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First TYPO3 Conference in Asia

From 17 to 19 August 2012, the first TYPO3 Conference in Asia will take place in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia: T3CON12 ASIA!

Browser stats for January

It’s time for the browser stats for January; as always according to StatCounter.

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A Coder Interview With Mike Ash

Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mac and iOS developer Mike Ash

XML Visualizer v.2

XML Visualizer v.2 improves the standard XML Visualizer in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010.

Basics of Signing and Verifying code

How to sign code with digital signatures and associating them with files

SharpGL: A C# OpenGL Class Library

Use OpenGL in WinForms or WPF applications, directly or with a powerful Scene Graph.

A Public D3 Database C# Class

Access the D3 (Pick) Database using ODBC with a common/public C# class

Parichay (A Simple & Small Asp.Net MVC Social Network Starter)

Parichay (A Simple & Small Asp.Net MVC Social Network Starter)

Benchmarking MariaDB-5.3.4

Last weekend Vadim from Percona published his MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmark results. As the new benchmark guy at Monty Program I take this oportunity to add some more results of my own. One question in the comments to Vadim was if it is fair to compare MariaDB-5.3 with MySQL-5.5. Or if this comparison should be done with MySQL-5.1. The answer is: it does not matter much. MySQL-5.5 and MySQL-5.1 show very similar results in the Sysbench OLTP benchmark. So I created a Sysbench environment pretty much like…

PDO vs. MySQLi: Which Should You Use?

When accessing a database in PHP, we have two choices: MySQLi and PDO. So what should you know before choosing one? The differences, database support, stability, and performance concerns will be outlined in this article. Summary PDO MySQLi Database support 12 different drivers MySQL only API OOP OOP + procedural Connection Easy Easy Named parameters Yes No Object mapping Yes Yes Prepared statements (client side) Yes No Performance Fast Fast Stored procedures Yes Yes Connection It’s a cinch…