(Willie Favero) We are about to say “Hello” to a knew method for locating information about DB2 and say “Goodbye” to its predecessor. IBM’s Knowledge Center is the latest in product information management.
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BLAST XML output needs more love from NCBI
(Peter Cock) For some time I had thought that the best option for computer parsing of BLAST+ output was BLAST XML. It had all the key bits of information, and XML is designed for automated parsing.
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SQL Server Database Connectivity Testing Using PowerShell
(John Grover) You’ve just commissioned a new SQL Server. A user or developer insists the database is down, they can’t connect and they are getting any one of several error messages. You know the SQL Server instance and SQL browser service are running, but rather than just blame the network (you know
Simple jquery stacked bar chart
(harleydk) One way of doing an easy and simple stacked bar chart is to style a DIV to a desired length, then have its left-border represent the second data range. If you need more ranges you can always stack several DIVs on top of each other.
Customer enactment in WebSphere Commerce with APIs
(Ashish Deshpande) IBM WebSphere Commerce provides APIs that allow administrators to perform customer enactment in the system. Learn how you can leverage these APIs to implement customer enactment in a Madisons store with little customization.
Signal from a procedure
(Michael McLaughlin) As I review with my students, a stored function works like a standalone program, while a stored procedure runs in the scope of another program unit. For example, you can compare the result of a function as an expression in an IF statement, like:
Easy Animations For AngularJS With Animate.css
(K. Scott Allen) Animations in AngularJS can be slightly tricky. First you need to learn about the classes that Angular adds to an element during an animated event, and then you have to write the correct CSS to perform an animation. There are also special cases to consider such as style rules that r
The Elvis Operator vs. IsNull() In ColdFusion 11 Beta
(Ben Nadel) In the beginning, ColdFusion gave us isDefined(). Then, structKeyExists(). And, as the concept of “null” started to become a first-class concept, ColdFusion delivered unto us isNull(). Now, with ColdFusion 11 Beta, we have the “elvis” operator – ?: – so called because it looks like a wel
Working with the ListView in VB.NET
(Hannes Du Preez) The inner-workings of a ListView can be somewhat complicated to grasp for an inexperienced programmer. The truth is, it is just a complicated control to fathom. All is not lost though, because once you know what makes a ListView tick, there is literally no project that you can thin