Programming

Design Patterns

Design Patterns are an essential tool for any object orientated programmer who wants to take his/her skills to the next level. Understanding the specifics of Design Pattern practices and methodologies will help developers uncover reoccurring patterns in software development and give them the tools to apply the correct solution.
For every difficulty encontered during application development, [...]

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5

The .Net framework 3.5 (released November 19th 2007) is the latest framework to be released by Microsoft. It has a host of new features and will be shipped as standard with the latest version of Visual Studio .Net 2008 IDE.
.Net framework 3.5 is an incremental build which means that instead of creating a completely new [...]

ASP.Net Vs PHP

Firstly let me start by saying that I do not claim to be an expert in either PHP or ASP.Net. Although I use ASP.Net daily, I am fairly new to it. I have decided to do little investigation to the age old debate about the difference between PHP and ASP.Net. This is only a short [...]

Layering IFrames using positioning and z-index

I was recently given a task by a client that required me to layer multiple IFrames on top of each other in order to facilitate the display of 3 separate content blocks (share price feeds) so that the content of two of them was only partially shown.
Each frame was a simple, relatively small area of [...]