No list of mistakes is ever going to be exhaustive. People (myself included) do a lot of really stupid things, at times, in the name of “getting it done.” This list simply reflects the database design mistakes that are currently on my mind, or in some cases, constantly on my mind.
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In which Phil, under the influence of a surfeit of lobster, some fine wine and a large book, conjures up an imaginary Bill Gates, lets him know why people aren’t flocking to SQL 2005, and offers him a turning off of the path to ever more complex and bloated database software…
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In this article Bilal Haidar introduces JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and provides an AJAX/JSON example to show the power of JSON when used to interchange data between a client browser and a server.
You have always used the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to allow a web application to send asynchronous requests from the client browser to the server to retrieve some data and then let the client browser running your application receive a server response again in an asynchronous fashion. Data interchange usually was done either in the form of simple human readable strings or in an XML format.
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I have found this article on Code Project. Its quite good and covers most of the aspects of the topic. As a suggestion it will be good to have more practical examples rather than just naming some “rules”.
This article list out Performance tips to improve Web applications performance. I have divided the article into 3 modules based on where we use these performance tips.
1. Web.config
2. Web applications
3. Database operations
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Google is, by a country mile, the most popular search engine in the world. It’s popular because it seems to rank pages so accurately and quickly, time and time again. The secret to its success is its top secret Page Rank Algorithm. Google developed its page ranking system in an effort to increase the quality of search results and has left all of its competitors for dead. As a result, search engine optimization (SEO) gurus are always looking to find new ways to increase their Google rankings. As we all know, a website is a pretty nifty thing to have for a myriad of different reasons. But the truth is that it’s worth is derived from the people that surf it, and if no one is surfing it, then it becomes useless. So who’s the biggest website referrer? The answer is Google in almost every case.
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People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically “re-write” URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure the URLs of your application however you want.
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While working on a presentation for Windows Vista security features recently, it occurred to me that there are a lot of little changes in Microsoft’s latest operating system that will affect IT professionals and administrators. Some of these changes, like User Account Control (UAC) will be obvious and divisive. Others are of the sort familiar to Windows users: It just seems like Microsoft changes things randomly in each Windows release, leaving users to figure out where stuff is. Here, then, are a few Vista tips I think will help you overcome these niggling problems.
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After a recent discussion on the jQuery mailing list where someone wondered if “jQuery was OpenAjax compliant” I decided to fully investigate the OpenAjax Alliance.
In the purest sense, the goal of the initiative is to smooth over the interoperability in between JavaScript code bases. Currently that means:
* Keeping the global namespace clean.
* Making sure libraries don’t overwrite each others window.onload events.
* Keeping the global XML namespaces clean.
* Keep any attempts to walk to the DOM from breaking.
This is good. Those are simple tasks that many libraries can easily get behind.
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If you’re thinking of starting a business, virtual or otherwise, what’s the first thing you’ll do? Conventional wisdom says you should write a business plan. But Tom Stemberg, co-founder and former CEO of Staples advises you not get too hung up on them.
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So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be as easy or cushy as keeping your old economy job.
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