holywar

IT guy picking up programming - C#, Python, or Ruby

Hi There (this turned out kinda long but i appreciate you reading), I've been in IT for about 10 yrs. I've had exposure in everything from rolling out server environments, to routing, to security. I've worked quite a bit with web servers and have been exposed to the superficial structure of things like asp.net, css, html, xml, php, my...

GridView : Paging vs VerticalScrollBar

case of paging : cross-browser, easy to use, native. troubles of paging : slow and not so good for user. case of scrollbar : fast, and good for user. troubles of scrollbar : Hard to make it works correct :-/ , FF and IE7 only I'm new as asp.net developer so I need to chose some way to make this Data grid very friendly for user and wit...

Should my RDBMS or my Application handle database Referential Integrity?

Should items like Foreign Keys, Constraints, Default Values, etc be handled by the Database management system (in this case, MS Sql 2005) or the Application? I have heard opinions from both sides and I'm honestly not sure which way to go. I originally was going to build it into the database, however I have discovered this is not always ...