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Usability and Design
The Usability and design space brings together the latest information, research, tools, podcasts, and conference information related to usability and design. Content is pulled from IBM and non-IBM sites.
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Ajax Resource Center
This space is your one-stop shop for information on the Ajax programming model, including articles and tutorials, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, events, and news. If it's happening, it's covered here.
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Linux Security
The Linux security space gives an overview of security issues related to Linux and covers all aspects of securing a Linux distribution. It also links to Linux security-related news and articles.
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Ruby Programming
Take a closer look at Ruby, a dynamic programming language that is growing rapidly in popularity. Explore its intriguing features and learn what programmers are doing with it.
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Wiki: WebSphere, SOA, J2EE in Practice
This wiki discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today.
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.NET Tip: Debugging: Dynamically Determining the Name of the Current Function
Rating: Jay Miller - 09/07/2007 Are you tired of hard-coding function names in trace messages? Have you ever used cut and paste to copy a trace statement and forgot to change the function name? There'll be no more wild goose chases because of bad function names when you determine the function name dynamically.
Getting Rid of the Back Button Problem
Rating: Xun Ding - 12/08/2006 For certain data sensitive web pages, you probably do not want users to use a web browser's back button because they may retrieve and repost
a page from the browser's cache, which may cause an unexpected problem and sometimes crash your application. This is the so-called back button problem.
Learn how to get rid of the little bug in an ASP .NET way.
Visual C++ 2005 IDE Enhancements, Part 5: Variable Display
Rating: Nick Wienholt - 06/03/2005 For complex data types, the traditional display offered by debug windows is inadequate. Visual C++ 2005 makes a dramatic upgrade to the variable display, offering a number of improvements in the way you can examine data during a debug session.
SOS from Your Production Environment
Rating: none Klaus Salchner - 04/11/2005 All the best software development practices and testing efforts in the world cannot guarantee that there are no intermittent or unexplainable application issues when in production. Worst case scenario being application hangs and crashes. This article shows how to take dumps of .NET applications and analyze them. This helps developers to understand the issue and find the faulty code.
Debugging Hosted Assemblies
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 01/15/2004 Paul uses a Blackjack program to demonstrates how to debug a hosted assembly.
Testing Visual Basic .NET with NUnit
Rating: Paul Kimmel - 02/21/2003 NUnit is an open source, testing framework for all .NET languages. The big payoff is that NUnit can run tests automatically, and it can be integrated as part of your build, test, and deployment lifecycle. See it in action with Visual Basic .NET...
Happy Breakpoints for Testing!
Rating: John Robbins - 09/05/2002 Have you ever found yourself wishing there was a way to set breakpoints on all the functions in a particular source file?
Logging
Building a Logging Object in .NET
Rating: Mark Strawmyer - 02/19/2003 Explore how to build an object in .NET that can log information to a file or the event log.
State Management
Implementing a Generic Object State Dumper
Rating: none Shiv Pal Singh - 01/21/2003 Every .NET object has the ToString method that can be used to dump its state. This article explains implementating a generic object state dumper mechanism that can be used across all objects.
Techniques
Can You Hear Me Now?
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 12/30/2003 Three aspects of .NET programming can make debugging and testing a ton of fun and help you come off as a real pro when you deliver bulletproof code.
Debugging Techniques in C#
Rating: none Mike Borromeo - 11/12/2002 A method for displaying debug statements during runtime.
ASP.NET Tip: Adding Tracing to an Application
Rating: none Eric Smith - 02/23/2007 Tracing down errors in web applications and services is no easy task. To make it simpler, learn how to add trace statements to your code. They appear only when tracing is enabled on the web page or the web site.
Whammy Tracing: Hassle-Free .NET Debugging
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 08/07/2006 The Whammy debugging tool permits you to use the .NET Framework to add detailed tracing information to your application in a very unobtrusive way.
Find Out What's Taking Your .NET Code So Long to Run
Rating: none Paul Kimmel - 07/24/2006 Employ some useful .NET features to build an auto profiler, which a consumer can use to time any statement, method, or larger block of code just by calling a couple of methods.
An In-Depth Coverage of ASP.NET 2.0's Master Pages: Part 2 of 3
Rating: none Manoj Agarwal - 02/01/2006 More on ASP.NET 2.0's master pages: Here you see the various ways of specifying the master page to use and ways to work with master pages programmatically.
.NET Tracing Tutorial
Rating: none Shiv Pal Singh - 05/28/2003 Trace and Debug .NET classes are used to include tracing support in .NET applications. This article explains the use of these classes and implementations of tracing filtering mechanisms.