The key to finding anything on the Internet is to use a search engine, but if you ask different search engines to find the same information, each one will find a number of websites not found by the others. Rather than limiting yourself to the tunnel vision of a single search engine, experiment with some of the different search engines listed below, and you may uncover information that your favorite search engine missed. Even better, you may find that one sea....

The genesis of the computer revolution was in a machine. The genesis of our programming languages thus tends to look like that machine.But computers are not so much machines as they are mind amplification tools (“bicycles for the mind,” as Steve Jobs is fond of saying) and a different kind of expressive medium. As a result, the tools are beginning to look less like machines and more like parts of our minds, and also like other expressive medium....

In mid-2002, an unprecedented series of major security flaws were uncovered in Windows 2000, Internet Explorer 6.0, and IIS 5.0, which are some of Microsoft’s most strategically important products. The resulting media backlash resulted in a now-famous "trustworthy computing" internal memo from Bill Gates to all Microsoft employees. The gist of the memo was this: Stop programming and take a look at what you’re doing from a security perspective. For two mon....

Learning About ASP and Server-Side Programming This article describes what ASP and server-side technologies are. There is a brief tutorial that walks you through creating your first ASP pages. This article assumes that you are already comfortable with HTML and you’re interested in learning more about other Web technologies. ASP is a Web server scripting language from Microsoft used for embedding dynamic content into HTML Web pages. ASP stands for “Active Server Pag....

The ability to create objects from other Office applications is one of the great things about using VBA. For example, you can write a macro that will create an Outlook message object and attach a shortcut to the currently open workbook. A button on the toolbar will perform this same action, which is fine if that’s all you want to do. But using the sample macro below, you can add other text to the message, pre-address it, or perform other actions. You can also tie the cre....