The Dark Knight Perspective

Couple of years ago I did a blog post about using PostBackUrl with PHP . Although the code sample I used as illustration was a ASP.net page in it's simplest form, real world ASP.net pages aren't as simple as that. Almost any ASP.net web app that does a little more than just input some form data...

The beauty of PHPLiveX is its astute simplicity that makes it among the best AJAX libraries for PHP. The dev team has now shifted to focus to PHP5, so ver. 2.3 is the last version for PHP4. Although a bit late, it was realized that for the sae of brevity and maintaining clean & tidy code support...

I wouldn't have to make this post if I could post a comment on Jesse Johnston's entry which would most probably solves the problem for anybody. It's just that there's a small explanation missing. Since you will be running Visual Studio as the administrator not pseudo admin that you may...

If you're installing SQL Server on your Vista Business/Enterprise or Ultimate machine chances are you do intend to use it for development purposes and obviously have already installed IIS. But chances are you might receive a warning message on the System Configuration Check page of the SQL Server...

Internet Explorer - love it or hate it. But there's one thing that you can't do; is ignore it, especially if you're a web developer. A large number of php programmers I know or have interacted with; who know about and use the Web Developer Toolbar on Firefox aren't aware of the Internet...

If you find setting up CVS a nightmare like I used to, a few days back! This is what I would call a life saver. This guide by Bo Berglund is fantastic. Because it is simple enough and does not require you to be a SysAdmin or someone who knows what NT stands for … In the event that this guide becomes...

OSS is; at worst - ridiculously pathetic and can be the brilliant underdog - at best . But most of the times it's plain frustrating to work with… in my humble opinion, that is. I have worked most of my career on it, I have had many frustrating experiences with it. How the hell can you explain...

Following the changes related to Internet Explorer and the Eolas Technologies and the Regents of the University of California v. Microsoft patent case (Eolas v. Microsoft), Microsoft released an optional update to Internet Explorer 6 on February 28th 2006, which made somewhat of a modest change to the...

Many Windows Server 2003/IIS 6 Web hosts provide php & Perl among other goodies. And if you happen to be among the rare people who work on both Microsoft .net & LAMP technologies like me ;) you must absolutely adore this new cool capability in ASP.net 2.0 that allows you to post data to a php...

In the very first public display of collaboration of it's kind ( at least I think it's first, correct me if I'm wrong )… Microsoft & Mozilla Foundation have a common agreeement over the RSS icon. People using Mozilla family of browsers will be delighted to know that it's still...