Phil Wilks - web developer

In 64 bit versions of Windows Vista, you cannot install drivers that are not "signed". This means that if you're trying to ins...

A slower login system is much harder to break into with a brute force attack than a fast one. If your login system takes 0.1 seconds to sa...

I learned today that printing a table with and tags will cause the header row to be repeated after a page break. IE7 doesn't do this b...

I've just discovered the IE caches any AJAX requests made using GET. This means that if you made an AJAX call to the same URL twice, the...

It makes sense to have blanks at the start of an A-Z query, as a shorter length string should always appear before a longer length string st...

You cannot ping a specific port, it just doesn't make sense. However, you can try to establish a Telnet connection to the port. In Wind...

Vista does not come with the Telnet client installed by default. Go to Control Panel and then find the Turn Windows features on or off op...

I didn't know this until a few minutes ago: DataAdaptors manage the opening and closing of the database connection for you. More speci...

Just like the DropDownList control has a SelectedIndexChanged event, you can create custom events for your custom user controls. In the use...

It looks like there is no built in method for converting an array from one type to another. This DOES NOT work... Dim arInt As Integer() =...

I develop a lot of database heavy web apps, and sometimes my business layer returns DataReader objects. Like a good little coder I always us...