Misc. Articles

A Rubik's cube is a puzzle box with colored squares. By rotating rows, you rearrange colors into solid blocks. Similarly, a website is organized into categories with careful information design. Sometimes, though, things don't fit: thus the miscellaneous category enters into being.

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Books

This section presents some of the most useful and important programming books written. I recommend which ones to read, and in some cases which ones to avoid.

PHP

There is a small section on the PHP language on this site. The emphasis of Dot Net Perls is the .NET Framework, but occasionally other languages are covered as well.

Fiddler

This section presents a tutorial on the Fiddler HTTP debugging tool. This program can be used to diagnose problems with how your website responds to certain requests for pages, and much more. I provided some financial support for the development of this utility.

Web technologies

These articles are about specific web technologies and how you can use them in your projects. They are not based on procedural programming languages.

Amazon CloudFront. This site has some information about Amazon CloudFront available. CloudFront is a content delivery network; Dot Net Perls uses CloudFront and this improved performance significantly.

Browser benchmarks

I have published two very widely read web browser benchmarks on this site. I think they were on just about every technology news or social media site at one point. The benchmarks aren't perfect but they were popular at least.

Microsoft programs

There are several articles about using Microsoft tools, such as Visual Studio, in this section. Please note that Visual Studio is also covered in a separate section on this site.

Adobe programs

There are some tutorials on using Adobe Fireworks on this site. Adobe Fireworks is used as part of the development of the articles here so these tutorials were written as I learned how to use the tools.

Google

Here we describe various tools provided by Google free of charge: we begin with Google Analytics, then continue on with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Chrome.

White House

Another very popular article on this site was my analysis of the first website for Barack Obama's adminstration at whitehouse.gov. The information is out of date at this point. I got some interesting feedback from people in Washington, particularly some Republicans.

Web apps

Over the years I have published two web applications on Dot Net Perls. Neither one is currently available, but these short articles help me remember what they were about.

Visual C++

Just when you thought Dot Net Perls didn't do C++ code! This article explores the Microsoft Visual C++ managed code implementation and demonstrates string arrays.

Scrabble

One common game people like to implement in code is Scrabble: you can do this with many different languages and it helps you learn the language better. The article here currently uses the Perl scripting language.

Misc.

I have opinions about various subjects and tend to share them more than I should sometimes. Although I like to keep this website fact-oriented, these articles are more based on my opinions.

Notice: Yes the Misc. section too contains a Misc. section. However that Misc. doesn't contain yet another Misc.: it's not a recursive process at least.