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Creating C# Applications: Chapter 3

When I work with more than one programming language at a time, such as Java and Perl or VB and C#, the biggest problem I have keeping the languages untangled is remembering to use a semi-colon (;) or not when ending the statement. No matter how hard I try to keep my language syntax separate, […]

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Creating C# Applications: Chapter 1

Introduction There’s been considerable material on programming C# within the Visual Studio .NET environment, but not as much on C# as the first programming language based on the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). This online C# book provides an introduction to C#, the programming language. In addition, the book also takes a look at the CLI […]

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Just Shelley

X-Objects Introduction

Copy found on Wayback Machine. Since Dynamic HTML was first introduced in 1997, I’ve always provided code that allows DHTML to be used with the two most popular browsers: Netscape’s Navigator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To make cross-browser DHTML easier to work with, I created a set of cross-browser objects, which I’ve used for all […]

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51,000+ DotCom Layoffs…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Being one of those that are part of a steeply growing curve, a layed off dot comer, I found the article Silicon Valley Workers Head Home in the Australian IT to be very interesting. According to a source quoted in the article, there have been over 51,564 people laid off from DotComs…to date. I bucked […]

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New City, New Servers

The Burning Bird Corporation is now open for business in beautiful San Francisco. What can I say folks, but I love this city! In addition, I’ve aggregated all of my web sites on to one server. Hopefully the move will go smoothly, but if you find pages missing or out of synch, most likely they didn’t survive […]