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Newest Articles Tips to Updating and Upgrading with Eclipse By Scott Nelson - Published 01/14/2009 Follow these steps for smoother updates of minor releases and less painful migrations to major releases.
Using DMAIC Methodology to Enhance Information Portals By Arvind Muthukrishnan - Published 01/12/2009 Discover how to enhance your website's revenue and traffic from an end-to-end perspective by applying DMAIC (Six Sigma) methodology to your website. Learn about the key metrics, fundamentals of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Ad Words, and how to increase your site traffic all in one place.
Java Ordered Collections: Trees and Skip Lists By Mark Grand - Published 01/09/2009 Explore Java collections framework classes that implement the SortedSet interface and how they keep a set of objects in a guaranteed order, independent of the order that they are added to the collection.
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) with Spring.Net By David Consdorf - Published 01/08/2009 Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) allows developers to achieve greater modularity in their applications by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. Explore basic AOP concepts and their implementation using Spring.Net, a popular open source application framework by walking through several examples.
Writing Excel Files with Apache POI HSSF By Scott Nelson - Published 01/07/2009 Learn how to create fully formatted Microsoft Excel workbooks at runtime. Just use Java with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.
Exploring Cool Features of Devexpress' ASPxGridView By Paul Kimmel - Published 01/06/2009 Devexpress has a commitment to providing amazing ASP.NET (and other controls), such as their latest revision of their ASPxGridView, version 8.3, which supports filtering, grouping, sorting, and much more, with little or no coding on your part.
Adding Standard Deviation to LINQ By Chris Bennett - Published 01/05/2009 Learn how to implement a simple Standard Deviation function for LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
Online Updates with VB.NET Published 12/31/2008
With custom applications getting bigger and more involved, there is very often a need to supply updates for them. There is also a need to provide them as quickly as possible. Learn how to do this.
Create Custom Task Lists By Garry Robinson - Published 01/05/2009
Create a Custom Task List in Microsoft SharePoint Designer
ADO.Net Entity Framework By Dan Rigsby - Published 12/11/2008
Utilize the "ADO.NET Entity Framework" to quickly and easilywork with your database, accessing your data in an objectoriented fashion.
Debugging using Visual C++ 2008 By Kiran Thonse - Published 12/01/2008
In this video offering Kiran Thonse covers basic debugging tasks like setting breakpoints, stepping through code and watching variables using the Visual Studio IDE.
WF SQL Tracking Service By Jeffrey Juday - Published 11/14/2008
Learn how to incorporate the SQL Tracking Service into your WF development.
Highlighted Tutorials Working with Images in Google's Android By Chunyen Liu -
Google's new mobile platform, Android, has become increasingly popular among developers even without hardware available on the market yet. Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. Then, you will focus on the technologies for images by working through an example.
Working With Design Patterns: Interpreter By Jeff Langr -
Many of the design patterns lead a double life—the structure of some patterns are exactly alike, but the intent differs. An interpreter is a composite whose purpose is to support interpretation of a simple grammar.
Jython Reborn By Chris McAvoy -
Jython is back! With recent investment from Sun Microsystems, Jython is poised to take the JVM by storm. Create apps with the agility of Python and the speed of Java with Jython.
Python Tutorial Index Page By Richard G. Baldwin -
Want to learn a new programming language and looking into Open Source for an option? Python may suit your needs.
Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases By Mike Gunderloy -
You are probably still pumping data in and out of a database, just as we all did a
decade or more ago. That makes it all the more surprising that mistakes are still being made that date back to the good old days of Windows 95 and before.
The 4C Architecture Blueprinting Process By Jeff Ryan -
City plans and zoning boards. Building codes and inspectors. These concepts are quite familiar in the field of urban planning. Do they really apply to enterprise architecture? Read on to learn about creating your own city plan using the 4C architecture blueprinting process.
Roles Within The Development Community By Robert Bogue -
This series of articles will help you understand where various positions and skill sets fit within the development industry. Each article describes a specific role, defines the skills that position uses, and outlines what to expect from the position: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
New on Codeguru [Updated] Using a Pair Class as Efficient Key Objects Published 01/13/2009 By hankdane - Learn about a comparison that uses a class capturing individual primitive data types as against rendering the data in a String.
Developing a Smart Architecture, Part 2 Published 01/12/2009 By TheCPUWizard - Work through a Continuation of the series, moving from Fields to Entities and Entity Collections.
[Updated] Little Quirks in the VB.NET IDE Published 01/08/2009 By Richard Newcombe - Every program has bugs; this is the way things are. Look at some of the quirky bugs found in the .NET 200# IDE.
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