Big picture thinking creates context and enables people to honor the values we seek to work by. The more connected and integral you and your staffers feel to the business, the less likely you are to subscribe to the “us vs. them factor.”
Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn’t been able to finished-off Apple but Linux might be able to.
As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it’s increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That’s where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.
Have you ever opened the Add/Remove Programs applet, only to discover that it still lists a program you’ve already removed? Find out how to get rid of these entries.
By understanding the difference between IN, EXISTS, NOT IN, and NOT EXISTS, you can avoid a very common problem when NULLs appear in the data of a subquery. Scott Stephens helps you understand these differences.
Find out how to add a border to only part of a document, make Excel find cells for you, and create a calculated field that concatenates two or more text fields.
Processing form data in PHP is significantly simpler than most other Web programming languages. This simplicity and ease of use makes it possible to do some fairly complex things with forms, including handling multiple submit buttons in the same form.
