For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...

How to create a database on your Android device with PortoDB Your email has been sent If you're looking to keep track of data on your Android device, PortoDB might be ...

Now that we have installed Alzabo, let's create a simple database schema using the browser-based design tool. Admittedly this is not as slick as commercial or client-side tools, but it does the job ...

The rumors started back in 1985. Somewhere in France, a 21-year-old programmer named Laurent Ribardiere was said to have written a database management system for Apple`s Macintosh that was more ...

Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

Last week, my colleague Kris Shaffer launched the Alpha version of a website publishing platform, Peasy (as in easy peasy). I’ll let him explain why he developed Peasy: Peasy is relatively ...

Jason Fried (left) and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals helped develop much of the software that has enabled Web 2.0. * Photo: Jessica Wynne * To the 300 software developers packed into a ...