AJAX is a very important technology in modern web development. It makes our web applications more interactive. It’s not possible to create an attractive Web 2.0 site without using AJAX. ASP.NET comes with its own library to work with AJAX. In this post we’ll see how to use ASP.NET AJAX in our web applications.

We previously installed Visual Studio Express, an IDE to developed .NET applications that Microsoft made available for free. But in order to be able to develop web applications, we need to install another IDE. Don’t worry, it’s also free.

Mono is a multi-platform and open source framework for .NET, and MonoDevelop is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mono. In this post we’re going to install MonoDevelop in our Ubuntu installation.

Linux comes in many flavors, each with different advantages for a type of user. When it comes to a Linux distro that is easy to install and friendly to the average user, Ubuntu is the best option right now. But you don’t have to make a definitive decision. Thanks to VirtualBox, it’s very easy to try out different Linux distros. In this post, we’ll set up Ubuntu on VirtualBox.

In this post we’ll look at a problem that we could have with the Java compiler when we don’t initialize a local variable. We’ll also see how the Java compiler behaves when it comes to class members.

In the previous post we looked at the data types available in Java. In this post I want to talk about the data types that .NET offers.

In this post I just want to present you with a quick reference of the different primitive data types available in Java.

We’ve already seen what VirtualBox is and how to install it. Now is time to create a virtual machine with VirtualBox. In this post, we’ll create a virtual machine with Windows installed.

With the recession we experienced in the last few years, IT departments started looking into ways of cutting costs on their data centers. This is when Virtualization started to pick up. Virtual Machines allow us to run multiple operative systems on a single PC or server, which means they could reduce the space required for the data centers and the energy consumption. In this post, we’ll talk about VirtualBox, a virtualization product available as open source.

We’ve seen two of the most popular IDE for Java. Now is the turn for .NET. There are really not many free options when developing for .NET. Visual Studio is definitely the most common IDE for .NET, and Visual Studio Express is the free version of Visual Studio. We’ll install Visual Studio Express on this post.