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I’ve been programming web applications for more than a decade. Over the years, I’ve heard of all sorts of business ideas that need implementation, and one of the most common idea is setting up an online shop.

Sometimes the proposer has an almost perfect business plan except for one major flaw: not evaluating the online shop backend system properly. Most of the time the proposer only know of one or a few online shop system. However, I’ve never seen anyone who ever proposed on going with a hosted shopping cart system like Ashop Commerce.

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I deal with Excel spreadsheets a lot in my work, but strangely I found that I never shared anything regarding MS Excel on HTNet! Well, this ends today.

I’m no fan of Microsoft, but I honestly think that their Office suite is the best office productivity software package bar none. And out of all the members in the Office suite, Excel is simply the best among them. There’s really a lot you can programmatically tell it to do.

One of most common ways to automate tasks in Excel is by using VBA. You can read more about VBA on Wikipedia.

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A lot of IT graduates from the 80s and early 90s will find that the skills developed from their university or college days are becoming obsolete with each passing day. Heck, some of the programming languages they’ve implemented projects with are probably no longer in existence today (or more likely to have evolved to the point of being unrecognizable).

One area that is almost unheard of back then is web applications development. Today, your web browser is not just used to explore web sites, it is an applications platform in its own right.

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What if you have 100% control over everything? Do you think this would be a good thing? I’m sure quite a number of you will go “Hell, yeah!”

Well, I’m in the systems business and I’ve gotten my fair share of seeing people who would like their software or equipment exactly as they wanted it and yet regret it when its finally delivered. Believe it or not, in the overwhelming majority of the time people don’t really know what they want.

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KUALA LUMPUR, NOVEMBER 7, 2007: F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the Application Ready Network™ for Oracle. This new iteration of F5’s expanding Application Ready Network (ARN) portfolio helps ensure the successful deployment and delivery of Oracle® applications over the network. The result of methodical testing and research, the ARN for Oracle provides architecture-based, best-practice documentation on how to deploy F5 and Oracle solutions in tandem, helping joint customers unlock the full potential of Oracle applications.

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