A few months a go I took a position at a company where my job was to help Account Managers with optimizing their clients web sites. I've been doing web pages for years, and have been working with PHP for the last four years. Just last year I started working with ASP.NET 2.0. I must say that I do like ASP for the sole reason that it's extremely easy to pound out a good looking web site in little time. My skills as a PHP and ASP programmer have helped out a lot.

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*/ /*-->*/ In the past I've written how to use Eclipse with phpdbg and ZendDebugger. The phpdbg was short lived as it was replaced with xdebug. According to Zend's website, they say that there are no serious limitations of xdebug.

Documentation is key when programming. There is the documentation in the code itself such as what the heck you're trying to do there. There is also the documentation that describes the functions and objects and how to use them. Luckily there is a tool that helps the programmer create nice HTML documentation based on the comments within the code. This knocks out two birds with one stone. Javadoc is the tool to use for this task.

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*/ /*-->*/ Occasionally I will get a customer in my store whose library has been corrupt or lost but their music is still on their iPod. The way that apple designed iTunes is that if the library gets messed up, you run a high risk of losing your music.

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The Tables

First we're going to need a table to hold the user information.

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Some people don't like to enter a user name or password to use their computer. For others it's pointless as they are the only one using the computer. To disable the Login Prompt follow the steps below.

1. Start->Run
2. Un-check the box that says "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer"

That's it.

*/ /*-->*/ While working on a site, I decided to add some Java Script to the menu bar so the site would be more interactive. I wanted the image to change so it gave the appearance as if the user is actually clicking on the button.