Author shares their experience passing the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-based Client Development exam to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.
An introduction to FreeSWITCH, a modular soft-switch for VoIP and PBX systems, integrating with protocols like SIP and Jabber.
A personal recap of the ApacheCon EU 2007 conference, covering sessions on Apache, Lucene, Jackrabbit, and Cocoon, and the author's own presentation experience.
A developer shares a custom ASP.NET SendMailControl for sending templated emails, similar to built-in controls like PasswordRecovery.
Article on using PHP with Microsoft's OpenXML format to generate Excel 2007 spreadsheets, featuring the PHPExcel project.
Explains ASP.NET 2.0's Event Validation security feature, a common error it causes, and provides a recommended code fix.
A collection of useful links and tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) development and administration.
Guide to manually installing the missing php5-pdo-sqlite package on Ubuntu Dapper via compilation and configuration.
A PHP developer shares a workaround for the file_exists() function failing on files within ZIP archives, using stream wrappers.
Explores using asynchronous programming in ASP.NET to build scalable applications, based on a session by Jeff Prosise.
A developer's recap of Day 2 at a tech conference in Ghent, covering sessions on C# evolution, Windows Workflow Foundation, and continuous integration.
A developer's recap of Day 1 at the Belgium Developer & IT Pro Days conference in Ghent, covering sessions on Visual Studio tools, ASP.NET threading, and OpenXML.
A developer compares Git and Mercurial (hg), explaining why he switched to Git despite its flaws, citing its power, Unix-like nature, and improving community.
Guide to running Apache and IIS simultaneously on Windows XP by configuring them to listen on different IP addresses using the httpcfg utility.
Announcing the final 1.0.0 release of PHPExcel, a PHP library for writing and reading Excel 2007 files.
A gentle introduction to LDAP, explaining its core concepts as a read-optimized directory database used for authentication and address books.
A practical guide to setting up MySQL replication, covering master-slave configuration, log files, and initial data synchronization.
A technical guide on compiling a single Linux kernel module without building the entire kernel tree, using specific Makefile commands.
A guide to using a custom MyGeneration template for automatically generating Zend_Db_Table classes from a database in PHP's Zend Framework.
Announcement of an accepted talk on Apache Cocoon web development at ApacheCon EU 2007, with speaker reflections.
