify data classification levels for all of your organizational data types which can further be ranked on a scale [...]

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Data Protection

Software debugging & Defect Testing Process

Web Hosting — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:15:30 +0000

Software debugging When defects have been found in a program, they must be removed. This is called debugging. Defect testing and debugging are sometimes considered to be parts of the same process, in fact they are quite different. Debugging is concerned with locating and correcting these defects Locate – Design – Repair – Repair error- [...]

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Software debugging & Defect Testing Process

What is Zero Day

Web Hosting — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:41:13 +0000

A zero day refers to an exploit through a worm or a virus that is meant for attacking a computer before the public announcement of a vulnerability in a computer system for which there is no fix available. Anti-virus software is useless against zero day attacks because there is no update available on how to [...]

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What is Zero Day

Business Process Reengineering- Organizing Around Outcome

Web Hosting — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:14:22 +0000

To bring radical changes in business process through business redesigning and by reaching beyond the scope of information technologies, the corporate need a number of principles to get implemented to achieve breakthrough results. BPR is a management approach to improve performance and efficiency of the underlying processes. Business process reengineering principle start from organizing around [...]

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Business Process Reengineering- Organizing Around Outcome