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Well, somebody's gotta get this new blogging system off the ground, so it might as well be me.

Many of you already know that I'm notorious for ranting about table structure, normalization, and related design issues, even when some innocent soul asks a perfectly simple question like, "How can I search for addresses that might be either in Address1 or Address2 fields?" Nothing in there about how the table is designed. Just a simple question, right?

I've been designing ...

This one had me struggling for a while, so I thought I'd post a blog about it to try and help others.

What I was trying to do was create a PDF including header and footer sections to print documents onto a headed paper style.

Using iTextSharp V5.0.2.0 DLL in the bin folder you can create PDFs on the fly. My previous blog explained how to generate a simple PDF. Next I wanted to generate something a bit more complicated.

It seems previous versions of iTextSharp ...

Introduction to JavaScript

What? Why? How?

What is it?
JavaScript is client side scripting language.
This one sentence contains three phrases that need further explanation:

1. Client side: this means code that is under the responsibility of the browser (to differ from Server Side language such as PHP which is under the responsibility of the server)
   
   Client side code is under the responsibility of the browser and this means the code is executed on

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Getting Technical With JavaScript

In this part we'll discuss ALF: Arrays, Loops and Functions, elements that are the heart of any programming language.

>>First part of tutorial

I wish to thank Don for making this tutorial use the best language possible - I could not achieve this without you, Don!

Arrays
First, a quick reminder for those who forgot:

• An array is a collection of items.
• Each item in an array can be anything. (even

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Business Objects are objects in an object-oriented computer application or program that represent the entities within a business domain. A business object will often encapsulate all of the data and business logic associated with the entity in which it represents. Furthermore, business objects provide flexibility and adaptability, scalability and reusability.

Let's take a look at how a business object may look within an ASP.NET web application. Let's say you want to design an application ...