(Peter Vogel) Whenever I teach Learning Tree’s course on Design Patterns and Best Practices, I begin the class by asking for some examples of best practices. “Naming conventions” comes up every time. It’s obviously important to people. And naming conventions must be a good thing — after all, there
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A web-based monitoring tool for WebSphere MQ
(QianLi Jin, ZiHan Tang and Bin Zhang) This article shows you how to use a simple, downloadable, web-based monitoring tool for WebSphere MQ to provide visualization and custom alert conditions for WebSphere MQ objects, including channels, listeners, topics, queues, and queue managers.
Giving Clarity to LINQ Queries by Extending Expressions
(Edward Charbeneau) LINQ and Entity Framework are both commonly used in the .Net ecosystem, but even well-written applications can have LINQ queries that are difficult to understand. Because LINQ is so flexible, it can be written in ways that fail to communicate the developer’s intent.
Generating A Date Dimension Table In Power Query
(Chris Webb) There are hundreds of different methods for generating a Date dimension table for use in Power Pivot: you can use TSQL, Excel formulas, import from the DateStream table in the Windows Azure Marketplace, and there’s even an app for it. Nevertheless I thought it would be a good idea to so
APAR Friday: SAP changes a few subsystem member recommendations for DB2 11
(Willie Favero) Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, err I mean back into my blog, up pops yet another subsystem parameter write-up… (smile)….
Design Patterns in Java: Evaluating an Objective-Oriented Design of the Expression Tree Processing App
(Douglas Schmidt) Despite continuous improvements in hardware processors, storage, and networks, developing quality software on-time and under budget remains difficult. Moreover, developing high quality, reusable software is even more challenging.
SQL SERVER – How to export data from SQL Server to Excel or any other Format?
(Pinal Dave) Everyone, who is involved in work with databases, eventually faces with data export/import tasks. Unlike data import tasks, data export has to be performed in various formats, depending on the business requirements of customers.
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design Patterns
(Sanjay Mishra) SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides flexible design choices for selecting an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution for your application.
TechTip: Streamline Your Migration to SQL
(Kent Milligan) If you’ve closely followed the enhancements being delivered for DB2 for i, you’ve noticed that each round of enhancements usually includes a couple features that make it easier for IBM i developers to adopt and use SQL. For example, recent DB2 for i updates made it easier to utilize
A jQuery Plug-in for AJAX Enabled Login UI
(Peter Leow) Login is one of the most frequent activities that we do everyday. It is the commonest way for us to secure and access our private space in the Internet. Understandably, login UIs become compulsory feature on almost every web application.