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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...

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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I posted this as a thread in the ASP Development forum, but now that we have a blog here, I felt this would be a more suitable place for it

Introduction
Although many developers are aware of the importance of application security, many do not know the first place to begin. This will serve as a guide to help you make your ASP application more secure.

Using MS Access Database
Many developers choose to use Microsoft Access as the backend to their application....

After I upgraded to Windows Server 2008, I was unable to remotely log in via Remote Desktop. The client machine I'm trying to connect from is Windows XP SP2. When I tried from a Vista machine, everything worked fine.

Here's how I solved the "username or password is incorrect" problem:

First off, I noticed that the Routing and Remote Access service wasn't started on the server. To resolve this, do the following:

1. Click Start, point to Programs...