This is a continuation of a series introducing data structures in javascript. A binary tree is a tree based data structure in which each node has at most two child nodes. The child nodes are typically referred to as the left and right nodes. Nodes with children are called parent nodes. The absolute first node in the tree is referred to as the root node.

Developing .Net web applications in a linux environment has been somewhat of a personal curiosity for quite some time. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed in a dual boot configuration and every once in a while get an urge to actually boot Ubuntu and tinker with Monodevelop to see how far along the project has come.

Node.js is an intriguing technology that has garnered a lot of attention since it was created by Ryan Dahl in 2009. Built around Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, it provides programmers with the ability to write programs written in JavaScript using event driven, asynchronous I/O to minimize overhead.

We covered installing and running the MS SQL driver for Node.js in the last post. The demonstration was a simple web page that listed statically queried results from a database. For this post, we’ll be demonstrating how to serve the results in JSON; which is a more practicle usage of the MS SQL driver.

Most companies requiring sophisticated manipulation of network traffic rely on firewall devices capable of layer 7 protocol analysis.

Did you know you can export the NetSuite tax tales in magento format?

If you are a SQL Server enthusiast like me, you were probably excited when Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Sync. It allows you to setup synchronization between two databases with a simple point & click interface.

While the Android runtime (Dalvik) is garbage collected, it is important to be mindful of your application’s memory usage since mobile devices are rather memory constrained. Using too much memory can lead to excessive garbage collection that degrades performance. In extreme cases, you may run in to the dreaded OutOfMemoryError and application crash.

Recently I was trouble shooting an ASP.NET MVC project which relies on some Ajax calls to controller actions. The project has a view in which there are a couple of drop down lists which trigger an action result as soon as an item is selected in each list.