Improving the Content Rater
In an earlier article of mine, Creating a Content Rater, I showed how to create a content rater User Control. I implemented this content rate on my blog, ScottOnWriting.NET, about two weeks ago and have since had a number of readers rate various blog entries and leave comments. This article discusses these two enhancements: showing the highest rated entries, and an report page that lists all ratings and their comments.

Checking SQL Server's Heart Beat
Small shops do not always have the budget for the necessary tools required to monitor the services running on a Windows based server, yet it is imperative that these services be monitored. MAK examines alternative methods for checking all SQL Server services from one location and how to check the heart beat of SQL Server instances every few minutes.

Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions: Creating the PDF You Want. Pt. 2
Today, you'll learn about improving Distiller's efficiency with watched folders, how to prevent the corruption of PDFs across the Internet, creating PDFs from within non-Acrobat applications, alternative PDF creation methods, exporting PDFs and more. By Sybex.

Unweaving a Tangled Web With HTMLParser and Lucene
Ever wanted to write a Java program that crawls the Web, reads HTML-pages, retrieves the links, and gets the new pages with more links? Well, this month Keld Hansen shows you how.

Strategies for Integrating J2EE-Based Applications into a Portal Server Environment
Understand the issues of migrating an application from an application server architecture to a portal-centric architecture.