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How to Develop an ASP Template Engine
8/28/2006 - Kenneth W Richards
Recently, I've been faced with the task of building a template engine for Active Server Pages. The purpose of this is to add the ability to customize the ASP Nuke content manager. In this article, I will discuss the components of a template engine and how we can develop them in Active Server Pages. (MORE...)

Using Folder Objects
8/24/2006 - Kenneth W Richards
In this article, I will explain about working with folders using the File System Object. The FileSystemObject component is used for working with files and folders on the webserver. This article only deals with the Folder component. The file component will be covered in a later article. (MORE...)

An ASP Web Site for Version Control
8/23/2006 - Kenneth W Richards
I am wondering if it would be feasible to create a version control system using Active Server Pages. I'm sure a lot of people would ask: "Why in the world would you want to do such a thing?" The reason why is that it would provide a simple way for people to create a version control system without requiring a dedicated Unix Server to host it on. The price of dedicated server hosting is not cheap, whereas the cost of a shared Windows hosting account is relatively cheap. (MORE...)

Object-Oriented Programming in ASP
3/24/2006 - Kenneth W Richards
One of the nicest features of Active Server Pages is it's support for simple object-oriented programming (OOP). Creating object-oriented code makes your applications easier to read and easier to manage. In most cases, it will take a little bit more work than creating global methods and variables, but in the long run, it will more than make up for that effort. (MORE...)

How to Use Server-Side Includes
9/2/2004 - Kenneth W Richards
Server-Side Include (SSI) directives are used to include one web page inside of another. It doesn't matter what type of web page it is: you can include static HTML (usually a .html or .htm extension) Javascript (.js) or ASP (.asp) into another page. (MORE...)

Script Archive Launched
8/31/2004 - Kenneth W Richards
I've finally had some time to do a little more work on ASP Nut. One thing I had wanted to do for a long time was to create a script archive containing code samples, algorithms, subroutines and classes that you can use to build your custom web applications. (MORE...)

FileSystemObject Basics
9/8/2003 - Kenneth W Richards
This article explains how you can use the built-in FileSystemObject to persist data. This alternative may be more desirable than using a relational database such as Microsoft Access or SQL Server. (MORE...)

Simple Keyword Searching
9/6/2003 - Kenneth W Richards
In this article we will discuss how to perform text searching on web site content that is stored in the database. The techniques discussed in this article apply to any database and don't require you to write stored procedures (which some hosting services prohibit you from using.) (MORE...)

Common Pitfalls for ASP Developers
8/11/2003 - Kenneth W Richards
Today we are discussing common pitfalls to watch out for when developing in ASP. Microsoft has strived to make their language easy to learn and easy to use but they have failed to make it "idiot-proof". (MORE...)

Basic Sorting Algorithms
7/23/2003 - Kenneth W Richards
The following code will demonstrate how to perform standard sorting methods on an array of integers. These sorting algorithms may be used for many different data structures with a little work. (MORE...)