Category: programming

general programming items

  • Extreme Programming

    Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Extreme Programming rom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Extreme Programming (XP) is a method or approach to software engineering and the most popular of several agile software development methodologies. It was formulated by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries. Kent Beck wrote the first book on the topic, Extreme programming explained:…

  • Microsoft Access – Upgrading to 2003

    The Office Update page of the Microsoft Web site offers a useful toolkit for analyzing databases prior to converting them to Access 2003 format. It is called the Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit, listed under the Add-ins link under the Access 2003 heading on the page. Donn Edwards offers a utility called AccessOpener, which avoids those…

  • Web Services, SOAP, MSXML and Microsoft Access

    Thinking about integrating Web Services? The PerfectXML website has some great articles about SOAP and MSXML and other technologies that will allow you to do this. I’m fairly new to the world of web services and not yet a proficient .net programmer (VB migration on the way…), but seems to me that Web Services are…

  • Class implementation for using webservices in ASP

    The Code Project – Class implementation for using webservices in ASP – ASP: “Class implementation for using webservices in ASP By asanoguera Recently, I tried to use for the first time a webservice from an ASP page and I really had problems, after hours I could access to my webservice from ASP with Microsoft.XMLHTTP, but…

  • HTA Windows Scripting

    I’m interested in HTA scripting today. These are some links I’ve found that are very interesting: Scripting guys webcasts are brilliant (where I got most of the other links and info from). http://groups.msn.com/ScriptingGuysWebcasts/links.msnw

  • Visual Basic Vs. VB.Net

    The big programming debate rages on (if only in my mind). On the one hand you have the might of Microsoft, with it’s army of programmers and industry backing – but some would argue lack of practical day to day programming requirements. They are offering two contenders; Visual Basic and Vb.Net. The dot net stuff…