XML for UI Description in Flash MX

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, you’ve no doubt been bombarded with the hype surrounding a simple, plain text technology named XML – eXtensible Markup Language. But even with the books, magazines, and web sites dedicated to XML, many developers still have no idea what XML really is, or even how they can use XML in their applications.

My NAnt and NUncle

I was looking for a nice and easy way to automatically build my projects and I didn’t have to look far to find NAnt, a variant of Ant, a build tool for Java projects. If you want to cheat and read ahead, check out http://nant.sourceforge.net but don’t get too comfy, jack, there’s not much out there to guide you along. I’m going to save you some precious time and help provide you with a starter script… because believe me, you’ll be hard pressed to find some good examples on the web. Don’t really expect much out of the examples provided by the good folks down at NAnt, but do dig into their NAnt.build – it contains secrets that you won’t find anywhere.

SQL Errors 101

Many programmers hit a brick wall in their SQL queries, slowing development to a crawl and causing an over abundance of hair loss and coffee consumption. If you have been staring at the screen with a blank look and a pounding heart, wondering what you did to deserve this mess, you have come to the right place. In this article I will unveil the six most common SQL query errors and give you tips on stress prevention.

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