Without DNS, computers would have a very tough time communicating with each other. However, most Windows administrators still rely on WINS for name resolution on local area networks and some have little or no experience with DNS. Steven Warren explains how to install, configure, and troubleshoot a Windows Server 2008 DNS server.

Disagreements at work come with the territory -- but they aren't necessarily a bad thing. Handled properly, disagreements often can lead to productive gains and unexpected solutions. Calvin Sun offers some tips to help you make sure your disagreements stay under control.

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

This tutorial provides an overview of the FPDF functionality and two examples using the PHP object-oriented approach to get you started with building your own PDFs.

Haskell uses a lazy evaluation system which allows you define as many terms as you like, safe in the knowledge that the compiler will only allocate the ones you use in an expression. In this article we use simple sequences as lists of infinite length in a number of different ways to demonstrate how you can use this approach.

According to James Gosling, often called the father of Java, the Java Micro Edition (ME) will gradually supplanted by the Java Standard Edition (SE). He said, "We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. Cell phones and TV set-top boxes are growing up."

Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which include cross-platform flaws discovered in the Java Runtime Environment, vulnerabilities discovered in Thunderbird in Ubuntu, and a local buffer overflow in IBM AIX.

Find out what Justin James really dislikes about programming, and then share your ideas about what direction the programming paradigm should take in the future.

Following up from last week's article on reading zip archives, we show you how you can create your own archives using Python.

A "highly critical" vulnerability has been reported in the popular TikiWiki software. It can be exploited by malicious parties to compromise vulnerable systems.

Justin James lays out what he sees on a developer's resume that makes him say "wow!"... and what makes him say "ugh!"

Visual Studio .NET simplifies the process of installing your applications by providing an easy way to add the Setup Wizard to your applications. In this tip, Irina Medvinskaya will create a simple VB.NET Windows application and add the Setup Wizard to it in order to allow the Windows application to install.

Thanks to Jimmy Ruska’s video on YouTube, there are several quirks about phrasing search queries for Google that can find you files in a jiffy. I will detail the method and include it as a Firefox bookmark first, and then I’ll follow up with detailed information on the actual query. Subscribe to the Developer Insider ...

If you are new to the IT profession and do not know it yet – shipment of laptops has already surpassed that of the traditional desktop over a year ago. It is therefore interesting to note that even with such a huge installed base – and the price of an additional laptop battery costing upwards ...

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name “Orcas,” will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will become available later this summer and will include a new feature known as the Visual Studio Shell. Subscribe to the Developer Insider ...