Categories
Technology Writing

Creating C# Applications: Chapter 4

One of the most innovative features of C# is the concept of managed and unmanaged code. It is this that truly differentiates this language from its more commonly used cousins, C++ and Java. What is unmanaged code? Well, put simply, unmanaged code is any C# code that uses pointers. Conversely, managed code could be considered […]

Categories
Technology Writing

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, […]

Categories
Technology Writing

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 […]

Categories
Writing

Bits of prose

A long time ago in a place far, far away, and long before I started writing articles and books on computer technology, I used to write poems. Well, I called them poems. Recently, I found a folder of poems and decided to put my three favorite online. I’m aware that this could result in a […]

Categories
Web Writing

Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed: Chapter 37 – the Future of Web Publishing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. IN THIS CHAPTER The Chaos of Change The Current Technology Platform A Summary Review of the Technologies Covered in the Book–Where Will They Be in a Year? Client Scripting and CSS1 Positioning With an industry that seems to go through a new revolutionary change at least four times a year, […]