Information Security Standards

If you deal with information security systems, either as a seller or as a purchaser, you need to be aware of information security standards. This article explains what they are, why they are important, and walks you through the best known information security standards in the field.
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Saving and Retrieving Data with AJAX

In this first part of a four-part series, you'll learn how to make your ASP.NET applications featuring AJAX do some of the most important functions: save, retrieve, and change data. This article is excerpted from chapter four of Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX.
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HTTP Headers

At this point, you may not know what HTTP headers are, but you use them all the time, both as an Internet user and as a web developer, even if you are not aware of it. The beginning of this article is a short introduction to HTTP headers, including what they are, and what they do. Later in the article, we cover some common uses of HTTP headers in web development.
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Regular Expressions in C#

Every now and then during our software development adventures we face situations where, if we are familiar with Regular Expressions, we could save ourselves a few minutes, if not more, of precious time. RegExes offer flexibility to identify, work with, and search for particular patterns or characters in strings. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to take advantage of Regular Expressions in C#.
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Open Source Security

It took a long time for open source software in general, and open source security software in particular, to start catching on with businesses. Attitudes in the corporate world have been changing, however. This article gives you some background on the topic and a tour of what's out there.
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Sending Simple E-Mail in C#

It's been decades since carrier pigeons became digitalized and supercharged. Nowadays sending a mail has become synonymous with sending an e-mail, meaning electronic mail, and usually this delivery process takes less than a second. As a result, we're required to send e-mail nearly every day. This article takes a look at how we can accomplish this task in C#.
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MySQL with MemCached

While the execution speed of your codebase can be a factor in the overall scalability of your application, more often than not, your database will become a bottleneck first. Modern web development environments can generally serve many page loads per second, and each of these pages will often make many requests to the database for fresh information. These pages may also be rendered by an easily expandable pool of web servers. While databases, including MySQL, are adequately designed to handle a significant number of queries, eventually, the load from all these requests can become too much to handle.
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