If you do anything in the area of intranet portal design, you will find this report from The Nielson Norman Group invaluable. I have purchased the last three reports and they have saved me countless hours of design time that would have been spent correcting mistakes or pondering design changes. Jakob Nielson’s announcement […]
A business need has recently forced the issue to create an interface that can read an RDBMS, collate the data, present it for informational purposes, and provide a reporting mechanism to collect errors in the data. Not very unusual requirements, but a good example of how “competing” technologies can be used in tandem, both […]
Security, Sessions, and all that jazz
Let me first take the time to curse those things that I shall refer to as “RLC’s” (real life commitments), and their perpetual hold on our progress in this series. I apologize for the delay, so I will keep this installment as short as possible so I can deliver something […]
A recent request from a past client brought out an old piece of code that I always liked. This client had an ASP3 site that they used to manage another public site, and they had a requirement to do mail merges from this admin site. The previous site data management tool was an […]
A more powerful form and view, and the need for validation.
Like a train wreck you just can’t turn away. If you have followed my disjointed ramblings so far then I hope the remaining installments will be easier to follow than the last. Let’s do a real quick recap of what we have covered:
1. The breadth […]
Last pieces of our first form/view
Welcome back intrepid sailors, and let us waste no time on pleasantries. In our last installment we created our first table in MySql, and created the beginnings of our first view and first form. I left you with some homework to finish the view/form, and the first thing we will […]