Use of that major security hole of the internet more commonly known as Internet Explorer 6 has fallen since IE7 was released until now where the number of people using it is just below that of IE7 users (at least on my site where Firefox users make up about 35% with IE6 and 7 making [...]

The second of the two New Rider books I received is on web standards. This book covers the reasons for applying web standards to your page, how to apply standards to your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server side processing, as well as containing a couple of case studies that show how standards are applied in [...]

I received several books for review this last week and since the books usually take so long to reach me, I usually try to review them as quickly as I can after I receive them.
This is the first of two books that I received together, both from New Riders. This particular book is filled with [...]

Making your web site accessible to those with major disabilities, those with very minor disabilities, and even those who for one reason or another have selected to disable JavaScript or who don’t have a particular plugin installed is extremely important if you want your visitors to be able to get the greatest benefit out of [...]

I recently had a reason for looking up how to get to a particular location in order to be able to attend a course. I decided that the easiest way to find out how to get there was to use one of the online map services that covers my local area to get the directions [...]

PL/1 unlike many other programming languages provides direct access to define and call program interrupts. In this article we look at how it is done.
PL/1 Interrupts

While I write almost all of the content for the site, there are a number of pages that consist of a question that someone has asked followed by my answer. Even rarer are those pages that have been completely written by someone else, of the more than 1400 pages on the main site those written [...]

One of the types of page that I occasionally add to the site are reference pages where I list all of the commands or options available when using a particular language. One page I wrote some time ago was one listing all of the commands that can be used in COBOL.
Procedure Division Statements

Now that I am not so far behind with my ‘to do’ list of updates for the site, I am occasionally managing to find time to work on some new uploads of my own for the member’s Area. The latest offering is a basic three column design with a header and foote. Like most of [...]

Whichever version of Windows that you are using there is an option that allows you to hide specific files from being listed. While more experienced users may prefer to have their computer display all files including “hidden” files it is less confusing for those with less computer experience if the files designated as hidden [...]

I have already added a couple of new products to the Member’s Area already this year – one is a free zip program for compressing and decompressing zip files called ViralZip. You don’t even need to sign up for free membership to get that product. The second product uploaded so far this year is a [...]

The context menu in Windows is accessible by right clicking your mouise on that object whose context menu you wish to access. It can also be accessed from many keyboards by giving the appropriate object the focus and then pressing the context menu button on the keyboard (next to the right CTRL key).
You can make [...]