A common feature of blogs is the listing of albums or books that the author is currently enjoying. This article explains how to set up such a list in Amazon and show it on your blog using PHP and a REST web service.
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
C#’s null coalescing operator
I’ve been programming in C# for about five years, and today whilst reading the C# language specification v3.0, came across the null coalescing operator.
Much like T-SQL’s ISNULL function, the operator replaces null values with the specified replacement value.
Write your own Visual Studio .NET Snippets to improve your coding productivity
Chances are that if you’ve been using Visual Studio .NET, you’ll have come across the concept of snippets – useful reusable chunks of code that are inserted after typing in a small textual identifier for that snippet. This tutorial describes Visual Studio .NET snippets and describes how you can create your own.