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Changing the Order Form

One benefit to the way that my shopping cart script now works is that it makes it much easier to hide unwanted fields in the order form without any need to modify the associated JavaScript. Changing the Order Form a

JavaScript Shopping Cart

Yes I have had the JavaScript shopping cart listed on the site almost since I first started the site. What is significant about it now is that I have gone right through the script updating it from the way that it was coded to work with the browsers around at the time I first wrote [...]

Using EXEC and SPAWN to Link to Another Program

One topic I haven’t added to in quite a while is the one on C++ programming. In this article I discuss how to start up a second program from within a C++ program. There are two ways of doing this depending on how you want the two programs to interact. Using EXEC and SPAWN to Link [...]

What is a Class Library?

One of the big benefits to Object Oriented Programming is being able to define classes that can be reused from one project in another. A class library takes this even further by providing a prewritten set of classes that can be used in all your projects. What is a Class Library? a

db2 Commands

For anyone using db2 databases, there will be occasions where you need to perform general processing from the command line. Here is a list of all the db2 Commands available for you to use. a

Limited FTP Accounts with cPanel

Unless you are a professional web developer and designer all rolled into one, there will be occasions where you will want someone else to do some work on your site for you. In some cases you may be able to get them to do the work for you, send you the files, and upload them [...]

Removing Duplicates Using DFSORT

The mainframe sort utility program can do a lot more than just sort the records in your file. It can also be used to test for and remove duplicates. Removing Duplicates Using DFSORT a

Invalid HTML

Why worry about validating your HTML? Well there are a number of reasons why it is best to avoid using HTML that doesn’t validate. Invalid HTML a

Web Design For Developers

Most books on web design assume that you have no knowledge of creating web pages apart perhaps from knowing some HTML. This book takes a different approach and assumes that the person is already a web developer. It then builds on what they already know about how server side processing interacts with the web page [...]

Assigning Boolean Values

The one time that you don’t need to compare values to make a decision is when the value is what is known as a Boolean value. A Boolean value is either true or false (those are the only two values it can have) and we can therefore make decisions based on the value of a [...]