Top Stories by Richard K. Blum
As an experienced .Net developer, I'm sure you are comfortable creating
programs in your home environment - using Visual Studio on a Windows PC. What
about using other platforms? In the .NET world, not many developers think
much about cross-platform development. However, with the growing popularity
of Unix, and specifically Linux, as a server platform, it might be time to
consider a cross-platform .NET development environment.
You may not even be aware that there are options for .NET developers in the
Linux world. Much of the .NET work in Linux is a result of Microsoft's
attempt to standardize the C# language by submitting it to the ECMA. With an
international standard for .NET programming, many open source organizations
are starting to look at the .NET development envir... (more)
In today's computing environment, creating applications that transfer data
between devices on networks has become a necessity for programmers.
Fortunately, Microsoft has included several classes in the .NET Framework
that make network programming easy. The TcpClient, TcpListener, and
NetworkStream classes are popular classes that provide all the functionality
necessary to pass data acros... (more)
In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux)
servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most
popular open source database packages - MySQL and PostgreSQL - have full
featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windows platforms.
This allows Windows developers to easily utilize open source databases in
their applications.
... (more)
In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux)
servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most
popular open source database packages - MySQL and PostgreSQL - have full
featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windows platforms.
This allows Windows developers to easily utilize open source databases in
their applications.
... (more)
Richard Blum currently works for a large US government organization as a network and systems administrator. He is the author of C# Network Programming (2002, Sybex) and Professional Assembly Language (2005, Wrox).
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