Rodan Sotto's Tech Blog

Before going into design patterns, one must need to know the four OO basics: Abstraction is showing only the necessary details to the outside world. It is the abstract form of anything. It is implemented using interface and abstract class. Encapsulation is hiding the details from the outside world. It is the opposite of abstra... Read More

It’s important to know arrays and objects in JavaScript because they are often used to store client-side data.  Below are quick points on arrays and objects: // arrays and objects can be confusing at first // just remember that arrays in Javascript are ordered lists // and are normally looped through using numerical index starting with 0 // ob... Read More

HTTP fundamentals a web developer needs to know: HTTP address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Everything on the Internet is a resource.   Example: http://mydevsite:1234/mydevpage?first=Rodan&last=Sotto#comment   URL consists of the following parts:   <scheme>://<host>:<port&gt... Read More

In my last blog here, I talked about ways to put CSS in an HTML, the preferred method using external style sheets, and how styles are overwritten when using more than one method.  I also talked about the syntax for declaring a CSS property. Here I am going to go through some of the basic CSS properties that one would need to know in order to ha... Read More

Below is the script to create a linked server to an Access database: EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server = N’MyLinkedServerAccessDB’, @srvproduct = N’Access’, @provider = N’Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’, @datasrc = N’C:\MyAccessDB.mdb’ Plus you also need to create the linked server login.  What’s important to note here is... Read More