Coding & Related Tutorials

Most programmers and in particular web application developers have to cover a huge amount of topics including such things as:

• Html
• XHtml
• CSS
• JavaScript
• DHTML
• ASP
• Asp.net
• VBScript
• SQL including DB Design, Normalistion, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, DTS, Triggers etc
• MS Access
• C#
• WinForms
• Windows Services
• XML
• XSLT
• IIS
• Security
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio.net
• Com, MTS, Com+
• Ecommerce principals & practice

To name just a few. The list is much more exhaustive than this. One could easily spend many years simply becoming an expert in one of these subjects - c# or SQL Server for example.

The result of this is that unless you possess an amazing memory, you will need to use reference material in your work from time to time.

This is true more so with the things you haven't used for a while. This is particularly true if you are a contractor as you will be working on different projects with each new contract. It's quite possible for example that you can go 3 or 4 years without needing to use a particular skill - eg writing a com component. and yet you may need to do that at some point in the future.

Most professional deveopers will therefore keep their own reference material. This may be in the form of written note, printouts, links to other web resouces or in my case their own web site which can be accessed for reference wherever needed. Of course some deveopers will just use Google but its nice to keep your own reference material to document the more fiddly things which you always seem to have problems with.

So since I decided that there were a number of things I wanted to document, it made sense to make these into tutorials so that others could benefit from my knowledege and experience too. Also the very act of writing these tutorials will help me to remember things as they are in a more interesting context and that always aids memory.

To now find tutorials, you may use the search facility above or click the above link to take you to a full list of tutorials grouped by topic.