Hosting Feature of SQL Server
If you are an SQL Server developer or database administrator, you might be inclined to use the new Common Language Runtime (CLR) hosting feature to write stored procedures in C# or Visual Basic .NET (or establish a company policy forbidding its use) without knowing how it works. But you should care. SQL Server is an [...]
Remembering Web-Server Programming in Apache
Before the World Wide Web appeared, client/server network programming was a drag. Application developers had to develop the communications protocol, write the low-level network code to reliably transmit and receive messages, create a user interface at the client side of the connection, and write a server to listen for incoming requests, service them properly, and [...]
Understand Client-side Scripting
One entirely different way to improve the performance of web-based applications is to move some or all of the processing from the server side to the client side. It seems silly to send a fill-out form all the way across the Internet and back again if all you need to do is validate that the [...]
Web Server API an Alternative to CGI
An early alternative to the CGI scripting paradigm was the invention of web server APIs (application programming interfaces), mechanisms that the developer can use to extend the functionality of the server itself by linking new modules directly to the server executable. For example, to search a database from within a web page, a developer could [...]