Linux developer who wants to study and develop client-server programming skill into the developed application can rely on book of “The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming” for guidance. The guide book is suitable for Windows developer expanding to Linux world, as the book offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux shell operating system, covering design, implementation, debugging and […]
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is one of the most important programming language that is used to describe the presentation of a document in a markup language, especially for web pages written in HTML and XHTML. Mastering CSS is pivotal in designing a beautiful, elegant and functioning web layout. “The Art & Science of CSS” is a book for intermediate to advanced CSS coders to further […]
Microsoft’s key R&D division, Microsoft Research (MSR), has released an initial release of its experimental operating system, Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) version 2. Singularity operating system is a microkernel research operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.
MySQL is one of the most popular database management system that powers the most dynamically served website, including sites with millions traffic and visitors everyday. Many web pages and web applications or services rely on MySQL to store contents data which will be retrieved and read by web servers to dynamically built the web pages that visitors will read.
LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a Microsoft .NET Framework extension component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET C# and Visual Basic programming languages using a native syntax reminiscent of SQL, and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. LINQ defines a set of query operators that can be used to query, set, transform, project and filter data in arrays, enumerable classes, […]
Color (or colour) can be defined and encoded in HTML web pages by using hexadecimal (HEX) code to denote an RGB (combination of Red, Green and Blue) color value, or by using a standard color name. For user who wants to translate between the RGB color HEX code and color name, the following color table with color names with their corresponding RGB HEX value can […]
Microsoft SQL Server is a data-intensive and disk I/O (read and write) intensive database management systems. For SQL Server which is running on a system with large amount or big size of physical RAM memory, such as system with 4GB, 8GB or even more gigabytes of physical memory, it can be configured to use the Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) API to provide access to physical […]
Microsoft has released the trial version of its flagship software development product for software developers, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 includes Visual Basic (.Net), Visual C#, Visual C++ and ASP.NET. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language […]
Microsoft Office suites and products are one of the most popular Office productivity application suite in many companies and corporations. However, Microsoft Office is expensive, overly priced at best. Microsoft Office comes with many advanced features that one may never use or need, and with user friendly interface. If you willing to sacrifice some bloated features, there are plenty of complete replacement alternative for Microsoft […]
When connecting to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database, including SQL Server 2005 Express, Developer and Enterprise editions, for authentication or accessing and retrieving and updating the data, the the following error message may appear. The problem happens no matter the connection is originated from remote computer or on SQL Server local computer itself, and can be caused by any program, such as […]
In Oracle database, the following error message may appear when an incorrect SQL statement is used, in SQL Plus or in anywhere that send SQL queries to the databases such as stored procedure or external programs. PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored PL/SQL: ORA-00947: not enough values
When database system administrator installs Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and creates a few database engine instances, there will be problem and hard time to remove and uninstall these multiple database instance components and the corresponding SQL Server services. When users try to uninstall Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or remove database instance components using Add and Remove Programs or Uninstall or change a programs (Vista) in […]
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