Most IT professionals do not work in state of the art design shops with all the latest developer suites available to them. Many of us have to make older applications and components work with newer technologies. I found myself in this predicament last year when I was required to make a new ASP.NET (3.5) web application work with a ten year old VB6.0 COM Plus Component. When I suggested to management that I re-write the component, they said: There’s no time. I know you can make it work. By the way, we need...
For the vast majority of modern websites, advertising is a major source of revenue. Banner ads for services related to the web site owner’s industry allow customers to view products that tie into the site owner’s core business. In exchange, the web site owner can charge the banner ad owner for every impression (banner ad appearance) or click-through (when a user clicks the banner ad). In order to build a banner ad management system, we must first create the database tables that will hold the ad information,...
This week we’re going to finish up our series on how to develop a clean website by laying out a secondary page. We’re going to include a secondary navigation bar along the top of our design, as well as include all of our text for the section on one page. This will eliminate the unnecessary loading of other pages when all that’s changing is the text. It will allow the visitor to browse your site quicker and be less work for you to develop. When all is said and done, this is what you’ll have developed:...
MySQL stored procedure's come in really handy at times. I like to let the database do the work for me sometimes. For example, in an e-commerce system you may need to calculate a tax. For our example today though, we will use the tables we made in my previous article on the XREF table. We are going to focus this tutorial on getting the appropriate tables in place to preform our history logging. To start, we are going to create a module's table so that our history table can be one table instead of many and we are...
Unlike scalar variables, which assign only a single value to a variable, an array variable can hold multiple values. Arrays are useful for holding values from database queries or web form entries, where each field (also called a “key”) holds a specific value. Let's take a look at how we define some of the arrays we use in PHP.Numbered Arrays. If the programmer does not specify a key for each value in the array, PHP automatically numbers the keys, starting from zero. This code defines an array $arrMonths[],...
This is our third installment of how to design a clean a minimalist website. First we looked at navigation and how to make an accordion style drop-down menu with pure CSS3. Then we moved on to laying the site out and went over rounding corners and applying drop shadows with CSS3. Now we’re going to look at how to create a gradient with CSS3 and apply that to a few of the elements in our homepage. We left off in part two after we pulled our header, navigation and main image in to our layout. Now that we have...
In our last lesson, we saw many of the most basic build-time errors in C#. In this session, we will look at some of the errors related to: classes subclasses inheritance Once we address some of the more common errors we will take a look at how you can fix them. #1 Hidden Method Name Creates Overload ... This conflict arises when a base class and its subclass have a function of the same name public class MyBaseClass { public void Function() { // function code goes here } { public class MySubClass : MyBaseClass...
The latest version of jQuery, version 1.7.1 at the time of writing, has completely overhauled its event system, giving us just two new methods to replace all existing event methods such as bind(), live() or delegate(). Event handling has been a core part of jQuery for a long time, but over the years the jQuery event landscape has flourished and grown, with successive releases increasing the number of methods for handling events. The new event methods on() and off() condense these different methods...