Specialised VB, ASP & SQL resources
What's this site all about?
A variety of things, but it's best described as a niche
resource website offering unique code and
view-points for people with an interest in writing web-based applications with scripting languages such as
active server pages.
We also cover more "traditional" programming languages such as
visual basic
and also database programming in the form of
SQL / T-SQL.
Aside from resources focused towards coding we have a handful of
guides & tutorials
covering various topics relating to internet technologies such as
web design & development issues.
All the content which is part of the site, be that code or documents, are original and written specifically for the website
in an attempt to share some of the better material I've created rather than just hoarding it all on one a machine and letting it
gather dust.
What does the future hold?
A redesign,
a big upgrade and some serious content review.
Well as you can see the redesign's done. It's not exactly the worlds greatest piece of
eye candy (or shiny if you will), but it's now a lot easier to use than the old version
ever was. There's even a nice, easy to find, sidebar with lots of helpful options
available should you get lost or just want to have a look around at our other offerings.
The 'bot tracking code was seriously overhauled & then tweaked to stop it flagging so
many false positives, most of which were just browsers behaving oddly. Still testing it
as we speak but the results so far look very positive - it's well on its way to becoming
an autonomous 'bot tracking system - which is nice. As part of the overhaul the back-end
database was changed to a more reliable format so we have as many problems - we're also
testing a few really nice XML-based feeds created with this data so we can let other sites
pick up the feed.
Finally this site is all about content and despite my best efforts some of it has gotten
a little stale, while some of it causes me no end of problems when it comes to end-user
support and ongoing maintenance. It's not all doom and gloom - at least a few of the
topics will benefit from the review and come out better than before, for instance several
of the coding projects were unfinished beta and through using them I've learnt where the
biggest problems with them lie. Equally there are a number of guides that were written
at a certain point in time for which a minor rewrite would do wonders.