Why Visual Basic is like McDonalds
Why? At McDonalds you can order items the way you want them, and they are delivered FAST! But, you don’t have a completely open menu. You can only order certain…
Treatment of NULLs by Oracle & SQL Server
Oracle & SQL Server behave subtly differently when processing columns containing nulls. Consider the following series of SQL statements: CREATE TABLE tempone ( creditlimit NUMBER(6)); -- Oracle CREATE TABLE tempone…
8 Steps for Optimizing and Improving Your Visual Basic Code
Here are 8 steps to improve the readability, debug-ability and speed of your Visual Basic application. 1) Use Option Explicit (and the Require Variable Declaration setting) for ALL your modules…
Interfaces in Java
An interface declaration in Java introduces a new data type. An interface is a named collection of abstract methods and constants. Interfaces are syntactically similar to classes, except that they…
A Closer Look at Methods in Java
In object-oriented programming, a behavior is referred to as a message that one object sends to another object. Behavior is the only way by which an object can do anything.…
C# vs. VB.Net – It’s Just Syntax!
Since the .Net languages came out, there have been many holy wars between C# and VB.Net. If you would have asked me that question last month, I would have said…
Testing and Debugging Windows Services and Web Services in .NET Framework
Various tracing techniques have also been implemented to trace errors or defects in the program code and debug them so that the cause of errors can be easily detected and…
Good and Bad Programming Styles
Good programming style When writing code, there are several things you should bear in mind that will make your code more helpful, both to you, other people working on your…
Which web programming language is recommended?
This is a very dangerous topic. Everyone will likely tell you that the language they work with on a regular basis is the best one to use. Same with Mac…
Smart Pointers in C++
1. Smart Pointers in Boost Welcome to Boost, the peerless community of C++ innovators. If you can’t find what you need in the Standard C++ library, chances are Boost has…